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UFOs Takeover the News

In terms of publicity, this week’s ‘UFO Panel‘ organised by film-maker James Fox at the National Press Club was a coup for ufology, with major coverage from the media (Fox News, Anderson Cooper 360, The Independent, AFP, Sydney Morning Herald, Wired, etc.) – although veteran researcher Richard Hall probably hit the nail on the head when he described it as “a mile wide and a foot deep.”

However, Hall – who has four decades of experience in studying the UFO phenomenon – was full of praise for the event. “This press conference was one of the most impressive experiences I have ever had,” he said. “The affair was beautifully planned and well-conducted. To me, it struck just exactly the right note.” The success was probably due to the fact that the panel was made up of ‘reputable’ witnesses to mostly high-class sightings, and that they concentrated on down-to-earth reasoning on why UFOs should be studied seriously:

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.

“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 event was preceded last week by a group discussion on Coast to Coast AM, and also a roundtable on Larry King Live, which I’ve posted the video of here on TDG (and will probably frontpage it once the ‘Brain Man’ video has been up for a few days). Wasn’t it just last year that skeptics were claiming ufology was dead – since then we’ve had O’Hare, Kucinich, and now this. Good to see the topic being discussed in a serious manner again.

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