UFR-S2E1-Yvonne Smith

UFR-S2E1-Yvonne Smith Show Notes

Yvonne Smith is the author of a new book titled 'Chosen' which chronicles her involvement in the alien abduction phenomenon. A credentialed clinical hypnotherapist who studied with world Famous Budd Hopkins, Yvonne's focus centred around the PTSD ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) aspect of the alien abduction phenomenon, offering a sensitive, compassionate, and scientific alternative to these often traumatic events.
Since 1991 Yvonne extensively co-lectured with Harvard's John Mack, M.D., Budd Hopkins, and David Jacobs, Ph.D., in the United States at M.I.T and several other universities...and also at many conferences [ as annually at the Roswell Celebration]. She annually participates in the Roswell UFO Festival [both acting as an m.c. and presenting multiple lectures] and conducting standing-room-only nightly experiencer sessions at the Laughlin, Nevada annual International UFO Congress.
She is also no stranger to the media circuit. She been many television shows and radio programs including Coast To Coast, the Jerry Pippen Show, MSNBC, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, Montel Williams Show, Encounters, Sightings, Rosanne Barr,The Joan Rivers Show, and now the Unified Field.

It's jam packed but the interview is only the icing on the cake. There's an hour of jam packed news highlighting the newest information from around the world in the field of the unknown. On this episode we cover everything from Kepler's discovery of 1200 new planets, 54 planets discovered to be in the 'Goldilocks zone, Gliese 581g habitation potential, scientists declaring that Earth MUST prepare for ET contact, using the sun to call ET, the death of Stanley Fulham, and so much more.
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UFR-S2E1 Show Notes

NASA's 'astonishing' find: 54 planets that can sustain human life
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The space agency has identified dozens of planets that may be hospitable to earthlings. Could intelligent life be living on one of them?
posted on February 4, 2011, at 7:00 AM

This artist rendering shows one of the recently identified planetary systems, called Kepler-11, which has a sun-like star and six orbiting planets. Photo: NASA SEE ALL 29 PHOTOS
In the past, scientists have had trouble spotting faraway planets where life could exist as we know it on Earth. But thanks to the Kepler telescope, which has been orbiting the sun since 2009, NASA has detected an "astonishing" 1,235 possible planets outside the Earth's solar system — and 54 of them have conditions conducive to liquid water, meaning they might be habitable. (Watch a report about the findings.) The discovery has astronomers giddy, because until now only two known planets were thought to be in the "Goldilocks zone," where conditions are just right for supporting human life. Here's a guide to the bonanza of new planets:
How did scientists find the planets?
Kepler, an orbiting NASA telescope, has been gazing into a small section of sky near the Northern Cross. By measuring the brightness of the 156,000 stars that reside there, Kepler can detect whether planets are crossing the stars' paths. Kepler is able to detect much smaller objects than its predecessors, and a significant number of the planets it has found are only slightly bigger than Earth. Scientists are not completely sure that all the objects they've discovered are planets — they still need to make sure that intergalactic optical illusions aren't responsible for what they're seeing. But preliminary statistical steps show that 85 to 90 percent of the objects Kepler uncovered are real planetary bodies, not aberrations.
What are the chances of finding another Earth?
"This is the first big step" toward answering that ancient question, says Sara Seager at M.I.T., as quoted by The New York Times. At first glance, says Dennis Overbye at the Times, not one of them appears to be a "cosmic Eden fit for life as we know it." But astronomers have only spent four months on their planet-seeking mission, and by comparison, "if intelligent aliens were studying our solar system... they would see Earth in transit just once a year," according to CBS News. The fact that scientists have found so many planets in such a short time has fostered optimism about finding one that is habitable.
What about finding intelligent life?
"The search for radio transmissions from these latter worlds is already underway," says astronomer Seth Shostak at The Huffington Post. It's possible that new, Earth-like planets are "only habitable, and not inhabited." Or maybe "they host only intellectually challenged life — alien equivalents of paramecia, pond scum, or pterodactyls." But extrapolating from these findings, there could be 30,000 potentially habitable worlds within 1,000 light years of Earth. That's a lot of planets, so when Kepler finds more of them you can bet "they'll be getting increased scrutiny for the tell-tale signs of intelligence."
Sources: NY Times, Huffington Post, CBS News, Christian Science Montior

Kepler Planet Hunter Finds 1,200 Possibilities
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By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: February 2, 2011
Astronomers have cracked the Milky Way like a piñata, and planets are now pouring out so fast that they do not know what to do with them all.

