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.
There's always the boards with nails in them, then :-)
Well done.
Your intelligence community has totally failed you. You are wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm west coast, still got two hours to go.
> I read this book where the aliens thought they were coming to conquer 11th Century earth technology, but actually landed in the middle of WWII, which wasn't so cool for them.
Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series. A real fun read.
I believe I read that somewhere also.
The French character/scientist in the movie was based on Vallee, IIRC.
No mention of Carl Sagan (yet)....
What about us? Where did we come from?
Google "MJ-12" or Majestic-12 and see what comes up.
Some interesting documents which may or may not be real.
Great post. Thanks.
Jimmy Carter saw a UFO?!?!? Well, that settles it for me.
Now we have another "expert" who says eyewitness testimony is the lowest form of evidence. And another scientist who says all eyewitness testimony is unreliable, regardless of who you are.
The condescension dripping from the voices of these scientists they have on now. Stupid people, who are you going to believe, us or your lying' eyes?
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
I cried after I watched that movie. It was too much. When the little boy was taken away, it just killed me. I'll never watch that movie again.
I am skepticle of "government coverups" and "conspiracy theories"
But if it was true, I would also NOT want to know.
I dont know what to believe, I will tell you that this video gave me pause....
http://www.itsvideos.com/viewmedia1010.html
"...with the ability to get here."
Maybe it's the ability to get 'now'.
What lies just ahead and just behind us in time? And beyond those 'layers'? Other existences? Is the veil thin, requiring reasonable levels of energy to traverse?
Making sense is forbidden on this thread!
...."Has anyone here seen one?".............
Yes.
Mr. RR and I are both college educated and consider ourselves to be rather sane people. He is an Air Force retiree and I am a retired high school English teacher. We are not Art Bell fans, nor conspiracy theorists.
When we lived in Northeast Wyoming, we witnessed a huge, cigar shaped "something" in a canyon in the Black Hills. It was below the skyline and hovering in the canyon. The moon that night was not quite full, but was very bright. It illuminated the "something". It was rather breathtaking to see. We drove on home quite bewildered by what we had just seen.
The next morning a friend of ours called to say that he had found two of his calves (in the same canyon) mutilated. Mr. RR (who was a volunteer member of the Sheriff's Posse) went out to view the scene. The carcasses of the calves had been evicerated, no blood at the scene, nor any blood left in the carcasses. They were lying in tall grass, which had not been trampled down by any natural predators. Another very strange thing.........there were no insects (flies) on their bodies.
Yes, I believe.
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