IBM wants to help you find out if UFOs are real. Well, sort of. With UFO sightings seemingly on the rise, Big Blue is teaming with The Anomalies Network to offer UFO Crawler, a new search engine specifically tuned to search for information about the paranormal, unexplained or just plain bizarre.

The search tool employs IBM's OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software. UFO Crawler should help users precisely target and gather information from relevant sources including the thousands of documents and files collected in the vast Anomalies Network archive, as well as multiple global resources across the Web on such topics as ghosts, conspiracy theories and extraterrestrials, the companies said in a statement. Previously, using a conventional Web search engine, a search on a term such as "Area 51", for example, would return thousands of irrelevant and inaccurate results, the companies said.

The companies hope to tap a growing national interest in UFOs and all things odd. Indeed UFO sightings do seem to be on the rise.