{"id":1639,"date":"2005-02-21T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2005\/02\/21\/chum_tv_exopoli\/"},"modified":"2005-02-21T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T23:24:00","slug":"chum_tv_exopoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/chum_tv_exopoli\/","title":{"rendered":"CHUM TV &#038; EXOPOLITICS &#8211; ABC-TV:PETER JENNINGS REPORTING: UFO&#8217;s: SEEING IS BELIEVING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2005\/02\/did_you_watch_p.html\">DID YOU WATCH PETER JENNINGS&#8217; CHUM-TV\/ABC-TV NEWS PRIMETIME SPECIAL ON UFOS?&nbsp; A GATHERING OF EXOPOLITICAL COMMENTARY.<\/a> <\/h3>\n<p>Read full article at:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2005\/02\/did_you_watch_p.html\">http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2005\/02\/did_you_watch_p.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER, B.C. &#8211; On Thursday, February 24, 2005, Canada\u2019s CHUM<br \/>\nTelevision will be broadcasting Peter Jennings&#8217; ABC News special, which<br \/>\nclaims that almost 50% of Americans believe that UFOs are real and<br \/>\nmillions have had UFO sightings.&nbsp; Even President Jimmy Carter publicly<br \/>\nadmitted seeing a UFO in 1969.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">EXOPOLITICS<\/a><br \/>\nis the evolution of Alfred Lambremont Webre\u2019s groundbreaking work as a<br \/>\nfuturist at the Stanford Research Institute, where in 1977 he directed<br \/>\na proposed extraterrestrial communication study project for the Carter<br \/>\nWhite House.<\/p>\n<p>Exopolitics explains why there are so many sightings around the<br \/>\nworld.&nbsp; It is a discipline for understanding Universe society through<br \/>\nits politics and government. It may turn our dominant view of the<br \/>\nUniverse upside down. Exopolitics posits that the truest conception of<br \/>\nour earthly circumstance may be that we are on an isolated planet in<br \/>\nthe midst of a populated, evolving, highly organized inter-planetary,<br \/>\ninter-galactic, multi-dimensional Universe society. The exopolitics<br \/>\n&#8216;model&#8217; may be helpful in approaching many of the issues facing our<br \/>\nhuman Future.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Webre&#8217;s unprecedented book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">EXOPOLITICS: POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND LAW IN THE UNIVERSE<\/a>&nbsp; (Universebooks 2005)&nbsp; is being published in March 2005.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">Click here to learn more<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.u<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universebooks.com\/\">niversebooks.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CONTACT:<br \/>Universebooks: Geri DeStefano, PhD. <a href=\"info@universebooks.com\">info@universebooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general63\/pet.htm\">Peter Jennings Gives UFOlogists A Hand<\/a><br \/>By Charlette LeFevre<\/p>\n<p>&quot;More than 80 million Americans believe the earth has been visited by extraterrestrials&quot;<br \/>&quot;More than 40 million Americans believe they have seen or know someone who has seen an unidentified flying object.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE,<br \/>\nWA. &#8211; Peter Jennings feels the answers to UFOs may be in these<br \/>\nstatistics, a subject for his upcoming ABC Special &quot;Seeing is<br \/>\nBelieving&quot; to air Feb. 24th. A ground making special itself as this<br \/>\nwill be the first time the subject of UFOs has been taken on personally<br \/>\nby a major network anchor. Jennings said &quot;This is one of the most<br \/>\ninteresting subjects I&#8217;ve worked on&quot; when he was taping for a Northwest<br \/>\nAfternoon program in Seattle February 16th in front of a small audience.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative Reporter<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nshow provided a format which highlighted Peter Jenning&#8217;s broadcast<br \/>\ncareer starting from the age of nine, his notable interviews with<br \/>\nforeign leaders and presidents, a clip of him stating tenaciously to<br \/>\nthe American public &quot;We are going to stay on the air until NASA has<br \/>\ntold us what it knows&quot; and a clip of him holding a piece of the Berlin<br \/>\nWall. The program also commented on his recent trip to Iraq and his<br \/>\nfirst interview with Bill Gates just that morning. The show gave him a<br \/>\nchance to show himself, his witty humor behind his handsome smile and<br \/>\nindeed that he can even blush when a female audience member called him<br \/>\n&quot;hot, suave, elegant and awesome&quot;. Everyone agrees with applause which<br \/>\nmakes Peter turn even more red and smile. Yes, he is hot.