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James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation." Gray studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his B.S. in Engineering Mathematics (Math and Statistics) in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1969. He was the first recipient of a Ph.D. from Berkeley's Computer Science Department. Gray pursued his career primarily working as a researcher and software designer at a number of industrial companies, including IBM, Tandem Computers, and DEC. He was a Technical Fellow for Microsoft Research in San Francisco from 1995 on. Gray contributed to several major database and transaction processing systems, including the System R while at IBM, TerraServer-USA and Skyserver for Microsoft. Among his best known achievements are granular database locking, two-tier transaction commit semantics, and the data cube operator for data warehousing applications. Could the strange disappearance of Mr. Gray be related to the intervention into our world by the extraterrestrials that have a specific purpose and task to perform? The extraterrestrials have ““Vetoed” the use of nuclear weapons. “Casper” was in the phone lines in 1992 and told me that he was “Software blocking missiles.” The question arises “did Mr. Gray use his high level technical skills and abilities to attempt to program missiles that the extraterrestrials could then not control?” Here is a UFO sighting to consider:_14-Jan-2003, Whitehorse: 7:45am A man was driving to work Tuesday morning and coming down Mountainview Drive. The lights of Whitehorse could be seen in the foreground but a very bright stationary light caught the man's attention up in front of Gray Mountain. He watched it for about 5 seconds, looked at the road in front of him and turned his gaze back to the light on the Mountain. The light was still there. It remained motionless for about a ie 34 second then it moved in sort of a half circle and then up into the cloud toward the northwest (toward Lake Laberge). "It was gone in a second,"