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ABC News’ David Muir examines the evidence behind UFO sightings in a new "Primetime" special.
(ABC News)
Could So Many UFO Witnesses Be Right?
"Primetime" Examines the Evidence for UFOs and Aliens
Sept. 12, 2008—
For
decades, millions of people around the world have reported seeing UFOs
hovering in their skies. It is a mystery that science has been unable
to solve, and the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Much of the
reporting on this subject holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to
ridicule.
"UFOs: Seeing is Believing" takes a serious look at
the phenomenon in today’s world. The 90-minute special includes
interviews with scientists searching for proof of life beyond earth and
UFO witnesses who claim aliens are already here. Building on the
original Peter Jennings report in 2005, David Muir reports on new
sightings, as well as NASA’s current search for life on Mars.
"UFOs:
Seeing is Believing," to be broadcast in HDTV, airs on a special
edition of "Primetime" Tuesday, September 16 from 9:30 – 11:00 p.m. ET.
The
program follows the entire scope of the UFO experience, from the first
famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 to the present day. Muir
reports on a recent UFO sighting in Stephenville, Texas, where multiple
witnesses reported seeing enormous lights moving in strange
configurations on the evening of January 8, 2008. He interviews some of
the most credible witnesses of the sighting and a radar expert who
evaluated their claims and found something surprising in the data.
Sophisticated animations approved by the eyewitnesses allow viewers to
get a feel for the experience first hand. The special draws on
interviews with police officers, pilots, military personnel, scientists
and ordinary citizens who give extraordinary accounts of encounters
with the unexplained. While professional skeptics about UFOs speak out,
including scientists who are leading the search for life forms
elsewhere in the universe. The special also examines the most recent
advances in the search for life on other planets. This past summer,
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, a robot that tests and analyzes soil on the
planet, found conclusive evidence of water ice on Mars. You’ll hear
from scientists on the project about the real possibility of finding
life on Earth’s next-door neighbor.
ABC News explores the facts
behind the mystery of the incident at Roswell, New Mexico, where, in
1947, the story goes, the U.S. Government collected the wreckage from a
crashed flying saucer. And you’ll hear from the people who claim
they’ve been abducted by aliens.
Among the UFO cases presented:
Minot Air Force Base, 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, Ariz., March 1997 — Thousands witness what many believe was 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 which
ended in 1969 and concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national
security and are of no scientific interest.
But leading
theoretical physicist Michio Kaku told ABC, "You simply cannot dismiss
the possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually sightings
from some object created by an advanced civilization because & on
the off chance that there is something there, that could literally
change the course of human history."
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Sadly enough, three main subjects that they’ll be covering are identical to what Peter Jennings did in “Seeing is Believing” in 2005. I hope they’re not planning on just pulling those off the shelf.
We went away from that program in 2005 quite disgruntled.
Many who were previously interviewed for the program had too many complaints after it aired. The most prominent complaint was that the best evidence that that the individual had to offer, ABC deleted from the program. It was as if they had to make sure that the scales were tipped toward non-believers.
I have the original statement from Budd Hopkins regarding such at the following address if you’re interested. Budd was not the only one who experienced this but his words will help everyone to understand better, ABC’s very underhanded performance in 2005.
One thing is for certain. We’ll all have something to either talk about or complain about the day after the show this week.
Seeing is Believing 2005 Bud Hopkins statement
Stephenville is included this time but I’m not sure if their interview was prior to or after the more recent radar findings.