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Dan Aykroyd takes UFOs out for a spin
Reuters.com ^ | May 31, 2006 | Michael Conlon

Posted on 06/04/2006 10:53:18 PM PDT by churchillbuff

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 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 traveling at 20,000 miles 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.


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; ufo
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1 posted on 06/04/2006 10:53:21 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff
One occurred on Martha's Vineyard, he said, where he sighted "high altitude, glowing magnesium discs traveling at 20,000 miles an hour at 100,000 feet (30,480 metres). ... wing to wing, edge to edge."

Umm... how exactly did he see this? I guess he has spent all the money he made from movies buying high end optics.

2 posted on 06/04/2006 11:02:18 PM PDT by killjoy (Same Shirt, Different Day)
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To: churchillbuff

Just heard him on Coast to Coast a few minutes ago.

And before anyone says anything, I just bought a new boom box, and was testing out the AM tuner when I bumped into that show... lol


3 posted on 06/04/2006 11:12:21 PM PDT by nralife
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To: churchillbuff

I'll go out on a limb and admit I saw a UFO around 1966 or 67. Night sky, waaaay out in the country, no lights around at all, no airports nearby. Saw a large, round, something or other with varied colored lights all around it, moving silently, rotating. Hovered, got closer, eventually went away very fast. No noise. It got pretty close.

Around that time I had another interesting experience, too. And no, I wasn't under the influence of anything.


4 posted on 06/04/2006 11:12:28 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

I was driving back to Denver with my family from Dallas and we stopped in the Oklahoma panhandle to fill up the tank. I looked up and saw what looked like a gigantic locomotive in flames slowly cruising across the sky. I completely wigged out and called my Wife to see.

Turns out it was a Russian craft re-entering the atmosphere.

I also saw a neon blue meteor during the '98 Leonid shower.


5 posted on 06/04/2006 11:15:59 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: nralife
Just heard him on Coast to Coast a few minutes ago.

Space Ghost, Coast to Coast?


6 posted on 06/04/2006 11:17:29 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (Happy New Year! Breed like dogs!)
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Al Gore in ten years..


7 posted on 06/04/2006 11:38:10 PM PDT by D-fendr
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To: churchillbuff

I have seen many strange things over the years, as me and my friends used to spend many nights sleeping under the stars. Anyone has a sighting, I take the report at face value. Of course many people lie or think an airplane is a UFO, but many people have seen them without a doubt. My uncle, who is one of the straightest people I have ever known, saw a landed craft in his back 20 acres one morning while feeding his hogs. It left landing marks, and completely freaked him out, along with his 12 year old daughter. He would never mention it to anyone, but his daughter did, and he would get all serious and tell her not to tell anyone. I saw something resembling the moon in the NW sky, it was very indistinct, but stayed around for 15 minutes or so. It was as big as a full moon, and we could see shapes not unlike crater formations, but it was too dim to be sure. Took pictures and one of them turned out even. What the moon was doing in that position, I don't know.


8 posted on 06/04/2006 11:51:10 PM PDT by jeremiah (How much did we get for that rope?)
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To: RandallFlagg

I would bet money (if I ever gambled, which I don't) that whatever I saw was a UFO, unless the military has some interesting stuff that no one knows about. Silent? Circular? Rotating? Hovers?

Right around that time I woke up out of a sound sleep, totally wide awake, felt compelled to jump out of bed and look out the window. I saw out in the old barn (no electricity) a man standing in the door of the barn, with very bright light issuing from the barn. Unusual looking man, blond, dressed in white. I looked for a short time, then the light went dark.

Never told family, no clue who/what he was. We lived waaay out in the country, dirt road, no neighbors.


9 posted on 06/04/2006 11:55:47 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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What I want to know is how did he know that it was traveling at 20,000 miles an hour at 100,000 feet?


10 posted on 06/05/2006 12:03:52 AM PDT by garylmoore (Faith is the assurance of things unseen.)
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To: churchillbuff
Aykroyd said he has had two personal encounters with the unknown.

Not counting Chevy Chase's career...
11 posted on 06/05/2006 12:07:14 AM PDT by kenth
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To: churchillbuff

He should have done Donna!


12 posted on 06/05/2006 12:09:20 AM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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To: RandallFlagg
Turns out it was a Russian craft re-entering the atmosphere.

I remember that. We were out that evening, in Ada OK, and saw it. It was huge and throwing off sparks. It looked like it was going down right north of town, but actually went down in MN or MI, IIRC.

I've seen a few things before, a couple I've recounted on http://www.nuforc.org   We live here in the north GA mountains and we see a lot of military aircraft, quite often very low. Once in a while, usually at night, we'll see one that doesn't appear to be "published".
13 posted on 06/05/2006 12:25:28 AM PDT by kenth
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To: garylmoore

And how he knew it was made of magnesium. What a goof...


14 posted on 06/05/2006 12:34:37 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: garylmoore
What I want to know is how did he know that it was traveling at 20,000 miles an hour at 100,000 feet?

Forget that - I want to know how he knew it was made of magnesium?

15 posted on 06/05/2006 12:41:32 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: Atchafalaya
My experience: 1969 attending USL, studying with a classmate for a parasitology final. It is 2 AM and we are taking a break sitting out on his driveway in lawn chairs looking up at the sky. We see a "satellite" moving from our right to left looking North and comment on that fact. The object moves E to W like your basic sattelite until it was maybe 30 degrees to our left then it took a right (90) and headed north at a much higher speed and went beyond visual. We both sat up and said "did you see that"? We agreed that we weren't crazy or too fatigued. The object came from our right (E) heading left(W) and at approx 30 degrees to the (W) it took a 90 degree turn to the North, and with stunning speed disappeared. BTW Jerry and I both made A's on the final.
16 posted on 06/05/2006 12:52:30 AM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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To: churchillbuff

I've never seen a UFO but I give Ackroyd credit for going out on a limb. No doubt the comedians will make him the punch line of their jokes.


17 posted on 06/05/2006 2:05:30 AM PDT by ravinson
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To: jeremiah

I saw that 'moon' also. I think it was sometime around 1990, give or take a couple of years. The center of the bottom was dimpled inwards and it seemed far off. It was like the moon was positioned in the wrong spot.


18 posted on 06/05/2006 2:20:52 AM PDT by DeuceTraveler (Freedom is a never ending struggle)
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To: garylmoore
how did he know that it was traveling at 20,000 miles an hour at 100,000 feet?

  I'm sure he had a friend to triangulate and gauge the distance by coordinating via semaphore flags and then there were probably some mile post markers and he just had to count (1001...1002...1003)... and if he was MacGyver instead of Dan Aykroyd, he could have done the whole thing with a magnet, a bicycle spoke, some iron filings and a hockey ticket.

Then again, maybe he had one of those Major League Baseball pitch speed radar guns... :)
19 posted on 06/05/2006 2:42:53 AM PDT by Maurice Tift
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To: killjoy
One occurred on Martha's Vineyard, he said, where he sighted "high altitude, glowing magnesium discs traveling at 20,000 miles an hour at 100,000 feet (30,480 metres). ... wing to wing, edge to edge."

How, exactly, was this "observation" instrumented? I guess it's a sort of harmless diversion for a ditsy celebrity.

20 posted on 06/05/2006 2:49:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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