Aliens?   by Robert Bruce Baird

`The possibility of a purely psychological explanation is illusory, for a large number of observations point to a natural phenomenon, or even a physical one - for instance, those explicable by reflections from `temperature inversions` in the atmosphere. Despite its contradictory statements, the American Air Force, as well as the Canadian, considers the sightings to be `real`, and have set up special bureaus to collect the reports. The `disks`, however, the objects themselves, do not behave in accordance with physical laws but as though they were weightless, and they show signs of INTELLIGENT GUIDANCE such as would suggest quasi-human pilots. Yet the accelerations are so tremendous that no human being could survive them.`


-from Carl Jung, FLYING SAUCERS

Popular Mechanics from May, 2001 has a cover story that`ll make you wonder.


`WHEN UFOs LAND


At long last, scientists have their hands on the proof skeptics say doesn`t exist--physical evidence of flying saucers.


*****The rich really are different. When Laurence S. Rockefeller--yes, those Rockefellers--wanted to know more about UFOs, he didn`t have to satisfy his curiosity at alien-hunters` Web sites or in the Weird Science section of Barnes & Noble. He asked Peter A Sturrock, the former director of the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics at Stanford University, to convene a private meeting of a dozen top scientists at the Pocantico Conference Center, on the grounds of the old Rockefeller family estate 20 miles north of Manhattan. Sturrock`s guest list and agenda was noteworthy for its omissions. Bob Lazar, who claimed to have reverse-engineered UFOs at Area 5l, wasn`t invited. Neither was alien-buster Philip J. Klass of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Roswell, the `face` on Mars and other familiar sightings got little attention. Instead, researchers from Princeton University, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Center for Space Research in France focused on cases with more meat on their bones--sightings in which physical evidence was left behind. `While their findings were not conclusive. I hope (they) will raise the level of the debate.` Rockefeller said afterward.

‘Ask most scientists -what they think of the UFO enigma and you will almost certainly get a scoff and a brushoff like, `There`s not one shred of evidence,` says Bernard Raisch, an astronomer with more than 100 scientific publications to his credit. `That answer is simply not true. The problem is that this evidence does not follow our expected scientific logic, and so scientists dismiss what is, in fact a large number of accounts. Many sighting reports {Including Jimmy Carter.}, as absurd as they sometimes appear, are probably real. Most professional scientists never bother to look at the evidence. Instead, the dogmatic dismissals by professional debunkers, which are often patently ridiculous, are simply taken at face value.`

As you will see for yourself, some of the cases discussed at Pocantico are difficult for even die-hard skeptics to ignore.





In 1957, a UFO reportedly exploded after hitting the water near the town of Ubatuba, Brazil. Metallic debris collected by a physician, turned out to be composed of an extremely high grade of magnesium.

Recently declassified documents explain what it might have been. During the 1960s, the U. S. Air Force experimented with electrostatic drives. In theory, lift and propulsion can be created by imparting airframes with an electric charge that matches, and therefore repels, the surrounding air. Such an aircraft would require enormous amounts of electric power, and the Air Force seemed to know how to create it. Other declassified documents reveal the Air Force had built compact nuclear reactors small enough to fly on an aircraft. It had also experimented with a device known as a magnetohydrodynamic generator (MHD) to extract large amounts of electricity from a fast-moving stream of molten metal. Engineers familiar with such systems say that if MHD units were to become unstable, some of the metal circulating in the unit would have to be ejected.

UFO investigators sent a portion of the Ubatuba material to the Air Force for analysis. It was `accidentally` destroyed before tests could be completed. (Insets: A sample of the Ubatuba debris examined under microscope revealed a higher level of purity than occurs in nature.)

POLICE CRUISER BLACKOUT


Luis Delgado was a 28-year-old patrolman for the Haines City, Fla., police department when he became part of one of the most compelling UFO sightings. It happened about 3:50 am, on March 19, 1992. Delgado noticed a rapidly descending green light in his rearview mirror as he drove down a street alongside a citrus grove. The light seemed to keep pace with his cruiser, until he slowed down. Then the silent dome-shaped object flew overhead, filling his police cruiser with a brilliant green glow. He pulled to a stop, and the power in his vehicle went dead. For the next several minutes he stood outside his car watching the 15-ft.-wide craft hover silently in front of him. It seemed to float about 10 ft. off the ground; cooling the surrounding air to the point at which it formed a foggy mist {Tesla unified force field and extraction of earth energy?}. Then, just as quickly as it appeared, it sped away. Delgado returned to his car, and found the electrical system was again operating.

’The scientific panel was very impressed by cases in which electrical equipment was disrupted,` says Michael D. Swords, of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. A conference participant at Pocantico, Swords told POPULAR MECHANICS that this type of encounter is far more common than most people realize. UFO investigator Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago told the conference at Pocantico that over the past 50 years more than 500 similar reports had been filed. What distinguishes the Delgado sighting is the inherent credibility of the observer. As a police officer, Delgado had nothing to gain--and possibly a great deal to lose--by coming forward with his account.

TRANS-EN-PROVENCE


For UFO investigators, the most disappointing aspect of the Delgado sighting isn`t the absence of evidence, but the way evidence has been allowed to simply disappear through neglect. Samples of the nearby road and vegetation were never collected. No radiation measurements of the area were made.

UFO researchers in France take the scientific investigations of unexplained aerial phenomena more seriously than those in the United States. The Center for Space Research, France`s counterpart to NASA, even has a team that swings into action when these types of events occur. The team is called GEPAN, after the French acronym for Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study Group.

GEPAN investigator Jean-Jacques Velasco told the Pocantico conference the details of what is perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time, the Trans-en-Provence incident.