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In a long-awaited announcement, scientists operating NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting satellite reported on Wednesday that they had identified 1,235 possible planets orbiting other stars, potentially tripling the number of known planets.
Of the new candidates, 68 are one and a quarter times the size of the Earth or smaller — smaller, that is, than any previously discovered planets outside the solar system, which are known as exoplanets. Fifty-four of the possible exoplanets are in the so-called habitable zones of stars dimmer and cooler than the Sun, where temperatures should be moderate enough for liquid water.
Astronomers said that it would take years to confirm that all of these candidates were really planets — by using ground-based telescopes to measure their masses, for example, or inspecting them to see if background stars are causing optical mischief. Many of them might never be vetted because of the dimness of their stars and the lack of telescope time and astronomers to do it all. But statistical tests of a sample suggest that 80 to 95 percent of the objects on it are real, as opposed to blips in the data.
“It boggles the mind,” said the Kepler team’s leader, William Borucki, of the Ames Research Center in Northern California.
At first glance, not one of them appears to be another Earth, the kind of cosmic Eden fit for life as we know it, but the new results represent only four months’ worth of data on a three-and-a-half-year project, and have left astronomers optimistic that they will eventually find Earth-like planets.
“For the first time in human history, we have a pool of potentially rocky habitable-zone planets,” said Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who works with Kepler. “This is the first big step forward to answering the ancient question, ‘How common are other Earths?’ ”
At a news conference at NASA headquarters in Washington on Wednesday, Mr. Borucki noted that the Kepler telescope surveys only one four-hundredth of the sky. If it could see the whole sky, he said, “we would see 400,000 candidates.” He is the lead author of a paper describing the new results that has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal.
In a separate announcement, to be published in the journal Nature on Thursday, a group of Kepler astronomers led by Jack Lissauer of Ames said it had found a star with six planets — the most Kepler has yet discovered around one star — orbiting in close ranks in the same plane, no farther from their star than Mercury is from the Sun.
This dense packing, Dr. Lissauer said, seems to violate all the rules astronomers have begun to discern about how planetary systems form and evolve.
“This is sending me back to the drawing board,” he said.
Summarizing the news from the cosmos, Geoffrey W. Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, a veteran exoplanet hunter and a mainstay of the Kepler work, said, “There are so many messages here that it’s hard to know where to begin.”
He called the Borucki team’s announcement “an extraordinary planet windfall, a moment that will be written in textbooks. It will be thought of as watershed.”
Debra Fischer, an astronomer at Yale who is not part of the Kepler team, said, “This is an amazing era of discovery for astronomy.” Kepler, she added, had “blown the lid off everything we thought we knew about exoplanets.”
Kepler, launched into orbit around the Sun in March 2009, stares at a patch of the Milky Way near the Northern Cross, measuring the brightness of 156,000 stars every 30 minutes, looking for a pattern of dips that would be caused by planets crossing in front of their suns.
The goal is to assess the frequency of Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars. But in the four months of data analyzed so far, a similar telescope looking at our own Sun would have been lucky to have seen the Earth pass even once. Three transits are required for a planet to show up in Kepler’s elaborate data-processing pipeline, which means that Kepler’s next scheduled data release, in June 2012, could be a moment of truth for the mission.
For dimmer and cooler stars, the habitable, or “Goldilocks,” zone, would be smaller, however, and planets in it would rack up transits more quickly.
Scientists had eagerly anticipated Wednesday’s data release since June, when Kepler scientists issued their first list of some 300 stars that were suspected of harboring planets but held back another 400 for study. In the intervening months, Mr. Borucki said, some of those candidates have been eliminated, but hundreds more have been added that would otherwise have been reported in June.
One of the 400 was a Sun-like star about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus that went by the name of KOI 157, for Kepler Object of Interest. In the spring of 2009, astronomers noticed that it seemed to have five candidate planets, four with nearly the same orbital periods, and in the same plane, like an old vinyl record, Dr. Lissauer said. Two of them came so close that every 50 days one of them would look as large as a full moon as seen from the other, Dr. Lissauer calculated.
“I got very interested in this system,” Dr. Lissauer said. “Five was the most we had around any target.” Moreover, the planets’ proximity to one another meant that they would interact gravitationally, allowing them to be weighed. In the fall, a sixth planet — the innermost — was found.
By measuring the slight variations in transit times caused by the gravitational interference of the inner five planets with one another, Dr. Lissauer and his colleagues were able to calculate their masses and densities. These measurements confirmed they were so-called super-Earths, with masses ranging from 2 to 13 times that of the Earth. But they were also puffy, probably containing mixtures of rock, water and gas, rather than being pure rock like another super-Earth, Kepler 10b, a hunk of lava whose existence was announced last month at a meeting in Seattle. Dr. Lissauer described them as “sort of like marshmallows with a little hard-candy core.”
As a result, Dr. Lissauer said, “super-Earths might not resemble Earth at all. They may be more like Neptune than Earth-like.”
Alan Boss, a planetary theorist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said the Kepler 11 system, as it is now known, should “keep theorists busy and off the streets for a long time.”
Mr. Borucki said the growing number of small planets revealed by Kepler was a welcome change from the early days of exoplanet research, when most of the planets discovered were Jupiter-size giants hugging their stars in close orbits, leading theorists to speculate that smaller planets might be thrown outward from their stars by gravitational forces or dragged right into those suns.
“Those little guys are still there,” he said, “and we’re delighted to see them.”

