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SRI LANKA UFO RESEARCHERS KEEP AN OPEN MIND

The urgency of an organized effort to monitor UFO sighting in Sri Lanka and maintain a proper data base on such sightings has been a long felt need due to baffling UFO appearances all over Sri Lanka. Due to that need Sri Lanka UFO Research Association was founded in the late 1990s. Here are some of the mass sightings which were reported over the past 10-15 years.

In 1994 some students of Seevali College, Polonnaruwa, witnessed one evening a large, disk-shaped UFO landing on their playground. Dwarf- like creatures emerged from the UFO and came towards the children. The kids got petrified and ran away to call for help. When the teachers arrived, the UFO occupants and the craft had disappeared. In September the same year in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, 62 children, age 5-7 witnessed a craft landing on their play ground. According to the children, a little man wearing a black suit came out of the craft. The children were very frightened and ran away.

In 1998 Bandarawela, Diyatalawa and surrounding areas were subjected to many visitations and mass UFO sightings. Two children from Adikaram Primary school in Diyatalawa reported a saucer shaped craft landing in the middle of their play ground. While they were looking suddenly it climbed higher and floated off over the near by mountain. Many credible witnesses including medical doctors, school teachers and police officers came forward to reveal what they have encountered.

While I was on vacation in Sri Lanka in 2002, the national television channel, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation reported on it's 8:00 pm, news on both June 9, and 10th, that there have been UFO sightings in the city of Polonnaruwa in first week of June 2002. The TV channel showed video footage of some nocturnal lights. Several entities too have been sighted, who had apparently run away when seen by civilians. These sightings have been reported on several days. That year Polonnwaruwa area became a UFO hot spot. But the sightings were not limited to Polonnaruwa and surrounding areas.

People from all over the country reported similar incidents to SLUFORA. Our (SLUFORA) study showed that most of the sightings could not be explained by conventional aircrafts, mass hallucinations, weather phenomena or hoaxes. We interviewed more than 200 people and they had experienced similar encounters. We were lucky to witness unusual light maneuvering in the sky one night over the Parakrama Samudra. Also, majority of sightings were reported over archeological sites and rice paddy fields.

The people in Monaragala district were very excited and terrified with the amazing encounters with mysterious entities appearing in their village in month of July, 2006. A small boy who is 13 years old and a school girl who is 17 years old as and their grand mother reported seeing small and marvelous creatures. In addition to that, three girls who went to bathe in Kirindioya on the following morning have seen these marvelous creatures. According to the witnesses the entities were very small and two of them were 2.5 ft in height and the other one was one foot taller than the others. Their heads were very large and their eyes were very blue and shining.

These are only a few reported mass sightings and there were many isolated cases reported to SLUFORA. Investigating sightings has become an issue due to the lack of resources and support. The sightings could not be ignored as pure delusions or hoaxes. It is easy for the so called scientists and fiction writers to debunk the phenomena without any kind of investigation. During the 2002 Pollonnaruwa sightings, Arthur C. Clark made a statement that the sightings are probably balloons or some weather phenomena. How can a person issue such a statement without conducting a proper investigation? Is it in accordance with the so called scientific method? By making such statements the witnesses to these encounters become reluctant to come forward because of the humiliation and the cases go uninvestigated.

What most of our scientists don't know is that the mainstream scientific communities of other countries have already started investigating the UFO phenomena and that the ridiculing and debunking without investigating period has ended. The National Institute for Discovery Sciences (NIDS) in the United States is one of the many paranormal research organizations which maintains a large database of anomalous activity and investigates reports. Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Perhaps either alternative is equally profound and terrifying.

I believe that the evidence tells us that intelligent life exists out there and that an alien hand is reaching out to us across the void of space. We no longer should debunk UFO sightings without any investigation or research. Also, our government should pay some attention to the sightings before it becomes a national security issue.

One thing is certain, if there is anybody out there and if they do make full contact with us, it would be the most significant event in the history of human race. So, let us try to keep an open mind.