Local news reactions to the symposium.....
From WXII Channel 12 news;
People who claim to have seen UFOs meet in Greensboro
GREENSBORO, N.C. —People who believe some of the lights they see in the sky at night are from somewhere other than Earth are sharing their stories in Greensboro.
A Burlington man is hosting a Symposium on Official & Scientific Investigations of UAP. It started Saturday and continues on Sunday.
Kent Senter said he saw his first flying saucer when he was 10 years old and had another sighting that changed his life when he was 33. The 59-year-old Senter said the federal government is trying to cover it up, but also said when you're looking at something that's not supposed to exist, you realize there's something going on you don't know about.
Senter hopes to use testimonies and scientific research to remove the stigma and encourage the government to recognize UFO existence.
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A local newspaper The Winston-Salem Journal;
UFO symposium to be held at Greensboro Coliseum
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2013 3:48 pm |
Updated: 10:44 pm, Fri Jun 28, 2013.
UFO symposium to be held at Greensboro ColiseumJenny Drabble/Winston-Salem JournalWinston-Salem Journal
Flying saucers, alien abductions, little green Martians.
It all sounds like something from the latest sci-fi flick, but Kent Senter of Burlington said he knows the truth.
Senter, 59, said he had his first flying saucer sighting when he was 10 years old and had an extensive sighting that changed his life when he was 33.
He said he was in Durham when he saw a rectangular bar of light moving erratically and soundlessly through the sky at unbelievable speeds.
“The U.S. government tries to cover it up,” said Senter, who is the founder the North Carolina chapter of the Mutual UFO Network. “But when you’re looking at something that’s not supposed to exist, you realize there’s something going on you don’t know about.”
Senter, who has terminal cancer, will “boldly go where no one has gone before,” hosting a Symposium on Official & Scientific Investigations of UAP (UFOs) on Saturday and Sunday in Greensboro as a part of his bucket list.
He hopes to use testimonies and scientific research to remove the stigma and encourage the American government to recognize UFO existence.
The symposium will be at the War Memorial Auditorium in the Greensboro Coliseum Complex.
“We’re not jumping to get into the aliens and all that but, instead, look at the science of what’s going on in the airspace,” he said.
Most UFOs are triangular- or disc-shaped objects and move irregularly, soundlessly and can accelerate at fantastic rates of speed, Senter said.
Although there are a fair number of nonbelievers — a result of the movie industry hyping up the little green “take me to your leader” aliens, Senter said — such countries as Chile and Belgium recognize the existence of UFOs.
Respected citizens and military personnel from around the world have eyewitness accounts of UFOs or claim to have been taken aboard a flying saucer.
Jeff McLean, one of Senter’s friends, said they hope to get the U.S. on board — no pun intended — and remove the negative connotations with seeing UFOs.
“I’m a patriot to the bone, but people here are ostracized for what they’ve seen,” McLean said. “So we’re bringing in credible scientists, retirees from NASA and high-ranking military eyewitnesses to lay it all out on the table.”
Senter said there are about 6,000 reported sightings in the U.S. each year.
There was a sighting near Stratford Road in Winston-Salem last October when a commercial pilot saw a pulsing bright light from his home that he thought was moving too quickly to be a plane.
For Senter, who said has had experienced about 10 sightings, this is nothing new. He said UFOs are constantly in the airspace and have been for centuries.
Although many may write off the sightings as government experiments, Senter’s not buying it.
“There have been sightings throughout history, and if the government had had the craft I saw in the ’80s, they would’ve used it to get (Osama) Bin Laden instead of helicopters,” he said.
George Washington reported seeing a UFO in Valley Forge, Senter said, and strange craft have been depicted in 14th century paintings.
For Senter, a father of four whose days are numbered because of his illness, the goal is to bring UFO research under the public spotlight.
“I’ve had friends pass away in recent years who spent their lives trying to get the truth, but they never got their answers,” Senter said. “I have an incurable cancer, but I have to at least do my part to get the truth out there while I still can.”
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It's not the world's best coverage, but it could have been worse I guess.