Another Gliese planet could be in habitable zone
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Jason McClellan | Dec 21, 2010 | 0 comments


Orbit of Gliese 581g compared to our solar system (credit: NASA)
Earlier this year, the newly discovered planet Gliese 581g was announced to be a good candidate for extraterrestrial life. Now, researchers are saying the same thing about another planet in the Gliese 581 solar system.
According to new atmospheric-modeling research, the planet Gliese 581d, like its neighbor Gliese 581g, may lie in the star’s “habitable zone”—the region where a planet’s temperature can sustain liquid water on its surface. The new research supports similar studies from earlier this year.
Research suggests Gliese 581d is rocky like Earth, and probably seven to eight times the size of Earth.

NASA Just Discovered 54 New Planets, and Humans Might Be Able to Live on Them
TheWeek.com
NASA has discovered 54 new planets that might be habitable to humans, either giving us a planet for vacation homes or an escape plan for the end of the world. The planets are part of a larger discovery by Kepler telescope that includes 1,235 possible planets outside Earth's solar system. Exciting! But...the Christian Science Monitor reports, "The potential finds, which must clear an arduous, detailed confirmation process, still fall short of the ultimate goal, finding an Earth-size planet orbiting a sun-like star at Earth-like distances."
Seth Shostak, a Senior Astronomer at SETI Institute, writing on HuffPo about the findings, said the next step might be finding alien life.
This is big news, and the search for radio transmissions from these latter worlds is already underway. Finding a signal would be shattering, for it would tell us that a planet is home to technologically savvy inhabitants.
We haven't been to astronomy school but if we've learned anything from movies, people from far-far-away galaxies are much more technologically advanced than we are. We should obviously be looking for WiFi signals.
Scientists still have to confirm each planet is really a planet and not just "optical illusions." But because we live in 2011, the hive-mind is ready to solve this problem. The Christian Science Monitor reports:
Fischer explains that the researchers have established Planethunters.org -- a website where people can look at graphs of the light output from the stars Kepler is observing and hunt for the telltale signs of a planet candidate. So far, she says, some 16,000 participants worldwide have identified hundreds of "solid" transiting-planet candidates, as well as previously undiscovered eclipsing binary stars.
Fischer, a little advice for you: Call Reddit, they'll have us in a space house in 24 hours.
Using the Sun to call E.T.
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Jason McClellan | Dec 20, 2010 | 0 comments


Communication satellites using the sun's gravity to focus radio waves (credit: Claudio Maccone)
Scientists think the sun could be the best communication device for contacting intelligent extraterrestrial life.
A new study suggests that the sun’s gravity could be used to create a giant telescope that would magnify signals, both incoming and outgoing. The study also suggests that stronger signals could be achieved by using relay spacecraft to create a network connected by “radio bridges.”
Claudio Maccone, technical director of the Paris-based International Academy of Astronautics, and author of this new study on the mechanics of the proposed technique, explained, “If we use the sun as a gravitational lens, then we can keep in touch with our own probes even at considerable interstellar distances.”
The study appeared in a recent issue of the journal Acta Astronautica.


