by Timothy Good
In one of his two books on Christ, theologian Holger Kersten adduces compelling evidence that Jesus lived in India following his “resuscitation” (as the original Aramaic word implies), dying there in old age and buried in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. His tomb still exists in Kashmir, and he is said to be revered there to this day.63 For die-hard Christians who dismiss the possibility, they should ponder on the fact that the New Testament has only one sentence (in Luke) about Jesus’s years from the age of thirteen to thirty.
Suppose Jesus had later reincarnated and returned again to Earth “in the same way as you have seen him go”: I doubt that such a revelation would be welcomed, or even believed, by the Christian hierarchy. However, assuming any truth to Henry Dohan’s implication, I am minded to wonder about the claimed connection between Orthon and the two Popes cited earlier.
Open Contact?
John L. Petersen served as a flight officer in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve and is a decorated veteran of both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. His government and political experience includes stints at the National War College, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council staff at the White House. Currently he heads the Arlington Institute, a think tank based in Arlington, Virginia. We have met on a number of occasions over the years in Washington. In The Road to 2015: Profiles of the Future, one of three of his books he has given me, he invokes a possible scenario when open contact is made with extraterrestrials:
“For many in the majority segment of people in industrial societies who believe that UFOs are real, this event, though disquieting, was seen as opening up the window to a whole new world and reality full of immense questions—but not all necessarily negative. There was wonder and questioning in the context of a desire to solidify relationships and learn more from these strange ‘people.’
“At the same time, pockets of people (and some governments) reacted as though acutely threatened. The assumption was that these beings were coming to take over, or unduly influence, the world and that the appropriate response was to quickly build up corporate and individual defenses….
“All societies with access to television are transfixed by this event. Never-before-seen levels of global excitement and anxiety are experienced. The implications of this event cause an ultimate change in most every aspect of life on Earth.
“One of the hardest-hit groups are conservative religious organizations, for whom this event does not fit into their relatively narrow explanation of reality. This, perhaps the biggest event in history, causes religious leaders to scramble to explain (and in some cases, modify) theology to fit this new situation.
“Although some groups see the benefit of the new visitors in terms of new technology that can be made into weapons, many others see it as a hope for solving some of the very serious, intractable problems the world is confronted with at that time. Energy production is of particular interest.”64
All of which may be true. But is open contact a viable scenario? We have learned that many types of aliens populate the cosmos—including Earth. A number of these races, such as those involved in the hybridization programs, definitely do not have our best interests at heart. And those who are “on our side” in such matters evince an understandable reluctance to engage with us en masse. We remain a relatively primitive bunch. As Daniel Fry, a pioneer rocket technician whose first encounter took place in 1949, was informed by his alien contact:
“If we were to appear as members of a superior race, coming from above to lead the people of your world, we would seriously disrupt the ego balance of your civilization. Tens of millions of your people, in their desperate need to avoid being demoted to second place in the universe, would go to any conceivable length to disprove or deny our existence.
“If we took steps to force the realization of our reality upon their consciousness, then about thirty percent of these people would insist upon considering us as gods, and would attempt to place upon us all responsibility for their own welfare. Of the remaining seventy percent, most would consider that we were potential tyrants who were planning to enslave their world, and many would immediately begin to seek means to destroy us.
“If any great and lasting good is to come from our efforts, the actual leaders must be your own people, or it must come from men who are indistinguishable from them.”65
Non-Disclosure
In November 2011, two petitions with over seventeen thousand signatories were sent to the White House, one demanding immediate disclosure of “the government’s knowledge of and communications with extraterrestrial beings.” Earlier that month, two petitions with similar aims were able together to garner the required number of signatures to gain a response.
“The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race,” responded Phil Larson from the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. “In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.” While conceding the possibility of aliens and a variety of NASA projects aimed at searching for them, Larson stressed there was “no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.”
“Although it’s an official White House statement, the nothing-to-see-here response is not likely to satisfy public interest,” reports journalist Conan Milner. “Despite similar statements, one petition cited opinion polls indicating that more than fifty percent of Americans believe there is an extraterrestrial presence, and more than eighty percent believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon.”66
Nikola Duper’s unnamed participant in the Amicizia saga makes some apposite comments regarding disclosure. “The Friends never predicted anything about ‘disclosure day.’ I never heard them speak about 2012, [which] so many people mention.” He added:
“At the end of the 1940s, the Friends offered their collaboration to the head of the U.S. administration. In exchange, they asked that the nuclear weaponry program be given up. But their offer and request were rejected, and other extraterrestrial populations have been collaborating with the USA and other Powers. The results of this have been highly negative…. One of the reasons—there are others—which delay disclosure is the fact that the USA administration should assume responsibility before the whole planet for having refused a vital collaboration and for having activated another highly negative one, exclusively for the sake of power and domination, lying to citizens and covering up for decades.
