Posted on 02/11/2004 9:41:52 AM PST by Momaw Nadon
The U.S. and other world governments already have detailed secret plans for first contact.
When UFOs land, a series of plans created to deal with nuclear emergencies and biological attacks will be activated.
Within the scientific community, the question is no longer whether extraterrestrial life exists, but if ET is smart enough to do long division. Scientists are of two minds regarding the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Skeptics acknowledge simple life-forms might be found on other planets, but insist that intelligent life is unique to Earth. Their belief is based on the assumption that Earth possesses unique physical attributes, including a magnetic field that deflects cosmic rays and a moon that absorbs asteroids. Together, these protective features make Earth a rare safe harbor--one that nurtured the evolution of primitive life-forms into intelligent beings. The opposing camp sees the prospect for discovering alien life in more mathematical terms. Its touchstone is the Drake Equation, which links the probability of discovering extraterrestrial intelligence to factors such as the size of the universe and the number of stars with earthlike planets. With the discovery of each new planet beyond Earth's solar system--there are now more than 100--the odds of encountering intelligent alien life increase. Governments and international organizations around the world have taken notice of the changing odds. No governmental official has gone on record claiming that UFOs are real, let alone a threat. Yet with little public fanfare, they have begun preparing for the single most important event in human history: first contact. That is, the moment earthlings discover incontrovertible proof that they are not alone.
Early Warning
Unless ET materializes from another dimension in the middle of the Super Bowl, humans most likely will have some advance warning of its arrival. How much time we get to straighten up for extraterrestrial company depends upon who spots ET first.
The privately funded SETI Institute uses radio telescopes owned by observatories around the world to sweep the sky for signals broadcast by advanced civilizations. If ET has read Emily Post, or her intergalactic equivalent, and calls ahead, we could have years, even decades, to prepare for first contact. Unfortunately, the current SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project can afford to look at only small swatches of the sky, so any extraterrestrial courtesy calls probably will be missed.
A more likely scenario is that the U.S. Air Force would spot ET's spacecraft as it traverses the void between the Earth and the moon. Using powerful radar and optical telescopes in Hawaii, Greenland, Florida and the Indian Ocean, the Air Force Space Command tracks satellites, monitors missile launches, and spots baseball- and larger-size bits of orbiting debris with the hope of preventing it from perforating a space shuttle or the International Space Station. If ET turns up on Space Command's radar, it would mean the alien visitors are only hours or minutes away.
A Proposed Welcoming Committee
The International Academy of Astronautics in Paris maintains a list of volunteers willing to help world governments if ET arrives. Most are astronomers. Here is the team that PM would prefer to see on the job. Shown counterclockwise from the center are: Sen. John Glenn, American Representative. As the first American to orbit the Earth and an elected political leader, the senator is the obvious choice to lead the American delegation. Frank Drake, Science Officer. Creator of the Drake Equation and a driving force behind the SETI project, Drake would represent the world's scientific community. Hal Puthoff, Powerplant Engineering. An expert on zero-point energy, a means of extracting limitless power from the quantum vacuum without violating the known laws of physics, Puthoff would understand how ET powers its craft.
Sheila E. Widnall, Weapons Systems. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who served as Secretary of the Air Force in the 1990s, Widnall would be able to assess ET's weapons. Ning Li, Propulsion Systems. A former NASA scientist, Li devised the theory that explains how the electromagnetic force that we use every day might also be harnessed to manipulate gravity. Perhaps ET uses similar technology. K. Eric Drexler, Structural Systems. A trailblazer in the now fast-growing field of nanotechnology--building materials atom by atom--Drexler pioneered the idea of smart materials, which ET would doubtlessly also use in its craft. Jane Goodall, Communications Officer. Having devoted her life to the study of chimpanzees, primatologist Goodall has proved her ability to communicate with intelligent nonhumans.
Countdown To Contact
The broad-brush outline for Earth's response to the first alien encounter is set out in an international agreement called the "Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence." Written by a committee of scientists organized by the SETI Institute, the declaration spells out what astronomers should do, and what they should avoid doing, immediately after first contact.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the agreement is that astronomers who sign on to the declaration agree to keep the news of an imminent contact under their hat until the astronomy community and authorities have been notified.
The declaration also establishes fairly specific guidelines regarding the protection of the radio frequencies that alien civilizations might use to communicate with Earth. As soon as a radio signal is confirmed as originating from an extraterrestrial source, the International Telecommunications Union would ask governments around the world to forbid use of that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is hoped that ET will have sufficiently studied human habits to understand that calling earthlings on the frequencies used for microwave ovens and garage door openers will be interpreted as a belligerent act.
Close Encounter
Around 1999 the first contact protocols were put to the test. For 12 hours, SETI astronomers marveled at the prospect that their golden moment had arrived. A signal that repeated in an organized pattern was detected beaming straight at the Earth from 1 million miles in space.
