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Ex-Pilots Call for New UFO Investigation


Reuters
Posted: 2007-11-13 07:21:29
Filed Under: Nation News, Weird News
WASHINGTON (Nov. 12) - Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter.

An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings.


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An unidentified flying object was photographed by a government employee over the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico in 1964.
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"Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of existing aircraft and helicopters," they said in a statement released at a news conference.

The panelists from seven countries, including former senior military officers, said they had each seen a UFO or conducted an official investigation into UFO phenomena.

The subject of UFOs grabbed the spotlight in the U.S. presidential race last month when Kucinich, a member of Congress from Ohio, said during a televised debate with other Democratic candidates that he had seen one.

Former presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter are both reported to have claimed UFO sightings.

Most turn out to be misidentified aircraft, satellites or meteors. A panelist who once worked for Britain's Ministry of Defense said 5 percent of incidents cannot be explained.

But the sightings are often dismissed by authorities without proper investigations, UFO activists say.

"It's a question of who you going to believe: your lying eyes or the government?" remarked John Callahan, a former Federal Aviation Administration investigator, who said the CIA in 1987 tried to hush up the sighting of a huge lighted ball four times the size of a jumbo jet in Alaska.

The panel, organized by a group dedicated to winning credibility for the study of UFOs, urged Washington to resume UFO investigations through the U.S. Air Force or NASA.

"It would certainly, I think, take a lot of angst out of this issue," said former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, who said he was among hundreds who saw a delta-shaped craft with enormous lights silently traverse the sky near Phoenix in 1997.

The Air Force investigated 12,618 UFO reports from 1947 to 1969 in what was known as Project Blue Book. Investigators concluded that the incidents posed no threat and there was no evidence of space aliens or a super technology in operation.

"Since the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred that would support a resumption of UFO investigations," the Air Force said on its Web site.


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2007-11-12 18:09:07

[Big Dad]

Why yes, I believe Dennis Kucinich is an Idiot!

[Hummer Aficionado_VT]

Nope.

[datapimp69]

How can people be so conceited to think we are the only beings in the entire universe?
Do you really think we are it. Do you really think we are the end all and be all of sentient beings in the universe.
Oh, I forgot you probley believe in god.
Do I think we have been visited YET, I don?t know.
But I am not small minded enough to think we are the only thing out there.
The only thing I can think of is the quote from CONTACT. When asked by a small child if there was anything else out there her response was..

? if we are the only thing out there, what an awful big waste of space?

[Big Dad]

Originally Posted by datapimp69

How can people be so conceited to think we are the only beings in the entire universe?
Do you really think we are it. Do you really think we are the end all and be all of sentient beings in the universe.
Oh, I forgot you probley believe in god.
Do I think we have been visited YET, I don?t know.
But I am not small minded enough to think we are the only thing out there.
The only thing I can think of is the quote from CONTACT. When asked by a small child if there was anything else out there her response was..

? if we are the only thing out there, what an awful big waste of space?

Ok, IMHO...I believe Dennis Kucinich is an idiot whether or not he saw a UFO, that has nothing to do with it. Exactly how does that make me conceited?

[datapimp69]

Originally Posted by Big Dad

Ok, IMHO...I believe Dennis Kucinich is an idiot whether or not he saw a UFO, that has nothing to do with it. Exactly how does that make me conceited?

i should have made myself more clear i guess.

i wasent talking about you, i would have quoted you if i was..

i was talking about people in genral that just write off any chance of there being anything else out there.

nothing at you dude

[DennisAJC]

Out of the billions and possibly trillions of stars like our sun, I find it impossible that we are the only ones here.

[KenP]

I yearn to poop on another planet. Hell, I'd be happy to put some in a Zip Lock and shoot it off into never-neverland.

[Big Dad]

Originally Posted by datapimp69

i should have made myself more clear i guess.

i wasent talking about you, i would have quoted you if i was..

i was talking about people in genral that just write off any chance of there being anything else out there.

nothing at you dude

It's cool my mistake...

[DRTYFN]

Originally Posted by datapimp69

How can people be so conceited to think we are the only beings in the entire universe?

Because it says so in the Holly Bibble.

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by DRTYFN

Because it says so in the Holly Bibble.

LMAO!!!!

[ssgharkness020147]

Over the years I've seen some strange things in the sky, to bad I can never get them to pickup on a camera. I dont jump to the conclusion that there are little gray guys with huge black eyes flying around in the sky. The sheer speed at which some of the things I have seen leave orbit make it impossible for human to be in it.

[wpage]

No

[Andy C]

I totally agree that there is other life out there - very naive not to in my opinion. But have they visited us - that is a different question.
If I had developed propulsion systems that were capable of travelling through hundreds / thousands of light years of space would I turn up on a new planet and show it off by anally probing some unsuspecting cabbage farmer (called Billy Bob) in Idaho - I doubt it.

Putting that into perspective - thats like me suggesting, after a few too many beers, that we walk to China and prod someone in the ass and then come straight back. I dont know about the rest of you but I would probably take in some sights, visit a few restraunts and bars, pick up some souvenirs etc. It would be a hell of a walk to China and back just to mysteriously probe a half crazed rice farmer.

[DennisAJC]

But they might be among us like in a 4th dimension.

[K9sH3]

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by K9sH3

Ya, and you have a hole in your head where the rain comes in.



There are things man cannot explain or understand. That's why there is religion. It simplifies things.

[DRTYFN]

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by DRTYFN

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HAHAHA!!!!! DIAAAAAAAAABEETUS!!!!

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

I have to laugh at that one... !!!