The Oz Factor … Contact Through Human Consciousness? -- PART 6
Alien Base Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials
By Timothy Good. (1998) London, Century.
Book review © 1998 by Warren P. Aston
At the outset I do not hesitate to say that in my opinion, Alien Base has joined a small group of books that will come to be regarded as pivotal and classic works in shaping our understanding of the phenomenon of alien contact. I believe it will eventually be seen as authoritative and substantial in its field as Good's Beyond Top Secret now is. Timothy Good's greatest contribution in this book is to force the reader to face a substantial body of data that has, in many cases, been routinely ignored and ridiculed by many UFO researchers and groups in recent decades and kept from the public at large.
Good tackles head-on the disturbing direction that main-stream ufology has taken in the last two decades by the almost institutionalised rejection of reports involving contact with humanoid beings to the point where 'alien contact' in ufology and in the public perception equates only to an 'abduction' by a stereotype 'Grey'.
The cases covered in Alien Base are anything but the standard abduction scenario. Good has amassed ufology's largest collection of reports where the witness has encountered – and often interacted with – beings of apparent extraterrestrial origin, sometimes living incognito among us. A handful of intriguing cases also suggest that one or more alien groups have humans living with and working with them. Many of the book's reports are published here for the first time and the cumulative weight of their evidence is impressive.
The author does not shy away from the famous 'contactee' cases of the fifties and sixties but succeeds in integrating their stories as part of a larger continuum of alien contact, not apart from it. In the process it quickly becomes clear that such claims are not as rare as many people have assumed. This is not to say that Good accepts that all the contactee claims are genuine – far from it. But he makes a strong case that perhaps in some instances, what began as a genuine encounter was then perpetuated, for any number of reasons, by deception and fraud.
Case in point perhaps – George Adamski. Alien Base, to the inevitable dismay of some readers I'm sure, devotes a long section to Adamski's story.
Much of this material will be familiar to any well-read researcher, but some will not be and is therefore worth approaching with an open mind. The original or early aspects of this case are stronger than many are willing to give it credit for and while I personally remain unconvinced, Good gives some good reasons why the case should not be rejected out of hand or tossed into the too-hard basket. Not least of these are the apparently credible stories of other people with impressive parallels to Adamski's claimed experiences.
As well as Daniel Fry and Howard Menger, the book goes into considerable detail about the Paul Villa case and devotes more than half its colour illustrations to some of his photos, making it clear that here are cases that still cry out for solid investigation.
Despite the time that has elapsed, definitive treatments of these cases have yet to be written. Although not without its faults and biases, Kal Korff's devastating exposé of the Billy Meier case (Spaceships of the Pleiades) is a recent example of what an intensive investigation can achieve and what remains to be done with the classic contactees. Some readers may feel more comfortable with other stories that Good examines in detail, such as the little-known Carroll Watts and Bruno Ghibaudi cases with their impressive photographic support or with the fantastic but compelling 'Joelle' and Ludwig Pallmann cases.
Alien Base however makes a contribution beyond the mere compiling of reports. By including some of the very early encounters (the 1920 Albert Coe case is the earliest, with a good sampling of cases from the thirties and forties, including my own research of the 1940 Wartena case) the book repudiates for example the continuing simplistic attempts by some to dismiss all genuine UFO sightings as man-made military craft.
The careful reader will note certain recurring themes throughout the encounters reported, regardless of the circumstances, the time period or the witness. Notably, these include the pervasiveness of the basic human form throughout the cosmos, that earth has always had alien monitoring and intervention, that intelligent life on earth was 'seeded' from other worlds, that man destroyed his civilisation thousands of years ago and a variety of environmental concerns. Implicit in all this is the unavoidable conclusion that earth is being visited by many races, far more than the conventional half-dozen or dozen races normally allowed for in the ETH (extra-terrestrial hypothesis).
A strong case could be made for at least a score or more based just on the better documented and more believable cases printed in this book.
My criticisms of Alien Base are minor. Interspersed throughout the text are a number of conventional UFO reports, perhaps to introduce variety and perhaps
sometimes to strengthen the book's premise that our planet is being used as a base by extraterrestrials. While they are usually interesting and substantial sightings that deserve recording, in my opinion they lengthen the text unnecessarily and their omission could have served either to reduce the size of the book or to allow more contact cases to be included. Surely there would have been more value in including for example the Reverend Gill case – a multi-witnessed sighting of humanoids atop a craft – rather than yet another daylight disk report. In particular I would also have liked more space spent on the information communicated in the 1976 Dr Leopoldo Diaz case, a totally credible witness. A chronological listing of all the cases would have been both helpful and interesting and would make comparisons easier and trends more
obvious.
