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| File Name: | timetrav.txt |
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| Author: | Unknown |
| Date: | August 9, 1992 |
| Subject: | Time Travel |
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| Key Words: | ParaNet, UFO, Ufology |
This file was provided by ParaNet(sm) Information Service and its network of international affiliates. You may freely distribute this file as long as this header remains intact. Date Prepared: August 9, 1992 Contributed by: Vince Johnson/ParaNet Subscriber ============================================================ For further information on ParaNet(sm), contact: Michael Corbin ParaNet Information Service P.O. Box 172 Wheatridge, CO 80034-0172 or FidoNet 1:104/422 Internet mcorbin@scicom.alphacdc.com To request a files listing, request FILES or NEWFILES from 1:104/422 =========================================================== (C) 1992 ParaNet Information Service. All Rights Reserved Unless Copyrighted by Author. These files may not be excerpted unless prior arrangements are made with ParaNet. ============================================================ The following copyrighted article is courtesy of HUFON Report, the newsletter of the Houston UFO Network. It may be freely reprinted by non- profit publications so long as its source and author are attributed. For further information, call (713)850-1352. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time Travelers: A New Hypothesis
By Vince Johnson
The following hypothesis is based on the following assumptions:
a) A percentage of UFO reports are true.
b) A percentage of abduction accounts are true.
c) Despite over 40 years of UFO reports, we have acquired no hard data on the nature of UFOs and their occupants.
d) UFOs are a material, technical phenomenon, not metaphysical or supernatural events.
The most vexing aspect of the UFO phenomenon is the secrecy. Most researchers suspect that the U.S. government knows much more than they're telling. But if this is true, how can one explain the success that the government has had in keeping this important story under a veil of secrecy for over 40 years? Most cover-ups are ultimately exposed, but the UFO cover-up shows no sign of ever being revealed.
An incoming President and his new appointees would not suffer political embarrassment due to the cover-ups of their predecessors, especially if they were of different political parties. Someone in high office would have to be briefed at some point on this phenomenon, and surely not all could be expected to suppress this story. This leads me to believe that either the information is compartmentalized even from the President and his cabinet (in the words of Ollie North "..an independent off-the-shelf operation," free from scrutiny or oversight by our elected officials) or else nobody in the government has any idea what's going on regarding UFOs.
As someone familiar with the gamut of UFOlogy, I have always been struck by the sensational nature of UFO reports, combined with the paucity of hard data on the phenomenon. Unfortunately, the luminaries of UFOlogy know little more about the actual nature of the phenomenon than the casual reader of supermarket tabloids. After a generation of sightings, close encounters, and research by cadres of dedicated UFOlogists, we are still no closer to the truth.
There is only one explanation; our Visitors must want it that way.
We've all read the abduction accounts where the Visitors can materialize through solid walls, induce parahypnotic states in abductees and witnesses, and create false screen memories of the event. It could very well be that our Visitors actually prevent any revelation of UFO information through fear and intimidation of just a few well placed political, military, or intelligence personnel, or by deleting the knowledge of Visitor activity through some sophisticated psycho-neural technique, possibly involving the implants reported so often by abductees. Whatever the method, it is likely that this story could not be successfully contained without the active participation of our Visitors.
Why would our Visitors feel the need for secrecy? They obviously can come and go at will, and do whatever they want to whomever they want, whenever they want. It is possible that the UFO phenomenon represents a metaphysical process that we as organic, material beings are incapable of understanding, and that our government is just as mystified as the rest of us. But I think there is a theory that could go far in explaining many of the puzzling aspects of the phenomenon.
The Visitors could be humans (or their robot/cyborg agents) from a distant future.
The two primary reasons that I think this may be a viable explanation are the apparent harvesting of human genetic samples (and hybrid fetuses) during abduction events, and the Visitors' apparent desire for secrecy.
Nature has always been a cruel but efficient monitor of human evolution, promoting constant, minutely incremental improvement in the species. Individuals with defects or mutations that detracted from their survivability did not live to reproduce those changes. Individuals whose mutations enhanced their survivability reproduced and passed those changes along to the gene pool. As medical technology improves, natural selection becomes less of an evolutionary factor. It is easy to imagine that after a few thousand years of breeding without the quality control mechanism of natural selection that a species (including Homo Sapiens) could lose its genetic viability.