The first priority was to alert radio astronomers around the world to redirect their telescopes. The signal from the distant stationary object quickly faded as the relentless rotation of the Earth swept it out of the telescope's listening range. Douglas Vakoch, the SETI Institute's social scientist responsible for preparing Earth's reply to an extraterrestrial message, tells POPULAR MECHANICS what happened next: "At this point, all of our discussions were internal to our team. We didn't want to cry wolf. Then, in the midst of the process, we get a call from The New York Times." So much for the secrecy provision of the SETI protocol. Within hours, the story evaporated. The SETI team identified the mystery signal as a data transmission from SOHO, a sun-watching observatory on an almost-stationary orbit about 1 million miles from Earth.
Vakoch says he was not surprised that the story of the possible alien contact leaked so quickly. "These guidelines have no legal force. They have been drafted in the hope of getting broader discussion."
As far as the U.S. government is concerned, that discussion started and ended more than 40 years ago. Regardless of how the world's astronomy community might want to handle first contact, Uncle Sam has ideas of his own. And they rest on the assumption that ET is first and foremost an illegal alien.
Presumed Dangerous
The question of how humanity might react to its first contact with intelligent aliens was officially raised in the late 1950s by the then newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Curious as to how discoveries about the origin of the universe might affect society as a whole, NASA contracted with the Brookings Institution, a leading think tank, to research the question. Only a small part of its 100-page answer, which came to be known as "The Brookings Report," dealt with alien encounter. But it contained a stern warning. "Anthropological files contain many examples of societies, sure of their place in the universe, which have disintegrated when they had to associate with previously unfamiliar societies espousing different ideas and different life ways; others that survived such an experience usually did so by paying the price of changes in values and attitudes and behavior."
In 1972, as engineers prepared the first space mission that would travel outside of Earth's solar system, NASA decided to ignore warnings in the 1960 "Brookings Report" about the dangers inherent in contact with an advanced alien race. Instead, the space agency sent an invitation for extraterrestrials to visit Earth. A gold-anodized aluminum plaque engraved with a map showing the location of Earth was attached to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. When it sent its last message, in January 2003, it was more than 7 billion miles along on a trip that will take it to the star Aldebaran.
State Of Emergency
If ET turns up at NASA's doorstep bearing that invitation, it is in for a surprise. Instead of getting a handshake from the head of NASA, it will be handcuffed by an FBI agent dressed in a Biosafety Level 4 suit. Instead of sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House, the alien will be whisked away to the Department of Agriculture's Animal Disease Center on Plum Island, off the coast of New York's Long Island. Here it will be poked and probed by doctors from the National Institutes of Health. A Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) will tow away its spacecraft.
Unfriendly as this welcome may seem, it is the chain of events that most likely will follow the visitor's arrival. Unique as the appearance of an alien-piloted spacecraft may be, the event incorporates elements of three situations familiar to federal emergency response workers: a plane crash, the release of radioactive material, and the capture of an animal suspected of harboring a contagious disease. Responsibilities in these situations are spelled out in Presidential Executive Orders.
Unless it is spewing exhaust, the craft would be assumed to be nuclear powered. This determination would put NEST technicians in charge of securing the craft and moving it to a DOE facility, most likely in New Mexico, where it would be in close proximity to the Sandia and Los Alamos nuclear laboratories and the White Sands Missile Range. International agreements also put NEST on call if the craft lands out of the United States, as happened in 1978 when a Soviet satellite leaking nuclear fuel landed in the Canadian wilderness.
NEST, however, would operate in the background. In a nuclear emergency, the FBI is put in charge of public safety, public health and public information. Those, at least, are the plans. How things might actually turn out is anyone's guess.
Skeptics often ask why UFO sightings seem to take place only in remote locations instead of on busy city streets. Perhaps ET knows what earthlings have in mind when it lands.
Good idea. What am I supposed to do? Rant and rave about being abducted by aliens? Sheesh! It'd be a good way to loose everything and become homeless.
Last night I may have been abducted, though. Perhaps it was a result of even bring up the subect. It seemed as if I landed in my bed with such a thump that the house shook, but that doesn't make sense.
What makes more sense is that there was a mini-earthquake in my local area that woke me up and I had a dream about it all.
A lot of people have these stories. It's hard to believe that they are all made up. My parents saw a UFO around the early 60's. I'll ask them about it again, next time we talk.
They may be a tribe whose function is unknown to us, or undesirable to us, sort of like the Indians upon the arrival of Europeans; fairly helpless and overpowered due to lesser technology.
I think I read one of his books, though, after the fact, so to speak. Seemed like a lot of BS to me. I appreciate your offer for help, though.
Thing is, there AIN'T no help.
Do you have any weird memories? What's the strangest event you've ever encountered?
This would be the case according to scripture.
The soul of the unbeliever descends to the Torments, associated in ancient literature with Hades in the Greek or Sheol on the Hebrew as a deep place or the underworld.
