BBC 6分钟英语学习 神秘飞行物

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Hello, this is Minute English from BBC Learning English.

I'm Neil, and I'm Beth. Now, you might know them as aliens,

ufos, little Green, or even U-A ps UAP stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

And it's the word scientists now use to describe mysterious things not from this world.

So bet how would you feel if you looked up and saw strange objects glowing and twisting through the sky?

Wow. Well, I might stand for a bit.

I don't know if I'd believe what I was seeing, and I guess I'd be a bit scared.

Well, that situation is exactly what Navy pilots caught on their Fighter Jet cameras on a training flight in 2004.

They recorded mysterious oval objects flying at 24000 m The footage is known as the tick Tack videos, and they have had millions of views on Youtube.

Now, these videos are being reviewed by US Congress to try to understand what these objects were.

Were they flying sources the disk shaped craft flown by aliens?

Or is there a more rational explanation?

In this program, we'll be discussing whether we are alone in the universe, and, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

But 1st, I have a question for you, beth.

Thousands of UFO sightings are recorded every year, but which country has had the highest number of reported sightings since records began?

According to the National UFO reporting center?

Is it A, the USA? B Canada or C China?

Hmm, I think it must be the USA.

OK, beth, I'll reveal the answer later in the program.

Now, one Astronomers are scientists who study questions concerning things outside of Earth.

They often avoid investigating supposed aliens.

Adam Frank, professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester, explains why the footage in the tick tank videos can't give any definitive answers of alien life to BBC World Service program the inquiry.

Because I don't think the pilots are lying, you know, I think the pilots are being honest and have a lot of integrity about what they say they are seeing.

They're not saying their aliens are saying they behaved in in ways that no jet could behave.

But, you know, again, personal testimony, you can't do any science with that.

So what may happen now is we're going to begin to get some scientific study of this, and will try and get a better handle on it.

Adam says, the pilots have integrity, are now meaning to have honesty and moral principles.

However, what they saw is based on personal testimony.

A personal testimony is a story or statement of evidence supported only by a person and what they saw, rather than any external evidence or hard facts.

To find out more about exactly what the pilots saw, scientific studies are being carried out to try and get a better handle on the situation.

If you get a handle on something, you understand it and are then able to deal with it.

Taking a more scientific approach to what the pilot saw, the tick tech videos were examined by a panel put together by NASA.

His Adam again discussing the findings on BBC World Service program.

The inquiry At the NASA panel, one of the scientists showed a simple analysis of the video that shows the object traveling seemingly at high speed over the the ocean.

And what the NASA scientists showed was that, with a simple analysis, you could show that that was moving at 40 mi an hour.

So certainly nothing very extra terrestrial about that.

The scientists found that, although it looks like the object was travelling very fast, it was only moving up 40 mi an hour, which Adam says is not very extraterrestrial.

Extraterrestrial means from outside Earth, and is another word often used to describe aliens.

So it seems that for now, scientists will need to find much more proof to know exactly whether we're alone in the universe or not.

OK, beth, I think it's time I revealed the answer to my question.

I asked you which country has had the highest number of reported sightings since the records began, according to the National UFO reporting Center, and I guessed the USA, which was the correct answer.

There have been over 100000 reported sightings and encounters with UFOS in the USA since 1947.

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from this program, starting with U-A-P, and acronym that stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, and is another word meaning alien or un Flying

saucer is a disk shaped craft supposedly flown by aliens.

Integrity means being honest in what you say and having moral principles.

A personal testimony is a story or statement of evidence, supported by a person and what they saw, rather than external evidence or hard facts.

If you get a handle on something, you understand it and are able to deal with it.

And finally, extraterrestrial means from outside Earth, and is another word often used to describe aliens.

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