Eugenics (or selective breeding to strengthen the species' survival traits) has long been reviled, generally equated with the atrocities of the Nazi extermination camps. Considering the revulsion that the subject currently engenders, it may be that our Visitors waited until it was too late for a selective breeding program and had to begin a more radical program to acquire viable genetic material.. from their past.
Interestingly, the scale of the Visitors' efforts may provide a clue to their true motivations. The number of genetic specimens taken by our Visitors would seem too large for a purely academic study of the human organism. The huge number of abduction cases (up to 2% of the population by some estimates) could indicate that a planet-wide genetic engineering project is underway somewhere, or sometime.
If the Visitors are time travelers from the future, it would explain their need for secrecy.
Time travel paradoxes are a staple of science fiction. You go back in time, accidentally cause some small change to come about in the past, and that small change affects the future with unpredictable and possibly cataclysmic results. Changes that could cause time paradox effects would be of three types; intervention, artifacts, and information. Being abducted from one's bed at night and returned with no conscious memory of the event is an intervention, but if there is no valid information received the time paradox effect could be minimal. If an artifact were recovered from a time traveling UFO from the future, it would not be the artifact itself but the information gleaned from it that could disrupt the linear flow of time.
The Visitors have been very successful in limiting the amount of hard data that we are able to acquire about them. The descriptions of UFOs (size, shape, color, etc.) are about as diverse as the witnesses who observe them. The resulting inconsistencies of reports may be by design. It is obvious to anyone familiar with UFO contactee accounts that the Visitors seem to go out of their way to further confuse the issue. The myriad descriptions of the entities themselves, and the bogus platitudes, prophesies, purposes, and places of origin that they reportedly communicate to contactees hinders any attempt to correlate the data.
The Visitors could be deliberately adding so much "noise" that the "signal" is lost.
Many abductees/contactees have described the Visitors as being "robot like." Perhaps this is true. Using robots to interact with human subjects could be much safer for them. Should any of these entities ever be captured, they could be programmed to reveal no information, and to even self-destruct into a protoplasmic goo before any analyses could be begun on a specimen.
Anecdotal accounts of UFOs and their occupants may tantalize and intrigue us, but we (as private researchers) have not yet acquired any significant confirmable, scientifically validated information about the events. Again, much noise, no signal. If this hypothesis is correct, our Visitors must maintain a total information blackout to protect their present (our future) from unpredictable and possibly cataclysmic changes. There could be a direct correlation between how much we actually know about the Visitors and the probability of time paradox effects.
This hypothesis addresses some of the fundamental mysteries of the UFO phenomenon, however, there are several questions left unanswered:
- If the Visitors are capable of time travel, why take genetic samples at this state of human cultural/technical development? If secrecy needs to be preserved, why not take samples from modern Homo Sapiens during the prehistoric era? After all, modern mass communications make the possibility of public awareness of the Visitors' activity much more likely today than during the stone age. Could the current stage of human development represent a balance between genetic vigor and domesticity?
- Why would the possessors of such super technology not be able to simply genetically alter any organism at will? Could they need some metaphysical or spiritual quality not obtainable through synthetic genetic engineering?
- Since we are able to obtain limited anecdotal information about the Visitors, does this mean there is some threshold of information that we can acquire without triggering time paradox effects?
- Reports of UFO crash retrievals such as the Roswell incident would tend to conflict with the time travel hypothesis. On the other hand, while the eyewitness reports and the Army's initial press release are fairly convincing, there is still no hard, irrefutable evidence available (at least to non-governmental investigators) that the Roswell crash ever occurred. And if it did actually happen, how could the story be kept secret for so long?
Do I believe the time travel hypothesis? Not necessarily. I haven't got a clue as to answers for the questions listed above. All I have tried to do is construct a theory based on what little we do know of the UFO phenomenon.
I don't accept the theories that the Visitors are here to conquer us, enslave us, use us for food, etc. These objectives would be all too easy for any species with the super technology exhibited by our Visitors. So far, they apparently want to accomplish their mission with as little interaction with us as possible. The time travel scenario is at least a rational explanation for both the inconsistencies in the data concerning the UFO phenomenon, and the events described by abductees.
Then again, what is rational for our Visitors may be total nonsense to us.
Copyright 1992 The Houston UFO Network
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