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History Channel depiction of huge circular UFO encountered by Japan Airlines 747 crew in 1986.

By Lee Speigel – huffingtonpost.com

“The theme of the program is that UFOs exist, but there’s a small percentage of sightings that are significant and haven’t been explained,” said Leslie Kean, author of The New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On The Record,, which forms the basis of the History Channel special and can be watched below.

• In 1986, a Japan Airlines pilot saw what he described as an unidentified flying object over Alaska closely tailing his 747. He made an evasive move. His career was thrown into turmoil, but he never recanted what he claimed he saw.

• In 1987, a Federal Aviation Administration executive says the CIA warned him not to talk about UFOs because the public would panic.

• In 1997, former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington mocked thousands of people who said they saw mysterious lights over Phoenix, calling out a staffer dressed in a cheesy ET costume at a press conference. Ten years later, he apologized for lying to the media and the public as he witnessed this event for himself.

What these events have in common is that they are unveiled on a new two-hour History Channel special, “Secret Access: UFOs On The Record,” that features in-depth accounts from people who have been willing to risk their jobs and reputations to speak out about their remarkable experiences with UFOs.

The Mutual UFO Network - the largest privately funded UFO research organization in the world — tells The Huffington Post that more people than ever are reporting unidentified flying objects, mostly in the United States and Canada.

“Over the past year, we’ve been averaging 500 sighting reports a month, compared to about 300 three years ago [67 percent],” MUFON international director Clifford Clift said.

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