False claim about UFO attack fools many (again)
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Jason McClellan | Dec 28, 2010 | 0 comments
On Wednesday, a Russian news source reported that the U.S. organization SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) had released a statement announcing the detection of “three giant spaceships” heading towards Earth. Rather than investigating the claim, many journalists were quick to report the shocking news, only to later learn that the story had been fabricated.


Alleged spaceship (credit: SkyView/Examiner)
The Russian news site Pravda published their article on December 22nd in which the claim was made about SETI detecting three spaceships via the HAARP (the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) system in Alaska. The article claims the ships are projected to reach Earth in December of 2012—the same time period as the grim 2012 doomsday supposition. An interesting coincidence? An intentional exploit is more likely the case.
It is possible that the Pravda article is based on information published in a December 8th article on Examiner.com, though both articles contain different details. The Examiner article is more detailed, crediting a source for the information, as well as providing images of the supposed spaceships.
The Examiner article contains the name “Craig Kasnov,” a supposed SETI astrophysicist who the author cites as the source of this “spaceship” information. But after a little journalistic digging, it appears that SETI astrophysicist Craig Kasnov does not exist.
Phil Plait, an astronomer who spent ten years working on the Hubble telescope, saw a number of red flags when he read the Examiner article, and he did a remarkable job detailing these red flags. One major flag was the name of the alleged SETI astrophysicist. Plait performed some initial searches on Google and in astronomical journal databases, but the only reference to “Craig Kasnov” he was able to locate were related to articles referencing the three spaceships. Digging deeper, Plait went straight to the source—he called SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak. Shostak responded, “Well, I’ve never heard of this guy working here, and neither has our HR department . . . Of course, maybe he volunteered here once, or was a summer intern. But he’s not an astrophysicist for the SETI Institute . . .”
A man by the name of Craig Kasnoff does exist, and was involved with SETI only insofar as being involved with the development of the SETI@Home software (software installed on personal computers to process SETI data). He was not/is not with SETI, and is not an astrophysicist.
Plait also examined the “spaceship” photos referenced in the Examiner article. Drawing on his experience working with Hubble data, he said, “[H]aving seen stuff like this a bazillion times, I can tell right away this is what’s called an image defect.”
Another astronomer saw red flags when he read the Examiner article, and his opinions were published yesterday in an article entitled, “2012 Alien Invasion? Um, No.” on Discovery’s website.
However, the Examiner article and its claim about approaching spaceships was scrutinized almost immediately after its publishing on December 8th, and skeptics were quick to point out the non-existence of any Craig Kasnov at SETI on the website AboveTopSecret.com. So why did so many journalists and media sources decide to report on alien spaceships heading to Earth almost a month after the initial Examiner article was published? The December 22nd Pravda article is most likely to blame for giving people the impression that this was breaking news, but this is just another example of the media’s insatiable appetite for UFO-related news, and the lack of basic research before publishing a story.


Mexican UFO over Chichen Itza
Jan 25 2011
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A video of a UFO that was purportedly filmed this month in Mexico has taken viewers on YouTube and other video clip sharing websites by surprise. Most observers have commented on the high quality of this footage.
Not many details of the UFO video have been released other than the fact that it was taken in the vicinity of Chichen Itza, the ancient Mayan Archaeological site Chichen Itza.
Chichen Itza is famous for its pyramids and temples. Carvings of "Gods" or more likely alien beings adorn structures in the site. The appearance of such a clear and unexplainable UFO in the region is likely to be of interest to those following Mayan prophecies regarding the year 2012 and connected to Nibiru.
UFOs are seen above Mexico regularly.


When Beetlejuice Explodes
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Over the years, people have speculated that the sun has a twin (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). The red giant star Betelgeuse ("Beetlejuice") is predicted to explode (become a super nova) shortly. If that happens, we will see two suns in the sky for a few weeks. 

In Australian news.com, Claire Connelly quotes physicist Brad Carter as saying, "This old star is running out of fuel in its center. This fuel keeps Betelgeuse shining and supported. When this fuel runs out the star will literally collapse in upon itself and it will do so very quickly." When this happens there will be a giant explosion, tens of millions of times brighter than the sun, and we'll see what looks like a second sun in the sky. Night will become day for several week. This could happen tomorrow or in a million years--or could this be what the Mayans predicted would happen in December, 2012? 

