For my High School Senior Term Paper—worth as much as a midterm exam-in 1972, I contrived seeing a UFO, filled out the standard “First Encounter” official USAF Project Blue Book forms for such “sightings” and then included copies of the documents and the usual Air Force response (a form letter assuring me that I was not nuts and that they may get back to me) in my academic submission...after adding a few fuzzy pics of flying hubcaps and blurry cumulus cloud formations the flim flamm was a big hit with the High School staff
...I received an A plus plus and the grade lifted my lazy underachiever borderline failure school history to about damn time he showed some effort passing...odd thing, not long after my term paper, Project Blue Book, after three decades and half a billion dollars spent ended with the official conclusion being that everyone was either nuts or seeing things.