"Skeptic Jim Oberg sent us news of an upcoming event, a project called "International Contact Day 2001" scheduled for October 20, 2001 at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, and directed to "All Officers, Representatives and Members of Skywatch International, MUFON and any other organization and all UFO and Alien enthusiasts,"who are asked to participate in an Intergalactic experiment. They "will attempt to send a message to the occupants of the [flying] saucers by use of mental telepathy [sic]." I can hardly wait.....
Each participant is asked to "memorize the message below" and to "close his [or her, presumably] eyes in a quiet secluded spot, lie down if possible," and repeat the message in their mind. They are admonished, "Do not repeat vocally." This wise caveat may be offered to save
the enthusiasts from being carted away by alarmed authorities, but we're not told. Say the instructions,
If the saucer people are able to pick up
mental telepathy, they will be able to pick up a
message that will be sent by hundreds of people
simultaneously. You must remember that, in
order for mental telepathy to work, you must
have nothing on your mind at the time you
send the message.
Jim Oberg paraphrases this last phrase in the instructions to read, "In order for this to work, your head has to be empty."
This is the important message that the faithful should commit to memory:
["]Calling occupants of interplanetary craft! Calling occupants of interplanetary craft that have been observing our planet Earth. We wish to make contact with you. We are your friends, and would like you to make an appearance here on Earth. Your presence before us will be welcomed with the utmost friendship. We will do all in our power to promote mutual understanding between your people and the people of Earth. Please come in peace and help us in our Earthly problems. Give us some sign that you have received our message. Be responsible for creating a miracle here on our planet to wake up the ignorant ones to reality. Let us hear from you. We are your friends.["]
As you might expect, I'll offer my short analysis here..... "We are your friends." Hmm. We may be their friends, but they may not be our friends, I would suggest. The theme of very many science fiction stories over the years (I refer here to Earth science fiction) has been that the critters out there often find us either delicious, dangerous, ugly, stupid, or useless, which makes us anything but their "friends," and more likely Dinner, or The Enemy. Also, when I read, "We . . . would like you to make an appearance here on Earth," I'm understandably surprised. The UFO nutcakes have insisted that aliens (the interplanetary/intergalactic sort, not Canadians or Mexicans) have been making all sorts of appearances, regularly, to us Terrans! And they never tire of telling us about it in detail, since examination and manipulation of human genitalia seems to be the saucer folks' specialty, if not obsession. A secondary preoccupation of theirs appears to be sticking high-tech gadgets up our noses. I don't want to dwell on either of those hobbies.
And where do they get the notion that these other sorts would be in any way capable of, or even willing to, "help us in our Earthly problems"? These "UFO and Alien enthusiasts" are going to ask the alien pilots to "Be responsible for creating a miracle here on our planet to wake up the
ignorant ones to reality"? Hey, guys, this Foundation — and others — have been trying to do this for years now, and that scale of miracle appears to be just out of reach.
But, I'm told, miracles do happen....." ( http://www.randi.org/jr/100501.html )
Je précise juste qu'il s'agit d'un projet développé par différentes associations d'ufologues visant à envoyer un "message télépathique mental" (ils insistent) au ET, le 20 octobre 2001 à 10h du soir (heure avancée de l'est). Pour la teneur du message, si vous ne comprenez pas l'anglais, je vous le traduirai.
Jean-François
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