Posted on 05/30/2006 11:46:09 AM PDT by dead
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dan Aykroyd has a new video on the market, but the ex-conehead and one-time ghost-buster says he's not the star. The UFOs are.
"My recommendation is to skip through me and get to the film footage, the digital images," he said on Tuesday, talking about the 90-minute "Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs" from Union Station Media.
"This is where the whole thing starts to become more credible," he said of footage of unidentified flying objects from around the world.
"This is the real stuff. I'm not alone on this. There are many, many people interested in UFOs," he said.
The DVD, which went on sale Tuesday, is a conversation between Aykroyd and UFO expert David Sereda interspersed with footage of unexplained objects in flight and comments from experts like former astronaut Gordon Cooper. There are no jokes.
Asked if he was worried that a comic actor might not be taken seriously discussing an edgy subject like extra-terrestrial visitors, he said "It's not a concern."
"Enough people know I've had an interest in this for years," he said, speaking from New York. "People know I'm interested in the paranormal."
Aykroyd said he has had two personal encounters with the unknown.
One occurred on Martha's Vineyard, he said, where he sighted "high altitude, glowing magnesium discs travelling at 20,000 miles (32,190 km) an hour at 100,000 feet (30,480 metres). ... wing to wing, edge to edge."
Four people with him saw the same thing, he said, and while one expert later told him it was probably a meteor formation of some sort "I believe they were visiting the earth, passing by on the way to somewhere else."
"The second was a telepathic experience," he said, which happened at a lake retreat in Canada.
"I was asleep with my wife and I woke up about 3 a.m. wanting to go outside into a field and look at the sky," he said, telling his wife, "They want me to see. They want me to see." She told him to forget it.
The next morning, he said, newspapers and radio reports from across the region were filled with eyewitness accounts from some of the estimated 12,000 people who saw a pink spiral in the sky.
The military later said it was a Chinese rocket, Aykroyd said, but he believes he was being summoned and regrets ignoring the call.
One occurred on Martha's Vineyard, he said, where he sighted "high altitude, glowing magnesium discs travelling at 20,000 miles (32,190 km) an hour at 100,000 feet (30,480 metres). ... wing to wing, edge to edge."
How does he know they were made out of magnesium?
How does he know they were moving at 20,000 miles an hour?
How does he know they were at an altitude of 100,000 feet?
Do discs have wings?
I think Elwood has gone over to the dark side.
The second was a telepathic experience," he said, which happened at a lake retreat in Canada.
Well that explains it.
ping
I've seen a number of the clips in the video. They are, to say the least, interesting.
Kennedy's caterer............
Grab some pie plates and let's head over to Dan's house.
And these libertarians keep telling us that drugs are harmless.....
I believe in UFOs. I believe in aliens. I don't believe in Space Aliens.............
At 20,000 miles an hour would they have even been visible for an entire second?
Dan you ignorant slut
Gotta have the proper attire Dan ....
"We are from......France. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"
He is laughing all the way to the bank like George Noory.
The gravitas which Dan Aykroyd brings to this project should make all of us give it the serious contemplation it deserves.
Next Up: I Love Lucy's Lucille Ball discusses her past lives as an Egyptian Pharoah and Attila the Hun!
;)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.