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1. Stanton Terry Friedman (July 29, 1934 – May 13, 2019) was an American nuclear physicist and professional ufologist who resided in New Brunswick, Canada. He was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident. The Roswell incident started on 2 July 1947 when UFO sightings were reported during a thunderstorm. Next morning a rancher, Mac Brazel, discovered strange wreckage in a field. When the impact site was located, a UFO craft and alien bodies were allegedly found. On 8 July 1947, the Roswell Daily Record announced the capture of a flying saucer. The official statement was that a weather balloon had crashed. Conspiracy theorists believe that the true events were kept secret. There is now a tourist industry in Roswell, which includes the International UFO Museum and Research Center, and an annual UFO festival. Photographed in 1997.
Friedman was Ashkenazi Jewish. He was married twice. His first wife was Susie Virginia Porter, with whom he adopted three children, but they divorced in April 1974. He had one daughter with his second wife, Marilyn. Friedman relocated to Marilyn's native Fredericton, New Brunswick in the early 1980s. On May 13, 2019, Friedman died of a heart attack at the Toronto Pearson Airport.
Friedman was the first civilian to document the site of the Roswell UFO incident, and supported the hypothesis that it was a genuine crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. In 1968 Friedman told a committee of the United States House of Representatives that the evidence suggests that Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial vehicles. Friedman also stated he believed that UFO sightings were consistent with magnetohydrodynamic propulsion.
MHD propulsion has been considered as the main
In 1996, after researching and fact checking the Majestic 12 documents, Friedman said that there was no substantive grounds for dismissing their authenticity. He said his belief in extraterrestrials was based on data about UFO events he found buried in U.S. government documents over the years.
In 2004, on George Noory's Coast to Coast radio show, Friedman debated Seth Shostak, the SETI Institute's Senior Astronomer. Seth Shostak is an American astronomer and author, and is currently the senior astronomer for the SETI Institute. Shostak hosts SETI's weekly radio show/podcast Big Picture Science, has played himself numerous times in TV and internet film dramas, and has acted in several science fiction films.
The SETI Institute is a not-for-profit research organization incorporated in 1984 whose mission is to explore, understand, and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe, and to use this knowledge to inspire and guide present and future generations, sharing knowledge with the public, the press, and the government. SETI stands for the "search for extraterrestrial intelligence".The institute consists of three primary centers: The Carl Sagan Center, devoted to the study of life in the universe; the Center for Education, focused on astronomy, astrobiology and space science for students and educators; and the Center for Public Outreach, which produces "Big Picture Science", the institute's general science radio show and podcast, and "SETI Talks", its weekly colloquium series.
Like Friedman, Shostak also believes in the existence of intelligent life other than humans; however, unlike Friedman, he does not believe such life is now on Earth or is related to UFO sightings. Shostak used radio telescopes in the US and the Netherlands, searching for clues to the ultimate fate of the universe by analyzing galaxy motion. In 1999, he produced twelve 30-minute lectures on audio-tape and video titled "The Search for Intelligent Life in Space" for The Teaching Company. An updated overview about the search for extraterrestrial life was presented in 2019.
Friedman hypothesized that UFOs may originate from relatively nearby sunlike stars.(p. 217)Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our own, is still 40,208,000,000,000 km away. (Or about 268,770 AU.)Dec 8, 2020
A piece of evidence that he often cited with respect to this hypothesis is the 1964 star map drawn by alleged alien abductee Betty Hill during a hypnosis session, which she said was shown to her during her abduction. Astronomer Marjorie Fish constructed a three-dimensional map of nearby sun-like stars and claimed a good match from the perspective of Zeta Reticuli, about 39 light years distant. The fit of the Hill/Fish star maps was hotly debated in the December 1974 edition of Astronomy magazine, with Friedman and others defending the statistical validity of the match.
Friedman was outspoken in his articulation of positions and in his criticism of UFO debunkers, often stating he was not an "apologist ufologist". His positions are regarded as controversial in mainstream science and media, but Friedman claimed to have received little opposition at his many lectures, most of which were at colleges and universities, many to engineering societies and other groups of physicists (p. 24). He had a number of debates in the mainstream media, including one with UFO skeptic Michael Shermer on CNN.
Friedman was criticized both by skeptics and other Roswell researchers for taking the position that there are no substantive grounds for dismissing the authenticity of some Majestic 12 documents although Friedman was the first to provide evidence that some of the documents are clearly hoaxes. For example, he showed that a supposed memo from Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter to President Truman, dated February 17, 1948, was actually the emulation of a letter from Marshall to Roosevelt that was featured in the book The American MAGIC. Friedman researched the MJ-12 documents since first becoming aware of them from Wiliam Moore and Jaime Shandera in 1984. He addressed criticisms of the original documents in both sources. As an example, Philip J. Klass claimed lexicographic inconsistencies based on the use of Pica typeface in the Cutler-Twining memo and offered $100, in a challenge to Friedman, for each legitimate example of the use of the same style and size Pica type as used in the memo. Friedman provided 14 examples and was paid $1000 by Klass.
In December 2020, Eshed claimed in an interview with
Israeli national newspaper Yediot Aharonot that the United
States government had been in contact
with extraterrestrial life for years and had signed secret
agreements with a "Galactic Federation" in order to do
experiments on Earth, and that there is a joint base
underground on Mars where they collaborate with American
astronauts. He also stated that US president Donald
Trump was aware of this and was "on the verge" of
informing everyone of their existence, but was stopped by
the "Galactic Federation", who wished to prevent mass hysteria.
The interview, in Hebrew, gained traction after parts were
published in English by The Jerusalem
Post. UFO investigator Nick Pope told NBC News that
the ufology community wanted to know whether Eshed's
account is primary or secondary information:
"Either this is some sort of practical joke or publicity stunt
to help sell his book, perhaps with something having been
lost in translation, or someone in the know is breaking
ranks."
The book is The Universe Beyond the Horizon:
Conversations with Professor Haim Eshed written by
author Hagar Yanai, published in November 2020. In the
book, Eshed makes implausible claims that include stories
of how aliens prevented potential nuclear disasters,
including an unspecified nuclear incident during the Bay of
Born July 26, 1949 Isaac Ben-Israel
5. Isaac Ben-Israel, current chairman of the Israel Space
Agency, remarked to The Times of Israel that although
Eshed is the father of Israel's space capabilities, he went
"too far" with his claims, and it is unlikely that human-alien
encounters are occurring. He added that for decades
Eshed fancied unconventional interpretations of incoherent
space signals that most consider to be of natural origin. In
response to queries by NBC News, a NASA spokesperson
reaffirmed that "we have yet to find signs of extraterrestrial
life". Ben-Israel is one of Israel's top experts on Space,
Cyber and technological related security. He holds a PhD in
Philosophy and a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Tel
Aviv University. In 2020, he declared that Covid-19 would
play itself out within seventy days, regardless of
intervention levels. (Boy, was he ever wrong! It's mutated!)
My daughter in law just came down with it.
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