Posted on 01/22/2004 11:38:48 PM PST by Pro-Bush
Doing business 15.7 light years from Wall Street
By Bloomberg
A galactic mystery hovers over the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland: how many of the 2 280 global leaders, including 31 heads of state, gathered in this Alpine resort conduct business with extraterrestrials?
Last night the influential and affluent had the chance to ask WEF participants such as US vice-president Dick Cheney, Coca-Cola chairman Douglas Daft and De La Rue chief executive Ian Much if the aliens had landed and were collaborating to concoct government policy, brew cool drink and mint Iraq's new banknotes.
"The extraterrestrials have yet to make contact with me," says Much, who helped moderate a dinner seminar on The Conspiracy Behind Conspiracy Theories: Have Extraterrestrials Made Contact with Government Leaders?
He is confident that De La Rue is still the largest non-government printer of banknotes in the Milky Way. "If the aliens are here," Much reckons, "I'd absolutely expect them to call me to have their currency printed."
WEF officials maintain their five-day programme on Partnering for Security and Prosperity requires an examination of extraterrestrial presence on Earth.
"The panelists are the best in their domain. They all have expertise in specific fields," explains Philippe Bourguignon, the forum's co-chief executive and a former boss of Club Mediterranee. "The themes and sessions at Davos reflect the global agenda."
And the public's pulse. A 1996 Gallup poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed the government knew more about UFOs than it had disclosed.
A similar Roper poll found that about 80 percent of those questioned thought Wall Street and Washington were hiding knowledge of extraterrestrial contact. Internet search engine Google has as many Web pages dedicated to UFOs as it does for investment banking.
"It is possible UFOs really do contain aliens, and the government is hushing it up," Cambridge University physicist Stephen Hawking said in 1998.
US President George W Bush's recent call to put a man on Mars before 2030 has swelled investor interest in exotic technologies, last week boosting the Bloomberg aerospace index 1.9 percent.
The WEF dinner last night has sparked anticipation perhaps not seen among UFO analysts since Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released on DVD.
Richard Boylan, a retired professor of behavioural science at the University of California, is widely regarded by ufologists as a specialist in intergalactic mergers and acquisitions.
He says: "The Davos dinner may represent the great leap forward we need to unravel the fact that corporations and governments are doing business with star visitors."
Boylan isn't surprised the forum neglected to invite him and his colleagues to Davos for the first significant, high-level discussion on emerging alien markets.
"I've learned to live with insults," he says. "Billions of dollars have been spent to intimidate witnesses and use the giggle factor to put on a funny farm anyone who suggests corporations have privatised extraterrestrial technology ."
According to Boylan, more than 100 extraterrestrial races are in cahoots with firms that include IBM, Ford Motor, Lucent Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Dow Corning, Monsanto, Boeing and European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Company (EADS).
"Most Earth corporations are working with visitors from the Altair star system," Boylan says, referring to the brightest star in the constellation Aquila, 15.7 light years from Wall Street.
Although Altairian executives were unavailable for comment, François Auque, a managing director at EADS, says he's eager to hear from them. "I'd love to establish links with extraterrestrials," says Auque, one of the businessmen behind the Aurora Project to discover if there's water on Mars.
But "so far, no messages on my cellphone".
Rattling off lists of purported government documents, first-person testimonies and ufological interpretations, Boylan says star visitors have instructed global leaders to publicly reveal the intergalactic mergers by 2007.
Still, he frets that the politicians of Earth won't honour the deal and that last night's WEF conspiracy dinner may be part of the conspiracy. "If all the extraterrestrial technology came out at once," he reasons, "it would hurt stockholders in obsolescent industries, and the multinationals don't want to lose their power."
As Boylan tells it, the extraterrestrials first came to Wall Street in 1947, by way of Roswell, New Mexico. It was that year when US army colonel Philip Corso said he found five aliens at a UFO crash site in the desert.
In his book The Day After Roswell, Corso says he salvaged parts from the downed UFO and managed a government-sponsored programme that decanted the technology to IBM, Bell Labs and Dow Corning.
Boylan says the flotsam of such UFO encounters was used to formulate laser beams, fibreoptics and Microsoft.
Other analysts say the alien knowledge was used to create the management consultant industry. "UFOs are not engaged in open contact with mankind," says Swedish ufologist Bjorn Olav-Kvidal. "They act more like supervisors."
After WEF delegates leave Davos on Sunday, ufologists say the 2004 US presidential campaign will become the best venue to spot extraterrestrial market trends.
In 1999, Stephen Bassett founded the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee. This April, the activist and 2002 independent congressional candidate from Maryland will host the First Annual Exopolitics Expo.
All the Democratic presidential hopefuls have been invited to spell out their positions on UFOs.
"Voters are increasingly willing to confront candidates on the UFO issue," Bassett says. "The government has access to their technology." He should know. In 1996, Bassett registered with the US congress as a lobbyist for extraterrestrial affairs.
Still, he's somewhat sceptical about little green men on Wall Street. "I'm only 30 percent confident that aliens have contractual relationships with major corporations," Bassett says.
Now THAT I can believe.
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