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Nuclear Physicist Describes Vast UFO Cover-Up
aolnews ^ | 6-7 | Lee Speigel

Posted on 06/07/2010 1:39:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono

"Some UFOs are intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft, and this is the biggest story of the millennium."

These words are not the rantings of a deranged individual looking for attention or a comfortable straitjacket. Stanton Friedman is a maverick of sorts.

Employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for companies like General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse and Aerojet General Nucleonics, he worked on highly classified programs involving nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets.

In 1958, UFOs caught his attention, and Friedman has since lectured about this subject at more than 700 colleges and professional groups in all 50 states and around the world.

Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman has devoted more than 50 years to pursuing the scientific truth of UFOs, and was the original civilian investigator of the legendary 1947 Roswell, N.M., incident. "After 53 years of investigation, I'm convinced we're dealing here with a cosmic Watergate," he told AOL News. "That means a few people within major governments have known since at least 1947 that some UFOs are alien spacecraft."

In Friedman's new book, "Science Was Wrong," co-authored with Kathleen Marden, he wrote, "There's been no shortage of strong, negative proclamations from debunking groups and individuals who refuse to examine the evidence ... to support the notion that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin."

Friedman cites many cases of UFO encounters experienced by competent, reliable eyewitnesses, including one involving Japan Airlines.

Courtesy of Stanton Friedman One of the most credible sightings of a UFO in history is from a series of images taken aboard the Brazilian ship Almirante Saldanha on Jan. 16, 1958. The Saturn-shaped object was witnessed by the ship's crew and several scientists. The UFO approached the island, making a steep turn before flying away quickly. Juscelino Kubitschek, then president of Brazil, confirmed the authenticity of the photos. "A 747 over Alaska encountered something that was twice the size of an aircraft carrier, that flew circles around the jet. They reported it to the ground, where both the UFO and the 747 were picked up on radar.

"The explanation from debunkers was that it was Jupiter! Boy, airplane radar can pick up Jupiter? It was totally ludicrous. You're fighting the forces of 'evil,' one might say -- arrogance and ignorance."

While some scientists through the years have quietly suggested Earth has been visited by ETs, Friedman is the most outspoken. He's especially irked by the attitude of scientists who use radio and optical telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, such as the SETI Institute in California.

"Their livelihood depends on the assumption that there's nobody coming here, and if we just wait long enough, we're going to pick up the signal and it'll be the greatest discovery in man's history, and it will help solve all our problems.

"What really bothers me is that the SETI people will tell you there is no evidence for UFOs. Well, they certainly don't reference any, so there must not be, right? Wrong!"

If so, why would reputable scientists refuse to consider that Earth may be a vacation spot for otherworldly travelers?

"Because they'd have to admit that they'd ignored such a big story for so long and that they were wrong," Friedman said. "Being wrong is something that scientists don't like to admit at all........."


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alien; aol; applewhite; artbell; bigfoot; chumps; cosmicwatergate; crackpot; edwood; extraterrestrial; flyingsaucers; fools; heavensgate; illbelieveanything; incredible; kook; noproof; roswell; sciencewaswrong; spacecraft; stantonfriedman; stupidity; suckers; truebelievers; ufo; uneducated; weirdos; whereistheproof
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To: JoeProBono
i was always partial to this one...

http://vodpod.com/watch/2640674-ufos-by-nuclear-power-plant

61 posted on 06/07/2010 3:08:00 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Joe 6-pack; airborne; PennsylvaniaMom

62 posted on 06/07/2010 3:10:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: The Comedian

lol


63 posted on 06/07/2010 3:11:11 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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To: Chode

64 posted on 06/07/2010 3:13:22 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: KamperKen

Yes, you got your answer. Unidentified means just that. Far be it from me to guess what’s going on beyond my own experience, let alone beyond earth’s atmosphere. I guess the Art Bell/George Noory show sort of jaded me a little. When Nancy Lieder predicted (through her alien contacts on Zeta Reticuli) that Niburu would pass by earth in 2003, and that prediction failed, George said he would never again have her on his show. Six months later she was back on his show predicting Niburu would pass by earth in 2012. Then there’s the interviews with Billy Meier, which directed me to his web site. I feel sorry for anyone unable to tell that his photos are faked. At this point, even if UFOs are real, I’m not taking anyone’s word for it until someone with real credibility steps forward. That would first have to include, but not limited to, anyone not interviewed by George Noory.


