NON-HUMAN CONTACT. Marcel Polte

has been working since that time on rebuilding the propulsion mechanism of recovered aircraft (so-called reverse engineering). The controversial physicist Robert Lazar claims to have been involved in this himself. Lazar said he was working on alien aircraft at a secret test site near Groom Lake in Nevada. The Lazar story was researched over many months by the award-winning investigative journalist George Knapp. Even though some points remained open to Lazar’s disadvantage – such as the lack of evidence of his claimed degrees in physics – there was, on the other hand, a number of indications that spoke for Lazar’s story. For example, further eyewitnesses were massively intimidated, and the team of reporters was followed during their work. However, I do not want to deepen these areas of UFO research further. Experience has shown that all traces of such seemingly crystal-clear, tangible evidence always end up in a thicket of diligent disinformation, fantasy products and isolated true clues that cannot be penetrated.

      With this, let me summarize the sequence of thoughts up to here as follows:

      First: UFOs are a real phenomenon. Anyone who takes a closer look at this topic cannot seriously deny this. The amount of evidence is simply overwhelming (now confirmed by the Pentagon).

      Second: The extraterrestrial hypothesis is the most likely explanation for the UFO phenomenon. In other words, no one has been able to provide a more convincing and valid alternative rationale.

      Third: Thousands of documented abduction cases indicate that not only the UFO phenomenon is caused by extraterrestrial intelligence but that countless contacts between these beings and humans have already occurred and still occur (evidence for this follows in the next chapter).

      Fourth: If for at least sixty years – probably even much longer – there have been contacts between humans and non-human intelligent beings, then of course we should know who these beings are and for what purpose the contacts are made at all.

      However, I would like to make one very important point before proceeding. The UFO phenomenon, including contact experiences, is extremely complex and diverse. It is also, as we shall see, associated with paranormal phenomena. It can therefore be assumed that the extraterrestrial hypothesis alone is not sufficient to explain all these processes and events. The objects in the sky and the bizarre experiences with strange beings, which have been investigated for about forty years, cannot simply be explained by curious aliens visiting »our« Earth. It is becoming increasingly clear that a comprehensive explanation requires profound changes in how we understand the world, both in scientific and physical terms and in terms of the diversity of non-human intelligent life. And yet, in my opinion, it is still completely open whether the human mind is capable of grasping the deeper layers of this hidden reality.

      In any case, it should be clear to us that the answers to such questions have unforeseeable social, ideological, religious, political, technical, economic and, if necessary, spiritual implications. I do not wish to go into this point any further since it is ultimately a matter of pure speculation. In their book A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact, historian and UFO researcher Richard Dolan and his coauthor Bryce Zabel discuss the scenario of an official recognition of the UFO phenomenon. With a little imagination one can easily think of possible consequences the public confirmation of an extraterrestrial presence might have. First of all, each individual would have to try to integrate the fact that we are not alone into his or her personal world view and religious beliefs. Religious communities would also be forced to respond to this challenge. Presumably many religions would try to preserve their doctrines to the largest extent possible. For example, the chief astronomer of the Vatican, Father José Gabriel Funes, made the following statement:

      »The discovery of intelligent life does not mean there’s another Jesus. The incarnation of the son of God is a unique event in the history of humanity, of the universe. If there was intelligent life (on another planet), I don’t see that as a contradiction with the Christian faith.«⁴²

      Thus, the Church will presumably claim that the idea of extraterrestrial life does not contradict the Bible and the Christian doctrine.

      Nevertheless, it is to be expected – as it has become apparent in our society for some time – that people will increasingly turn to spiritual topics and thus to themselves and their own place in the cosmos. Just as our present social structure would be questioned, so the old political systems would be put into question as well. Especially authoritarian systems, which enable a small elite to oppress the masses, would be deprived of their basis in the face of a superior non-human intelligence. Instead, there would be an increased need for global structures to enable the peoples of the Earth to communicate uniformly with extraterrestrial powers. Such contact would probably be accompanied by a massive transfer of knowledge. Our physical understanding would fundamentally change and expand in many respects. This would inevitably result in new technical achievements, including the use of so-called free energy (or at least new energy generation methods that are behind the UFOs’ propulsion systems).

      In many contact reports from different sources, the concern of the aliens about the destruction of our environment is raised. This, too, would certainly be a central issue. The access to new, clean energy sources (possibly in the form of the vacuum or zero-point energy that has long been speculated on) would result in drastic economic and thus also geopolitical changes. Oil, the most important energy resource to date, would considerably lose importance within a very short period of time – with corresponding consequences for the associated power structures.

      But all this must remain vague speculations for the time being. How humanity will react to a confirmed ET presence depends decisively on the motives of the strangers as well as on the way in which the extraterrestrial powers publicly reveal themselves for the first time. It is also unclear whether and to what extent (quasi-) governmental institutions are already in contact with certain extraterrestrial races or at least are informed about their existence. I will go into this in more detail at the end of this book.