TheUFORegister

Is Full UFO Disclosure Advisable?

2006-11-28T06:19:00.000-08:00

UFO investigators and researchers have a burning desire not only to educate the public about UFOs, but also point out the importance of being ready just in case "it" really happens. The "it" being contact from intelligent beings not of this world.

Just as scientists and military hardware personnel struggle to have an adequate response to a large meteor heading straight to Earth, Ufologists attempt to involve the powers to be in being ready just in case an intelligent race of aliens from another planet did decide to make themselves known to the populace of Earth.

Science, at this time, just won't involve themselves in this possibility. And, if the military is considering the possibility, they are not telling us about it.

The public has a right to know what the government knows about UFOs, and should reinitiate their research on the subject, and release more top-secret documents to the general public. If the citizenship of America can handle issues as delicate and controversial as war on foreign soil, and the loss of our young men and women, we can handle the truth about UFOs. Top government officials, including science advisors, stand hard against public disclosure, and view the UFO mystery as a frivolous matter.

Today, even though the government has ended funding for the original SETI project, this endeavor is important enough to be driven by private donations from interested, generous individuals. It is an important paradox that so many private citizens feel that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is important enough to open their wallets to its cause, and yet the government will not match their enthusiasm. At least, this is the official stand. But who knows what really goes on at top secret installations like Area 51, and others. It is a proven fact that a number of top secret aircraft had their birth there, so why not also house the important task of contacting other worlds with intelligent beings there also? Or, is this already the case?

Officially, the United States Air Force discontinued its Project Blue Book in 1969, citing the reason that UFOs did not present any threat to national security. This statement was taken by many to mean that there was nothing to the many, well documented cases of UFO sightings. Most of them could easily be explained by everyday means. Although the Air Force did have a small number of "unexplained" cases, their reasons for scrapping the entire project was only that no security issues were at stake. This, in itself, may mean only that; this does not necessarily mean that there is nothing to UFOs at all. Many documents exist today, still hidden under the veil of national security, that hold evidence that only a small group of elite, well chosen individuals have seen. These highly select individuals are a modern version of Majestic 12, and other similar groups that have had this information passed down to them through the years.

How important are these files? What mysterious secrets are kept under deep guard?

Those who claim that the lack of evidence for the reality of UFOs dictates a total disregard of the subject, are taking a great risk. If there is a clandestine operation for preparation for the landing of a UFO in public view, who should know? Is this issue so sensitive that only a handful of top rate scientists and researchers should hold this evidence to themselves? Should the fate of so many be put in the hands of so few?

If an extraterrestrial intelligence did contact the government of the United States, what would be the course of action? And can we be so arrogant to believe that the United States would be their target?

Maybe they would contact another country or countries, or possibly follow the script of "The Day the Earth Stood Still," and desire a forum of leaders of all countries of Planet Earth. Should this happen, we would disappoint them for certain. Could there be at present, a joint effort among countries of the world to resolve issues dealing with contact?

Many individuals and groups picket for an open release of all documents and secrets kept by our government dealing with UFO and Alien contact. How much should we know? Maybe not everything, but at least let us in on part of what is happening with this critical issue.

Admittedly, there is information that should be kept from public knowledge, but we the citizens of this country have a right to know at least that contact has been made, and whether or not this contact has any negative implications. If there is cause for concern, we have a right to know.

The results of the airing of the 1939 radio hoax by Orson Welles, "War of the Worlds," cannot be forgotten. It must be remembered, however, that the cause of the panic that night was the fact that what was announced came without any warning or foreknowledge. The citizens of all countries deserve some knowledge of what is happening in this area of investigation.

Although there may be some panic among our citizens upon a "first contact" announcement, if some representative citizens were allowed to be involved in the behind the scenes workings of our government in this area, some knowledge could be imparted to the "everyday" person, which would allay some public fear inherent with this possible earth shaking event.

The opinion to withhold information from the general public is based on the following viewpoint.

We know that it a fact that all men were not created equal. This is not to demean, but to make a very important point. All individuals have certain talents and abilities; some in one area, and some in another.