Sheol is the grave - you don't find the immortality of any "souls" within the the Bible. Eternal torments for immortal souls is a pagan concept that has nonethe less found it's way into Christian tradition until every Christian assumes it is so. Careful study of the scripture will show that the "soul" is the entire human, and when the breath of life returns to Him that gave it, the sould ceases to exist, except perhaps in the memory of the most high.
The soul and spirit of the believer today ascends to heaven, face to face with the Lord today in an interim body until the resurrection.
It's a nice thought, but inconsistant with scripture. BTW, where in the Bible is an "interim body" mentioned?
Your language is correct in that we are souls. We are also described as bodies and as reborn in the spirit, in a fashion similar to how God is known to us by three persons, yet they are one God. Anthropologically, the reborn man is composed of body, soul and spirit and while in fellowship with God, we are also indwelt by Him.
Reborn of the Spirit applies to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. There is nothing intrinsically "spiritual" in the human, as humans are not spirits, BUT as living souls, we are the temple for the Holy Spirit. This is the "spiritual nature of man" to know God, love God, and have God (read:Holy Spirit) live within our souls. Man is only "spiritual" in this sense by proxi - the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the soul of the believer.
It wouldn't surprise me if somebody in a position of governmental authority, seeking and maintaining their worldly power structure, believing in an empirical fashion, could easily be deceived by malevolently deceiving demons, identified as merely ET aliens, would study and conclude the contents of the 'secret document' and even further conclude that mankind is not prepared for exposure to such beings, and then conduct occultic conspiracy to avoid any public announcement of the phenomena. The first consequence of stepping out of fellowship with God is a level of arrogance acting independently of Him. All consistent with the entire UFO legend/myth/CT. (IMHO)
We are in complete agreement here.
I am not familiar with your current situations above and beyound what has been posted here, but I would like to point out the Jesus Christ is more than enough to handle your porblem. Evil cannot stand before the Glory of the Most High God. Think on these things, please, before giving up hope.
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ON NOW, HISTORY CHANNEL; UFO PROGRAM RE CATTLE MUTILATIONS
UFO PING LIST PING
I'll try and give some commentary . . .
Linda Mouton Howe investigates a ?Wyoming?
Location surrounded 360 degrees by hills.
Other cattle keeping a far distance.
Cow dead for a week.
One of few in which ears not taken.
Was a large healthy animal. Had given birth to a calf that had grown to 400 lbs.
days of decay and maggot infestation. No organs thrown around as usually happens when scavengers are [busy] about [a carcas].
Jim Hickman--Some people do make a connection with a UFO event. No evidence humans are involved either. And UFO's are sometimes seen at mutilation sites.
Linda M Howe: Does our government have the craft? What's the evidence of what's in the craft doing the mutilations?
How: And when you find that the cow was dropped on her muscles, it is consistent with what observers have seen.
Hickman: Most of the cases that we have found--. . . loss of blood--we don't have the kind of vacuum equipment that can [empty a body of blood--to that degree--way].
Some people say it's genetics. Cattle DNA is very similar to humans.
Suggests that aliens are harvesting bovine biology for some galactic purpose.
Cattle blood can be used in emergencies.
Dr Johnson . . . not aware at all that there's that much similarity between human and bovine blood.
Dr Johnson: Are they that closely related? I don't think so. But I don't know.
Dr Johnson: I've never seen an unexplained mutilation.
HIckman: 30-40 years of mutilations and no case of a human ever seen involved in one of them.
The number of mutilation cases grows and the FBI gets called in.
Howe: FIRST THING he says to me is "I'm going to prove that this is nothing but predators."
commercial break.
They be easy to identify...they'll be in air stream trailers !
CO Senator Floyd Haskell asked gov for help
. . . asking for FBI . . .to investigate.
The Colo Bureau of Investigation got involved in the late 70's because this was their lifelihood and so many cattle were missing.
Farmers were arming themeslves.
They didn't really have an idea what was going on.
[Sorry, I'm not typing the skeptical idiots any more--too idiotic, imho, compared to the facts]
FBI said it didn't come within FBI
Astronaut, Senator Harrison Schmidt
said it did cross State lines . . .
Rommel retired from FBI in May 1979 . . . became in charge of the investigation for the State of NM
Rommel had hundereds of historical cases to investigate.
He was initially pen minded.
Linda Howe: Rommel: I'm there [in his office] to do an interview as a reporter with an investigator for the State of NM.
FIRST THING HE SAID TO ME IS "I'M GOING TO PROVE, THIS IS NOTHING BUT PREDATORS."
. . . he stated . . . I've come to the conclusion that the vast majority of mutilations are caused by scavengers and predators.
The subject transitioned from a rural myth . . .
HOWE: The government . . . doesn't make sense . . . if the CIA, FBI, NSA etc. were involved, they'd just go out and buy the [cattle] they needed and take them to bases and no one would know.
But Linda Howe has seen too many . . .
A shocking new case--Linda investigates . .
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