The UFO Phenomenon -- Seeing Is Believing

[illuminati]

Two-Hour Primetime Special Airs Thursday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m.

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."

[capt_buzzard]

UFOs sighted over Iran turned out to be American Spy aircraft according to Teheran News Agency.

[capt_buzzard]

Next it will be visions at Fatima revisited. But will they lock away the visionaries into enclosed convents next time?

[illuminati]

Those sightings were made by hysterical peasants and none too smart laborers.

When was the last time you saw a working class Iranian with glasses? Everything in the sky is a ufo.

[capt_buzzard]

hehe

At the risk of having you all think I'm a little crazy, I'm most definately open to the idea of alien life. Whether or not anyone has actually witnessed an alien or UFO, I couldn't say. Doesn't seem likely, but, maybe that's just because we're trained to think it's not likely. With as many stars, planets, galaxies, etc, surely there is some form of life somewhere else. Wouldn't you think?

[StelZ]

Originally Posted by CeltWmn

At the risk of having you all think I'm a little crazy, I'm most definately open to the idea of alien life. Whether or not anyone has actually witnessed an alien or UFO, I couldn't say. Doesn't seem likely, but, maybe that's just because we're trained to think it's not likely. With as many stars, planets, galaxies, etc, surely there is some form of life somewhere else. Wouldn't you think?

Of course there is. There has to be.
Even if their own planet has since blown up and there's a spaceship somewhere travelling along with all their richest people on board. Perhaps its even called Air Force One. hmmm ..

[Enigma]

I believe that there could be alien life. IMO the possiblity that aliens exists is more likely than the possibility that we alone exist in this vast universe. Of course I also believe in the likelihood of ghosts, spirits, demons, angels, ESP, intuition, psychics, visions, the virgin birth, telekinesis, etc. I am very open-minded and take the stance that unless it can be disproved, there is always the possibility. Too many things in life are unexplainable by normal conventions. Besides, just because I've never seen a platypus with my own eyes doesn't mean they don't exist.

Originally Posted by Enigma

I believe that there could be alien life. IMO the possiblity that aliens exists is more likely than the possibility that we alone exist in this vast universe. Of course I also believe in the likelihood of ghosts, spirits, demons, angels, ESP, intuition, psychics, visions, the virgin birth, telekinesis, etc. I am very open-minded and take the stance that unless it can be disproved, there is always the possibility. Too many things in life are unexplainable by normal conventions. Besides, just because I've never seen a platypus with my own eyes doesn't mean they don't exist.

I guess that about sums it up for me!

[chicagolosina]

Last summer I had a BBQ with friends and neighbours. About 11pm, we all saw (we were all sober by the way) two twirling lights in the sky going around and around each other, too fast to be planes, too close together to be helicopters..and then they just shot up and were gone. There were there a good five minutes, don't know what they were so I guess they can be classified as UFO's to me and my guests anyway.