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Jim Hillibish: When you see a UFO, drop everything, call the media[/color]
By Jim Hillibish
GateHouse News Service
Posted Dec 28, 2012
Christmas vacation, a time of slow news. “Give me something, anything,” begs the news editor.
I’d opt for UFOs. They are a contagion without a vaccine. As soon as a few are seen, they grow viral and plenty more are claimed, making the perfect storm: stories breeding stories.
Ask Bill Clinton. They fascinate him. Was that a UFO over Obama’s Colorado speech, then his inauguration?
Astronauts are seeing strange lights in space. UFO experts interpret this as “stalking by a UFO mothership.” NASA says it’s ice floating off the spacecraft.
A UFO expert claims new photos show Mt. Adams in Washington State is the disguised entrance to a deep alien base. “Glowing orbs fill the sky nearly every evening.”
Those of us in the news media expect to chase windmills during these epidemics. I was the de facto UFO reporter for a number of years after I interviewed a guy from Minerva who believed he was abducted by aliens. Obviously, they threw the fish back into the water. It was a very slow news day.
As they do now, people at that time allowed Hollywood to define space aliens, as if Hollywood knew anything. I wrote one story about a scientist at Kent State. He was worried we were so enamored with Hollywood stereotypes, we wouldn’t know UFOs when (not if) we saw real ones.
In the 1950s, UFO spotting became a hobby, then a passion and then an obsession. The military bears responsibility as they used the reports to disguise experiments on secret rocket and jet planes. They paid for that, still blamed for a massive cover up.
Then came the 1966 “swamp gas episode.” Hundreds of folks attested to seeing bright lights flitting around two Michigan towns. They eventually were explained by glowing swamp gas, but nobody bought it.
My Dad blamed the Russians. They’d exploded a 50,000-kiloton bomb in the atmosphere in 1961, enough to surely magnetize curious space aliens.
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Jim Hillibish: When you see a UFO, drop everything, call the media[/color]
By Jim Hillibish
GateHouse News Service
Posted Dec 28, 2012
Christmas vacation, a time of slow news. “Give me something, anything,” begs the news editor.
I’d opt for UFOs. They are a contagion without a vaccine. As soon as a few are seen, they grow viral and plenty more are claimed, making the perfect storm: stories breeding stories.
Ask Bill Clinton. They fascinate him. Was that a UFO over Obama’s Colorado speech, then his inauguration?
Astronauts are seeing strange lights in space. UFO experts interpret this as “stalking by a UFO mothership.” NASA says it’s ice floating off the spacecraft.
A UFO expert claims new photos show Mt. Adams in Washington State is the disguised entrance to a deep alien base. “Glowing orbs fill the sky nearly every evening.”
Those of us in the news media expect to chase windmills during these epidemics. I was the de facto UFO reporter for a number of years after I interviewed a guy from Minerva who believed he was abducted by aliens. Obviously, they threw the fish back into the water. It was a very slow news day.
As they do now, people at that time allowed Hollywood to define space aliens, as if Hollywood knew anything. I wrote one story about a scientist at Kent State. He was worried we were so enamored with Hollywood stereotypes, we wouldn’t know UFOs when (not if) we saw real ones.
In the 1950s, UFO spotting became a hobby, then a passion and then an obsession. The military bears responsibility as they used the reports to disguise experiments on secret rocket and jet planes. They paid for that, still blamed for a massive cover up.
Then came the 1966 “swamp gas episode.” Hundreds of folks attested to seeing bright lights flitting around two Michigan towns. They eventually were explained by glowing swamp gas, but nobody bought it.
My Dad blamed the Russians. They’d exploded a 50,000-kiloton bomb in the atmosphere in 1961, enough to surely magnetize curious space aliens.
CONTINUE READING: www.littlefallstimes.com/opinions/columnists/x65621541/Jim-Hillibish-When-you-see-a-UFO-drop-everything-call-the-media