The UFO Phenomenon - Seeing Is Believing (Peter Jennings tonight - Live Thread)

ABC News ^ | Feb. 24, 2005

[My2Cents]

UFOs are real! Their hear to stune our beebers.

[cajungirl]

Where were you?

These pilots convince me,,pilots are very astute observors and not a bit hysterical.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Professional airline pilots are on now!!!

[zoyd]

If the show is to be the least bit factual, they need to have an extended interview with General Johnson Jameson. He'll reveal the secrets...

[cajungirl]

Is it possible that the atomic bombs going off at the end of the war precipitated interest in our world by others?

These pilots are the best evidence.

[Betis70]

I get mine time shifted automagically by ABC.

T-minus 2:27 and counting.

[SalukiLawyer]

I agree... and they have to know it is not necessarily a career-enhancing move to report a UFO. Probably why there aren't more by big iron drivers.

[djf]

I thought there was a federal law, something like a 100K fine if a commercial pilot discloses seeing something unusual...

[Quix]

Anyone not on the UFO PING LIST, and wanting to be on, please let Las Vegas Dave [backup list] and I know and we'll be happy to put you on the list. Or off, if requested!

Cheers for starting this thread.

[BurbankKarl]

ART BELL / COAST TO COAST PING

Thu 02.24 Coast to Coast tonight....

First Hour: Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku will discuss the ABC special Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs (airing tonight) which he is featured in.

[My2Cents]

The SF Bay Area. North of San Jose, 5 miles south of Moffett Field. I grew up watching airplanes on approach to Moffett (their landing pattern was right over our house). I still look at anything in the sky. I know aircraft. If what I saw as an aircraft, it was not like any I'd seen before. I don't know what it was, but it didn't change my life. I just consider it an interesting object I noticed one night.

[Miss Marple]

Air Force wanted it to go away. Would not accept the conclusions of lower-level officers that we were being visited by extra-terestrials.

By 1952 there was an enormous wave of sightings, focussed on Washington D.C.

Three radars were picking up targets in D.C. (I am not sure whether to believe this or not...they aren't sourcing this very well.)

[cajungirl]

what is a big iron driver? Whatever it is, it is hot {to quote Paris Hilton}

[Savage Beast]

If the space aliens were landing at prime time and revealing the secrets of the universe, it still wouldn't be enough to make me watch Peter Jennings.

[FMBass]

"Is it possible that the atomic bombs going off at the end of the war precipitated interest in our world by others? "

I give my vote to the Dean Scream causing it

[Judith Anne]

Twenty years ago we lived in St. Louis county in a rural area. One night, my 10 yo daughter yelled for me to come into her room, she could see a UFO outside.

I went in saw nothing, and then reassured her that there was no UFO, because the F-15's (F-15s?) from McDonnell Douglas would scramble and chase it.

As soon as I said, that, four of them flew right over our house, low, fast, and loud.

I have no opinion, after that, as to what it could have been.

[My2Cents]

Yeah, add me to the list. I like to follow what's going on.

[cajungirl]

quix, we were so worried about you,,where were you??? Next time you go incommunicado, let someone know!

[Garden Mama]

I saw a UFO a couple of years ago. No vehicle - just unexplained lights. A row of 5 green lights was coming straight at our car as if an airplane was landing on the highway. Another row of lights approached the first at a right angle and it continued to drop lower and lower - heading straight for us. My husband hit the brakes and stopped. We were just about to drive in the ditch to avoid a collision when it disappeared. We both got out and heard no sound. I contacted a pilot we know to see what he thought it was. He had no explaination and said in his opinion most pilots believe in UFOs. There may have been a perfectly logical explanition but at this time it's still an unidentified flying object. Not that it matters but I'm a 50+ year old, church going, Republican grandma.

[SalukiLawyer]

Big Airplanes that carry People! :-)