{"id":158,"date":"2005-02-25T21:54:24","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T01:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=158"},"modified":"2005-02-25T21:54:24","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T01:54:24","slug":"ufos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"UFOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night ABC News ran a two-hour primetime special on  <A href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Primetime\/story?id=468496&#038;page=1\">The UFO Phenomenon &#8212; Seeing is Believing<\/A>.   As part of this special program, they interviewed &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s leading theoretical physicists&#8221;, who, according to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/WN\/WN05\/wn022505.cfm\">Bob Park<\/A>, &#8220;looked a lot like <A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/blog\/archives\/000129.html\">Michio Kaku<\/A>.&#8221;  This physicist told ABC that UFOs should be taken seriously since &#8220;You simply cannot dismiss the possibility that some of these UFO sightings are actually sightings from some object created by ? a civilization perhaps millions of years ahead of us in technology.&#8221;  He also <A href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/Primetime\/story?id=528724\">explained<\/A> how aliens could get here using wormholes.<\/p>\n<p>Kaku appeared yesterday on the radio show &#8220;Coast to Coast&#8221; to discuss UFOs and the ABC special.  He appeared on the same show (in different hours) as <A href=\"http:\/\/www.bielek.com\/ab_albielek.htm\">Al Bielek<\/A>, who evidently had a job in California, but regularly traveled by secret underground subway to Montauk, Long Island to work on the &#8220;Montauk Project&#8221;.  During the 1980s he traveled to Mars on several occasions, as well as to &#8220;a research station in 100,000 BC, other planets to get canisters filled with Light and Dark Energy, and to the year 6037.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night ABC News ran a two-hour primetime special on The UFO Phenomenon &#8212; Seeing is Believing. As part of this special program, they interviewed &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s leading theoretical physicists&#8221;, who, according to Bob Park, &#8220;looked a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}