When UFOs Arrive

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.

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.

Interesting. But you have yet to explain a single sentence post which could be taken a number of ways. You wrote and said the second one without a clue as to which meaning was first and which second.

Talk about unclear!

And if anyone cares to ask me to elaborate or explain, I'm happy to do so virtually always for earnest, serious folks not out to just harrass me. I'm happy to do it in a thread or via FREEPMAIL.

I know my thought processes are often different from those of the average person. I know I make connections and see patterns where others have hardly seen anything but fog. I know my sentences can often be convoluted and overly complex. But I really do try hard to be understandable and clear. I can only succeed as well as I can. And if someone doesn't ask a question, I can't offer an answer.

FWIW, there's still quite a few Texans who lived in the Lubbock area who witnessed a UFO event near an air base there back in the 50s and experienced car radios and electrical systems fizzling out and even a patrolman whose pistol heated up in its handgrip, but not the chamber.

The event was covered up then, but not to the locals who experienced it and their friends who were also rather devout.

It's funny, those who are the most faithful, tend to be the least 'religious' but open to clearly recognize ETs in convoluted, even deceptive scenarios,..while many who are the most 'religious' are the least faithful in God, and resort to soulish responses to the subject (let alone any experience).

It might be more of an interpretation issue. I understand the references to Christ and to Noah to be highly dependent upon the anthropolgy of man in a tricotomous nature. (body, soul, and spirit). Christ having come in spirit from above, while those he spoke with were soulish or separated from God (the Father) in the Heaven. Noah in reference to a manifestation of his faith of God the Father, as the source for life, even though a sin nature was embedded in Noah from Adam in the fall of the Garden of Eden.

I didn't realize the meaning of Noah's grandfather's name,..interesting. Thank you for the info and nature of the response.

I believe one evidence is recorded in Christ's discussion with Peter in Matthew 16:16. Note Jesus Christ, didn't declare himself to be the Son of God, as such he would have exalted his diety rather than his humanity. Both however were combined in the same person.

After querying Peter, Who saith you, that I am? the response from Peter is that Jesus was the Son of God. To which Jesus then responds that the answer provided didn't come from flesh and blood, but from the Father. The response obviously accepts the answer is true. Granted that truth is perceived by faith, not by any work of man.

Hebrew Interlinear uses the Masoritic Text (sp?).

Question for yourself and Chris, I mainly perform word studies if I touch on Greek or Hebrew, but generally in an English translation.

More recently I've had some dreams in Greek in Hebrew, written words, but I don't understand or know the language. In one of them, the Hebrew characters were written in 3-D and were given as a prayer or as something holy. Have you found a study that references meanings of the characters in the Hebrew alphabet themselves?

The Greek was less formal, words written on a chalkboard in Greek letters, all lower case.

The few word studies I've performed in the NT, the original Koine Greek(some in aramaic) is a magnificient language used to convey explicit meanings. A lot of those meanings are lost in trnaslations, especially in word by word or verse by verse translations to retain explicit direction of action and subject or reference within phrases, while retaining the original flow of thought.

I agree that also understanding Hebrew also provides significant insight in one's continuing walk or metabolized study of Scripture. I'm looking for a good Greek and Hebrew coursework presently.

WRT killing an ET with firearms,...or physically killing them regardless,...much of the testimony given regarding ETs indicates they are spiritual beings.

So if they are an enemy, killing their bodies, might not remove them from man's domain.

If they are demons, then a study of demon possession and influence is significant. Especially if, say, the 'government' led by agnostic officers and a chosen few troops, decide to battle these creatures, they might be getting in way over their heads.

Remember the movie, Independence Day? Had a scene where the President and a General faced the ET in confinement, and a telepathic message was conveyed, horrid to the General. The scene smacked of spiritual assault, implanting an idea into the soul of the man by an angel an apparantly a fallen angel seen as a n "ET".

