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.
Yeah, it was sitting right next to the honest election in Venezuela.
Much agree.
I do think that many are loathe to allow the possibility because it would alter their very willful/hedonistic/perhaps rebellious lifestyle.
Willie Nelson is definitely an ET.
So did this scientist just say that when they see them they will have evidence? Really, I am not particularly passionate on this subject, but it's always the scientists who seem suspect to me. Too many are about protecting their own work and beliefs.
Another second-tier commercial. Pretty soon I think we will see some Popeil products.
The government have become master, master craftsmen and super artists at casting something right on the edge of believeable/ridiculous so that they can spin it which ever way they want that suits the purposes at the time as well as the long term goals--which primarily are super tyrannical control of the world's citizens, imho.
It will be interesting to see where that line is nudged by tonight's program.
Roswell story on now !
More Bravo Sierra than Peter's bowl
Doctor J. Marcell MD on now.
Oh, it certainly is. In the next few weeks or months some shrewd pol (Dem or Pub) is going to start demanding new programs and laws to deal with the E.T. threat. Only big gub'mint can protect us from them, you know.
It used to be a given in the news media that reputable reporters did NOT cover UFOs. Ever. Says a lot, doesn't it?
USPS did run a commercial during this fantastic top notch reporting on ABC. The Post Office is run by aliens... no, really. I saw it on MIB II.
seti==disinfo
Very well said.
You are quite welcome.
you have freepmail from me.
There have been lots of artifacts. Well controlled.
My relative had something to say about that.
And, Dr Stephen Greer has a lot of stuff waiting in the wings for Congressional Immunity grants.
Isn't just amazing, then, how many of the non-believers believe that there are tens of thousand of witnesses of UFO events who are all totally bonkers and not credible? How many are they willing to accept that have no credibility? Just amazing, I tell ya. Whew!!!!
Stanton Friedman PhD. on now.
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