That being said, it is noteworthy to stress that an average, everyday citizen cannot be involved with national security issues, and sensitive government secrets belong in the hands of only those who have the education and experience to make decisions for all citizens based on events as they happen. Think what may have happened if there was public knowledge of "little boy" before the Enola Gay dropped its payload on Hiroshima, which began the end for Japan in World War II. It's like they say, "loose lips sink ships."

Most definitely, if the government is holding the secrets of alien contact, great restraint should be taken before sharing this knowledge with anyone not qualified to intelligently deal with all of its implications.

The deep secrets of UFO and Alien contact belong right where they are today, in the hands of a small, well qualified group of chosen officials. The citizenry does not need to know everything. The government is sworn to protect its citizens, and this can best be accomplished by deciding what stays under lock and key, and what is offered for public consumption.

This attitude is exactly why there is such a distinction between having a government "for the people," and a government "by the people." We have given everything we have for our country, and have an inalienable right to know the truth. Let us have it, we'll find a way to deal with it. Listen to us, "we the people."

American Chronicle

UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973

People Are Strange: Unusual UFO Cults Examined

2006-11-24T04:56:00.000-08:00

Small armed groups defying the government are nothing new - one just has to look at Israel's mighty Masada fortress to be reminded of this. The Nineties had their share of armed resistance, most notably the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents. But in these cases the common denominator was mistrust of the Federal government and the desire to defend to the death a particular set of beliefs. As Scott Corrales suggests, had the following case been made widely known, a UFO factor might have been added into the mix.

In mid-June 1997, the UFOR mailing list posted an item that remains shrouded in mystery. The list's owner, Francisco Lopez, did his level best to glean further information on the subject even many months later, when I pressed him for assistance in writing the kernel of what would many years later become this article. But it was no use. In the age of the Internet, that hall of mirrors in which people can appear and disappear with impunity by changing e-mail accounts and assuming different names (and even identities), the source was well out of reach. The posted item may indeed prove someday to have been a compelling hoax, but there are certain details about it that have a ring of truth about them.

The narration begins in medias res, in the best tradition of classic epics: "... I want to get the whole of the information first, and then release it, rather than just parts," begins its author. "Also, I need to edit out certain portions. Certain information does not need to be released to the public. In some cases the less they know, the better; it allowed us to work with fewer interruptions." He or she then adds, with chilling effect: "You should never be in the company of one with whom you would not wish to die."

This ominous opening would have soared to new heights were it not for the fact that the names and places mentioned in the message were redacted with a series of asterisks. The author, a man or woman with a military or law enforcement background, had participated in the raid of a compound which involved live arms fire in which "all brass was accounted for." The compound, a privately owned skiing or hunting lodge, was then gutted and made to look abandoned by the government forces involved.

"As little evidence as possible was left," states the cryptic author after indicating that a nameless group had been disbanded. "Only Terran humans were found, no XTs or Greys."

This assertion might well relegate the unknown writer to the lunatic fringe, since belief and/or concern of the alleged alien Greys has waned in recent years. The message goes on to talk of how the "cult" in question had cooperated with a number of individuals over an unspecified number of years in the acquisition of "breeder semen from sperm banks" and from unsuspecting human males drawn into certain situations, only to be drugged and subjected to the removal of such a fluid with a syringe. It was then "flash-frozen by use of a portable D-flask of liquid nitrogen, to be stored at a central location," according to the author.

A spec script for the X-Files or a description of a real event? The author continues:

"They used a group of "renegade" (omitted) as aids (sic) and "technical support," with a high priestess working closely with the upper echelons of the (omitted). It appears that, despite the usual (omitted) beliefs, this priestess and her companions were heretics, if such a term can be applied to (omitted) at all."

The cult mentioned in this mind-bending message appeared to be quite deft with the use of weapons, and a veritable arsenal of high-power rifles, shotguns and combat weapons, including "an HK-91 sniper rifle... a Steyr AUG Selective Fire Conversion, and a US Army M60, with about 7000 rounds of .30 cal ammunition... over fifty hand grenades, including explosive, flash, incendiary and smoke... 180 kilos of Czech plastique explosive and over a hundred military squibbs (detonators)," are mentioned in the text. It is a supreme irony that this arsenal of death should prove comfortingly familiar within such a high-strangeness context.

