Earth: An alien enterprise

466 Pages·2017·27.31 MB·English

by  Timothy Good

Earth
An alien enterprise
Timothy Good
foreword by Jonathan
Caplan QC
All Rights Reserved
Copyright © Timothy Good 2013
First published 2013 by Pegasus Books
This edition published in 2014 by:
Thistle Publishing
36 Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BU
www.thistlepublishing.co.uk
For Professor Stefano Breccia
(1945–2012)
CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Jonathan Caplan QC
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE Environmental Survey
CHAPTER TWO Galactic Guardians
CHAPTER THREE Italian Developments
CHAPTER FOUR Eisenhower and The Extraterrestrials
CHAPTER FIVE Public Landings
CHAPTER SIX Tales From The Vienna Woods
CHAPTER SEVEN Infiltration
CHAPTER EIGHT Airborne Encounters
CHAPTER NINE “A New World—If You Can Take It”
CHAPTER TEN Gray Liaison
PART TWO
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Overlords
CHAPTER TWELVE Reluctant Guinea Pigs
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Amicizia
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Alternative Spacecraft
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Technology Transfer
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Leviathans of the Skies
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Exploitation
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Special Forces
CHAPTER NINETEEN What On Earth?
References
Acknowledgments
About the Author
FOREWORD
by Jonathan Caplan, QC
I
n any democratic society, a process for the proper evaluation of evidence is
essential, usually within the context of criminal or civil proceedings or of
public or governmental inquiries. We are used to assessing the credibility and
reliability of witnesses and of seeking corroborative evidence where possible.
We know that even honest witnesses may be mistaken, and many people have
been sentenced to life imprisonment or even the death penalty on the strength
of a single uncorroborated witness.
The history of the UFO phenomenon, going back to Biblical times, is
essentially a record of human testimony of lights, objects, or events that
cover the spectrum from the unusual to the high strangeness of close
encounters. No doubt the same can be said of paranormal phenomena. This
record has its share of charlatans, those who are mistaken, and perhaps those
who have been deceived by others—or even by themselves. But the
fascinating feature of ufology is the core of honest, intelligent people in
different eras and from different cultures all over the world, including many
who are scientifically or aeronautically trained, who describe very similar
objects or similar experiences of high strangeness which on any basis cannot
be the product of a “black” research program. In many cases there are
multiple witnesses or there is corroborative evidence in the form of
photographic images, radar readings, or physical traces. For the lawyer, who
too often has to make bricks out of straw, such a body of material represents
a refreshingly strong case, particularly if examined in the same way in which
we examine evidence in other contexts.
We cannot, of course, though, accept these accounts at face value. In the
world we inhabit, all is often not what it seems, so how much more so in the
world of ufology where our reference points, let alone our vocabulary, are
wholly inadequate? This was the hard lesson of Shakespeare’s Macbeth who,
having interpreted literally the predictions of the three ethereal witches that
strongly implied his future safety, was left dejectedly to ponder that the
“instruments of darkness” often “win us to our harm” by half-truths and
“with honest trifles.”
And so to the question asked as long ago as 1955 by Captain Edward
Ruppelt (the former head of the U.S. Air Force Project Bluebook): “What
constitutes proof? Does a UFO have to land at the River Entrance to the
Pentagon, near the Joint Chiefs of Staff offices?” The answer is no easier to
provide after more than fifty years of further reports and investigations,
despite the advent of the digital camera. UFOs seem to be a phenomenon that
coexists with us and which is as baffling to an Israelite in the Sinai desert, or
a medieval monk, or a modern fighter pilot or astronaut. That we are not
alone is no longer in doubt. But at present that still remains an inference
rather than a proven fact.
There are many powerful institutions that would balk at recognizing such
proof even if a landing did occur at the Pentagon on prime-time television.
The risk of destabilizing organized government and religion would be too
great, and the risk of advanced technology falling into the wrong hands
would be greater. In that event, who is to call the shots on whether proof
exists or not, especially if key evidence is to be concealed or confuted? If we
cannot expect official and honest recognition, then maybe only the people
