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.
I watched this stupidity for 1 1/2 hours. There is nothing that I don't know already from watching a couple of late Saturday afternoon "Discovery" type shows in between doing the laundry and making the potroast.
How such an "esteemed" journalist could attach himself to this garbage is beyond me. He must be desperate.
LOL...didn't think of that.
He's Canadian.
I experienced it once, too. It took about a minute to gain control of my body after my mind woke up. It's hard to explain if someone hasn't experienced it. It was frightening, too.
Watching the show now.
Bookmarking to read this weekend.
Thanks, Quix, for your helpful comments.
JM
He blames everything on sleep disorders.
No news yet...just a review of everything commonly known.
Just like the rest of the dinosaurs.
Oh, goodness. That too has come from a lifetime of reading a wide diversity of things.
You might try the following keywords:
COAL SEAMS ARTIFACTS
FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY
STRANGE ARTIFACTS
STRANGE ARTIFACTS COAL SEAMS
PREHISTORY ARTIFACTS COAL SEAMS
PREHISTORY ARTIFACTS ENGINEERED
ARTIFACTS COAL SEAMS MODERN
ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY COAL SEAMS
and the like.
Yeah, abductees. Must.....keep....mind....open.....wants....to.....snap.....shut. So many of them seem like Cali flakes, how can a person keep an open mind when they start reliving their "trauma?" Especially when Whitley Streiber starts yapping.
Right. There appear to be certain kinds of people (normal people of average or even above average intelligence) who have trouble distinguishing between what's real and what's not in their experiences. When the abduction hustlers step in, these folks have their trouble exacerbated.
""I've experienced frightening sleep paralysis episodes repeatedly in my life.""
Me too. I have always had sleeping problems. I've slept walked- I have a problem with talking in my sleep only I speak very clearly, and I've woken up paralyzed and thought I've seen things.
I feel sorry for them...
Wise move. None are so blind as those who will not . . .
Yeah, I think I still have the continuance request I prepared in the event that co-counsel was abducted during the murder trial we were doing at the time ;-)
That is Extreme. Do you have sources for this belief?
One more: ooparts
Have studied somewhat the issue of the powers behind the 'elected' powers for many decades.
I think you have a lot of homework to do before we could carry on a more or less equally informed disucssion o the topic at all.
Since the election, I have even MORE than before become convinced that most of what goes on as government actions of great import and decisiveness is . . . charade.
I do believe that virtually all the known ET races are either in cahoots with satan and/or are demons in bioengineered 'bodies.' etc.
Good one.
Er, good one, right????
Yeah, it must be a good one.
Why?
Well, it can't be easy going through life believing that you've been abducted by little green men. They obviously need help.
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