UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

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I dangers that they might represent come from General MacArthur and President Ronald
Reagan.
While he had already touched on the problem in 1955, in a conversation with the mayor
I of Naples, Achille Lauro, General MacArthur said in an address at West Point Military
Academy in 1962:
"You nowface a new world, a world ofchange. The throst into outer space... marks a
I beginning ofanother epoch in the long story ofmankind... We deal now, not with things
ofthis world alone, but with the illimitable distances and asyet unfathomed mysteries of
the universe... ofultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister force of
I some other planetary galaxy. "
[French translation of the quote from General MacArthur's address]
General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, for his part, revealed during a private discussion
at the 1985 summit conference that President Reagan had told him that if earth had to
confront an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United State~ and the Soviet Union would
join forces to repel that invasion.
I In addition, at the end of a speech before the 42nd General Assembly of the United
Nations on September 21, I 987, President Reagan affirmed:
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"In our obsession with the antagonisms ofthe moment, we often forget how much
unites all the members ofhumanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to
make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences
worldwide would vanish ifwe were facing an alien threat from outside this world. "
[French translation of the quote from President Reagan' s speech]
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I 7.2.2.2 However, for political leaders, just as for scientists, to be officially interested in
UFOs and extraterrestrials is firstly to risk ridicule before commentators and the media,
who regularly use omission, destructive irony, and even lies.
I 7.2.2.3 But other elements should be taken into consideration. Although a significant
number ofU.S. citizens seem to accept the existence of UFOs ofextraterrestrial origin,
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some political leaders might hesitate to call for resources to research this subject, because
they might fear they would then be accused of incurring expenses for one ofthe most
hazardous of subjects.
I 7.2.2.3.1 Under these circumstances, if we advance the hypothesis that political
leaders at the highest level in the United States possess unambiguous information
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attesting to that existence, their situation would be particularly uncomfortable. The armed
forces have officially reiterated for fifty years that this phenomenon does not threaten the
security of the country, which does not mean that the phenomenon does not exist.
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However, there have been disturbing sightings such as visits above secret installations
and missile bases, intense electromagnetic effects, military aircraft shadowed (as in the
RB-47 case) or the object of mock interceptions. In reality, faced with the impossibility of
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countering this type of threat, the authorities may have thus far been tempted to affirm
that it does not exist.
In the absence of a direct threat, and even though there never truly was any attack in
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the past, the potential threat itself can appear overwhelming in the eyes of the authorities
(and especially the military).
"They" come from the stars, "their" craft watch us and seem to taunt us, ''they" have
perhaps been on earth for thousands ofyears, and we don' t know ''their" intentions.
"Their" science and "their" technology, thus "their" power, are incomparably superior to
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