Posted on 06/07/2010 1:39:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono
"Some UFOs are intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft, and this is the biggest story of the millennium."
These words are not the rantings of a deranged individual looking for attention or a comfortable straitjacket. Stanton Friedman is a maverick of sorts.
Employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for companies like General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse and Aerojet General Nucleonics, he worked on highly classified programs involving nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets.
In 1958, UFOs caught his attention, and Friedman has since lectured about this subject at more than 700 colleges and professional groups in all 50 states and around the world.
Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman has devoted more than 50 years to pursuing the scientific truth of UFOs, and was the original civilian investigator of the legendary 1947 Roswell, N.M., incident. "After 53 years of investigation, I'm convinced we're dealing here with a cosmic Watergate," he told AOL News. "That means a few people within major governments have known since at least 1947 that some UFOs are alien spacecraft."
In Friedman's new book, "Science Was Wrong," co-authored with Kathleen Marden, he wrote, "There's been no shortage of strong, negative proclamations from debunking groups and individuals who refuse to examine the evidence ... to support the notion that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin."
Friedman cites many cases of UFO encounters experienced by competent, reliable eyewitnesses, including one involving Japan Airlines.
Courtesy of Stanton Friedman One of the most credible sightings of a UFO in history is from a series of images taken aboard the Brazilian ship Almirante Saldanha on Jan. 16, 1958. The Saturn-shaped object was witnessed by the ship's crew and several scientists. The UFO approached the island, making a steep turn before flying away quickly. Juscelino Kubitschek, then president of Brazil, confirmed the authenticity of the photos. "A 747 over Alaska encountered something that was twice the size of an aircraft carrier, that flew circles around the jet. They reported it to the ground, where both the UFO and the 747 were picked up on radar.
"The explanation from debunkers was that it was Jupiter! Boy, airplane radar can pick up Jupiter? It was totally ludicrous. You're fighting the forces of 'evil,' one might say -- arrogance and ignorance."
While some scientists through the years have quietly suggested Earth has been visited by ETs, Friedman is the most outspoken. He's especially irked by the attitude of scientists who use radio and optical telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, such as the SETI Institute in California.
"Their livelihood depends on the assumption that there's nobody coming here, and if we just wait long enough, we're going to pick up the signal and it'll be the greatest discovery in man's history, and it will help solve all our problems.
"What really bothers me is that the SETI people will tell you there is no evidence for UFOs. Well, they certainly don't reference any, so there must not be, right? Wrong!"
If so, why would reputable scientists refuse to consider that Earth may be a vacation spot for otherworldly travelers?
"Because they'd have to admit that they'd ignored such a big story for so long and that they were wrong," Friedman said. "Being wrong is something that scientists don't like to admit at all........."
THANKS
Some are quite amused when naysayers flaunt
their ignorance.
WRONG assumptions again.
My relative worked around a fairly famous physicist
involved with highly classified projects in NV.
THAT physicist certainly agreed with Stanton.
Evidently you need to trade YOUR physicist in on a new one not so full of the government swill.
You have indeed lived up to my fullest expectations with your decidedly predictable response.
THAT would be an interesting statistical analysis . . . as well as would the data collection.
LOL.
Unless you just pulled it out of your hat . . .
which seems kind of obvious.
I aim to please.
You aim, too, please.
Look at the squiggly lines around the craft ... this photo would be shot down in 20 seconds by any expert at all
Then look in the mirror, you’ll find one.
BTW, I guess Stephen Hawking is a paid government shill as well. Of course for the delusional believers in UFO’s as aliens, all genuine reputable scientists are “government shills.”
I’m curious how many additions to your home have had to be added on to accommodate a ballooning ego?
Odd that you use Hawking, considering he is fairly sympathetic to the possibility of alien visitors. Most cosmologists agree that it is a virtual certainty that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Whether or not they have visited earth is the debate.
Most naysayers are
VERY BEHIND THE CURVE
on
—physics
—reality
—news
—research
and here . . . on Hawking who recently came out firmly in support of such notions as ET’s etc.
It is likely because they spend so much time basking in the radiance of their mirrors that they have no time to keep up on the news.
I tutored Physics in college and have been working at Intel designing microprocessors for the last 20 years.
We deal with Physics problems every day.
Do I believe there is life on other planets outside of our solar system...sure it would be illogical to not think so.
Science is based on creating a theory and then submitting it for review to be examined for flaws.
If we are to confront people like Al Gore with the requirement to place his book under a peer review, we must also requre it of others who we might support.
I LOVE SciFi (ie my handle) but I refuse to let my love distract me from questioning and asking “why”.
"Odd that you use Hawking, considering he is fairly sympathetic to the possibility of alien visitors."OH REALLY? Funny, I recall him saying the exact opposite. Like in his lecture Life In The Universe?
"I discount suggestions that UFO's contain beings from outer space. I think any visits by aliens, would be much more obvious, and probably also, much more unpleasant."Yeah, I see your as accurate as your brother delusionals.
"What is the explanation of why we have not been visited? One possibility is that the argument, about the appearance of life on Earth, is wrong. Maybe the probability of life spontaneously appearing is so low, that Earth is the only planet in the galaxy, or in the observable universe, in which it happened. Another possibility is that there was a reasonable probability of forming self reproducing systems, like cells, but that most of these forms of life did not evolve intelligence."
I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?
Got tin?
Frankly, I thought your comment was very sagacious.
My reaction as well, I read his other (previous) posts . . . definitely a “true believer.”
Are you Zathras, or his brother Zathras? :)
Ping.
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