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'm still impressed by the quality of the ads that ABC got as sponsors tonight. "Ab Lounge," "Willie Nelson's 20 Greatest Hits" and "NU FIT shoe stretchers." Gotta get me some of them!!!
They must have really raked in the dough with those sponsors here in sweeps month!!!
I do actually believe in spirits. You can't just believe a story someone tells you. You have to have a personal experiance.
Wow! That was some pretty spectacular footage! The guy who was filming a light, then these lights just kept coming on, and pretty soon, an enourmous arc shaped craft was outlined!
Wow!
Very mortal men. Though some are reportedly overt, consciouis satan worshippers. Perhaps all of them.
Eisenhower seemed to indicate that during his administration, they succeeded in getting control over the UFO technologies and subject. And he regretted that he saw it too late and could then do nothing about it besides warn in his departing speech about
BEWARE THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
No, it was a cluster of radium filled rabbit turds aimed at Jimmah.
Of course man won't be eradicated.
THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH. I believe that literally.
Call in the next 10 minutes and we will include the magic spatula...all yours for just $19.95.
Yes! Beware the manufacturers of the "Ab Lounge." This whole show was merely a pretense to put that ad on before millions of viewers. Conspiracy!!! Roswell!!! Roswell!!!
Enjoy your comforting thoughts while you can!
It's been too long since I read much about VAllee. I thought he was an unfortunate tragic figure overcome by the whole thing in one way or another for one reason or another.
Could you please indulge me via FREEPMAIL with a paragraph summary of the frightful stuff he said in his later years?
I forgot about the magic spatula!!! I was so ready to see an ad for "Spatula City," too!!! Buy 9 spatulas at their regular price and get your tenth one for just a penny!!!
Understand. Thanks.
Extremely well said, imho.
THANKS!
MUCH THANKS.
Trust God. Love is real. Don't stop believing that.
Oh quix, don't get all territorial and envious. You would be surprised at what experts people on FR are on alot of subjects. Besides, you can chip in with your expertise any old time,,we love to kibitz.
I'm in the PST zone watching the show now. Is this a repeat of the same show from ..... say two years ago?
The Illinois sighting pretty impressive. Six people, five of them police officers, see a huge totally silent triangular shaped craft with lights. All their descriptions match in every detail.
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