- Stan Friedman and James McGaha are debating the
existence of aliens tonight in the State Farm Lecture Hall in the Business/Aerospace
building on the Middle Tennessee State University at 7 p.m. today.
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- Friedman's a former nuclear-physicist for several
highly classified projects, will argue that aliens exist and governments
have been covering it up. Learn more about Friedman's work at <http://www.stantonfriedman.com>www.stantonfriedman.com.
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- McGaha, a retired USAF pilot, astronomer and
director of the Grasslands Observatory in Tucson, has been involved in
several classified operations, including the so-called "Area 51."
He will argue that the earth has never been visited by alien spacecraft.
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- Friedman:
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- 1. What is the most compelling piece of evidence
that you have to argue for the existence of aliens?
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- A. There is no way to select one piece of evidence
out of the huge collection. In my presentation I will cover five large-scale
studies that most people have never heard of, including Project Blue Book
Special Report 14 done for the USAF. (For the report), 3,201 cases were
carefully categorized and evaluated as to quality; twenty percent could
not be identified completely separate from the 10% listed as insufficient
information. The better the quality, the more likely to be listed as "unknown"
and the longer the duration of observation. The Secretary of The Air Force
lied about the study. It is totally ignored in 13 anti-UFO books, although
all the authors were aware of it. The other four studies are almost as
impressive. I will also take note of the 5000 physical trace cases from
90 countries collected by Ted Phillips, with 16% involving reports of beings.
I will note the more 1000 abduction cases that have been carefully investigated
by researchers, the 1200 pilot sightings listed by Weinstein, the many
pilot cases collected by NARCAP, and of course the blacked-out, and whited-out
US government documents proving there has been a Cosmic Watergate. Naturally
my Roswell investigation of the past 25 years will be discussed as well
as my visits to twenty document archives and my studies of interstellar
travel and high acceleration flight.
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- 2. What is the strangest thing you've ever
seen?
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- A. I have never seen a UFO or an alien. I have
seen a neutron or a gamma ray. I think they are real too. I have never
seen Tokyo, but it is there. The Grand Canyon is pretty strange. The Reversing
Falls in St. John, New Brunswick are very strange.
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- 3. What about President Bush's new space initiative?
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- A. The goals are well past where he would have
to pay for them and are really quite vague compared with, "Let's get
men to the moon and back safely by the end of the decade." He really
doesn't understand the "vision thing" any better then his father.
NASA hasn't had solid goals since Apollo other then to keep the money flowing.
I was involved in the testing of nuclear rockets for use as an upper-stage
for a manned mission to Mars more then 30 years ago.
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- 4. Why do you think the government would cover
it up?
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- A. Here are 5 good reasons why those few people
"in the know" in governments would want to cover-up the overwhelming
evidence of alien visitation"
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- a. Governments want to figure out how they
work because they would make outstanding weapons delivery and defense systems.
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- b. We are concerned about "the other guys"
figuring out how they work before we do.
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- c. If an announcement were made by the government
that some UFO's are alien spacecraft, church attendance would go up as
would mental hospital admissions; the stock market would go down and many
young people would push for an "earthling" rather then a nationalistic
orientation. No government wants that.
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- d. Religious fundamentalists such as Jerry
Falwell and Pat Robertson have long maintained that UFOs are the work of
the devil and would be up the religious creek without a paddle if an announcement
were made.
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- e. If an announcement were made many people
would claim that the aliens must be more advanced then we are and soon
there would be better methods of energy production, ground and air transport,
communication. Absolute economic chaos.
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- 5. What is your favorite space element?
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- A. I am very fascinated by two sun-like stars,
Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 Reticuli which are only 39 light years away, and only
1/8 light year apart, and one billion years older then the sun.
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- They are 30 times closer to each other then
the sun is to the next star over. From a planet around one looking at the
other, it would be visible all day long, and one could directly observe
planets around the other. The incentive for interstellar travel would be
obvious. Because "Friedman's Law" is "Technological progress
comes from doing things differently in an unpredictable way"; I am
sure they would have evolved long distance communication and travel techniques
way beyond anything we have imagined.
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- McGaha:
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- 1. Do you believe aliens exist but not have
visited the earth?
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- A. I do not accept that there is any evidence
that aliens have ever visited the earth. As to whether they exist in the
universe, I simply do not know. There is certainly a probability that they
exist, but it is only a probability. When you are dealing with probabilities
you are dealing with probabilities until you have scientific evidence one
way or another.
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- 2. What do you think about Bush's new space
initiative?
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- A. I am always encouraged by scientific exploration
and it is certainly a beginning step in that exploration. I hope that robotics
and instrumentation in space does not suffer because of it. So why are
we spending so much effort to see if there is life on Mars, when we already
believe aliens are here?
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- 3. What is the strangest thing you've
ever seen?
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- A. I have spent many thousands of hours looking
at the night sky, and I have been flying at night thousands of hours. I
have seen re-entering rockets, satellites. When I was 16, I saw an incredibly
bright object in the sky just before sunset, and I thought possibly it
could be Venus, but it wasn't in that part of the sky. I ran inside
and got my telescope out. It was a Skyhook balloon. They are very large
balloons that go in the atmosphere for astronomy. It was 10 times brighter
then Venus, which is the brightest beside the sun and the moon. As soon
as I looked at it the balloon exploded and disappeared in the sky. I could
see in my telescope the pieces falling, but if you did not have a telescope,
this bright object would have just disappeared.
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- 4. If you weren't doing this, what would you
be doing?
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- A. I got into looking at UFOs because of frustration.
You always get asked two questions: what is your sign and if you believe
in UFOs. I've investigated the important cases, not just every person's
report. Many reports just turn out to be balloons, Mars or Venus. Somewhere
between 5% and 10% are hoaxes. This is not a full time job for me, but
I am concerned about science or pseudo science. I don't get money and I
lecture on it, but I investigate only important cases, I have better things
to do with my time.
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- 5. What is your favorite space element?
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- A. I find particularly the color of planetary
nebula, stars as the end phase of a star's life cycle. There is nebula
around the star that is beautiful and very colorful.
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