[The_Egg]

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.


An unidentified flying object was photographed by a government employee over the Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico
in 1964.

"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.


President Jimmy Carter, shown here in 1980, reported that he saw a UFO above Leary, Ga., in 1969. He filed a report about the sighting to the International UFO Bureau in 1973.




Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted several space missions in the 1960s, once said he saw a "typical saucer shape, double-cylindrical shape, metallic" UFO.

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.

[TheBagman]

The way I see it, UFO's are exactly what the acronym stands for, unidentified flying object. This can be unreported unlogged flights, weather balloons, secret military operations, figment of ones imagination, and also alien or supernatural interaction. I have never seen a UFO though.

As far as life beyond earth coming here, I honestly doubt it, but it wouldn't surprise me. This may seem like a contradiction but my explanation is that somewhere within the ever reaching bounds of the universe I couldn't imagine there not being a life form out there. To think the Earth is the only planet in the universe out of millions, possibly billions, of planets to possess the ability to sustain life is a bit absurd to me. But, for them to travel millions of light years to reach us seems to me to be a bit far fetched, albeit not impossible as we have yet to discover any lifeforms beyond earth to my knowledge, thus it is impossible to know their capabilities.

[Fox Mulder]

Well get used to it, cause as I have been telling all you, The Truth is Out there.

[ßü††|맧]

If there are "little green men" or "greys" keeping an eye on us it would be a waste of their time in my opinion. Sure we have launched space stations and sent probes to Mars, the moons of Jupiter and beyond but the technology used has not changed much in the decades since we started our exploration of this solar system and beyond. Compared to what it would take to travel beyond the speed of light we are primitive at best.

[AnnonUSA]

If extraterrestrials have or had made it to Earth, we would be much more valuable as a research tool, or a petri dish experiment to them rather than landing here and trying to "befriend" us.




PS - Unless they are here to eat our Brains....

[ßü††|맧]

Originally Posted by AnnonUSA

If extraterrestrials have or had made it to Earth, we would be much more valuable as a research tool, or a petri dish experiment to them rather than landing here and trying to "befriend" us.




PS - Unless they are here to eat our Brains....

Maybe they are here for our women!

[The_Egg]

I don't thing they would fuck with us. More like us looking into a hamster cage. Sure we have sent garbage cans into space but we cannot survive out there without earth right under us. We cant even keep our oceans or lakes clean.


Do you think they have the same Internet as us? If we type in space wide web and ditch the www. we will find there Internet. Then we can learn how to build our own space ship. Or even better Maybe there is a sww.mindifidoaspacej.com out there?

[shadowstoner]

lol

[The_Kelzor]

some people spotted a ufo at stephenville a couple months back

[The_Egg]

Did they get a good pic?

[FilLaB0NGo7]

There's a much greater chance of them coming to US then us reaching THEM, but if they can travel at the speed of light they could probably do a lot of harm......... just sucks that we're way the fuck out in the middle of nowhere with no knowledge of what's beyond our reach

[elroypornlab]

There were some U.F.O's spotted in my college town Stephenville