MOD file DEFE 24/2032/1

A/SPC/33/SRi.36
English '
Pae;e 3
(J::Ir. Friedman, Grenada)
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of nuclear weapons, rockets and electronics, man had become of interest to other,
advanced civilizations. Naturally, such civilizations vrould be concerned with their
own survival and security and would therefore wish to be informed of the activities
of another civilization vhich was just bec;innine space travel,; it was therefore clear
that the UFOs were obtaining data for their own purposes, actin3 as a kind of galactic
. ·'federation intell1gence agency.
4. People also wondered why UFOs did not make contact. He suggested that there was
no one leader with whom such alien beings could make contact. vfuereas the smallest
reasonable political unit on a galactic neighbourhood basis was a planet or a solar
system, from the alien viewpoint man 1 s was a primitive society whose major activity
was tribal warfare; it would make no more sense for alien beings to speak to
individual countries than for the United Nations to address individual cities.
5. Some people were worried at the significance of flying saucers and wondered why,
in the light of the importance of questions of peace, survival and hunger, people
should concern themselves 't·Tith such matters. He suggested that man r s very survival
mig'ht depend on his taking an earthling orientation. The easiest t..;ay of doing so ;.ras
for him to try to see himself as others smr him. From up abovP., coming into the
planet Earth, there 'tlere no boundary lines. Acceptance of oneself as an earthlinG
vrould become natural when it 't.Jas. recognized that the planet Earth vras being visited.
6. Tnere were also practical aspects such as the significance of man 1 s acquiring
motive propulsion vThich would enable him to travel and to transport ~oods from place
to place without using the traditional means 9f transport and without expendin.: ·
valuable resources 't·rhich were normally burned and thrown away. It vras clear that ·
aliens had solved problems such as the development of new and better means of
producing energy. In addition, the Earth might uell have some resources vrhich could.
be exported to alien civilizations; as the densest planet in the solar system, the ·
Earth had more valuable heavy metals than any other planet in the neighbourhood and
might also have plant life and other materials which would be of interest to aliens.
7. Nodern astronomy frequently assur:J.ed, in relation to the possibility of contact
;.Jith e:·tratr::rrestri[\1 intelli~ences, tht"'.t all other solar systems were isolated in the
same manner as our o1m, in which the nearest star to the sun was four light years
a•ray. Ho;.rever, within our ovm galactic neighbourhood there were approximately 1,000
stars, of which 46 were simflar to the sun and miGht vrell be expected "to have planets
and life; some of those planets would be much older than Earth. In addition,
research into UFOs had revealed the existence of tHo sun-like stars, Zeta: I Reticulae
and Zeta II Reticulae, which vTere separated cy only three light 1.reeks ~ such close
proximH.y vrould suggest that interstellar travel and communication might h::we been
developed much earlier than on our isolated planet. Three recent professional
publications had expressed the view that our entire galaxy had probably already been
colonized. Perhaps the most important thinG to recognize was that the next generation
would grow up in a drastically different situation; unless something was done to
prevent it, another dozen countries ':·rould soon have nuclear weapons and the 1.rorld
1muld be further divided into Groups instead of becomine; the .earthling civilization
vrhich uas necessary for its survival.
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