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numbered 1-4. Then pull details (ethos, pathos, logos) for each of your paragraphs.
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Essay topic: Aliens are real

Thesis: While Some people don't believe in aliens

there is a ton of evidence suggesting that they are
out there and the government may be hiding
information.

Main topics for each paragraph

Topic 1 Could the Topic 2 Aliens could already Topic 3 How would Topic 4 What the experts
government be hiding be living on earth. humans and aliens think.
aliens? Topic 2 interact? Topic 4
Topic 1 Topic 3

Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4

Claim 1 Claim 2 Claim 3 Claim 4
The government is hiding Aliens are living on earth and Aliens could end human It’s only a matter of
information about alien life people don’t know it yet. existence. “when” not “if” we discover
and UFO’s aliens.

Evidence 1 Evidence 1 Evidence 1 Evidence 1

There was a US
government report that
came out that was called
“Advanced Aerial Threats”,
the spending bill calls for
federal agencies to submit
a report on "unidentified
aerial phenomena,
including observed
airborne objects that have
not been identified."
Astronaut Helen Patricia
Sherman believes that aliens
may be living here on earth.
“It’s possible they’re here
right now and we simply can’t
see them.”
People should be thankful Helen Maynard-Casely a
that we don’t yet have any Planetary Scientist says
evidence of contact with ‘it's only a matter of time
aliens. Attempting to before we find something
communicate with that resembles biology
extraterrestrials could be somewhere other than on
extremely dangerous for Earth.’
human kind. Humans
must figure out whether
it’s wise or safe and how
to handle such attempts in
an organized manner.
Evidence 2 Evidence 2
The pentagon began the In May of 1991, Helen was
Advanced Aerospace going to visit the Soviet Mir
Threat Identification space station, and she
Program in an early stage famously was the first of
in 2007. The department seven British astronauts that
said it was releasing the have gone into space.
videos to clear up People believe that she
miscommunications about experienced something and
whether footage that had that gives people an idea
already been going around that she knows something
is real. "The aerial we don’t and now can have
phenomena observed in the capability that allows for
the videos remain sensing the presence of alien
characterized as species. Similar to how a dog
'unidentified,' " the has a kind of sixth sense that
Defense Department said. humans do not have.
Evidence 3 Evidence 3
In 1947 the Air Force There is a possibility aliens
started a program to are in human or animal form.
investigate UFO sightings Or maybe their physical form
that was called Project constrains them to be
Blue Book. Over the next shaped only into animals, or
20 years, 12,618 strange maybe they are able to take
sightings were reported to over the bodies of animals
the project. When the and cannot do the same with
project calmed down in people. Another possibility is
1969, around 700 that the aliens are another
sightings were still dimension, one that we
categorized as cannot see or enter.
"Unidentified," according Astronaut Helen Patricia
to the National Archives. Sherman might have
miraculously become
attached to a mini-portal into
that other dimension, or there
was leakage from the unseen
dimension that happened
while she was circling the
Earth in outer space.
Evidence 2
If human life discovers
aliens they will likely be
far more advanced in their
technology than humans
are. Many resolutions
have been proposed, and
among them the
suggestion that all
civilizations, once
reaching sufficient
technological capacity, will
eventually destroy
themselves.
Evidence 3
The most concerning
possibility is the possibility
that alien civilizations are
remaining out of contact
because they know
something: that sending
out signals is very risky.
Our history on Earth has
given us many examples
of what can happen when
civilizations with unequal
technology meet
generally, the
technologically more
advanced has destroyed
or enslaved the other.
Evidence 2
Humans are continuously
finding many potential
pockets in the solar
system that may be
hospitable to life. For
example, consider the
under-ice oceans of two
of Jupiter’s large moons;
these are places where
the temperature is just
right, there is access to
water and to minerals,
too. Then again, that’s
viewing things with a very
Earth-like lens, and alien
life could be very different
to our own.
Evidence 3
Helen Maynard-Casley
says she is very excited
about further exploration
of the moon Titans of
Saturn. It has a whole
range of interesting
molecules on its surface,
as well as active weather
systems to transport them
about this too, all within
our solar system. And we
know there are other solar
systems within our galaxy.
She says with all of the
information gathered it
seems more and more
likely that we will find
aliens somewhere.