Many Have Taken Interest In Ufos

Author: AdminDate: 12-09-04 08:31 Lincoln Tribune 'Letters to the Forum'-Many Have Taken Interest in UFOs*A number of notable UFO advocates have passed on in 2004, among them have been former President Ronald Reagan, astronaut Gordon Cooper, social worker Betty Hill, Harvard University psychiatrist Dr. John Mack, millionaire Laurance Rockefeller, England's UFO Magazine publisher Graham W. Birdsall and diplomat and Flying Saucer Review Magazine publisher Gordon Creighton, also from England. Ron and Nancy Reagan reported two UFO encounters, one while flying above California and one while driving down a California highway. President Reagan spoke on "the alien threat" in five of his last seven talks to various national and international organizations. Astronaut Cooper chased UFOs while flying over Europe and later revealed movie films and still photographs taken of "a domed saucer with tripod landing gears" that landed in a restricted zone at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Cooper also testified on the reality of UFOs on a global scale during hearings on the subject before the United Nations (UN) in 1978. Another key figure in ufology was Betty Hill, who was abducted and then given a physical examination, along with her husband Barney in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in 1961. A best selling book in twelve languages titled, "The Interrupted Journey" was followed by a NBC movie titled "The UFO Incident." Dr. John Mack of Harvard University won the Pulitzer Prize in biography with his biography of T.E. Laurence (Laurence of Arabia) in 1977. Psychiatrist Mack began to research and investigate purported extraterrestrial abductions in many global countries, as well as in the USA. As a result, he published two books on the UFO topic. They were titled, "Abduction" in 1994 and "Cosmos: Human Transformation and the Alien Encounters" in 1999. Millionaire Laurance Rockefeller invested much of his funding on scientific studies of the physical evidence for UFOs, peer group reviews of UFO reports worldwide and published "The Best Evidence Available" which was mailed to world leaders on a global scale. Graham Birdsall of England, a young man, who published the bi-monthly UFO Magazine, circulated worldwide at Barnes & Noble bookstores, also sponsored worldwide scientific UFO symposiums for a large number of years. Another publisher and diplomat in England, who knew how to translate thirteen languages fluently and published the worldwide Flying Saucer Review quarterly for 55 years recently died. This journal is still being published and circulated monthly. George D. FawcettFounderMUFON-NC, Inc.602 Battleground RoadLincolnton, NC 28092 http://www.lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=371 Image Via SAUCER SMEAR at MartiansGoHome.comhttp://www.martiansgohome.com/smear/