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Nuclear Physicist Describes Vast UFO Cover-Up
aolnews ^ | 6-7 | Lee Speigel

Posted on 06/07/2010 1:39:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono

"Some UFOs are intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft, and this is the biggest story of the millennium."

These words are not the rantings of a deranged individual looking for attention or a comfortable straitjacket. Stanton Friedman is a maverick of sorts.

Employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for companies like General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse and Aerojet General Nucleonics, he worked on highly classified programs involving nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets.

In 1958, UFOs caught his attention, and Friedman has since lectured about this subject at more than 700 colleges and professional groups in all 50 states and around the world.

Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman has devoted more than 50 years to pursuing the scientific truth of UFOs, and was the original civilian investigator of the legendary 1947 Roswell, N.M., incident. "After 53 years of investigation, I'm convinced we're dealing here with a cosmic Watergate," he told AOL News. "That means a few people within major governments have known since at least 1947 that some UFOs are alien spacecraft."

In Friedman's new book, "Science Was Wrong," co-authored with Kathleen Marden, he wrote, "There's been no shortage of strong, negative proclamations from debunking groups and individuals who refuse to examine the evidence ... to support the notion that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin."

Friedman cites many cases of UFO encounters experienced by competent, reliable eyewitnesses, including one involving Japan Airlines.

Courtesy of Stanton Friedman One of the most credible sightings of a UFO in history is from a series of images taken aboard the Brazilian ship Almirante Saldanha on Jan. 16, 1958. The Saturn-shaped object was witnessed by the ship's crew and several scientists. The UFO approached the island, making a steep turn before flying away quickly. Juscelino Kubitschek, then president of Brazil, confirmed the authenticity of the photos. "A 747 over Alaska encountered something that was twice the size of an aircraft carrier, that flew circles around the jet. They reported it to the ground, where both the UFO and the 747 were picked up on radar.

"The explanation from debunkers was that it was Jupiter! Boy, airplane radar can pick up Jupiter? It was totally ludicrous. You're fighting the forces of 'evil,' one might say -- arrogance and ignorance."

While some scientists through the years have quietly suggested Earth has been visited by ETs, Friedman is the most outspoken. He's especially irked by the attitude of scientists who use radio and optical telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, such as the SETI Institute in California.

"Their livelihood depends on the assumption that there's nobody coming here, and if we just wait long enough, we're going to pick up the signal and it'll be the greatest discovery in man's history, and it will help solve all our problems.

"What really bothers me is that the SETI people will tell you there is no evidence for UFOs. Well, they certainly don't reference any, so there must not be, right? Wrong!"

If so, why would reputable scientists refuse to consider that Earth may be a vacation spot for otherworldly travelers?

"Because they'd have to admit that they'd ignored such a big story for so long and that they were wrong," Friedman said. "Being wrong is something that scientists don't like to admit at all........."


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; UFO's; Weird Stuff
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Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman has devoted more than 50 years to pursuing the scientific truth of UFOs, and was the original civilian investigator of the legendary 1947 Roswell, N.M., incident.


1 posted on 06/07/2010 1:39:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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One of the best UFO pictures ever taken, this object was photographed by Paul Trent over his McMinnville, Ore., farm in May 1950. A subsequent Air Force investigation determined that "an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter and evidently artificial, flew within sight of two eyewitnesses."


2 posted on 06/07/2010 1:40:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
"These words are not the rantings of a deranged individual looking for attention or a comfortable straitjacket."
Yeah, actually they are.
3 posted on 06/07/2010 1:41:46 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: JoeProBono

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfyt_nZ4uk


4 posted on 06/07/2010 1:42:58 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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To: JoeProBono

Resume polishing contractor trying to be famous.
A crackpot by any other name.


5 posted on 06/07/2010 1:43:25 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: JoeProBono

*bookmark


6 posted on 06/07/2010 1:43:57 PM PDT by airborne (Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
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To: JoeProBono

How did UFOs not catch his attention until 1958 if he investigated Roswell in 1947?


7 posted on 06/07/2010 1:44:42 PM PDT by Flightdeck (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: All

bump


8 posted on 06/07/2010 1:44:51 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Quix

ping


9 posted on 06/07/2010 1:45:36 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: airborne
What part of PA are you from, Airborne?

This happened not too far from where I grew up...

Kecksburg

10 posted on 06/07/2010 1:46:26 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: JoeProBono

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WXezaq54mxk/Sh1icHtzhcI/AAAAAAAAAjM/QEJkpJeoUUg/s400/oh+no...+not+this+shit+again.jpg


11 posted on 06/07/2010 1:48:09 PM PDT by EAGLE7 (They MAY take our lives but they'll never take our freedom!)
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To: JoeProBono

Que Helen Thomas photo in 3...2....


12 posted on 06/07/2010 1:48:44 PM PDT by Dayman
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To: JoeProBono
I liked him in "Hot Cross Bunny"

What's up Doc? UFO's are real you know!

13 posted on 06/07/2010 1:49:12 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: JoeProBono
I find this alien photo HIGHLY credible....and they do have nice manners!


14 posted on 06/07/2010 1:49:46 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: Sudetenland

Friedman is a good man. I disagree with him about the Majestic documents (I think they’re frauds), but he’s right about the essential story...about 1% of the sightings are made by trained, intelligent witnesses with nothing to gain by such a report, and often much to lose.

There’s something there.

Jesus said we would know the last days by the return of the Jews to their homeland...and as in the days of Noah...the return of the Nephilem (sp?).


15 posted on 06/07/2010 1:49:54 PM PDT by kjo
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To: JoeProBono
Stanton Friedman does have some good work but his beliefs about Reptilian shape shifters occupying high levels of government and society are a little... peculiar.
16 posted on 06/07/2010 1:51:36 PM PDT by Dayman
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To: Flightdeck
How did UFOs not catch his attention until 1958 if he investigated Roswell in 1947?

Stanton Freidman is a former debunker who "turned".

Some people ("certain experts") assert he's a disinfo agent.

Me? I figure he's a reptilian from Arcturus. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's from Proxima Centauri.

Also, I don't think UFOs are, predominantly, metal ships from other planets. They don't have the characteristics that fit that paradigm. They're more likely something far outside our current understanding of reality, more akin to ghosts or Sliders.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

17 posted on 06/07/2010 1:53:13 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: JoeProBono; Quix; TaraP; SunkenCiv; KevinDavis

Bump and ping!


18 posted on 06/07/2010 1:54:06 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: JoeProBono

Unfortunately, the whole phoney field of “Ufology” is so littered with crackpots churning out obviously fake photos and videos that it’s impossible to tell what’s real. It makes me question the validity of every single UFO report ever made. And I’ve actually seen one.


19 posted on 06/07/2010 1:54:24 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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To: The Comedian
They're more likely something far outside our current understanding of reality, more akin to ghosts or Sliders.

Which means one of them is probably sitting beside me while I type this.

LOL, Thanks alot, because I really NEEDED something new to worry about.

;-)

20 posted on 06/07/2010 1:58:05 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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