“Following the American politico-military refusal, the Friends undertook the strategy consisting of confidential contacts with small groups of terrestrials, trying to emphasize the quality of human personal relationships….”67
The Royal Society and ET
In 2011, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society—the world’s oldest scientific journal—devoted its edition of January 10 to speculation on alien life in the cosmos. American psychology professor Dr. Albert Harrison, for example, suggested that the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence “may be far less startling for generations that have been brought up with word processors, electronic calculators, avatars, and cell phones, as compared with earlier generations used to typewriters, slide rules, pay phones, and rag dolls.” Surveys suggested, he added, that half the population of America and Europe believes aliens exist, and that a “substantial proportion” was convinced alien spacecraft had already visited Earth.
Dr. Harrison also claimed that the discovery of alien life—should it happen any time soon—would be more likely to inspire delight than incite pandemonium here on Earth, he told SPACE.com. He added that, even if an alien civilization had become greedy and imperialistic, there’s no guarantee it would be able to run roughshod over its neighbors.
“It’s possible to have very acquisitive civilizati
ons out there,” Harrison conceded. “Maybe they get to a certain point, but they may collapse or be beaten back.” He added a comment with which I concur: “No one civilization is necessarily going to take over, because there will be coalitions of other civilizations that will keep them in check.”68 At least, we hope so.
As for Dr. Harrison’s claim that the discovery of aliens would be unlikely to incite pandemonium, in the spring of 2010 a headline on the front page of Al-Ghad, a local newspaper in Jordan, stated that flying saucers flown by creatures ten feet tall had landed in the desert town of Jafr. Amid panic, the mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, put the security authorities on full alert. They searched the area, but found nothing. “I almost considered evacuating the town’s thirteen thousand residents,” said Mleihan. “Students didn’t go to school. People were scared the aliens would attack them.”
It turned out to have been an April Fool’s Day hoax.69 Panic, however, has featured relatively rarely in actual public landings. Those reported in the U.K. and Australia in 1955 and 1966, respectively, for example (Chapter 5), engendered astonishment and wonder—but little panic. Predicated on cultural differences, perhaps?
“When that truth of alien intervention in our planet’s affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed,” states Col. Philip Corso, “it won’t be frightening, even though it will be a shock.”70
The Problem
Gary S. Bekkum describes himself as an independent “occasional rogue journalist,” whose international network of contacts includes past and present intelligence officials interested, for example, in the application of exotic phenomena ranging from antigravity to mind-to-mind communication. Bekkum shares my conviction that, if the alien presence is real, the odds are against government disclosure—or at least, full disclosure. As he claimed in 2009:
“Among members of the Intelligence Community, the tale of the alien presence is known as the ‘core story’ of contact between the aliens and the government. The strong rumor is there is a ‘disturbing’ aspect to this ‘core story,’ something so dire that it leaves battle-hardened military types shaking in their boots…. According to one of the intelligence officials who pursue the UFO topic (and many are at the highest levels of the government), the ‘core story’ may fall outside of the president of the United States’ ‘need to know.’ …
“Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo astronaut who was the sixth man to walk on the Moon [Apollo 14], remains an outspoken supporter of the ‘core story’ explanation for government secrecy. Mitchell spoke of his contact with a ranking admiral with the Joint Chiefs who agreed to investigate the ‘core story’ of alien contact and report back. Some reporters were miffed when Mitchell refused to disclose the name of the admiral, but Mitchell did provide to me confirmation that another report was ‘essentially correct.’
“Mitchell requested my help in clarifying why his testimony appeared to be contradicted by the admiral, who had been identified by the Herald Tribune as Rear Admiral Thomas R. Wilson. Quoting an article taken from the prestigious Jane’s Defence Weekly, Mitchell implied that the admiral had discovered that the ‘core story’ was protected by a Special Access Program [SAP].”71
An SAP is “a program imposing ‘need-to-know’ or access controls beyond those normally provided for access to Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret information.”72 Jane’s further defines an SAP as one which must remain unacknowledged when it is “considered so sensitive that the fact of its existence is a ‘core secret.’ …” Bekkum speculates on the disturbing possibility of “the existence of government doomsday survival plans in the event of massive extraterrestrial manipulation of the world’s population.”73
Anthony L. Kimery, a respected American journalist who has covered global security, intelligence, and defense issues, revealed in 1989 that, according to an Army source who worked with the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) at the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center (NMCC) in the 1970s, a highly secret, centralized command structure dealing with UFOs has been in operation since the mid to late 1970s, and (in 1989) continued to handle the UFO problem from the ranks of the NMCC. Kimery believes that “military and political leaders have … considered the UFO reality serious enough to warrant a consolidated oversight mechanism and planning force, on a par with management for global conflict….”74
That NMCC is (or was) the “nerve center” dealing with the UFO problem has been confirmed for me by another knowledgeable source.
