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.
"Liberals are from Uranus"
"I always thought they were Klingons. My mistake."
Liberals ARE Klingons....the cling on to a whole bunch of nonsense.
I just have to admire the open minds portrayed on FR.,,,,,,,I think I'll go watch Peter Jennings and get the hell away from the inane group think that goes on here. It is stifling at best."
Enjoy the show!
I believe in UFO's. You probably don't judge everyone by what some say, but just in case you do.....stop it. :)
Open a window and get the smelling salts. I do believe you have a case of the vapors.
Where is Quix???
If I met you 30 years ago, and told you that in 2005 pretty much every home in the USA would have a computer in it, and they would all be networked, and that these computers cost as little as $350 (Monitor included), and that these machine could operate at 1,000,000,000+ cycles per second; and each cycle could produce 1-4 simultaneous instructions; you would have thought me insane.
What we call 'near infinite' today, is going to be easily produced in the near future. Consider how our national power grid has exploded in size, and power over the past 50 years. The power we all take for granted was something that could hardly be conceived 50 years ago.
(Anyone remember the Jeraldo debacle 20-some-odd years ago?)
"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"
Is it just me, or were not these two incidents fully explained when pranksters in ultra-lights came forward and confessed?
What was the name of that Harvard psychologist prof who nearly got the boot for publishing a UFO paper? He died a couple months ago. Stepped off a curb. Like Hapgood.
[So, which is more foolish, believing that in the entire cosmos, ONLY Earth has intelligent life, or that there may be life forms smarter, or dumber than we?]
Perhaps the real question is: Are there, in fact, alien beings who look sort of like us but with no noses and great big eyes, landing on Earth in flying saucers, and harassing people in their bedrooms, taking them on joyrides through space, implanting objects and embryos in their bodies and then leaving them back on Earth with no recollection of the event until after a therapist recovers their memory for them?
Show me any one of these events recorded by someone with a camcorder and I'll believe it.
I witnessed the Phoenix lights in February of '97. I walked with a friend out his front door just at twilight. I saw seven very bright lights in a V formation very slowly coming south from over the McDowell Mts. They stopped over Mesa. I was absolutely stupified for a moment but then realized that they had stopped over Falcon Field where they built and flew Apaches.
This was a month before the "Phoenix lights" incident. My buddy saw me staring and laughed. He said that he had seen them before and his first reaction was the same. He specifically mentioned watching them from his son's bedroom window at Christmas.
There's no doubt in my mind what the "Phoenix Lights" were.
I'm with you. It is hubris to think we are the only intelligent creatures in the universe.
Hey man...I remember punch cards, FORTRAN RPG ADA COBOL PASCHAL and 56K high capacity memory and blazing fast....Radio Shack had the fastest chip in the world in the "Color Computer" I bought my kids... how true...and on another level, 'the world we behold is not yet HALF created"
They're only going to take jobs Americans don't want
Did you have a bad day dear?
We are always like this, its is our "thing"
Do you know how to turn this one into a LIFE THREAD ?
It may have some legs....
I think the percentage that believes in UFO's is the same percentage that believes that Karl Rove came up with the CBS forgery.
The evidence for extraterrestrial visitation of Earth is quite solid, IMO. But this does not stop the mainstream scientific community, government, and media from exercising the same kind of arrogant, close-minded, out of hand dismissal that is seen in this thread.
Ping....
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