The allegations continue: the cult members were in contact with a human group claiming to act on behalf of the "Greys" and capable of projecting images of the entities from opaque, vitreous cubes. Although the author professes being unable to examine this information for him/herself, the putative alien messages appear to have been linked with clandestine UFO landings. "Techniques have been used to confirm that at least one incident took place during May of 1995, but nothing further could be determined."

Many UFOR subscribers read this message and many, upon reading this article, may question the wisdom of reprinting more unconfirmed UFO-related speculation. One guesses that the entire operation may have been a huge "psy-ops" exercise involving live fire, good guys and "bad guys," with the entire alien scenario thrown in for good measure or even as a "sickener" factor for the trainees.

"He Died Like a Space Commander"
The alien action/adventure story posted to UFOR smacked more of science fiction than of Sigma Draconis until Argentinean researcher Andrea Perez Simondini - widely known in her country for her contributions to the study of UFO incidents along with her mother Sylvia, as well as for being an active political figure - forwarded a real-life account of a situation which, at first blush, hauntingly echoed the one scenario posted to UFOR.

"The mystery of the Radar 1 group has finally been solved," noted Andrea in her letter. A contactee cult known as ASHTAR had apparently spawned a disturbed group of paramilitary types, led by one Guillermo Romeu, who assumed the name "Radar 1."

The offshoot organization appeared to have been much more successful than its parent in gaining a following and making itself known. Romeu and his acolytes had access to the best technology and were not afraid to employ it: from their headquarters at 269 Wernicke in the village of Boulougne, Buenos Aires province, "Radar 1" (publicly known as Iglesia Manantial, the Wellspring Church) broadcast its own brand of ufolatry over the FM airwaves. Their station boasted a recording studio with three consoles and mixing board for special effects, eight computers (whose hard drives had been erased prior to the raid by Argentinean authorities on January 12, 1998 and Romeu's death by self-inflicted gunshot) and the same ominous arsenal as the improbable cult mentioned on the UFOR list: one surface-to-air missile, bullets of various calibers, gas masks, incendiary bombs, tear gas, Israeli-made Desert Eagle.50 caliber antiaircraft handguns (sic) of the kind used during the Gulf War, an approach radar, chemical sample analysis equipment, radiation, electromagnetic, electrostatic and heat detectors, etc. All of this gear was stored in a Bronco 4 x 4, which they would use for alleged field research.

Simondini's letter explained that all of this lethal and non-lethal hardware had been paid for partly by the 400 to 4000 peso contributions of the cult's membership and its affiliates. "We strongly believe," she wrote, "that the sect is a facade and there exists a cover-up concerning the weaponry."

Just who was this Guillermo Romeu? An electrician and occasional private pilot, he had joined a contactee study group directed by former UFO researcher Pedro Romaniuk before being expelled a year and a half later. It was during this time that the new cult was spawned, preaching messages received from the ubiquitous space brother known as Commander Ashtar Sheran concerning the "extraterrestrial evacuation plan." In a clever move, the cult leader insisted on the group being widely known as Iglesia Manantial in order to draw recruits from a large membership pool composed by Pentecostal worshippers from other churches.

Guillermo Romeu claimed that his extensive offensive capabilities, gathered since 1991, were devoted to a single purpose: defense against the alien Greys, whom he characterized as "extremely hostile and [who] are using us as a source of food." Two years later, his disciples were further cautioned that "an extraterrestrial race sent by the Antichrist prior to the Battle of Armageddon" would have to be held off by force of arms, thus prompting new arms purchases and further training. Radar-1's members were not averse to parading around in full battle array, showing off their weapons and alarming the general public. They boastfully termed themselves "Grey Hunters."

