UFOs

　　UFOs

　　2007-2008学年 第3期

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　　Our VOA listener question this week comes from Brazil. Humberto Bortoletto would like to know about UFOs, unidentified flying objects. He wonders if astronomers think it is possible to have a visitor to Earth like the little creature in the movie “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.”

　　Well, if any of you out there are astronomers, write to us at mosaic@voanews.com and tell us what you think. In fact, it just so happens that a new report advises scientists to keep an open mind about what alien life forms might look like.

　　The report is from the National Research Council, part of the National Academies in Washington. It says the search for 1 life has been 2 by a belief that it would use the same biochemical structure as life on Earth. The report says the search for other life in the universe should include efforts to discover what scientists sometimes call “weird life.” In other words, different from life as we know it.

　　3 . In 4 , people reported seeing a group of flying disks over the Cascade Mountains in the northwestern state of Washington. Similar reports came from the southwestern state of New Mexico.

　　On July 8th, 1947, the Army announced possession of a flying disk recovered on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. The 5 said it was a top-secret research balloon.

　　But some people believed that an alien spaceship had crashed. They believed that pieces of wreckage and the bodies of the crew were taken to a base and kept secret. The so-called Roswell incident has become a part of popular culture.

　　The Fund for

UFO Research is a nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Virginia. It says the lack of proof that any kind of life exists outside Earth is one reason not to believe that UFOs are alien spacecraft. Another is the extreme distance to the nearest star.

　　The group notes that most objects reported as UFOs turn out to be planets, satellites, airplanes or other known objects. But the head of the Fund for UFO Research, Don Berliner, says there is also evidence to believe that UFOs may be non-Earthly. For example, he 6 that descriptions from expert witnesses, military pilots and scientists are often the same. They describe objects of simple geometric shapes and 7 performance values, including silent high-speed flight.

　　Feist

　　HOST:

　　Leslie Feist is a Canadian singer who is becoming very popular in the United States. For her performing name, she simply goes by Feist. And as we hear from Shirley Griffith, her sweet voice and her songwriting skills shine in her latest album, “The Reminder.”

　　Shirley Griffith:

　　Early in her music career, Feist sang in a 8 voice with a punk rock band in Calgary, Canada. Her music now is much different. 9 .

　　She recorded her third album, “The Reminder,” with a group of musicians in a 10 house outside of Paris. This way, she and her band could live in a nice environment without having to go to a recording studio every day. This song is called “I Feel It All.”

　　Feist has said that she named her album “The Reminder” because she wanted it to bring together the past and the present. She says the album is filled with all kinds of memories, the kinds you want to forget and the kinds you want to remember forever.

　　Here she is with “Limit to Your Love.”

　　This summer Feist will be performing around the United States and also in Britain and Japan. You can listen to more of her music at her Web site, listentofeist.com. We leave you with a song first made famous by the blues singer Nina Simone in the nineteen sixties. Here is Feist with her version of “Sea Lion Woman.”

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