Those in the UFO community inclined to reject out-of-hand the type of reports found in this book will undoubtedly be less charitable toward this book and may feel that I have been over-generous in my assessment of its value.
For the rest of us however, Alien Base is a reminder that whatever our individual assumptions and biases lead us to do with such accounts, these too are an integral part of ufology.
References
Good, Timothy (1996) Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat.
Korff, Karl K. (1995) Spaceships of the Pleiades: The Billy Meier Story.
From Atlantis to the Sphinx - Recovering the Lost Wisdom of the Ancient World
By Colin Wilson. (1997) Virgin Publishers.
Book review by Morley Legg
Colin Wilson's lucid unfolding of the main veins in human history arouses inklings that something vital has been lost and it begs recapturing. We do, however, become aware of patterns in our more recent history. Mankind works hard to consolidate a succession of plateaus of interpreting nature, and each plateau hardens into a belief to which the tribe or group strictly adheres.
Belief systems certainly become stabilisers, at least for a time. But then bitter struggles arise as new concepts make a play for dominance.
Over the last three hundred years, for instance, constant battles went on to bring about belief adjustments in religious concepts as scholars, aided by science, were continually having to update theories about our origins, pushing them back to six thousand, ten thousand, and eventually even to three million years. And today the plates of knowledge are shifting again and continue to threaten jarring upheavals, as the more open minded realise and expect.
An article by Colin Wilson in a 1997 English newspaper showed him to be a knowledgeable ufologist. In this book UFOs or aliens don't get a mention. In one respect we can be grateful in that their absence gives us a clean slate to do our own thinking as to where, and whether they may have intervened in our ancient past.
He unearths many theories to account for the 'sudden' enlarging of the human brain: "Between half a million years ago and modern times, the human brain expanded by one third, and most of the growth has been in the cerebrum, the top half of the brain, with which we think." Among the theories aired to account for this is that of the meteorite which exploded over the Indian Ocean about 700,000 years ago, reversing the poles. Did this cause the mutation for the brain to expand and intelligence to grow? The development of language, religion, sexual attitudes, and the discovery of 'hunting magic' could also have boosted growth.
Wilson reasons that it takes a drastic change or a challenge to get man to use his thinking, otherwise he only copies the notions of his day and remains at that level for a hundred thousand years. He mentions that the shark hasn't changed much in 150 million years.
He stresses that humans today feel quite separate from one another. Telepathy is rare enough to be considered a myth. He is not the only scholar to feel that Cro-Magnon man had group consciousness, an instinctive 'lunar knowledge', quite different from our current 'solar knowledge' which we store in universities and books. Some primitive people still seem to possess this group consciousness, and their shamans may possess links to Cro-Magnon man's hunting magic. There is a disturbing account of a shaman in the Gilbert Islands using sorcery to draw a school of porpoises to beach themselves for slaughter.
Drawing on the works of many respected researchers Wilson nudges us to the idea that Atlantis now lies in Antarctica under the ice. Professor Charles Hapgood (author of Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings) believes the Piri Re'is map (dated 1513), that shows Antarctica as it appeared before it was covered by ice, appears to be a genuine copy of ancient maps. In 1959 he delved into the United States Library of Congress and found many ancient maps, someshowing
Antarctica mapped as if free of ice. Hapgood believes a world-wide maritime civilisation existed at this time. Many serious researchers support the idea that this could be the Atlantean civilisation that was devastated by a sudden shifting of the earth's crust, and that many survivors from this catastrophe moved to India, South America and Egypt. Convention now has it, by the way, that Antarctica's warm period began about thirteen thousand years ago and ended six thousand years ago.
This leads to those fascinating estimates and questions arising from recent research on the pyramids. Why did the Egyptians build the Sphinx in 10,500 BC, and the pyramids eight thousand years later – with shafts aimed with gun barrel accuracy at Orion? "[T]he only time the positions of the three pyramids on the ground reflect the positions of the three stars of Orion's belt is 10,500 BC, when Orion is at its closest to the southern horizon in the 'precessional cycle', which takes 25,920 years."
