Is it foolish to believe that we were visited by beings from outer space? And is it foolish to believe that they did not visit us?
Glenn Veal is a ufologist. He has never seen an unidentified flying object, has not met with aliens, although he claims to have communicated with two extraterrestrial beings. At the same time, he believes there is evidence all around us - for those willing to see it - that we are definitely not alone.
Hilton Smith and Professor David Scriven are members of the Paranormal Intelligence Research Association, an organization formed in 1987 to “promote critical appraisal of the paranormal and educate people about the dangers of uncritical perception of such information and pseudoscience claims.” Their attitude towards UFOs is skeptical.
Both sides believe that the media is distorting their approach, both sides call themselves skeptics - and that's where the similarities end. Let's start with those who believe.
“There is evidence from all over the world that aliens have visited and continue to visit our planet,” says Vil. According to him, UFOs have been seen many times. They found animals crippled as a result of surgical operations "inaccessible to our medical technology." There are people who have been abducted by aliens for research and who have similar scars. There are physical signs as well, such as grain circles in England.
Vila is not embarrassed by the ironic attitude of scientists to the circles in the grain fields. “These circles have been appearing in England and elsewhere for many years. More than 600 circles have been identified. The authorities say this is either a hoax or a weather phenomenon. They tried to reproduce these circles using logs and chains, but they failed. They broke ears of grain, they failed to get perfect circles, and they left footprints everywhere."
Vil claims that over 110 alien groups have visited us “since we started counting. Most space wanderers fly by and are not very interested in us. There is an agreement between some of them to land and leave testimonies for those of us who are willing to believe so. We are obviously located somewhere on the obscure outskirts of the Galaxy, away from the main trade routes."
“Extraterrestrial beings come from places that are 1,500 light years away from us. Others come from the Pleiades star system, about 500 light years away. Basically, contacts occur with the group we call the "Grays" - these are short, thin, large-headed humanoids with small mouths and eyes providing all-round vision. Some come from Zeta Reticulum, about 44 light-years away."
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What are they doing here? “Some of them fly in and treat us like experimental animals. Our life is an object of study for them without regard to our feelings. They are especially interested in our nervous and reproductive systems, they see us as genetic food. They can be malicious, stealing our DNA to turn us into their slaves, they can try to protect us, because they see us as if on the brink of death. It is difficult to judge beings from another star system."
Others, Vil argues, view us “as their little brothers - aliens from the Pleiades system who have made contact with the Swiss farmer Billy Meyer. Aliens from the Pleiades system warned Meyer that we are destroying our environment and endangering the human race, but until we acknowledge this and act accordingly, there is more they can do. Extraterrestrial beings are not here to suppress our free will. It is not in their interest to try to make us believe in them now.”
Vil claims he doesn't really care about people believing him. “Some of us have the ability to believe it, others don't. It is about the consensus of society on what is real and what is not, just like Copernicus did when he argued that the Earth is round."
He believes that there are “people who do not want our rational order to be shaken up. The presence of extraterrestrial beings threatens three main groups. There are those who defend the religious order. If there are extraterrestrial beings, then they must have their own savior, their own gods. If so, where is Jesus' place?"
“Individual governments also feel threatened. In addition, there are energy interests that are threatened by the possibility of the existence of other energy sources. We are a planet burning fossil fuels, so we are dealing with a depletion of the biosphere and are on the way to collide with nature."
Vil believes these groups are acting "reflexively" and not in collusion. However, part of the United States authorities, he claims, are actively hiding information about UFOs and extraterrestrial beings. “There is a core group that knows exactly what is going on,” he says. - Over 30 UFOs crashed on our planet, one crashed here in 1953 near Warmbass.
However, the United States has automatic access to all of this under a post-World War II agreement. Autopsies have been carried out on the bodies of aliens, but all this is kept secret. They say there will be massive panic if we are told about extraterrestrial beings, but I think this is a weak excuse to keep us in the dark."
Vil believes that he “stands firm on Earth. There are jokers and people who are deluded. And if someone appears who claims that he has come into contact with extraterrestrial beings and wants to publicly tell about it, it always prompts me to question him."
