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...Force isn't the only service with embarrassing accidents, Diehl notes. During a 1989 flight by two Navy F-14s, the two crewmen aboard a Tomcat "removed their flight suits, helmets and oxygen masks in an apparent attempt to 'moon' the crew of the other aircraft. Unfortunately, this 'college-boy' prank proved fatal when they passed out" and plummeted into the Arizona desert...
...Angeles-hordes of parents accused nursery-school and day-care-center workers of sexually abusing children. Spurred by public outrage, prosecutors charged staff members with horrific crimes, often based solely on the claims of youngsters whose tales ranged from gropings in the classroom to ritual satanic killings and rides aboard spaceships. Though their reputations were irrevocably damaged, most of the defendants ultimately went free...
...wrenching transition, from space to spacey. The Today show devoted much of its program one morning to the successful rendezvous of the shuttle Discovery with the Russian space station Mir, including a live interview by co-hosts Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric with the elated American crew aboard the orbiting Discovery...
Immediately following Today, however, NBC turned its attention to other, seemingly unwilling space travelers: ordinary humans who claim to have been rudely kidnapped by aliens, taken aboard spacecraft, subjected to humiliating experiments and returned to Earth, stupefied but usually unharmed. This exercise in virtual unreality was conducted, apparently without embarrassment, by The Other Side, a daily, hourlong nbc talk show that takes what it calls "an objective look at psychic phenomena, esp, ghosts, alternative healing and more...
...taken last year indicates that nearly a quarter of Americans believe in extraterrestrial UFOS and astrology, and nearly a third put stock in faith healing. Most startling, another poll found that as many as 2% of Americans, or nearly 5 million people, claim to have been abducted and taken aboard spacecraft by aliens...