News Analysis - Airplane passenger 'takes picture of UFO that was giving off bright lights and orbs' on ground near top-secret Area 51 military base

Tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mail, has an article written by Julian Robinson which details about a potential UFO sighting on the famous North American top-secret military base. The bullet points right beneath the headline of the article help provide more information to the reader in quick detail about what he saw and what information is in the body text of the article while simultaneously places the event in context. However here the writer details a lot of the evidence in quotations but doesn’t provide a clear evident source to reference from, writing that the source of information comes from an “unnamed man”. This here provides the reader with very little truth to the article and can then take this information in as mere speculation rather than fact. While this may be so, the way in which the article has been constructed can make the audience believe this story since Area 51 is a top secret military base that’s rumored to hide extraterrestrial life, but in turn opens many ‘doors’ since the presumed UFO could just be another military weapon test

Particularly I don’t understand why the gatekeepers would allow a tabloid online newspaper like this to publish an uncreditable and un-sourced article such as this one. I believe that this article serves as a filler article to the company’s website to draw in more hits. As to be expected though, the news agenda of The Daily Mail does cater to stories that can provide speculation within the audience, such as articles about celebrities gossiping about one another, this is just another form of that but with different content and context. The images here are cleverly placed in the article supposedly taken from the man’s phone of the UFO, to provoke the audience to share the article or try and cause truth as evidence to the articles un-sourced claims.

Furthermore this article is unexpected as these ‘UFO sightings’ reported only are a rare occurrence. Since this event is out of the ordinary, this article would essentially push most of the articles off the news agenda. 

Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3332099/Airplane-passenger-takes-picture-UFO-giving-bright-lights-orbs-ground-near-secret-Area-51-military-base.html?ito=social-facebook