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1972 October 25th Inglewood Unit 15 Of Understanding Daniel Fry On Origin Of Nice And Screening Of A Nice Film That He Produced On How He Thinks Alan Came To Earth How Often He Talks To Alan

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• [00:00] Opening remarks and introduction
• [20:03] Main address
• [01:01:17] Development of the main themes
• [01:31:23] Questions and closing discussion

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[00:00] Opening remarks and introduction

and perhaps I was never good enough at straight-line travel. I believe that all nature is composed of curves. But on this particular tour, I started first in Oregon, and we'll be going down through San Diego, and then diagonally across the country again up to Phoenix, Oklahoma City, with a couple of side trips up into Iowa and Wisconsin. And then over to Indianapolis, and from there to Kent and Ohio, and from there to Buffalo, New York.

And then we'll start south again through New Jersey, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Georgia, and into Florida, where I have a number of lectures scheduled there. So, and then, of course, back the southern route to this area, and then back up again to Oregon. So, it covers all four directions of the compass, those around the U.S., but it is something I have to do about once a year. I receive requests for lectures virtually every week in the year. And, of course, someone will say,

oh, we'd like to have a lecture in New York, hop to the nearest plane, and then come out to New York. Usually, the group is about large enough to, you know, pay a $30 fee for the trip. And the round-trip airline will be about $300, so, aside from other expenses. So, I am not wealthy enough to be able to do these lectures individually. I have to do them collectively.

But when enough requests have come in, I line them up as well as I can, and then do them all at once. Mainly, I'm chasing after my wife on this trip. She left for Florida some weeks ago, with Billy Thompson, who had to go to Florida to complete the probate of her late husband's estate. And she had hoped to do it by mail, but her attorney said, you can't do it, you've got to be here.

So, they took off, and I said, well, I'll work my way back for lecturing, and when I get down there, then we'll come home together. So, that was the arrangement. So, I'm working my way across the country a little bit at a time. I have been asked to announce the, the essay contest, which understanding is holding. It is the first step in the formation of the Area of Mutual Agreement. It has been mentioned there that we have some papers on that,

and they are, the papers are free. I mean, if you think that the salvation of this civilization and our society is worth a dime, why no one? Why not? Why not? Why not? I would object if you put a dime in the kitty. They cost about twelve and a half cents apiece to print.

But if you think that your children's life or prosperity is worth a dime, why put a dime in the kitty? If not, it doesn't really matter. We'll still print as many as we can and distribute them, and we have many thousands of them, have been distributed in the past few years. It is a proposal, a simple proposal, to do something which should have been done at least fifty years ago,

has never been done, in the social field, although it was done a long time ago, in the scientific field, and has proven its merit by the fact that the scientific field now progresses at least five times as fast as the social or spiritual science. This is a formation of an Area of Mutual Agreement upon which to work toward the solution of points of disagreement.

I might point out that this is something that a person will go along and work on for a long time without a doubt, without seeing any real results, and he wonders if it's all worthwhile. He wonders if anyone is listening and if all his work is amounting to anything. And just once in a while,

something will appear that will make it all worthwhile. Less than two years ago, I made a trip to Europe at the invitation of some people over there to do some lecturing, and I lectured in seven countries there, primarily on the Area of Mutual Agreement. And the last one was in West Berlin,

but it was to a considerable group of Soviet exchange students that were in West Berlin, but they were all from various parts of the Soviet Union and were gathered there. And I gave this talk, and to my surprise, they greeted it even more enthusiastically, if possible,

than the rest of the audiences in Europe, although they had all been enthusiastic on it. But they were positively ecstatic, and I got four very urgent requests to come into various parts of the Soviet Union and repeat this talk. I couldn't do it. My return trip ticket had already been validated.

That was the last lecture. But a good tape had been made of the lecture, and I said, well, you've got me on tape. We can make a million copies if you want. There's no copyright. I'll make as many copies and play them wherever you want. So they assured me that it would be done, and if I came on home without thinking too much about it,

I thought, well, maybe it will, maybe it won't. And they might have rested there until about, oh, it was about, I think, six weeks after I returned home, and I was watching television, the news on television, and there was an announcement that Kosygin was going to Peking for a visit.

He was the one who gave Nixon the idea, if you remember. He went first. But a news reporter was interviewing him on what he hoped to accomplish by this. Just as they did Nixon when he decided to make the trip. And one reporter asked him,

he, Kosygin, if he really believed, if he really believed that by making this trip, he could solve the deep and serious problems that existed between the Soviet Union and China. And he replied, no, of course not. We can't hope to, we can't hope to solve those problems in a single trip.

He said, I am going for one purpose only, to determine and to document those points upon which we already agree, and to use that then as a foundation from which to discuss the things upon which we disagree. That was a full sentence, verbatim quote from the tape. Verbatim quote, word for word from the tape. It might have been a coincidence.

There's about one chance in 10 million, but a quote like that would be a coincidence. But I sat there with my jaw dropping and thinking maybe it's been worth it after all, because I was listening to the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union repeat words which I had spoken in West Berlin to a group of exchange students

and had been taped there. And I thought momentarily what a pity that a principle like this has to be adopted first by the Soviet Union, but what a blessing that it's being adopted anywhere. And so I felt that perhaps the trip had been worthwhile after all. No credit was given to me, of course.

I don't seek any, nor does it matter in the least whether I receive any so long as the job is done. One of the primary mottos of understanding has been from the beginning, there is no limit to the amount of good which a person can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit. That is a principle on which we have worked

and it has been operated. I'm going to run a little film, a film tonight. It is not a Hollywood production. Something less than $10 million was spent on its production, as you may well imagine. And in some places it becomes obvious

that this is true. It isn't yet a finished film. It is complete, but it is far from finished. That is, it has a beginning and an ending. But I will have at least another work, years' work to do before it is something really that is finished.

And I don't have the sound on it yet. I haven't put sound on it because the film isn't finished. And these copies of film with this length, they're very expensive. And if you make one with sound on it now, I could only narrate it. I could have gone over to Hollywood yesterday

and put sound on a film such as this. But it would have cost about $250 to get that print. And it would have been good only for a few runs because I'm going to improve it anyway. So I will narrate. I will narrate. I will narrate the film.

It is primarily an audiovisual thing made by Nice Incorporated, which is a corporation I set up some years ago to do this. In setting up a corporation, you have to have a name. And the name should describe the nature of the corporation or its work.

It should be short. It should be something that's easy to remember that a person never forgets having once heard it. Above all, it has to be a name that somebody else hasn't already picked. So it's not easy to do. It's not easy to get a good, short, descriptive name for a new corporation.

So I sat down and I said, now what will be the purpose of this corporation to furnish to the public news, information, communications, and entertainment? And the initials are NICE. So what is nicer than a nice corporation? So we have Nice Incorporated, news, information, communications, and entertainment.

And we produce films. When I say we, I'm using the Lindbergh term that he used to describe himself and his airplane. My camera and I, we make motion pictures upon occasion, among other things that we do. You may be a little surprised at some of the facets of this film. I didn't take all of the film myself.

I took about half of it. In various parts of this country, and other countries, as I toured, I've been accumulating film for it for about the past five years now. In essence, it is the White Sands incident from Alain's point of view. It ends where the White Sands incident begins.

It starts in a spacecraft with the gentleman being briefed on the nature of this mission to this backward planet Earth, the nature of the civilization there, the problems which he will face, the problems which need to be solved if this civilization,

if this civilization is to continue, and the means by which these can be solved. But there's some interesting film in there. Not all of it is in color. Some of it's in black and white simply because those sequences were made long before there was any such thing as color film, including the takeoff of Orville and Wilbur Wright's

plane from Kittyhoff, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, which was filmed just three years after the first successful movie, Pooey Camera, was developed. And I do have a copy of the film. There are many sequences there that you will never see anywhere else

because I have the only copies. I have collected 16mm motion picture films for quite a few years. And so I put it together to illustrate the problems, the reason for Alain's visit here and how they hope to solve the problems. And I say it's far from a finished film. But it does get over the message.

