How long until the day of official verification of contact?

For anyone making an intelligent inquiry into the possibility of mankind on earth being visited by or coming into contact with a civilization from another planet there must be acknowledgement at some point by the governments of the world. In more than 5 decades of widespread UFO reports, military confirmation, and witness testimony, still official recognition eludes us. Why? It is a complex proposition for our system of beliefs and social structure to encounter a superior civilization. Many of our sacredly held self assurances could be disrupted and thrown into question. Such human institutions as religion, government, law, military, and science could not only lose relevance but power over the people once our arcane suppositions have been breached by a greater reality.

Witholding the vital admission

What does that mean to the powers that be. Knowledge is power. Governments, particularly the US, have made it a standard operating procedure to compartmentalize knowledge on a need to know basis or utilize secrecy and attach classified status to any controversial project or form of forbidden knowledge that could have an unpredictable and far reaching impact upon humanity. Such is the proposition of extraterrestrial contact. This is no simple matter on many levels.

The inevitable course of confrontation

The unfortunate realization for human history and archeological implication has been that once presented with a direct exchange between an ancient culture and that of a more advanced society, the simpler or less advanced culture tends to be overwhelmed, faced with the exposure of their belief systems being marginalized by the greater realization of a superior society. The American Indians once faced by the superior technology of western Europeans, their machinery, their weapons, and their system of laws and government were not only intimidated but eclipsed with their inability to comprehend the direct contradiction to their sacred presumptions.

When the primitive meets its superior

Such was the case with the Aztecs of Mexico and Central America when confronted by the Spanish explorers such as Cortez. When they saw white men arrive from somewhere out in the ocean on massive galleons using cannons and muskets for warfare, it was only a matter of time. Quickly the Aztec culture dissolved socially and religiously in the wake of a society that demonstrated technical if not ethical superiority. The conquistadors caused the rapid destruction of a less developed society with not only violence but the destruction of its belief system.

War of the Worlds a real panic!

On October 30, 1938 on the eve of Halloween, the Fireside Theater led by actor, Harry S. Truman, who publicly spoke after the famous 1952 Washington National sightings where UFO’s were tracked by radar and chased by USAF interceptors over Capitol Hill on several occasions over a 2 week period.

President Jimmy Carter candidly admitted he had observed a UFO along with several others and even filled out a detailed report on the sighting. Carter during his first term in following up on a campaign promise he had made to get to the bottom of the UFO question, had instructed his science advisor to make inquiries within the federal government and CIA about UFO’s, but was denied access.

President Ronald Reagan alluded to all nations of the world uniting mankind in their efforts to defeat a common alien aggressor if such a war ever occurred, yet getting mankind to cooperate in peaceful efforts beyond that was hard work. This comment Reagan made a point to have his speech writer include in many of his public discourses.

The transformation of policy

We have seen the course of government policy transform over the issue of UFO’s from the Defense Department hiring Walt Disney to make absurd cartoons about space creatures to blacking out the entire TV screen during a Donald Keyhoe interview about UFO’s on NBC in 1958. We have seen certain individuals deep within the government rebel against official policy such as former CIA director, Roscoe Hillenkoeter who gave a New York Times interview warning that UFO secrecy and denial was a dangerous policy in 1960.

In 2001, Doctor Steven Greer made history by organizing a massive public witness testimony of former military figures to appear at the National Press Club in Washington DC under the aegis of the “Disclosure Project” in order to put an end to official denial and secrecy. Something the likes of which could never have happened in years past.

The pendulum of refusal to acknowledge the truth by the US government has swung from one extreme  to a surprising tolerance for many of its own leaders, intelligence agents, and military personnel involved in highly secretive projects to come forward and disclose what they know about the UFO reality that has been officially disputed for so long. Many now believe that not only is the public ready for the official announcement of the truth, but that the long overdue admission by the US government could happen any time. Unfortunately, this writer does not feel that it will come with the current Obama White House in view of the continued destructive policies it has conducted. It seems that the President’s last consideration would be transparency over any important issue that the people seek the truth over. Yet, regardless of this fact, the wheels of progress have turned and brought our society a long way from the anal retentive denial of the 1940’s 50’s and 60’s. Time will only tell.

