Aliens: You Will Believe

Reports of UFO sightings have increased dramatically over the last few decades. Through a Glass, Darkly proposes that this exponential increase in reported activity is not simply the product of over-active imaginations or practical jokers but rather a deliberate move by aliens in preparation for their eventual direct contact with the human species.

The frenzy over UFOs began in the early part of the last century and peaked in the 1950s during the Space Race with the Soviets, incidentally right after our entrance into the Nuclear Age – a key fact, I believe, in the timing of their appearance. Reported sightings increased dramatically and after many were proven to be hoaxes the conventional wisdom became that all UFO sightings were the work of pranksters or delusional hillbillys – a belief that this publication believes the US Government was more than happy to encourage.

When faced with the circumstance of increasingly frequent and sometimes even direct contact by alien races with ordinary citizens the government must have felt that in order to avoid widespread panic it had to not only find plausible explanations for the sightings but also discredit the individuals involved in the contact to avoid reasonable people from taking it seriously. In that way, the status quo could be maintained and the pandemonium that would erupt if the public became aware of continuous and systematic contact by aliens could be avoided and power preserved.

Despite the Herculean attempts to silence witnesses, discredit testimony, and dismiss reports there has been an incredible amount of documentary evidence of their presence that has eluded dismissal. Following the lights in the night sky in Phoenix in 1997 (shown below) and the popularity of the show The X-Files, there was a renewed interest in uncovering the truth about this phenomenon.

In support of that goal director James Fox assembled credible eye-witnesses from the world over at the National Press Club that included Air Force generals, astronauts, military and commercial pilots, and government (including FAA) officials to tell their stories and challenge the conventional wisdom that all UFO sightings were being made by Bubba in the field. His documentary, “I Know What I Saw” would cause even the most hardened skeptic to consider the evidence.

Additionally, this publication has spoken with individuals who work in top-secret installations who have provided credible testimony about alien technology being reverse-engineered. Perhaps the rapid rate of technological development in the 1950s from which the microchip and manned space-flight resulted can be attributed, in part, to the discovery of an alien craft at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and the reverse-engineering of the systems and construction of that craft.

Note: Compare the following photo of a “Black Triangle” class UFO (a common type) taken over Belgium in 1990 with this UFO on Google-Earth at 30 30'38.82"S 115 22'56.14"E:

So the question arises: If they're already here, why don't they just land on the White House lawn and say, “Take me to you leader”? I think the answer lies in ourselves.

Assuming that an alien species has the technological ability to traverse the mind-boggling distances of space they probably have the ability to watch our TV, too. What would any potential explorers of a foreign land do to predict the natives reaction to their arrival? I would offer that taking a look at their art and their stories would likely give a pretty good indication as to the nature of their response. In this case, considering movies like Independence Day and War of the Worlds, they are right to assume that their arrival would be met with nuclear warheads and F-22 Raptors.

One must assume, though, that an alien race that has the ability to traverse galaxies also has the ability to wreak planetary-scale destruction. To illustrate this, we have that capacity and simply getting to the Moon is a challenge. Operating on the assumption that they have this ability their decision not to use it probably means that their intentions are not harmful. I think it also must be noted that if an alien race has been around long enough and is intelligent enough to traverse the infiniteness of space then they probably have developed a level of consciousness where conquest and destruction no longer hold any attraction.

So then why all the contact? Why all the fly-bys and close encounters of the Third Kind? The answer brings us back to the original proposition: us. I believe the point of the ever-increasing contact is to build the general acceptance of their presence and a degree of comfort that will prevent us from nuking the world when they arrive and allow us to integrate into the Galactic Community peacefully. The appearance of fantastically complex mathematical shapes in fields known as 'crop circles' is, I believe, one of the techniques employed to build that understanding. This process may take centuries. But when the Universe is 14 billion years old and recorded history only extends back 5,000 years, waiting a few hundred more is immaterial. And we can only wonder if the sudden and unexplainable transition from bone-toting caveman to sunglass-wearing, iPhone-toting modern man in the span of a few thousand years was not also the result of a push from the Stars. Considering the vastness of space is it likely that we are truly alone?

In the end, we are left with more questions than answers. Perhaps some of us will live to see the Earth's first contact with the rest of the Galactic Community. In the meantime, all we can do is keep looking up.