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Government Unveils Rescue Plan for Citigroup; Economy Suffering in a Power Vacuum; Race Relations in America; Eyewitnesses Claim to Have Seen UFOs
Aired November 24, 2008 - 07:00 ET
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In search of aliens.
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT: And it takes off like you're just standing still.
MILTON TORRES, FORMER AIR FORCE PILOT: Like I wasn't even there. Like I wasn't even there. Just gone.
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CHETRY:
Miles O'Brien talks to an astronaut, a governor, and a former
president. Credible eyewitnesses who all swear they've seen a UFO.
You're watching the "Most News in the Morning."
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In search of aliens.
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FIFE SYMINGTON, FORMER ARIZONA GOVERNOR: Unless the Defense Department proves this otherwise, it was probably some form of an alien spacecraft.
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CHETRY: A former governor, an astronaut, and even a president, all witnesses to UFO sightings?
You're watching the "Most News in the Morning."
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you believe in this kind of things?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's just say I want to believe.
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CHETRY: Even the music gives you goose bumps. Why does this fascinate us so? Well, it does from "Star Wars" to "Star Trek" the "X Files," even "South Park" and the latest "Indiana Jones," our culture is obsessed with the idea of aliens. And you could range from just a bit curious to being a fanatic, scouring the skies, hitting the blogosphere.
Well, just for you, all this week we're bringing a special series "In Search of Aliens." And for today, UFOs aren't just for Hollywood and science fiction novels, even though you may think that only conspiracy theorists and cooks believe. Both Congressman Dennis Kucinich, for example, as well as former President Jimmy Carter say that they have seen something in the skies. And our space correspondent Miles O'Brien found some other believable believers as well.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kiran, you can count me among them. I myself saw a UFO years ago. I'll tell you a little bit more about that later. Don't know what it was, where it came from. Sure seemed odd and a lot of otherwise not so odd witnesses can tell you a similar story.
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MILTON TORRES, FORMER AIR FORCE PILOT: It's one of the better flying airplanes.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Milton Torres is not the kind of guy to tell a tall tale. Twenty years in the Air Force, an engineer with a Ph.D., a professor, he's all about brass tacks and left-brain thinking. So I was all ears when he started talking about his UFO encounter over England in May of 1957.
TORRES: I got scrambled one night, and my first orders are, you will be ordered to fire on this mission.
O'BRIEN: In just a few minutes, he was over the North Sea in a fighter like this at 31,000 feet traveling nearly the speed of sound. In the dark and in the clouds, Milton saw the strongest signal he had ever seen on his radar screen.
TORRES: It was (EXPLETIVE DELETED) the target was there, and the target looked like an aircraft carrier. It was that big on my screen.
O'BRIEN: He flew toward it to try and shoot it down.
(on camera): And it takes off like you're just standing still.
TORRES: Like I wasn't even there. Like I wasn't even there. Just gone.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Milton has no earthly explanation for what he saw.
(on camera): Could it have been a problem with the radar? Could it have been a weather phenomenon?
TORRES: No.
O'BRIEN: Could it have been a meteor, any of those things?
TORRES: Everything was explained to me already.
O'BRIEN: Yes?
TORRES: I knew what it was. It was some design of an aircraft by some space alien. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Milton Torres says a U.S. intelligence agent ordered him to keep his mouth shut. The odd encounter is one of hundreds of once classified UFO sightings released last month by the British government. It's the sort of disclosure UFO investigators are demanding from the U.S. government.
How would people react?
EDGAR MITCHELL, APOLLO 14 ASTRONAUT: It would be kind of boy (ph), "it's about time.
O'BRIEN: Former astronaut Edgar Mitchell is the sixth man to walk on the moon and a firm believer that aliens have visited our planet repeatedly. So I had to ask, why are they coming in this little glancing visits and we haven't had a more meaningful dialogue or contact or attempt to communicate?
MITCHELL: Well, I think we have.
O'BRIEN: Really?
MITCHELL: I think we have, but this is not common knowledge.
