I have been tasked with writing on a subject that I have let myself become obsessed with.  I have for some time been obsessed with UFOs.  Oh, not the idea of UFOs themselves, but with the cultural phenomenon that has cropped-up since their inception.  The idea that I find so fascinating is that if the UFO community is correct in their assumptions about these objects, this planet is being visited by extra-terrestrial life which exhibits manned or unmanned flight craft, and therefore are intelligent.  If this is true, it would be the single greatest revelation of science, religion and mankind's place in the universe.  However, working on the position that UFOs are entirely nonexistent, that is even more fascinating to me than the prospect of intelligent life elsewhere.
          Most myths are based off a previously-established lore that one person or another created to explain something unexplainable.  Creation myths, and the like.  Most creature myths that are popular today are established through incredible stories or encounters with various cryptozoology, but the modern-day obsession with vampires and zombies operates on the assumption that the creatures being idealized in such various works of fiction as young adult novels and B-movies are taken to not be real.  The mythology of the faerie world or immortals and magic consist of fanciful impossibilities to make real the power of nature, but the mythology of UFOs only works because the people behind the perpetuation of the myth take it to be real.
          Fans of vampires and wizards can understand that they are seeing their objects of adoration at a certain level of being outside the work itself and heightened to that level in order to perceive the idealization and various tropes and pitfalls of that myth's genre, but UFOs mythology demands participation from the reader, asking that a side be taken, a side of light where the truth exists and is revealed, or a side of taking everything at face-value and assuming the UFO myth to be entirely bunk.
          Unlike other myths, UFOs not only offer the idea of their creatures as a possible reality, but the ability to defy the stories being fictitious is seen as an interactive necessity of the believers of such myths.  The denial that they are anything but real is a part of the ritual of becoming involved in the stories.  Perhaps that is why the modern myth of UFOs is so fascinating, that, if fake, it would have been a perpetual hoax perpetrated on random believers as the mechanism through which the myth evolved.  Unlike other myths, UFOs draw in the reader into the actual world, using reality as its set and setting, this involves the reader in real-time, presenting them with the possibility that they are living within the "other world" of faerie princes and ogres, and that this awakening to pass through the veil is symbolized through abduction cases or by the reader being awakened to the truth: that his/her reality was the myth, and UFO are the subsequent reality.
          As for the existence of UFOs themselves, I find it fascinating that UFO reports are received and corroborated by the Mexican government, and the country has some of the highest rates for UFO sightings, and yet not a single abduction case in history.  It would appear abductions are a region-specific social phenomena, occurring only in the United States.