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.
Th whole thing I got from that last episode was that we shouldn't trust the miliary or the government, because they lie to us.
Of course all government officials should be held to account. That wasn't my point.
>>Google "MJ-12" or Majestic-12 and see what comes up.
>>Some interesting documents which may or may not be real.
http://www.majesticdocuments.com/index.php
So does the cult of naysaysers.
--have religious overtones--
Sorry, my keyboard is acting up and dropping letters. I am going to have to be more consistent in using spell check.
And you can bet that Jennings would NOT be covering it tonight without having been expressly permitted to or ordered to by the puppet masters.
I like Marcell. He was an honorable, honest person.
Who the is the government? Every member of Congress, the Senate or the Supreme Court? Is the Air Force the government?
I don't believe in UFOS.
"Thus we have the case of the metal spheres found by miners in the Western Transvaal, South Africa. Over the past few decades miners in the area have come across metal spheres, often grooved, in layers of sedimentation estimated at 2.8 billion years old. According to Roelf Marx, curator of the Klerksdorp museum where they are kept: “The spheres are a complete mystery. . .They’re nothing like I have ever seen before.” Moreover the spheres are so hard that they cannot be scratched, even with a hard metal point. In 1979 several were closely examined by J.R. McIver, professor of geology at the University of Witwatersrand in Jo’burg and Andries Bischoff, geology professor at Potschefstroom University. What they found only deepened the mystery; averaging 1 to 4 inches in diameter the spheres are usually coloured steel blue with tiny flecks of white fibers embedded in them. They were found to be made of a nickel-steel alloy which does not occur naturally, and is of such a composition that excludes any meteoric origin. Quite simply they do not fit into any conventional prehistoric time-scale."
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=64
Who are the puppet masters? You keep talking about them, but I haven't seen you explain who they are.
I much agree. Nothing else fits even the basic facts.
SETI must be disinformation pure and simple.
Take a deep breath now. Really. I don't see this as agenda driven at all. It's just grasping for ratings.
Thing I notice is not many national advertisers. I am getting a lot of local commercials here.
Then you don't have to spend your nickel. Like the lady said, there's zero chance of hearing anything if nobody tries.
Abductees now...
This last segment on Roswell , Petah came across as a complete disbeliever, and insinuated that the folks who believe the Roswell cover-up story are believing in myths. He's spewing the government line now.
I was hoping he would be more objective, but it's becoming obvious that this is just another attempt to portray UFO believers as kooks.
I expected a little more objectivity, even though it is ABC.
I should have known better.
You need to knock off the disclosure, unit.
I'll report you if it continues.
That is all.
I wonder why? One would think they would have been able to sell this, even if it is up against "The Apprentice."
I am wondering if the end of this is really controversial.
"Conservatives are from Mars..."
I'd say it's pretty obvious, it is the "Red" planet after all.
Not 4 feet, mind you, 3 feet 11. That's the mark of a confabulation...use of a fake precision that couldn't possibly be supportable by evidence.
Dream believers.
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