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has kept quiet about alien visits. It would be arrogant of an American like myself to assume that ETs would only choose to visit our existing secret technology that what might look like an alien craft may well turn out to be a top-secret military plane. On the other hand, the craft may be an alien spaceship. Personally, however, I'd say yes, it's quite possible we are currently being visited. life-forms need not be ‘little green men’. The scientists’ definition of intelligent life is whether or not it can use and manage information. Even the most primitive microbes on Earth qualify by that defini- tion, and surely there are, at the very least, similar microbes thriving on planets throughout the universe. If you are starting to think that walking on the Moon addled my brain and that I'll believe any old crank theory about ETs, think again. my country. Indeed, I've heard convincing stories about governments all over the world— including the British Government—that know of alien visits. Not all governments are anxious to keep their findings quiet. The Belgians have admitted that aliens may be out there, and have released information about sightings that cannot be explained away as military planes, weather phenomena and so on. There is a very simple reason why gov- ernments have been so secretive: fear. he whole question of extraterrestrials should be looked at in an historical context. Five hundred years ago, the astronomer Copernicus was condemned as a heretic for saying that planet Earth wasn't the centre of the universe but merely a small part of it. Now we laugh at those long-dead fools for not listening to the truth. People who believe in aliens aren't all cranks, and some may be looked upon in the future as visionaries similar to Copernicus. Meanwhile, the majority of us still believe mankind is the biological cen- tre of the universe. We will refuse to accept that intelligent life exists outside Earth unless we person- ally bump into an alien while we're doing the shopping. Is this attitude really any different from those 'simpletons' of 500 years ago? My training at NASA only allows me to look at things scientifically. Even if I had not been shown evidence of alien landings on Earth, the assumption must be that somewhere in the universe another planet is capable of supporting alien life. Those would describe myself as a cynic. I was not convinced about the existence of aliens until I started talking to the military old-timers who were there at the time of Roswell. The more government documen- tation on aliens I was told about, the more convinced I became. It must be stressed that the wackier peo- ple on the fringe of alien matters do the subject no end of damage. Contrary to rumour, there are no alien buildings and structures on the Moon. I should know—I was there! I even became caught up in these rumours when a theory started that a Moon ‘structure’ was reflected on my helmet dur- ing TV transmissions of my landing. That just isn't true. It's that kind of disinforma- tion which stops credible people admitting that they, too, believe in aliens. Thankfully, things are changing for the better. It's a snowball effect: the more sci- entists admit that ETs are a viable prospect, the more they are investigated in a scientif- ic manner. And the more that happens, the more chance there is of our discovering inarguable proof of extraterres' It helps, too, that those in possession of documentation of alien visits to Earth are starting to come forward. The military people I spoke to are tired of the secrecy surrounding Roswell and similar cases, particularly as the information is being leaked. I firmly believe that this documentation will have to be made public within the next three or four years. And if proof of ETs is finally made public, nobody will be happi- er than me. What I don't think will happen is that I will ever see an extraterrestrial. I'd love to see one, though it's not the biggest priority in my life. But, as they say on a TV show I'm associated with, the truth is out there. (Source: John Earls, The People, London, 25 October 1998) odern UFO sightings really began with the Roswell incident in 1947, when a crashed craft containing the corpses of several aliens was found in Roswell, New Mexico. Make no mistake...Roswell happened. I've seen secret files which show the government knew about it, but decided not to tell the public. There were very good security reasons for not informing the public about Roswell. Quite simply, we wouldn't have known how to deal with the technology of intelli- gent beings advanced enough to send a craft to Earth. The world would have pan- icked if we'd known aliens were visiting us. The question of whether or not aliens are still visiting us is more complex. Such is G)\2 a cA! Ct othe, ‘A en) ~_V oft i alee A AU 60 + NEXUS DECEMBER 1998 - JANUARY 1999