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SUBJECT: NO E.T.s ON MARS? FILE: UFO3358
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No E.T.s on Mars? O Ye of Little Faith
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from THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ,09/02/93
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"NASA Face Up to It."
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So declared one of the signs held aloft by a protester last week
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outside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. You'd think the scientists
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waiting for the Mars Observer to end its silence were having a hard
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enough time coping with this billion-dollar boo-boo. Then came the
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invasion of the UFO activists, united in the conviction that NASA
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won't tell us everything it knows about extraterrestrials.
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Specifically, these activists say, NASA officials don't want us
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to get a better look at the striking images on the Red Planet that
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could only have been created by intelligent beings. A photograph
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taken by a Viking orbiter in 1976, they note, reveals a geological
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shape that resembles a milelong human face. They've also noted
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lines and shadows that resemble pyramids, a smiling face and even
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Kermit the Frog. Skeptics have scoffed, pointing out such
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frightening images as Tammy Faye Bakker's eyelashes and Teddy
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Kennedy on a bad night.
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Joseph Randazzo isn't the kind of "UFOlogist" who attends demon-
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strations. A former packager of martial arts films, Randazzo is the
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Studio City-based producer of the "Witness E.T." video series and
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publisher of the 1 1/2-year-old International UFO Library
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magazine, available at a newsstand near you. Conspiracy theories,
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Randazzo explained, are "just not my thing." Yet he, too, has little
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trust for NASA.
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The official story suggests that the Mars Observer was doomed by
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a bad transistor. Randazzo prefers other theories. Perhaps E.T.s
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from the Pleiades star system or maybe Orion jammed communications.
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Maybe our interplanetary visitors decided to seize our space probe.
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It should be noted that not all UFO researchers believe this.
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Don Ecker, research director of the Sunland-based UFO magazine and
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an organizer of the JPL protest, suggests that the Mars Observer
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really did just break down. But, he adds, that doesn't mean NASA
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isn't hiding something.
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At least we can agree that the universe works in mysterious
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ways. How's this for a cosmic coincidence: When I met Randazzo for
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lunch the other day at a trendy spot on Ventura Boulevard, it just
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so happened that Carol Rosin was sitting at the next table. Rosin
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is the founder of something called the Institute for Security and
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Cooperation in Outer Space, a group that used to lobby against
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President Ronald Reagan's defunct "Star Wars" defense system.
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This made me a little suspicious, but not once did I hear the
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theme from "Twilight Zone." Randazzo and Rosin assured me they had
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never met before-but, as Randazzo pointed out, you never can tell
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when E.T.s might be technologically or telepathically fiddling with
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our brain waves. Someone out there may well be choreographing such
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close encounters.
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Randazzo is far beyond the point of trying to convince skeptics
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that alien spacecraft make regular stops here. We know "a lot," he
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says dismissively, about the slim little gray men with big eyes
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that are the stock E.T.s of movies and supermarket tabloids.
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What really excites Randazzo, it seems, is the belief that some
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E.T.s who look no different from Earthlings are now sharing
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important information with several human "contactees."
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What have the E.T.s told them?
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For starters, Earth was "seeded" by ancient astronauts from
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several galaxies. Chariots of the Gods and all that. I'm no
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anthropologist, but Randazzo says the "seven races" on Earth may be
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explained by our rich variety of intergalactic visitors.
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"The E.T.s all laugh at Darwin's theory," Randazzo declared.
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"Our lineage is not from an ape in a tree. Me and you are made of
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star stuff."
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Indeed, these aliens have confirmed much of the Bible, Randazzo
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says, right down to the existence of Adam and Eve.
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The Vista school board may be reassured to learn that, but my
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guess is they'll keep the E.T. stuff out of their creationist
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curriculum. Even Randazzo admits to a reluctance to discuss the
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"blue people" because it sounds "like tabloid stuff."
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The "blue people," he explained, are a secretive alien race that
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came to Earth way back when and live underground. There is known to
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be a rather large colony, Randazzo says, beneath Mt. Shasta.
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Smile if you must. Laugh if you dare. But as I write this, I
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can't help but notice the front-page headlines on The Times of Aug. 25.
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"Mars Probe Still Silent; Hopes Dim," declares the headline for
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the lead story. Another story concerns President Clinton's vacation
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to Martha's Vineyard. "President Sleeps Till 10 as Silence Falls
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Over U.S.," the headline says.
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Sometimes, Randazzo told me, the E.T.s visit us "in a dream
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state."
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A few days later, President Clinton would express concern that
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America is becoming "entirely too secular."
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We should have more respect, the President said, for people of
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faith.
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