Diverse points of interest are included. When Hapgood retired (and no longer cared much about what his sceptical colleagues thought) he published Voices of Spirit, a book on experiments to search back through history with a trance medium to contact scholarly figures. He believed that the next step in man's evolution will be in the realm of the psychic and paranormal. He tried contacting Nostradamas and others (as Dolores Cannon has recently done) with a view to finding clues as to who we are and what we are doing here. Also, the most fascinating clue as to how the stones of the pyramids were put into place
has been left by an eccentric American, Ed Leedskalnin who, an engineer claims, lifted huge blocks of coral on his own to build a dwelling (p.263).
Books like this help us to realise that an interest in ancient history, UFOs and the paranormal, often indicates a feeling that mainstream science and religion have not yet provided us with satisfactory explanations as to our place and purpose on earth. We are left hoping that melting ice, or the current drilling into Antarctica's ice, will one day bring forth revelations.
The essence of Wilson's book is that a former civilisation shared an instinctive-intuitive knowledge that to us would appear quite alien; and that it would require a shock of some kind before we could begin to remember or catch a glimpse of this 'Atlantean sense of reality'.
References
Hapgood, Charles H. (1992) Voices of Spirit.
Hapgood, Charles H. (1979) Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings.
Alien Dawn -- An Investigation into the Contact Experience
By Colin Wilson. (1998) London, Virgin Publishing.
Book review by Michael Jordan
A good mate of mine, a psychologist, with whom I've enjoyed a long friendship, recently returned to live and work in Cornwall, not far from the home of well known and highly regarded writer, Colin Wilson. Although we shared a number of common interests, this did not extend to my passion for ufology. By unspoken but mutual consent I resolved not to talk about UFOs and he to refrain from mentioning his love of yacht racing and sailing. By way of closure to my subject, he added, "When Colin Wilson writes about UFOs, I might have to take the subject seriously."
Last year fellow committee member, Morley Legg, sent me a cutting from the pages of a well-known British Sunday newspaper in which large headlines trumpeted, "It's Official – Colin Wilson Says They Are Here". The 'they' of course referred to aliens and was in response to the publication of Wilson's Alien Dawn. For my part I couldn't wait to see how he would assimilate the results of his prolific past research into the paranormal, consciousness, evolution, astronomy and cosmology, to name but a few of his pet subjects, with ufology, the boundaries of which seem limitless and encompass all of these fields and more.
A chance meeting with Harvard psychiatrist and author of Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, more or less led to Colin Wilson being thrust on his mission, from a previously sceptical launching pad. A journey of discovery in an attempt to find out more about what Dr Allen Hynek termed, "the greatest
mystery of our time."
Typically, Wilson's approach to the writing of Alien Dawn is in the manner his countless readers throughout the world have come to expect. His source material comes not only from a study of literally hundreds of texts and manuscripts that can shed any light on the subject, but above all from having the right contacts. This is a major reason why this book includes a more comprehensive examination of the whole UFO phenomenon than probably any other that I have read. Colin Wilson's years of research into allied subjects means that he numbers amongst his friends and contacts, such people as John Mack, Budd Hopkins, Jacques Vallee, Linda Moulton Howe, Stanislav Grof, David Jacobs, the late Andrija Puharich and many other researchers of this ilk. These are people who are recognised by ufologists around the world as making original and major contributions to the field. Alien Dawn draws (often through direct contact with the author) on the theories of such thinkers.
It is Wilson's ability to synthesise material from a wide range of sources, in seemingly effortless fashion and weave it into a seamless tapestry of possibilities, that makes this book so provocative. His compendium of related aspects range from studies of mythic entities, bizarre synchronicities, ancient folklore and mysticism, to a study of the so-called abduction experience.
The result should satisfy both relative newcomers to the field and seasoned travellers in this domain. For the uninitiated, many well known cases and
personalities are discussed in order to familiarise them with the concept of high strangeness, but usually within a theoretical context which challenges previously held assumptions. What crystallises as we explore the phenomenon through Wilson's speculation, is that this is so much more than information to be considered from a purely materialistic point of view. So very much more! He makes it abundantly clear that what we are dealing with here, defies explanation in terms of our present knowledge and conventional logic.