I've only run it a couple of times. There's very few people who've seen it yet. And so you'll be one of the favored few in the world who have seen this film. Some sequences of which are not available anywhere else. After it has been run, then we will have a little talk

and essentially a question and answer period. I like to have as much time as possible in which I am responding to the questions of the audience because that's the only time I'm sure that I'm talking about what you want to talk about. I could get up here and give a long, learned dissertation for two or three hours

and you could all go home and say, well, I didn't hear a thing that I came to hear. If I spend most of the time in questions and answers, then I know I'm talking about what you folks want to hear about. I've never claimed to be able to answer all questions on this subject. In one of the largest lectures I ever gave

in Pine Hands Music Hall, in New York, we had about 2,125 people present. And I was introduced by a gentleman who knew of me but didn't know me personally too well. And he says, well, I'm now going to give you a man who is so knowledgeable that he can answer any question on earth

that you can ask on the subject of UFO. He is an expert on outer space. And I couldn't wait. I couldn't wait to get to the podium as soon as I did. I had to correct this mistake and impression which I'm sure had been created by pointing out that I was not an expert on UFOs,

neither is anyone else on this planet. There are no experts here, as yet there are only relative degrees of ignorance. But that perhaps my degree of ignorance was not quite as profound as that of some others. And that it was perfectly true that I could answer any question on space, except that about 80% of them

would probably have to be answered. I'm sorry, I don't know. So we proceeded on that basis and got along very well. I always divide questions into three parts. If the question deals with something on which I have definite knowledge or information, I'm always glad to share that information with you. If it deals with a subject

on which I do not have definite or specific knowledge or information but do have a well-defined opinion, I'll be glad to share that opinion with you on the strict understanding that it is only an opinion and probably no better than anyone else's. If, in the third case, it is a question on which I have neither knowledge nor opinion,

I'll be honest enough to say that, too. So I'll run the picture. I'll narrate the picture. As I say, I speak a little bit about it because it does move fairly rapidly and a person may not understand unless they're a little talking about it, the nature of it.

It opens in a small briefing room of a spacecraft with a young man and a young lady, and it happens that the person who briefed Alon on the approach to this planet was a young lady, and you don't see too many of them in space work now. We have a little booklet here called Space Woman Speaks,

and it's an answer to a question a lot of women have asked me. Why is it all we hear about is spacemen? Why don't we hear about some space women? Aren't there any space women? I say, certainly. Well, then why don't some of them say anything? Then I say, back on the thing,

there is a book called Space Woman Speaks. They do. They're around and they do speak. So, we have a few copies of that available. We have a few copies of the White Sands Incident. Those of you who haven't read it may want to read it when you reach the conclusion of this

because it begins where this ends. This is a preparatory picture for it. Also, the curve of development was advertised, and if any of you really want it, I advise you to get it now because I think they have the only three copies left. I think I have three copies with me and that's it.

That's the entire, the entire edition of that book. It probably will be reprinted because you said we have got comments for it from all over the country. It does not step on any toes on any major religion on earth but makes all of them a little clearer

and I have letters from all over this country. We have requests from almost every religion for copies of the book because it explains their beliefs in some cases better than their own dogma does. So, if you're interested, there's a, I think she has three

and I may be able to dig up three myself. So much for that. We'll run the picture and I'm going to have to move these chairs, I think, a little over. I'll be projecting the picture on the back of these two ladies' heads here and that won't be so good.

Yeah. One more thing. I have two lectures, the Atlantean Fire Crystals and the Area of Mutual Agreement, which are two of the most popular lectures I have. I have put both of them on one cassette tape, on iTunes,

opposite sides of one cassette tape. And we do have a few copies of those tapes back here. There are no restrictions on the use. If you have a group somewhere and you want to give a lecture for the group, that's a very inexpensive way to do it. You're welcome to use those tapes for group use or any other purpose that you wish.

People, curing travelers, are in close conference. The young woman is speaking. There wasn't time to brief you before our departure, but we have with us enough video data to appoint you to the nature of the planet and with your mission there. As you know,

the planetary system we are approaching is located on the inner side of the left-hand wing of our galaxy. The planet itself has been under occasional observation by passing ships of the Galactic Confederation for more than a hundred generations.

And there are a few records which were made much earlier than that. It has been of particular interest to our anthropologists because of the race of humanoid beings similar to ourselves which is developing there. Our ships have made additional records

and collected more data each time one of them passes within observational range which with our present equipment is, of course, anywhere within their solar system. We have only a small amount of material with us, but I understand that the main library,

the main library, of the Galactic Confederation now contains more than a thousand hours of video and audio records of this planet as well as samples of its atmosphere, water, and soil. There are even a number of artifacts obtained during brief landings

by some of our more intrepid explorers. About 70% of the planet's surface is covered by water to a considerable depth. While this does, of course, limit the land area, it continually, evaporation and condensation

furnishes ample water for most land needs. The situation is ideal for the development of life both in the water and on the land.

[20:03] Main address

As you will see, innumerable varieties of living things are to be found there. Some of our earliest records of animal life are of huge reptiles with fearsome bodies but with brains so small that they were unable to adapt to changes

in their environment or to survive the attacks of much smaller animals. Only the smallest of the reptile species still exist. A number of the animals found in tropical areas can be somewhat dangerous

to the unarmed and unwary human if approached too closely. But as a rule, they will avoid man whenever possible. We will show you only a few varieties here since our time for this briefing is limited and it is unlikely that you will have much contact

with them during your mission. Many of the flying creatures are colorful and all of them are quite graceful in their movement. The research student who requisitioned the video data for us must have been especially impressed by them since he included an unusually large assortment

of relatively long records. It is the bird, of course, which most excites the envy of primitive man and first awakens within him the determination to acquire the ability to fly. The continued development of this urge together with the constantly increasing problems

of living upon a planet eventually impels man to abandon his planetary nest entirely just as the bird abandons his as soon as his development makes it possible. We have relatively little data concerning water creatures in our briefing assortment.

It is only recently that attempts have been made to take video recordings underwater. But some of the water creatures are amphibious and so can be recorded from the surface. The strangest of the conditions on this planet is that the humanoid race is found there in all of its primary stages of development simultaneously. There are on the same planet

at the same time races of human beings whose social and technological abilities are separated by hundreds of generations of normal progress. Even though the more advanced races now have a different name, they are not the same as they used to be.

They are not the same as they used to be. They are not the same as they used to be. They are not the same as they used to be. And could, if they chose, easily assist in the development of the primitives. After examining the multitude of critical problems which the advanced races have created for themselves, however, it seems sometimes just as well, perhaps,

that they do not. Even the most advanced races exhibit among themselves a considerable degree of paradox. There are remarkably wide differences in the living standards among the most advanced races. Among people who have

relatively similar degrees of knowledge and ability. Their social and economic systems are tremendously competitive. And those who lead in this competition usually maintain a level of luxury seldom found even in our most modern craft. During the last generation, however, it has become popular

for the more successful members of the race to huddle together in huge beehive-like structures which might well be described as human-filing cabins. Those who have been thrust aside by the competition are usually left to themselves to eke out their living as best they can in whatever type of shelter

they may manage to acquire. They are usually found either in remote areas where few people wish to live or in densely populated slums. Although they press the advance of all phases of their technology with almost feverish energy and enthusiasm, that same technology

is now beginning to present some of the gravest of threats to their continued existence. The threat is not limited to the human race alone but extends to virtually all life forms on the planet. Their manufacturing and disposal processes are rapidly polluting all of their atmosphere, their land surface,

and even their tremendous oceans upon which they must in the future depend for most of their food requirements as their population as their population as their population as their population increases.

