The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race

by Len Kasten

  Salla makes five recommendations. First, we must create the field of exopolitics so that schools and colleges may prepare diplomats for dealing with the extraterrestrial presence and also the ETs themselves. This would require highly specialized training.

  Second, and perhaps most important, Salla argues for the pressing need for immediate disclosure so that exopolitical leaders can bring the best academic minds all over the world into the problem-solving matrix, rather than just those now secretly employed by the government. He says, “This would lead to a more representative decision-making process in contrast to what the evidence suggests is a restricted decision-making process on the ET presence run by a small number of government officials ‘appointed’ in a manner which raises serious concerns over their accountability, constitutional status, and lack of congressional oversight.”

  It may be true that the military-industrial complex has effective ways of identifying and using brilliant and talented individuals, as in the movie A Beautiful Mind. Furthermore, Salla claims that it has “brainenhancement” technology that can raise an IQ by as many as fifty points. But there are obvious disadvantages to operating in a climate of secrecy, fear, and intimidation, and we are all being shortchanged by this policy. Salla’s position is that only a free and open discussion can elicit the responses appropriate to the incredibly complex problems and fabulous opportunities presented by the existence of several alien races on the planet, displaying powers and technologies that are thousands of years ahead of us. He believes that waiting for official disclosure will cause us to lose valuable initiatives and opportunities for change, and could actually be disastrous.

  Third, the government must reveal exactly what weaponry and defense measures have been developed for dealing with the “alien menace.” The military should not be permitted to expend considerable national resources in this effort without congressional and public oversight.

  Fourth, the government should reveal whatever new technologies have been developed by reverse engineering alien craft and any new energy sources based on extraterrestrial information that have been discovered. It is strongly suspected that we already have antigravity spaceships capable of interstellar flight, time or interdimensional travel capabilities, free-energy devices that would free us from fossil fuel dependency, and other advances that could eradicate sickness and poverty all over the globe. Clearly, it is presumptuous and immoral for a small group of individuals to keep these things under wraps while there is so much misery on the planet.

  Finally, there must be a concerted effort to develop effective congressional and public oversight of these clandestine activities.

  THE EXOPOLITICS OF THE IRAQI INVASION

  Most observers of statecraft, all over the world, were perplexed and shocked when, in March 2003, the United States literally created its own case for the invasion of Iraq and went ahead with the attack without a decent world consensus and with actual opposition by most of its traditional allies and the United Nations. Using the pretext of hidden “weapons of mass destruction” as a causus belli and in fact ignoring the failure of United Nations inspectors to find any such weapons, the powerful U.S.-British-Australian coalition made a quick strike and overran the negligible Iraqi defense forces in a matter of weeks. They seemed to be on a fast timetable, trying to beat some sort of an urgent deadline. If this was all about oil, why the urgency?

  Salla is convinced that the pressing need to invade Iraq was based on a clandestine exopolitical analysis and decision. He believes that the United States, Russia, Germany, and France have been aware that the Anunnaki left behind a very high-tech apparatus, and possibly weapons, when they abandoned Earth around 1700 BCE and that Saddam Hussein had been getting assistance from Russian, German, and French archaeological teams for years in an attempt to unravel and perhaps reverse engineer this apparatus, which Salla claims is probably far in advance of any technology we might have obtained from our friends, the Grays from Zeta Reticuli. If a European-Iraqi alliance were able to reverse engineer this technology or strike up an alliance with the Anunnaki when they return, then whatever military advantage the United States has had with its antigravity craft would probably disappear, and we would quickly become a second-rate power. Basically, Salla is claiming that all political decisions are now exopolitical decisions, which must be hidden from the public to prevent the possibility of overthrowing the secret ruling elite cliques. Salla believes that a covert, intense struggle is being played out behind the scenes against the backdrop of the ET presence: earthly political powers are maneuvering for alliances with superior ET races to gain world domination.

  THE STARGATE AT URUK

  Although author Zecharia Sitchin never entertained the notion that the Anunnaki could have set foot on Earth through an interdimensional portal, he came very close to that idea in his book Stairway to Heaven. A primitive version of that concept has been floating around the sci-fi world since the advent of Star Trek on TV in the 1960s. Captain Kirk and friends could be “beamed” down to any planet by a dematerialization-rematerialization process. Sitchin believed that the Sumerian tablets showed the existence of spaceports at various places in the Middle East, from where the Anunnaki traveled back and forth to Nibiru in rocket ships. He wrote that some of the tablets indicated the probable use of orbiting craft as well. But there was no mention of interdimensional portals.