In the first half of Alien Dawn, Colin Wilson's focus on mythology and the paranormal is an attempt to establish that the UFO phenomenon is too complex and diverse to be explained in everyday terms; seemingly defying categorisation. He is never apologetic, even in the discussion of material which "raises the bar of credulity" (to use his term) "so high that it is important to remind the reader that it is not quite as insane and unprecedented as it sounds" (p.210). He challenges the sceptics such as the late Carl Sagan and John Spencer, to come up with a view that is consistent with the facts, even going so far as to term Sagan a disinformation specialist and accusing him of
going to extremes in distorting data on the Mars anomalies and the abduction phenomenon.
What then are some of Wilson's conclusions? He repeatedly reminds us that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we view ourselves, and that the vision of universal energy, and of the mind's power to enter into creative interaction with it, is an accurate perception of underlying reality. In other words, "that the mind – without knowing it consciously – has some sort of control over the material universe" (p.301).
He believes that UFOs are unknown forms of energy and that their purpose is, "not simply to remind us that the material world is not the only reality, but to draw us by a kind of suction into consciousness of another kind of reality" (p.295). Their purpose would seem to be to act as a deconditioning agent, attempting to distance us from our unquestioning acceptance of consensus reality and drawing us into accepting consciousness of another kind of reality. Finally he leaves no doubt that, "a UFO encounter can cause a basic change in awareness" (p.304) and speculates that if it is indeed a "control phenomenon", then it is likely to increase its impact on human consciousness as a result of Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphogenetic 'induction'.
References
Mack, John. (1994) Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens.
Sheldrake, Rupert. (1988) A New Science of Life.
Cult Encounter --International Story of Exit Counselling
By Helen & Rick Larsen. (1997) Australia, RCS Books.
Book Review by Morley Legg
"Life as a counter-cultist is rather like trying to put out a raging forest fire with a garden hose." Rick Larsen.
Subtitled "An exposé of cult techniques and an explosion of the myths that surround deprogramming", this sincere book warns how easy it is to get mind-trapped if one strays too far from convention, and how difficult it is to return to one's accustomed values more anchored in reality. A glance at the cover could give the impression of a US Bible-belt publication, but it was a pleasant surprise to find that Helen and Rick Larsen live in a Perth suburb in Western Australia.
Helen's interest in the New Age obviously grew out of a genuine care and concern for humanity. She became intrigued by Extra-Terrestrial Earth Mission (ETEM) which was based in Sedona, Arizona. It was founded by John, a 'walk in' (an extraterrestrial that had entered John's body). An ETEM group had formed in Perth and Helen felt drawn to go to Sedona, USA, for a conference in June 1992.
Her husband Rick consented in spite of a growing reluctance.
Helen and Rick take turns in giving their account of developments mostly a chapter at a time, sometimes a paragraph at a time when developments quicken.
They reveal much about their background; their honesty is moving. Both were raised in devout Catholic homes. Rick's experiences as a pupil at Christian Brothers College makes compelling reading. Others drawn into the tug of war also have their say.
Rick gives his first impressions of ETEM. Helen tells of her contacts in Perth, and of settling in at Sedona and meeting the twenty-two female and seven male participants, and the leaders Zavi (John) and Ziva (Ellen). She is taught how to resist 'dark forces' (family and friends) who would try to break the true message of Zavi or the 'Visionary Interdimensional Masters'. She writes, "I am still not clear what the trigger, offered by Earth Mission, was for me but bells rang, the earth moved. I was 'IN'." Helen returns renamed Xanthe.
Back in Perth a period develops when they no longer risk sharing their thoughts and we understand perfectly the tactics they are using against each other. Six months after returning from Sedona the real drama begins when in December 1992, after twenty-four years of marriage in which they had a daughter and two sons, Rick farewells Helen at the Perth Airport. She is on her way to join the Melbourne ETEM group. Rick agrees to let her go but desperately wants to find a way to bring 'the old' Helen back.
Because of the stress and bouts of depression he is granted leave from his teaching post. Through the advice given by the husband of another ETEM member he contacts Joe Szimhart and Patrick Ryan, US 'exit counsellors'. They reveal a wealth of information concerning the patterns of destructive cults, patterns that can be recognised, understood and combated. There is mention of the Moonies, Heaven's Gate, Waco, and New Age movements familiar to many.
