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Some supposed have been accompanied by unexplained physical evidence that deserves serious scientific study, an international panel of scientists has concluded. In the first independent scientific review of the controversial topic in almost 30 years, directed by ....

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.... to carefully evaluate UFO reports to extract information about unusual phenomena currently unknown to science," the report stated, adding that such research could also improve understanding of, and in some cases debunk, supposed UFO events. For example, Earth science researchers have eventually accepted several phenomena "originally dismissed as folk tales," including meteorites and certain types of lightning, the panel noted. The findings are from a four-day workshop held in Tarrytown, N.Y., followed by a second three-day meeting in San Francisco, both last fall. The results are published in the current issue of the Society for Scientific Explorat ....