  Salla’s opinion that the technology buried beneath the desert sands of Iraq is an actual stargate has been heavily influenced by the writings of William Henry, with whom readers of Atlantis Rising magazine are very familiar. Henry makes a compelling case for the existence of such a stargate in Iraq in his research paper titled “Saddam Hussein, The Stairway to Heaven and the Return of Planet X,” published on his website www.williamhenry.net. This paper, in turn, uses material extracted from his book, Ark of the Christos: The Mythology, Symbolism and Prophecy of the Return of Planet X and the Age of Terror. While Henry’s essay is, of course, speculative, he nevertheless makes copious references to ancient mythological texts as well as Sitchin’s works.

  The following statement from the paper summarizes Henry’s argument and is probably one that influenced Salla: “The return of this planet centers on the recovery of a technology once housed at Solomon’s Temple that is used to open a gateway linking Earth with far off regions of space. Recent military and political activity suggests that the world powers are jockeying for position as if the return of Planet X is imminent. The stakes are high. This planet is at the center of a biblical prophecy known as the ‘Day of the Lord.’” A photograph in his article shows an ancient Sumerian tablet in which the god Anu, the ruler of Planet X, appears to be going through a gate, flanked by two people holding posts or pillars with globes on top. Henry calls these poles “splendid shining posts” and claims that they represent the stargate in a simplified form.

  Sumerian tablet showing Anu in a stargate

  Another Sumerian tablet illustrated in the article shows Gilgamesh going through a similar gate. Gilgamesh was the hero of the ancient Sumerian epic poem The Epic of Gilgamesh, written about 2900 BCE. He was the king of Uruk, a city in southern Mesopotamia, who sought immortality by searching for the “Stairway to Heaven and the abode of the Gods.” Ultimately, he ascended a ladder and went through a gate and entered a new world, where he met long-dead Utnapishtim (Noah) and questioned him about the gods. Salla believes the stargate will be found at Uruk, where German archaeologists had been digging for many years at the invitation of Saddam Hussein and had unearthed an ancient city. He thinks that the stargate may have already been unearthed by the U.S. but cannot be used because it probably takes about five years of consciousness-expansion training before someone can walk through the gate. This is consistent with the modus operandi of the now-famous Montauk experiments in time travel, which were driven by the enhanced mental power of one man, Duncan Cameron.

  At this point, it appears that exopolitics is being covertly practiced by most of the major world powe
rs. Secret agreements and alliances with various ET groups have been attributed to the United States, Great Britain, Russia, China, Germany (dating back to World War II), France, and very possibly Iraq. Salla believes that the weaponry (e.g., the atom bomb) and wars of the twentieth century may well have been connected with these alliances (see chapters 24 and 25). This trend toward dealing with extraterrestrials as near equals is encouraging progress for the human race since it means we are coming out of our planetary cocoon. However, if we become embroiled in a weapons-escalation race fueled by competing ET factions fighting for domination of the planet and are used as pawns in this struggle, then it is clearly time to make the whole thing public and allow the people to have a voice in preventing their own doom in an apocalyptic war famously referred to as Armageddon.

  10

  Information Wars

  The momentum for full disclosure of the truth from the government about the UFO phenomenon seems to fluctuate almost like the stock market. It goes through periods of intense enthusiasm, usually initiated by one or more dedicated individuals or groups, followed by times of relative discouragement and disinterest after it has become abundantly clear that a solid stone wall has been encountered and it is an exercise in futility. Generations of courageous truth fighters come and go. They heroically hurl themselves against the great stone wall, but it remains implacable, yielding not even a tiny crack. There are times when a breakthrough seems imminent and there is a real feeling abroad that the wall will break wide open and the dammed-up revelations will come flooding through, but alas, it just never happens. Presidential candidates make promises, but when the time comes to deliver, they become mute.

  For instance, in 1993, five-term congressman Steve Schiff from New Mexico, under pressure from constituents, came to believe that there was something to the Roswell story and asked the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to thoroughly review every piece of evidence, old and new. For a while, it seemed that at last a pronouncement from an official government agency might be forthcoming. But the GAO report, issued on July 28, 1995, said that all the important government documents about the Roswell incident had been inexplicably destroyed over forty years previously. Schiff, however, kept up the pressure and became the congressional point man for continued probes. He personally investigated the Santilli alien autopsy film, about which he said, “It looked real to me.” Less than three years after the GAO inquiry, on March 25, 1998, Schiff died of a particularly aggressive form of skin cancer after a one-year battle. He was fifty-one years old. So ended another promising crusade.

  Without doubt, the biggest thorn in the side of the government and the most persistent gadfly seeking disclosure of UFO secrets is Arizona attorney Peter Gersten, founder and director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS). Since 1998, Gersten has mounted a multipronged, one-man campaign to force various government agencies to release all the UFO-related information that they have in their possession. Using the Freedom of Information Act as his primary weapon and relying on his legal skills, Gersten has sued the U.S. government, the attorney general, the secretary of defense, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the federal district court in Phoenix, Arizona, to force them to release their secret UFO documents. Naturally, he hasn’t had much success since the federal courts tend to side with the government, and as a last resort the government takes refuge under the “national security” umbrella. But he has enjoyed an occasional psychological victory, and his efforts are slowly gaining wider attention.

