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.
Wow, a post like that on this thread and no one replied? That is a pretty amazing sighting.
Quix - ping.
I went to bed once the abductee stories started. Nothing new up to that point for me, so I doubted that section would have anything new either.
Thanks for the synopsis.
AMEN!
YUP.
Yes.
:-)
Beautiful if quite anthropomorphic sentiment
When I first heard that "Petah" was doing a show on UFOs, the first thing that occurred to me is that he finally has some appropriate material. This show is what the MSM/LSM/Dino-Media are all about in terms of relevance, accuracy, etc.
TRUE AND AMEN!
Well-said.
Balloons -- caught in an updraft. You were correct in your first conclusion.
Why is it no one in the UFO investigative field has considered the possibility that what is being seen are demonic deceptions -- spiritual apparitions intended to lead the gullible and unbelieving even further from the truth?
There are some fitting issues about "the way the mind works."
And, there are some interesting aspects to mind reading and influencing images in the mind and all the rest by technology from a distance.
When I was in undergrad school about 1967 or 68, I asked the physics prof what he thought UFO's were. He said he had two different colleagues working in two different areas of highly classified work.
One was working with technology which would project images etc. into the minds of the enemy of a vast force of tanks, whatever against them.
The other was working in an area dealing with other worldly craft.
There are many things that 'the way the mind works' just does not explain away at all. Civilian and military pilots, radar operators and air traffic controllers have all observed things for which that is a very, very inadequate out.
Also, the way the mind works does not explain persistent types of very shaped body gouges, outlines, marks on victims. It does not explain very serious, chronic ailments--some involving severely injured limbs etc. being healed post abduction.
etc.
Well said.
I was shocked to learn in my marriage.
Mostly, women don't seem to wear makeup for men.
Most men HATE makeup--feels like lard or butter to their touch. Most of us like our women raw. . . in more ways than one.
Women wear makeup competing with what other women think about how they look.
And that says it all. LOL. No need to read the rest of this thread.
Dr Kaku apparently did a very fine job, anchoring the presentation in reality.
Very well put.
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