1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000
This is W.D. Smith speaking from Ottawa, Canada. The title of this talk is, We Are Not Alone.

2
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:21,000
Our universe is a very large place, much larger than our minds are capable of understanding.

3
00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:34,000
There are several billions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy alone, and there are millions of similar galaxies scattered throughout space and within range of our arms telescopes.

4
00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:47,000
The universe is also incredibly old. Our Earth alone is estimated to be several billion years old, and it is presumed that the stars are not ordered.

5
00:00:47,000 --> 00:01:00,000
But the universe doesn't even have any. Maybe it is eternal, and of the passing through the cycle of energy to matter and matter to energy.

6
00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:12,000
The episode of man on this planet, so far as we can determine, is relatively and extremely small portion of the larger time that the universe has existed.

7
00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:26,000
And the glory of the private history is relatively even shorter. We consider the race of man to be native to this planet and to have evolved here from lower life forms.

8
00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:38,000
We look upon our present civilization with pride and realize that we have accomplished much, particularly in the last few centuries.

9
00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:52,000
Even in the past few decades, we have made tremendous progress in certain directions. Therefore, it is only natural that we should be legalistic all about our position in the universe.

10
00:01:52,000 --> 00:02:05,000
But are we alone? Are there not others in the universe who also have progressed? The universe is very large and has been here a long time.

11
00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:18,000
In the last few years, we have taken our first faltering steps out into the vastness of space. First through the spotless and now through manned space flight.

12
00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:29,000
There is now no doubt that we can do it. And if we can refrain from going ourselves to glory without embounds, we most certainly will do it.

13
00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:49,000
From the life of our present technology and not allowing for any basic new discoveries, our time table calls for interplanetary space travel well before the year 2000, and the good possibility of interstellar trips being initiated shortly thereafter.

14
00:02:50,000 --> 00:03:02,000
Our space travel plans include exploration, exploitation, and colonization of the other planets, so far as this may be possible.

15
00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:12,000
And there is no doubt that this thinking will be extended to the planets attached to other stars as soon as we can arrange to get there.

16
00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:28,000
Mankind has always been an adventurous creature, exploring, conquering, colonizing, and exploiting, and there is no reason to think that his future actions will be much different from those in his pack.

17
00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:41,000
Our large telescopes indicate low-order perturbations in the positions of several of the nearest stars, such as could be accounted for by the presence of large planets.

18
00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,000
And if they are large ones, they will probably be smaller ones also.

19
00:03:47,000 --> 00:04:03,000
In fact, it is generally agreed now that planets attached to stars are not probably the rule and the exception, and that we will eventually find the heavens filled with all sorts of planetary and secondary bodies.

20
00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:26,000
When we consider the extent, the age, and the opportunity of the universe, and the fact that we do have intelligent life here on this planet, it is only reasonable to speculate that somewhere else in the vastness of space and the eternity of time other intelligent life could help us and forth.

21
00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:50,000
Since we have made such rapid progress towards space travel in such a short time, the differential of only a few hundred, or at most a few thousand years between the development of some other planets and ours could easily have resulted in a race capable of doing right now, but we plan to do in the near future.

22
00:04:50,000 --> 00:05:03,000
Furthermore, it is quite possible that such a race may have reached this critical period years ago, and to them space travel is as commonplace as the real vehicle is to us.

23
00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:16,000
Now, if this should be the case in this alien race or anything like us, they would probably set forth to explore and colonize as rapidly as their means would permit them.

24
00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:32,000
It is rather obvious that even with the speeds of travel available to us, it would be much quicker to colonize the universe than to wait for nature to evolve separate races in each and every favorable environment.

25
00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:49,000
In fact, intelligent races might even set about accelerating environmental conditions to their liking, seeding and stalking planets with appropriate life forms and watching over them while they develop.

26
00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:58,000
The foregoing is not just out of speculation since we have a great deal of evidence that something like this is actually happening.

27
00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:12,000
The Darwinian theory of evolution shows certain relationships between the various life forms which inhabit this planet, but there is very little evidence to indicate that they all evolved here.

28
00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:22,000
Maybe some have been good, but a more reasonable explanation is that they were brought here when the planet was in the suitable condition to receive them.

29
00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:38,000
Recent spectroscopic observations of the respective life from Mars shows that the presence of vegetation could synthesize the sugar, thus making it closely related to much terrestrial vegetation.

