just trying to save the planet for themselves and the hybrids. Mack suggests, however, that, whatever their intent, this gives us the opportunity to seize on these events to our own advantage. He says, “The alien abduction phenomenon is largely an opportunity or gift, a kind of catalyst for the evolution of consciousness in the direction of an emerging sense of responsibility for our own and the planet’s future.” For those who believe that such jump-starting of consciousness expansion is a violation of natural progression and would therefore resist this invitation, I might point out that military reprisal does not appear to be an option at this point. However, worldwide acceptance of this reality might be the first step toward a solution, and both of Mack’s books will definitely help us reach that goal.
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The Legacy of Jesse Marcel
Since it is virtually certain that these craft do not originate in any country on earth, considerable speculation has centered around what their point of origin might be and how they get here. Mars was and remains a possibility, although some scientists, most notably Dr. Menzel, consider it more likely that we are dealing with beings from another solar system entirely. Numerous examples of what appear to be a form of writing were found in the wreckage. Efforts to decipher these have remained largely unsuccessful.
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THE ROSWELL BUNNY
It’s a controversy that refuses to go away. Now, sixty years later, the mystery of Roswell continues to intrigue and fascinate and provoke strong reactions, perhaps even more so lately than in the beginning. As with the Kennedy assassination and the Energizer Bunny, the Roswell dispute just “keeps going and going and going.” Mark Larsen, communications category manager for Energizer, says, “The Bunny has become the ultimate symbol of longevity, perseverance and determination.” But I would say that Roswell now trumps the Bunny. It wins hands-down in longevity, and dogged determination and perseverance are abundant on both sides of the debate.
Just when it seems that public interest has waned and the incident has been relegated to the obituaries, something comes along to jolt it right back to the front page. First there was the Showtime television movie
Roswell,
starring Martin Sheen. Then there was New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff ’s investigation and the outrage and renewed suspicion it provoked when it was found that the Air Force had destroyed all the relevant documents. Then came the blockbuster—the book
The Day After Roswell
by Colonel Philip J. Corso and William J. Birnes. In 1995 the television documentary
The Roswell Incident
breathed new life into the believer cause. Also keeping it in the news were the several clumsy efforts by the Air Force to explain it away, starting with the famous “Mogul balloon” gambit and culminating in the notorious “crash dummy” proposition, which, in terms of sheer absurdity, have now far surpassed the classic “swamp gas” and “planet Venus” explanations of UFO phenomena. Most recently, we have been treated to a theory that attempts to breathe new life into the crash dummies. In the book
Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story
by British UFO writer Nick Redfern, we are seriously expected to entertain the possibility that the bodies found at the crash site were not dummies at all but “deformed, handicapped, disfigured, and diseased” Japanese POWs, still in U.S. custody despite Japan’s official surrender two years earlier, who were being used in experiments in high-altitude survivability by the Air Force, thus supposedly explaining their oriental features and diminutive size. And so the Roswell Bunny continues to bang his drum.
PANDORA’S BOX
The stakes in this confrontation are very high. If it can be categorically proved that the Roswell
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