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.
Thank you for the link.
He did NOT get the boot.
There was a committee that met and reviewed the stuff. They fussed a bit about the lack of conformity to the party line but affirmed his freedom to express his interest and opinions. They also affirmed his quality performance in his role at the university.
. . .whoa. . . .for sure! Peter doing 'reality tv. . .'!
I sure as heck didn’t vote for Hanoi John – but I will not dismiss the possibility of extraterrestrial life with the ability to get here.
Like what really hit FL800???
You can look Hillary in the face and not believe that there are demons who are active in this world?
Now this is bad reporting. What was the commission? Was it independent scientists, a Congressional Committee, or what?
This is probably going to be ABC News top rated show in years. Millions are going to see it and millions are going to believe it.
LOL
We do what we can with our available capacities in time, energy etc.
But your assumptions about the variables and facts related thereto may be a LOT less robust or accurate than you think.
Of curse there are a few reported incidents of UFO's above US missile silos and batteries.
And the missiles just shut off. Period. Totally inert.
I never heard of this station. Hmmmm interesting.....
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/info/wheretolisten.html
Absolutely not true. There have been metal artifacts found in coal mines, in the coal itself.
There is quite a bit uf unexplained archeology.
We may be, but there's no way of knowing. The bottom line is not to presume anything about the aliens, if they exist, but to be prepared. Denial doesn't help.
I notice that we don't have a ot of top tier advertisers on this show. We have had the spinning storage system and now the "grip and flip."
well, the apprentice calls, will record the rest of this.
One of the most amusing explanations has been that the sightings could be attributed to "swamp gas."
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