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.
Well said.
I see where this is going. They are trying to make us mistrust the government (aka the Bush administration).
How about some screen captures for us tv deprived? Anyone??
True; but it could be worse; they could believe in Peter Jennings and ABC. . .
UFO's seem user friendly by comparison.
"If you read any text of the early Fathers, any of the early Lives of Saints or the Lausiac History, you find many cases where beings suddenly appear. Nowadays they appear in spaceships because that's how the demons have adapted themselves to the people of the times; but if you understand how spiritual deception works and what kind of wiles the devil has, then you have no problems in understanding what's going on with these flying saucers. And yet this person who writes the UFO column is an absolutely strict Fundamentalist Christian. He is looking, actually for new revelations to come from beings from outer space."
Fr. Seraphim Rose wrote on UFOs from a Christian perspective, if you are interested in that. http://www.sfaturiortodoxe.ro/orthodox/orthodox_advices_ufo.htm
I dunno. People see something. But there are aspects of all this that do not seem strictly material / technological. Almost like some people are touching on some sort of inner mental realm that can be shared with others under certain circumstances. Demons, angels, anal-probing aliens... who knows?
BTW, the whole abduction thing is interesting in light of the fairly rare, but perfectly explanable situation of awareness while in sleep paralysis.
Why do you say that? It seems like a good way to spend a (private) nickel, if you've got plenty of nickels and some curiosity. I think it's privately funded. so what's the harm in listening?
obviously engineered objects have been found in coal seams clearly much older than recorded human history.
Didn't see you on AIM... wondered when you'd pipe up :-)
Yeah. That's one of the annoying things about the subject as well as about the naysayers on this forum.
I like the Police report with the simulation on now.
Good report.
Certainly better self-control. I don't think a UFO would throw a hissy fit on election night even if its side lost big.
I would suggest that distrust is a good thing; by which I mean, vigilance. Which is always in order for all of us to hold our servants to account.
Bush is not above our vigilance.
"I see where this is going. They are trying to make us mistrust the government (aka the Bush administration)."
BINGO!
Oh yeah!!!! What about the B-2 bomber???? Huh? Huh? Huh?
I've never heard that before. Can you point me to a link or some words for the Google searchbar?
Thanks. Great report.
Was the cigar craft longer than 2 or 3 football fields?
Thank you for the backup.
I didn't feel like arguing with the man.
I can Karl Rove's hand in alien abductions.
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