Posted on 02/24/2005 3:55:40 PM PST by traumer
Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief.
For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and yet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on this subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to ridicule.
On Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" takes a fresh look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says Jennings, "I began this project with a healthy dose of skepticism and as open a mind as possible. After almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators and with many of those who claim to have witnessed unidentified flying objects, there are important questions that have not been completely answered — and a great deal not fully explained."
"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" airs Thursday, Feb. 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC. The program will be broadcast in High Definition.
This two-hour primetime special reports on the entire scope of the UFO experience — from the first famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 to the present day. The program draws on interviews with police officers, pilots, military personnel, scientists and ordinary citizens who give extraordinary accounts of encounters with the unexplained. Also included are the voices of professional skeptics about UFOs, including scientists who are leading the search for life forms beyond Earth elsewhere in the universe.
The program explores the facts behind the enduring mystery of the incident at Roswell, N.M., and looks into the strange stories of alien abductions. Among the UFO cases presented:
Minot Air Force Base, N.D., October 1968 — Sixteen airmen on the ground and the crew of an airborne B-52 witness a massive unidentified object hovering near the base.
Phoenix, March 1997 — Hundreds witness a huge triangular craft moving slowly over the city.
St. Clair County, Ill., January 2000 — Police officers in five adjoining towns all independently report witnessing a giant craft with multiple bright lights moving silently across the sky at a very low altitude.
Today if you report a UFO to the U.S. government you will be informed that the Air Force conducted a 22-year investigation that ended in 1969 and concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national security and are of no scientific interest. But as one of the world's leading theoretical physicists says in the program, "You simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually sightings from some object created by … a civilization perhaps millions of years ahead of us in technology."
"Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" is produced by PJ Productions and Springs Media for ABC News. Mark Obenhaus and Tom Yellin are the executive producers.
Be prepared for his Type zero Civilization. {That is us}.
If there are UFOs I don't want to know.
We already have a problem with illegal aliens.
No. It was obvious to the discerning . . . and maybe those without discernment . . . that Monica was the
Did You know that we've lost quite a few pilots near Groom Lake alone trying to test this stuff?
Most of the domesticated primates of Terra do not know they are primates. They think they are something apart from and "superior" to the rest of the planet....
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How close did it get before it disappoeared?
Happy to be here. Just didn't want it on the earlier thread with the long title.
Thank you for the ping about Michio Kaku. It will be good to see him on television - he's a fascinating speaker.
Thanks for your kind words. This one is fine.
My father-in-law flew the around-the-world route for Pan-Am and when I asked him if he ever saw a UFO, well lets just say his reaction was along the lines of UFO's NO NEVER, NO SUCH THING. He doth protested too much.
>> grew up watching airplanes on approach to Moffett (their landing pattern was right over our house).
I hear those transport planes all the time. I'm right under the final approach. Sometimes I sit on my little porch, smoking a cigar, sippin a Whisky and watch them lined up on approach.
The F-16s rattle my windows (they are fairly rare though) worse than the 5.0 I felt at my present apartment.
If a storm changes the wind pattern I get kind freaked out because then the San Jose air traffic often flies over head (much more frequently than the Moffett traffic).
Art Bell was interviewed for this special.
I am listening to that C2C show on ghosts in the White House right now!
The casual dismissal of UFO's may be wishful thinking, engaged in by people who cannot face this awful possibility. There have simply been too many detailed stories, for too long, from too many witnesses. The attempts to explain these sightings in some other manner are, generally, almost laughably weak.
Equally dangerous is the assumption that we should be seeking out aliens through the government-funded "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence" or SETI. As has been pointed out, contact between an advanced civilization and
a far more primitive one has usually or always, in human history, been devastating for the primitive culture. In the context of extraterrestrial contact, that primitive culture would be US, folks. Think about it. And that's even apart from the possibility that the advanced civilization might actually be hostile.
Thanks tons for that. I mostly hope that we can 99.9% ignore the naysayers.
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