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Posted on 11/13/2007 1:23:06 PM PST by stainlessbanner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter.
An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings.
"Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of existing aircraft and helicopters," they said in a statement released at a news conference.
The panellists from seven countries, including former senior military officers, said they had each seen a UFO or conducted an official investigation into UFO phenomena.
The subject of UFOs grabbed the spotlight in the U.S. presidential race last month when Kucinich, a member of Congress from Ohio, said during a televised debate with other Democratic candidates that he had seen one.
Former presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter are both reported to have claimed UFO sightings.
Most turn out to be misidentified aircraft, satellites or meteors. A panellist who once worked for Britain's Ministry of Defense said 5 percent of incidents cannot be explained.
But the sightings are often dismissed by authorities without proper investigations, UFO activists say.
"It's a question of who you going to believe: your lying eyes or the government?" remarked John Callahan, a former Federal Aviation Administration investigator, who said the CIA in 1987 tried to hush up the sighting of a huge lighted ball four times the size of a jumbo jet in Alaska.
The panel, organized by a group dedicated to winning credibility for the study of UFOs, urged Washington to resume UFO investigations through the U.S. Air Force or NASA.
"It would certainly, I think, take a lot of angst out of this issue," said former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, who said he was among hundreds who saw a delta-shaped craft with enormous lights silently traverse the sky near Phoenix in 1997.
The Air Force investigated 12,618 UFO reports from 1947 to 1969 in what was known as Project Blue Book. Investigators concluded that the incidents posed no threat and there was no evidence of space aliens or a super technology in operation.
"Since the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred that would support a resumption of UFO investigations," the Air Force said on its Web site.
thanks.
This is the problem I have with most UFO sightings. Why the heck would a interstellar spacecraft have these lights at all. Running lights to make them visible to all when they are trying to be stealthy?
I haven’t, but the port side of my 12-4 bridge watch saw something that was ‘non-ballistic activity exhibited by an unidentified flying object.’
We were using surface search radar, so the fact that nothing appeared on radar (where my head was buried at the time) didn’t surprise me. We weren’t equiped with air-search radar.
That very same time a sighting was recorded here in Fairbanks. Made the paper. A prominent professor saw it. Next day the hoaxers made the paper. Three drycleaning bags, a couple of sticks and small candles. Looked like a large triangular craft, definitely not ours, probably from Alpha Centauri.
This is a world-wide project, so I suppose it has something to do with weather control or something to do with global heating or cooling. Plenty of research projects going on as well, even for military purposes.
Impressive series. I just finished watching them. There’s so much fraudulent stuff out there that a person just hates to get involved in any of it. But air traffic controllers, pilots and astonauts can be trusted, I hope.
Well, I think it's perfectly logical that they should be wearing uniforms if they are inter-stellar buses. Earth is probably a layover station. ;()
ok thanks for clarifying. You have experience firsthand seeing these trails. I would be more apt to thinking it is secret govt. operations and not some unexplained alien UFOs.
Everyone sees them. They are in plain sight. Once you recognize them you can predict what the weather is going to be in your area more accurately than the weatherman. They call them cirrus clouds. Heh.
Sorry I rarely see them here in Florida. Almost like seeing cumulonimbus clouds.
Another thing that convinced me about UFO's was Allen Hynek. He worked for the military for many years and was the lead investigator in Project Blue Book. He was a serious skeptic at first but towards the end he became a believer.
I don't know, but have the suspicion that a lot of this stuff is advanced human technology. Back in pre-biblical days, there are fables and pictographs of air vehicles, levitation, etc. How the great structures of earth were made is wonderment enough for me. Even Coral Castle is a mystery in our own generation that needs to be explored. So, yes, I think there is technology available today that equals that of the ancients, so nothing would surprise me.
There is absolutely no evidence that people who claim to have seen a UFO has actually observed aliens or spacecraft from beyond our solar system.
And all those billions and billions of glowing rocks in universe after universe are just dead dirt and rock.. Right?
Quite boring ain’t it?
God must have done all that just for the heck of it and no purpose whatsoever.. Right?
So there’s no UFO’s ...Nothing..Just us and the other animals here and nowhere else..Right?
Arn’t we important?
/Sarc
Here comes one now!
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