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April 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 22/04/2010 11:27 PM Page 28 28 What Ever Happened To..... Are UFOs Coming to Nevada? 8NewsNow.com George Knapp, I-Team Reporter If you've ever wanted to see a UFO, Thursday might just be your lucky night: That's when famed mentalist the Amazing Kreskin has predicted that an array of flying saucers will appear in the sky. While the prediction did not reveal the exact location, the Channel 8 I-Team found out. Before you decided to print up a sign and go tripping around in the desert to welcome the space aliens, just keep in mind what happened only a few summers ago when gullible folks gathered for a similar purpose. And this wasn't the first time, or maybe you haven't heard of "War of the Worlds," in which a character said: "What are these flying saucers? What are people seeing in the sky?" People have been wondering about intelligent life out there somewhere for a long time. Some even speculate that these benevolent space brethren might want to study us, even Don't get your hopes up, but it could still be a movie. Far-out opinions covered the belief that help us out. Don't you believe the Spielbergian rich sociological experiment, and, who knows: another, more important event, was to take place propaganda? But should you believe the “It's gonna happen,” says Kreskin. at an undisclosed location, and that the UFO Amazing Kreskin? Kreskin says he expects the UFOs to "believers" had all been gathered in this one "I can pretty much pinpoint it. It will be show up between 9 p.m. and midnight on place so that the other event could go on two or three, maybe four at the most," he said.. Thursday. The event should be visible from all undisturbed. Another opinion was that cameras That's two to four UFOs, Kreskin says, over Southern Nevada. [] would film whoever attended the Kreskin event in the Nevada skies Thursday night. He made for "control" purposes. The majority of the the prediction on a Canadian TV show back in Another Blast From The Past attendees realized that this was a publicity stunt February, generating worldwide publicity, for by Kreskin, they were there to party, and have a himself and for the Silverton Hotel, where his In the Eyes of the fun night-out, but, like me, harbored a small act has been playing. The Silverton has been Beholder: hope that UFOs would make an appearance. beating the PR drum, too. Some folks traveled to the event from as far “It's been wonderful exposure for the On Kreskin's UFO away as Utah and Kentucky! Silverton and for Kreskin," said Scott Eldredge Basically, Kreskin had wagered of the Silverton Hotel. "But it's a double-edged Prediction $50,000, that he would donate to charity if the sword, isn't it, if it doesn't happen? I think it's By Angela Thompson Smith predicted event did not happen. The predicted great for everybody; believers and skeptics will event being the sighting of three or four UFOs be out here.” Last evening, around 8:30 p.m., in the night sky. While being interviewed for Kreskin won't say how this vision came Thursday, June 6th, 2002, people gathered at Channel 8, in the days preceding the event, he to him, but he and the hotel have picked out a the Silverton Hotel, just south of Las Vegas to assured the interviewer that satellites and other spot for the official gathering. It's in a field just attend an event in which the mentalist Kreskin noctural activities would not be misinterpreted south of the hotel, and as many as a thousand promised a sighting of UFOs in the Nevada as UFOs. However, he was vague on a lot of people might show up. We tried to pin Kreskin night sky. Kreskin had first pronounced this other questions about what was really going to down on whether this would be the real deal or "prediction" at a show in Canada and had been happen. whether he would settle for a man made interviewed in Las Vegas during the past couple This past Monday, Kreskin addressed a satellite, blimp or other contrivance going of days. There was some confusion about gathered audience to start the preparatory work overhead. exactly where we were to meet: some said under for Thursday's event. I was unable to attend but “A satellite or publicity stunt? The the marquee and others said at the entrance to the show centered around teaching the audience question asked is, did I hire anybody? No, it's the casino. In the parking lot we met a fella how to get into an automatic trance state. One or too expensive,” Kreskin said. dressed up as Ja Ja Binks and folks were having two of the folks, I talked to, had walked out of So people will see more than a satellite? their photograph taken with him. Inside the the first meeting. They had gone there to find “I would hope so," he said. "I would casino, gamblers were walking around with out where and when the event would take place. have nothing to do with manmade satellites. I green balloons, in the shape of aliens, perched Last night, Kreskin held another show only have one real fear -- my real fear -- who on their heads.We groaned and hoped this during which he gradually whittled down the knows how long this sighting will be? If it goes wasn't going to set the tone for the evening. The audience until he had a small group that had an hour or more, you worry about mass media has a ball interviewing the weird and proven susceptible to hypnotic induction and hysteria.” wonderful people that attend these events. command. After the show these folks flowed In the long, sad history of UFO Eventually Silverton buses came and ferried us out to the desert area behind the Silverton predictions, the only place people know for sure to a desert area behind the casino. There was a Casino, where the rest of us had already they will see saucers is in movies. There was the general air of merriment and a party assembled. prediction that a UFO would fly over a Monday atmosphere. Night Football game; darn it, turns out it was a Opinions, as to what was going to (Continued on Page 29) scared away by the blimp. UFOs were also happen ranged from the belief that UFOs would predicted for the Winter Olympics. Maybe they actually appear (a minority of folks held this Dare to Believe, Dare to be Heard couldn't pass the steroid test. 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