Having just returned home from my honeymoon in Florida and then Tennessee, I must admit that UFOs have not exactly been in the front of my mind. The honeymoon was my; first time traveling south of the Indiana border, first time that I ever saw the ocean (stayed on it actually), first time that I ever stayed in a log cabin on a mountain (Smokies), and of course it was my first honeymoon period. Good times!!!

To this point the research portion of my paper has gone rather roughly, maybe not, but kind of. My problem is not; that enough information on the topic of UFOs exists, or that I am having problems finding information on my narrowed topic of UFOs and Governmental Involvement, rather my main problem seems to be finding a criteria for deciding weather or not a source is scholarly. I must claim almost complete ignorance on the subject, except for the obvious ones, such as a college professor. In my annotated bibliography I included books by; Nick Pope a former head in the Ministry of Defense of England, Philip Corso a former Chief Army Intelligence Officer, and Stanton Friedman a former physicist that worked for the United States Government. I suppose my main question is, do these credentials qualify these individual’s work as scholarly? I am willing to concede that upon the mere mention of UFOs, the average person has visions of charlatans, or just burst into laughter, but I would argue that these are highly credible (scholarly?) individuals, making seemingly outrageous claims, that deserve research. As I mentioned previously, I have narrowed my topic from, what are UFOs, to UFOs and governmental involvement. Also I mentioned previously, there is an abundance of information available on this narrowed topic, I just hope it is considered scholarly.

I openly welcome, and would love to receive suggestions from my classmates on any aspect of my paper, from the direction, all the way to the sources.