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.
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence or non-existence of extraterrestrials
Pointless ... unless the project found proof positive in every report of Greys, LGM, and MIB ... the true believers would dismiss it as a cover-up.
No, these people are really serious. They don’t want to be affiliated with the tin-foil hat crowd..........Gotta go! 4 p.m. saucer is awaiting in the parking lot!............
very interesting speculation....this one has interested me since it made front page USA Today headlines, as I recall.
No, that is a slightly different subset of idiots.
They really want to focus on craft sightings and aerial phenomena.............
Whats the best way to avoid being kidnapped by alien beings in a spaceship?
Dont get drunk in the woods with a bunch of rednecks!...........
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Last UFO they showed from Gulf Breeze was a Navy SH-60 dropping off SEALs on a night training mission. The upper beacon lights were reflecting off of the blades. All other warning lights were left off so as not to blind the divers. The additional green lights were Cyno sticks worn on the SEALS legs. I can't find the video on youtube at this time.
Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma
Anatomy of a phenomenon: The detailed and unbiased report of UFOs
Once you started reading some of the UFO sightings, landings and contact cases and the evidence in support, you realize that this isn't a case of seeing the moon and thinking it's a UFO. Vallee also comes to the conclusion that UFO's are somehow tied to Earth and aren't a n inter-planetary phenomenon. He things at least some are a kind of broadcast holograph with mass. The flight characteristics of some UFO's are not aeronautical. So in a sense, they are not "flying".
Skeptics can make all the jokes they want about little green men from Mars, but once you look into the reality of UFO's, you realize, it is far bigger and stranger than spaceships.
There have been proven physical effects on the ground, on plants, on electronic sensors and on people. So, denying that something is going on, is not a scientific point of view. Read Vallee and come back and say there is nothing to UFOs.
"I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, Have you seen anything like that before? He was shocked and said, Nope. And I said to him: Lets follow it!
We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When we got off the plane, I told Nancy all about it.
The pilot of Governor Reagan plane was Bill Paynter, and he backed up Reagans version of the incident with the UFO.
I was the pilot of the plane when we saw the UFO. Also, on board were Governor Reagan and a couple of his security people. We were flying a Cessna Citation. It was maybe nine or ten oclock at night. We were near Bakersfield when Governor Reagan and the others called my attention to a big light flying a bit behind the plane.
It appeared to be several hundred yards away. It was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate, then it appeared to elongate. The light took off. It went up at a 45-degree angle - at a high rate of speed. Everyone on the plane was surprised.
Governor Reagan expressed amazement. I told the others I didnt know what it was. The UFO went from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed instantly.
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I can't validate the source, but this seems to be widely acknowledge, listing names etc. In fact, I think Reagan saw objects on two occasions.
Could be all BS....I don't have time to do the research.
An alien.
There’s no gain for the government to “come clean” so to speak.
If there are more sightings of UFO’s, there’s enough momentum in the MSM to label those who’ve seen one as kooks. Plus the fact that after a few years people who have seen one will have a natural tendency to doubt what they’ve seen.
I guess for those who do believe they’ll just have to wait and hope one lands right on the White House lawn in full daylight because that’s the only way the MSM and others will take a look at this phenomenon.
You've, of course, heard of MIB: Men in Black.
That's a MFB: Men Formerly Black.
Maybe so. Noori is a common family name over there, which is where George’s family line is from.
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