Will we get to see the mothership?
Are liberals from Uranus?
Is Hillary a Clingon?
Is alien breastmilk explosive?
So many questions...
Posted on 02/24/2005 3:55:40 PM PST by traumer
Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief.
For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and yet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on this subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to ridicule.
On Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" takes a fresh look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says Jennings, "I began this project with a healthy dose of skepticism and as open a mind as possible. After almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators and with many of those who claim to have witnessed unidentified flying objects, there are important questions that have not been completely answered — and a great deal not fully explained."
"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" airs Thursday, Feb. 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC. The program will be broadcast in High Definition.
This two-hour primetime special reports on the entire scope of the UFO experience — from the first famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 to the present day. The program draws on interviews with police officers, pilots, military personnel, scientists and ordinary citizens who give extraordinary accounts of encounters with the unexplained. Also included are the voices of professional skeptics about UFOs, including scientists who are leading the search for life forms beyond Earth elsewhere in the universe.
The program explores the facts behind the enduring mystery of the incident at Roswell, N.M., and looks into the strange stories of alien abductions. Among the UFO cases presented:
Minot Air Force Base, N.D., October 1968 — Sixteen airmen on the ground and the crew of an airborne B-52 witness a massive unidentified object hovering near the base.
Phoenix, March 1997 — Hundreds witness a huge triangular craft moving slowly over the city.
St. Clair County, Ill., January 2000 — Police officers in five adjoining towns all independently report witnessing a giant craft with multiple bright lights moving silently across the sky at a very low altitude.
Today if you report a UFO to the U.S. government you will be informed that the Air Force conducted a 22-year investigation that ended in 1969 and concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national security and are of no scientific interest. But as one of the world's leading theoretical physicists says in the program, "You simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually sightings from some object created by … a civilization perhaps millions of years ahead of us in technology."
"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" is produced by PJ Productions and Springs Media for ABC News. Mark Obenhaus and Tom Yellin are the executive producers.
The fallout of this is completely predictable. We will have more reports of UFO sightings after this broadcast.
!ris, seY
:-)
What is predictable is the tie-in with the new Spielberg War-of-the-Worlds movie.
I want to know if ABC/Disney has any $$$ links with the movie.
That earthling is exceedingly clever!
I read that astrology is making a comeback too.
Will we get to see the mothership?
Are liberals from Uranus?
Is Hillary a Clingon?
Is alien breastmilk explosive?
So many questions...
Yes. This might as well be the live thread.
If it is then I predict 1,000+ replies.
"Conservatives are from Mars. Liberals are from Venus."
Liberals are from Uranus
I always thought they were Klingons. My mistake.
Freeper Quix was pretty excited on another thread. If he starts one, I am there
Guess it will be a good night to listen to Coast to Coast. LOL
This is a picture of the Milky Way Galaxy. There are literally millions upon millions of stars. Some of these stars are larger than our sun, some are smaller, but most of them that have been cateloged are medium sized, like good ol'Sol.
Each of these 'suns' may or may not have planets. We know that a significant number of stars do have orbiting bodies, some of these are larger than earth, some smaller. So, which is more foolish, believing that in the entire cosmos, ONLY Earth has intelligent life, or that there may be life forms smarter, or dumber than we?
Yes, Quix has certainly taken the lead on this one. I'll defer to his thread as well.
Will Petah give the late Carl Sagan some face time?
I could possibly be talked into believing in UFOs, but I could never believe anything Peter Jennings has to say.
I don't know, I hope he does.
If there isn't life elsewhere, the Good Lord sure wasted a heck of a lot of work, energy and real estate.
Please, do.
I for one promise to help keep order. don-o
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