Why We Should Immediately Prepare for an Alien Invasion
Although mainstream media coverage of UFOs has been more robust than ever as of late, it is imperative that we raise awareness of the imminent danger of extraterrestrials to a much greater degree. In most instances, raising the threat of alien lifeforms as a topic of discussion will yield a hearty chuckle. But if it can be demonstrated that experts in the field of aliens have rational concerns about the threat they pose, shouldn’t that justify more concern from the general public?
The coronavirus pandemic has been a harsh reminder to many of the negative effects of disease on all aspects of life. As of May 12, 2021, more than 160 million cases have been confirmed, with more than 3.32 million deaths attributed to COVID-19, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history. Given the epic magnitude of this suffering, the public has been relatively justified in the altering of their behavior throughout the midst of the pandemic. By now, you might ask, “What does this have to do with aliens?”
Aliens are typically depicted as having human-like characteristics. The Greys, for example, have the same number of eyes and limbs as people do. But aliens are simply extraterrestrial life. This life could exist in the form of a disease.
Consider this tidbit of information that was reported by Charles Koi for UPI Sciences News on May 22, 2003:
“A group of British scientists proposed Thursday the organism that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome might have originated in outer space. This extraordinary theory, appearing in a letter to the May 24 issue of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, suggests, “if these bugs are coming from space, a scheme to monitor the stratosphere could be important,” astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe, director of the Cardiff Center for Astrobiology, told United Press International.”[1]
The renowned scientist Stephen Hawking also expressed his thoughts on the dangers of extraterrestrial life:
“Stephen Hawking recently spoke to the media regarding the existence of extra-terrestrial intelligent beings and why we as humans would be wise to avoid contact with them: according to Hawking, these beings could have the same impact upon us as Columbus did when he first visited the New World. Does this mean that aliens would obliterate us through the use of some high-powered weapons which we would not be able to compete against? Not necessarily. What it does mean is this: that the aliens might bring some unknown disease with them that we have no immunity to, no knowledge of, and could die as the result of contact with the aliens. This may seem farfetched, but that is exactly what happened when the first Europeans decided to settle the North American continent: smallpox, the flu, the bubonic plague, and pneumonia. That is quite a variety of diseases to bring to a new continent, a people such as the Native Americans who had no knowledge of the diseases — and the natives were far from ignorant in using herbal remedies to contend with known diseases — who eventually died in droves. Since Native Americans had no immunity to the diseases introduced to them, they died. While historical experts remain doubtful that the settlers deliberately infected the natives, there was no sanitation in those days where the water and land could be purified through a filter. Imagine this on a larger scale, where a planet replaces a continent, and a traveling race of aliens are seeking a new home that is sustainable to their life form. In the event an alien race did have the means to travel light years to our planet, a race that may very well resemble people like us, though with a slightly different genetic makeup that allows them to live twice as long as us, how would we respond, if we could, to something this devastating?”[2]
While the public is currently fighting off a severely deadly SARS virus, now is the perfect time to mount a gigantic awareness campaign to inform the world of the potential dangers of killer viruses from space. The costs of implementing a monitoring program for space viruses is low relative to the brunt of another (perhaps deadlier) pandemic. In fact, NASA already has planetary protection officers that could be assigned for such work if we direct the bureaucrats in Washington to start prioritizing our safety. Is it so crazy to think that we should be spending more money preventing deadly space viruses than going back to the moon?
A possible solution for an alien threat could reside in the area of high-energy laser weapons. Recent advances in this technology have rendered development costs to be rather miniscule. A twenty-platform space-based laser-only constellation will cost between $17 billion to $29 billion.[3] This is just a penny in the bucket when you consider the total allocation of funds to our federal defense budget. Again, would it not be worth it to redirect some wasteful spending to mitigate the risk of a potentially catastrophic alien attack?
Another argument you should consider is that building a mechanism for global alien defense could dramatically bolster our economy. This would be true independent of whether or not aliens are a threat. Paul Krugman, who is a Nobel Prize for Economics winner, floated this idea a decade ago:
“Paul Krugman is so frustrated by the lack of support for another round of stimulus spending that he’s now calling for a fake alien invasion of the United States to spur a World War II-style defense buildup. Krugman was a guest on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on Sunday. Speaking with Zakaria and Harvard economist Ken Rogoff, he made the same case he has been making for years — that deficits are not the top economic concern of the day. Krugman noted that the effort of World War II helped end the Great Depression, and joked that something similar was needed today. “If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months,” he said. “And then if we discovered, oops, we made a mistake, there aren’t any aliens, we’d be better — “[4]
The United States could potentially reap significant economic benefits by providing international security. This is an area where the United States could potentially catapult themselves back into the frontrunner position for global hegemon of the 21st century. Peter Garretson, who served as Chief, Future Science and Technology Exploration Branch at the Headquarters of the United States Air Force Future Concepts and Transformation program alluded to many potential benefits of such an effort:
