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UFOsandUAPs ADA034236

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This is a technical report by Thomas E. Bearden, a research scientist with an MS in nuclear engineering, dated January 3, 1977. Bearden submitted it to the Defense Documentation Center under a cover letter and it is approved for public release. The report divides the evolution of life into seven stages and argues that humanity must avoid self-destruction by technologically linking all human brains into a single superbeing. It claims UFO phenomena are consistent with a sixth-stage superbeing preparing humanity for that linkage.

The final evolution of the living process is godness itself, pure being.
Unlimited godness can both be and not be, such i'J the nature of unlimiteCi.ness.
With the seventh stage transcendence of all stages and all limitations, thus ends
the life model of Earth and Man.
Thus for the unHuked, fifth-stage technological species, there are only two
alternatives. First, ar.d more likely, its intra species conflict will simply reach
critical mass and the species will convulsively destroy itself and its biosphere.
Humanity may be within 25 years or lef's of this asymptote~. Second, ar1d less
likely, the species may link into a sixtlj-stage superbei ng and eliminate its internal
competition, friction, and suicidal bent. Linkage appears extremely unlikely unless
outside assis~ance and intervention are received.
But there may after f i: be evidence of such intervention. Ti.e phenomena loosely
classed as .,unidentified f' .ng objects" (UFO's) appear to directly fit the strange
characteristics to be expe .... ced of a linked sixth-stage superbeing engaged in giving
prenatal assistance to the embryonic human species and preparing it for linkage
11 birth" of the species into a new superbeing.
If, e.g. , we assume from the latest archeological findings that man in
essentially his present form has existed about five million years on planet Earth, and
if we roughly assume that modern science is only about one hund1ed years old, then
modern 8cience represents a window of less thcl n 0. 3 x 1 o-4 times the width of the
total human experience. The search in the cosmos for intelligent life exhibiting our
particular technical chara8teristics would appear to have little chance for success.
Any other species at man's present technical level is progressing so rapidly toward
destruction or li11kage that man's detection of its "narrow window" will very likely
not occur, or occur only after it has already vanished as a fifth-stage species. Either
alternative for a fifth-stage species eliminates it as a fifth-stage species. It is no
accident that man's untverse appears devoid of other fifth-stage species at our own
technological lave!!
On the other hand, contact with sixth-stage beings, i.e. with the fifth-stage
species who linked, survived, and transitioned, is much more probable. Perhaps half
of the inhabitable planets involve species more advanced than our own; if so, then the
window of sixth-stage beings is indeed vast. E.g., if we assume that the universe
is at least 20 billion years old, then that is about three times as old as earth itself,
about 4,000 times as old lis man, and about 2 x 108 times as old as the nanow
windov' of man's modem science. In a window of such relative magnitude, the
probability of sixth-st(l'ge being(s) appears to be quite ~ertain. Granted even the
tiniest probability of linkage, so many trials on so many planets have occurred that
the probability of at least one success approaches closer to certainty by iar than the
discriminatory accuracy of the data assumptions used to set up the estimation. From
the wmdow viewpoint alone, ond can essentiilly assign a probability of unity to the
assumption that the UFO phenomena represent the contact of the human species with
a sixth-stage being.
Thus the UFO phenomena can be fitte,_' to the hypothesis that they represent
the prenatal care of the earthman by a linked Sl\perbeing, in preparation for the
forthcoming linkage of the human species and th.? birth of another linked superbeing.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, indeed there may be stranger things in heaven and earth
than we have dreamt of in our philosophies.
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