By Donald Jeffries For decades, thousands of people all over the world have reported seeing strange lights in the sky, dubbed “flying saucers” by Kenneth Arnold, who is associated with the first modern unidentified flying object (UFO) sighting in 1947 over Washington State. These individuals were universally ridiculed by the mainstream media and establishment scientists in recent decades, though newspaper and TV reports were much more common from the 1940s through the 1960s. Celebrity astronomer Carl Sagan used to regularly go on “The Tonight Show” and scoff at UFO witnesses with fellow skeptic Johnny Carson. These witnesses received nothing but scorn for their efforts, often losing their jobs and the support of their families.