"Well if 70 percent or 218.69 million Americans think the government is not being forthcoming and transparent about this UFO business, isn't it time to present some data?"  - Cheryl Costa, co-author with Linda Miller Costa, of the new UFO Sightings Desk Reference 2001-2015.

Notes from the current book:

1. Observers who report UFOs can be flagged in a search by two activities. They smoke and/or they have dogs.

2. Leisure time and temperate weather play a part in the sightings.

Cheryl was a kid when she saw her first UFO. 1965, late August, just before school started. The family, loaded in the car, returning home, still out in the country when they saw a curious object hovering in the sky. It stayed for some 20 minutes or so, silver and round and definitely unexplained.  

UFO Sightings Desk Reference, USA 2001-2015. The first book of its kind presents data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century. No stories, just charts, graphs and stats. One stat Cheryl and her partner worked out: Only 1 in 42 people reports a sighting.

Coast to Coast Appearances and Bio. Link. 

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