I recognize the movie was fiction, but lots of sci-fi is used to communicate issues not generally acceptable to the public which is indeed based upon factual reports. A lot of the movie indicated the writers had done a fair amount of homework into ET/UFO studies and testimonials in the literature.

Studies in Scripture indicate a demon might invade to possess the soul of an unbeliever and can also highly influence the soul of a believer who steps away from God.

So if one actually encountered these things, probably the last group of men one would want to deal with them, would be unbelievers or believers who had fallen away from faith in God through Christ.

Additionally, we aren't too sure about their identity and perhaps that is sufficient. They are indeed creatures, so fall under the command of God, regardless, but there's a wide range of possiblilites in that domain. Just like there are crocodiles and puddycats in the domain of creatures we see at the zoo, there may also be a significant domain to the realm of angels.

There are doctrines of embodied angels, fallen and elect, bound and unbound at different times, in heaven, in Tartarus and in th Abyss (abydos)..and doctrines of disembodied spirits as demons.

Simply their removal from a body doesn't imply their non-existence,...any more than removing a crocadile out of the water implies he is any less a threat. It might just piss 'em off a bit and create a tougher situation.

About the boy who was in the underground cages--

I cannot of course be CERTAIN that his parents were not involved in some occult thing, but I doubt it very seriously. My study of the abductee phenomenon indicate that those taken are precisely --

Those who have been OBLIVIOUS to things spiritual, utterly secular and nonreligious, skeptical of any belief systems of any kind, scoffers at anything beyond the material. That is why they are so overwhelmed. NOT occultists, far from it.

But since about 1983 or 84, few males have been taken. He spoke constantly about this Melissa that was caged with him. They were kept naked in the cage most of the time, it seems. No light at all, total blackness. I wish I had asked him what they fed them. He was maybe five seven, one thirty. He was sure they would keep HER for life and never let her go, and yes, they were being held for breeding purposes, as a FReepmailer asks. I had the impression MANY females were in the cages, but he said he was the only guy there as far as he knew, maybe one or two others but just for a few days.

This poor boy was both slight and scrawny built, and very blond, just exactly the type the aliens are said to favor.
I would say he was about 19 years of age. His clothes were filthy and grungy, the ones he had had on when taken which he thought was 6 or 8 months before. The UFO had let him out in shallow water down by the harbor just before dawn, and when the sun came up he could not stand the light. His blond hair was down almost to his shoulders and was filthy and matted. He had found an old blanket down there where they left him, and had rolled up in that till dawn, and was still carrying that dirty old thing as though it were precious.

About 3 young girls were out there and were the first to come upon him, and then I came up. The girls were terribly shaken by his tale. I tried to say what I could about the Bible [Ps 74:20 as I said...] and that I fully believed what he was saying... he was NOT crazy. I had the impression that he had no religious training, he seemed barely aware what the Bible was. But he was quite smart, just not properly raised. From what he said I had the impression his parents might have been "poor white trailer trash," but do they HAVE that in California? Actually come to think of it, IIRC he was FROM the "Antelope Valley," but his parents were in Nevada or Arizona now, a mother and stepfather, you know how it is.

I don't have such refs. But I have a conviction that the folks at BIBLECODESDIGEST.COM--let me check the link . . .

This link:

http://biblecodedigest.com/page.php/218

These folks should be able to point you to resources. They have some real hotshots in their group and that they have connections to.

Great that you are writing the dreams down and that you CAN do so!

PLEASE LET US KNOW THE TRANSLATIONS! Christ could probably give you translations. I assume you could email a Greek and Hebrew email to him. Ask him.

Bless you in your spiritual adventure!

I just got an email that the staid, starchy, conventional community church in Taipei--Taipei International Church--had a very unexpected and unscheduled move and touch of Holy Spirit at the end of a youth presentation of the Gospel from Genesis through to the Crucifixion. Not a dry eye in the place. Sounds like the predictions of God moving in His Body in a new way this year are starting to take off. That church was cold and starchy enough at some points, they could have sold the ice.

Anyway--am very interested in what you come up with. Please ping me.

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