65 posted on 06/07/2010 3:24:57 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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To: RobRoy
>>...more akin to ghosts or Sliders. << ...or angels or demons.

I try to avoid using strictly theological terms which add nothing in terms of definition when discussing physical phenomena. It gets you nowhere when talking to atheists, and they write you off as a rube or a drooling yokel. Such is the prejudice of language.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

66 posted on 06/07/2010 3:35:26 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: JoeProBono
Dunno if you can get a copy, but if so, check out a movie titled Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers" or simply "UFO". - a pretty straight-forward look at the phenomena ca 1955.

This was from a time when the govt was pretty open about these things and when a commercial airline pilot could talk about what he saw without being fired. It has two films of unknowns and uses a lot of the real people inviolved.

One great line: "Credible people seeing incredible things."

Friedman, I think, was hoodwinked on Roswell. A good debunking book about that incident, with a "fool you" title: The Roswell Ufo Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know

67 posted on 06/07/2010 3:35:30 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: SunkenCiv

You’re welcome Civ.


68 posted on 06/07/2010 3:37:38 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: The Comedian

69 posted on 06/07/2010 3:42:49 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Oatka

70 posted on 06/07/2010 3:47:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: SunkenCiv; ALASKA; ActionNewsBill; A knight without armor; albertp; areafiftyone; aruanan; ...
Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list (ufo) ..

May 8, 1950-This is one of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken.
Photographed by Paul Trent, and first witnessed by his wife.
They were published in a local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon.
Shortly thereafter, the Trent photos were published in Life magazine edition of June 26, 1950.
The rest is history.
(These photos have been deemed authentic for over 50 years. The analysis of the McMinneville photos by Dr.Bruce Maccabee PhD, can be found here = http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html )

Those interested in the uap/ufo ping list, please Freepmail
Quix, DCPatriot and LasVegasDave (freepmail works best)
if you would like your name added to the list.
( Approximately 150+ freepers are currently on the ping list ).

71 posted on 06/07/2010 3:48:30 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave (To anger a Conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a Liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: The Comedian

I understand. I sometimes wonder if the wording is just based on the culture. There is some stuff in the old testament that sounds eerily like the same thing that a modern man would call a “flying saucer”.

That is really all I meant by using those theological words.

My perspective of what we call heaven or the spiritual realm is something that would make the most incredibly imaginative science fiction novel look like a bad Star Trek episode.

I’m thinking TNG.


72 posted on 06/07/2010 3:57:29 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

73 posted on 06/07/2010 4:00:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
don’t they have anything better to do than kidnap cows at night, or show a peculiar disposition for anal probing?

It's illegal on their home planet.
74 posted on 06/07/2010 4:16:24 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL OR REBEL! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: JoeProBono
did you do a screen cap or is it from an online article???
75 posted on 06/07/2010 4:17:41 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
don’t they have anything better to do than kidnap cows at night, or show a peculiar disposition for anal probing?

It's illegal on their home planet. We are the Thailand of the Universe.
76 posted on 06/07/2010 4:18:42 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL OR REBEL! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: Chode

online photo


77 posted on 06/07/2010 4:20:23 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Friedman is just another UFO groupie.

He has no more understanding of them than You or I do, but he advocates for open discussion of them. Like us, he lives in a body that cannot go where they come from, but he clearly wishes that he could.


78 posted on 06/07/2010 4:23:19 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: mkjessup

Looks like somebody is using my dinner plate as a discus....


79 posted on 06/07/2010 4:23:25 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: mkjessup

Great pics though, whatever the hell it is ;-)


80 posted on 06/07/2010 4:28:35 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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