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“I don't know, but it is possible,” Adamski responded. “Orthon will also be there. He has been there three times before, twice during Pope Pius's time [1939–1958] and once during Pope John's.”
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Was Christ of Alien Origin?

It will be recalled that in Chapter 7, Henry Dohan implies that Orthon
was the reincarnated Christ. My views about religions, per se, are ambivalent. While I am sure that profound truths have been passed down in the world's scriptures, should we not, objectively, acknowledge the numerous contradictions, inconsistencies, and sometimes altered translations over the centuries? Exactly how much is factual? For example, in a letter to a British newspaper, a reader aptly points out that: “We don't have His sermons in the original Aramaic, so must rely on varying, often conflicting, translations via the Koine Greek gospels. Indeed, the use of parables by Jesus was a deliberate unclarity that puzzled the disciples (Matthew 13:10–14). Alas, much schismatic blood has been spilled ever since, arguing over the precise meaning of His far from ‘clear and simple' message. How does Peter [another reader] parse: ‘Think not that I am come to send peace on Earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword' (Matthew 10:34)?”
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Nonetheless, if some of the Biblical references to Jesus are more than apocryphal, such as the following, they support his out-of-this world provenance:

The visit to Mary by Gabriel, the “angel” (derived from
aggelos
, Greek for messenger, transliterated as
angelos
), foretelling the “immaculate conception”;
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An angel announcing the birth of the Christ, followed by the “heavenly host” of angels which afterwards departed “into heaven” (i.e., the sky);
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The “star” reported by the wise men “which they had seen at its rising” and “went ahead of them until it stopped above the place where the child lay”;
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Jesus's comment to a group of Jews: “You belong to this world below, I to the world above. Your home is in this world, mine is not”;
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The so-called “resurrection” witnessed by the apostles when “as they watched, he was lifted up, and a cloud removed him from their sight [and] as they were gazing intently into the sky, all at once there stood beside them two men in white who said … ‘This Jesus, who has been taken away from you up to heaven, will come in the same way as you have seen him go'”;
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Paul's experience on the road to Damascus “when suddenly about midday a great light flashed from the sky all around me, and I fell to the ground” and Jesus spoke to him. Though unable to hear Jesus's voice, Paul's terrified fellow travelers also
saw the brilliant light, which left Paul temporarily blinded.
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Other possible alien factors to be taken into consideration in this context are Jesus's evidently telepathic ability, in addition to his healing and mastery of teleportation.

In one of his two books on Christ, theologian Holger Kersten adduces compelling evidence that Jesus lived in India following his “resuscitation” (as the original Aramaic word implies), dying there in old age and buried in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. His tomb still exists in Kashmir, and he is said to be revered there to this day.
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For die-hard Christians who dismiss the possibility, they should ponder on the fact that the New Testament has only one sentence (in Luke) about Jesus's years from the age of thirteen to thirty.

Suppose Jesus had later reincarnated and returned again to Earth “in the same way as you have seen him go”: I doubt that such a revelation would be welcomed, or even believed, by the Christian hierarchy. However, assuming any truth to Henry Dohan's implication, I am minded to wonder about the claimed connection between Orthon and the two Popes cited earlier.

Open Contact?

John L. Petersen served as a flight officer in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve and is a decorated veteran of both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. His government and political experience includes stints at the National War College, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council staff at the White House. Currently he heads the Arlington Institute, a think tank based in Arlington, Virginia. We have met on a number of occasions over the years in Washington. In
The Road to 2015: Profiles of the Future
, one of three of his books he has given me, he invokes a possible scenario when open contact is made with extraterrestrials:

“For many in the majority segment of people in industrial societies who believe that UFOs are real, this event, though disquieting, was seen as opening up the window to a whole new world and reality full of immense questions—but not all necessarily negative. There was wonder and questioning in the context of a desire to solidify relationships and learn
more from these strange ‘people.'

“At the same time, pockets of people (and some governments) reacted as though acutely threatened. The assumption was that these beings were coming to take over, or unduly influence, the world and that the appropriate response was to quickly build up corporate and individual defenses….

“All societies with access to television are transfixed by this event. Never-before-seen levels of global excitement and anxiety are experienced. The implications of this event cause an ultimate change in most every aspect of life on Earth.

“One of the hardest-hit groups are conservative religious organizations, for whom this event does not fit into their relatively narrow explanation of reality. This, perhaps the biggest event in history, causes religious leaders to scramble to explain (and in some cases, modify) theology to fit this new situation.

“Although some groups see the benefit of the new visitors in terms of new technology that can be made into weapons, many others see it as a hope for solving some of the very serious, intractable problems the world is confronted with at that time. Energy production is of particular interest.”
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All of which may be true. But is open contact a viable scenario? We have learned that many types of aliens populate the cosmos—including Earth. A number of these races, such as those involved in the hybridization programs, definitely do not have our best interests at heart. And those who are “on our side” in such matters evince an understandable reluctance to engage with us
en masse
. We remain a relatively primitive bunch. As Daniel Fry, a pioneer rocket technician whose first encounter took place in 1949, was informed by his alien contact:

“If we were to appear as members of a superior race, coming from above to lead the people of your world, we would seriously disrupt the ego balance of your civilization. Tens of millions of your people, in their desperate need to avoid being demoted to second place in the universe, would go to any conceivable length to disprove or deny our existence.