Pat and Joe arrive in Perth and then, with the aid of his son and friends, all go to Melbourne for an 'Intervention'. The enormous costs dawn on us: phone calls, flight costs, hotel bookings, hired cars, an intervention venue, a TV
compatible with US videos – all resting on the timing of plans that are full of 'what ifs'. Would Xanthe agree to meet or listen? A maze of interesting fronts and cover stories are invented before they can even think of talking Helen out of ETEM. At times touches of humour add surprising depth to the drama.
Helen's brother Paul phones Helen to say he is coming to Melbourne on business to possibly buy a fish farm and arranges to meet her. The nervousness of the six interventionists, when so much is at stake, escalates. The time arrives when Helen, expecting her lone brother, is greeted by her son, then her brother and his wife with Rick and two Americans. Helen remains for a while but refuses to watch the video and returns to her ETEM group. Each of the six interventionists express their thoughts and feelings of the time. Helen has to contend with her own rising feelings and the views of the others in ETEM.
The book unearths the powerful mental war that goes on, not just between Helen and Rick or Helen and ETEM, but in each individual as to what is the right thing to do. In the chapter 'The Dark Night of the Soul' Helen battles with Xanthe.
Much praise is heaped on Pat and Joe. After the first failed intervention they attended another case involving a near tragedy in a different cult. This ended in the wife being hospitalised through " 'listening' to tapes which were repetitive, suggestive and hypnotic in nature."
It would be a pity to dismiss this book as just a battle between one family and an obscure cult.
Those with a healthy interest in the New Age should welcome the Larsen's warnings. They give an invaluable, blow by blow account of the age old battle between captive minds and free minds. At times we sense striking parallels to being trapped in a disastrous marriage, or in drug addiction. The 'cult' develops a new and exclusive set of rules that promises benefits far beyond the norm, but which traditionally degenerates into dogma-armed extremes. But then, of course, are any of us really free when we are all so moulded by the society we are born into? Consider the difference in our attitudes if we had grown up in a time or country markedly different from our own.
The studies of authors and academics are presented to reveal the negativity in cults. Steven Hassan: "Destructive cults commonly induce trances in their members through lengthy indoctrination sessions. Repetition and forced attention are very conducive to the induction of a trance .... 'loaded language' of words and expressions .... governs how one thinks" (Hassan, p.90). From Michael A. West of the University of Sheffield: "Over-meditation can be dangerous .... prolonged meditation may cease to have beneficial effects and become detrimental" (West, p.143). Professor Graham Reed: "Channelled 'messages' are at a low level of inventiveness." Australia's Dr Margaret Singer, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of California, stressed that cult victims tend to be "unaffiliated, altruistic and trusting."
Helen eventually consented to watching Dr Singer's video on mind control, and took part in lengthy discussions. Interesting indeed were the alarming physical reactions Helen and Rick experienced just before, during, and after her decision to leave ETEM. Helen: "Initially when I came out of the cult I felt numb. It seemed that I had no feelings about anything at all. My dream of a heavenlyearth populated by perfect, loving beings had been absolutelyshattered." Helen's chapter 'Recovery' is packed with insights that are healing in themselves.
Surely, however, the core of a cult can be close to a legitimate truth. Is it not the negativity of people who, once involved, become virus-like and 'capture' this truth, or this experience, and use it to ensnare others, like a predator in wait by a waterhole?
Much of the New Age has become unashamedly commercial; thankfully many use care and knowledge wisely and beneficially; some take on a darker aspect depending largely on who runs them, and what the core belief or policy is. We should remember that religions, throughout history, have been infiltrated by those who have used the blind belief of followers to prey on the innocent and trusting.
The authors are full of praise for the two exit councillors. All of those taking part in the intervention warmed to Joe and Pat as genuine and likeable.
Details are given of their escape from cults. Joe was in Elizabeth Clare Prophet's 'Church Universal and Triumphant' (CUT). Once free he took part in about one hundred and thirty intervention situations and became "familiar with Eastern based, Bible based and New Age cults in particular." In 1980 Pat
graduated from the Maharishi International University. He reported that with its guards and repressive discipline it was totally unlike the TM (Trancendental Meditation) many are familiar with. He suffered a breakdown and feels he was lucky to escape and eventually recover his health.
After Helen's safe return to Perth, Rick wanders through a local New Age Expo looking at the stalls, as many of us probably did. His devastating comments may jar us or have us chuckling, but we fully understand his point of view. Our Space Brothers are not here to save us, however much our times cry out for change. The New Age will not save us, not at least until its followers are more aware of the pattern of pitfalls that are now well-researched.
