Posted on 07/02/2007 11:58:15 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
Sixty years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, at a height of around 10,000 feet. Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft. Visibility was good, and as pilot Kenneth Arnold scanned the sky to find the source of the light, he saw a group of nine shiny metallic objects flying information. He estimated their speed as being around 1,600 mph nearly three times faster than the top speed of any jet aircraft at the time. Soon, similar reports began to come in from all over America. This wasn't just the world's first UFO sighting this was the birth of a phenomenon, one that still exercises an extraordinary fascination.....
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Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From Outer Space
And this is how the message ran...
Science fiction (ooh ooh ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh ooh ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh ooh ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh ooh ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo oh oh oh oh oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I knew Leo G. Carroll
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But When Worlds Collide
Said George Pal to his bride
I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills
Like a...
Science fiction (ooh ooh ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh ooh ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh ooh ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh ooh ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo oh oh oh oh oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I wanna go - Oh oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
By R.K.O. - Wo oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
In the back row - Oh oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
I have got to figure out how to post pictures.
It’s possible. I don’t rule out any potential explanation save on the grounds of reason, and it’s certainly reasonable to think that operations cunducted by our military might have been responsible for the events at Roswell and in the Cash-Landrum case. The latter case, with its military helicopters and Houston-area location, is a particularly good candidate.
Most so-called UFO “researchers” have minds that are just as closed as those of the debunkers. They set out to prove that UFOs are alien spaceships instead of looking at the data objectively and making assumptions based upon them. I have no such goal. If UFOs are ET spacehips, great; if they are clandestine vehicles operated by earthly military agencies, that’s fine, too.
It is probably obvious that I love secrets and mysteries. Although I have no particular interest in UFOs as such, I am attracted to the mystery that surrounds them (and other “unexplained” phenomena). My fondest earthly dream is to discover “the greatest secret in the world” the one Secret that is most closely held by the most powerful people on Earth. I don’t care what the Secret is — I just want to know it. Whatever it is, it’s gotta be a humdinger!
Almost certainly
sub-orbital weapons tests
account for Roswell.
= = =
99.9999% to 100% certain
NOT so.
The practice described was likely real enough.
But was NOT the explanation for Roswell.
ALL—as in 100% of the major principles who have any reliable recorded statements on the facts INSISTED that the craft and the critters were NOT OF THIS WORLD.
Try again. That hypothesis just does not hold water nor tinfoil.
ping
This is released and on the same day, Art Bell announces another “retirement”.
A coincidence? I think not.
There are aliens seeking to destroy this planet and they now hold the majority in Congress and are seeking the White House to finish their plot.
The strange part of the story is about local undertakers being contacted to build coffins for the critters. Doesn;t make sense. If they were real, why wouldn;t they have perserved them for study? Wouldn’t their “home plante” come looking for them??
The strange part of the story is about local undertakers being contacted to build coffins for the critters. Doesn;t make sense. If they were real, why wouldn;t they have perserved them for study? Wouldn’t their “home plante” come looking for them??
Pinging the list.
I'll take this opportunity to comment on this sentence: "This wasn't just the world's first UFO sighting this was the birth of a phenomenon, one that still exercises an extraordinary fascination."
Kenneth Arnold wasn't the first one to see UFO's. He wasn't even the first to call them 'flying saucers', the Japanese government beat him to that by 400 years. Arnold wasn't even the first post-WWII eye-witness. There was a previous wave of UFO sightings in Scandinavia in 1946. There was even a rock band named "The Foo Fighters". Foo Fighters is what US pilots called UFO's during WWII.
For the previous 50 years before WWII, there were some, but not many UFO sightings. The Fatima phenomenom has been investigated as a UFO event. It had many of the same properties. There was a huge wave of "Airship" sightings throughout the US in the 1890's, including landings, including contacts with the Airship occupants. All was reported in the papers of the day and seen by tens of thousands of people.
Well connected and employeed people have asserted that we are 50 years ahead of everyone else.
This was 1947.
There were no modern body bags.
They needed coffins to transport them.
You can be sure they are well preserved. Reportedly they were farmed out to various locations for study. Reportedly many are still in diverse locations.
One location was in Florida where Nixon took Jackie Gleason to see at least one body. Gleason’s wife verified it after Gleason’s death.
Then, of course, there’s the retiring head of Lockeed Skunk works asserting in his retirement speech that
“IF YOU CAN IMAGINE IT, WE CAN DO IT.”
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