Returning to South Africa recently after spending nine years in California, Vil found there were people out there who wanted him to listen.
“Every fourth person I meet, seeing that I am well disposed, expresses a desire to talk about what he saw, or about contact. They say that they have never talked about it with their relatives and friends, because they know what they will say about them: they are crazy. The whole UFO topic is being ridiculed, and in the newspapers UFO reports are placed next to materials that say that Hitler was a woman."
Vila's only personal contact with aliens was through a "channel" in the United States ("channel" is a human intermediary), allowing him to communicate with two extraterrestrial beings, Arkon and Argenon, as well as one long-dead Irish barmaid.
“It was actually quite an earthly event, just an ordinary conversation. When communicating through the channel, you can never be sure that you are talking with extraterrestrial beings. I'm more interested in intimacy or kidnapping. Vil says he has interacted with six individuals in South Africa who have been abducted by UFOs and intends to investigate their stories. using hypnosis.
He believes that Africa can be an abundant source of additional evidence. “The information we can get from the tribes can be especially valuable because it is less cluttered with science fiction,” he says.
Whatever Vil finds in the months ahead, he can count on the watchful eye of the Paranormal Intelligence Research Association to notice.
The association lists “harmful manifestations and practices” that “speculate on beliefs in the supernatural,” including astrology, “abnormal diets,” psychic healing, spiritualism, telepathy, and witchcraft.
"The association is not very concerned about examining specific reports of paranormal activity," Smith says. - To be honest, most of these messages are very monotonous. When people say they saw something, we don't question their testimony. After all, hallucinations are a fact. But what's really interesting is what is behind these posts. What hook does the mind of people fall on when they think this is really happening?"
Smith, like Vil, argues that the media is clouding the discussion around UFOs and other phenomena. "It has been proven that things like psychosurgery are cheating, but that doesn't hold people back."
Smith also worries that UFO discussions are often presented as fun. A paranormal claim of any kind that is easy to concoct can trigger enormous efforts to verify it. But there is a more serious problem: the mood in which people can believe the most terrible hypotheses. This creates irrational thinking that is never harmless. Reports have surfaced that Ronald Reagan is abusing astrology. It sounds funny at first glance, but it is not very funny when you think about the consequences.
Scriven, who has a PhD in applied mathematics and physiology, argues that the possibility of UFOs has been thoroughly studied: "Given the size of the universe, it can be assumed that life originated elsewhere, although we may be alone." Whether this life has the faculty of sensation and is it capable of communication, the future will show. However, there is absolutely no evidence that such a life form tried to make contact with us or might try to do so."
“There is no doubt that UFOs exist precisely as unidentified flying objects,” says Smith. "They are not identified." Scriven notes: “There are often objects in the sky that cannot be identified. However, in the past, these visions have been studied by the United States Air Force. They found that about 90 percent of these cases can be explained. Others were often obscured by the fact that they had been reported over a long period of time. Through the efforts of ufologists, an unidentified flying object is immediately equated with an alien ship without any real connection between a UFO and proof of the existence of such a ship, "he says.
Scriven believes that the claims of ufologists can be refuted. “The distance problem is huge. The closest star to us is four light years away. This means that even if you fly at the speed of light, it will take four Earth years to get there, and another four years to go back. This means that the journey will take eight years, and despite this there are people who claim that they were abducted for a day or two."
“More importantly, the energy required to fly a ship at the speed of light is colossal. When this immense energy is used, its release cannot be overlooked. We have satellites that would detect it."
What you immediately notice with those people who claim that they have met with unearthly beings is the usual banality of what they have to say. They claim that these creatures are much more advanced than we are. When you ask why unearthly beings have never told them more, you always hear in response that we are not ready for this.
“The final argument is that there is no physical evidence of alien visits, not a single trace of aliens, not a single piece of metal from a flying saucer - and a saucer, by the way, is the worst possible aerodynamic shape,” says Scriven.
“It’s disappointing,” Smith complains, “that when you show that something cannot be explained scientifically, people say, 'You see, science knows nothing.'
By John Perlman
Translation: Cosmopoisk