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as a direct threat to these national security priorities. The tension here is very real and will lead to further conflict in the future when it comes to extraterrestrials traveling in outer space or in the Earth's oceans. For example, just off the Hawaiian waters, we see this tension all too clearly in terms of the current battle between the US Navy and environmentalists over the thousands of marine mammals that are threatened by the Navy's active mid-frequency sonar training. Over 25,000 marine animals, whales, dolphins, etc., are scheduled to be 'taken' as a result of these exercises, which means they will be injured, killed, etc., as a result of the Navy's need to train personnel in the use of this 'active' sonar for the alleged purpose of tracking stealth diesel submarines possessed by rogue nations. The real purpose of this sonar training off the coast of Hawaii is threefold in my mind. One is to develop sonar capabilities to track Underwater Submersible Objects (USOs) that regularly operate in Hawaiian waters and are extraterrestrial in origin. The second is to devastate the cetaceans inhabiting the Hawaiian waters so their influence in terms of working with both humans and extraterrestrials is diminished. The third is to weaken the "consciousness grid" being developed in Hawaii where due to Hawaii's remoteness and progressive population, is far more flexible and open than virtually anywhere else on Earth to integrating ideas and technologies that are being seeded by extraterrestrial civilizations. So given these conflicting national security and peace initiatives, there is a real conflict here between civil society and the national security community that needs to be handled very sensitively. The third issue is what you describe as moving to phase two. I heartily endorse encouraging those in the national security community to enter into a genuine dialogue with members of civil society. I think we can better consider such an effort to be part of a dual-track process. One track will be civil society continuing to develop consensus in terms of what it envisages in terms of cooperation with extraterrestrials. So the ET Civilizations and World Peace conference will be held again for 2007 and more will be done in developing consensus over key areas of human ET interaction and how we can most encourage peaceful relations with extraterrestrials. An opportunity exists also for the forthcoming conference on Science, Spirituality and Transformation at Mt Adams, Washington State, being organized by the Sattwa Sanctuary and ECETI to contribute further ideas into this emerging process. Many of those present at the Hawaii conference will also be attending and the opportunity exists for ideas agreed to in Hawaii to be promoted through an action plan developed at Mt Adams. I encourage the general public to travel to Mt Adams and support the civil society process to promote peaceful relations with extraterrestrial civilizations. The ECETI conference website is: http://www.eceti.org/August2006Event.htm A second track will be to create dialogue between civil society and the national security community as you envisage. By both sides bringing their respective visions and priorities to the dialogue some consensus can be found as to what lies ahead. I think your effort to encourage this through individuals with sufficient resources to fund such a dialogue will be very constructive. That will be a major step forward insofar as key members of the national security community begin to directly interact with civil society in foray where resource asymmetries are not manipulated to the detriment or benefit of one side or the other. For example, some members from the national security community may choose to go to the forthcoming ECETI conference to genuinely be open to the ideas presented, and to meet with and establish lines of communication with members of civil society engaged in the track one process. 135