# Peter Jennings investigates the topic of UFO's. Why now, why so much attention?

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**Created:** [February 25, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jennings-investigates-the-topic-of-ufos-why-now-why-so-much-attention/291823 "2005-02-25T04:00:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jennings-investigates-the-topic-of-ufos-why-now-why-so-much-attention/291823/21 "2005-02-25T22:22:28Z")

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Come to think of it, we’ve already got a UFO-based religion: The Raelians! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelians;](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelians;) [http://www.rael.org/](http://www.rael.org/).

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**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jennings-investigates-the-topic-of-ufos-why-now-why-so-much-attention/291823/22 "2005-02-26T01:18:22Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> Heh, heh, heh.
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> I love [this site.](http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html) I recommend it to at least two people a day after I read their lunatic blatherings in various forums.

[This site](http://www.stopabductions.com/) was the one that Colmes’ guest was pimping. Looks like he doesn’t actually sell the hats, just gives out instructions for making them.

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> The thought screen helmet has effectively stopped several types of aliens from abducting or controlling humans. Only two failures were reported since 1998.

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jennings-investigates-the-topic-of-ufos-why-now-why-so-much-attention/291823/23 "2005-02-26T02:14:13Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Come to think of it, we’ve already got a UFO-based religion: The Raelians! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelians;](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelians;) [http://www.rael.org/](http://www.rael.org/).

While doing a search for the Uranus Academy Of Science, I found a whole page of UFO cults [http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ufos.html](http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ufos.html)

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