6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.com

Hello this is 6 minute English from BBC learning English. I'm Neil and I'm Beth now you might know them as aliens

UFOs little green men or even you A. P's

UAPs

UAP stands for unidentified anomalous phenomena and it's the word scientists now use to describe

mysterious things not from this world.

So Beth, how would you feel if you looked up and saw strange objects glowing and twisting through the sky?

Wow, well, I might stare for a bit. I don't know if I'd believe what I was seeing, and I guess

I'd be a bit scared.

Well, that situation is exactly what Navy pilots caught on their fighter jet cameras on a training flight in 2004.

They recorded mysterious oval objects flying at 24,000 meters. The footage is known as the Tic Tac videos and they have

had millions of views on YouTube. Now these videos are being reviewed by US Congress to try to understand what these objects were.

Were they flying sources, the disc-shaped craft flown by aliens, or is there a more rational explanation? In this program we'll be

discussing whether we are alone in the universe and as usual we'll be learning

some useful new vocabulary as well.

But first I have a question for you, Beth.

Thousands of UFO sightings are recorded every year,

but which country has had the highest number of reported sightings since records began, according

to the National UFO Reporting Center?

Is it A, the USA, B, Canada or C, China?

Hmm, I think it must be the USA.

Okay, Beth, I'll reveal the answer later in the program. Now while astronomers are scientists who study

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