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In 1960 this was probably an accurate assessment of the situation. Indeed, the reality of UFOs and alien visitors was still a far-off notion to most people, the stuff of science fiction. Such a revelation—the existence of a race of superior alien entities—by official government sources would likely have wreaked havoc on the establishment and populace of that time. However, at the end of the 20th century, we have been conditioned by an unparalleled media fixation with UFOs and extraterrestrials. Now more than 75 percent of Americans believe extraterrestrials exist and have been visiting us for millennia. Furthermore, millions believe that they are our benevolent space brothers who, through their vastly superior technology, are capable of rescuing us from our current predicament. The dramatic shift in our perceived threat by extraterrestrial life has been highlighted by a number of recent events. On August 6, 1996, when NASA administrator Daniel Goldin announced to the world that a panel of prestigious scientists had found evidence of microscopic life in an ancient meteorite from the planet Mars, the overwhelming reaction was one of rejoicing. Rather than feeling threatened, the media and scientific establishments of the world greeted the announcement as the greatest discovery of the millennia! Although it was only "circumstantial evidence" of microscopic life, the implications were staggering, according to the "experts." They insisted that if the discovery by NASA scientists stood the test of time and intense scrutiny, life "is likely to be abundant in the cosmos." The shift in attitude was also highlighted by a recent event in Israel. On January 6, 1997, thousands of Israelis stood on a beach in Haifa, Israel, to greet our space brothers who, they were told, would land that night and make the "first open con-tact" with mankind. This prophecy was given by the popular Israeli psychic Helinor Harar. Like a scene out of the movie Independence Day, they stood for hours awaiting the contact. As music from the X-Files was played, Ms. Harar shouted, "Israel will be the center of UFO landings!" Many in the crowd carried signs asking their space brothers to beam them up! However, instead of being vaporized by an alien beamship on a skyscraper in Los Angeles, the restless crowd was bitterly disappointed. At one point the crowd was whipped into a frenzy when an air-plane made a low approach nearby. When they realized that it was a terrestrial craft, many in the crowd wept bitterly. The conditioning by the media and educational establishments has not gone unnoticed by our "space brothers." In fact, according to some authors, this conditioning was carefully orchestrated by them to ease the transition to "ET reality." In the spring 1994 issue of Connecting Link Magazine, Yvonne Cole, another channel of the Ashtar command, clearly stated that the governments of the world have been working with "light workers" of the New Age movement to condition the world for the impending contact: "Very soon your government, with the assistance of our Starseeds, will reveal to the world at large a truth that they have heretofore been guarding most effectively. Your government and the governments of the other countries have been inter-acting with what you call extraterrestrials for many years.... The public is now ready for the truth. The conditioning by television, newspapers, books, radio, and most importantly the light workers, has done its job and now it is safe to reveal to the inhabitants of planet Earth that WE ARE HERE.” 115 Unfortunately, as far as we can tell, the events foretold in the article entitled "We Will