As in all cults, the price of dissent was high. Romeu was as authoritarian a leader as any, and those among his "Grey Hunters" who showed signs of wanting to part company with the group were threatened and harassed. Those who left lived in constant fear of being assassinated. Romeu's wife's called it quits in 1997, taking Cristin, the couple's seven-year old son, with her. The cult leader successfully gained the court's permission to attend Cristin's eighth birthday. To everyone's horror, Romeu pulled a pistol from his jacket, stood straight, and placed a bullet through his right temple. "My father died like a space commander," said Romeu's grief-stricken son.

Cecilia Diaz, the late Romeu's mistress, told the press that the cult would continue its activities from the location of San Isidro and would "have more weapons." Argentina's Secretary of Worship, Angel Centeno, ruled that the cult's right to exist could not be challenged, as it was lawfully registered with his ministry. The Argentinean Foundation for the Study of Cults (FAPES) subsequently reported that Romeu's right hand man, Brian Bach, had assumed the reins of the cult, and urged the country's legislature to appoint a commission to study cults along the lines adopted by many European countries.

Space Brother Blues
If we can bring ourselves to play the role of Devil's Advocate yet again, can we lend any credence to the UFOR story as representing a mop-up operation against a saucer cult in the U.S., much in the same way that Argentina's government moved against Iglesia Manantial? That country's authorities made it clear that the cult was not being prosecuted for its beliefs but for its stockpile of weapons - the same argument wielded against the Branch Davidians at Waco. There was clearly nothing in common between the cults except for the fact that the belief in UFOs and aliens were reason for their existence - the latter cult armed itself to the teeth against them, while the former served up man in a platter to these forces. It can be noted that both episodes serve as bookends to the Heaven's Gate and the Solar Temple suicides. The late '90s were certainly not kind to saucer cults.

But Guillermo Romeu's violence is reminiscent, to a certain degree, of the activities of Brazilian contactee/terrorist Dino Kraspedon, the nom de guerre of Aladino Felix, who underwent an alleged contact experience in 1952 which was true to the contactee fashion of the time - nocturnal encounters in the wilderness with saucers and their humanoid occupants, disquisitions on "Man's place in the universe" and life on other worlds. Kraspedon's non-human "handlers" apparently endowed him with psychic powers, giving him insight into future human events.

Kraspedon dropped from sight until 1968, when he was arrested under suspicion of terrorism (not at all unlikely, since Brazil at the time was seething with political unrest, best exemplified by the activities of Carlos Marighella, the "father of urban terrorism"). In his UFO Encyclopedia, saucer historian Jerome Clark notes that Kraspedon was sentenced in 1971 and to be remanded into the mental health system, after which he vanishes from the record.

Was Aladino Felix truly contacted by aliens and steered wrong into a life of crime? He apparently recanted his alien contact experiences publicly, which should put an end to the story. Nonetheless, the connection between alleged "alien contact" which translates into violence cannot be overlooked.

Pirophos, UMMO's Little Brother
Thirty-two years after it first erupted on the scene, Spain's UMMO hoax still commands attention whenever it is mentioned. While not strictly a cult, given its lack of a leader and clear-cut objectives believers in the planet UMMO and the benevolent "Ummites" certainly carried on in cultish fashion. "Its very name ought to have given it away," says the hoax's creator, Jose Luis Jordan Pena, referring to the fact that UMMO shared the same sounds when pronounced as the Spanish word for "smoke."

Galician journalist Bieito Pazos managed to secure a lengthy interview with this fascinating character, gleaning details about the blond haired space people from the star Wolf 424 and more importantly, a true cult which was formed in the wake of the UMMO experiment: a gathering of very intelligent men and women known as PIROPHOS.

The interest expressed in Kirlian photography by certain members of Spain's "Sociedad de Parapsicologia" prompted Jordan Pena to realize that people, regardless of their educational or economic background, are fascinated by any phenomenon from which light is issued in a strange way. This led him to create the fictitious deity "Pirophos" and gather some twenty-odd persons in a grimy room in Madrid. One of Jordan Pena's co-conspirators, known only as "C," read out a letter (a tool that had worked well for UMMO) to the congregation, from "our beloved charismatic leader Phoros," living somewhere in the United States. As the lights went out, the parties in attendance were startled to see a bluish light issuing from C's mouth - proof positive that the Great God Pirophos had chosen the speaker as the "regional Phoselek" for all of Spain.

