Oh well--I knew the ABC/Jennings UFO thing would be a triumph

librechik

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Thu Feb-24-05 09:12 PM
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Oh well--I knew the ABC/Jennings UFO thing would be a triumph

Edited on Thu Feb-24-05 09:13 PM by librechik

of debunkery. Am I wrong?

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Lady Freedom

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Thu Feb-24-05 09:14 PM
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1. The truth is out there. or here.

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tridim

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Thu Feb-24-05 09:14 PM
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2. Any show with Michio Kaku is fine by me

I'm only 15 minutes in though.

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Huckebein the Raven

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Thu Feb-24-05 09:15 PM
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3. I like Michio Kaku too

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gulfcoastliberal

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Thu Feb-24-05 09:17 PM
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4. Wrong

On the contrary, so far it has featured some very convincing eyewitnesses and strong arguments.

They're covering Roswell now.

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librechik

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Thu Feb-24-05 09:22 PM
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6. hope so

it makes my blood boil when media merely debunk the subject rather than look closely at the (abundant) video evidence. After 9/11 you would think someone would get interested in what passes through our airspace.

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librechik

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Thu Feb-24-05 09:17 PM
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5. I'm taping it, just in case

but that astronomer guy was laughing at us. Fuck him.

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Jackpine Radical

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Thu Feb-24-05 10:52 PM
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7. I can't get ABC. Woulod someone be kind enough to summarize

what the show is covering? So far I've gotten snatches...eyewitnesses, something about Roswell/Area 51...

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Melynn

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Thu Feb-24-05 11:07 PM
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8. I can't watch the show because I am at work

but I have read Jennngs comments and he seemed to indicate that there was some proof that UFO's exist.

Tinfoil hat alert. :tinfoilhat:

Here is a theory. With speculation by some scientist recently that life exists on Mars along with this ABC special do you think that the powers to be are setting up the public for announcement that they have discovered life else where in the universe? Or maybe that aliens have landed on this planet?

I don't necessarily believe these theories, I am just throwing them out there for discussion purposes.

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Lorien

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Thu Feb-24-05 11:21 PM
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9. I didn't think it debunked anything

I expected it to, but I thought it was fairly even handed. It was typical primetime fluff for the most part, though. nothing very in depth, and one piece of disinformation (the UFO phenomenon has been around for thousands of years; it didn't start in the 1940s).

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librechik

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Thu Feb-24-05 11:29 PM
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10. yeah, it was very general & spent a lot of time covering history

of UFOs--what a snooze. Not so much debunking, just a lot of nothing, with a somewhat more sympatetic attitude toward witnesses than usual.

This doc could have been made 5-10 years ago for all the new reporting it brought to the subject. Doesn't Peter realize this material has already been covered a dozen times by the history/discovery/scifi channel? He could have started from a fresh angle.

There is a very good UFO documentary called Out of the Blue--it has great footage of unusual sky objects and none of the boring "really, they're ordinary citizens/Police officers/pilots so why do people think they're crazy?" stuff.

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skids

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Thu Feb-24-05 11:33 PM
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11. Hard on Roswell and on abductees.

...but fair and in fact provocative on the question in general.

Though the guy at the "National UFO Call Center" would have done himself better to remove the prescription pill bottle from his desk before taping.

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Ivan Sputnik

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Fri Feb-25-05 12:01 AM
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12. It was the usual MSM take on the subject, I thought

although a little more even-handed than usual. They oversimplified the issues, as is typical. For example, many abductees remember details of their experiences (whatever they are) without any hypnosis at all -- but the show left the impression that it's all the result of hypnosis-induced fantasy. And they tremendously oversimplified the whole Roswell thing. I doubt this show will change any minds, so it seemed rather pointless.

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u4ic

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Fri Feb-25-05 01:35 AM
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13. I found it pretty balanced

I wanted to see more than just one explanation, and I did. Nor did I expect it to come to any conclusions - leaving it up to the individual to decide.

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