Argumentative Essay About Aliens

UFO Cover-Ups

Daniell Predieri

Mrs. Hamm

Honors English 4

January 24, 2018 The question of whether or not aliens exist seems to be getting closer and closer to being answered. Although there isn’t irrefutable evidence that proves the existence of extraterrestrials, there are thousands of people who claim to have seen an alien spacecraft or have even claimed to have been visited by these beings. There is proof all around us that could possibly show that aliens are real and have visited us in the past, but the government seems too quick to dismiss these possibilities. Instead, they come up with a simple explanation for the strange happenings and findings occurring all across our planet Earth and beyond. Cover-ups involving the existence of extraterrestrials have affected the trust between the governments of the world and the people they govern.

UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) have been spotted all around the globe by thousands of people. A UFO can be defined as “an unexplained moving object observed in the sky, especially one assumed by some observers to be of extraterrestrial origin” (dictionary.com). The typical version of a UFO that has been present throughout history in many eyewitness cases and in many photographs that are said to be real evidence of extraterrestrial visitations, is a metallic, disc-shaped object with several lights on the bottom. Although many of the claims of extraterrestrial sightings have been pushed aside and labeled as hoaxes, there are many