A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact (19 page)

As to human abductions and experimentation, there is conflicting evidence on the theory that a hybrid species is being created but there is evidence that they have visited the Earth going back thousands of years.

We prefer to end the briefing at this point, sir. By doing so, we hope to protect you from having to answer questions that you may wish to leave in the classified arena. We recommend that you appoint someone from within your administration to receive that detailed security briefing in the near future.

As he hears these words, the president understands that destiny has chosen him to be the “Disclosure President.” Although he will go down in history for this act, he also knows that his Administration’s agenda is now in ruins. From the moment he utters the word “extraterrestrial” in a formal setting, his fate is sealed. He will spend the rest of his presidency
managing this singular event. If things go poorly, his reputation will be ruined. Still, no man has ever gotten to run the government of the United States of America without an ego. He knows that forevermore, his name, like that of Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt will be associated with a key moment in the history of his nation and of the world.

That status may ease the sting that behind these closed doors of the Oval Office, this elected leader has just been told that his own classification had been raised specifically to receive the briefing he has just received. Some of the questions he is now asking require an even higher level of classification.

The President of the United States—as no doubt his colleagues around the world are learning at the same time—has just been told that he does not need to know everything. Now that he knows something, however, he must help transition the people of Earth to accept and cope with this new reality. Certainly, in the beginning, neither he nor the other world leaders will be able to be completely honest with the public. They will all have to hold back information for reasons of national security and to prevent panic.

Endless Questions

Once we surmount the basic hurdle of understanding that UFOs are real, once we recognize that Others of some sort are here, we naturally want to know what they are—
who
they are. Who has bothered to cross the universe, or pass through dimensions, or travel through time, in order to interact with us? Nobody makes that kind of effort without an agenda. At least, no human society would do such a thing.

Outside researchers, lacking cooperation and open communication from the authorities, are left with more questions than answers. It is like trying to solve an equation with too many variables.

How long have these Others been here? Are they related to us in some way? Were the different types of reported “aliens” actually separate groups, or were they simply variations belonging to the same group? Do
aliens lie? What do they think about us? Do they come to make war, or to bring peace? Is there a hidden agenda?

Yet, even though the secret-keepers have kept a fairly tight lid over UFO information, there are still things we can know about the Others based on what they have
not
done.

They have not sent us messages that can be picked up by SETI.

They have not landed on the White House lawn.

They have not appeared in Motherships above our world cities, preparing to strike.

If the Others wanted us all to know about them, it has clearly been within their power to present themselves, regardless of what our militaries or breakaway civilizations want us to know. These Others could have engineered any number of major events to capture our attention. They have not done so.

They are mysterious beings. Their intentions seem to be, as the evidence indicates, alien.

Question #1: Who Are They?

A careful analysis of the vast ufological literature, even accounting for the vagaries of human perception, leads to the conclusion that the truth is more complicated than what most believers and skeptics think. There has been no edict demanding that all UFO occupants be extraterrestrial, nor that they all look, think, and act alike.

Based at least on alleged witness accounts, multiplicity prevails. Everyone is familiar with the ubiquitous “Gray,” the short, spindly being with a large head and large almond-shaped black eyes. They have been frequently reported. It is a fallacy that all alleged memories of them are detritus from popular culture. Long before best-selling books popularized them (like Whitley Strieber’s
Communion
from 1987), accounts of these beings had been reported privately to abduction researchers by bewildered and frightened people.

Other types have also been reported. Reptilian-type beings, who by all witness accounts are formidable creatures, both in terms of their intelligence and technical capabilities along with insectoid or mantid-type beings. Each one of these has been reported with variations: some taller, some shorter, some with a mixture of features and colorations. Sorting all this out is daunting, as one cannot be sure of how much actual memory is being recovered as opposed to screen memory or confabulation. Yet, the patterns are there.

Human-looking entities have also been reported. These, however, are not your run-of-the-mill human. They are very different, and seem to be “beyond human.” Often termed “Nordics” or “Blonds,” they typically appear as majestic, even angelic. They often demonstrate deep intelligence and a kind of paternal empathy for the humans who encounter them. It is difficult to say that they “abduct” people. It is true that many of the people who have allegedly had encounters with these beings did not ask for contact (although some claim that they actively sought contact with these beings). It is, instead, that the encounters are usually described as a positive experience.

There is also a body of research that describes “almost-human” beings, something that appears to be a hybrid species: part-human, part-something-else. A program to create a genetically modified human being? It might appear so.

What do we make of these varied beings? Do they represent different groups? If so, what might their own relationships be? Do they cooperate or compete with one another?

During the 1960s, Ivan Sanderson, a biologist by profession and one of the most original writers about UFOs, methodically asked not what UFOs were, but what they
could
be. He developed a six-page outline of the possibilities.
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Therefore, suggested Sanderson, they could inanimate or animate. If inanimate, they might be natural, or artificial, each possibility with several subsets. If animate, they could also be natural or artificial. Natural forms might include life-forms indigenous to space, or to atmospheres, or to solid bodies. Artificial forms might be domesticated natural life-forms, genetically created life-forms, or biochemically created life-forms. And so on.

Keeping a similarly open mind, and with an eye toward comprehending all the evidence offered by this most challenging of subjects, we can summarize the existing explanations for whom the Others actually may be.

Extraterrestrial

Based on humanity’s built-in sense of time linearity and spatial relationships, it is easy to understand why this explanation has been the most obvious and durable. Our own perceptions of time involve moving forward, and our perceptions of space involve moving from one place to another.

Deepening the riddle. Who are they and what do they want?
Photo courtesy of NASA/STSci.

Extraterrestrials have always been at the heart of the debate about UFOs. Since the beginning of the modern UFO mystery, speculation both informed and otherwise has considered that these unknown objects might be “interplanetary.” This includes analyses from within the United States
Air Force, which at various points during the Cold War had substantial factions stating that this was the most likely possibility. Certainly, the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) has been the dominant theory among UFO researchers since the first books on the subject appeared in the 1950s. We have also seen the ETH demonstrated in countless space alien movies, depicting intentions both hostile and benign.

There is a powerful logic to the ETH. Astronomers now estimate that the Milky Way galaxy alone contains from 200 billion to 400 billion stars. These numbers are staggering, even considering that only 7.6 percent of all stars in our galaxy are sun-like “Type 2” stars. If we accept the lower estimate of 200 billion stars, this means there could be 15 billion sun-like stars in the Milky Way. Indeed, within the scant astronomical distance of a mere 50 light years, we know of at least a dozen such stars.
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If we consider that inter-galactic travel might be feasible in some manner wholly unknown to us at present, the field opens up to the hundreds of billions of galaxies estimated to exist.

But let us confine ourselves merely to our own, cozy galaxy. We do not know how many planets orbit around the estimated 200 billion stars, nor how many of those planets might be similar to Earth. Yet, recent discoveries give us cause for a liberal estimate. By late 2011, astronomers have made confirmed detections of 693 planets beyond our solar system. Most of these are gas giants like Jupiter, presumably unsuitable for life (although this leaves out the question of possible moons around a gas giant that might support life). However, the high proportion of gas giants is a function mainly of our detection methods, which generally have not been sophisticated enough to find many smaller, rocky planets, like Earth. It is now thought that most of the extrasolar planets are rocky—like Earth. In particular, recent studies indicate that most sun-like planets are likely to have rocky planets orbiting them.
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