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The UFO Phenomenon - Seeing is Believing
ABC News ^ | February 4, 2005 - airtime Feb 24, 2005 | ABC News

Posted on 02/18/2005 12:51:33 AM PST by Swordmaker

Feb. 4, 2005 -- 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."

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.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Society; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; flyingsaucer; sitchin; tinfoilhat; ufo
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To: Swordmaker

Saw one when I was 7 years old. Classic inverted bowl with a dome on top. It was at night and it moved close to our house as it skimmed along at house top level.
It stopped about 150 ft. from our house with a blue aura around it and dropped a periscope type device down underneath it for observation, I believe it spotted me and it sped away too fast to follow with the eye.
For years I thought it simply vanished, but after reading Paul Hill's book on UFO engineering, I believe it simply accelerated with extreme speed.


21 posted on 02/18/2005 4:16:03 PM PST by Brett66 (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Thanks, Jeremiah (Johnson)


22 posted on 02/18/2005 4:32:23 PM PST by 1john2 3and4 (Where were all the celebrity "Human Shields" for Iraq when they were NEEDED?(Sunday's Election))
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To: Solamente

Tender apologies, I did not post to ruffle.


23 posted on 02/18/2005 4:46:18 PM PST by 1john2 3and4 (Where were all the celebrity "Human Shields" for Iraq when they were NEEDED?(Sunday's Election))
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To: Swordmaker
Approximately 50 miles east of Houston about 25 years ago a woman, her daughter and grandson encountered a "flying machine" of some sort with a very bright light that blistered the paint on their car. They had burns similar to radiation burns.

There were a lot of military helicopters reported in the area later (best I remember) but no explanation was ever made as to what damaged their car and caused their burns

24 posted on 02/18/2005 4:57:07 PM PST by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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To: 1john2 3and4; Bloody Sam Roberts

Did you read any Freeper who posted their UFO sightinging so far that caused them to reject Christ for Satan? No, you didn't.

Smug piety. Think about it.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Jesus forgave just about everybody, but he had serious issues with religious hypocrites.

Yes, a nerve has been touched.

Here is my original post:

Every now and then, my mother and I would take our dog on his night walk
to the Parade Ground, a flat park of baseball and football fields.
We went there because at the time it was being renovated, and the
fields were being partitioned and fenced. This gave us some
confidence to allow the dog off the leash to run free for a change.

The Parade Ground is just across Parkside Avenue from Prospect Park.
It is August, 1965. I am ten years old.

The dog was having a good run, and once we saw that he wasn't
about to run off completely, we relaxed and gazed upwards to
view the night sky, trying to find various constellations.

In those days, the street lights in Brooklyn emitted a white light,
and not the beige-looking type now in use. If you went to a park,
you could get a decent view of the stars, but of course not
anywhere near the view if you were upstate in deep woods.

Suddenly, as I looked to the left of me, I saw what I first
mentally equated as a submarine perhaps two storeys
off the ground higher than the six storey buildings beneath it.

"Hey Mom, do you see what I see?" She did.

Here comes this thing, slow and steady and silent. It is huge.
It is dark grey - not "battleship grey," but as grey as can
be before you rule it black. There is no shine to it.


The front of it was round; I'd seen pictures of submarines,
and that is what came to mind. It is actually shaped more
like a very long medicine capsule.

As it proceeded to float past us, we observed its right side.
It is solid. It is a perfect and very long dark grey cylinder,
and it just keeps coming very slowly and steadily.

Obviously, we can't see the top of it, but so far, we see that
even though it is almost black, we sense a light behind the
darkness. This does not make sense, as my mother and I later
reckoned. The best I can come up with is that my eyes saw
dark grey, but my mind knew the cylinder was emitting light.
Dark light!

This was no blimp. No lights. No sound. No windows.
No gondola beneath. No visible markings. No nothing!
It is just a cylinder 300 feet longer than the Intrepid
aircraft carrier now docked in the Hudson River going by!

This thing was so huge, that even from the height above me,
(200 Feet?) it was clearly visible; visible enough to see
even the slightest imperfection clearly, if it had any.

At the same time, we are not in any panic. We are unusually
serene. As if it's no big deal somehow. Maybe we were in
a stupor beyond awe.

Finally, the end of the ship passes. I ran to see the back of
it. I see it is as round as the front with an opening in the
center. To this day, I'm not sure if it was square or arch-like.
I am convinced that at least the bottom of the opening in the
back of it was flat, so it was square or arched. I remember
thinking that 3 buses could easily drive inside at the same time.
On the other hand, I've seen jets low to the ground on approach
to JFK Airport, and thought that "my" cylinder was at least 3
times wider at the same height.

This is the only time I experience apprehension. I worry for a
moment that whoever is flying this cylinder might see me.

I ran to a to where I could see the other side of the cylinder.
It is exactly as perfect and unremarkable as the other side
and the bottom.

