Introduction by Jacques Vallée - 2002
   (to "UFOs and the National Security State" by Richard Nolan)


   In the last fifty years the various branches of the military and
   intelligence community in the United States have so clouded the 
   reports of the UFO phenomenon that the citizenry has been left 
   not just uninformed but indeed disinformed. This may not have 
   been the intent, but it is indeed the result. Those who truly 
   care about democracy are justified in asking that the government
   come clean about what it knows, and - most importantly perhaps -
   what it doesn't know about a phenomenon of such far-reaching 
   consequences for our science and our society. 

   All efforts to break open the mystery so far have made the 
   assumption that the "big secret" merely involves extraterrestrial
   spacecraft put together with metal and rivets. This partial view 
   is supported by the many instances in which UFOs have been seen 
   by pilots, photographed, and tracked on radar. Yet modern 
   physical theory opens up a much wider, richer spectrum of 
   hypotheses for objects that might blink in and out of perception,
   impact the consciousness of witnesses, accelerate without 
   creating sonic booms, change shape and merge with one another
   dynamically. Concepts of higher dimensionality, once on the 
   fringes of physics, have entered the mainstream of science.

   Given what we know about the universe today, it is irrational to
   assume it can be described with only three dimensions of space
   and one dimension of time. 

   The UFO witnesses are telling us they have experienced objects 
   of vast complexity that challenged their sense of reality. Such
   observations are anomalous in the narrow sense of the classical
   physics we learn in school, but they may help build a conceptual
   framework for the physics of the twenty-first century. It is all
   the more important then, as Richard Dolan points out, to make a
   precise assessment of what the most reliable witnesses have
   observed, and to seriously start looking for the missing parts
   of this famous puzzle. UFOs have been with us since the 
   beginning of recorded history. Could they be trying to tell us
   who we are, and what true place we are destined to occupy in the
   universe? 

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   Reference file for

   "Perceptions ExoSci" - Google &

   "Psyche Storms" - Google & links

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