<\/p>\n<p>He is also inquiring and a bit of his drive might be indicative in<br \/>\nhis last special on the JFK Assassination. I believe Peter Jennings<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t want important information to be overlooked to leave future<br \/>\ngenerations wondering why media didn&#8217;t responsibly ask the questions.<\/p>\n<p>When<br \/>\nasked why a UFO special, Peter Jennings stated he didn&#8217;t know as much<br \/>\nabout this subject until about a year ago when he started filming this<br \/>\nspecial but &quot;as I keep telling people I work for the news division of<br \/>\nABC not the entertainment division and when 80 million people are<br \/>\ninterested in something, I wanted to investigate.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>On the show<br \/>\na sneak peek of his special was previewed which showed UFO photos, a<br \/>\nsighting case involving police and statements from abductees. I was<br \/>\nable to ask Peter Jennings if he himself has had any personal sightings<br \/>\nor experiences. Peter Jennings related no but stated he raises an issue<br \/>\nin his program that if he did have a sighting who would he call? Who<br \/>\nwould he tell? He urgently pointed out the government would say they<br \/>\nare not in the business of UFOs and dismiss the call but might be<br \/>\nreferred to a man called Peter Davenport. Peter Jennings then excitedly<br \/>\nannounced Davenport&#8217;s presence in the audience. Jennings has been<br \/>\nworking on his special program and had previously contacted Peter<br \/>\nDavenport, the Director of the National UFO Reporting Center which was<br \/>\nfounded in 1972 by retired Seattle firefighter Robert Gribble.<\/p>\n<p>Davenport<br \/>\nstated the ABC special on UFOs may be a &quot;landmark program&quot; and<br \/>\nsignificant in the sense it may allow people to feel more comfortable<br \/>\nto discuss this issue as he felt there was a certain degree of<br \/>\nsuppression of this subject.<\/p>\n<p>First Responders<\/p>\n<p>Peter<br \/>\nJennings mentioned &quot; Because so many of the people we interviewed<br \/>\nactually turned out to be the very kind of people who in this day and<br \/>\nage &#8211; the first responders we rely on &#8211; airline pilots, both commercial<br \/>\nand military, people who work in the police and I was very struck by<br \/>\nthe seriousness of the people who believed in this and talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nwas also struck &#8211; and you see alot in the program &#8211; how government<br \/>\nfailed, all the way from the 1940s when the first UFOs became an issue,<br \/>\nhow government failed to take this seriously.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Jennings then<br \/>\nstated Davenport at least may like that they took the issue seriously<br \/>\nand the people involved in UFOlogy seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt<br \/>\nthis is what every UFOlogist and interested person in UFOs has been<br \/>\ndreaming about &#8211; serious recognition on the &quot;six-o&#8217;clock&quot; news.<\/p>\n<p>Groundbreaking<br \/>\nand relieving that this breakthrough has occurred in our lifetime. We<br \/>\ncan now sit our kids in front of the TV in the same way our parents and<br \/>\ngrandparents watched the moon landing and tell them they are watching<br \/>\nsomething historical.<\/p>\n<p>But something else happened that should be known.<\/p>\n<p>The Handshake<\/p>\n<p>When<br \/>\nthe film stopped rolling between segments, Peter Jennings unexpectedly<br \/>\ngot up from his chair, walked across the stage over to where Peter<br \/>\nDavenport was sitting and respectfully shook Peter Davenport&#8217;s hand.<br \/>\nThen he quickly sat down.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. I think something happened here. Something monumental<\/p>\n<p>A feeling that a wall between people and the media regarding UFOs that has been in place for years just shattered<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nbelieve at that very moment of the handshake, UFOlogy was suddenly<br \/>\nrecognized by mainstream media and along with that to some degree the<br \/>\nimportance of sightings and experiences of millions of people was<br \/>\nacknowleged.