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(5339)  Mon 15 Jun 92 12:15p
By: Jon Roland
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Re: Caution For Ufo Investigators
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From: jdr@starflight.Corp.Sun.COM (Jon Roland)
Date: 15 Jun 92 05:50:13 GMT
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CAUTION
for UFO Investigators

Copyright (c) 1991 Jon Roland

There is an old saying, "Be careful what
you ask for. You might get it." It applies to
UFO investigators, most of whom are
motivated to try to find out what is behind
what so many people are reporting by a
mixture of curiosity, fear, and a nagging
suspicion that we are not being told
something that we have a right to know. The
UFO mystery has emerged as perhaps the
major unsolved mystery of our time that is
not being openly researched by organized,
governmentally supported science.

One family of hypotheses concerning this
subject, first advanced by Charles Fort, one
version of which I have discussed elsewhere
(see "Speculations on UFO Technology and
Operations"), supposes that at least one, and
perhaps many, alien races are based in the
vicinity of Earth, perhaps underground, and
have been for a long time; and that lifeforms
on the surface of Earth, including ourselves,
are the subject of long-term study and
perhaps experimentation by at least one of
those races.

The importance of this hypothesis is that, if
valid, it could be dangerous to verify it,
either for the investigator and his friends, or
even for humanity as a whole.

Much speculation on alien visitors tends to
suppose that they are occasional visitors to
Earth, based elsewhere, who regard us as
less developed than themselves, but who still
respect us as fellow sentients that may
someday join them among the family of
spacefaring civilizations. This may be
wishful thinking, a projection of our
attitudes toward primitive peoples in recent
history. We must consider the possibility
that they rather regard us as we regard
laboratory rats, with little or no sympathy,
as things which exist for their edification or
amusement, and which they are prepared to
manipulate or terminate when it suits their
purposes to do so.

If their purposes are scientific, then our
continued existence may depend on us
remaining interesting to their scientific
studies.

Experimenters don't care whether rats know
about them, because rats can't discuss their
situation among themselves, or contemplate
different ways of behaving that are affected
by their knowledge of the existence of the
experimenters and their purposes. Rats that
developed the ability to do that during an
experiment would thereby become useless
for behavioral studies. It would be a classic
case of the problem of the subject being
excessively altered by the act of observation.

Although there is already a widespread
belief among people that UFOs are evidence
of alien beings, the lack of official
acknowledgement that they are at least
leaves most people not behaving much
differently than they would if they were
unaware of the phenomenon -- much like
rats. Proof of the existence of aliens and of
their role in our fate could change that
situation suddenly. Before we find such
proof, we need to consider the consequences
of finding and disclosing it.

We also need to consider the role of our
species among other surface lifeforms,
which may also be the subject of alien study
and experimentation. Our unchecked growth
is threatening to destroy those other
lifeforms, and ultimately, destroy us as well.
If the study is very long-term, over geologic
time, then even though our species might be
more interesting than the rest, we threaten to
make the situation on the surface less
interesting for study. One might ask why
aliens have let us go as far as they have. By
almost any reasonable standard of
experimental practice, we should have been
cut back or eliminated long ago, or at least
modified into a form that is not as
disruptive. The fact that such intervention is
long overdue suggests that it may be
imminent. The question then is what form it
might take.

Alien experimenters might consider our
species salvageable if it were cut back in
numbers, and perhaps modified in its
destructive behavior, especially if they could
find a way to do so that would not reveal
their existence, if they could, perhaps, make
it look to us like an accident. Intervention to
that effect would be bad enough from our
viewpoint, and perhaps even a blessing from
the viewpoint of future generations, but
what happens if, before such intervention is
accomplished, we find out about them and
what they are doing? Would we be of any
further use to them as subjects of study?
Any of us?

There are two long-standing questions about
government coverups of the evidence of
aliens: How could governments keep such a
secret, and keep it so long? And why would
they be so determined to keep it a secret
from the public? If the above hypothesis is
valid, then the answer is clear, and their
coverup is fully justified!

UFO investigators may be harmless enough
while they don't have any real solid
evidence to work with, and don't get any
real results, but what happens if some of
them get lucky, or unlucky, and actually
come up with proof that can't be ignored?
UFO investigators must consider that the
above hypothesis might be valid, and
prepare themselves, logistically and psycho-
logically, to immediately conceal proof that
they may acquire if it tends to confirm that
hypothesis, and to cooperate in keeping it
concealed if found by others. Once such
proof is obtained, there may be little time to
think about the consequences to humanity.
We need to do our thinking in advance, and
plan for that contingency.

This does not mean that we should not
continue to investigate and discuss the
subject. Such discussion, perhaps combined
with more ecologically responsible behavior,
might persuade hypothetical aliens to spare
at least some of us. It may turn out that they
do not regard us as theirs to dispose of, or
that, by our behavior, we might convince
them to change the way they regard us, in
the direction of greater respect. It is worth
a try. There is no downside if this hypo-
thesis and response is wrong. If it is right,
we have an immense responsibility that we
need to take very seriously.

Many people are discouraged by the
prospects for trying to cope with either the
ecological crisis, or with aliens who may
hold our fates in their appendages.
However, the ecological crisis, at least, is
solvable in principle. It does not require
knowledge or resources we don't have. It
only requires the willingness to sacrifice for
the good of future generations. We have
often seen such a willingness in times of
war. Now we need to find it when the
enemy is ourselves. I suspect that if we do,
we might also find ourselves being regarded
by certain others with a new respect that
could make all the difference.

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jdr@starflight.corp.sun.com, starflt@uunet.uu.net
Jon Roland
Starflight Corporation, 1755 E Bayshore Rd #9A,
Redwood City, CA 94063-4142, 415/361-8141

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