Carter doesn't think the supernova will be a danger to the Earth--quite the opposite: The supernova will send down some of the elements necessary for our survival Connelly quotes him as saying, "When a star goes bang, the first we will observe of it is a rain of tiny particles called nuetrinos. They will flood through the Earth and bizarrely enough, even though the supernova we see visually will light up the night sky, 99% of the energy in the supernova is released in these particles that will come through our bodies and through the Earth with absolutely no harm whatsoever. "It literally makes things like gold, silver--all the heavy elements--even things like uranium. A star like Betelgeuse is instantly forming for us all sorts of heavy elements and atoms that our own Earth and our own bodies have from long past supernovi." So rather than bringing the end of the world, the star may save us. 

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UFO forecaster Stanley Fulham dies
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Jason McClellan | Dec 27, 2010 | 0 comments
Stanley Fulham, a retired Royal Canadian Air Force Captain and UFO researcher, died on December 19, 2010 after reportedly losing his battle with cancer.
Fulham gained recent attention with his book Challenges of Change, in which he predicted several UFO appearances. One of these predictions stated that UFOs would appear over several major cities on October 13, 2010, and because of this prediction, Fulham has been given credit by some for the UFOs that appeared over New York City on October 13th. He made other predictions about sightings that will supposedly happen in January of 2011 – first in Moscow, then in London.
A memorial service was held by Fulham’s family on December 23, 2010. He died at the age of 87.



Is there a UFO under Dreamy Draw dam?
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Alejandro Rojas | Jan 24, 2011 | 0 comments
There is a rumor circling the internet that there is a UFO hidden under the Dreamy Draw dam just north of Phoenix, Arizona. It is supposedly part of a literal UFO cover-up of a crash that took place in 1947, the same year as the famous Roswell incident. The area is now a city owned park and internet searches on the area will result in people talking about the hiking trails and others commenting about the UFO rumors.


The Dreamy Draw dam.
This rumor most likely started from an alleged UFO crash written about in two popular UFO books. The first being Frank Scully’s Behind the Flying Saucers, published in 1950, this was one of the first UFO books to make it big. Chris Carter, writer for the X-Files TV show, used Scully’s last name for FBI agent Dana Scully. This book was based on the Scully’s interviews and experiences with two alleged UFO insiders, Silas Newton and an anonymous scientist he called, Dr. Gee. The later is now believed to be a man by the name of Leo GeBauer.
Newton and GeBauer turned out to be oil conmen, and it is widely believed that they lied to Scully about everything Scully wrote about in his book. So what did they say? They essential told Scully they were involved with the recovery and analysis of crashed flying saucers. This is summary is very simplified and the book is well worth reading. Some of the crashes they allegedly knew about were in New Mexico and one was in Arizona. The crash in Arizona was of a 36 foot craft from which two humanoid bodies were recovered, but there was no information regarding the exact location.
Then in 1987 Timothy Good published his groundbreaking book, Above Top Secret, full of hundreds of UFO cases from around the world. One section is titled Paradise Valley, 1947. Here Good recounts the Scully claims, but goes on to say that he interviewed a man by the name of Selman Graves who believes he witnessed the crash. He says on a hunting trip he and his buddies saw tents around a strange domed object, and that the Air Force had restricted access to the area. After reading Scully’s book he put two and two together and figured that he must have seen the army recovering a crashed UFO.
Graves also recalled that his hunting friend had been out in that direction before the rest of the hunting party had arrived, and suspected that perhaps this friend had found the alien bodies Scully had written about and kept them in his freezer until the Air Force could pick them up.
The area Graves had witnessed all of this was called Cave Creek, near an area now called Carefree. Back then this was past the northern suburbs of Phoenix, however modern Phoenix has enveloped the area. Graves went on to say that years later he noticed digging going on in the area they had witnessed the object and that Cave Creek road was diverted.
Cave Creek is nearly 20 miles North of Dreamy Draw, however, Good refers to the area of the crash as Paradise Valley, which is actually near Dream Draw. So if you were reading Good’s book and thinking where the heck could this crash have happened in Paradise Valley, one might think of the Piestawa Peak Park, home of the Dreamy Draw dam. To add to the mystery of the site, some internet commenters question the need for the dam and believe it to be redundant and useless.


