Tuesday, November 13, 2007

What is news?

I've been searching U.S. news sites for a story on the UFO press conference yesterday at which former pilots and govt officials urged the govt to reopen serious investigation. Nothing. I found a story about someone holding Princess Diana's hand before she died, but not this. Finally I found mention with a LONDON dateline, a small item in the British press.

Sponsors were hoping the backgrounds of these witnesses would mean they would be taken seriously. Apparently not. Same o, same o.
clipped from in.news.yahoo.com

US Govt. urged to re-open UFO investigation


London, November 13 (ANI): The US Government is being urged by a group of former pilots and government officials to resume investigation into claims of UFO sightings, which was stopped in the late Sixties.


The group, including former military officers from seven countries, claims that each one of them has seen a spaceship.


They insist that there is a need to conduct further probe into the apparent sightings of high-speed UFOs as it is a national security concern.


However, the Air Force does not see any point in resuming investigation as no substantial evidence regarding spaceships has emerged in the past four decades.

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2 comments:

netbuzz said...

People who see UFOs are not (always) loons; they're just leaping to conclusions. Here are "10 reasons why you shouldn't believe in UFOs."
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21854

Charles Deemer said...

But the loons are more interesting. Like the guy yesterday who said he touched one, walked around it, then it took off like crazy. So either he IS a loon or ...? Why ASSUME he is a loon? Somebody should take him seriously enough to PROVE he is a loon -- or not.

Or the guy who left the postmortem about Roswell.

Seems to me if UFOs don't exist, then there's a ton of loons who otherwise appear to be reputable. Which is in itself a fascinating phenomenon!

I know what I saw but have no idea of its origin. It wasn't an hallucination because it (or rather, three in a pattern) crossed the sun when I was drawing sunspots with a projection from my telescope.

I have a hard time believing the abduction stuff, however, mainly because I don't trust hypnotism, which is how this stuff is usually revealed.