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NOTE: This thread is created to focus on Robert Bigelow's ongoing belief in UFO's as evidence of alien visitation. He, along with the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) he once funded, have been repeatedly mentioned here on FTMB in years past - for example, in these threads:
NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science)
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/nids-national-institute-for-discovery-science.18622/
Space Tourism
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/space-tourism.6288/
Why do ufo's have lights?
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/why-do-ufos-have-lights.45424/
The following May 30 commentary piece from International Business Times represents a response to his recent appearance on the CBS news program 60 Minutes. Although the appearance focused on his inflatable orbital habitat project (Bigelow Aerospace), the subject of UFO's also arose.
SOURCE: FULL ARTICLE: http://www.yahoo.com/news/bigelow-aerospace-time-put-shut-235625996.html
NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science)
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/nids-national-institute-for-discovery-science.18622/
Space Tourism
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/space-tourism.6288/
Why do ufo's have lights?
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/why-do-ufos-have-lights.45424/
The following May 30 commentary piece from International Business Times represents a response to his recent appearance on the CBS news program 60 Minutes. Although the appearance focused on his inflatable orbital habitat project (Bigelow Aerospace), the subject of UFO's also arose.
Bigelow Aerospace, Time To Put Up Or Shut Up About UFOs
Bigelow Aerospace founder and president Robert Bigelow recently spoke with '60 Minutes' and discussed his long-held belief that alien UFOs have and are visiting Earth. But he's not just another UFO enthusiast, Bigelow has privatized piles of relevant evidence. Whatever he knows, he should tell us.
On 60 Minutes Bigelow Aerospace president Robert Bigelow said “there has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence” on or around Earth. “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it,” Bigelow told Lara Logan.
Bigelow, whose company has partnered with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test their immense, expandable spaceship habitats, inflated in orbit, has been a believer in UFOs as extraterrestrial phenomena since his grandparents reported encountering a craft that “sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car.”
But Bigelow’s belief in extraterrestrials visiting Earth go far beyond conclusions reached from family anecdote and the public record, or so he implies. “I spent millions and millions and millions — I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.”
Through his now-defunct National Institute for Discovery Science, Bigelow collected hotline reports of UFO sightings and precipitated a minor scandal in UFO circles by allegedly buying Mutual UFO Network case files from an inside source. He’s even bought up physical evidence and worked it out so the FAA submits UFO sightings directly to Bigelow Aerospace, since there’s no government entity accepting them.
It’s likely the evidence Bigelow has amassed doesn’t conclusively prove extraterrestrials are visiting Earth, although it sure seems to have convinced him. When Logan asked if he’s risking anything by taking a public stance that UFOs are visiting Earth, Bigelow said, “I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.”
“It’s not going to make a difference. It’s not going to change reality of what I know,” he said. “You don’t have to anywhere… it’s just like right under people’s noses.”
If whatever Bigelow has found is so compelling, perhaps it’s time he share. Instead, Bigelow repeatedly hints at big secrets, sufficient for absolute certainty, that he’s simply not telling. The absence of evidence would be sufficient to dismiss most other UFO boasts of this nature. But in Bigelow’s case it’s not simply a naked claim, but one backed by an aerospace billionaire (perhaps the industry most entwined with government) who has spent years privatizing vast troves of UFO evidence.
Bigelow should make a choice between revealing what he knows — even if it means burning sources or leaking classified information — and relinquishing the rhetoric of certainty and insinuation. Otherwise we might be lead to the conclusion that Bigelow is deliberately withholding from the population of Earth the most important truth in the history of our species. ...
SOURCE: FULL ARTICLE: http://www.yahoo.com/news/bigelow-aerospace-time-put-shut-235625996.html