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FOREWORD and-file members of his international organization. In presenting Rael's story briefly to a world radio audience as just one aspect of the complex UFO phenomenon, I observed the time-honored journalistic practice of impartial detachment - but here I have no hesitation in publicly declaring my conviction that Rael has written books of the utmost importance and significance for our understanding of ourselves and the known universe in which we live. If that is so, it is legitimate to ask, why are the contents of this book not yet universally known and accepted in the world some thirty-two years after the first of them was made public? In short, there was a sharp flurry of public interest in France after Rael announced the outline of what he had been told on a television chat show as soon as he finished his first book. But somehow the remarkable story did not immediately gain widespread acceptance in Europe, nor did it travel further abroad at that time along normal news channels. One explanation for this is that the national and international news media 4 eae : . tea are curiously conservative in their approach to reporting news which is unprecedented. Well worn clichéd stories that are safe and reliable always find their way into broadcast bulletins and newspapers while anything truly radical appears to go through a long period of being reported scoffingly if at all. Decrying the likely truth of unprecedented information is a seemingly knee-jerk ploy which many journalists habitually employ over and over again to avoid any suspicion that they or their organization are gullible. To a large extent this has been happening to Rael's extraordinarily important information over the past thirty years or so, and the world's media has generally so far failed to inform its public about it very widely. There are some signs, however, that this is beginning to change at long last. This is to be welcomed since in my considered view the contents of this book constitute a front-page, banner headline, top- of-the-bulletin story which has never been given its due global prominence. Little by little as the years since 1973 have passed, new scientific discoveries have confirmed the veracity of Rael's originally startling information. When proven to be fully true, the body of information that is presented in the following pages will, I feel