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 ENCOURAGE YOU to ask God to make Himself real to you in terms you can wrap your mind and heart around.
Perhaps begin reading Luke--a physician and Luke is a bit more objective in perspective perhaps.
Matthew 5 begins the Sermon on The Mount--which is just beautiful.
Proverbs is a wealth of good advice about life.
Psalms include much comfort--especially the latter half.
I II & III John is wonderful. I Cor 13 Is wonderful.
Ask God to show you what's real and a priority. Then do your best to ready yourself to listen and be open to however He chooses to communicate to you. Just remember, God is God and you're not. We have to learn to play by His rules--not Him by ours.
Eeeeeeeek! It's "saw", people! Saw! Why do all those UFO-sighters use the phrase "I seen"?
Well said.
A sizeable percentage of abductions evidently take place on deserted roadways.
though there's the famous case out of the 11th story of a New York City skyscraper in view of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Just out of curiosity, when you experienced sleep paralysis, did you see any beings?
Not once I startled up out of REM sleep into the partial-waking paralysis stage. But the startling up phase was often accompanied by feelings of fear occasioned by denizens of my dreams.
Let me be clear about one thing. I am, and have been since I was a small child, a rather rational person. When I was about five years old, I deduced that Santa Claus couldn't exist because of the travel speed and sleigh weight problems, and also because reindeer can't fly! Seeking evidence for the correctness of my deductions, I looked for, and found, the Christmas presents that purported to be from Santa Claus hidden on the top shelf of my parents' closet. My younger sister still gets (laughingly) angry when she recalls how I disabused her of the concept of Santa Claus before she would have lost her belief on her own.
All this by way of saying that I've never (to my recollection) felt that animate beings (invisible, alien, whatever) were in my immediate surroundings harboring either benign or malignant intentions. I've never had a sense that there's a 'presence' in the room with me or, more generally, guiding me along my life's way.
Perhaps I'm just an unimaginative rationalist. But if 'unimaginative' means 'not given to entertaining or believing in fictive entities or processes', I don't find that a bad thing. And as for 'rationalist', the critic of my rationalism must use reason to criticize it or else pay the penalty of not being understood!
The ET's are nortorious for not being very clean insuch matters.
A curiosity, for sure.
You were right to press for clarification. Thank you.
Evidently having deep undersea bases; under ground bases and other dimensions to come and go from . . . helps out.
We've been discussing aliens and UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle but what just occurred makes all those things everyday events.
You have just written a post on a thread that has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft.
This is clearly a strange night :-)
The Martin case had people in contact with one another.
The vast numbers of abductions take place from VERY disconnected folks--many of whom have had NO awareness of the whole UFO field.
You don't believe this Alien conspiracy stuff do you?
I don't.
Lord, God, this character clearly could use some educating. Please, if there's any hope--educate him effectively. Avoid zapping him, first, please. Have mercy on his soul.
What would be a convenient explanation for the car driver who had an abtuctee experience and missing time. While driving his car all that time....
Absolutely, with what . . . 2012 being some sort of quasi upper boundary for the world as we have known it?
We've had good crop circle threads here but last summer was quiet for them. Many are hard to explain away as done by beered up college students
You sound as though you have a very rational position. Show me some evidence before I believe something. I agree very much with that attitude, but I have to admit I'm inclined to think something is there for two reasons, the universe is pretty big, and I can't agree that every single sightinh is a mistake.
But for every nutbar, there's a Randi or Condon type who will stretch imagination and believability to the extreme to prove these things don't exist.
True. And the solidly retired.
I agree.
ALL YOUR BASE..... oh, never mind.
Hee hee hee hee (evil laugh)
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