Even the birds do not soil their nests as badly as Earth man has soiled his. And unless he can reverse the trend, he will be forced to leave his planetary nest very soon or die of his own pollution. Each of the races has a mass ego drive which they call patriotism. My country must be better than any other

because I am here. My city is better than other cities and my side of the street is better than the other side but sometimes I am here. But sometimes I am here. But sometimes I am here. Some degree of spiritual development has been achieved

in that most of the people do pay lip service to certain high ideals and principles and they create beautiful structures and artifacts as symbols of their belief. Unfortunately, very few of them have learned to apply these ideals and principles

to the conduct of their daily life. And so their spiritual aspirations remain an ethereal rather than a material manifestation of their cause. The instinct to kill is still very strong in all of the races of the planet

and almost half of their combined creative abilities and technological resources are devoted in one way or another to the development and the manufacture of more rapid and efficient means of intimidating or of killing their neighbors.

At least once in each generation the various nations tend to align themselves with one or the other of several opposing groups. Each one of which is dedicated to the subversion or the destruction of the other. Every device or system

which their minds can conceive and their technology can create is used in some way in the furtherance of this insane determination. These periodic acts of tragic nonsense have been performed almost as a ritual by every tribe, race, and nation

since the beginning of our observations, 100 generations ago. The leaders attempt to justify these usual acts of mass slaughter in various ways. They perform some truly amazing feats of moral and philosophical gymnastics in their determined efforts

to prove to themselves and even to their victims that their tremendously destructive acts of passion, brutality, and greed are actually motivated by the highest of ideals and principles. The world is a place where there is no one. There is no one.

There is no one. There is no one. There is no one. There is no one. There is no one. There is no one. There is no one. was a long debate in our social service committee as to whether this civilization could be saved

and whether, indeed, there was anything worth saving. The inherent beauty of the planet itself was the deciding factor. At least five of the leading nations had begun to work for the uncontrolled release of energy from the atomic nucleus, and at least two have succeeded, and soon there will be others. This experiment was taken ten years ago. The new ability was immediately used as a weapon of mass destruction. It became obvious to our study group that if another general conflagration occurs, and if these weapons are used, the result will be total destruction of all technology, the loss of such social order as has been achieved, and the death of the majority of the population of the entire planet. Your principal task

in this mission will be to delay the beginning of such a cataclysm for as long as possible so that there may be time for corrective action to be taken. The young man speaks, the technology of the advanced race must by now have created instruments capable of detecting our approach. If so, we may be greeted by a barrage of nuclear weapons before we reach our destination. The woman replies, such instruments are now being developed and used, and it is quite possible that our approach will be detected by some of them. It is very unlikely, however, that we will be attacked. The incredible fact is that although our sampling and recording devices have been seen

in their skies for many generations, and although actual landings have been made from time to time among numbers of their people, the Earth races still stubbornly refuse to accept the existence of any life outside of their own Earth. All reports of sampling or landing devices have been explained away as Earthly phenomena by those in authority. Anyone who is unfortunate enough to observe one of our devices, and incautious enough to report it, is subject to public attack as to his credibility, his morals, and even his sanity. Although we may be seen and reported, it is very unlikely that any action whatever will be taken. The planet itself is very beautiful as planets go. It has the most ideal conditions

for the development of the vast life forms that we have ever observed on any planet. It is still very young, since its solar system is one of the last to be formed in this galaxy. There is always a small feeling of nostalgia when one studies the life patterns of humans who still live upon their naval planet. In a strictly primitive way, their lives are somewhat fuller than ours, since the struggle for survival is the basic essence of life itself. In our lives, there is very little in the way of struggle, and survival is taken for granted. On our ships, the production and distribution of food is automatic and dependable. The temperature

and humidity are always maintained at the optimum level, and the gravitational force is adjustable to the needs of the planets. Planet dwellers have a wider variety of experience and may enjoy some of the beauties of nature which are not available in space. But they pay a heavy price for their few advantages. Nature is fickle on a planet, especially a relatively young and relatively unstable one. The surface may erupt almost without warning, and few forth mount into molten lava, burning ash and poisonous gas. Cold cities have been covered, and many thousands of persons have lost their lives in its devastating manifestations of nature. They are called volcanoes, named after Vulcan, one of their early gods of fire.

When unusually heavy rainfall occurs, large volumes of water rush toward the sea, leaving the normal riverbeds and sweeping along streets and low-lying areas, washing away buildings, away buildings and leaving ruin and destruction in its wake. Earthquakes are a constant hazard to many cities which have been built over one of the long cracks in the surface rock known as fault lines. The rock layer on either side of the crack tends to move in opposite directions along the crack. When the pressure becomes too great, a slippage occurs which can shake down buildings and cause many fires to start in the ruins. The fires burning on the crack for long periods may consume a large part of the city. It is scenes such

as this which make a planet dweller want to leave his home permanently. Strong winds are another problem that plagues the people of Earth. Circular storms called hurricanes form over oceans and move in toward the shore. Looking down from a spacecraft, the vortex of a cloud appears much like a small galaxy during its formative period. The force of the wind raises huge waves and drives it to the surface. The wind is a great source of energy that's penetrating the Earth, making the coasts of the Earth more clean and rable than any other planet. The wind is everything that allows the Earth to experience more productivity, life and life on Earth. While the Earth's environment cannot be

as perfect as the moon's environment, its 84,000-meter-high earth moon image reveals how much longer there will be for a man to live on Earth than a man on the Moon. One of the right-hand side of the planet can see the image of a moon in a really high plane which is typically in the distance. The moon will look more like a light blue than a white blue and the earth will be gray, as the Moon will be seen as the Moon is looking at Earth, almost entirely in the same direction as the Moon. A crescent moon will appear as a moon. We are beginning to see that the moon is living in a realize of a star solstice. A crescent moon-like to decelerate, and in a few minutes we'll reach our stationary orbital position. We

can then begin to examine the Earth at close range. This is the moon now that occurs at its venus zone. In the meantime, the data projector will show us some of the Earth man's early efforts to imitate the birds. They can be quite informative. Most of his first attempts were simply crude efforts to fly by using muscle power alone. None of these were successful, of course, and many of them would have been laughable, except that the failure of each attempt was at least a minor tragedy to those whose dreams were shattered along with the products of our labor. There was failure after failure, yet man would not give up his determination to fly. Birds are no better than men, he said, and if they can

do it, so can we. Almost a full generation passed away. We do not have all of the data, of course, observations on Earth, yet it was realized by the Galactic Confederation that air flight is the first step in the achievement of space flight, and considerable interest was directed toward this planet and its fledgling people. Various types of engines and motors were beginning to be developed, and many of these were used in the continuing efforts to fly. Unfortunately, all of them have far too much weight and are far too small to be used in space flight, and most of these machines were built by men who had relatively little knowledge of science, because those with greater knowledge knew,

of course, that flight would never be possible and were not interested in making the attempt. If a man could not yet fly, he could at least float in the sky by using huge bags of light gas to lift him. It was only a temporary compromise, in fact, but for more than a generation and long after his success, he was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. He was able to fly. A great deal of effort and ingenuity was devoted to this mean to escape. It was a delicate and hazardous heart. The entire assembly of gas bags, cockpit or cabins, motors if

any, passengers and all equipment could not weigh more than the air which they displayed. Hydrogen was used because it was the only readily available gas light enough to have any significant lifting power. Hydrogen, when mixed with the oxygen of the air, becomes a most inflammable combination. Almost all of their airships, as they were called, were either torn apart by heavy winds or exploded and burned. In either case, there was usually a considerable loss of life. After numerous and sometimes tragic failures, the ark was almost entirely abandoned, although one or two small ships may still be seen occasionally in their skies.

