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A third usage may surprise you: “acreature from outer — worked in the private sector research and development space". In fact, "creature" was used as a direct reference community involved in US government-sponsored to extraterrestrials in the "Proposed Studies on the projects for the Defense Nuclear Agency, Defense Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Intelligence Agency, US Army Intelligence and Security Affairs", often referred to as "the Brookings Report". | Command, and other organisations. This famous report was commissioned by NASA and For more information on Dr Jones’s background, visit created by the Brookings Institution. Hundreds of http://www.peaceroom.com/bio.htm. scholars were consulted, including two very famous US anthropologists: Professor Cora DuBois, Department of | The Treaty Introduction: Anthropology, Harvard University, and Margaret Mead, “The Outer Space Security and Development Treaty of Associate Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of — 2012 establishes a framework and procedures to assure Natural History. that space will be a neutral realm from which all classes of The point is this. The term “extraterrestrial” is self- | weapons are banned and from which no hostile action defining: “originating, located or occurring outside the shall be taken towards Earth or the surrounding Cosmos. Earth or its atmosphere". Earth humans would be “This Treaty invites Nation States to become Signatories extraterrestrials to citizens of Mars, and both would be to this Treaty and invites Parties, including Nation States, something created (creatures) and humans of their Indigenous Nations, and Cosmic Cultures, to commit to home planet. plan and assist in the orderly development and I have used the term "Visiting Others" because to me implementation of a framework and procedures that will it has a respectful connotation. Perhaps “the Ancestors” —_ assure and verify that space is and will remain a neutral would be both more accurate and realm from which all classes of certainly respectful. To forget or space-based weapons are banned not recognise one's ancestors is ee in perpetuity. o be a brook without a source, a “The Visiting Others, “This Treaty will put a lid on the ree without root. war industry and mindset while The Visiting Others, the the Ancestors, are more allowing it to be transformed. It Ancestors, are more than time than time travellers: recognizes that information and ravellers: they have learned to data gained and shared from control time; it is one of their they have learned to cooperative space exploration and most valuable tools. They can control time...” development will provide move any direction in time. If they unlimited benefits and hink this meeting is important to opportunities to all humankind in hem, they are here from the past, areas of health, education, the he present and the future. To them, the Vault of Time economy, mutual security, energy, and the as been opened for millennia. environment...as wars end. It acknowledges that we are This, too, is our future. If that is what you want, let us _ not alone in the universes, that there are Cosmic Cultures work together to achieve it. co that will be important allies for our security and development, and that our national and international About the Author: policies must reflect this reality.” Cecil B. Scott Jones, PhD, is founder and president of the For more information about the Treaty, visit the website Peace and Emergency Action Coalition for Earth (PEACE). —_http://www.peaceinspace.com. Tha wetaatnnl fen netan 26 DEACE ta tn Avinennn thn worked in the private sector research and development community involved in US government-sponsored projects for the Defense Nuclear Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, US Army Intelligence and Security Command, and other organisations. For more information on Dr Jones’s background, visit http://www.peaceroom.com/bio.htm. 39 mutual About the Author: Cecil B. Scott Jones, PhD, is founder and president of the Peace and Emergency Action Coalition for Earth (PEACE). The principal function of PEACE is to oversee the development of the global Center for Sustainable Peace and Development system. Previous to this, he was co- founder and president of the Human Potential Foundation. Established in 1989, it conducted research into all conditions of humankind—physiological, psychological and spiritual—to assist the individual to achieve the highest levels of human potential in body, mind and spirit in order to compete and cooperate with personal excellence throughout life. Prior to this position, Dr Jones was Special Assistant to Senator Claiborne Pell from January 1985 until March 1991. Retiring as a Commander in the US Navy, he spent approximately half of his 30-year naval career in intelligence service overseas and in the United States. In post-Navy careers he has taught at university level and Editor’s Note: This article by Dr C. B. Scott Jones is the text of the special announcement he made on 10 March 2012, titled “Disclosure of Earth and Extraterrestrial Contact: Challenges and Opportunities”. It was part of Project Mexo Hong Kong’s International Exopolitics Virtual Conference. For more information about Project Mexo Hong Kong, go to http://projectmexohk.weebly.com. For additional background relevant to the Treaty, see John Lasker’s two-part article “America’s Emerging Space Weapons Arsenal” in NEXUS 18/03-04. The text of the Outer Space Security and Development Treaty was published in NEXUS 18/06. The Treaty was developed by members of the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space (ISCOS); see http://www.peaceinspace.com. APRIL - MAY 2012 NEXUS ¢ 57 “The Visiting Others, the Ancestors, are more than time travellers: they have learned to control time...” www.nexusmagazine.com