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.
It seems clear to me now that abductions
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are at least government; ET; and ET and government. Hard to say what the distinctions between type of abductions are.
If Trump ain't an alien, I will eat my keyboard.
Millions already do believe it...this show will probably not change anyone's mind one way or another.
The nay-sayers and closed minded experts here are evidence of that.
Now covering SETI.
And one of these now just said to assume that we are alone is incredibly egocentric. That's how I felt about him when he dismissed the eye witness accounts.
I don't think the fine is that high. But there is a 6 months in jail potential.
They tend to avoid saying anything for career reasons.
I'm pretty sure Yoko Ono is from another planet...
amazing!
On my post-it note until after the program. Thanks.
Sorry. I thought one or two knew.
Appreciate your kind thoughts and words.
I teach at 1600 Tues and Thurs.
Paul Allen is funding a new array of telescopes for SETI. (Co-founder of Microsoft.)
Depends. I still tend to call them demons.
So I understand.
I have no citations. My evidence is the millions of sightings, reports, photos, and videos, the overwhelming majority of which can be debunked as hallucinations, planes, weather balloons, planets, meteors, hoaxes, swamp gas, etc, etc. But to believe that all of them, without exception, are wrong, to believe that not a single report of all the thousands upon thousands is accurate, in my mind requires a greater leap of faith than is required to believe that at least one is legitimate.
Comercial break. The story of Roswell up next.
There's reportedly a massive book on RELIGION related to UFO's and the ET claims to have created Jesus etc. etc. etc.
Remember satan and crew have had thousands of years to engineer even purported historical holographic videos.
Hard to believe a race that can travel across space light years distant will play hide and seek.. unless the mentalitys that see them never really grew up..
So, you have no evidence. Thanks for playing.
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