Space Ghost, Coast to Coast?
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.
Umm... how exactly did he see this? I guess he has spent all the money he made from movies buying high end optics.
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
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.
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.
Space Ghost, Coast to Coast?
Al Gore in ten years..
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.
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.
What I want to know is how did he know that it was traveling at 20,000 miles an hour at 100,000 feet?
He should have done Donna!
And how he knew it was made of magnesium. What a goof...
Forget that - I want to know how he knew it was made of magnesium?
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.
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.
How, exactly, was this "observation" instrumented? I guess it's a sort of harmless diversion for a ditsy celebrity.
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