1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,060 Now, here are some of the stories Sightings is following in the news. 2 00:00:08,060 --> 00:00:13,020 World renowned alien abduction expert Dr. John Mack is facing serious charges from some 3 00:00:13,020 --> 00:00:14,980 of his colleagues at Harvard. 4 00:00:14,980 --> 00:00:19,720 They want him out. 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,700 At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize winning professor of psychiatry 6 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:30,820 John Mack is embroiled in a fight for academic freedom unprecedented in the school's 360 7 00:00:30,820 --> 00:00:35,620 year history all because of this book on the alien abduction experience. 8 00:00:35,620 --> 00:00:40,420 I believe one has to expand our notion of the possible and the real to even begin to 9 00:00:40,420 --> 00:00:41,420 take this in. 10 00:00:41,420 --> 00:00:45,860 Dr. Mack's book is a case by case study of his own patients and counters. 11 00:00:45,860 --> 00:00:53,140 It's a little gray being and it seemed to be a female just the way it was sitting. 12 00:00:53,140 --> 00:00:57,980 Since his book earned increasing publicity, a faculty committee began questioning Dr. 13 00:00:57,980 --> 00:00:59,700 Mack's psychiatric methods. 14 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:05,340 Despite more than 30 years teaching at Harvard, Dr. Mack was threatened with expulsion. 15 00:01:05,340 --> 00:01:10,180 The number of the people who have gone forward to work with me with the media and connected 16 00:01:10,180 --> 00:01:16,060 with my book have in fact been threatened with loss of their jobs and people have actually 17 00:01:16,060 --> 00:01:17,740 lost their jobs. 18 00:01:17,740 --> 00:01:22,780 After a year long investigation, John Mack was permitted to remain at Harvard with the 19 00:01:22,780 --> 00:01:32,940 warning that his future studies must be, in the panel's words, more scholarly. 20 00:01:32,940 --> 00:01:39,060 Our island in space, our earth, is threatened by giant chunks of galactic debris hurtling 21 00:01:39,060 --> 00:01:41,120 blindly through space. 22 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:46,300 When the shoemaker Levy comet crashed into Jupiter in 1994, it was Earth's wake up call. 23 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:51,220 A congressional task force was formed to monitor the potential danger to our planet. 24 00:01:51,580 --> 00:01:54,180 Recently, the task force was disbanded. 25 00:01:54,180 --> 00:01:58,740 In a special issue of Astronomy Magazine, editor Robert Burnham warns that this means 26 00:01:58,740 --> 00:02:03,740 there are now more people working behind the counter of one fast food restaurant than there 27 00:02:03,740 --> 00:02:09,100 are watching the entire cosmos for signs of impending disaster. 28 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:11,420 The threat is real. 29 00:02:11,420 --> 00:02:14,380 Comets and asteroids have hit the earth before. 30 00:02:14,380 --> 00:02:18,980 Craters range in size from just a few feet to over 5,000 square miles. 31 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:25,180 According to Astronomy Magazine, NASA researchers believe there are over 1,000 near-earth objects 32 00:02:25,180 --> 00:02:28,700 large enough to cause a global cataclysm if they hit. 33 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:33,140 However, fewer than 10% of them have actually been discovered. 34 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:36,900 So the next time you go to your favorite fast food joint, count the number of people behind 35 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:37,980 the counter. 36 00:02:37,980 --> 00:02:43,420 Then remember that your lunch order is getting more attention than target Earth. 37 00:02:44,420 --> 00:02:52,660 Along the rugged Oregon coastline, in this inaccessible cold, someone or something has 38 00:02:52,660 --> 00:02:54,340 left a calling card. 39 00:02:54,340 --> 00:02:58,980 And the message is strikingly similar to the one left in crop fields worldwide. 40 00:02:58,980 --> 00:03:03,180 But instead of corn or wheat, this message is written in sand. 41 00:03:03,180 --> 00:03:08,180 Who the circle makers are, I believe that they are non-physical, non-terrestrial, very 42 00:03:08,180 --> 00:03:10,940 high order intelligence. 43 00:03:10,940 --> 00:03:16,500 Eilis is the national coordinator of the Center for Crop Circle Studies U.S. Network. 44 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:20,780 She has investigated dozens of inexplicable formations in farmers' fields throughout 45 00:03:20,780 --> 00:03:27,340 North America and has found a strong connection between crop circles and sightings of UFOs. 46 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:32,740 In Hunk Point, Oregon, the formation of the sand circle was also connected to a UFO sighting. 47 00:03:32,740 --> 00:03:37,860 This is the first time that we've ever had sand rains, certainly on the beach and first 48 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:39,660 time in sand at all. 49 00:03:39,660 --> 00:03:46,460 It was a light scene offshore the night before the sand rings were discovered in the area 50 00:03:46,460 --> 00:03:47,460 here. 51 00:03:47,460 --> 00:03:50,940 This area is under the high water line twice a day. 52 00:03:50,940 --> 00:03:56,020 Further study and more photographic evidence is impossible as quickly as it appeared the 53 00:03:56,020 --> 00:04:00,100 Hunk Point sand ring was gone, washed away by the tide. 54 00:04:03,260 --> 00:04:05,580 We'll have more stories from the news next time. 55 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:07,820 Now, here's what's coming up on sightings.