“If we took steps to force the realization of our reality upon their consciousness, then about thirty percent of these people would insist upon considering us as gods, and would attempt to place upon us all responsibility for their own welfare. Of the remaining seventy percent, most would consider
that we were potential tyrants who were planning to enslave their world, and many would immediately begin to seek means to destroy us.

“If any great and lasting good is to come from our efforts, the actual leaders must be your own people, or it must come from men who are indistinguishable from them.”
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Non-Disclosure

In November 2011, two petitions with over seventeen thousand signatories were sent to the White House, one demanding immediate disclosure of “the government's knowledge of and communications with extraterrestrial beings.” Earlier that month, two petitions with similar aims were able together to garner the required number of signatures to gain a response.

“The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race,” responded Phil Larson from the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. “In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye.” While conceding the possibility of aliens and a variety of NASA projects aimed at searching for them, Larson stressed there was “no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.”

“Although it's an official White House statement, the nothing-to-see-here response is not likely to satisfy public interest,” reports journalist Conan Milner. “Despite similar statements, one petition cited opinion polls indicating that more than fifty percent of Americans believe there is an extraterrestrial presence, and more than eighty percent believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon.”
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Nikola Duper's unnamed participant in the Amicizia saga makes some apposite comments regarding disclosure. “The Friends never predicted anything about ‘disclosure day.' I never heard them speak about 2012, [which] so many people mention.” He added:

“At the end of the 1940s, the Friends offered their collaboration to the head of the U.S. administration. In exchange, they asked that the nuclear weaponry program be given up. But their offer and request were rejected, and other extraterrestrial populations have been collaborating with the USA
and other Powers. The results of this have been highly negative…. One of the reasons—there are others—which delay disclosure is the fact that the USA administration should assume responsibility before the whole planet for having refused a vital collaboration and for having activated another highly negative one, exclusively for the sake of power and domination, lying to citizens and covering up for decades.

“Following the American politico-military refusal, the Friends undertook the strategy consisting of confidential contacts with small groups of terrestrials, trying to emphasize the quality of human personal relationships….”
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The Royal Society and ET

In 2011, the
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
—the world's oldest scientific journal—devoted its edition of January 10 to speculation on alien life in the cosmos. American psychology professor Dr. Albert Harrison, for example, suggested that the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence “may be far less startling for generations that have been brought up with word processors, electronic calculators, avatars, and cell phones, as compared with earlier generations used to typewriters, slide rules, pay phones, and rag dolls.” Surveys suggested, he added, that half the population of America and Europe believes aliens exist, and that a “substantial proportion” was convinced alien spacecraft had already visited Earth.

Dr. Harrison also claimed that the discovery of alien life—should it happen any time soon—would be more likely to inspire delight than incite pandemonium here on Earth, he told SPACE.com. He added that, even if an alien civilization had become greedy and imperialistic, there's no guarantee it would be able to run roughshod over its neighbors.

“It's possible to have very acquisitive civilizations out there,” Harrison conceded. “Maybe they get to a certain point, but they may collapse or be beaten back.” He added a comment with which I concur: “No one civilization is necessarily going to take over, because there will be coalitions of other civilizations that will keep them in check.”
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At least, we hope so.

As for Dr. Harrison's claim that the discovery of aliens would be unlikely
to incite pandemonium, in the spring of 2010 a headline on the front page of
Al-Ghad
, a local newspaper in Jordan, stated that flying saucers flown by creatures ten feet tall had landed in the desert town of Jafr. Amid panic, the mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, put the security authorities on full alert. They searched the area, but found nothing. “I almost considered evacuating the town's thirteen thousand residents,” said Mleihan. “Students didn't go to school. People were scared the aliens would attack them.”

It turned out to have been an April Fool's Day hoax.
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Panic, however, has featured relatively rarely in actual public landings. Those reported in the U.K. and Australia in 1955 and 1966, respectively, for example (Chapter 5), engendered astonishment and wonder—but little panic. Predicated on cultural differences, perhaps?

“When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed,” states Col. Philip Corso, “it won't be frightening, even though it will be a shock.”
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The Problem

Gary S. Bekkum describes himself as an independent “occasional rogue journalist,” whose international network of contacts includes past and present intelligence officials interested, for example, in the application of exotic phenomena ranging from antigravity to mind-to-mind communication. Bekkum shares my conviction that, if the alien presence is real, the odds are against government disclosure—or at least, full disclosure. As he claimed in 2009:

“Among members of the Intelligence Community, the tale of the alien presence is known as the ‘core story' of contact between the aliens and the government. The strong rumor is there is a ‘disturbing' aspect to this ‘core story,' something so dire that it leaves battle-hardened military types shaking in their boots…. According to one of the intelligence officials who pursue the UFO topic (and many are at the highest levels of the government), the ‘core story' may fall outside of the president of the United States' ‘need to know.' …

“Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo astronaut who was the sixth man to walk on the Moon [Apollo 14], remains an outspoken supporter of the ‘core story' explanation for government secrecy. Mitchell spoke of
his contact with a ranking admiral with the Joint Chiefs who agreed to investigate the ‘core story' of alien contact and report back. Some reporters were miffed when Mitchell refused to disclose the name of the admiral, but Mitchell did provide to me confirmation that another report was ‘essentially correct.'