The hoaxer told his interviewer that the bluish light was "a basic yet uncommon triboluminescent phenomenon which requires the use of habitual and easily digestible substances."

But that wasn't the only surprise the master hoaxer held in store for his well-heeled disciples: on a table covered by a purple cloth stood a large glass container which contained a scintillating light which bathed the faces of all present in an eerie glow. Many of the economists, doctors, and engineers present dropped to their knees in the presence of the Great God Pirophos - who was in fact an amalgam of bioluminescent bacteria in a nutrient agar culture. Later on, explained Jordan Pena, "Pirophos" would be created based on a compound of phosphorus diluted in kerosene or toluene.

The Pirophoreans (to give them a name) were entreated to follow a basic "moral code" crafted by the hoaxer himself: a commitment to study physics and biology, kindness toward spouses and children, and above all, to maintain their religion in strict confidence. The cultists were also told that their faith's supreme leader was a man named George Lipton from Albany, N.Y. (Jordon Pena had successfully placed one Theodore K. Polk from Export, P.A. among the dramatis personae of the UMMO saga) who lived in complete seclusion due to having achieved the rank of "Phoros" - as high as could be achieved in the Pirophorean cult. Mr. Lipton owed his secrecy to the fact that his body now shone with a brilliant blue light...

"This was the ultimate reward," Jordon Pena stated, "to become the God Pirophos himself - immortal before dying and immune from all diseases... my eschatology was simple enough: the world would end in the year 4634 due to the explosion of a supernova some 220 light years from Earth. At that time, all the adepts who reached the rank of Phoros would be forever joined to that universal light known as Pirophos."

But in the early 90's the master hoaxer decided to bring his cult to an end, much in the same way he had exposed UMMO. The cult's members accepted the fact that they had been duped with a mixture of astonishment and amusement. "Only two," Jordan Pena told Pazos, "insist upon remaining faithful to that mysterious light."

Jordan Pena's tone throughout the interview with Pazos is that of a mischievous schoolboy recalling youthful escapades. A highly educated man, the creator of the UMMO and Pirophos does not suffer fools lightly, and both of his fictitious communities seem to serve the purpose of holding human gullibility up to the harsh light of public scrutiny.

Conclusion
As we make the leap into the 21st century, many aspects of ufology can be safely deemed as no longer relevant. While there is a certain degree of hubris involved in the making of such a pronouncement, few will disagree that things like the "angel hair" which represented a major feature of field's early days still retains any currency. The same applies to the "critters" or "zeroids" the troubled the sleep of many a researcher in the Sixties: either the phenomenon ceased to occur, or it still occurs but researchers have gone off to pursue more fruitful endeavors, like abduction research or Roswell.

While it is undeniably tempting to consign contacteeism to the graveyard of lost pursuits, the "kind space brothers" and their adepts enjoyed a resurgence in the latter years of the decade. The reasons for this range from disillusionment with formal ufology (which is seen as having failed to "explain" the UFO riddle) to a desire to merge spirituality and the ufological avocation into a single current. Some might find humor in the realization that the very same arguments put forth by scientists regarding the public's dalliance with UFOs are similar to the ones used within ufology to explain the desertions within the field toward the "garden path" of contacteeism.

But 90's (and early '00's)-style contactee groups seem to differ markedly from their mid-Century counterparts, showing a more volatile and violent face to world.

© 2001 Scott Corrales is a writer and translator of UFO and paranormal subjects in Latin America and Spain.

The Last Days Of The Dollar

Bush Administration Continues Tradition of UFO Cover-ups

2006-11-16T07:31:00.000-08:00

George W. Bush, like Jimmy Carter before him, promised, if elected president of the United States, that he would make UFO information available to the public. But, alas, as with the Carter Administration, this just didn't happen.