Map showing the areas in question. The mark is at the Dreamy Draw dam.
We called the city and set up an interview with one of the park rangers in charge of the dam area which can be seen below. He said that the area does flood and without the dam, the water would flow into nearby neighborhoods and damage property. He also noted that the damn wasn’t built until 1973, which coincidentally was the year of a large UFO wave throughout the United States.
So, does the legend of the Dreamy Draw UFO stem from Selman Graves’ testimony to Timothy Good? Or is there another UFO crash story out there we have not yet heard of? If you witnessed a UFO crash in Piestawa Peak Park in the early 70’s we would like to hear about it.


Scientists take ETs seriously – and the media skews their proceedings
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More and more things in the media have to do with contact with other intelligences. If you’ve seen my movie and you track my posts you’ve been exposed to a lot of it. What is going on? As I ask in my film, “Are we being prepared for contact?”
The latest has to do with the prestigious Royal Society, in England, “a Fellowship of the world’s most eminent scientists that is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.”
This is from The Guardian, a mainstream British paper:
Earth must prepare for close encounter with aliens, say scientists
UN should co-ordinate plans for dealing with extraterrestrials – and we can’t guarantee that aliens will be friendly

Evolution on alien worlds is likely to be Darwinian, which may mean extraterrestrials share our tendencies for violence and exploitation. Photograph: Rex

Here’s how the newspaper article starts:
World governments should prepare a co-ordinated action plan in case Earth is contacted by aliens, according to scientists.
They argue that a branch of the UN must be given responsibility for “supra-Earth affairs” and formulate a plan for how to deal with extraterrestrials, should they appear.
The comments are part of an extraterrestrial-themed edition of The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society published today. In it, scientists examine all aspects of the search for extraterrestrial life, from astronomy and biology to the political and religious fallout that would result from alien contact.
This publication is a fascinating compendium of serious papers that were presented at a meeting of the Royal Society in October entitled, “Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life.” Here are a few titles:
• Intro: The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society
• The evolution of organic matter in space
• Life as a cosmic imperative?
• The implications of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for religion
That they held this meeting is mind-blowing. But also of interest is how the newspaper handled it. You’ve seen the headline about aliens possibly not being friendly. That was the subject of only one of the 17 papers presented at the meeting. The newspaper piece used 4 of its 12 paragraphs to deal with that one: Predicting what extra-terrestrials will be like: and preparing for the worst.
This skew picks up on a thread running through the amped up stream of ET buzzing which most notably includes the scare put out by Stephen Hawking.
From “Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking”:
…a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.
He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.”
He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.
With us knowing nada about “them,” there was lots of flap over Hawking pulling that opinion out of thin air and arbitrarily putting the world on a fear setting. Then again, this is the stuff that appeals to the news media, and thus his opinions got widespread coverage. So, as my colleagues in matters extraterrestrial say, the fact that Hawking was dealing with the possibility of ET life was a step forward — like Signs, the movie, pointing to scary aliens as the source of crop circles, where a lot more people found out from that movie about the very existence of the circles and it also was good in that they weren’t attributing them to hoaxers. Two steps forward, one step back.

New Zealand UFO files released
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Jason McClellan | Dec 22, 2010 | 0 comments


An artist's impresson of aliens based on witness testimony (credit: New Zealand Defence Force)
Previously secret documents relating to UFOs have been released today by the New Zealand Defence Force.
More than 2,000 pages of UFO documents have been released by New Zealand’s government in response to the public pressure of requests under freedom of information laws. The documents contain eyewitness accounts dating back to the early 1950s. Airline passengers, pilots, air force personnel, and even a New Zealand prime minister are among the witnesses whose accounts are documented in the released files.
Many of the reports contained in these files include sketches of UFOs and extraterrestrial beings, but the most detailed reports are from pilots who reported mysterious lights or objects in the sky. With their reports, these pilots provided details like maps, positioning data, and drawings.
Also contained in the files is the response emails/letters from government officials to those who were submitting reports. It is interesting to note how professional and courteous officials were in their responses to each and every report or inquiry.
The release of these UFO files is in line with the recent actions of several other countries, including the United Kingdom, which released UFO files in 2009.