30
00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:49,000
Radio telescopes are picking up all sorts of radio noises from the sky, many of which are so systematic as to pre-clue natural origin.

31
00:06:50,000 --> 00:07:07,000
Petroleum markings, light flashes and cloud or dust formations have been seen on Mars and on our moon, and most significant of all the craft of these alien beings have been seen near and on this earth.

32
00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:15,000
Legends and history abound in stories of visits to this earth by beings from the sky.

33
00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:33,000
Beings with king and strange craft capable of the most extraordinary performance, and who themselves possess great powers or have at their command strange forces, much beyond the understanding of the simple folks who witness these things.

34
00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:41,000
There is much evidence that this has gone on all through the ages and is going on right now.

35
00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:58,000
With the excellent news gathering and disseminating means at our disposal, very little happens anywhere in the world which is not reported, and if it is of sufficient interest, gets wide publicity.

36
00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:12,000
During the last ten years or more there has been much publicity about flying saucers, and thousands of reports have been made of sightings of these strange objects in our skies.

37
00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:19,000
But this is not an exclusively recent phenomenon, only the publicity is recent.

38
00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:40,000
Other since we have had newspapers there have been similar reports that the absence of national news services until recent times usually confined the details to a few local papers, but such as that the old news paper files confirm that flying saucers are really old stuff.

39
00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:54,000
For instance, international situation in recent years has made every loan jittery, and anything in the skies which could not be established as known and friendly, those regarded with suspicion.

40
00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:04,000
Consequently, procedures, projects, and publicity combined to make the whole subject of flying saucers appear quite out of perspective.

41
00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:23,000
Instead of recognizing them for what they probably really were, they became a ward of the military, and since the military are charged lonely with the defense of a country, very interest waned when they had established the fact that the saucers apparently were not hostile.

42
00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:34,000
But in order to arrive at this conclusion, they collected much data, classified it, and buried it so effectively that no one else could get at it.

43
00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:46,000
And those who might have been able to sort the matter out found themselves deprived of the basic data and had to contend themselves with the deaths which escape the captured of the military.

44
00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:53,000
However, on the basis of this material, some rather stocking conclusions have been reached.

45
00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:04,000
Thousands of people have seen lights in the family solid objects in the sky which behave as no light or object normally seen in the sky often behaves.

46
00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:15,000
Thousands have seen these objects under circumstances which enabled them to say definitely what they were not, even though they were unable to say what they were.

47
00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:28,000
Reliable photographs and movies have been taken and bits of hardware collected which cannot be explained away without challenging the integrity of many witnesses.

48
00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:41,000
Simultaneous visual sightings of great-eyed fixes exist in a great many cases, and there was quite a bit of evidence of physical contact with the strange past.

49
00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:52,000
In several instances, reliable people have reported seeing the beings who write about Lonely's past, and they say they look just like us.

50
00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:12,000
There are quite a number of reported contacts between these people from the health sphere and people of this earth, and although this at a point may be hard to prove, it is equally hard to disprove, and the results of these contacts are remarkably consistent and enlightening.

51
00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:28,000
At the present time, there are quite a number of books, magazines, portems devoted to the study of fine saucers, and anyone who wishes to establish for himself the validity of these things will find no doubt in material.

52
00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,000
At this point, we may summarize the possession somewhat as follows.

53
00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:44,000
There is virtually no doubt that alien facts are visiting this earth, and that the beings who operate them are very much like us.

54
00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000
Probably our destined relatives.

55
00:11:49,000 --> 00:12:03,000
Considering the age and extent of the universe, it is reasonable that space travel, exploration, and colonization may be quite commonplace among races of mankind more advanced than we are.

56
00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:22,000
Information obtained through the lab's contacts confirm the general nature of the picture as presented here with, together with quite a bit of interesting sight-lighting from the technology, customs, way of life, and philosophy of these people from elsewhere.

57
00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:51,000
It would appear that we are well along the way to becoming truly civilized, and if we can refrain from committing racial suicide and learn to respect the dignity, divinity, and brotherhood of man, we can expect eventually to be welcomed into the great cosmic fraternity of the advanced races that inhabit the regions beyond the limits of this sort of planet. Thank you.

58
00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,000
.