O'BRIEN: Mitchell told me after he returned to the moon, he was briefed at the Pentagon by a high-ranking officer whose name he would not reveal, who said the U.S. government does have evidence of alien spacecraft and is keeping it a secret.
MITCHELL: I think the real reason to still keep it a secret is power and control, controlling whatever technology exists.
O'BRIEN: All of this is fascinating stuff, if it is true. But consider this, there are thousands of sightings of odd, unidentified flying objects reported every year the world over, and yet, no one has produced smoking gun proof of any visits from another planet. So isn't it more likely they are some sort of natural phenomena or maybe secret military aircraft or just plain old hoaxes?
Maybe, but consider this one. March of 1997, a huge V-shaped craft appears to fly over Phoenix. Among the witnesses, then governor and seasoned pilot Fife Symington.
FIFE SYMINGTON, FORMER ARIZONA GOVERNOR: And I suspect that unless the Defense Department proves this otherwise, that it was probably some form of an alien spacecraft.
O'BRIEN: Or consider this one, before he became president, even Jimmy Carter saw something strange in the sky over Plains, Georgia.
JIMMY CARTER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I and about 25 others saw something in the air that changed colors and was round and came and left.
O'BRIEN: Carter doubts what he saw was an alien craft, but most Americans need no convincing. Maybe it comes from movies like "Close Encounters" or maybe art is imitating extraterrestrial life. (on camera): For those who are skeptical of you, what do you say? Do you say, open your mind?
TORRES: Be skeptical. Skeptical as you want but by all, don't close your mind.
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O'BRIEN: Who knows, maybe we will soon get the full story. Among the people fascinated by the notion of aliens and UFOs, the man in charge of Obama's transition team, John Podesta. In a speech at the National Press Club a few years ago and we're quoting him now "it is time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs. It is time to find out what the truth is, that's really out there." He said it's not just the right thing to do, Kiran, he said it's the law. So we'll see.
CHETRY: All right. Tell us about your own UFO sightings. We know that you're a pilot.
O'BRIEN: It was about 20 years ago, my wife and I were in Maine. It was dusk, we looked up in the sky, we saw a very bright light. It looked like a planet and then it took a 90-degree turn and took off at impossible speeds. What was it? Was it a meteor? Was it a black project airplane? Or was it something else? I don't know.
CHETRY: What were you guys celebrating at the time?
O'BRIEN: We were completely sober. Completely sober.
CHETRY: I know. I mean there's a lot of people just like you that actually say very similar things which is why as John Podesta said, let's throw open the books and check it out.
O'BRIEN:: If nothing else, let's see what's in the files.
CHETRY: I told you I want to see what's over your shoulder the guy with the triangular face and the big eyes.
O'BRIEN: That would show you. All right.
CHETRY: That would do finally do it for me. Meanwhile it is fascinating, Miles. And tomorrow actually we're going to take look at a famous spot in UFO history, of course, Roswell, New Mexico.
It's been 61 years since something happened there. Is it still a mystery or is it case closed for Roswell? Miles is going to be back tomorrow with more here on AMERICAN MORNING, and meanwhile, we're also asking others to send in their videos, maybe their pictures, if you've seen something funny in the sky or you're convinced that aliens exist or you just think it's science fiction?
We want to hear from you. Send us any pictures, video at CNN.com/am. You can just go to our web site and click on the i-report link. We look forward to tomorrow as well, Miles. Thanks so much. O'BRIEN: All right. See you then.
I just finished reading "Witness to Roswell": Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt. I highly recommend it - I can't conceive of a more fact-filled, powerful testimony to the FACTS of the Roswell UFO crash and subsequent misinformation about it. For all those sceptics and non-believers in the fact that there truly are "Aliens Among Us"(another wonderful book by the late Ruth Montgomery, I say - open your eyes especially your Inner Eyes - there's nothing as much fun as AWAKENING!
Posted by: Nancie Rosenberg | November 28, 2008 at 09:31 AM
Thank you so much DR SALLA! I will post this on Mystic Wicks.
http://mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?p=3786980#post3786980
Posted by: jim mcfadden | November 30, 2008 at 01:24 AM