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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.
Foreword In 1976 several events occurred which may yet significantly influence the progress of science, scientific procedure, and the content of science. First, Jimmy Carter was elected President of the United States --and so in 19/7 the u.s. will have as its president a nuclear engineer/farmer who has personally seen an umdentified flying object in the presence of multiple witnes~es, and who accordingly can vouch for the fact that it is not kooks, fraudg, and charlatans who are seeing unusual and paranormal phenomena in the skies, but ordinary, sober, intelligent, levelheaded citizens of stable mind and mien. Further, he is himself sufficiently qualified in scientific discipline to recognize that what he saw was beyond the pale of ortiin..2ry phenomena and present-day scientific knowledge. And in an interview with the National Enquirer prior to his election, Candidate Carter stated that should he be elected he would order the release of all governmental information on UFO' s. Serond, the slightly sanitized Project Bluebook files were released by the u.s. Government. At this writing, leading UFO researchers-- such as Dr. Allen Hynek --are poring through this mass of information, and digest articles of th6 pertinent features of Project Bluebook investigation and information can be expected shortly. Even though the methodology used in the Project's invost1gations left a great deal to be desired, the material does constitute a goldmine that will contain some infonnation difficult to refute, Third, very quietly and without fanfare, much of the restriction formerly placed on U.PO sightings has apparently been lifted. The North American Air Defense Command, e,g,, confirmed for the first time publicly that its radars had tracked UFO's for several hours and jet interceptors had bt1en scrambled to attempt to intercept the objects themselves. Fourth, other prominent Americans continued to reveal either their own sightings of UFO's or their direct personal knowledge of sightings by NASA and the Ann '3d Forces; e.g., Walter Cronkite reported in an interview by the National Enquirer that during his coverag,:! of NASA space operations, the astronauts had sighted UFO' s and reported the sightings in their communications which he, Walter Cronkite, waf: monitoring. Thus it appears probable that those dogmatic critics who have unreasoningly blocked scientilic investigation of UFO phenomena will at long lasi be mut0d --and h0pefully even muzzled --during 1977. In any strange new area of scientific endeavor, three stages are met: (1) the "snicker" stage, when guffaws and horselaughs greet the awkward and faltering attempts to initially come to grips with the problem, (2) the begrudging acceptance stage, when the evidence has become so overwhelming that no s;.. le person can any longer ignore it, and (3) the nonchalant stage, when the attitude communicated is "Of course we knew all about that all along!" So after some thirty years of the snicker stage, there is finally hopC:l that we are at least beginning to move toward the stage of begrudging acceptance. And there is very real reason for excitement at this slow progress toward lessening the implaccable opposition of scientific mane• ~mont ·· -, the study of UFO phenomena. What is being exhibited in this worldwi'l. r' -- -~ ...:tton is something totally beyond our present sci.entific knowledge. For tt •. nr:;t 25 years of study on the phenomenon, most "respectable" UFO researchers ._,._., re either knowingly or unknowing!~' engdged in an attempt to prove that the phenomeHa were due to contacts with advanced extraterrestrial scientific cultures. And consciously or unconsciously, i.
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.