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EARTH AN ALIEN ENTERPRISE THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE GREATEST COVER-UP IN HUMAN HISTORY T I M O T H Y G O O D W F J C QC ITH A OREWORD BY ONATHAN APLAN 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 Index 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. J C is a well-known lawyer practicing in London and has acted in ONATHAN APLAN 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 culture of pseudoscience impoverishes the condition of the masses as well as the life of the mind.”5

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