Let me put this in context. Fifty years ago, and notwithstanding the official American cover-up of the existence of extraterrestrial life, Professor Frank Drake devised an equation that can be used to estimate the number of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy. He developed the so-called “Drake Equation” in preparation for the so-called Green Bank Meeting, a private scientific conference on the question of extraterrestrial life that was held in 1960 at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia, USA. As a very young university student in the 1970s, I encountered the equation in a now classic book, Intelligent Life in the Universe, that the American astronomer, Carl Sagan, co-authored with his Russian counterpart, Iosif Samuilovich Shklovskii. It opened my eyes to the possibility of other planets harboring intelligent species of life in the Milky Way Galaxy.
The Drake Equation is really very elegant and parsimonious. In its simplest form it is expressed as follows:
where:
N is the number of civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy with
which communication is potentially possible;
and:
R* is the average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy
fp is the fraction of those stars that have planets orbiting them
ne is the average number of planets that can potentially support
life per star that has planets
fℓ is the fraction of those planets that develop life at some point
fi is the fraction of the life bearing planets that develop
intelligent life
fc is the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that
projects detectable signs of their existence into space
L is the length of time such civilizations release detectable
signals into space
One of the most important variables in the Drake Equation is the number of stars that have planets orbiting them. In recent years astronomy has made great advances and it is now known that many stars in our galaxy have planets orbiting them. In just a few years, astronomers affiliated with California Planet Search and other scientific institutes and agencies have already found and catalogued 1516 planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy; with a further 3359 waiting to be confirmed. New planets continue to be discovered every month. It has become clear that stars with planets orbiting around them are common, and possibly the norm.
Moreover, it is becoming clear that there must be many stars with planets harboring intelligent species of life, with technologically advanced civilizations. So many millions of people have now seen UFOs and even seen entities from elsewhere that it is harder with each passing year for governmental and scientific “authorities” to deny the obvious: We are not alone!
There have been many excellent books written about ETs and UFOs that lay out copious evidence for their reality. Several authors and books stand out. The American researcher, Ryan Wood, has painstakingly demonstrated that the Pentagon is simply lying about the UFOs that it has retrieved and secretly studied. In his groundbreaking book, MAJIC Eyes Only: Earth’s Encounters With Extraterrestrial Technology, he documents dozens of UFO crash retrievals, many by the military of the USSA. The famous 1947 UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, USSA is world renowned, but it is not the only UFO crash retrieval by the USSA and also other countries.
Another American researcher, Richard Dolan, has written a conclusively documented pair of books that definitively prove that UFOs are here and that the government of the USSA knows that fact, and systematically lies about it. In UFOs and the National Security State: An Unclassified History, 1941-1973, and its sequel, UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991, he effectively blows the lid off the USSA government’s UFO cover-up.
Essentially, the American government lies about UFOs in an attempt to maintain social control. But the people see them anyway, without regard to what the government says.
The books by the British researcher, Timothy Good, also offer a wealth of evidence on the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrials. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which a mere 400 years ago burned alive the Renaissance philosopher, Giordano Bruno, for daring to raise the question of the existence of other worlds, has held a recent scientific conference at the Vatican Observatory dealing precisely with the question of possible life on other planets. The Jesuit Director of the Vatican Observatory, Father Jose Funes, has even gone so far as to speak of the possibility of “brother extraterrestrials”, i.e., extraterrestrial species that would be like sibling species to the human race on this planet.
By contrast to the official American cover-up of the truth of the UFO and ET phenomena, a high level French committee of ex-military and intelligence officials issued the now famous Cometa Report in 1999. The Cometa Report concluded that a small, but significant fraction of reported UFO sightings remain unexplained after careful analysis, and that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is probably the best explanation for them. The report’s authors also took a well deserved swipe at the American government’s decades-long UFO cover-up.
It is well to keep in mind that the UFO and ET question is not only a modern issue. The Sanskrit literature of ancient India is replete with numerous references to sky cars and celestial beings. The Rig Veda, Ramayana, Srimad Bhagavatam and other ancient Indian literature often refer to the mysterious Vimanas and other unusual sky cars and celestial beings and vehicles that were evidently common in India thousands of years ago, and capable of traveling to the moon and other planets.
We are not taught about this ancient history in our modern schools and universities, which are rife with ignorance and cover-ups aplenty. The fact that mysterious craft continue to be seen today is not lost on the global public, not even in the USSA, where the government lies with such ease. A 1997 poll by the American CNN television news network and Time Magazine revealed that 80% of Americans think the government is hiding the existence of extraterrestrial life, while 64% of the respondents said that aliens have contacted humans, 50% said they've abducted humans, and 37% said they have contacted the USSA government.
The bulk of the available evidence strongly suggests that the people are right, and the USSA government is lying: UFOs and ETs are real.
Not only that, but the UFO/ET cover-up likely conceals other information that the major governments of the world would prefer that their populations not consider, to wit, hyper-dimensional and time warping technologies that will bring into sharp question the very foundations of what we think we know is concretely real. In other words we are on the cusp of a sweeping revolution in every aspect of our global society that will make even such a momentous transformation as the Industrial Revolution pale in comparison.
The UFO/ET question presages what is coming and it is BIG. As we move deeper into the 21st Century, year after year, decade after decade, the scope of change and the revelations that will unfold in every sphere of human experience will be positively mind boggling, dramatically eclipsing the already staggering pace of change that occurred in the 20th Century.
This all presumes, of course, that humanity can avoid self-destructing and going extinct from nuclear war, bio-warfare, runaway nuclear power plant failures, massive ecological collapse, and the like.
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
I really like this 1997 rendition in Latin of "Twinkle. Twinkle Little Star", by the M.I.T. Muses.
Mica, Mica, parva stella;
Miror quaenam sis tam bella.
Splendens eminus in illo,
Alba velut gemma caelo.
Quando fervens sol discessit,
Nec calore prata pascit,
Mox ostendis lumen purum,
Micans, micans per obscurum.
Tibi, noctu qui vagatur,
Ob scintillulam gratatur;
Ni mica res, tu non sciret,
Quas per vias errans iret.
Meum saepe thalamum luce,
Specularis curiosa;
Neque carpseris soporem,
Donec venit sol per auram.
Mica, Mica, parva stella;
Miror quaenam sis tam bella.
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