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When UFOs Arrive
www.popularmechanics.com ^ | February 2004 | BY JIM WILSON

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.


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To: Quix
Many Christians want to simply say this is all of the devil, and leave it alone.

I agree that nearly all aliens seem inimical or at best coldly indifferent to human emotion and suffering, just about like Liberal politicians, they don't care how much grief PEOPLE suffer, LITTLE people, just so every Volvo driving college professor has his own private virgin wilderness.

Really, of course, that [wilderness thing] is part of the ET agenda. It gives the devils lots of space in which to operate free of human interference.
961 posted on 02/18/2004 8:21:06 AM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
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To: Quix
Connected? LOL! Look again at post #910, my friend. It is the technique of the Evil One to make a partially correct statement which is mostly a lie ... it is the human race that is bringing about the destructive changes ... religions that perceive the Almighty as THE ONE we answer to are to be dismissed as dangerous and counter productive to human advancement! And the wily ones who hold themselves above 'it all' will be cared for by ET! Does 'You shall not surely die' sound familiar? But die they did, in spirit that very day ...
962 posted on 02/18/2004 8:28:02 AM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Chris Talk
I liked the time when two crop circles appeared (August 2001?) right at the observatory in England, and one of which gave a man's picture, perhaps the Maximo Leader of an alien dictatorship, and the other a detailed response to our Arecibo message sent in the early 70's, which told where they were and what their size was etc in response to our encoded message to Them.

Really!?!? It's gotta be college kids with boards and ropes though, huh?

963 posted on 02/18/2004 8:32:43 AM PST by realpatriot71 ("But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise . . ." (I Cor. 1:27))
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To: Chris Talk
Really, of course, that [wilderness thing] is part of the ET agenda. It gives the devils lots of space in which to operate free of human interference.

Do you think that this is the reason that most of the SW is either Native american reservation or government property? Hell, almost all of the desert in California around where I live is military property, or national park. Hmmmm, T. Roosevelt started the nat'l park system. Think he knew, or did it just work out that way?

964 posted on 02/18/2004 8:36:42 AM PST by realpatriot71 ("But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise . . ." (I Cor. 1:27))
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To: Chris Talk
You are just trying to shout us down, and make us shut up just by your sheer prejudice and nastiness. But we are not going to.

Wrong-o, Kimosabe. I'm trying to reason with you, and do so while maintaining my sense of humor over a very troubling situation.

I know more about this crap than you think. Probably more about it than you know.

I do not enjoy watching innocent people getting sucked into UFOnut nonsense and getting their lives, their minds, and, their finances ravaged.

You're not going to shut up? That's fine. Neither am I.

Or are YOU gonna try to shut ME up?

965 posted on 02/18/2004 9:55:10 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: biblewonk
We need more of you on the FR.

Well, thanks. The cultists don't seem to share your sentiments though, surprise surprise. Oh, well. :)

966 posted on 02/18/2004 9:56:29 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Don Joe
I've certainly learned a lot about "conservatives" here. A lot of what I've learned has shown me that I'm not a conservative, just a fundy.
967 posted on 02/18/2004 9:58:12 AM PST by biblewonk (I must try to answer all bible questions.)
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To: Quix
It doesn't matter that much to me whether this particular piece is a hoax or not.

Well, so much for that "try the spirits" and "hold fast to that which is true" nonsense, eh?

You don't care if it's a hoax, you'll still defend it. OK, thanks for being honest about it.

SOMETHING of that ilk IS coming down the pike in our lifetime.

Oh, dang, now you're lapsing into cultspeak. Please spare the ex cathedra space brothers declarations, OK?

You may believe this nonsense. Many do. You'd be surprised at some of the things people believe. I couldn't print half of 'em, I'd get kicked off by standards and practices department if I did. But, people believe it.

But, just because you decide to believe in some UFO-cult mindwrap, does not give you standing to declare it -- nay, YELL IT -- as rock solid truth.

You do yourself, and your credibility no favor by doing so, by the way.

I don't expect vast portions of society to have much of a clue at this point.

LOL! Neither do I. But I think we're kinda speaking different languages here.