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In Case of Contact

It is accepted almost as a corollary that several persons of the same family experience visitations; it is rarely just one person in the house. In the case of my nephew's encounter, suppose the target were both him and his smaller brother. All data point to the fact that they start visiting people while we they are very young, the problem been, most of them do not recall these visits and abductions.

Of the many things contactees can do, the least has been reacting in a more orderly manner to these sightings. Specially if they are floating, are small and fluoresce! There should be a protocol to make first contact. Please someone, write it! I propose that such protocol be written by people with experience like real UFO and alien abduction investigators and a pool of abductees with interest in a non controversial contact. A smoother process should be in place. A method of communication that we want to use and which is not alarming to them and preserves human safety -- in case of danger and as much as we can control it from our side-- should be devised.

On the personal level, I propose people start first imagining been in close proximity of the animal or thing that could be the most threatening to them and reacting without fear. If in Florida, that could be an alligator; If in California, that would be a mountain lion or a bear. We all know that advisories have been issued for these probable events by authorities and animal experts in order to preserve human safety. We should be prepared for an alien encounter as well. Apply that imagined experience to an alien contact, imagine it. Who knows when we will need it?

If I were an alien, given their experience with us, I would expect humans to scream, run, attack and finally flee the area. That is their safety comfort zone, the expectancy that we will fear them. If we are not armed, they know by now that we fear them. Fear is our enemy and in my opinion we should stay put. Abrupt movements should be minimized. They apparently communicate by telepathy. Why not try sending messages "telepathically"?

Of course, we don't communicate at that level; but on the other hand, since they communicate telepathically with abductees, they must be able to receive our broadcasts with clarity although we don't hear our own. Not knowing our language does not poses a problem to them since they have communicated with people of all countries in the world. Contactees hear a voice in their minds, or receive images that convey a message. Not long ago I read about an abduction case where the person was sent several images of world destruction. That IS their language, forget asking vocally. They communicate with images and telepathic waves.

With this personal family experience shows us is that we are not save in our homes, so we better attempt to learn to navigate through such situation in a more rational manner, or at least with a plan. The worst we can do is have no plan. The second happens when the plan does not work., but I haven't thought about that yet. I am working on it.

They can activate our telepathic abilities at will since many abductees report a "conversation" with them. So, it is possible that we can send and receive images and thoughts when in their presence. That is a good start. Our brain is capable of transmitting thoughts that can be heard by them; isn't this a great discovery? Why is it that we are not trying to develop this capability consciously in laboratories, home based trainings, etc... if we know it works? The consistent rejection of the fact that we do communicate with aliens in this way is throwing us back in technology hat could be in use right now.

I envision a time when this type of communication can be achieved through technology instead of developing our brain if that feels like to slow or impossible at this time, given the general reluctance to look into what is considered paranormal as "unknown normals". It is in our best interest that we learn this, money should be put in this kind of research. It remains for us to try to develop telepathic power -either naturally or though electromagnetic devices. I don't know this can be done and when but this is imperative. We know we do, we just don't know how to activate it and control it. I wish I could say telepathically to my boyfriend; "Hey, take your feet out of the table! In the case of aliens, I would say: "Please leave the premises; I command you."

I don't think we should be afraid. All my research indicates that they fear something from or about us. We are definitely physically more sturdily built than them, so the fear most be physical,because they are obviously mentally more powerful. Note that they paralyze people for abductions or drug them unconscious to do their physical probing thing. They avoid daylight, they run away from our crafts and some of theirs have crashed-leaving some alien victims. They must fear our prominent physique among other things and our guns -and the effects of gravity can definitely hurt them. We are not faster than them with our planes, but when in close contact I think we have the advantage.

This is a proposal in process, an attempt to step into the future for the moment we don't want to accept now when we will be in front of alien, completely at his mercy, unable to move and communicate.

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The Vision of First Contact Vs The Fear of Alien Invasion

Have extraterrestrials contacted us yet? Have only certain people been contacted, and are these secret contacts?

Obviously they have not contacted the general public yet, or else we'd be hearing all about it on TV and radio, or seeing huge saucers hovering all over our skies.