At the close of "The Top Secret UFO Project," R. J. Thomas' parody of UFO documentaries, it is mentioned that "The Jasper Incident," a UFO-themed, film-within-the-film, was shown to President Bush at the White House in early 2004. The next day, the president told the press that he found the film very entertaining, but said that no spaceships were ever seen or seized by the government, and that anyone who believes in flying saucers is out of his mind.

The epilogue is a joke, a spoof of the fact that Bush, like most of Washington, is in no hurry to tell the world about the truth about UFOs. Bush was a ten-year-old boy when the town of Jasper, Colorado, experienced a series of UFO encounters, but, as the president today, he must continue the tradition of keeping Jasper's secret (and all other known UFO stories) in the closet.

"The president promised to make UFO information available to the public," Mr. Thomas said. "He was campaigning for his first term and made it sound, very matter of factly, that he would do it right off the bat."

On July 28, 2000, Charles Huffer, a former U. S. Army Security Agent, approached Bush, then the governor of Texas, and running mate Dick Cheney in Springdale, Arkansas. "Would you finally tell us what is going on with UFOs?" Huffer asked Bush. The governor replied, "Sure I will." The question and Bush's answer were seen on ABC News, Nightline, and CNN.

On the videotape, Mr. Bush is clearly seen stating that release of the UFO information would be the first thing he would do.

That was six years ago, and neither the president or vice-president have responded directly to Mr. Huffer's follow-up on their campaign promise.

And they certainly weren't going to give away any information about the Jasper UFO Incident of 1956.

Based on Thomas' 2004 novella of the same name, "The Top Secret UFO Project" chronicles the UFO-related events experienced by Jasper, a tiny Colorado hamlet some seventy-five miles south of Denver. According to the film, the town dealt with one unusual event after another in the summer of 1956. After a farmer spotted a flying saucer zipping over his property, scientists rushed into Jasper to investigate, reporters rushed in looking for stories, and government officials rushed in to keep it a secret from the world.

Billed as "the movie the government does not want you to see," "The Top Secret UFO Project," is a parody of the cheesy UFO documentaries of the 1970s like "Overlords of the UFO," and of TV programs like "In Search Of."

Mr. Thomas plays a documentary filmmaker who, in 2003, discovered (by accident) some top secret government films pertaining to the Jasper Incident of 1956. This inspired him to make a documentary about Jasper's UFO story, and to discover the truth behind what really happened that mysterious summer in Colorado.

And does Bush really know anything we don't?

"I should send a copy of the DVD to the president," Mr. Thomas said. "Maybe it will get him thinking about releasing UFO information. Or at least he'll be happy to see his name mentioned in the epilogue."

UFO's: 50 Years of Denial

Scapegoating Ted Kaczynski

British UFO chief finds evidence credible

2006-11-10T01:56:00.000-08:00

LONDON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The former head of the British military's UFO program says that studying the evidence convinced him aliens are out there -- and could come here.

Nick Pope recently left the Directorate of Defense Security at the Ministry of Defense, The Guardian reports. As a private citizen, he feels free to discuss the views he formed while heading the UFO project -- which has since been disbanded -- between 1991 and 1995.

He said he is especially worried because the government's "X-Files have been closed down."

"The consequences of getting this one wrong could be huge," he said. "If you reported a UFO sighting now, I am absolutely sure that you would just get back a standard letter telling you not to worry.

"Frankly we are wide open -- if something does not behave like a conventional aircraft now, it will be ignored."

Pope said that studying the files convinced him that some UFO sightings are credible -- including a large triangular shape reported in 1993 civilians and Royal Air Force personnel at bases in the Midlands.

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UFO' search will resume

2006-09-13T01:03:00.000-07:00

Johannesburg - The search for an unidentified object, which crashed into the sea at Port Shepstone on Saturday, will resume at the weekend as there were no bodies to search for, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Tuesday.

"It is unlikely that we will go out to search before the weekend. The NSRI's core business is rescuing people and here there is no loss of life involved," said NSRI Shelley Beach Station Commander Eddie Noyons.