This is the Hindenburg, definitely a late person in Jersey, but his name is Melton. In the 30s, I forget the exact year of his death. Horace Mann finally succeeded in building combustion engines, which produced enough energy for a pound of weight to make heavier-than-air flight possible. He also discovered about this time the merits of the Cambered Wing in straightforward flight. The result was his first truly successful flight in what was termed the airplane, and his first ever successful flight in flight. Another milestone was passed, and now the real development would begin.

Both men and women made aviation history during this time, and many became the idols of their people because of their skill and their daring, but mostly because they proved that man could indeed fly like the birds. This is Eddie Rickenbacker. A research ship of the Galactic Confederation began a rather close monitoring of the Earth at this time. It was necessary to chart the rate of progress in air flight so that at the beginning of spaceflight, it could be predicted at least a few years in advance.

The beginning of spaceflight is a very critical point in the development of any race. It usually coincides with the achievement of a technological potential capable of wiping out the race if directed towards such an end. If their spaceflight program succeeds too well and too soon, their tremendous speed below and their so perverted philosophy is a certain constriction between them and other races. New high speed, high speed planes of many varieties were designed, built, and tested.

Some performed well, while others failed at critical moments. Some of them were destined to bring fame and fortune to their pilots, while others brought only death. Nevertheless, the struggle went on constantly to build planes that would fly faster or higher. Or would carry more payload than any plane had ever done before. Many different types of planes came into being, some to carry passengers, some for freight, and some just to carry bombs. It was clear that the time was approaching when man would no longer be content with flight

within the atmosphere and scope of the planet. Having learned to fly, he now required a still greater medium in which to practice his newly acquired ability. Having as yet learned nothing of the possibility of gravity control, he began to look toward rocket propulsion as the only practical and attainable means of flight in space. As in his first attempts to fly, there were many failures and a few successes. This one, the early flight, such as this, a wood-burning rocket,

I should have talked a little bit about it before. Not too successful a flight as you see here, but oh well, back to the old drawing board. That's the first picture of a rocket of flight ever taken on color-motion pictures. The ridicule with which the great scientists of the Earth had greeted the efforts of the rocket enthusiasts gradually waned as the full potential of the art began to emerge in the public view. This was world's record flight at the time,

where eight miles reached eight and a half miles, apologies. As usual in Earthly affairs, the first large rockets were used as instruments of destruction, and most of those now being built are specially designed for that purpose. This is one that the some branches of the army wouldn't like to have, wouldn't like to have shown you here. There aren't very many copies of that film now. Nor do they know this one either.

His present rockets, together with the nuclear warheads he is producing, form a weapon system which could quickly decimate the population of the Earth. And all the evidence we have indicate that unless there is some intervention now, this tragic event will soon come to pass. The determination of Earth man to travel in space has not abated, however. And the projections of our study group predict that he will begin to do so very soon. Our first contact point will be a rocket testing facility

located in a large area of desert land. It will be necessary to establish a direct and continuing contact with at least one member of the Earth race. While we have continuing contact, we have records of spoken and written languages that were made intermittently over a long period of time. Both the idiom and the accent change with time, and if you are to be accepted as an ordinary citizen,

your speech must be that of today and not of several generations past. The discovery that you were alien to the planet would, of course, render your position there completely untenable and would lead to failure for the entire nation. You will require certain documents if you are to travel about the planet, as well as a medium of exchange known to them as money. Only an able and cooperative Earthman can arrange these things for you. We must find an individual with the necessary qualifications

before any contact is arranged. Our navigator has signaled that we are now in a perfect position, and the output of the long-range scanner has been coupled to our viewing screen. Let us see what it can show us. Yes, this is a portion of what is known as the Great American Desert. The rocky spires ahead of us are known as the Oregon Mountains, and we received some new data on this area recently. from a passing observation of craft.

The testing station where we hope to establish our Earth contact is just beyond the peaks. Our scanner is approaching it now. As soon as we had reached our fixed position, our two psychoanalytical experts began to tune in to the minds of one after another of the men who are employed at this station. If they find any who conform to the general specifications, a complete mental analysis will be run.

When we submit our final report, it will probably be severely reprimanded by the Ethics Committee for undue violation of personal privacy. But I know of no other way to be sure of finding someone who will be both willing and able to assist us. It will, of course, require a considerable time to adapt your body to the somewhat different conditions on a planet Earth. There are differences in atmosphere and gravity

and a host of virulent biopsies, and there are differences in atmosphere and gravity and a host of virulent biopsies, and there are differences in atmosphere and gravity and a host of virulent biopsies, and you will be sometimes also before your Earth contact and complete all preparations for your arrival since they must be made carefully to avoid the risk of public disclosure. It seems that our analysts have found someone

who might meet the requirements and have begun a more extensive analysis. He will not be aware of anything unusual, but the rapid rate of data extraction from his mind may cause him to feel uncomfortably warm. This must be the man being tested. He seems to be an ordinary technician without any particular status. This is desirable since it is less likely that his actions will be noticed. He must, of course, have certain

qualities of mind and certain abilities. Above all, he must be able to understand the need for this mission and be willing to offer his services, not to us, but for the survival of his own race. The analysts have accepted him as a good risk and are preparing for a direct contact. He will attribute the unusual warmth to the failure of his air conditioning system and will leave the building for a stroll in the cooler evening air. He will then be led to a small sampling carrier, which we will land on the floor at some distance from the base. There is an intercom in the sampling craft, and if we go into the communications room, we will be able to speak with him when he reaches it. And so began one of the strangest

and most incredible events. There you have it. It's not a Hollywood production. Something less than ten million dollars was spent on building of it. It will be improved, but there are some things there which are quite good. They do illustrate a number of things. Man's inherent desire to escape sooner or later from the planet on which he first developed. It's one of the basic things that must be understood in any approach to understanding of visitation from space. Almost every scientist will admit that there is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt of many planets in some part of this galaxy which have upon them intelligent life, or

at least technological life. And I have to distinguish, because it always brings a little question when I talk of intelligent life. In almost every lecture I give, someone will ask me if I believe there is intelligent life on other planets or perhaps in spaceships. I always reply that I have no doubt whatever that there is intelligent life on many planets, and in many spaceships. And that belief helps me in the hope that some day there may be intelligent life on this one. We are the highly technological race, and we confuse technology with intelligence. But I'm sure any visitor coming from any true civilization to this planet who picked up and read the front page of any metropolitan

daily newspaper would shake his head and say, well, there is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it. There is anèsement that we dare to call ourselves an intelligent race. It is very rarely that you will find on the front page of any metropolitan newspaper any story whatever which gives any indication of intelligence on this planet. There is hope. There is hope for us only because we are only intelligent enough to realize that many of the things

we do are wrong. But we haven't achieved quite enough intelligence to figure out how to stop doing them. though we know they're wrong. I have never heard any man who had any logical and valid argument in favor of war. All men with any reason, with any logic, with any approach to intelligence admit that all war is a ridiculous act, it's a brutal act, it's a destructive act, it does no one any good. Both nations that go to war inevitably suffer more loss than would be involved by either one of them in accepting the principles of the other. It always brings about far more loss to both than would be lost by either of them in accepting the other's principle. So we agree

as a race that war is stupid, illogical, useless, meaningless. So why do we keep doing it generation after generation, century after century? That is the question that we have to answer. It's one of them that we have to answer if this civilization is a good one. We have reached the point where we have only one choice, or we have two choices. We have Hamlet's choice to be or not to be. But if we are to be, then we have only one choice as to how we are to be. But to get back briefly to the objections of the scientists, the physicists, and the astronomer, and I do it even in groups where perhaps there are no such questions in people's minds, because there usually are.

