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(ABC News)<\/p>\n
Could So Many UFO Witnesses Be Right?<\/p>\n
For
\ndecades, millions of people around the world have reported seeing UFOs
\nhovering in their skies. It is a mystery that science has been unable
\nto solve, and the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Much of the
\nreporting on this subject holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to
\nridicule.<\/p>\n
\nthe phenomenon in today’s world. The 90-minute special includes
\ninterviews with scientists searching for proof of life beyond earth and
\nUFO witnesses who claim aliens are already here. Building on the
\noriginal Peter Jennings report in 2005, David Muir reports on new
\nsightings, as well as NASA’s current search for life on Mars.<\/p>\n
\nSeeing is Believing," to be broadcast in HDTV, airs on a special
\nedition of "Primetime" Tuesday, September 16 from 9:30 – 11:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
\nprogram follows the entire scope of the UFO experience, from the first
\nfamous sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 to the present day. Muir
\nreports on a recent UFO sighting in Stephenville, Texas, where multiple
\nwitnesses reported seeing enormous lights moving in strange
\nconfigurations on the evening of January 8, 2008. He interviews some of
\nthe most credible witnesses of the sighting and a radar expert who
\nevaluated their claims and found something surprising in the data.
\nSophisticated animations approved by the eyewitnesses allow viewers to
\nget a feel for the experience first hand. The special draws on
\ninterviews with police officers, pilots, military personnel, scientists
\nand ordinary citizens who give extraordinary accounts of encounters
\nwith the unexplained. While professional skeptics about UFOs speak out,
\nincluding scientists who are leading the search for life forms
\nelsewhere in the universe. The special also examines the most recent
\nadvances in the search for life on other planets. This past summer,
\nNASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, a robot that tests and analyzes soil on the
\nplanet, found conclusive evidence of water ice on Mars. You’ll hear
\nfrom scientists on the project about the real possibility of finding
\nlife on Earth’s next-door neighbor.<\/p>\n
\nbehind the mystery of the incident at Roswell, New Mexico, where, in
\n1947, the story goes, the U.S. Government collected the wreckage from a
\ncrashed flying saucer. And you’ll hear from the people who claim
\nthey’ve been abducted by aliens.
Among the UFO cases presented:<\/p>\n
\nthe crew of an airborne B-52 witness a massive unidentified object
\nhovering near the base.<\/p>\n
\nadjoining towns all independently report witnessing a giant craft with
\nmultiple bright lights moving silently across the sky at a very low
\naltitude. Today, if you report a UFO to the U.S. government, you will
\nbe informed that the Air Force conducted a 22-year investigation which
\nended in 1969 and concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national
\nsecurity and are of no scientific interest.<\/p>\n
\ntheoretical physicist Michio Kaku told ABC, "You simply cannot dismiss
\nthe possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually sightings
\nfrom some object created by an advanced civilization because & on
\nthe off chance that there is something there, that could literally
\nchange the course of human history."<\/p>\n