The search for the unidentified object began on Saturday after witnesses reported that an object, possibly an aircraft, had crashed into the sea behind the breaker line off-shore of the Port Shepstone High School.

Police, rescue craft and a fixed wing aircraft were alerted to the scene to investigate.

"Following a full-scale search of the area covering 12 square nautical miles nothing had been found.

"There are no reports of activity in the area that may be related to this incident and there are no aircraft reported to be overdue or missing," said Noyons.

Ripple effect on waves

He said numerous witnesses - including teachers and pupils attending a sports event at the high school, and other bystanders including local fishermen - were convinced they had seen an aircraft go into the water, including seeing smoke and a water plume.

Interviews with the witnesses revealed that some also reported seeing flames.

"Some reported seeing something, an unidentified object, splash into the sea causing a ripple effect of waves," Noyons said.

Due to the number of witnesses with similar reports, it was presumed that weather activity in the area at the time might have given the impression of something falling into the sea.

Noyons said rescue workers were unable to find oil slicks, petrol spillage or any signs or wreckage during the search on Saturday.

"We are not sure what it was as we are still unaware of any missing aircraft, but will continue the search at the weekend. Its probably a small meteorite or something. The weekend will be a nice time for diving," said Noyons.

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Connection Between Bible And UFO

2006-09-11T05:38:00.000-07:00

By Nelly Favis-Villafuerte

TO this day, the UFO phenomenon continues to be a mystery that affects many of us in different ways. Nearly a thousand books and other publications have been written about the subject. Thousands of people of various races have claimed to have had encounters with UFOs (acronym for unidentified flying objects referred to by many as extraterrestrials, extraterrestrial beings, space visitors, or alien beings). Movies and television shows have been made on this UFO enigma. Researches, too, based on the speculation that ‘we are not the only one’s who exist in this vast universe are being conducted on UFOs. While all of these activities on UFOs are going on, Bible-believing Christians are mainly concerned to know what the Holy Bible say about UFOs.

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The Holy Bible speaks of life being created in our planet earth. From Biblical account, we see that earth and the people who inhabit earth are the center of God’s attention as well as the subject of His plan of redemption. On our part, we are to focus our attention on God’s greatness, glory and power. There is also nothing in the Holy Bible that says that life exists elsewhere. Considering too, that due to the great distances in space, any physical beings visiting earth would have to travel faster than the speed of light. In short there are some statistical improbabilities to support the view that life does not exist except here in planet earth.

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Many modern-day ufologists believe that there are verses in the Holy bible to show that God is an alien from an advanced civilization. More specifically, they believe that there are the likes of flying saucers in the Bible which are just manifestations of God as an alien. On this subject, let me mention some of the Biblical verses which the ufologists refer to as manifestations of God as an alien. By the way, the word ufologist has been coined to refer to somebody who is a real UFO buff and is very serious in documenting and recording everything about UFO encounters and sightings. Including reports of hundreds of people who claimed to have seen flying saucers land in open fields; as well as testimonies of people who say that they have actually seen strange-looking people from outer space. All these documentations of ufologist have strengthened the theory that UFOs are real.

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Here are some of the Biblical verses referred to by ufologists to strengthen their beliefs that there are aliens referred to in the Bible:

· "When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a WHIRLWIND," Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal, Elijah said to Elisha, "Stay here; the Lord has sent me to Bethel." (II Kings 2:1)

(Ufologists say that Elijah was "abducted" by aliens here. But from the words of the Bible it is very clear that our Lord took him to heaven.)

· "As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a CHARIOT OF FIRE AND HORSES OF FIRE appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. (II Kings 2:11)

(Some ufologists say that the chariot of fire and horses of fire are spacecrafts, a form of flying saucers. But there is nothing in the Biblical verses to indicate that God is manifesting Himself.)

· "When the living creatures moved, the WHEELS beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the WHEELS also rose." (Exekiel 1:19)

(Exekiel is experiencing a vision of heavenly creatures. He is describing a scene in heaven. The wheels are not flying saucers. These are not unidentified flying objects. They are very identified. The phrase "wheel within a wheel" has long been used by many ufologists to refer to UFOs)

· "Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a DOVE and remain on him." (John 1:32)

(Many ufologists say that the dove here is really a flying saucer, that carried Jesus away. Bible-believing Christians however are one in saying that the dove is the Holy Spirit – which is just another manifestation of God.)