“Some detractors have stated that a planetary-defense program is too expensive for the United States to bear alone and that it belongs in the international arena. Although they make a reasonable point, several considerations remain. First, for such a critical survival issue, the United States should not find itself at the mercy of an internationally delayed or incomplete plan. Second, international cooperation would still imply using US resources but with less US control. Third, significant national security reasons exist for having the United States pursue this capability for the defense of others. America has an interest in preserving its democratic civilization and maintaining international security. The United States reaps significant economic benefits by providing international security. We have the most to gain by maintaining security and the most to lose if it fails. By visibly pursuing the capability to defend the planet, we make ourselves increasingly essential to international security. Furthermore, we will likely have to pay the bill anyway. The humanitarian crisis that could ensue from an impact with a 300-meter asteroid could easily dwarf the Asian tsunami of 2004. The humanitarian supply, airlift, sealift, and rebuilding costs would be staggering. Economic losses to US investors, huge costs to US insurers, and a possible recession or depression resulting from the loss of a city or nation would likely occur. Despite concerns about the expense of developing such a planetary-defense system, it would translate into a competitive advantage for the United States. Solving difficult problems would create US intellectual capital, industrial capacity, and new technical areas of leadership critical to maintaining our lead in space. The technology needed to protect the planet offers other advantages besides a contingency plan. Technologies that appear promising for planetary defense are also attractive for civil and defense applications, which include rapid and responsive high-capacity launchers, high-thrust rockets, long-duration power supply, and autonomous docking.”[5]
By achieving hegemony through a unilateral planetary defense effort, the United States could drastically improve the world by wielding the power to shape it in its image. Robert Kagan, an expert on defense, has this to say regarding American hegemony:
“In truth, the benevolent hegemony exercised by the United States is good for a vast portion of the world’s population. It is certainly a better international arrangement than all realistic alternatives. To undermine it would cost many others around the world far more than it would cost Americans — and far sooner. As Samuel Huntington wrote five years ago, before he joined the plethora of scholars disturbed by the “arrogance” of American hegemony: “A world without U.S. primacy will be a world with more violence and disorder and less democracy and economic growth than a world where the United States continues to have more influence than any other country shaping global affairs.” The unique qualities of American global dominance have never been a mystery, but these days they are more and more forgotten or, for convenience’ sake, ignored. There was a time when the world clearly saw how different the American superpower was from all the previous aspiring hegemons. The difference lay in the exercise of power. The strength acquired by the United States in the aftermath of World War II was far greater than any single nation had ever possessed, at least since the Roman Empire. America’s share of the world economy, the overwhelming superiority of its military capacity — augmented for a time by a monopoly of nuclear weapons and the capacity to deliver them — gave it the choice of pursuing any number of global ambitions.”
If you still are not convinced that defending ourselves from extraterrestrial attacks is sound policy, perhaps you should be concerned about the fact that world governments are hiding all sorts of information regarding aliens from the public. Martin Gottschall, who is an Australian Ufology expert stated the following:
“The UFO phenomenon seems to impact on all nations and cultures in much the same way, and in this respect it seems to be a truly global phenomenon. The following are some of the “basic” statistics that have emerged over the years. All our historical and prehistoric records contain references to recognisable UFO’s or “Flying Saucers”, indicating that the phenomenon has always been with us. This however does not mean that the same visitors have been coming, or that their purpose has always been the same. About 2% to 4% of the population is believed to have experienced alien abductions. These tend to recur many times in the person’s life, and tend to follow family trees. Genetic factors seem to be important in selection for abductions, and the maintenance of an alien population seems to be a governing motivation of this alien activity. Since abductees generally experience many abductions, and since the sighting of a UFO is not uncommon during such episodes, it may be surmised that at least a sizeable fraction of those reporting multiple UFO sightings are also abductees. Only a very small percentage of abductees seem to be consciously aware of this aspect of their experiences. When these statistics are viewed together, we can see more clearly how the policy of “silence” practiced by our authorities and institutions has hidden the sheer size of the impact of the UFO phenomenon on mankind. Clearly something big is going on, which the general public does not realise or understand, and yet we are most intimately involved.”[6]
Perhaps the “lack” of physical evidence of aliens is the only thing hanging you up at this point? Just do a simple Google Search for countless UFO videos that depict advanced technologies never before seen by any governmental agency. The Air Force pilot who was present for the famous Roswell incident claimed that the Roswell aliens are real as well:
“Sixty years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, at a height of around 10,000 feet. Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft. Visibility was good, and as pilot Kenneth Arnold scanned the sky to find the source of the light, he saw a group of nine shiny metallic objects flying in formation. The headlines screamed: “Flying Disc captured by Air Force”. Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed its story and claimed the object it had first thought was a “flying disc” was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch. But last week came an astonishing new twist to the Roswell mystery.
Lt. Walter Haut was the public-relations officer at the base in 1947 and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Col. William Blanchard. Haut died in December 2005, but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death. Last week, the text was released. It asserts that the weather-balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar. He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies. He wasn’t the first Roswell witness to talk about alien bodies. Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized coffins. When he arrived at the base, he was apparently told by a nurse (who later disappeared) that a UFO had crashed and that small humanoid extraterrestrials had been recovered.”[7]
In order to THRIVE! we need to protect our planet and our people. It is of utmost importance. And how can we do that if we are perpetually lied to by our own governments?
[1] http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2003/05/22/Did-SARS-come-from-outer-space/UPI-84051053643200/
[2] Mary Thatcher, B.A. in Eastern Studies from University of Arizona and B.A. in History from Saint Joseph College. “Can Extra Terrestrials Harm Us Through Disease?” http://tinyurl.com/6s56qho
[3] William, Lt. Col. In the United States Air Force and head of Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. April 1998. “Laser Weapons in Space: A Critical Assessment
[4] Jack Mirkinson, writer and blogger at “The Huffington Post”. Paul, professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Nobel Prize for Economics winner. “Alien Invasion Would End Economic Slump” http://tinyurl.com/3qp2ns2
[5] http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj08/fal08/garretson.html
[6] Martin Gottschall, Australian Ufology expert has PhD. “UFO Statistics” http://www.uforq.asn.au/articles/statistics.html)
[7] FOX News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287643,00.html — July 3, 2007)
