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Former pilots and officials call for new U.S. UFO probe
yahoo ^ | Nov 12 2007

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.


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KEYWORDS: callingartbell; kucinich; probe; ufo; usaf
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To: stainlessbanner

Paging Art Bell, paging George Noory.........


21 posted on 11/13/2007 1:38:00 PM PST by rockabyebaby (HEY JORGE, SHUT UP AND BUILD THE BLEEPING FENCE, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.)
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To: SERKIT
Dennis is gonna be “Swift-Saucered”.

Nah, he'll just be the next winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

22 posted on 11/13/2007 1:38:51 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: darkwing104

What’s the best way to avoid being kidnapped by alien beings in a spaceship?

Don’t get drunk in the woods with a bunch of rednecks!...........


23 posted on 11/13/2007 1:38:56 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: rockabyebaby

Noory was all over this last night!.............


24 posted on 11/13/2007 1:39:22 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger

LOL! I heard some of it!


25 posted on 11/13/2007 1:40:34 PM PST by rockabyebaby (HEY JORGE, SHUT UP AND BUILD THE BLEEPING FENCE, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.)
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To: Red Badger
No, it’s true! I heard it on Coast-to-Coast last night!.........

Was that the episode where Elvis and Andy Kuafman were their leaders?


26 posted on 11/13/2007 1:41:01 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: stainlessbanner; fatnotlazy

I don’t think these people have little green men in mind. With the level of technology that a number of politically shifty nations have, I think there’s genuine concern that some of these things are surveillance devices, or devices designed to selectively destroy or disable key communications and military satellites, or even to drop down on cue and destroy or disable land-based energy and communications systems (think massive blackout, from taking out one electric plant). Problem is, even if some of our senior military and government people KNOW that’s what they are, they can’t necessarily say so, because they don’t want the dispatchers of these devices to know how much our leaders know.


27 posted on 11/13/2007 1:41:07 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Red Badger

What did he have to say? I don’t get Noory’s radio program and would be interested in what he had to say.


28 posted on 11/13/2007 1:41:43 PM PST by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Red Badger
Don’t get drunk in the woods with a bunch of rednecks!...........

Both of us just happen to live in the Redneck Riveria.


29 posted on 11/13/2007 1:42:42 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: stainlessbanner
They’s a bunch of delta craft at the Atlanta airport

Turn 'em loose, say Heeyaaah and git 'em boys!!!

30 posted on 11/13/2007 1:43:27 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
That would be the Alien Anal Probe thread...


31 posted on 11/13/2007 1:44:56 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: darkwing104

....and Gulf Breeze is the new UFO Mecca................


32 posted on 11/13/2007 1:46:10 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: BOBTHENAILER
It would be nice if we just declassified this one.

Problem is that the craft is semi-vulnerable to SAM’s and if one ever went down we would have lots of explaining to do. Not to mention the surprise when a squadron of jets come out of a quadrant with no airbases or water-based carriers.

Just speculation...

33 posted on 11/13/2007 1:46:14 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: darkwing104
Darkwing,

You might find this interesting.

UFO Files: Black Box UFO Secrets Revealed

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVWKRUCM9s8

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvNiBfkuWEo

34 posted on 11/13/2007 1:46:20 PM PST by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: darkwing104; Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Or the Jetsons flying cars..
*snicker*


35 posted on 11/13/2007 1:46:44 PM PST by Darksheare (Cordite Chipmunk, the Splodent Rodent.)
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To: dragonblustar

George Noori favors ESP and other spiritual things and tolerates UFO and Gov’t conspiracy nuts.


36 posted on 11/13/2007 1:47:05 PM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: beer

37 posted on 11/13/2007 1:47:27 PM PST by evets (beer)
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To: dragonblustar

He had the guy whose spearheaded the effort on, by phone, and was basically congratulating him on his successful efforts. They really want to start a new Project Blue Book type program, beginning where it left off, but primarily focusing on the latest sightings and phenomena...............


38 posted on 11/13/2007 1:48:23 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: stainlessbanner

Gov. Bill Richardson said very defensively on FOX News Sunday: “I don’t believe in UFOs.”


39 posted on 11/13/2007 1:49:37 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: stainlessbanner; Quix
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40 posted on 11/13/2007 1:49:59 PM PST by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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