on 24 June 1947 a US pilot called Kenneth Arnold looked out the window of his plane and saw nine silver objects flying close together. They were moving very quickly. told kilometres an was more than journalists that the objects did not move like planes, but like saucers move when Kenneth guessed that their someone throws them across the surface of water. Later one of the journalists called the objects flying saucers This was the first time the expression"flying saucer was used, but people have been seeing UFOs tunidentified flying objects in the sky for centuries. For example, in the thirteenth century some English farmers saw a flat, silver object in the sky. This is because in those days there were no planes or weather balloons or space surprising stations that could be mistaken for UFOs. Today, many UFos turn out to be something quite ordinary. One evening in February 2001, eight coloured lights appeared in the sky above Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia. The lights seemed to float in the air for ten minutes before moving off and disappearing They turned out to be good luck lanterns that Many people thought they had been released from a temple. 4 Most UFOs can be explained like this. However there are many that can't. Surveys show that at least half of us believe intelligent life exists on other planets. Is it possible therefore, that someone from'out there' is visiting us?