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t hear a chorus of angels or see a beam of<br \/>\nlight shine down from the heavens &#8211; it was after all a simple handshake<br \/>\nbut I would like to think that whatever prompted the handshake, with an<br \/>\nexchange of kind words, there was a silent acknowlegement of respect<br \/>\nfor a fellow reporter, perhaps a common feeling of understanding of our<br \/>\nhumanity or even if you will an imagined cosmic cellular transfer of<br \/>\ninformation. In any manner, I believe our understanding of asking the<br \/>\nquestion if we are alone in the universe just got a helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>Charlette LeFevre<br \/>Director Seattle UFO\/Paranormal Group<br \/>Co-Director Seattle Museum of the Mysteries<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chumlimited.com\/television\/interactive.asp\">CHUM TV\u2019s<\/a> broadcast schedule for <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/print?id=468496\">&quot;Peter Jennings Reporting &#8211; UFO: Seeing Is Believing&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian\/World Premieres<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February 24th<br \/>8:00pm ET On CHUM Local Stations The New VR, The New RO, The New PL, The New NX and The New WI (Simulcast with ABC)<br \/>9:00pm MT on A-Channel Calgary and A-Channel Edmonton (Simulcast with<br \/>ABC)<br \/>7:00pm CT on A-Channel Manitoba (Simulcast with ABC)<br \/>8:00pm PT on The New VI (Victoria)<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, ON &#8211; Don&#8217;t miss the two-hour special &quot;Peter Jennings<br \/>\nReporting-UFO: Seeing Is Believing&quot; premiering on Thursday, February<br \/>\n24th at<\/p>\n<p>8:00pm ET on The New VR, The New RO, The New VI, The New PL, The New NX and The New WI (Simulcast With ABC), <br \/>8:00pm PT on The New VI, <br \/>9:00pm MT on A-Channel Calgary and A-Channel Edmonton (Simulcast With ABC) and<br \/>7:00pm CT on A-Channel Manitoba (Simulcast With ABC).<\/p>\n<p>The idea of UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects, has been around for<br \/>\ncenturies, but the answer to whether or not these silvery entities in<br \/>\nthe sky actually exist has yet to be determined. Peter Jennings<br \/>\nexplores the stories, both fact and fiction, behind this mystery after<br \/>\nconducting almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators,<br \/>\nmilitary personnel and witnesses.&nbsp; He also gives us a fresh look at the<br \/>\nhistory of alien abductions, the mysterious Roswell and the UFO<br \/>\nphenomenon itself. Also included in this two-hour special are<br \/>\ninterviews with skeptics, including professionals and scientists, who<br \/>\nbelieve there are reasonable explanations for the UFO sightings across<br \/>\nthe world.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss &quot;Peter Jennings Reporting &#8211; UFO: Seeing Is Believing&quot; on Thursday, February 24th at<\/p>\n<p>8:00pm ET\/PT on The New VR, The New RO, The New<br \/>PL, The New NX and The New WI (Simulcast With ABC), <br \/>8:00pm PT on The New VI, <br \/>9:00pm MT on A-Channel Calgary and A-Channel Edmonton (Simulcast<br \/>With ABC) and <br \/>7:00pm CT on A-Channel Manitoba (Simulcast With ABC).<\/p>\n<p>CHUM Television Overview<br \/>12 Local Independent Television Stations<br \/>21 Branded Specialty Channels<\/p>\n<p>Each<br \/>\nof our television stations telecasts the flavour of the community it<br \/>\nserves: the serious commentary, the passionate oration, the opinion,<br \/>\nthe celebrations, the unpredictability. This is the essence of CHUM&#8217;s<br \/>\nopen, inclusive, accessible style of broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>CHUM&#8217;s local<br \/>\ntelevision stations include Citytv (Toronto), Citytv (Vancouver), The<br \/>\nNew VR (Barrie), The New RO (Ottawa and the National Capital Region),<br \/>\nThe New PL (London), The New NX (Wingham), The New WI (Windsor), The<br \/>\nNew VI (Victoria and Vancouver Island), A-Channel (Calgary), A-Channel<br \/>\n(Edmonton), A-Channel (Manitoba) and CKX Television (Brandon).<\/p>\n<p>Specialty<br \/>\nanalogue services include MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic, MusiquePlus (50%),<br \/>\nMusiMax (50%), Bravo!, Alberta&#8217;s ACCESS* (60%), Edmonton based CLT*<br \/>\n(60%), CablePulse24 (70.1%), SPACE: The Imagination Station and Star!.<\/p>\n<p>Specialty<br \/>\ndigital channels include FashionTelevisionChannel, BookTelevision: The<br \/>\nChannel* (60%), CourtTV Canada (60%), Drive-In Classics, SexTV: The<br \/>\nChannel, MuchLoud, MuchMoreRetro, MuchVibe, MTV Canada, MTV2 and TV<br \/>\nLand.<\/p>\n<p>*access media group owns and operates education services<br \/>\nACCESS and CLT, in addition to newly launched digital channels<br \/>\nBookTelevision: The Channel and CourtTV Canada. LTA is majority-owned<br \/>\nby CHUM Limited. <\/p>\n<p>CHUM Television is a division of CHUM Limited (TSX: CHM\/CHM.NV.B,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chumlimited.com\/\">www.chumlimited.com<\/a>),<br \/>\none of Canada&#8217;s leading media companies and content providers, owns and<br \/>\noperates 32 radio stations, 12 local television stations and 21<br \/>\nspecialty channels, as well as an environmental music distribution<br \/>\ndivision.&nbsp; Through international format licenses and program sales,<br \/>\nCHUM&#8217;s original content is seen in over 120 countries worldwide and is<br \/>\ndistributed via new media platforms, including interactive television,<br \/>\nwireless services and exclusive CHUM-branded Internet properties.