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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dan Aykroyd has a new video on the market, but the ex-conehead and one-time ghost-buster says he's not the star. The UFOs are.

"My recommendation is to skip through me and get to the film footage, the digital images," he said on Tuesday, talking about the 90-minute "Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs" from Union Station Media.

"This is where the whole thing starts to become more credible," he said of footage of unidentified flying objects from around the world.

"This is the real stuff. I'm not alone on this. There are many, many people interested in UFOs," he said.

The DVD, which went on sale Tuesday, is a conversation between Aykroyd and UFO expert David Sereda interspersed with footage of unexplained objects in flight and comments from experts like former astronaut Gordon Cooper. There are no jokes.

Asked if he was worried that a comic actor might not be taken seriously discussing an edgy subject like extra-terrestrial visitors, he said "It's not a concern."

"Enough people know I've had an interest in this for years," he said, speaking from New York. "People know I'm interested in the paranormal."

Aykroyd said he has had two personal encounters with the unknown.

One occurred on Martha's Vineyard, he said, where he sighted "high altitude, glowing magnesium discs traveling at 20,000 miles an hour at 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). ... wing to wing, edge to edge."

Four people with him saw the same thing, he said, and while one expert later told him it was probably a meteor formation of some sort "I believe they were visiting the earth, passing by on the way to somewhere else."

"The second was a telepathic experience," he said, which happened at a lake retreat in Canada.

"I was asleep with my wife and I woke up about 3 a.m. wanting to go outside into a field and look at the sky," he said, telling his wife, "They want me to see. They want me to see." She told him to forget it.

The next morning, he said, newspapers and radio reports from across the region were filled with eyewitness accounts from some of the estimated 12,000 people who saw a pink spiral in the sky.

The military later said it was a Chinese rocket, Aykroyd said, but he believes he was being summoned and regrets ignoring the call.

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One occurred on Martha's Vineyard, he said, where he sighted "high altitude, glowing magnesium discs traveling at 20,000 miles an hour at 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). ... wing to wing, edge to edge."

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"I was asleep with my wife and I woke up about 3 a.m. wanting to go outside into a field and look at the sky," he said, telling his wife, "They want me to see. They want me to see." She told him to forget it.

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Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't...    Actually, I have had some pretty strange experiences happen to me over the years.  Things that are much more odd than this.  Nutty or not, I can relate to this.  The parts where he embraces pseudo-science are a different matter.

P.S. I made an intentional mistake/misleading statement in my "scientific analysis".  I'm guessing MAIA will see it, but what about the rest? 

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Please explain how one knows the altitude and velocity of an object on the edge of space? Please explain to me how one could see the wing of an object traveling at 20,000 miles per hour (26 times the speed of sound, 6 times faster than a speeding bullet) or how one could make out much of any detail at all on something 100,000 feet (19 miles) away? Let us not forget about the atmosphere causing distortion as well.

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I guess it all depends on the size of the object. Of course i'd take those measurements with a grain of salt, it all seems to be too empirical, more like an estimate. The distortion in the atmosphere can also be one more variable to consider, as it might give the illusion on the target moving faster than it actually is. Anyway, he could have used a pair of binoculars

MAIA

Diploid said:

Yeah and most scientists won't touch the subject with a barge pole.

I thought lots of scientists have been looking at the issue for round about 100 years now and, finding nothing, finally gave up. 

Eh, what do I know.

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Diploid said:

Supose these creatures don't want to be discovered, why are they seen all the time?

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