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28 UFO Disclosure Project Naive 28 UFO Disclosure Project Naive FIRST CONTACT maintains a personal website, open to the public Do you think like certain authors that FIRST CONTACT Gerry Zeitlin, from that goes into extremely intimate details about Science is entangled in a web of Gerry Zeitlin, from manipulation, of slowing up of knowledge? his experiences and how they disrupted his life Yes. I make some references to this Open SETI gives an and the lives of others who were close to him. situation throughout my website, including one Open SETI gives an Anyone who reads the website will realize that interview a person cannot have experiences like that and to Halton Arp's essay What Has Science interview to Karmapolis about still think and operate the way a conventional Become? in the Journal of Scientific to Karmapolis about Exploration. In fact, Halton Arp's career is a scientist does. THAT realization can have an the plausible origin of impact on the professional prospects of the perfect example, as he has shown that presently- the plausible origin of person, one way or another, depending on what accepted cosmology is all wrong and can be mankind the person is attempting to do. Whether it HAS maintained only by suppression of perfectly mankind Continued from Page 25 had that impact, I cannot say. I presume the good data. Continued from Page 25 person of whom I speak understands the danger The problem is that science requires and is proceeding with courage and his own funding and all funding sources have their I believe it remains for the kind of integrity. agendas, which are based on acquisition of consciousness fragment - what we call a person The second person has decided to economic, military, or political power; not - to grasp what has been made available to it at conceal his experiences from public view, and primarily the pursuit of knowledge for its own any particular time, or not. And before it can be to attempt to find professional opportunities that sake - although there is a measure of allowance, grasped, usually there needs to be a reminder of satisfy him on both sides of his life's experience. recognizing that pure knowledge today can lead some kind that will cause the person to take He would probably agree that this has been a to power tomorrow. notice. difficult path. Do you think that the SETI will For some people, a major life-changing The general meaning to be drawn from voluntary not change the way that they analyze event may be required to cause them to take the experiences of these two individuals is that the "useful" frequencies that they agree to check notice of what has been offered to them. For "strange experiences" can present very great in case of an intelligent signal? others, it may be a dissatisfaction with the world challenges for anyone trying to pursue a Ideally, if "SETI" detects a signal that as presented, which causes them to actively professional career in a world that does not meets their simple criteria for "intelligence", search. For others, there may be a piece of news officially acknowledge the reality of those and that is not obviously of earthly origin, they or some other information that is out of synch experiences. are supposed to focus more resources on that with the conventional view, but is simply signal, looking for confirmation of the detection recognized as noteworthy. A parallel to this Let start with this "hypothesis": some and increasing their ability to discern any would be an event in a dream that reminds one scientists and workers for SETI are well details. that there is waking world that contrasts greatly aware of the UFO phenomenon and really In fact, it is already acknowledged that with the dreamed world. believe that the US government is in tentative detections must be checked with I was of the latter type, or maybe I was "physical" and tangible contact with E.T, authorities against the possibility that they are dissatisfied and searching. It didn't take much... E.B.E and related technology. How can you of clandestine human origin. just a story that was out of synch with the explain the "schizophrenic" situation of the I ask you, if it is then determined that common world but that reminded me of SETI institution which continues to pretend these are signals of artificial nature and NOT of something. The story came to me in the form of that we are still looking for a signal, an human origin, do you think the authorities a book that I had somehow acquired when I was intelligent contact and which know the would release the information into the public around 14 years old. It spoke of UFOs, and in reality of the situation. Don't you think that domain? particular, of the case of a military pilot named this "hypothesis" is realistic? Do you know "Mantell" who chased one while flying his Air some scientists (who will remain anonymous) Can you explain to our readers the Force jet. I don't recall much more than that. who agree with this hypothesis? concept of "Incrementalism" which looks to Just the sense that this could not be a mistake; The hypothesis is quite plausible, given be quite important in your perception of the this really seems to have happened and it means what we know of our society's other institutions. E.T phenomenon? everything - EVERYTHING - must be different In this model, a few scientists and workers at the Thank you for recognizing the from what I had believed only a moment before. top will have been briefed and there will be a importance of this key concept in Open SETI. The story was completely inconsistent with the program which they are following. Those not at The principle is so simple and obvious, yet is common world view, and yet I chose it the top, who do not know, would be moved by not recognized by ANY scientists in the SETI instinctively as being consistent with the truth. the force of personality of those who do know. community. It comes about because SETI This model would lead to the behavior that we confines itself to searches for evidence of "ET" Do you ever encounter scientists that see. activity that matches our own present-day or have strange experience with E.T (abduction, What would be the motivation of those expected near-future capabilities. You see this UFO sightings and transcendental who hold the knowledge? all the time: when one of these SETI scientists "revelation") working for SETI for instance? It would either be 1) very black or 2) a proposes a new search methodology, he or she In case of yes, how did they evolve? What misguided patriotism or maybe some sort of will without fail justify the proposal by showing were their perceptions of the problem of E.T fantastic earth-human chauvinistic that our own society would be capable of phenomenon? protectiveness. If 2), I can hardly imagine the producing the evidence for which they would "Working for SETI..." You probably convoluted rationale that they use. search. mean The SETI Institute. I have never been told In another model, no such knowledge is The most obvious example is SETI's of anyone in that organization having an held by anyone and they are operating in such a refusal to look for evidence of a local ET experience like that. However I can think of one way as to maximize the possibility of keeping presence, because they have been persuaded or two individuals in the broader SETI their organization viable and their salaries paid. that ET would not be able to come here from community who have had this. It troubles them In another, they are blinded by the rules of their wherever they are. Now that has been modified deeply because they cannot discuss it publicly, science and are trying to be good scientists and to allow a little discussion of the value of and yet it is the most important driver of their to be accepted as professionals by the scientific searching for robotic probes because we know work. community. how we would build those. Which is correct? At one time, around As our knowledge and technology Would you mind if I ask you to 25 years ago, I personally knew some of today's improves incrementally, then the range of describe more precisely what happened to SETI leaders. AT THAT TIME they seemed to search modes that SETI is willing to discuss them? be operating according to the last and next-to- also expands by the same increment. It is as One of them has attempted to live a last principles mentioned above. Today though we are willing only to search for our double public life. He poses as a scientist who anything is possible. technological mirror image. thinks the way other scientists do, while he also (Continued on Page 29)