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........."
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Yes, you got your answer. Unidentified means just that. Far be it from me to guess what’s going on beyond my own experience, let alone beyond earth’s atmosphere. I guess the Art Bell/George Noory show sort of jaded me a little. When Nancy Lieder predicted (through her alien contacts on Zeta Reticuli) that Niburu would pass by earth in 2003, and that prediction failed, George said he would never again have her on his show. Six months later she was back on his show predicting Niburu would pass by earth in 2012. Then there’s the interviews with Billy Meier, which directed me to his web site. I feel sorry for anyone unable to tell that his photos are faked. At this point, even if UFOs are real, I’m not taking anyone’s word for it until someone with real credibility steps forward. That would first have to include, but not limited to, anyone not interviewed by George Noory.
I try to avoid using strictly theological terms which add nothing in terms of definition when discussing physical phenomena. It gets you nowhere when talking to atheists, and they write you off as a rube or a drooling yokel. Such is the prejudice of language.
This was from a time when the govt was pretty open about these things and when a commercial airline pilot could talk about what he saw without being fired. It has two films of unknowns and uses a lot of the real people inviolved.
One great line: "Credible people seeing incredible things."
Friedman, I think, was hoodwinked on Roswell. A good debunking book about that incident, with a "fool you" title: The Roswell Ufo Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know
You’re welcome Civ.
I understand. I sometimes wonder if the wording is just based on the culture. There is some stuff in the old testament that sounds eerily like the same thing that a modern man would call a “flying saucer”.
That is really all I meant by using those theological words.
My perspective of what we call heaven or the spiritual realm is something that would make the most incredibly imaginative science fiction novel look like a bad Star Trek episode.
I’m thinking TNG.
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Friedman is just another UFO groupie.
He has no more understanding of them than You or I do, but he advocates for open discussion of them. Like us, he lives in a body that cannot go where they come from, but he clearly wishes that he could.
Looks like somebody is using my dinner plate as a discus....
Great pics though, whatever the hell it is ;-)
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