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.
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The expert is full of it, IMHO, given what the tape of the sighting showed.
Proof, it is southern!!
I believe the guy who saw the wing! He is credible.
LOL...We might all not take UFO's so seriously if footage was accompanied by "Pop Goes The Weasel."
Balloons with glowsticks released...
The so called expert is typical disinformation.....
This is why this stuff fascinates me.
LOL, but I have no southern ties. I'm a second generation son of immigrants. And until I moved out of New England, I talked like a typical Bostonian. Never even lived in the South.
I might have picked it up watching Daisy Duke.
Yes
Now playing ispatch of police seeing something near St. Louis. This is pretty convincing.
"...We might all not take UFO's so seriously if footage was accompanied by "Pop Goes The Weasel.""
ROFL!
You from Scotland? That might explain it.
I don't like the animation stuff.
So far, all describe a massive triangular object flying in total silence.
"I might have picked it up watching Daisy Duke."
That's possible....Daisy sure did get around.
. . .LOL for an 'indentified truth'. . .
that sounded convinciing to me.
Has anyone here seen one? anyone kidnapped by one? anyone have a credible non drunken relative who has seen one?
Lets vote.
I believe in ufos but not abductions
It would help if Peter Jennings wasn't being photographed like he is Rod Serling in "The Twilight Zone."
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