UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

Icontacts. Astronomers have attempted contacts via message transmission and radio
listening in the "SETI" and "MEGASETI" programs. Although some enthusiasts have Isuggested futuristic ideas to "bypass" the vast expanse, such as, fo r example, the use of
"black holes," the crossing ofinterstellar distances by possible extraterrestrials has elicited
much skepticism and the majority of astronomers reiterate that "to date there has been no IUFO case that is sufficiently well established to imply that it came from an
extraterrestrial civilization. "
Two professional astronomers, Jean-Claude R.ibes and Guy Monnet, have, however, Iproposed a scenario in our future in space that includes plausible interstellar voyages. In
this scenario, which is summarized in Appendix 4, they envision the establishment oflarge
communities in verdant "islands in space, " enonnous artificial structures orbiting the Iearth, as described by the physicist O 'Neill, and even inside large asteroids, where an
abundance of different mc;1terials, including water and oxygen, as well as .ready protection
against meteorites and cosmic radiation, are found. Later on, when our descendants have Imastered the production, storage and use of antimatter as energy, they will utilize it to
propel some of their habitats to another solar system. They will settle in an asteroid belt,
start families there, and then visit the planets of the receiving system aboard craft that are Iperceived by any possible natives the same way we perceive UFOs today.
This scenario, which in essence relies onJy on laws of physics that are currently well
accepted, gives the extraterrestrial hypothesis a certain degree of plausibility; it is possible Ito imagine that a civilization that came from somewhere else colonized the region of our
asteroid belt and used it as a staging base to our planet. Current progress in the conquest
of space and physics reinforces this idea. IWe should point out that some people envisage another hypothesis, which is very
controversial: the UFOs do belong to a civilization located in the asteroid belt, but this
civilization itselfcomes from our planet. Older than any known terrestrial civilizations and IhighJy advanced, it supposedly disappeared from earth (nuclear war, radioactivity,
pollution; etc.) but resettled in the solar system.
Both hypotheses have to their credit the fact that they place the UFO problem outside Ithe realm of the paranormal and promote thought about the future ofour planet.
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Chapter 9 - Organization of the Research Abroad I9.1 Organization of the Research in the United States
The subject of UFOs is presently very popular in the United States. This is evidenced Iby the number and su~cess of fiction films such as Independence Day, Men in Black, and
Contact, which deal with this topic. A survey conducted in June 1997 for Time magazine
showed that nearly one American in four believes that an extraterrestrial craft crashed at IRoswell (New Mexico) at the beginning of July 1947. A professor of psychiatry at
Harvard, Dr. Mack, treats the problem of the temporary abduction, whether real or
imagined, of his fellow countrymen by UFOs very seriously. In view of the public's Iexpectations, what are the authorities doing?
They deny that the UFO phenomenon poses a threat to national security, or that it is
evidence ofan extraterrestrial origin. This position has been taken almost continuously by Ithe Air Force, which was tasked with the study of UFOs from 1948 to 1969 within the
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