I have been struggling with my memories for years as to whether
there was a single tiny light, blue or red atop the opening
in the back. I add this item, but I am not sure. Inside the
opening it is absolutely pitch black.

The cylinder was in the order of 1200 feet long. I did not know
this at the time. When I saw the cylinder completely, it
was "crossing" Stratford Road, and the back of it was at Buckinham
Road. The distance between these streets on Caton Avenue
according to street maps is about 1200 feet.

I rejoined my mother in the original field, and we watched this
thing float over the Prospect Park POLICE STATION, heading west
until it faded from sight about half a mile west of the Parade
Ground. No newspaper, radio, or TV station mentioned it. For
that matter, we didn't even tell my father!

As I first accessed the Internet, I ran a search for
"cylinder ufo," and plenty of links came up. Even pictures!
I wasn't too surprised, because I know damn well what I saw
was real, and other people MUST have seen something as well.

I told some close friends. They gave me the jaundiced eye.
I could hardly blame them. I guess its just one of those things
one must see to believe.


25 posted on 02/18/2005 6:23:08 PM PST by Solamente
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To: 1john2 3and4
Jeremiah (Johnson)

My all time favorite movie. Seriously.

"Sure are cocky for a starvin' Pilgrim."

26 posted on 02/18/2005 10:21:58 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
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To: Solamente
Did you read any Freeper who posted their UFO sightinging so far that caused them to reject Christ for Satan?

I think you missed his point. He said it was a tool used by the Deceiver. Not that anyone here had been deceived by it. Personally, I took it as a warning. Not an accusation.

27 posted on 02/18/2005 10:24:44 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
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To: Swordmaker
I saw a UFO once....even took a picture.

Called the FAA to report it and they told me whatever it was it didn't show up on radar.....

28 posted on 02/18/2005 11:53:43 PM PST by Species8472
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"She never could get used to him"

One of those handful of movies you wish would never end....

29 posted on 02/19/2005 3:10:12 AM PST by 1john2 3and4 (Where were all the celebrity "Human Shields" for Iraq when they were NEEDED?(Sunday's Election))
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To: Swordmaker

Paraphrasing the attitudes of most of my MIT Astronautical Engineering professors..."If we can't figure out how to get THERE...then they obviously can't get HERE. So quit 'yer specylatin' and gimme Max Q on that Shuttle/Tank brace."


30 posted on 02/19/2005 3:27:25 AM PST by guitfiddlist (When the 'Rats break out switchblades, it's no time to invoke Robert's Rules.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

You and John seem simpatico with some form of Supermarket Scripture.

Read a post. Throw quotes from the Bible at it. Feel the smug. You guys are "Decieved."

You saw something. I saw something. That is all.






31 posted on 02/19/2005 11:03:19 AM PST by Solamente
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To: Solamente
You saw something. I saw something. That is all.

I agree. Nothing more. Your issue is with 'john'. I've thrown no quotes. I feel no smugness. I only indicated that you seemed to miss his point. I was commenting on your reply to his post. Maybe I'll just butt out and let you two go at it. See ya.

32 posted on 02/19/2005 4:04:46 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
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To: 1john2 3and4

"The breast of a woman is the hardest stone that God ever placed on this Earth...and I can find no sign on it." - - Bear Claw Grislap


33 posted on 02/19/2005 4:06:41 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
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To: Swordmaker

 


34 posted on 02/19/2005 4:30:40 PM PST by Fintan (©1950)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"....can't say much for what's going on behind me though."
35 posted on 02/20/2005 5:33:34 AM PST by 1john2 3and4 (Where were all the celebrity "Human Shields" for Iraq when they were NEEDED?(Sunday's Election))
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To: explodingspleen
I'm with you. Yep, I have seen flying things that I could not identify. Aliens? doubtful... no LGMs.

Who in the Galaxy would want to come here if their technology was so advanced? Surely the universe offers better attractions.

36 posted on 02/20/2005 5:40:34 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (Better get it done now, might not be able to after '08 (repeal GCA of '68, NFA of '34))
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To: 1john2 3and4
LOL! I loved ol' Del Gue.

"Mad wolf, like most Indians, figures this scalp is not a fit trophy for a man's lodge. That's not the first time I've saved my life in such a manner. Name's Del Gue. With an E. "

37 posted on 02/20/2005 6:42:25 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
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To: Swordmaker

" Phoenix, March 1997 — Hundreds witness a huge triangular craft moving slowly over the city."

THis was another good example of the amazing power of the media, IIRC it did not make national tv news.

Something large and unidentified FLIES OVER A MAJOR US CITY, is recorded by hundreds, and it isn't reported?


38 posted on 02/23/2005 9:24:21 AM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Swordmaker
For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people.

Practically none of them documented.

39 posted on 02/23/2005 9:29:04 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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