All that can be shaken WILL BE SHAKEN including our centuries old constructions on reality itself.

I think your wallet's gonna be in for a good shakin' if ol' Buddddd Hopkins, Bob "Whorehouse" Lazar, John "Fly Me" Lear, and Dick "Hot Tub" Boylan and the rest of the crew are get a crack at it.

Like I said, I know more about this crap than you'd suspect. Don't understand me too soon. And don't try to intimidate me!

968 posted on 02/18/2004 10:07:49 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Quix
Beefstake mushrooms????

That's something I'm clueless about. What on earth are they?

They are mushrooms, that grow on the earth.

People eat them, and they're slowly poisoned, because they contain hydrazine, a type of rocket fuel. Didn't you click the link I provided?

Beefsteak mushrooms are a good metaphor for UFOlogy. Seems tasty at first, and the poison takes effect so slowly, that you never even notice it. But, it's cumulative, and devastating. The rocket fuel aspect is just a bit of divine irony, IMO.

969 posted on 02/18/2004 10:10:50 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Quix
I would expect such an area of "reality," whatever that is, to be strewn with hucksters, marginal troubled freaks on the fringes of society . . . as well as clever, effective, dilligent disinformation specialists aplenty. I'd think it would be rather odd and very unusual to be otherwise.

I've seen most of 'em quoted in this thread, heralded as prophets, in fact, in not so many words.

And if you fail to see or understand the handwriting on the wall about the world government, then perhaps you need braille lessons or really are on the wrong forum. DU has one that might be more to your sensibilities.

When all else fails, take a cheap shot at me. Beautiful, just beautiful. DU for me, eh? How sweet of you. May I reciprocate? Here, allow me to try: Are you gay?

There, we're even now. I hope it was as good for you as it was for me.

And if you are aware of the push, even the rush toward a world government but think it can be prevented or won't be that much of a bother . . . I suggest you smoke something else.

And another cheap shot! Tres drole!

What would you suggest I smoke? I definitely don't want any of what you're inhaling, that's for sure!

The Bible says men's hearts will fail them for fear.

It's not "fear" I'm experiencing as I read this thread, and see innocent people getting sucked into a world of hucksters, cults, and worse. It's disgust.

Gee, seems like my bible mentions something about those sort of folks too. Does yours?

Having studied a wide diversity of stuff for more than 45 years that might remotely have some connection with Biblical Prophecy . . . I no longer have the convenient or inconvenient luxury of believing life the rest of my years will go on more or less as it always has.

As I said, don't understand me too soon. You might recognize my name. I've been around. Spoken at many churches. Conducted many a deliverance session. Been interviewed on a few television shows, including a regional edition of the 700 Club (and that ought to date me, since they haven't had those in maybe 30 years or so).

And the hand-in-glove fit to so much of Scriptural prophecy only adds to the weight of acceptance of reality in our era as all cocked for massive, reality bending change.

Scripture is pretty blunt about not trying to understand evil. You're poking at the edge of the margins, and if you burst through to the other side... well, you don't want to go there.

Rail and rant dismissively if it helps you sleep better.

Thanks, but no thanks. I won't share your prescription. It's a personal thing of mine.

hope you don't end up like the scientists at Edwards when Ike was exposed to the ET phenomenon. Some may still be wearing their straight jackets.

Oh good grief, right back to The Gospel According to Saint Whorehouse Lazar.

Mercy!

970 posted on 02/18/2004 10:23:34 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Quix
This shrink disagrees with your analysis.

Ooooh, a shrink!

Are you a licensed psychologist? Full license, or restricted? Or are you just a "QMHP" who enjoys waving the "shrink" word around to impress people?

Gee, wasn't good ol' Dick "Hot Tub" Boylan a licensed psychologist? Well, so much for that label impressing anyone. Dang, and you were so close...

PS: I didn't give an "analysis". I gave a lay opinion, and urged the person to consult with her physician. I didn't notice anyone else urging her to seek medical help. If you are a psychologist, does your state have laws that penalize licensed professionals who discourage people with conditions that trouble them from seeing medical assistance from their physicians?

You might want to tread carefully, when other folks' health is at stake. I'd hate to see you end up like ol' Hot Tub, after all.

