Why visit Earth? � 24 Reasons By Stanton Friedman
The focus in my college lecture "Flying Saucers ARE Real!" has always
been on facts and data... five large scale scientific studies,
Roswell, Gallup Polls, Physical trace cases, MJ-12 documents, real
UFO photos, star travel, etc. However, very often I am asked after my
lectures and during radio and TV appearances a lot of "why?"
questions, such as why hasn't the government told us what it knows?
Why haven't saucers landed on the White House lawn? Why are the SETI
cultists so opposed to the notion of flying saucer reality?
Obviously I have never claimed to speak for the U.S Government, the
aliens, or the SETI cultists. However, after 44 years of study and
investigation and 700+ lectures and answering maybe 35,000 questions,
I have come up with my own speculations. Here, for example are a
number of reasons for aliens to travel to Earth.
Please note that I am assuming that travelers come from within our
local neighborhood, since there are 46 sun-like stars within only 54
light years of the sun that might be expected to have planets and
life. One pair, Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 Reticuli, in the southern sky
constellation of Reticulum, are less than one light year apart, about
37 light years from here, and are about a billion years older than
the sun.
They have had ample time to develop technology much more advanced
than ours. I do not assume that the small craft often observed near
the ground just came here from Zeta Reticuli 1 or 2, but that these
were carried here by a huge mother ship, as seen in a number of
excellent cases.
So visiting aliens might be:
1. Graduate students doing thesis research on the development of a
primitive society, on the huge variety of languages here, the huge
variety of genetic stocks, etc.
2. Broadcasters with a weekly show "idiocy in the boondocks."
3. Mining engineers. Since the Earth is the densest planet in the
solar system, it has more relatively rare, very dense elements with
very special properties-such as uranium, platinum, osmium, rhenium,
gold, tungsten-than any other planet in the solar system.
4. Checking on this planet to which they banned bad guys and girls
ages ago. It was the Devils Island of the neighborhood, and that is
why we are so nasty to each other.
5. Potential observers of expected natural catastrophes, such as
nuclear war, a collision with a large orbiting body, asteroid etc.
6. Running special jaunts to this honeymoon capital of this corner of
the galaxy.
7. Guides for hunting and fishing expeditions seeking the weird
wildlife specimens cavorting about. No license required.
8. Specimen gatherers for ET zoos.
9. Gatherers of genetic material for hybridization, since we have a
huge variety of almost all biological and botanical materials,
including humans. Other older places may have long ago run out of
many varieties.
10. Jailers of miscreants who are being punished by having to spend
two weeks near earth. Punishment to last a lifetime.
11. Advance men for the establishment of amusement parks. The land
for Disneyworld in Florida was bought up secretly in advance.
13. Proprietors of supply centers for travelers needing water, food,
or various hydrogen isotopes for their fusion or other propulsion
systems. Sort of like the English coaling stations on islands in the
oceans in the last century. Or gas, food, lodging next exit, perhaps
on the side of the moon away from the earth.
14. Anthropologists checking on colonies left here millennia ago,
perhaps as part of a competition for who can do the best job.
15. Flyers doing their cross galaxy flying solos.
16.Training missions for space explorers, anthropologists, marines,
navigators.
17. Repairmen for space communication systems, checking out the "new
sources" of electromagnetic waves fouling up their communications.
18.Antique and curio buyers from elsewhere gathering specimens and
souvenirs.
19. Advance men for space missionaries like those who converted the
natives in Africa.
20. Talent recruiters for non-earthling sports teams. We on average
seem to be larger and stronger than our visitors.
21. Relativistic space travelers returning home after a short (pilot
time) journey.
22. Advance men planning an interstellar competition on neutral
ground, such as Iceland was for the Fisher Spaasky chess match.
23. Rescuers of arms caches left behind eons ago for use in warfare.
24. Intragalactic advance men for the next Olympics or for new hotels
and resorts.
I am sure readers can come up with their own top-ten list. My
preferred reason for alien visitations is to quarantine us to make
sure we don�t take our brand of friendship � usually described as
hostility � out there.
This notion in based on one assumption I make about every advanced
civilization, namely that it is concerned with its own survival and
security. This means that it must keep tabs on the primitives in the
neighborhood, but only close tabs on those able to bother that
civilization.
At the end of WW 2, it was perfectly clear to any visiting alien spy
checking out the place that soon this primitive society, whose major
activity is tribal warfare (we Earthlings killed more than 50 million
of our own kind and destroyed 1700 cities during WW 2), would be
moving out and bothering the neighbors. Soon would mean roughly one
hundred years, which is obviously nothing on a cosmic time scale. The
three indicators of rapid development of interstellar flight
capability were nuclear weapons, powerful V-2 Rockets, and powerful
radar and other electronic devices.
As it happens, the only location on the entire planet at which one
could study all 3 in July, 1947, was Southeastern New Mexico. The
first atom bomb was tested at Trinity site on White Sands Missile
Range in July, 1945. White Sands was where the captured German V-2
rockets were being launched, and is also where the best radar was to
track the rockets. The recovery of a crashed saucer near Roswell -
and another in the Plains of San Augustin - should not be surprising
at all.
I would further note that because the time to go from one's first
flight technology to space travel is so short, that during any one
century it is very unlikely that there are other solar systems in the
neighborhood going through this transition at the same time. They are
either way ahead of us or way beyond us. We would be a natural focus
for visitation.