There are a few who have read the objections of science to the visitation of this planet, especially on a fairly frequent basis. And those objections all have to do with space or time. That's the only basis on which they object. They have no doubt that there are intelligent forms of life many places in the galaxy. But of course, they're all too far away. They speak of the light years of distance and the years of time. And they're all too far away. They speak of the light Years and years it would be required, even if the velocity is approaching the velocity of light, to reach this planet. And point out quite logically that it's very unlikely that any other race still huddling on some remote planet light years away would become aware of the fact that there was life on this one and would be so interested and enthusiastic

that they would immediately begin to build spaceships for the purpose of visiting it. They point out quite correctly that such a visit would be exceedingly remote in probability. But at the same time they are overlooking simple facts which every scientist should be well aware of at the present moment. They assume that all life, technological life, must perforce dwell upon planets and that those planets in turn must be in close orbit about some star. And since the distance to that star can't be measured, it is assumed to be the shortest distance that would have to be covered by any visitor to this planet. And yet when we look at our own space program, what it predicts, what it is working toward,

the assembly of spacecraft of unlimited size in a parking orbit about this planet, and almost all of our early work was directed in that direction and quite a bit of our subsequent work, first a target vehicle, put it into a fixed orbit about the planet. Sometime later we sent up a pursuit vehicle with men in it. And the first maneuver was rendezvous in which the pursuit vehicle was brought into the same orbit as the pursuit vehicle and quite close to it. The next maneuver was called docking in which the two were actually mechanically joined together as you would in building a spacecraft.

The next step was usually an extravehicular activity. It was called an astronaut down the spacesuit and went out into space around the vehicles, between the vehicles. And if you watch the pictures, he usually had tools of some kind in his hand, illustrating the fact that he could tighten nuts, he could rivet, he could even weld in space, and that he could join these two parts into one part. And there's always a return capsule which brings those out. And the next day or two days after, the next section goes up and is bolted into place all the time.

The vehicle is in parking orbit, which means it's coasting around. There's no Earth gravity to pile up there. You don't have to build huge waves as you do when you build a large ship. And you can move tons by hand if you don't have to accelerate too rapidly. To build a huge ship in space would be infinitely simpler from an engineering standpoint, than to build it on Earth. It would be expensive, yes. We could, with the technology we have today, begin tomorrow, or perhaps the day after,

to build a ship capable of carrying 100 people of both sexes into space permanently. NASA has spent enough time and effort on closed-cycle ecology that as the ship were built, the problem still remaining could be ironed out. We could have a ship which, when it departed, this planet would never again have to return to this planet, nor to any other planet. It would be a self-contained entity capable of supporting its inhabitants from that time on. We think of the food, air, and water running out, but animals and people have been using air, food, and water on the surface of this planet

for at least a few million years, and it hasn't run out yet. In fact, there hasn't been a bit of it. There's just as much of it now as there ever was before. We're polluting it fairly rapidly now, but we aren't using any of it. We're polluting it fairly rapidly now, but we aren't using any of it. We're polluting it fairly rapidly now, but we aren't using any of it. Material of life cycles from a simple form of life up through more complex forms

and then finding back to the simple form again. It's illustrated by a kind of a homely joke I'm sure you all have heard. A city man was driving out in the country, and he passed a farm in which a farmer was using a manure spreader and was spreading manure on the ground. The city man wondered what in the world was going on, and he stopped and asked the farmer what he was doing. And he says, well, I'm putting manure on the strawberries.

The city man says, my, he says, there really is a difference between farm life and city life. He says, we always put sugar and cream on ours. So it does illustrate the fact that a constant cycle of ecology goes on on this planet. It goes fairly slowly. We hardly ever think of it because it moves slowly. On a spacecraft, it would have to move more precisely

and a little bit faster. Such a process does. It does require only one thing. It requires a small but constant input of energy, a constant source of energy. This planet has always got that energy from the sun, and so will a spaceship as long as it's within reasonable distance of any sun or star in this galaxy.

In long travels between stellar systems, it might be necessary to store some amount of energy in a more concentrated form and nuclear energy to keep the cycle going. But even there, it would be possible to pick up some energy, from the many stars, whatever distance they were. It would be possible to adapt and to use such cosmic energy as is received all over the galaxy.

So it is completely possible, it's conceivable today, to build spaceships which become planetoids themselves, completely independent of any other planet. And no one, I can assure you, no one who has achieved that ability and been... an inhabitant of one of these planetoids for a generation or two

is ever going to aspire to come back and live on a planet. After having lived all his life in an environment in which the temperature is controlled at all times to a tenth of a degree, the humidity is controlled to a tenth of a percent, the barometric pressure is controlled to a tenth of a millibar, and even the gravity is controlled to that level which is best suited for the activity of the moment.

Can you imagine anyone going back and living on a planet with a subjectivity, with cyclones, tornadoes, whirlwinds, floods, earthquakes, excessive rain, excessive drought, all of these whimsies of nature which we have to struggle to survive because we can't do a thing about it. We talk a lot about the weather,

but we haven't even begun to do very much about that yet, as one of our earlier philosophers once pointed out. So to go back on a planet would be a regressive act. It would be equivalent to us going back into the jungles of Brazil and living with the natives, putting bones in our noses and eating grub worms for lunches as they do. There's only one thing that would cause us

to even consider doing such a thing. And there's only one thing that will cause the true spaceman to consider coming back and living on a planet. And that is the desire to offer to that civilization some portion of their culture that they feel might be advantageous to us and might be acceptable. We call them missionaries,

and we have those on Earth if any of you have ever thought about it. We do have men who do go out and live in the jungles in the most primitive conditions, not because they hope to find gold or diamonds or anything else. They're there for one purpose only, to offer to those retarded races those portions of our culture

which we feel might be advantageous to them. It doesn't mean that they always are. I'm not giving a pitch for missionaries. I'm just pointing out that they do exist. And no doubt, in space, some of the spacecraft which come through this solar system, as they do fairly frequently, and to approach this from a scientific standpoint,

we first have to realize that the central portion of this galaxy is at least two million years older than the section in which we now exist. That solar systems and planetary systems form first in the central portions of galaxies because of the matter, because the matter is denser there. And there's about a two million year lag estimated

between the formation of stars and planets in the center of the galaxy and the formation of those on the exterior rims. It's a very short period of time. Galactically speaking, it takes about two billion years to create a galaxy to begin with, and two million years is only one-tenth of one percent

of the time of forming the galaxy. But there is about a one-tenth of one percent lag in the formation of stars in the center of the galaxy and toward the outer rim. And of course, our system is located on the inner side of one of the spiral wings thrown out from the galaxy, and we're definitely Johnny-come-latelys. So that anything that is happening on this planet now

happened on tens of thousands of planets in the center of this galaxy at least two million years ago. And that means that space travel began in the center of this galaxy two million years ago. And that is amply long for a spacecraft to make a journey out to our location,

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even at velocities much, much, much less than the velocity of light. Even if spaceships, if this outward flow of technology and space travel began two million years ago, even if it only moved outward one stellar distance per century, if the craft only moved outward toward the periphery,

made one stellar jump per century, and then perhaps found planets there to live on or colonize and the spaceship took another jump, in the next century, this wave of technology would still have passed through our solar system at least two thousand years before the first history was ever written on this planet. So what does time have to do with it?

What does it matter how long it might take to get from here to Alpha Centauri in a spaceship when there are probably ten thousand spaceships between here and Alpha Centauri right now, and the nearest one may be 900 miles out in the shadow of our planet sending down observational devices

to see what this young and primitive race is doing down here. If such ships coming through our solar system, they could not fail, if they came through any part of our solar system, they would certainly immediately become aware that the third planet outward from the sun was inhabited, contained technological beings.

It couldn't possibly come through any part of the solar system without immediately becoming aware of it. We've been pouring out electromagnetic radiation on a thousand frequencies for quite a long time now and this electromagnetic radiation is easily capable of being picked up even with reasonably sensitive equipment two or three solar system diameters.

