Once again there are rumors that the United States
government may make some sort of admission that there is an
unknown intelligent presence here. Whether these rumors
mean
anything or not I do not know.
I do know this, though: unless we begin to address this
phenomenon intelligently and make use of the knowledge that
it offers us, we are going to continue on the current
death-spiral of economic and environmental decline.
The situation we find ourselves in is not our fault.
Nature, or somebody, made us without sexual seasonality.
Therefore, we had too many babies. Therefore, we are out of
room here on earth.
Of course, we can use technological manipulation to decrease
the environmental footprint of the individual, and the
president has very correctly seen that as a viable direction
in which the economy can grow, but it's not unlimited.
The reality is simple, and although it may seem incredible,
it is possible: we need to be able to expand off the earth
in large numbers. In enormous numbers. In other words, we
need to gain the ability to travel among not just nearby
stars but many stars. We need to find other earths.
This is not impossible. People who can do it are all around
us. But we pretend that they are not here. We pretend that
they cannot be here because interstellar travel is
impossible. But they are here. What they are and where they
are from is another question, and for all I know, the
answers could be very unexpected.
One thing is certain: admission of their presence will open
the door to thousands of curious and intellectually robust
people, enabling them to address the knowledge that is now
available in a useful manner.
The government need do only four things: first, admit that
some of the lights in our skies appear to be devices under
intelligent nonhuman control. Second, stop confronting them
in any way when they enter our skies. Third lift the
granting restrictions that have prevented granting in this
area of studies. Fourth allow access to any and all
knowledge and technology that it does possess to all human
minds.
This does not address the close encounter phenomenon,
though, and it is the close encounter phenomenon that is the
reason that disclosure never comes. Admitting that the
lights in the sky are under intelligent control is one
thing. Admitting that their operators are coming out and
entering our bedrooms and our bodies, and this cannot be
controlled, is quite another.
There are three approaches to the alien abduction
phenomenon. The first is the Stephen Greer approach, which
says that they are benevolent and that any suggestion to the
contrary is due to fear and confusion. The second is the
Budd Hopkins/David Jacobs approach, which sees them as
being
emotionless and indifferent to our welfare, here only to
harvest human DNA and sexual material.
There is a third approach, which is to admit the truth of
the close encounter experience, which is the most complex
event that has ever happened. Our society has been coping
with large scale structural intrusions for three centuries
now. We have absorbed the coming of the mass-production
factory, electrification, the automobile, the airplane,
electronics and rich communication. But these are all things
that we could control. How to we absorb technological
innovation from a source that we cannot control, and that is
going to have many agendas of its own.
I have a simple answer: we call on our best minds to do it.
We need to develop and adequately fund a think tank that
can
address these problems with the best theories, ideas and
equipment we can bring to bear. It needs to have a
substantial scientific arm that will gather physical
knowledge from crash debris, from observation of the
movement of objects, and from any other resource that may
be available, It needs an engineering group that will make
sense of this material and point us in the direction of new
uses.
We needn't start huge. We can start small, which the
development, for example, of new vehicles that will replace
the plane and not rely on air for lift, that will carry us
farther and faster, enabling us, for example, to begin to
mine the moon for commercial quantities of Helium3, which
would solve both our energy and pollution problems.
This think tank must also address the issue of
communication, but this is not a matter of decoding signals.
It is a matter of decoding bodies. The bodies of the close
encounter witnesses bear physical evidence with them that
can be studied both in situ and in the lab. Collectively,
they are, in effect, the first word the visitors have spoken
to us. It is incumbent upon us to translate that word, for
it is a very large, very complex word about the nature of
man and his place in the cosmos.
In fact, it is the largest word ever uttered, a word larger
than all the language that has ever been spoken across all
of our history. So decoding it is not going to be easy, but
it is going to be incredibly productive.
The Greer approach to this problem suggests that, if we stop
shooting and acknowledge them openly, their attitude toward
us will change and they will become more forthcoming.
The Hopkins approach warns that disclosure could have
unknown consequences, and could turn us into a race of DNA
milk-cows, left to rot on barnyard earth.
The third approach does not start by making value judgments
based on the incomplete information we have now. It begins
by seeking to understand that information. Conclusions can
be drawn when the foundation of knowledge available makes it
possible to do so.
If we are to have the rich cultural, social and economic
future that seems to disclose itself just ahead of where we
are not, government must admit the reality of the visitors
and encourage study of them. If it continues to stonewall
the situation, the loss to mankind, already tragic, will
certainly deteriorate even further.
We must do everything we can to prevent the extraordinary,
beautiful and immeasurably valuable human species from
perishing or
sinking into a decivilizing decline that will end with the
population decimated and civilization forgotten.
The single most valuable thing we can do right now to help
ourselves is to acknowledge contact and begin to harvest the
knowledge that is on offer.