  THE CRUSADING PHYSICIAN

  But now, in these early days of the twenty-first century, a major new force has entered the fray and threatens to blast a huge breach in the wall, if not to bring it down entirely. It comes from an unexpected place. A previously obscure emergency room physician from Charlottesville, Virginia, has stepped onto the world stage and has taken the reins in hand to lead the charge to finally wrest a public admission of the history of extraterrestrial contact with the human race from the deep, shadowy recesses of the top-secret world. Dr. Steven Greer has become so inflamed with this crusade that he has put his promising medical career on hold, thereby forfeiting his considerable income and putting at risk the welfare of his wife and four young daughters.

  Greer’s efforts have been highly organized and carefully orchestrated right from the beginning of his involvement in 1990, when he founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). After recruiting a corps of top UFO researchers from all over the world to be affiliated with CSETI, he formed them into an initiative working group designated as CE-5 to produce a comprehensive working document about the presence of extraterrestrials on the planet (i.e., who they are, their characteristics, and why they are here).

  That document, published in 1991, is a comprehensive and complete analysis of the situation up to that time, using virtually every piece of information available outside of the secret government world, but including the statements of some courageous ex-government insiders. The discoveries described are not surprising to anyone who has been investigating the UFO phenomenon, but it is remarkable that Greer arrived at such explicit and far-reaching conclusions about the alien presence so early in the game. The working paper claims that there are several ET groups visiting Earth, all of which have bases within the solar system, some on (or under) the earth itself. In the working paper, Greer says that the technologies used in their propulsion systems include: “a) gravity/anti-gravity and electromagnetic/gravity technology b) space energy and so-called hyperdimensional energy systems c) matter-energy inter-changeable technologies d) possible Consciousness Assisted Technology (CAT) and Technology Assisted Consciousness (TAC).”

  Interestingly, this document concludes that it is the aliens themselves who choose to keep their presence relatively secret. On this subject, Greer says, “Sudden and fully open contact with human civilization has been avoided because of a number of interrelated factors, including: a) the need to avoid an untimely disruption of Earth civilization including military, political, geopolitical, cultural, economic, technological and religious upheaval; b) risks to their own civilization and ‘people,’ as well as overall mission, given human xenophobia and tendencies towards violent armed reactions; c) up to this time, such massive and open contact has not been necessary, and has not been consonant with their overall long-term mission and purpose . . . since their purpose is not acquisition oriented or disruptive.” But he goes on to say that they do have a plan in place for “gradually broader and deeper contact with human society and individuals.”

  The paper also discusses the government cover-up, claiming high-level knowledge since “at least 1947.” Surprisingly, this document then appears to excuse, or at least to understand, the reasons for government secrecy. Those reasons are stated as: “a) fear of public panic and social disruption b) security issues surrounding possible military and technology applications of ET technology, especially in the setting of a world beset with Cold War tensions and competing interests c) uncertainty and mistrust regarding ET motives and ultimate intentions d) embarrassment and consternation over human military inability to secure world air space from repeated penetrations by ETS e) embarrassment and loss of face resulting from disclosures concerning how this matter has been handled, such as the harassment and ridicule of innocent civilians and military personnel, the withholding of information from the public and Congress, etc.” More surprising is the conclusion concerning ET technology, as follows: “ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence) technology is strictly guarded by both ETI and human governmental agencies because of its potential for military applications which would greatly threaten world security. It is imperative that this technology not find significant human applications until such time as the Earth attains international peace and an effective world government.” This early position about secrecy would change drastically as the CSETI investigation continued.

  PROJECT STARLIGHT

  By 1993, Greer had come to realiz
e, presumably through ET contacts, that the ETs were open to complete revelation and welcomed the opportunity to interact with the human race. In his newsletter of May 1994, he said, “I believe ETI is waiting for us to educate our own people, and soon.” Based on this, he launched Project Starlight, which was, as stated in the newsletter, “designed to educate world leaders, leaders in society, and the world’s population to the fact that the earth is being visited by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. A comprehensive and world encompassing strategy has been designed to achieve these educational goals, which will culminate in a world announcement regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life forms.” He cited many new worldwide developments that supported a move to complete openness, especially the end of Cold War tensions, the declassification of many secret documents, and increased worldwide UFO sightings, implying an ET desire to be observed. However, in the same newsletter, Greer announced that in implementing Project Starlight, he was surprised to learn that most high-level U.S. government officials, including the president, the cabinet, and probably the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were “out of the loop.” He said he had learned that the real information was controlled by a top-secret, quasi-governmental, quasi-private, international group, and therefore it was necessary to convince that group that the time had come to release the information.