Chasing UFO's (National Geographic Channel)

channel.nationalgeographic.com ^ | 06-27-12 | nationalgeographic.com

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list (ufo) ..

May 8, 1950-This is one of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken.
Photographed by Paul Trent, and first witnessed by his wife.
They were published in a local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon.
Shortly thereafter, the Trent photos were published in Life magazine edition of June 26, 1950.
The rest is history.
(These photos have been deemed authentic for over 50 years. The analysis of the McMinnville photos by Dr.Bruce Maccabee PhD, can be found here = http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html )

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[tired&retired]

The timing is about right for UFO’s to finally become overt in their appearances. Lots happening these days.

[Timber Rattler]

The "Pepp Aeroshell," shown here at the White Sands Missile Range park, was used to test the parachute that NASA planned to use to "soft land" the Viking spacecraft on Mars.

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[mkjessup]

Well, that explains everything.

[the invisib1e hand]

Mass-delusion alert.

[AlexW]

Despite listening to Kook to Kook AM, for amusement only, I do not buy into the ET craze, nor do I believe that we have or are being visited.
I find it starnge that all reports of sightings and contacts are ALL anicdotal.
I have yet to hear of a visit, or even sighting of any substance, as in one landing in a public, or verifible location.

While their may be other life in the universe, we pretty well know that it is not within our solar system, and the closest would be over 11 light years away...very long trip.

The ET crowd now has to rely on the unproven idea of worm holes and parallel universes to keep the dream alive.

I welcome any contridictions to what I have posted.

[reasonisfaith]

Atheists seem to be very gullible.

[faucetman]

Our government treats us like mushrooms about everything else, why not UFOs.

My wife, son and neighbor saw a UFO close up hovering above them. I was there, but in the woods, they were in a clearing.

I saw one (it's lights) directly above me and clear as can be for over ten minutes. My wife myself and two friends saw it along with HUNDREDS (maybe thousands) of other people in our area. An employee of mine saw it along with many others from the mall. I was on the lake on my boat. It made the news in a nearby city. It was silent, and was several lights in a triangle formation. We were trying to figure out what these stationary lights were, thinking it was several different objects. Then it rotated and slowly headed off to the south. I was shocked to realize it was all one object and how HUGH it was. No blimps were in the area, military had nothing in the area, we got the old “maybe it was a weather balloon” nonsense.

There is NO DOUBT, UFOs (unidentified flying objects) exist! What they are and who might be piloting them, I have no clue.

[Vaquero]

UFOs....depends on how deep the follicles go

[Yo-Yo]

The Avro Canada Avrocar from 1959:

[Mrs. P]

Read the book _Alien Intrusion_ by Gary Bates.

[cgbg]

My favorite book on the subject:

The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies.

They are here and they are con artists. :-)

[Savage Beast]

I think the people who are deluded are the “debunkers”, whom some seem to consider essential on many of these programs “to provide balance” but who in fact cling to some sort of faith that only the mundane exists.

[GreyFriar]

Interrupted Journey Ping. I may watch the 1st show, if I remember about it tomorrow evening.

[Jabba the Nutt]

This is where they go wrong right at the start:

"As most credible UFOlogists readily admit, proving that extraterrestrial spacecraft have visited our planet is a maddeningly difficult chore."

They've already selected their conclusion. Not scientific and this leads them off the cliff every time. It's like saying birthers try to prove Obummer was born in Kenya. Ah, not the point. The point is to show that Obummer is not a "natural born citizen" as described in the US Constitution and Obummer therefore is not eligible to be elected or to serve as President.

The first person to read up on UFO's is Jacques Vallee, who does take a scientific approach. Ignore the ET stuff as logically inacceptable.

[exPBRrat]

I dunno, ‘chasing UFO’s’...sounds like another waste of time to me. What a BS adoring, idiot society we’ve turned in to, the scientific promise of the 60’s was totally and completely squandered.

[Tolkien]

Okay.

A friend of mine, when he was a child, was abducted by aliens and brought aboard their vessel.

Here is the kicker.

I became a Christian years later and realized what really happened to him. It was a demonic attack. Some of these "alien" sightings are mis-identification. Some are military. Most are demonic.

Even that French guy who is an authority on UFO's doesn't believe they are nuts and bolts crafts but inter-dimensional.

[Savage Beast]

There have been many reports through the years that are utterly unexplainable--not just UFOs--for example: the water marks on the sphinx, crop circles, ancient batteries, Pumapunku, Stonehenge, Atlantis, idiots savants, the Ur battery, Nasca, people struck by lightening who suddenly develop extraordinary powers e.g. speaking a foreign language or playing the piano, remote viewing, miracle cures, Fatima.

Many people try to force such things into a preconceived mold or a popular narrative, whether they fit or not. It's hard for many people to live with uncertainty.

The MSM tends to conceal such reports as resolutely as they conceal unwelcome information about their favorite political candidates.

One of the most interesting was a report from Peru several decades in which a member of the Peruvian Army, on maneuvers, went to investigate lights in the distant mountains and returned a few hours later, confused and with a several days' growth of beard on his face.

To jump to conclusions about such unexplained phenomena is silly--especially to deny outright the veracity of such reports.

[hkusp40]

I enjoy Coast to Coast AM. I work European hours - other than Bloomberg Radio or Sports talk, its the only thing on.
Of course it’s all hysteria, but I do appreciate the people that call in and talk about their (insert_technical_name_here) Device and how they just picked up Toxic readings from the Chem-trails!

The purpose of UFOlogy and Cryptozoology and whatever __ology you can deliver is to add an ouncce of credibility to the art of the campfire story.

BOO!