Is it possible they have contacted certain governments in various nations across the world, that is, a secret contact? Or are these just crazy rumors that we read about in the tabloids, or hear from conspiracy theorists with over-active imaginations? We have heard and read that there have been numerous alien abductions, countless UFO sightings, even extraterrestrial telepathic communications with individuals, or even aliens visiting certain individuals physically, and other such rumors. But these are separate contacts that cannot be proven as to their authenticity.

What has been deemed as "First Contact," as suggested in science-fiction novels, movies, and TV shows, is indeed a glorious and grand idea. But will it ever take place upon our world the way we may imagine it? Or instead, will the tragedy of alien invasion actually take place? Ever since H. G. Wells' devastating science-fiction novel, The War of the Worlds, our world-view has changed in regards to alien life, because we must ask whether or not it may be benign or malignant. In 1938, Orson Welles reproduced this devastating story in a horrifying radio broadcast that wreaked havoc to millions of listeners. For a short while radio listeners actually believed the Earth was being invaded by aliens from Mars. It demonstrates just how gullible people can be. This is one of the reasons our government is trying to keep the lid on the UFO phenomenon; they think we're not ready, that we'll go nuts if aliens revealed themselves. But after several decades of exposure via various and sundry ways, I think we've become desensitized and prepared enough. After many years of the public hearing about sightings and abductions, including all the books and magazines and movies and talk shows and so forth regarding ETs, it has become a normal topic in today's society.

Perhaps the notion of alien invasion is more fascinating and captivating in science fiction than a peaceful, benevolent manner of first contact. But in the real world, I know we would prefer the latter. I wonder if the first movie version of The War of the Worlds in 1953 continued our extraterrestrial paranoia, and any other alien invasion movies, especially the two remakes that came out just a few short years ago, and let's not forget Independence Day. That's all we need -- more fear and paranoia. Perhaps the real ETs are simply observing us, yes, we the insane savage humans that live here, too dangerous to confront, who seem to be on an inevitable path of self- annihilation, whether it be through thermonuclear warfare, poisoning our atmosphere and oceans with countless toxins, biochemical methods, the creation and spread of new viruses, and so forth. I doubt these intelligent aliens really want to greet us with open arms. I doubt if they feel we're anywhere close to being ready to join the Galactic Community of Extraterrestrial Worlds (if it exists). I'm sure they're just watching us from afar, because if they get too close, we could infect them with some horrible virus, or we might capture one of them, or start a war with them.

They may even abandon their Galactic Watch program with Earth soon, and perhaps return in several centuries, to see if we've grown up yet.

Or are the ETs here to help us? Can they save us form ourselves? But if they have a Prime Directive (as suggested in the Star Trek TV shows) then they can't tamper with our backwards culture; they can only observe us, whether we advance further and develop global unity and peace, or completely destroy ourselves first.

On the other hand, perhaps they have orders from the Mother ship to blow this hopeless planet to smithereens before we stumble upon warp-drive capability so we can spread our insanity to other worlds.

But give us a few centuries, see if we can get our collective act together first.

Now, if we applied our imagination, what would actual first contact be like? Will they land on the White House lawn, ask some random passerby to "Take us to your leader," and then shake hands with the President? Perhaps they'll ignore the arrogant, greedy politicians and meet the scientists first, the astrophysicists, the astronomers, the biologists, some metaphysicians, etc. Or they might feel drawn to botanists, gardeners, environmentalists, zoologists, oceanographers, or people who are in touch with the Earth. Perhaps they will offer to cure all diseases, create peace between all humans, and deliver us out of a Dark Age we didn't realize we were in. Or, they may perceive dolphins as the superior intelligent life on Earth and contact them instead of us! Who knows!

We don't really know, but we can dream, or write silly science fiction stories about it. But if they open their arms to the welcoming public in friendship, will we return the favor, or will paranoid war-mongers spoil it and attack them for intruding our airspace? Will the paranoid savage humans cause a war with our could-have-been new friends?

For this reason, which they can easily foresee, they may remain hidden.

No, I don't think we're ready yet. I think we have some serious growing up to do.

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