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SUBJECT: WHERE ARE THEY NOW - 1985 FILE: UFO2557
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From the "Where Are They Now" file, a press release issued 1985:
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TWO LEADING SPACE RESEARCHERS GIVE THEIR VIEWPOINTS THAT THERE
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IS LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS AND ALIENS MAY ALREADY WALK AMONG US.
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10/14/85
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Press Release Paid By Dateline Communications
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 -- We are not alone. There is life on other worlds.
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Aliens may already walk among us, unknown, unrecognized, but with
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calculated purpose, and official "first contact" with extraterrestrials --
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at best, with mutual distrust -- could occur by the year 2000.
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These were the principal viewpoints advanced by two leading space
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researchers -- Dr. Thomas McDonough and Robert Emenegger -- involved
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in the ongoing exploration for civilizations elsewhere in the Milky
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Way or other galaxies, and by viewers of the syndicated cable
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television show, "Dateline: USA," polled in a follow-up, national
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survey.
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Spurred by a discussion of "The Invaders Plan" -- the best-selling first
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volume of L. Ron Hubbard's new, landmark 10-volume "Mission Earth"
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dekalogy of an invasion of Earth recounted entirely by aliens "who already
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walk, work and conspire among us" -- Emenegger cited U.S. government
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files, now secret and inaccessible, that he has been shown by Air Force and
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other government officials documenting landings by unidentified flying
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objects (UFOs).
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Emenegger -- who told the "Dateline: USA" audience that his initial contact
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with UFO sightings, by government invitation, was as a "disinterested and
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frankly skeptical outsider" -- referred specifically to a 1977 "close
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encounter," an actual UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
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The incident is described in detail in his book, now in its sixth printing,
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"UFOs: Past, Present and Future."
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Emenegger also briefly described what he called a recent contact --
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witnessed by at least a half dozen U.S. government officials -- with the
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pilot of a spacecraft he said identified himself as coming from the planet
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Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun in the solar system.
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McDonough, coordinator of the Planetary Society's Search for
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Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, confirmed recent widely
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published reports in a number of major publications of growing evidence
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of the development or suspected existence of planetary systems -- and
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possible life forms -- around other stars in our own and distant galaxies.
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These include Vega, Beta Pictoris, and, possibly, Barnard's Star, which,
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only six light-years away, is the closest of the three to Earth.
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A light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in a year --
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roughly 6 trillion miles.
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A member of the prestigious International Astronomical Union, Fellow of
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the British Interplanentary Society, recipient of a special NASA citation for
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his work on the Pioneer spacecraft flyby of the planet Saturn and holder of
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a doctorate in astrophysics from Cornell University, McDonough told the
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"Dateline: USA" audience that the National Aeronautics and Space
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Administration's Hubble space telescope, scheduled to be launched in 1986,
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could extend mankind's view of the origin of the universe and the development
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of mature planetary systems -- and possible evidence of life on other worlds
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-- to or very close to its projected beginnings some 10 billion to 20 billion
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years ago.
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It was pointed out that with the stars in the Milky Way estimated at between
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100 billion and 200 billion, and the number of galaxies and of stars per
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galaxy in the observable universe equaling, and perhaps exceeding, that
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figure by at least three or four times, the number of other possible planetary
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systems and planets capable of sustaining intelligent life forms must fall well
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within the range -- very conservatively -- of 50 million to 100 million.
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The poll of more than 2,500 "Dateline: USA" viewers in 20 major
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metropolitan markets across the United States -- from New York to Los
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Angeles -- disclosed that nearly 60 percent of the respondents not only
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believe there is intelligent life on other planets, but that "they've been
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watching us for quite a while, and some of them -- for whatever reasons,
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perhaps like the aliens in Hubbard's novel, 'The Invaders Plan' -- may even
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be living next door."
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Asked if they concurred with a U.S. State Department official's statement to a
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congressional committee that "aliens from other solar systems are a potential
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threat to us and we are a potential threat to them," 45 percent agreed "we
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would have to fight to protect ourselves"; 35 percent thought "we might be able
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to benefit mutually from one another"; and the remainder largely felt that "an
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invasion by a civilization that could travel through space and find us -- and
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our space probes have made no secret of how to get here -- would be just too
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powerful to resist."
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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