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From: Stig Agermose <Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 01:31:10 +0200
Fwd Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:52:54 -0400
Subject: Press Report From Seattle UFO Conference
Source: The Seattle Times
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/ufoo_081798.html
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Copyright =A9 1998 The Seattle Times Company
Posted at 05:32 a.m. PDT; Monday, August 17, 1998
'We know they exist,' says alien researcher at conference
by Hugo Kugiya
Seattle Times staff reporter
The windows of the Flag Pavilion were covered with black
cardboard, not out of fear of searchlights from black
helicopters, or the peering eyes of agents in black suits and
sunglasses.
The hangar-like room at Seattle Center was darkened in order to
show slides and short films to about 150 people gathered to
discuss extraterrestrial life. Not the possibility of it, but
the reality of it.
"We know about misidentification and hoaxes," said Terry
Tibando, member of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial
Intelligence (CSETI), a network of believers, which sponsored
yesterday's all-day workshop. "We've considered all the contrary
arguments. We don't question the possibility. We know they
exist."
The ideas put forth yesterday at the workshop - abductions,
alien craft shot down by the military, alien technology stolen
by the government, the desire of giant corporations to instill
fear of an alien invasion - if remotely true would be the
biggest news story of the millennium. Such assertions are
confined mostly to late-night talk radio and plots of movies and
television shows.
Given the weight of the message, much of what was heard
yesterday in the Flag Pavilion sounded surprisingly down to
earth. It resembled, in many ways, a religious revival.
Joy Gilbert, from Eugene, spoke yesterday of once visiting her
grown daughter in Sisters, Ore., and being taken aboard an alien
craft by doe-eyed escorts, who examined her in the glow of a
brilliant blue light.
She spoke with passion of communicating with a kind, loving
alien being, whom she realized had appeared in her dreams all
her life and who remains an invisible presence.
Tibando believes that in his lifetime, aliens will show
themselves to humans and will live among us. He says they have
not yet shown themselves because "we're not mature enough to
deal with them in a mature manner."
"They see us as a maturing, interesting species," Tibando said.
"But we've reacted to them with aggression. We scramble jets to
shoot them down. So what they're doing now is quarantining us.
It sounds like 'The X-Files' but it's not; it goes way beyond
that."
As with gods, whom worshipers do not see but believe in
nonetheless, some faith is required here.
The aliens, Tibando said, have left us a trail of bread crumbs:
geometric shapes burned into wheat fields, numerous sightings of
spacecraft, individual encounters like Gilbert's.
The goal of Tibando and others associated with CSETI is full
disclosure. Highly placed officials in the military and in
industry know about our relationship with aliens, Tibando said.
Last June an international panel of reputable scientists
concluded enough unexplained, physical evidence accompanying UFO
sightings exists to warrant further investigation.
The study, led by Stanford University physicist Peter Sturrock,
cited evidence such as burns to witnesses of UFO sightings,
radar detections of unexplained objects, strange lights
appearing repeatedly in the skies in certain areas, aberrations
in the operation of automobiles, and radiation and other damage
found in vegetation.
A 50-page report was compiled by the panel, composed of
scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cornell and Princeton universities, the universities of Arizona
and Virginia, and institutions in France and Germany, among
others. But the greater scientific community still is reluctant
to dignify such ideas with a response, for fear of blurring the
line between legitimate scientific research and the beliefs of a
fringe group.
Only time will tell whether the fringe was, all along, the only
people smart enough to foretell one of the greatest events of
mankind.
"We need Congress to demand an investigation," said Deborah
Foch, with CSETI. "Otherwise, most of us will not know."
Copyright =A9 1998 The Seattle Times Company
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