We send out commands to our spacecraft orbiting Mars and Venus when they're 200 million miles away and they take pictures and perform things and they send back those pictures to us in a power system that uses about five watts of power for 200 million miles of distance. Actually, the power going into their transmitting antenna

is about five watts for 200 million miles. And we broadcast, our broadcast stations now have up to 50,000 watts and there have been a few that use more power than that. So with any kind of sensing equipment, and we can be sure that their sensing receivers are as much advanced over ours as ours are over the very first

primitive crystal sets that we developed. So they could not possibly come within several diameters of the solar system without becoming aware that there was an inhabited planet. And such an event might not occur more than once per generation for any given spacecraft. And they would certainly be interested enough

to alter the direction of the craft enough to cause it to come in close to the planet to take a look at that new race developing there to see how far it had progressed and how it was doing. And those ships which came in might fall into three categories just as our civilization here would.

There might be one race which is simply mildly curious and dashed by to take a look in passing just as a tourist steamship might pull in close to a native island to watch the natives dancing on the beach as they went by. And they might then go on

having satisfied their curiosity. There might be a group coming in whose principal interest in life was the taking of data on life all over the galaxy how far various life had developed how it develops and what it looks like. They might come in quite close

they might send down many sampling devices to take samples of the air, water, and soil. They might take a few artifacts they might send audio-visual devices down to record the spoken language and observe the things that are done down here. They might even amuse themselves with a few psychological experiments.

They might allow a few of their sampling devices to be seen by the primitive race and then sit back and amuse themselves at the tremendous and desperate efforts made by that race to deny what they have seen. I'm sure it's very amusing to the group. Then again there may be and we could call those the academic

group, the academic types. Then there might be a group come through who observing the very perilous state of this civilization and society and becoming aware of the fact that it can't possibly survive without some slight additional assistance a little advice here and there.

They might actually feel the desire to become involved at least to the extent of offering a few suggestions a few answers to the questions which threaten to destroy the race. And so we might have actual contact. If we study history

we find that there is no question whatever that all three of these types of events have occurred on this planet. And they have been occurring since before the very first written history of this planet was ever created because they are found in every branch of every history and every language

in which history has ever been written. If you study the Aramaic language you will find reports in the Aramaic language of the approach of objects from the sky the occasional landing. If you study the Kashadian language from which an early part of the Bible was taken

you will find references. If you study Sanskrit you will find references to the observation in the skies of various flying devices and the occasional report of a landing. If you study the Holy Bible for example you will find eighteen specific

eyewitness descriptions of material objects in the sky. And if you study the descriptions you will find that the descriptions given by the people who saw them then tally exactly with the description given by people who see them today. So it isn't anything new.

It's been around as long as man has been able to observe. He has been observing these things. But at the same time man has had an ego which has said nothing can be better than I. We have, many of us have been taught since birth that man is the supreme product of the universe.

Most of us subscribe to a great central power and intelligence, wisdom and goodness which we call God. But we like to think that man comes next. Anyone who is logical has to admit that if man comes next after God he runs a very poor second. Nevertheless it is difficult for us

to make room in our consciousness for the existence of some other races or types of beings that might be a little closer to God than we. It might be a little farther developed in all phases. It puts us down. It puts us one step down the ladder of evolution

and that is a step which many egos would never permit their reason to take no matter how persuasive the evidence. They would find some manner of escape, some means of escape from any evidence that forced them to do that. There are some who can accept it and have accepted throughout all of history

and the world. They have thereby become much wiser than their fellows who do not accept it. I have heard people say in the early days of lecturing on UFO I have heard people say oh don't you know that only stupid, superstitious, uneducated fools believe in this.

So I began to make a list of who some of these stupid, uneducated, superstitious fools were. Benjamin Franklin. Read his work sometime. He was a complete believer in the or occasional arrival here of extraterrestrial vehicles. Well in fact to make it short I'm not going to go through the list I could.

Practically every single individual who is noted today for being head and shoulders above his contemporaries in many fields I don't just mean an engineer or an expert in one field. Those who are known in history as being top in many fields. Virtually every one of them have one thing in common. They have all admitted the existence of

extraterrestrial life and intelligence and all of them have admitted that much of their knowledge, much of their understanding in advance came from those sources. Anyone who doubts that should get the biography of a few of these people and study them. So those of us who accept the reality those of us stupid, uneducated, superstitious fools

who accept the reality are in good company. We're in the company of the most wisest the most respected men that have ever lived. But we have to remember one thing that if a spacecraft comes through this solar system and veers in to take a closer look and perhaps makes a contact that contact or that observation

was not the purpose for which that spaceship was built it was not the purpose for which it was manned or launched. It is one more or less interesting event in the life of whatever generation happens to be aboard that ship at the time. It doesn't matter how big the galaxy is it doesn't matter how long it takes to get from here to Alpha Centauri or anywhere else

we're all on a spaceship ourself. It's something else we should remember. This planet Earth is a spaceship. It's a fairly large one. It's large enough so the gravitational force keeps the air the food and the water on the outside instead of having to confine it on the inside as is necessary in smaller spaces.

But it's a spaceship. It's traveling through open space taking in energy from the sun to keep the ecological cycle going. It is moving at a very respectable rate. The whole galaxy is rotating on its axis and the whole solar system rotates with that galaxy and the measured speed is 137 miles per second.

You may think you're sitting still here in chairs. You are moving through true space at a rate of 137 miles per second in the one direction of the rotation of the galaxy alone. If you measure the recession of this galaxy from other galaxies, the velocity becomes much, much higher than that. But we're rotating. We're on a journey

around the galaxy, our whole solar system. We're moving at 137 miles per second which is about 80 times as fast as the astronaut goes to the moon. About 80 times the average speed of the trip of the astronaut to the moon. And we're moving at that speed all the time, 137 miles per second.

And if nothing gets in the way and the process continues, in 100 million years we'll be halfway around the galaxy. 100 million years. So when the astronomer says, no person is going to spend two or three years sitting in a space capsule

waiting to get to the Earth, remind him that he's sitting on a spaceship on a journey that's going to take 100 million years to complete. And yet I've never heard anyone complete and complain. I've never heard anyone say, stop the galaxy, I want to get off.

I can't bear to think of spending the next 100 million years just to go around and see what the other side of the galaxy is like. You see, we've found ways to amuse ourselves en route. We've found many things to do to keep ourselves busy and we seldom even stop to think about where we're going

or how long it will take to get there. And the same is true of the spaceship which is the home of the people. Once you can see the spaceship as a home, rather than just as a vehicle designed to carry people from one point to another, when it is the home, time has no significance.

Whether it takes one generation, two generations, or five generations to get here from Alpha Centauri makes no difference at all. The trip might have begun ten generations ago. So these are some of the things that need to be understood. If we approach the thing statistically

as to the probable number of spaceships in the galaxy and this is one of the questions I asked Alain, and you will find it in the complete book. It isn't in the movie because it wasn't a proper sequence to put in. But I asked him how many independent spaceships

were considered to have been built in this galaxy in the last two million years. Building of spaceships began about two million years ago. And they have a fairly good history of the beginning of it. And it was estimated that after the beginning of spaceship construction,

of course each generation produced more and more. Take a sample. You saw the flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright fifty years after that, after it was barely proven possible for man to get something heavier than air off the ground. How many airplanes did we have traveling on it?

Fifty years afterwards, you could go down to any major airport on Earth and there are hundreds of them, and you will find airplanes laden with upwards of a hundred passengers taking off for foreign ports every two minutes of the day, right around the clock, when they take off every two minutes,

twenty-four hours a day. Fifty years after it was barely proven possible to get something heavier than air off the ground. How many spaceships would ten thousand planets in the center of this galaxy that began building them two million years ago, how many spaceships would ten thousand planets build in two million years?

