{"id":1640,"date":"2005-02-18T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2005\/02\/18\/john_macks_inte\/"},"modified":"2005-02-18T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T22:43:00","slug":"john_macks_inte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/john_macks_inte\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mack&#8217;s interview not in Peter Jennings special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnemackinstitute.org\/center\/center_news.asp?id=252\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The John E. Mack Institute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAMBRIDGE, MASS. &#8211; We have just received the unbelievable news that John Mack&#8217;s interview for the <a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2005\/02\/chum_tv_exopoli.html\">Peter Jennings special<\/a><br \/>\nwill not be present in the finished piece. It was John&#8217;s last-ever<br \/>\ninterview before his death, and the only interview he&#8217;d granted for a<br \/>\nmajor program in many years.<\/p>\n<p>We are absolutely stunned by this information, and cannot conceive<br \/>\nof how a documentary purporting to explore the subject of alien<br \/>\nencounters could have been made without the views of the man who was<br \/>\narguably the world&#8217;s leading authority on how these encounters affect<br \/>\npeople&#8217;s lives. The omission of Dr. Mack&#8217;s views from the program<br \/>\nraises some concern about what kind of quality we can expect from the<br \/>\nfinished program. It is also deeply saddening news, since it was hoped<br \/>\nthat this program would in some ways serve as a farewell to a great man.<\/p>\n<p>Mack&#8217;s interview for &quot;Peter Jennings Reports: The UFO Phenomenon:<br \/>\nSeeing is Believing&quot; was conducted at his home in Cambridge, MA, on<br \/>\nAugust 19. It was Mack&#8217;s only interview recorded in high definition<br \/>\nwidescreen, which, in addition to the reasons noted above, makes the<br \/>\nfootage exceptionally valuable for production companies. We are<br \/>\ntherefore currently seeking out information on whether the footage will<br \/>\nbe able to be licensed out, or if they have by their decision<br \/>\nessentially eliminated John Mack&#8217;s final words on the subject of alien<br \/>\nencounters.<\/p>\n<p>This news may also cause concern among experiencers who took part in<br \/>\nthe program with the understanding that their comments would be<br \/>\npresented within the context of a fair examination of the subject &#8211; a<br \/>\ncontext which was implied by the presence of Dr. Mack, and a context<br \/>\nwhich may now be lacking without Dr. Mack&#8217;s presence in the finished<br \/>\npiece.<\/p>\n<p>More information: Click here<\/p>\n<p>Whitley Strieber&#8217;s Estimation of What the Jennings Program will Be About<\/p>\n<p>Anne and Whitley Strieber suggest in their latest e-newsletter that<br \/>\nthe Jennings special may be inspired by or will revolve around themes<br \/>\nadvanced in a study published in the British Journal of Interplanetary<br \/>\nScience. This sounds like it may be good news. Here is what they<br \/>\nbelieve the show will be about (courtesy of their email newsletter<br \/>\navailable at UnknownCountry.com):<\/p>\n<p>ABC Special to Call for Scientific Research on UFOs<\/p>\n<p>A Peter Jennings Special to air on ABC on February 24 will conclude<br \/>\nthat there has been inadequate scientific research into the UFO<br \/>\nphenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>The special will concentrate on UFO footage more than the abduction<br \/>\nphenomenon or government secrecy. Skeptics will be given a hearing, but<br \/>\nthe program will draw a similar conclusion to a paper that recently<br \/>\nappeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2005\/01\/et_visitorsspac.html\">British Journal of Interplanetary Science.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In the peer-reviewed article, four prominent scientists, <a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2005\/01\/et_visitorsspac.html\">James Deardorff, Hal Puthoff, Bernard Haisch and Bruce Macabee<\/a><br \/>\nsuggest that understanding being gained from new discoveries in physics<br \/>\nmean that it is almost inevitable that aliens are here and have been<br \/>\nhere for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jennings will suggest that there is too much UFO evidence to be<br \/>\nignored, and that if even a small amount of it represents objects under<br \/>\nintelligent control, serious and effective scientific research is<br \/>\nneeded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;related paragraphs&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicist Bernard Haisch says, &quot;We are in the curious situation<br \/>\ntoday that our best modern physics and astrophysics theories predict<br \/>\nthat we should be experiencing extraterrestrial visitation, yet any<br \/>\npossible evidence of such lurking in the UFO phenomenon is scoffed at<br \/>\nwithin our scientific community.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Deardorff says, &quot;It would take some humility for the scientific<br \/>\ncommunity to suspend its judgment and take at least some of the high<br \/>\nquality reports seriously enough to investigate\u2026but I hope we can bring<br \/>\nourselves to do that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnemackinstitute.org\/center\/center_news.asp?id=252\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}