Ancient Races
It seems to me that at least some groups of aliens have always been here. In Chapter 13, I allude to reports of possible extraterrestrials described in the Rigveda, an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. One of the oldest known texts in any Indo-European language, evidence indicates that it was composed between approximately 1700 and 1100 b.c.
In the early 1900s, Professor Edgar L. Larkin, Director of Mt. Lowe Observatory in Southern California, observed on several occasions through a powerful telescope some odd structures in the environs of Mt. Shasta. These included two domes rising above the treetops near Shasta and part of a third one. “Moving the telescope once again,” writes Wishar S. Cervé, “he found visible between the trees a corner of another structure seemingly made of marble. Knowing that there were no such structures in Northern California, and especially in land around Shasta, he left his telescope fixed to see what these things would look like in the setting sun and in darkness. He was surprised to find later in the night that around this dome were great lights, apparently white, which partially illuminated and made them visible even though there was no moon to cast any light at the time.”
Others reported encounters with extraordinary beings, said to be descendants from the fabled continent of Lemuria, residing in Mt. Shasta. In the early 1900s, for example, strange tall humans were seen emerging from forests in the vicinity and visiting local stores in Weed to trade gold nuggets in exchange for basic commodities. Described as graceful and agile, with distinctive features such as large foreheads and long curly hair and dressed in unusual clothes, they were said to have spoken English “in a perfect manner with perhaps a tinge of the British accent, and have been reluctant to answer any questions or give any information about themselves.” Any intruders approaching them in the vicinity of their hidden residence would invariably be physically removed, or they might encounter some invisible influence, causing temporary paralysis. Also of particular relevance here, cars approaching the area stalled mysteriously and sightings were often made of unusual “flying boats,” one of which was described by a group of witnesses as “a peculiar, silver-like vessel [which] was unlike any airship that has ever been seen and there was absolutely no noise emanating from it.”
Wishar Cervé also reports knowledge of records pertaining to another group of descendants from Lemuria, found living in the center of an extinct volcano in Mexico, “hidden from all possible worldly observation.”75,76
In an interview for Fate magazine in 2007, a witness, Jason, revealed that on a certain date he had encountered an extraordinary man on the lower slopes of Mt. Shasta. “I knew instantly what he was,” he told the reporter. “I’ve lived around here all my life and I’ve heard the stories.” The stranger had “flowing white hair and piercing blue eyes. He was wearing white robes and no shoes. I was scared…. It wasn’t that he was doing anything threatening, but his appearance there on the side of the mountain was just so unexpected.
“I jumped up from where I had been lying on the ground, and when I did he looked surprised. It wasn’t until I was standing that I realized how tall he was. He had to have been at least eight feet … he wasn’t acting aggressively, but I was unreasonably scared, for some reason…. Then he told me not to be afraid. But it was too late for that. I guess he must have realized I was about to lose it, because just like that, he faded and disappeared.”77
In the early 1960s Lucius (Lou) Farish, a first-class researcher—w
ho sadly died in January 2012, and until several years ago organized the annual Ozarks UFO Conference held in Eureka Springs, Arkansas—learned an apocryphal but relevant story from an author who claimed to have met a truly remarkable person in the 1930s.
“He was about eighty then, an old sailing boat skipper who had participated in the great grain races around the Horn, who called himself only ‘Harmonious,’” wrote the author. “We used to sit around on the beach and listen while he told us, quietly and without affectation, of his meetings with his ‘astral’ friends high atop Mt. Shasta (many years later, the first UFOs were sighted near that spot) and of his many trips throughout this system and others.
“He was bearded, never seemed to change from one year to the next; a vegetarian, and a gentle soul. His description used for the vehicle of flight very closely resembled certain other descriptions now in common usage—all this long before the huge UFO scare. Harmonious was last seen in the late 1950s—and looking exactly as he had thirty years before…. He never attempted to capitalize on his experiences.”
Intrigued, Lou wrote back asking for more details. “When he talked of beings on other planets, he was often facetious,” the author continued in his reply. “However, he was deeply serious whenever he spoke of the ‘Old Ones.’
“Insofar as the Old Ones were concerned, his particular friend used a vehicle that, apparently, was a low-slung gondola, without wheels or any visible means of support or propulsion, for that matter. He’d often pick up a clam-shell or half-shell, that is, and say the vehicle looked almost like that. A low couch, nothing else. No top, or sides, or windshields. When it moved, the atmosphere surrounding the vehicle darkened and became opaque—nothing was visible. Also, no feeling of motion, or gravity. Apparently, his friend (an Old One) utilized applied levitation as a propulsive force. This vehicle was used only to pick him up and take him to the domain of the Old Ones. This was far beneath the earth. Usually he entered via a cavern on Mt. Shasta. There are other entrances: Antarctica, the Andes—in fact, look at the so-called ‘circle of fire’ on a good geological map and the great faulted areas surrounding the Pacific, and you’ll approximate the many areas he mentioned as portals to the old people’s world.