971 posted on 02/18/2004 10:30:01 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Chris Talk
and surely making a kind of joke to the abductee woman...

1. I saw no "abuctee woman"

2. I saw someone who might, in my lay opinion, benefit from available medical assistance, and I urged her to seek it from her MD, just as I'd urge someone with migraines to seek help from their MD, rather than self-treat by submitting to witchdoctors and fortunetellers.

You got a problem with that? If so, it says something about you.

972 posted on 02/18/2004 10:33:19 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Chris Talk
somehow are trying to make MONEY by so doing. A lot more money could be made by a minimum wage job at Wal Mart, and with a lot less IQ and qualifications and research skills.

Oh, right. Lazar, Boylan, Lear, and the rest are pure as the driven snow. They'd never try to make money off of people who get suckered into their yarns!

Does the writer imagine that any of us on here have ever made one cent out of the UFO thing? Instead, it has COST a few hundred bucks every year or two, maybe, for books and other research materials, travel, etc.

Did I say you were a huckster? No. You go around promoting hucksters, sure. But I never suggested that you're one yourself. No, I don't believe you're a huckster. I see you as a sucker -- a sucker with a mission.

973 posted on 02/18/2004 10:36:32 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: realpatriot71
I'm still interested/curious in your throughts per reply #818

I think you know what you've got. You performed a classic "test the spirits" exercise, and got the predictable results.

974 posted on 02/18/2004 10:38:15 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: realpatriot71
I am not familiar with these folks - I may give them a google.

A former good friend of mine got suckered into 'em. The most "family-friendly" description I can give of what happened is that he made a shipwreck of his salvation. He also talked like you-know-who, but this was before the days of Whorehouse Lazar, Hot-Tub Boylan, Lear "and Loathing", Buddddd, and the rest of the bigtime Pro Ufologists hit the scene, so he had to use a different terminology. Same lies, different veneer.

975 posted on 02/18/2004 10:42:42 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: realpatriot71
What, if any significance, can we ascribe to this phenomenon? Most, especially those showing up in the UK are WAY to intricate and mathematically complicated to have been put together by a bunch of idiot college kids with boards and ropes. They're obviously from an "intelligence" but what is the significance?

I hate to say this, but they've been so thoroughly debunked that it's painful to see anyone think they're anything besides the pranks they are.

976 posted on 02/18/2004 10:45:07 AM PST by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Don Joe
I think you know what you've got. You performed a classic "test the spirits" exercise, and got the predictable results.

It appears that way . . .

977 posted on 02/18/2004 11:02:39 AM PST by realpatriot71 ("But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise . . ." (I Cor. 1:27))
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To: Don Joe
I hate to say this, but they've been so thoroughly debunked that it's painful to see anyone think they're anything besides the pranks they are.

Actually, you are wrong on this regard. One can easily document a handful of cases to people carrying out a hoax. However, while one can explain how a human could create such, it has been demonstratably obvious that it would be rather impossible to put together such in a single night using only simple tools and handful of conspirators, such as would have to happen in order to explain said circles. A "rational explanation" is not the end of the phenomena. Crop circles are a sign of intelligence, but not human in origin.

978 posted on 02/18/2004 11:17:26 AM PST by realpatriot71 ("But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise . . ." (I Cor. 1:27))
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To: Don Joe
I only mentioned a few sources under serious inquiry here, after they demanded I produce some reading matter.

If I would trim my sails to YOUR demands, I would have to stand everybody up and refuse to mention any possible reading matter. In suggesting they might read these sources to see what is OUT there, I never suggested I endorse or agree with those sources.

I think you are a sucker too; I will return the compliment. Your are a sucker for the debunkers who refuse to see what is in front of all of our noses.
979 posted on 02/18/2004 12:01:22 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
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To: Don Joe
I do wish that those who think there is nothing TO a subject, would just skip over and not enter the thread, which is what EYE do, if I see such.

But I am much too old and wise to think you debunkers will ever let us be. In the end, you will have us arrested and killed. You would do it now, if you could.
980 posted on 02/18/2004 12:06:54 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
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