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Re-Airing of the "Professor Weird" Pilot & A Challenge Regarding UFO "Kooks"

Posted: 10/08/2012 11:18 am

The pilot for my new TV program,Professor Weird, will be re-broadcast on the Science Channel on Friday, October 12, at 7 & 10PM , and Sunday, Oct.14, at 2AM PDT (for EDT, 10PM FRI, 1AM Sat, & 5AM SUN).

Special attention is directed at possible alien abductions in the initial episode, and, in this context, I am issuing a challenge to Lord Martin Rees, one of Great Britain's foremost astronomers, who recently asserted that "only kooks see UFOs." I am prepared to debate him anywhere, anytime, in any appropriate forum on the existence of extraterrestrial life!

It has long been my contention that the universe is literally teeming with life, that life, indeed, is the common denominator of the cosmic backdrop, that we truly live in the inhabited universe!

In delivering my lecture, "The Universe Is Teeming With Life," at various aerospace firms' monthly dinner meetings, I am regularly besieged afterward by scientists and engineers who describe their own UFO sightings in detail. These are the very type of UFO eyewitnesses that we want to put on record. However, when I present them with my official UFO report to fill out, they invariably never return it.

Apparently, they fear that they might be jeopardizing their careers by acknowledging such controversial observations or are concerned that they might be subjected to ridicule, perhaps being referred to as "kooks." So, there indeed is an important segment of UFO observers with scientific credentials whose sightings are never properly chronicled.

And, of course, there exist a plethora of UFO reports from highly qualified observers such as pilots, military officers, and policemen. At the very top of this list should be placed the case of Captain Thomas Mantell, which began on Wednesday, January 7, 1948, at approximately 1:15 PM local time at Fort Knox,KY. Ordinary citizens, state police, and every officer from the highest to the lowest ranking stationed at the fort's Godman Field observed a gargantuan saucer-shaped object estimated at between 250 and 300 feet in diameter. It was distinctly bright and moved relatively slowly at about 250 miles per hour, remaining visible for over an hour.

At approximately 2:40PM, 4 P-51 interceptors arrived from Marietta,GA headed for Louisville and were asked to investigate the object. One pilot had to land for refueling while 2 others failed to observe it. However, flight leader Mantell did indeed spot it, exclaiming: "The object is directly ahead of and above me now, moving at about half my speed. It appears to be a metallic object of tremendous size!" At 15,000 feet altitude, he radioed his last message at 3:15 PM: "I'm trying to close in for a better look."

Five minutes later, his aircraft exploded, killing him. While ufologists hypothesize that he was shot out of the air by the UFO, the government (such as through Project Bluebook) claimed that he suffered oxygen deprivation and crashed. However, I have been assured that his plane was equipped with sufficient oxygen.

Official sources also asserted first that he was chasing a weather balloon, then switched to the idea that he was pursuing the planet Venus. But, Venus was only half of its maximum brightness at that time, and Mantell was a veteran pilot with over 100 combat missions during WW2 who should have been able to distinguish between a star and a starship! I have repeatedly proposed that this be tested out by having observers on the ground and aboard a plane view Venus when it is similarly configured to determine if there is any possible way it could be mistaken for a UFO.

This is the very type of case that I am prepared to debate with Lord Rees as I do not believe that Captain Mantell was a "kook." Our confrontation can take place on TV, radio, the internet, or any other apropos setting.

A video version of the "Kook" Challenge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPyec-hdC9I

Video report on 1st Man to Die Pursuing A UFO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkoHLRxBIgY

Could Dwarf Moons Harbor Life?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL35AIdypyA

 

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09:21 AM on 10/29/2012
i guess you would call all time together NOW time

the here and now

interesting flip the word and it spells

NOW= WON=ONE
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08:55 AM on 10/29/2012
heres a thought

the ARC of the covenant

we have the curvature dimensions

who ever has that better hand it over thats the key the angle of curvature of the shot

we go to the past to save the future
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08:45 AM on 10/29/2012
i guess if they had to open gates or we could all be at the same time it would be easier
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08:41 AM on 10/29/2012
the cites in the sky earth atlantis
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08:40 AM on 10/29/2012
3 WORLDS

moving at different speeds what happens in the fastest transcends the the others the worst where it is most dense

by curving the energy of the LI=E we can shoot from the most dense

an accurate math we take care of all 3 and it is not repeated again w

i say whats ours is there to use as well take what you can and build it

we are saving our past present an future by changing it from future to the past BACKWARDS
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11:29 AM on 10/27/2012
ok how about his and ties in with the ledgend of the goldem birds

my wife were dicussing the birds and she made a good point that it is the way that birds use the air to glide on not FLOAT on ,it's againt the laws of nature

they are not lighter than air the should not fly

now think about it the world is made up of molecules like marbles

what fi the air is like marbles and the birds areo dynamics allows it to part the molecules and roll over the a marble would allow it to