· "By day the Lord went ahead of them IN A PILLAR OF CLOUD to guide them on their way and by night IN A PILLAR OF FIRE to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night." (Exodus 13:21)

(This Biblical verse has reference to the time when Moses led the Jews out of captivity from Egypt. Again, some ufologists believe that the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire are UFOs. Bible-believing Christians however do not agree with this belief of ufologists since the former believe that these are just more manifestations of God.)

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Many of us forget that Satan is a great deceiver – and everyday which brings us closer to the "end times," Satan has to work double time. These UFO phenomenon which leads many of us to believe that we the human beings in this planet earth are being visited now and then by aliens is a very effective strategy of Satan to distract our attention from our Lord God. The UFO sightings, encounters and even abductions may be real and true. But who are UFOs? Are they angels? Are they manifestations of God? Or are they in reality demonic beings (who are spiritual beings like angels) who appear and disappear anytime? To confuse us. To distance us from God. To win our spiritual allegiance (To be continued).

We Are Not Alone

2006-09-10T02:54:00.000-07:00

We are not alone in the universe if the numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects are to be believed.

Residents of planet Earth recounted seeing 105 UFOs to the National UFO Reporting Center in only the first 16 days of July, and many were in California.

An Angelino saw a craft made up of two circles -- one with several spinning orbs -- floating straight up into the sky.

Someone in Pittsburg titled his claim "Holy Motherlode of a Mother Ship" and wrote about viewing smaller ships entering and leaving a big vessel the size of five football fields.

Both accounts are likely be believed not just by ufologists, who've spent years investigating those unexplained floaters in the sky, but by astronomers as well. Though the two groups may not agree on much, both have come to the conclusion that we are probably not the only beings in the cosmos.

Many recent UFO sightings have been reported from the Central Valley in Lodi, Stockton and Tracy, said Chuck Reever, the director of investigations for Mutual UFO Network, an international organization trying to resolve the enigma of UFOs.

Once a sighting is reported, MUFON, as it is commonly called, may conduct a telephone or face-to-face interview, Reever said.

Photographs and other anecdotal evidence is then collected, including the size of the object, when it was seen and its possible distance from the viewer.

Any physical evidence, such as pieces of material that cannot be identified as man-made, may be turned over to researchers. About 300 scientists donate their time to the all-volunteer organization, said International Director Jack Schuessler, who himself was an engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center for 25 years.

While about 1,200 cases are investigated annually, only about 10 to 20 percent remain unexplainable. Calls to, for example, the weather bureau to

determine if balloons were launched or the military rule out some cases automatically.

MUFON, founded in 1969, is now taking 37 years of paper reports and turning them into electronic files so patterns and commonalities in sightings can be noted, much like any intelligence agency works, Schuessler added.

The group has concluded that extraterrestrial life is in fact out there, landing on the Earth, but people shouldn't be too worried.

Man could, for example, learn about the advanced propulsion technique used by many of the UFOs.

Members of the science community are equally as optimistic. Jack Welch, professor in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley, said finding something somewhere is a chance to view our future. Maybe they've figured out how to live with one another and how to survive their leaders, he said.

The problem is that, to date, no life has been found outside Earth, though its existence seems almost certain, he said. One reason is that about 200planets in the Milky Way Galaxy were discovered around stars about 10 years ago.

Scientists are looking -- and hoping -- for real, credible, physical evidence, and only one very controversial piece exists, said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

The discovery, made 10 years ago, was a meteorite containing reportedly fossilized, one-cell Martians, but many scientists still view that skeptically.

Shostak is as just as hopeful as the ufologists. SETI, the premier research institute for astrobiology, is in the process of building the Allen Telescope Array that will contain, when completed, 350 antennas each 20 feet in diameter. They will check for, among other things, radio signals from other beings.

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