Brazilian UFO researcher Jan Val Ellam is suggesting that
contact could take place between November 16, 2006 and April
30, 2007. He is well known in the field in Brazil, which is
also has extensive UFO and contact activity, and a very
capable local UFO community. He has said that it will
initially consist of large scale and undeniable UFO
sightings in many world cities, and limited contact with
individuals.
Frankly, I'd be floored if this actually happened, but I do
think that conditions under which contact might be an option
are, in fact, present, and that hasn't been true until
recently. As I see it,
these conditions are as follows:
1. There is a foundation of people capable of responding in a
useful
manner that is large enough to influence the whole species.
2. We have a sufficiently advanced science so that observed
capabilities will not be thought supernatural and
individuals engaging in the procedure will not be seen as
deities.
3. There is a serious need that outweighs the value of
allowing the
species to continue to innovate its cultural advance on its
own.
4. We are, hopefully, a species that is worth the expenditure
of resources
necessary.
I will deal with the fourth of these conditions first. A
species that is worth the effort is one that can respond to
it usefully. This means that the inevitable confusion,
superstition and fear that will attend first contact will
eventually resolve into a complex of responses from
individuals and cultures that reflect reality, offer value
to all concerned, and do not require any unnecessary
expenditure of resources.
I think that there is a certain amount of evidence that
contact happened in the distant past, but that the result
was that the people (aliens) involved became identified as
gods and their technology fitted into myth. In other words,
contact was too early and it failed.
The third condition is that there be need. From the
beginning, the message of all visitors who have experimented
with contact with human beings in modern times has been
the same: that the
planetary environment is vulnerable to failure. It is
failing now, and contact will come with a message that a
massive human effort to recover the situation must be made.
The absolute minimum of help will be offered, not to punish
us, but out of respect for our ability to help ourselves and
hope that we will do so.
The second condition is that science be sufficiently
advanced so that observed capabilities do not seem like
magic. Some of the capabilities that we will necessarily be
exposed to are as follows: 1. The ability to read minds.
This is accomplished in number of ways, two of which I
believe that I have observed being by the use of highly
discriminatory radio receivers that are capable of detecting
and interpreting the tiny radio signals naturally emitted by
brains, and by
the use of microwaves, which can transmit into them. 2. The
ability to traverse space very quickly without obvious
expenditure of energy. This is, I think, explained by the
ability
to
generate gravity. We might be quite far from being able to do
this, but at least able to understand that it can be done, and
therefore that it's not magic. 3. The ability to
manipulate matter at the atomic level. Technologies that
enable control of matter this absolute are within the grasp
of human science, and seeing them in action in the hands of
others will cause a leap ahead that will also enable us to
make strides in solving the problem of how to make the earth
a better vessel for the maintenance and evolution of life
into the indefinite future.
The first condition is that there be a foundation of people
who can react in a useful manner. After fifty years of
effort, there has been sufficient speculation in every human
culture about the possibility of contact, and what the
response might be. At present, I think that objective
response will probably
outweigh superstitious response for the first time in
recorded history. This means that this condition has been
newly fulfilled due to the efforts both of many human beings
and members of other species who have been attempting to
create a situation that might result in functional contact.
Included among these are government and military officials
who, for three generations, have been keeping this matter
secret. Those at the highest levels have known that the
secrecy was necessary in order to give human culture every
possible chance to develop as fully as possible on its own,
and therefore to express human consciousness as completely
as possible before interaction changes things. Until
recently, the gulf between us and others has been so great
that we would cease to innovate if exposed to their
capabilities, and therefore would become a burden rather
than an asset. I suspect that this is no longer true.
Scientific
advances
in recent years have meant that we will be able to see that
new technologies are not magic simply because they are
beyond our understanding.
If contact unfolds, it is important that social disruption
be kept to a minimum, because it will only happen in a
context of urgent human need. We will need to make the most
of every single iota of information we can gain, in order to
save ourselves from what is going to be a complex and
extremely dangerous series of changes in the planetary
environment.
I have no idea if Jan Val Ellam is right or not. But the
conditions for contact do indeed exist now, and they have
never existed prior to the past few years.
Another possibility would have been if we had been able to
overcome our problems without any outside intervention, and
entered the cosmos entirely on our own terms. That is the
ideal, of course.
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