Renato Nicolai didn`t think he had seen a UFO, but instead a secret military aircraft that had strayed from its test site. A contractor who had for about two years when the episode occurred on Jan. 8, 1981, Nicolai was working on his terrace in the late afternoon when he heard a faint whistling. In the distance he saw a lead-coloured object, about 5 ft. high, a bit wider in diameter, and shaped like a pair of inverted bowls, fall from the sky. It came to a floating stop about 6 ft. above the ground. For the next half-minute he observed the object, and then watched it rise into the sky, creating a small trail of dust. `When my wife came home in the evening, I told her what I had seen,` he said in his official report. `My wife thought I was joking.` The following morning, he showed her where it had hovered and the two of them spotted circular traces it had left in the ground {Photos included.}. Neighbors suggested they tell the police. Through the police, word reached GEPAN, which routinely checks to see whether such sightings are of a military activity or an aircraft. When both were rules out, GEPAN interviewed Nicolai and collected soil from the area where the object had reportedly hovered. The mystery only deepened. There was black material mixed with the soil, but chemical analysis ruled out combustion residue, oil or concrete. Later analyses showed the soil had been contaminated with traces of metal, and the surrounding vegetation showed subtle damage.

Something happened in Trans-en-Provence, but to this day no one is certain of what that was.

METAL RAIN


... says Jacques F. Vallee... in detailing the episode. When onlookers arrived at the impact point on a small levee, they found a 4-in.-thick mass of molten, red-orange metal covering the frozen ground, about 16 ft. from the road. The metal mass was still glowing 15 minutes later when Mike Moore`s father, assistant fire chief Jack Moore, arrived.

After the metal had cooled, Robert Allen, a local astronomer, collected samples. Part of the roughly 40-pound slab went to the U.S. Air Force`s Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. A portion also went to the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University. The Air Force never made its analysis public, but in a letter assured local authorities that `re-entering spacecraft debris does not impact the earth`s surface in a molten state.` In his report, Ames Laboratory director Robert S. Hansen ruled out a meteor.

... The Council Bluffs episode was not unique. At the Pocantico conference, Vallee said that in at least nine other sightings, aerial objects in distress were accompanied by the ejection of molten metal. `Reports of unusual metallic residue following the observation of an unexplained aerial phenomenon are detailed enough for a comparative study to be undertaken.`

TRUE SKEPTICS NEEDED


Bernard Haisch, a former Lockheed scientist who had served on the Rockefeller panel in 1997, believes it is time for the scientific community to become more skeptical in the truest sense of the word. `We need to be skeptical of both the believers and the scoffers,` he told PM during a visit to the California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Palo Alto, Calif., where he is currently director. To this end, Haisch recently created www.ufoskeptic.org. The Web site encourages mainstream scientists to reconsider the UFO phenomenon in light of recent advances in physics, such as superstring and M-brane theories, which postulate the existence of multidimensional space. `I`ve learned quite a bit about the UFO phenomenon over the years, certainly more than I bargained for. UFO sightings are not limited to farmers in backward rural areas. There are astronomers, and pilots and NASA engineers, who have witnessed events for which there is no plausible conventional explanation.`` (3)

The important thing about this article is not the content but the publication itself. This is not `UFO Magazine`: this is a conservative factual publication with an excellent track record of telling the facts. We wonder about the honesty or what is being called transparency in other areas. Is there any reason to believe anything you hear from a government that creates massive schemes to deny the facts and counter-counter contingencies to maintain existing lies? The Congressional hearings on Roswell or the JFK assassination are fine examples. How can the `one bullet theory` still be supported? The current Bush administration is committed to another SDI gambit and they talk about rogue states such as Korea launching missiles. Dr Wright of the Center for Concerned Scientists from MIT acts as an apparent decent `foil` when he points out the threat of such ballistic missiles is unrealistic. The Koreans would deliver their weapons by ship and assemble it like the Iranians in a city of their choice.

I think the threats of nuclear weapons are minimal when compared to the ability to foul-up the power grid and blow up refineries and the like from a computer anywhere in the world. The really scary thing that we have seen in a `60 Minutes` program in 2000 is the fact that an individual accessed the super secret Cheyenne Mountain military installation from a laptop computer. Thus the nuclear weapons can be turned upon the builders themselves. Far more dangerous than nuclear is the biologics or germ warfare. We have dealt with the matter of laser diffusion and targeting in the words of Dr. Robins the solid state chemist/inventor. He correctly states the only way to make these SDI technological missile shields is through X-Ray lattices with more concentrated beams. There are probably things we aren`t being told. Why spend all this money? Is there a rogue alien group who actually might invade through space without time or ultra light speed technology? Is it possible that the missile shields are going to use lasers to protect the government in case of a citizen revolt when they mount another coup d`etat such as they did in the JFK situation? The aliens appear to have more advanced technology that might be able to cloak their equipment such as the U.S. was attempting in the USS Eldridge.

I doubt Korea or aliens are the intended targets. The Russians were never likely to mount a nuclear attack. If you want to wipe out all life on earth there are airborne biologics. The question should be (in every citizens` mind) when will they tell us whether their underground shelters and nuclear subs are able to filter the air against these real and horrific threats? If they are safe to wage war without a threat to their family and friends, then WE are the only ones at risk! The Swiss government has cities built inside mountains to house all their people.

If a simple analogy might do the trick, let me draw a small illustration. If you had a person in your life that lied to you all the time would you trust them? When the U.S. taps in to Canada`s secret computer net in order to make better trade deals or when they have leaders who frame `patsies` for the benefit of creating stories to make their citizens buy some confusing array of lies why believe them? Is there not a real need to expose their own secret agencies and rogue elements?