so they use the wings for magnetic repulsion and when high enough uses the molecule marbles to roll down using gravitational pull like a roller coaster the wings are the pulley to the top

we just replica the angles to separte
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10:40 PM on 10/16/2012
The shows are fun but to paraphrase Joe Biden "it's a bunch of malarkey"
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07:48 AM on 11/14/2012
is he still biden his time?
06:53 PM on 10/16/2012
Great to see you back on the air, Dr. Ruehl! I used to love watching "Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion" on the SciFi channel back in the 90s! There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in the philosophies of mainstream science - the skeptics would have a hard time accepting even their own existence, and could use "a slap on the belly with a wet trout" (to borrow your saying)!
11:30 AM on 10/11/2012
I will promise you he never researched the reports on ufos carefully. This is common among those who do not believe in the possibility of ufos. They just say no way and that their argument. I know someone like that. I believe there are some humans who cannot except the idea of visitors from another dimension or planet and therefore are like a child crying and wanting a audience .

There was someone in my friends office who also never believed in ufos until is wife was about 150 feet from a ufo that had landed in a park in New Jersey and the sighting became famous because others had seen it as well. After a few minutes it lifted without noise and took of at a speed that could only be described as a streak. His wife died a year later from cancer. I spoke with him afterwards and told me he never believed in ufos until this even happened to his wife and others observed it he knew. He is a respected businessman in his community and the industry he is in.

Sadly my friend who owns the business tells me i do not believe in ufos still and not the story also. This is the makeup of those people who will never be believe regardless of what information there is.
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Madtek
Beam me up Scotty...Scotty...SCOTTY!!!
10:16 AM on 10/11/2012
It would be sooo naive of us to think we are the ONLY intelligent lifeforms in the universe!
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05:53 PM on 10/09/2012
Although it may be theoretically possible for some instances of the teeming life in our galaxy to have mastered interstellar travel, it would be very rare for any two instances of advanced, technological life to coexist within any spannable distance. The speed of light, c, is verty strict. It requires extreme energies and exceptional shielding ability to move matter around near c. Humans have not even gotten close to 1% of that level of technology. So we would never amount to much more than bugs in the minds of such advanced creatures, should they decide to spend vast resources to tour our star system.
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OregonDoug
Kilgore Trout Lives.
03:24 PM on 10/15/2012
E.O. Wilson loves to study "bugs", and look at how it helped him develop some pretty neat theories about humans.

Also, you are thinking (fortunately) like a human, dante. We can speculate all we want about other entitities, but when we are done, we should throw out what we "thought" since chances are we aren't even close to knowing.

And who knows if "c" will be a true cosmic speed limit. Based on what we know now, sure, but in 10,000 years we may will look at c as we did horses once the train was made.
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king paul
Eat or be Eaten
02:57 PM on 10/16/2012
considering that science says the earth has been around for billionssssss of years...the possibility is real.
12:41 PM on 10/09/2012
I sincerely hope Lord Rees accepts your challenge. But, perhaps being slightly too realistic, I doubt he will... he probably knows that you're right... it is quite possible that he was trying to influence public opinion, and not neccesarily expressing his honest opinion. Have you contacted / issued the challenge to him directly?
04:55 AM on 10/09/2012
Dr. Ruehl, Please see www.cseti.org for Dr. Steven Greer's hypothesis on the above incident, the crash that killed Thomas Mantell. See also for information regarding the true reasons behind the ET presence. Most are shocked to learn that it is the ET's who are concerned with OUR potential HOSTILITY or danger toward ourselves, toward the planet, and interstellar space. It is not WE who should be concerned about THEIR hostility ( or, quite frankly, the lack thereof.) Does anyone not realize the fact that these civilizations are capable of interstellar travel, and therefore have evolved past the primitive age of xenophobia, aggressiveness, and fear. If they truly meant to harm us, why not get rid of the whole species of humankind eons ago, when there were thousands, instead of billions? Also, why not defend themselves against the attacks of OUR military aircraft who have and will, under strict orders, shoot them down?
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OregonDoug
Kilgore Trout Lives.
03:51 PM on 10/15/2012
I think we should not presume anything when it comes to ETs or crytoterrestrials or whatever, 11Blackdove. Personally, I would like to think they will evolve to be more peaceful like we are (in theory, at least), but I think it would be incredibly naive to think that as civilizations evolve they will become more peaceful. Regardless, I think we should assume the best, but be ready for the worst, but not in such a way that it consumes us as a society.
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king paul
Eat or be Eaten
03:00 PM on 10/16/2012
Something to consider, humans act like animals in every single way, and the basic priniciple of life is survival by any means. If there is a infinite amount of animals on this planet with different mindsets ..it is safe to say it should be the same in the universe.
09:09 PM on 10/08/2012
There is plenty of hard physical evidence to support the idea of extraterrestrial interaction with our planet. There is also plenty of evidence that suggests the leaders of this planet are deliberately discouraging that idea any way they can.