<\/p>\n<p>ABC Special &#8211; UFOs Seeing Is Believing\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"header\">\n<h1><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/site\/printlogo.jpg\" alt=\"ABC News\" \/><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h2 id=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/print?id=468496\">The UFO Phenomenon &#8212; Seeing Is Believing<\/a> <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"dek\">Two-Hour Primetime Special Airs Thursday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Feb. 4, 2005<\/strong> &#8211; Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to<br \/>\nrecent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe<br \/>\nthat UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief. <\/p>\n<p>For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and<br \/>\nmillions of people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and<br \/>\nyet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on<br \/>\nthis subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have seen<br \/>\nUFOs up to ridicule. <\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 24, &quot;Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs &#8212; Seeing Is Believing&quot;<br \/>\ntakes a fresh look at the UFO phenomenon. &quot;As a journalist,&quot; says<br \/>\nJennings, &quot;I began this project with a healthy dose of skepticism and<br \/>\nas open a mind as possible. After almost 150 interviews with<br \/>\nscientists, investigators and with many of those who claim to have<br \/>\nwitnessed unidentified flying objects, there are important questions<br \/>\nthat have not been completely answered &#8212; and a great deal not fully<br \/>\nexplained.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><strong>&quot;Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs &#8212; Seeing Is Believing&quot; airs<br \/>\nThursday, Feb. 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC. The program will be<br \/>\nbroadcast in High Definition.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>This two-hour primetime special reports on the entire scope of the<br \/>\nUFO experience &#8212; from the first famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold in<br \/>\n1947 to the present day. The program draws on interviews with police<br \/>\nofficers, pilots, military personnel, scientists and ordinary citizens<br \/>\nwho give extraordinary accounts of encounters with the unexplained.<br \/>\nAlso included are the voices of professional skeptics about UFOs,<br \/>\nincluding scientists who are leading the search for life forms beyond<br \/>\nEarth elsewhere in the universe. <\/p>\n<p>The program explores the facts behind the enduring mystery of the<br \/>\nincident at Roswell, N.M., and looks into the strange stories of alien<br \/>\nabductions. Among the UFO cases presented:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/site\/img_bullet_orangedot.gif\" \/><br \/>\nMinot Air Force Base, N.D., October 1968 &#8212; Sixteen airmen on the<br \/>\nground and the crew of an airborne B-52 witness a massive unidentified<br \/>\nobject hovering near the base.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/site\/img_bullet_orangedot.gif\" \/> Phoenix, March 1997 &#8212; Hundreds witness a huge triangular craft moving slowly over the city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/site\/img_bullet_orangedot.gif\" \/><br \/>\nSt. Clair County, Ill., January 2000 &#8212; Police officers in five<br \/>\nadjoining towns all independently report witnessing a giant craft with<br \/>\nmultiple bright lights moving silently across the sky at a very low<br \/>\naltitude.<\/p>\n<p>Today if you report a UFO to the U.S. government you will be<br \/>\ninformed that the Air Force conducted a 22-year investigation that<br \/>\nended in 1969 and concluded that UFOs are not a threat to national<br \/>\nsecurity and are of no scientific interest. But as one of the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nleading theoretical physicists says in the program, &quot;You simply cannot<br \/>\ndismiss the possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually<br \/>\nsightings from some object created by &#8230; a civilization perhaps<br \/>\nmillions of years ahead of us in technology.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs &#8212; Seeing Is Believing&quot; is produced<br \/>\nby PJ Productions and Springs Media for ABC News. Mark Obenhaus and Tom<br \/>\nYellin are the executive producers. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"footer\">\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2005 ABC News Internet Ventures<br \/>Available February 24, 2005 at:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/\">http:\/\/abc.go.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}