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witnessed US military personnel present during the abduction why would the government work so hard at denying it? experiences. What do you know about the abduction element in SURFING: Regarding these highly classified projects that you all of this? speak of involving US corporations: according to your research, MAYNARD: I was never exposed to any direct information were these corporations involved in "defensive" measures against on abductions. I knew that there were cases being investigated, the so-called "alien threat", backward engineering of captured or but I never saw any reports. On a personal note, I would have to shared alien technologies, or all of the above and more? What say that abductions have occurred and still are occurring today. can you tell us? Other than that, I do not believe I can offer anything further on MAYNARD: The Department of Defense has had an ongoing this matter. program since the mid-1950s, which provided contracts to US SURFING: Why do you think the aliens decided to interact civilian contractors/organisations/corporations that worked in the with the government, rather than directly with the people? intelligence community. These projects came under very tight MAYNARD: Over the years many statements have been writ- security and usually were very highly compartmentalised. What ten (fiction and/or nonfiction) concerning the best approach to this this means is that you have several concentric circles: the closer delicate subject, and I tend to agree with many of those state- you are to the inner circle, the more information you can find on ments. It is apparent that our species has been controlled to the the project; the further you get away from this inner circle, the large part by the government and media; whereas the Star Trek __less information is available. All this is established on a very "Prime Directive" is probably the most famous statement, and strict need-to-know basis. Within these circles you could, if you most agree it could be the most likely scenario. However, as looked hard enough, find contractors that worked on various parts beings being observed for at least the last several thousand years, of the project but really had no idea what the overall project was. give or take a millennium, it will probably be less of a surprise to —_—_ This also happened with the military's interaction with the prima- us in this day and age than previously thought; "Details at 11". ry contractor. Also in this respect, each military branch had cer- Yet, the factors with which we gov- tain projects that came under the com- ern ourselves do not exactly bring out partmentalisation security measures. the best part of us. Therefore, if I were What is meant by this compartmen- an alien studying this planet and its talisation is simply the classification societies, I might be a little apprehen- "Therefore, you can literally of a document or project, whether it is sive about charging into the open and ° ee ° classified as Confidential, Secret or announcing ny presence. T would talk with a top official In the Top Secret. However, when they are probably contact one, two or more of Pentagon but, unless he has named such as Umbra (UM), Majestic the major governments and work with h h ° A f h (MJ), Omni (OM), or Talent Keyhole them, and, when the time was right, the authorisation for that (TK), the compartmented program make a joint announcement and let his- particular project, he probably becomes an entity unto itself. The tory take its course. Still, regardless of projects and the circle of knowledge what one might say, once governmen- does not know that it exists." draw very tight toward the centre and tal contact was made and working access is granted or denied from with- arrangements had been ongoing, any in that circle. Therefore, you can lit- announcement might not be timely and erally talk with a top official in the might also be unproductive—that is, unti Pentagon but, unless he has the autho- it is apparent that disclosure is necessary. In these instances, the _risation for that particular project, he probably does not know that amount of the populace's knowledge is a big factor in determining it exists. If he does know it exists, he knows nothing about it. the proper time to make the announcement. Knowing the simple rules of classification helps in identifying the The other side of that coin might be that contact was made mil- _right person to talk with. lennia ago, and through design it was decided that an alien pres- SURFING: One of the planks in The Disclosure Project plat- ence would be counterproductive to our planetary society growth. form is "To enact legislation which will ban all space-based In that case, nondisclosure might be the best scenario. weapons". Do you believe projects like the planned US anti—mis- Then again, if the contact had a positive reception and disclo- sile defence program are somehow related to the extraterrestrials? sure had been made, interaction might be a common factor in our MAYNARD: My political view on this is, since we cannot get society and would no more be thought of than what you think of along with anyone on this planet, that we justify our choice of your neighbour. Some believe, as well—as I do—that we might — weapons with which to defend ourselves. My ideological view is have had an even better planetary society had acknowledgement __ that we should ban all of our weapons, throw out our monetary of contact occurred positively and openly from the beginning. systems, return to a bartering system and live in harmony with Primarily, you have to remember that contact is a two-way street; each other. Science should be shared with everyone, not just the both parties have to be in agreement with the action to achieve the _ privileged. best results. SURFING: But do you believe that some of these space-based SURFING: That perhaps the aliens have not revealed them- weapons are actually being designed to do battle with extraterres- selves directly to us so as not to affect our natural course? trials? If so, what effect will building them have on our "relation- MAYNARD: Truthfully, I am not sure if our government—or __ ship" with the aliens? the aliens—are the cause for the nondisclosure at this point, MAYNARD: Does anyone know? We officially have not although personally I feel that the former is the stronger _ been told that our government or any other government is in con- possibility. I firmly believe that if it were up to the aliens, tact with aliens. So how can we have a relationship? One can disclosure would have been made long ago. Why else would only speculate at this point. I firmly believe that we still have a there be so many open sightings, personal information from basic fear of ourselves, thus anything alien is a basic fear for all people all over the world and near-encounters with aliens? Also, humans. Those in power play on this point to maintain their need "Therefore, you can literally talk with a top official in the Pentagon but, unless he has the authorisation for that NEXUS ¢ 65 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com