How many would one planet build in two million years? How many would one planet build in a thousand years or a hundred years? So it was assumed in the course of the passage of the years more and more civilizations on more and more planets achieved the ability, and so began building. And it was estimated that during the first

twenty generations or so that the increase in the building of independent spaceships, not including small transport vehicles, the building of independent planetoids, increased by one power of ten with each generation. And that after about the twentieth generation the rate of increase tapered off

because the older ships became obsolete, newer ships would be built and newer ones would be replacing the old, so the rate of increase tapered off, but that it was now estimated that the number of independent spaceships in this galaxy now totaled about the thirty-third power of ten. Now when you write out the zeros,

that's quite a lot of spaceships. Of course it's a big galaxy. If you divide the cubic miles, the cubic light years of the galaxy by that thirty-third power of ten, you still have quite a lot of spaceships in each cubic light year. It comes to about

a number, about six to seven spaceships for each volume the size of our solar system. At any one time we'd have six to seven spaceships. But that is not the case. That is for the entire volume of the galaxy. And the spaceships tend to congregate nearer to solar systems, stellar systems, because of the free energy that's constantly

being emitted by the suns in these galaxies. So the density in this solar system, there are probably from twenty to a hundred spaceships in some part of the solar system at any given time. And this can be verified statistically by taking even the most pessimistic of estimates. But it is pointed out that in the center portion

of this galaxy, over half of all the planets, if you say the spaceships average fifty thousand tons, the independent ones, and the number is equal to thirty-third power of ten, it comes to something like twenty percent of all of the non-luminous matter in the galaxy. It means that whole planets, whole planets which were not suitable

for the production of life, have been dismantled, have been mined, have been converted. During that two million periods, whole planets have disappeared. Whole planets with nickel-iron cores such as ours have been mined and converted into independent planetoids because of the constant demand

for an increased number of such spaceships. And then the astronomer will say, oh, gosh, there isn't only one chance in fifty thousand years that one would come by the Earth, but he forgets that the process has been going on for two million years and that they came by this planet fairly frequently

long before we had anyone here to record the event. And, of course, the degree of technology would be beyond any possible stretch of our imagination. In fact, our imagination won't even keep twenty-five years ahead of our own progress. We can't even predict today what we will achieve twenty-five years from now. The imagination boggles.

Just as twenty-five years ago, we couldn't have begun to predict the things that we have now. What about a two million year advance in technology? Let me say, after the first hundred years, it doesn't matter because your imagination can't even go beyond the first hundred years. But there was a remark,

Alain did make another remark to me, although he doesn't pretend to be one of the real advanced races. They are just a few centuries ahead of our position. But even our ships, he said, we watch your planet sometimes and we see biologists poring over microscopes,

straining their eyes trying to, or mass spectroscopes trying to find a few atoms of amino acids or other elements of life to see whether perhaps there may be life in the galaxy. And we can sit in our ships a thousand miles from the earth

and look over their shoulder through their microscope. We could even look in their mind and determine what conclusions they're reaching. And they're scrambling to find a few molecules of animate matter in a meteorite. And we're looking over their shoulders and through their telescopes all the time.

So, we have to take a new view of the galaxy. We have to get rid of a little of our own ego first because it does set up the only bar that exists between us and the realization. When this planet has achieved some degree of stability, when it has created the area of mutual agreement and has a tool for settling its own problems,

then it will be invited to join the galactic confederation. But it cannot be invited to join any other confederation as long as it can't even begin to solve its own problems. We have to solve our own and then we'll be invited to partake

in larger ones. Do we have any questions? Can you tell us what Al Malan is doing now? Where he is now, I'm not sure. He spent, as you probably know, a number of years in the vicinity of Cairo, in Egypt, shuttling between there and Israel at various times.

I should, of course, all these questions require an explanation, especially the people who haven't read the White Sands Incident, don't know who we're talking about. But he has really only one task, only one purpose here, and that is, as the picture showed,

to prevent as long as possible the outbreak of World War III. And so he has to spend his time in the spots in which that is most likely to occur. And for some years the most sensitive spot has been the Arab-Israeli axis, the friction there, because if that really explodes,

the Soviet Union and the United States are going to be brought face to face in spite of anything they can do and whether they want to or not. The Soviet Union is so completely committed to the Arabs and the United States

is so completely committed to the Israelis that they're going to come face to face in conflict, even though neither of them want it. And both of them are scared to death over what is happening in Israel and in Egypt. I don't think the Russians aren't worried, too. They don't want to confront the United States any more than we want to confront them.

But we have maneuvered ourselves in a position where we may not be able to avoid it. And so the only sure way of avoiding it is not to have a conflagration occurring between Arab and Israel. And Elan, as those who followed him know, his profession is that of import-export buyer. He adopted this as a profession

simply because it would gain him instant access to any country on earth. Whether a country is friendly to him, legally or not, they all have something they want to buy or sell. And if you are in a position to consummate the deal, you're welcome in that country, no matter who you are,

whether you're from a friendly country or not. And so it gains him access to all countries as the need comes. He, of course, had to get a passport to do it. In order to have a passport, he had to get a birth certificate. And that's where I came in at the White Sands Proving House.

People ask me, Why were you chosen? And I say, Well, one of the reasons, I had a good friend who was a county recorder. And who could listen to reason. And who knew that it would be definitely a good act

for the people of this earth to give this man a birth certificate to file a duplicate duly in the required year slot so that in case of any investigation it would prove that he indeed was born in that county. Once having the birth certificate,

it's easy to get a passport. It's then easy to get all the other forms of identification that you need to prove that you were born on this earth. And he had to do that if he wanted to travel. He also had to have a little of the stuff we call money here because he wasn't proposing to travel

in his spaceship. He uses commercial airlines exclusively now. And to do that, you have to buy a ticket. And to buy a ticket, you have to have something we call money. And he didn't have any of that. He could have created some fraudulently,

but they don't work that way. So he brought with him a number of small bars of platinum. And he bought platinum rather than gold because there are so many legal restrictions on gold. There's no legal restrictions on platinum. If you have some,

you can sell it to anyone who wants to buy. So I made a sale of this material for him. And the money was deposited to his account after he had a birth certificate and all of the cards necessary to show all the identification necessary. So then he was ready to travel.

But the only thing he does, the only thing he did in Egypt was to monitor the minds of the various leaders, those who were in a position to push the big red button, as it's called. And while Nasser was alive,

he was one of the greatest problems because although he was a sincere man, a dedicated man, he was dedicated to the good of Egypt, but he was also an impatient man. And I took occasion to study him quite a bit and asked many people. When I went to Egypt,

I took the occasion to learn as much as I could about him. And most people there, most of his own people, say, well, he's a good man. He's an intelligent man. He's an awful blowhard. That's one drawback.

He talks too much and he spouts off. They always looked around carefully before they said it, but it was a consensus of the opinion of the people themselves. But he did have a temper and he was impatient

and he could fly off the handle sometimes and this was the danger. And so his mind was monitored. And when he was on the point of doing something that would bring irrevocable battling between the two opposing sides, Ilan was able to do one simple thing only.

It's the only thing he's permitted to do. He was able to create in that man's mind a very clear and precise picture of exactly what would result from the act he was about to perform. He has no right

to interfere with decisions. He has the power. He could cause any person on this earth to make any decision he chose. He could take over minds and control them. He is not permitted to do it. We are still creatures of self-determination.

We have a right to determine our own future. As is pointed out in the Bible, man is given the right to determine his own future. He's even given the right to deny the God that made him. He can't get away with it,

but he's given the right to try. And so Ilan cannot force and will not force, he could but is not permitted to force anyone to do anything. The only thing he's permitted to do is give them a very clear, instantaneous picture

of the result of what their action will be. I'm sure if anyone could have done that for Adolf Hitler, history would be very different today. I'm sure of it. So, so far it was all that was necessary. It has kept any open conflagration from coming. He can't keep this up forever.

