Something unknown to our understanding is visiting this Earth.

-Dr. Mitrovan Zverev (USSR), Reuters, 1965

Everyone from the White House on down knew that what we had found was not of this world within 24 hours of our finding it.

-General Arthur Exon, a commanding officer involved with the recovery of debris from the 1947 Roswell crash site.

"...we were interrogated by the Air Force [brass], sometimes all night long, and then treated like incompetents and told to keep quiet. The Air Force tells you that the thing that paced your plane for 15 minutes was a mirage or a bolt of lightening. Nuts to that. Who needs it? So, [we] pilots now know to just forget to report sightings at all. If a space ship flew wing-tip to wing-tip formation with me, I would not report it."

A U.S. Air Force pilot's representative reporting in a 1952 Air Force Status Report on UFOs for the Air Technical Intelligence Center, speaking about how all pilots were so utterly humiliated in exchanges with official investigators following early sightings. Presumably, this "code of silence" continues today and extends to civilian aviation as well...

Mission Control, please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

by: NASA astronaut, James Lovell, emerging from the dark side of the moon during their historic first circumlunar mission, Apollo-8, in December, 1968. "Santa Claus" was the NASA mission code term to be used if a sighting of a strange object such as a UFO were to occur.

My Goodness, Outrageo, you have really outdone yourself for these quotes. Awesome job. Thanks very much! If I had mod points you'd get 'em!

Because of the source, I keep this one on a placard above my desk...

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For atoms being infinite in number are borne far out into space. For those atoms have not been used up either on one world or on a limited number of worlds, not on all of the worlds which are alike, or on those which are different from these. So that there nowhere exists an obstacle to the infinite number of worlds. We must believe that in all worlds there are living creatures and plants and other things we see in this world.

---The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) wrote these thoughts about extraterrestrial life in a letter to his friend and colleague, Herodotus.

So it seems we haven’t really made much progress on this initial conceptual thinking of 2,300 years ago…

Originally posted by yeti101
"As I gave more lectures, I found that I enjoyed speaking and that people believed me no matter what I said. After all, I was a nuclear physicist for Westinghouse..." - Stanton Friedman reveals the secret of his success.

Something taken out of its context.. and since I have the book, ill type out the point he is trying to make.

"As I gave more lectures, I found that I enjoyed speaking and that people believed me no matter what I said. After all, I was a nuclear physicist for Westinghouse, which in Pittsburgh, with its numerous nuclear divisions and research facilities, were gold-plated credentials.
The blind acceptance frightened me--now I knew how the demagogues of the twentieth centurary had had such success. I wanted people to think, to explore, to look at the data and make up their own minds. I decided that I would try to reach more technical groups, who presumably wouldn't accept everything I said as gospel."

[edit on 19-6-2007 by LogicalThinker]

I like that one from the guy from lockheed martin(bad spelling)

"If you can dream of it, we already have it" Or something to that effect