The general impression of cults is that they are small groups that become dedicated to breaking away from wider society in order to toe a line of belief that ensures a 'superior' realisation of reality. Trends of this nature often stem from channelled material, or from people who have 'inner dialogues' that motivate them to seek followers with similar isolationist views.
One realises in retrospect that preoccupation with repetition or trance indoctrination etc is not only used by individuals and small cults.
Dictatorships and totalitarian societies have become masters of it. Is not our whole Western civilisation way ahead with the very same tactics? Think of the never ending torrent of advertising, and the resulting consumerism no matter what the risk to the planet. This may have become the norm, but when massive wealth from these obsessions and addictions goes to a controlling elite, then surely high levels of indoctrination are at work. How can we get out of that?
Somehow the quiet touches of humour move us to take the Larsens' message very seriously. We speculate on how close we can become to being ensnared in shaky beliefs, in paradigms unseen. Their warnings to those involved in anything cult-like not to get in out of their depth is like a touch on the arm that restores a sense of balance and direction.
References
Hassan, Steven. (1990) Combating Cult Mind Control.
Reed, Graham. The Psychology of Channelling.
Singer, Margaret Thaler. (1995) Cults in Our Midst (a video on mind
control).
West, Michael A. (editor) The Psychology of Meditation.
Rick Larsen provides free assistance to people in trouble with cults. He can be contacted at PO Box 90, North Beach, Western Australia 6020. His book is available to Society members at half price ($10).
Robot Warriors --The Top Secret History of the Pilotless Plane
By Hugh McDaid & David Oliver. (1997) ISBN 0 75281 024 3
Book review by Simon Harvey-Wilson
This is a coffee table sized book of interest to those who have ever suspected that some UFO sightings were advanced military craft built here on planet earth, even if their design might have been based on observations or reverse engineering of alien craft. The authors however make no such speculations. Robot Warriors is a straightforward history of what the United States Air Force apparently calls UAVs (uninhabited or unmanned aerial vehicles). The closest it gets to discussing extraterrestrial craft is on the inside cover where it is claimed that the technology of today's UAVs is "so close to the cutting edge of science that they might just as well have been built by aliens." The book's forward is by Admiral Barton Strong, Head of Cruise Missiles and Unmanned Aircraft for the United States Department of Defence. Its introduction is by General Kenneth Israel, Director of DARO, Defence Airborne Reconnaissance Office, also for the US Department of Defence.
The book's cover photo is a very flying saucer-like picture of the Lockheed Martin Boeing 'DarkStar' which seems to epitomise the new generation of stealthy hi-tech surveillance UAVs.
Robot Warriors is packed with colour photos of weird looking craft, some so small they look like toy models, while others clearly resemble various shaped UFOs. I found one of the last chapters the most interesting because the authors discuss future trends and technical developments in space and air power. It is here that we see an increasing convergence of futuristic aircraft and UFO design. One cannot say whether this is the result of reverse engineering of alien craft, or perhaps because the universal laws of physics oblige both human and alien aerodynamic engineers to follow the same lines of thought and design parameters. Nevertheless the points of technical similarity are interesting and should be obvious to UFO enthusiasts.
The authors suggest that in future unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) will be carried aboard and launched from larger aircraft, somewhat like flying aircraft-carriers or mother-ships. Directed energy weapons will become commonplace, as will improved stealth capabilities. UCAVs will be developed that can fly at hypersonic speeds (more than Mach 5), but which can also loiter in reconnaissance mode at between fifty and one hundred thousand feet. Increased UCAV manoeuvrability will be necessary. Without pilots, such craft will be free to reach acceleration speeds well beyond the tolerance limits of even the toughest humans.
Symmetrical designs will enable UAV to accelerate immediately out of harm's way in any direction. And speaking of futuristic aircraft design in general, the authors also claim that developments in human-machine interaction and lightweight materials will be important. While this makes it sound as if the authors of Robot Warriors got many of their ideas from reading UFO books, there are also many other suggestion that do not seem relevant to the debate about whether some UFOs are of human or alien construction. Nevertheless this is an interesting, informative, colourful book for those UFO readers with a technical interest in futuristic aircraft design.
IS THERE AN ALIEN/HUMAN WAR DEBATE? - PART 2
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