can decide on the basis of the “evidence” that is placed before them. Maybe
the much-criticized “new age” culture is the only way to combat the
clandestine secrecy that certainly surrounds this subject.
We owe the few reliable researchers like Timothy Good a huge
acknowledgment because they keep the record of this phenomenon, which
may be all that we can do, and they get it into the public consciousness. I
greatly admire the quality of his books and his perseverance. And I strongly
suspect that the real value of his work will only be fully appreciated in years
to come.
JONATHAN CAPLAN is a well-known lawyer practicing in London and has
acted in many high-profile cases. He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in
recognition of his standing in the profession. He has been interested in
ufology for over forty years.
INTRODUCTION
A
liens “have landed on Earth, infiltrated British and American nuclear
missile sites and sabotaged weapons, according to U.S. Air Force officers,”
declared The Daily Telegraph in 2010, citing an extraordinary press
conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “Six retired
officers and one former non-commissioned officer claim to have gathered
witness testimonies from more than 120 military personnel revealing the
infiltration of nuclear sites by aliens as recently as 2003. In some cases,
nuclear missiles supposedly malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object
hovered nearby.”1
“We saw this thing—it was coming right at us and was as low as the car
and huge,” reported Bruce and Priscilla Wetherill in January 2012, two years
after an incident which had occurred between Gainford and Barnard Castle,
in the Teesdale area of England’s Northern Pennines. “It was very
frightening,” admitted Priscilla. “Bruce kept driving but we both ducked
down, expecting it to hit us. I thought, ‘This is it. We’ve had it.’”
Described as saucer-shaped, dark on top but glowing underneath and
soundless, the object also had “steel-like tentacles hanging down.” At the last
moment, it lifted up and narrowly missed the car before disappearing into the
sky. The couple expected the car roof to have scratches, but none could be
seen. “I’m a realist, but I know what I saw and it was unbelievable,” said Mr.
Wetherill. “If I lived to two hundred I would never see anything like it
again.” The couple came forward two years after the event, following a spate
of sightings in Teesdale.2
Roy Shaw did not believe in aliens, ghosts, flying saucers—or anything he
could not touch or explain. That is, until 2010—around the same period as
the Wetherills’ experience. At about 21:30 on February 6th, he encountered a
large craft of unknown origin while walking his dog in Phear Park, Exmouth,
Devon.
“The object was round in shape and about thirty feet in diameter and a
hundred feet long, with blue and red flashing lights on its perimeter, and it
appeared to land at the top end of the park by the bowling green,” he
described to local reporter Becca Gliddon. “My dog started to growl when
what I can only describe as a white shape came toward us. It was about four
feet high and seemed to be translucent, and moved very slowly toward us. I
was transfixed because it made a droning sound. . . . I didn’t know where the
sound was coming from but it was coming straight toward me. I immediately
ran back down through the park.”
Mr. Shaw said the UFO seemed to hover over the hedge of the bowling
green, then flew horizontally from left to right before immediately shooting
off at high speed back to the left, at a 45-degree angle. It had “appeared from
nowhere”—he did not see it actually land or fly overhead. His normally
placid border collie dog ran away from it after baring its teeth at the
approaching object. “I twisted my ankle when I ran like hell. My dog Syd
kept whimpering and looking out of the bedroom window toward the park
until at least two in the morning.
“I still can’t believe what I saw and I am still in a state of shock. Syd
doesn’t like going back up there. Something put him off. Everybody thinks
you are a crank when you report something like this. I am an engineer. I like
to touch and feel things. If I can touch it, it exists, but there’s no way I can
explain this.”3
Another dog-walker told Roy Shaw the following morning that he had also
witnessed the incident.4
In August 2010, the Ministry of Defence released another of its
voluminous (if often innocuous) files on reported UFO sightings and related
correspondence. True to form, The Times remains behind the times—at least
from an editorial standpoint—debunking the subject in its tendentious
commentary on leading articles:
“In reality, there is exactly no evidence that Earth has ever been visited by
spacecraft from other worlds, but reports of UFO sightings do form a pattern.
They manifest the boundlessness of human credulity, which takes shifting
forms in different ages but has a stubborn irrationalism at its core. . . . A