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3 Alien Abduction 3 Alien Abduction ALIEN ABDUCTION ALIEN ABDUCTION “A Realistic View” “A Realistic View” "...despite the fact that we humans are great collectors of souvenirs, not one of these persons [claiming to have been aboard a flying saucer] has brought back so much as an extraterrestrial tool or artifact, which could, once and for all, resolve the UFO mystery." --Philip Klass "Aliens, if an when we find them, could be so alien, so different from humanity as to undermine the meaning of any exchange we might have, or even make such exchange impossible." --Henry Gee There is a widespread belief that alien beings have traveled to Earth from some other planet and are doing reproductive experiments on a chosen few. Despite the incredible nature it takes our Sun about 200 million years to would be people willing to make the trip. It of this belief and a lack of credible supportive evidence, a cult has grown up around it. revolve once around the Milky Way gives one a would not be difficult to find many people who glimpse of the perspective we have to take of believe they could be put to sleep for a few According to a Gallup poll done at the end of interstellar travel. We are 500 light-seconds hundred or thousand years and be awakened to the twentieth century, about one-third of from the sun. The next nearest star to Earth's look for life on some strange planet. They might Americans believe aliens have visited us, an sun (Alpha Centauri) is about 4 light-years even believe they could then gather information increase of 5% over the previous decade. According to the tenets of this cult, away. That might sound close, but it is actually to bring back to Earth where they would be aliens crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in something like 24 trillion miles away. Even greeted with a ticker tape parade down the 1947. The U.S. Government recovered the alien traveling at one million miles an hour, it would streets of whatever is left of New York City. take more than 2,500 years to get there. To get craft and its occupants, and has been secretly ALIEN ABDUCTION AND meeting with aliens ever since in a place known there in twenty-five years would require ALIEN ABDUCTION AND traveling at more than 100 million miles an RAPE? as area 51. The rise in UFO sightings is due to RAPE? the increase in alien activity on Earth. The hour for the entire trip.* Our fastest spacecraft, Voyager, travels at about 40,000 miles an hour aliens are abducting people in larger numbers, Despite the fact of the improbability of are leaving other signs of their presence in the and would take 70,000 years to get to Alpha interplanetary travel, it is not impossible. Centauri. form of so-called crop circles, are involved in Perhaps there are beings who can travel at very cattle mutilation, and occasionally provide Despite the probability of life on other fast speeds and have the technology and the raw revelations such as the Urantia Book to selected planets and the possibility that some of that life materials to build vessels that can travel at near may be very intelligent, any signal from any prophets. The support for these beliefs about the speed of light or greater. Have such beings aliens and UFOs consists mostly of speculation, planet in the universe broadcast in any direction come here to abduct people, rape and is unlikely to be in the path of another inhabited fantasy, fraud, and unjustified inferences from experiment on them? There have been many questionable evidence and testimony. UFO planet. It would be folly to explore space for reports of abduction and sexual violation by intelligent life without knowing exactly where devotees are also convinced that there is a creatures who are small and bald or are white, government and mass media conspiracy to to go. Yet, waiting for a signal might require a gray, or green; have big craniums, small chins, wait longer than any life on any planet might cover up the alien activities, making it difficult large slanted eyes, and pointed or no ears. How for them to prove that the aliens have landed. last. Finally, if we do get a signal, the waves does one explain the number of such claims and carrying that signal left hundreds or thousands It is probable that there is life elsewhere their similarity? The most reasonable in the universe and that some of that life is of years earlier and by the time we tracked its explanation for the accounts being so similar is source down, the sending planet may no longer intelligent. There is a high mathematical that they are based on the same movies, the probability that among the trillions of stars in be habitable or even exist. same stories, the same television programs, and Thus, while it is probable that there is the billions of galaxies there are millions of the same comic strips. planets in age and proximity to a star analogous intelligent life in the universe, traveling to our Sun. The chances seem very good that on between solar systems in search of that life ALIEN ABDUCTION - Continued on Page 4 poses some serious obstacles. Such travelers some of those planets life has evolved. It is even highly probable that natural selection governs would be gone for a very long time. We would need to keep people alive for hundreds or that evolution (Dawkins). However, it is not inevitable that the results of that evolution thousands of years. We would need equipment that can last for hundreds or thousands of years would yield intelligence, much less intelligence equal or superior to ours. It is possible that we and be repaired or replaced in the depths of space. These are not impossible conditions, but are unique. We should not forget, however, that the they seem to be significant enough barriers to closest star (besides our Sun) is so far away make interstellar and intergalactic space travel from Earth that travel between the two would highly improbable. The one thing necessary for such travel that would not be difficult to provide take more than a human lifetime. The fact that People in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the People in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Bermuda Triangle Bermuda Triangle Listen to The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show AM 1620 WDHP Listen to The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell on AM 1620 WDHP with Rob McConnell on