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.
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I'll have to agree with you there, except for the first segment when they focused on some of the more recent sightings.
The LE officers were all fairly credible, and the Phoenix lights sightings were also.
The show started out somewhat objective, I thought, anyways, but has now completely morphed into just another piece of propaganda.
It also appears that they had a tough time selling advertising for the show, with all the 2 minute Direct Response commercials (commercials where the advertiser doesn't pay a set fee but instead pays a percentage to the network for any sales the ads generate) they have been running.
Fit shoe stretcher for only $19.95?
Give me a break.
I agree
CONGRATS on the sighting.
SUPER CONGRATS ON THE NECKING.
Congrats on your courage for sharing your sighting.
Thanks much.
Same thing with crop circles. There was one I saw that was stunning, fantastically complex, something like a hundred acres. Engineers and surveyors were asked about if they could create it and they said "Yeah, give me twenty guys working ten hours a day, and we might do it in two weeks"
But it appeared overnight, no doubt a couple of college kids with poles and rope and a couple cases of beer.
For every completed crop circle we see, there should be three more that are abandoned, unfinished.
This is true. There is no earth shattering info here. I have some things in my files that would make people here call me the biggest fabricator in the world. They just wouldn't believe me - period.
What about Faeries. Many people believe they have seen faeries.
"I do believe that virtually all the known ET races are either in cahoots with satan and/or are demons in bioengineered 'bodies.' etc."
Just curious. How many "known ET races " do you reckon there are?
What has become of the Disclosure Project? I haven't heard anything about it in a while.
Sometimes it seems like all of the above [except NASCAR]. But at least, imho, the Bildebergers.
They are a shadowy group given to protecting their identities fiercely and with fairly unlimited funding and unlimited power.
Of that i"m fairly certain.
fatigue makes it worse. And tricyclic antidepressants which are sometimes used for iinsomnia or migraine or pain! And Klonopin at night before bed will stop it but you can't use it long term,,just when the stuff acts up. It is scary for people when it happens. Regards, Pat
. . .remember the debate re algore. .
.'alien' or not?
Always thought Algore qualified as a genuine alien. . .
Mean no disrespect to those creatures. whom we consider to be alien. . .
Thanks.
It appears to me that it's going to be a 5% to 15% at most incremental nudging of the envelope toward acceptance of SOME kind of reality in terms of ET's/UFO's etc. But it doesn't seem to be slated to be all that startlingly revelatory.
LUB,
I have sleep problems too. I have been an insomniac since 5th grade and have the paralysis also. I have lately been diagnosed with diabetes and have read that a lack of sleep causes problems with the body's metabolism. I wonder if the diabetes is linked to the sleep disorder.
That's the $64,000 dollar question now, isn't it?
Perhaps they want to maintain the status quo and keep the sheeple in line for as long as possible before the big event.
I honestly don't know why they don't just come out with the truth.
What are they afraid of?
Show just ended here in the midwest.
Goodnight.
And now I am going to bed.
Yeah, I have to agree that this one was pretty much a waste of time. Nothing new I haven't seen on cable.
I seem to remember some congressman was going to work on getting governnment disclosure on all this... is that what you're talking about?
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