AlienMind
The Verdants
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Signs of the Times
“I can assure you that flying saucers,
given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.”
--President Harry Truman, April 4, 1950 White House press
conference.
“For the next two or three days the saucers passed over the base
daily. Sometimes they appeared in groups of four, other times as
many as sixteen. They could outmaneuver and outflank us seemingly at
will. They moved at varying speeds—sometimes very fast, sometimes
slow—and other times they would come to a dead stop as we zoomed
past underneath.”
--
Astronaut Gordon Cooper, describing his first direct encounters with
UFO’s while serving as a military pilot in Germany.
“These (gray aliens) were living, breathing creatures, just as
mortal as you and I. They had feelings, they had families. They had
a cultural society. The one thing they didn’t have was hate,
hostility. They had anger, from what I observed—and I don’t know how
to explain it better than stating—it was an intellectual anger. They
could not... comprehend how a species such as us, that had such
great potential to do such wonderful and marvelous things, could do
such horrible and nightmarish things to one another.”
--Master Sgt.
Clifford Stone, ret., who testified that he encountered “gray”
aliens while working in a US Army unit that retrieved crashed
extraterrestrial vehicles. 2001
“I suspect that we have, indeed, been contacted—perhaps even
visited—by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in
collusion with the other national powers of the earth, is determined
to keep this information from the general public.”
--former CIA
official Victor Marchetti quoted in “How the CIA Views the UFO
Phenomenon,” Second Look, vol. 1, no. 7. Washington, D.C. 1979.
“We alone cannot take credit for our recent advancement in certain
scientific fields. We have been helped.”
--Dr. Herman Oberth, NASA
German rocket scientist. When asked to identify the helpers, Oberth
replied, “The people of other worlds.”
Imagine the following. You go to a science museum and proceed to the
hall of ancient civilizations. There, you walk among scenes of
primitive life: crude shelters, fires, and rudimentary handicraft.
As you bend close to look at semi-apes with small skulls and big
jawbones, a powerful stench overwhelms you. Suddenly, it hits
you---this is no ordinary museum. When you approach the displays
they turn to life, transporting you to the actual scene of such
events: the smoke, the fear and the passions of a cruel but
beautiful landscape.
How would you feel?
Your experience would be similar to what aliens might feel when
visiting the
planet Earth, with one exception. Some aliens could be expected to
have advanced
to a level that is many times beyond the difference between you and
the semi-apes in the museum.
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How could aliens be multiply more advanced than laser surgery,
semiconductors and jet flight?
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Wouldn’t they at least sympathize with our literature, our legal
institutions and our charity?
They probably would, yet some might be pained to see humans make the
same mistakes that they, themselves, made thousands, if not billions
of years earlier. They might want to hint at a better way of life.
No doubt, some would want to help us evolve more peaceably.
Other less-advanced aliens might try to take advantage of our
backwardness in order to expand their sphere of influence, to have
access to our vicinity’s resources. In some cases, that would go
against the larger off-world grain, but if the offending aliens were
formidable intruders from another galaxy, for example, there might
be little that Earth’s neighbors could do to turn them back. The
dangers of conflict would be too severe. Instead, neighboring aliens
might try to educate humans to be more responsible for themselves
and for the larger universe.
They might find us a stubborn breed, prone to superstition and a
reluctance to explain Bronze Age religious concepts scientifically.
On the other hand, an alien visitor might be impressed by the
intellectual movements of our last 20 to 30 years.
For example:
1)
feminist thinking that distinguishes between biological gender and
exaggerated popular ideas about gender
2) a global movement to
recognize both the rights and the human resources of native peoples
3) a deepening awareness of our finite global ecology
4) a
delayed but important popularization of both the concepts and the
logic of quantum physics. *Although most people haven’t fully
assimilated the fundamental weirdness of quantum physics, we use
computers that are based on such phenomena daily
No doubt, one further trend in human thought would stand out
sharply.
A large number of the world’s peoples have been exposed to,
if not deeply influenced by, portrayals of extraterrestrial life.
Unlike the world of fifty years ago, most people now recognize that
large-headed figures with almond-shaped eyes represent a certain
kind of alien. High tech companies run ad campaigns comparing their
innovations to the otherworldly, and the all-time list of
top-grossing movies is thick with films about extraterrestrials.
The alien theme runs much deeper. According to recent opinion polls,
more than 40 percent of the people in the United States think
there’s a government plot to cover up the facts of UFO’s. That’s
nearly 100 million people (more than voted in the last US election).
About one-third of those polled think that humans have actually made
contact with aliens.
Believe it or not, other nations’ news outlets regularly feature
footage of UFO’s moving across their skies. For example, millions
have seen large formations of non-human objects passing behind
clouds on Mexico’s version of “60 Minutes,” anchored by Jaime Maussan. Defense ministry commissions in both
France and Britain
recently published reports concluding that their governments should
prepare for the high “probability” that aliens visit the earth, and
that downed alien technology has found its way into a black budget
structure within the United States.
Just a few years ago Russia’s
chairman of its joint chiefs of staff, the nation’s highest-ranking
military officer, announced that his government regularly observes
alien craft and has possession of downed alien technology. Chinese
officials speak openly about the subject, as have officials in
numerous other nations.
In fact, what were once known as UFO’s are
increasingly described by generic type, or as “IFO’s” instead:
identified flying objects.
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