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TV Viewing Alert: NASA’s Unexplained Files

Countless mysterious objects have been caught by NASA’s cameras, and usually the events can be explained logically. The Science Channel has a show premiering tonight (10 PM EDT and PDT) called NASA’s Unexplained Files, which is part of the channel’s “Are We Alone” features for the month of March. In this broadcast, NASA’s top ten unexplained encounters are discussed, with original footage and special interviews with astronauts and scientists.

A few of the astronauts and scientists who will be on the show include Story Musgrave, astronaut; Dr. Jack Kasher, Professor of Physics and Astronomy and ET researcher; Jim Oberg, space flight operations specialist; Alan Bean, the fourth man to visit the moon; Franklin Chang Diaz, Astronaut; Bruce Maccabee, Optical analyst and former Navy member; and Edgar Mitchell, Apollo astronaut.

See the Science Channel website for more about this show and also to find out when it will air in your location.

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Top 5 Tips for Spotting UFOs


Is that a UFO or do I just need to clean my glasses? Though a 2005 Gallup survey showed that about 25 percent of Americans believe that extraterrestrials have visited Earth at some point in the past, only about eight percent of Americans claim to have seen mysterious objects in the sky. Pat Kiger shares ways to spot extraterrestrials and confirm your sightings.

Top 10 Biggest Moments in the Search for Aliens

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14 Replies to “TV Viewing Alert: NASA’s Unexplained Files”

  1. There is a chasm between ‘cannot be explained’, and, ‘has not yet been explained’. yet the first phrase seems to underpin most such scaretainment.

  3. I was initially interested in this, and then I watched the trailer and my heart sank. It’s another one of those American “documentaries” where they insist on fast cuts, sound bites, and repeating themselves over and over. Honestly, if this was what you go on, you’d think that the average American has the attention span of a… oh look, a squirrel!

  4. I was initially interested in this, and then I watched the trailer and my heart sank. It’s another one of those American “documentaries” where they insist on fast cuts, sound bites, and repeating themselves over and over. Honestly, if this was what you go on, you’d think that the average American has the attention span of a… oh look, a squirrel!

  5. I saw the episode and sure enough they eventually get to the “experts” (mostly James Oberg) who always debunk what was seen or video taped. These shows always err on the side of science and “what is known”. There was nothing new here.

  6. I saw the episode and sure enough they eventually get to the “experts” (mostly James Oberg) who always debunk what was seen or video taped. These shows always err on the side of science and “what is known”. There was nothing new here.

  7. I haven’t seen the episodes yet, but I am willing to conjecture that it will try to explain away some of the best anomalous phenomena as reflections, ice crystals, space junk, natural phenomena and unidentified human built objects. In other words a program by skeptics to discredit some of the best sightings.

    1. Hey, Jake59,
      You’re right. I saw the episode, and sure enough, the last expert they’d interview always had the “last word” and they would always debunk what was seen. Always. These shows always do that. James Oberg is the worst. He always errs on the side of science and NASA.

    2. Hey, Jake59,
      You’re right. I saw the episode, and sure enough, the last expert they’d interview always had the “last word” and they would always debunk what was seen. Always. These shows always do that. James Oberg is the worst. He always errs on the side of science and NASA.

  8. I haven’t seen the episodes yet, but I am willing to conjecture that it will try to explain away some of the best anomalous phenomena as reflections, ice crystals, space junk, natural phenomena and unidentified human built objects. In other words a program by skeptics to discredit some of the best sightings.

  9. Project Blue Book Special Report 14 (a scientific study of UFO by the US government) indicated that of all the UFO cases they studied about 22% were unexplained AND the more information they received of those 22% the LESS they were able to be explained.

    A scientific study of UFOs by the French, released in 1999, named COMETA concluded that 5% of the UFOs they studied could not be explained. Furthermore they concluded that the ET Hypothesis fit best.

    July 29, 1952 USAF orders pilots to “shoot down” flying saucers over white house:

    http://www.roswellproof.com/ShootDown_INS_72952.html

    AA guns placed around US airports in response to shoot down order:

    http://www.roswellproof.com/ShootDown_LATimes_80152.html

    July 28, 1952 USAF admits that they have detected what appear to be “flying saucers” on radar and that they might be spacecraft from other planets.

    http://tinyurl.com/7jl8e23

    April 7, 1952 LIFE magazine in cooperation with the USAF makes the case for ET visitation:

    http://tinyurl.com/7df8hcw

    Note conclusions 3 and 4

    Conclusion 3: These objects cannot be explained by present science as natural phenomena-but soley as artificial devices, created and operated by a high intelligence.

    Conclusion 4: Finally, no power plant known or projected on earth could account for the performance of these devices.

  10. People that laugh off ufo’s are just butt hurt they haven’t seen one or several. Must be the lack of sensory perception or missing body parts or mental capacity?

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