[gitmo]

I think this is a bad move for the Sci Fi Channel. Look what happened to Mulder and Sculley when they tried to expose this stuff.

[goodseedhomeschool]

Sci-Fi channel needs to get a grip on reality. Wishful thinking doth not an alien make. I guess it can't hurt in the PR department though.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Carter's UFO sighting has now become part of the mythology, and no one ever mentions Robert Sheaffer's debunking.

This sort of thing (the fact that crap never gets purged from the UFO mythology) is why I sold my UFO books and went from being an interested skeptic to one of those meanies who just laugh at the whole subject.

[winodog]

I loved farscape. That foxy chick Zen? was ok too. Some of the new stuff is great but I think they gave up on farscape too quickly. It seems they are spreading out to much and not giving great stuff like farscape the chance to develope a cult following.
Even the invisible fella was pretty cool.

[libertylover]

Dear Sci Fi Channel,

If really really really getting to the TRUTH and being credible is your goal, then you made a very poor choice in hiring a CLINTONISTA.

Regards.

Truth Detection Department

[boris]

I reluctantly buy the "Rare Earth" argument that we are probably alone or very isolated.

On the other hand I have seen a very few cases and video which pretty clearly show something--or somethings (they may not be the same phenomena) very strange.

I've also read Charles Fort and he and successors pretty well establish that every so often, very strange events occur on Earth--which are also very hard to explain. And I've read material on the Mothman (not well described in the recent movie), "Springheels Jack" and other outre phenomena...which makes you wonder.

That the "something" is little green guys in spacesuits interested in anal probing is open to question.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy...

--Boris

[Grut]

The military doesn't want to spend time or money on something that isn't perceived as a threat.

Good point. The Air Force's "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects" was obviously set up to deliver a predetermined conclusion, but I doubt it 'covered up' anything more sinister than a determination to get clear of what the AF saw as a nonsensical issue.

[Polonius]

I would have preferred if Sci-Fi had invested in keeping "Farscape," "MST3k," "Crusade" or even "Futurama" on the air rather than bothering with this conspiracy nonsense. Why should I watch a network whose most prominent features are the Stargate spinoff show and Z-grade UFO "documentaries?"

[shrinkermd]

If something isn't exlained by current scientific knowledge it probably isn't true. Like ghosts, fairies and satanic possesion, many want to believe but the proof just isn't there.

[noutopia]

The Stargate is real.Mciver can make anything.

[Las Vegas Dave]

As most of you know, the dummycraps base is the FAR LEFT, that’s where their hard-core voters are, having said that, I will remind all the FR skeptics, "Republicans have seen strange aerial phenomena too, not just Goober in Bogger Bottom or Pascagoula Mississippi.”

The network will premiere a documentary, "Out of the Blue," Tuesday at 9 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific time zones) that methodically lays out an argument that there's something out there.

[Quix]

GREAT, THANKS.

OK, LET'S MOVE THE COMMENTS, LIVE THREAD DISCUSSION TO THIS THREAD??? WOULD THAT BE OK WITH YOU?

Much appreciate this post.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Sci Fi Channel puts its corporate muscle behind effort to investigate UFOs

Great move on their part. Now all they need to do is announce that they're changing their name to Spike.

[Porterville]

Good, I love this stuff

[mewzilla]

They'd've been better off renewing Farscape. I haven't even tuned to SciFi since the last episode of the show.

[Quix]

EVIDENTLY there's a couple of attractive UFO programs on tap on the Sci Fi channel for tonight.

I should be home. If so, would be happy to facilitate a live discussion of the programs again. The first one evidently starts 19:00 EDT???

Anyway--blessings,

[dogbyte12]

The big problem I see is that the government has lied, or covered-up things they were doing and it has fallen into the UFO world. Top secret jets being tested were spotted by civilians and the military didn't want to admit things like the Aurora project, so it feeds into this whole thing.

Something seriously screwy happened at Roswell. You had the military announcing they found a UFO, then announcing a crap story. Then changing their story again later. Perhaps they were testing something in the area with new weapons, and they felt the need to obfuscate, but obfuscate they did.

Governments love to keep secrets. If there was something weird going on with the Air Force say, and the Army boys didn't know about it, thought it looked "alien" to them, but then were told to shut up, I could see how the lies and cover-ups occured.

What happens though, is that the government refuses to release their secrets. Any military project they were doing in 1947 is out, or failed, and can in no meaningful way hurt national security by being released today. But they don't. National Security by all nations sometimes means something embarassing that is covered up. No deep cabals of evil plotters, but bunglers who attach TOP SECRET to something, and let people go crazy with wild imaginations rather than reveal the truth.

We do need a reform. Anything non nuclear say, that is over 25 years old, should go before a closed session of an intelligence committee only if the spooks genuinely believe that sensitive secrets will still be revealed. Embarassment can not be used as a justification for keeping something private.

[GOPJ]

bump

[Quix]

I PLAN to do another rough transcribing of the SCIFI UFO program(s) tonight (Tues).

I do NOT plan to ping every one for every segment! Sorry about last week's brain-fade.

Please tune in, and comment as you see fit!

Blessings . . . prayers for FR and The Republic and certainly for The Kingdom.

[weegee]

I figure they would have put their money into this search...