He is buying time, and I'm sure he's only one. People ask me about the space people, and I say I can't talk about space people. I only know one. There's only one I've ever met. There's only one person I've ever met who even was presumed

to not have been born on this planet. I can only speak of one because I do know one person fairly well. I have no doubt that there are others, but I can only speak personally of one. But he is doing a job, and it's a job that he was given

to postpone as long as possible, as you heard on the movie, the beginning of World War III on this planet, which will be the last war that will be fought here if it comes about. Dr. Einstein,

in the last years of his life, was asked if he could predict the weapons that would be used in World War III. And he says no. He says technology is advancing too fast. I can't predict what weapons will be used in World War III,

but I can easily predict what weapons will be used in World War IV. And they asked what would those be, and he said sticks and stones. If there are any survivors, the only weapons they will have is sticks and stones.

So it illustrates the point, and it is going on. The last time I had any contact, and there are people who think that because I know a person from space that he walks beside me and advises me on my daily life and hides behind every bush and so forth.

And I actually have communication with him about once a year perhaps, sometimes not that often. It will be very brief. Simply because I was able to do him a favor does not mean that I am necessarily a favored person. I'm just one person on the planet.

And because I understand the situation, sometimes I can be of a little help. And in such cases, there is a contact made, and I'm told what I can do, and I said I'd go and do it. I'm never asked to do anything that I'm not able to.

Some of them are very simple. But this is the situation. And the last time that there was a contact was not too long ago, and it turned out that he was in Washington, D.C. I said, what in the world are you doing there? Oh, just a little business. And I said, commercial business,

political business, or monkey business? Well, he is just as down to earth as anyone now. I mean, you could talk to him all day, and his language is even much less stilled than mine. People say I use too many big words and so forth. I do that only because of the realization that the larger a word you use, the more precise the meaning.

The smaller a word is, the shorter a word is, the more meanings can be attributed to it. So if you're going to speak in very precise terms, you frequently have to use long words because they have only one very precise meaning. Strangely enough, the more letters a word has, the fewer its meanings.

You take a short word like fast, and by itself you're never sure. Because if a thing is moving rapidly, you say it is fast. If it is rigidly chained so it can't move at all, it is fast. If you are not eating, you fast. And when you break your fast,

you eat fast and make up for your fast.

[01:31:23] Questions and closing discussion

So in general, the shorter the word, the more possible meanings it has. But he speaks the language of the people here. You could talk to him all day and never dream that he wasn't born in Hoboken or perhaps in Kansas somewhere. And so I use the same language when I speak to him and ask him what his business was.

He said it's a little business, and I have to leave for Moscow tomorrow. But he says you'll probably be hearing about the business in a day or so on TV or radio. So that was the end of that. I didn't question him any further. But 24 hours later,

I went to getting the news broadcast at night to the announcement that the mining of the Haiphong harbors had been ordered in the reestablishment of the bombing of Vietnam. Well, this changed the picture. I mean, this moved the sensitive area, temporarily at least.

The Vietnam War has dragged along for years and years, and it's been a grisly, gory business, but has never threatened to become a world war. No major powers have enough vital interest there to go to war with each other over it, and none are that completely committed. So it's never really been in danger

of being the beginning of World War III. But now there was a new situation, and if you recall, the comments made by all the commentators in the country that spoke on that subject when they announced the mining of the Haiphong harbor and the reestablishment of the bombing of North Vietnam,

reporters all said the same thing. They said, well, we don't know exactly how the Soviet Union will react. They'll certainly retaliate in some way. But one thing is certain. This will cancel the Nixon visit to Moscow, that those people in Moscow simply can't take a slap in the face like this

and still allow him to come and talk in Moscow. They said, one thing, whatever else will happen, this will certainly cancel his visit. We all know that it didn't. It fooled every one of them. They were all sure that it would. And they're still marveling as to why it didn't, because most of these, even the Russia watchers,

as they call them, know very well the reaction of these people there in power. They have watched them for years. They know how they will react. And this time, they didn't react that way at all. And they can't imagine why. But it took some doing. But you all know what the commentators predicted,

and you all know it didn't come to pass. And if you know anything about Russian politics, you know that it took some doing. It wasn't easy. Do we have any questions? On that point of the planetoids all around us, and these are actually... Would this account for what we call

pulsars, which are black voids in space? Well, there's a possibility of some phenomena associated with them creating what we call pulsars. Of course, in the case of the quasar, the quasi-stellar object, the only problem here is that the amount of energy released is beyond human comprehension. In fact, a couple of years ago, I wrote a little verse.

Once in a while, I do automatic writing, and it comes out a verse, and it isn't always the most refined verse, but I did put this in the encyclopedia in Seneca, which is the life work of Deep Fry. But it was a thought that crossed my mind when these questions came about, about quasars. Primarily, the tremendous energy

coming from such a small source. It's inconceivable. Bodies which apparently are no larger than the planet Earth are giving out thousands of times more energy than the Sun, which is a million times larger. Anyhow, this little verse said, tell me once your mighty rays are, energy whose huge dimension baffles human comprehension.

Speculation virgins, therefore, as to what and how and wherefore. How I wonder, little star, what the hell you really are. So anyway, the quasar is simply a tremendous energy source, and which is so great that science yet hasn't been able to get a satisfactory theory as to how so much energy can emanate from such a small space.

Even with nuclear fission or fusion at the atomic energy rate, it couldn't account for that much energy emission. If the whole quasar were one atomic bomb, it still couldn't put out that much energy. So you have to assume complete mass-to-energy conversion, which is at the rate of about 25 million horsepower hours per gram of mass. Then you begin to get a possibility of energy output.

An ordinary copper penny weighs about three grams. Let me have one in here now. This would weigh about almost five grams. And this would, this, if you converted the amount of this matter to the complete energy, and could control it and direct it, you'd have about 125 million horsepower hours of energy,

or about 125 million kilowatt hours. Of energy, since a little more than horsepower are. So you see, the power company actually is chiseling you a little bit. You get about one kilowatt hour for a nickel. If you convert the nickel into complete energy, you'd get 125 million kilowatt hours. But then the power company hasn't figured out how to do it either. They know the power is there,

we just haven't figured out a way to get it out. So, as far as the pulsars, they are simply a stellar body, a body of some sort that emits energy at a regular but varying rate. And there's still quite a lot of speculation in whether this could be some phenomena of a technological device or vehicle.

I don't know. It'd have to be quite large, because I think the pulsars have to be quite large. They put out a lot of energy, too. But as far as possibilities are concerned, possibilities in space are unlimited, because the possibilities are far greater than our ability to conceive them or imagine them.

And so this we have to leave in abeyance. We can speculate on it, but there's no way to reach a conclusion at the time. Time travel? Well, I'm not sure that I've ever done it myself, so I don't know whether there is an interesting thing. But when you talk about time travel, you have to begin to define time,

and nobody's ever successfully done it. The whole... thought block that came up in the scientific mind about the mathematics of Albert Einstein were based upon this fact, and he attempted to avoid this thought block in his first paper on special case relativity, which he issued in 1905.

He appended a foreword or wrote a foreword to that, which hardly anybody has ever read. I've lectured on this subject in Caltech. I've lectured on it in MIT. I've lectured on it up in Lewis and Clark University in Portland and a number of other universities. I've yet to find anyone who's ever read the foreword

to the paper on special case relativity in 1905. And you have to read that foreword before you can understand the mathematics. You can accept the mathematics, yes. A mathematical formula is impeccable. It's either correct or incorrect. The formula 2 plus 2 equals... 2x plus 2x equals 4x is an impeccable formula

because we ourselves have created all the factors, and we define 4 as being the number that is created when 2 are added to 2. So 2x plus 4x... 2x plus 2x equals 4x is an impeccable formula. But unless you know what x represents, you can still make some mistakes. If x happens to be rabbits,

you may turn out to be completely wrong. . . . . . So you say 2 rabbits. Plus 2 rabbits equals 4 rabbits.

You would be surprised how far off you can be. The same thing is true in the mathematics of relativity. They're impeccable, there's nothing wrong with them. They'll prove out as often as you test them. But there is nothing in those mathematics that tells you you can't get from here to Alpha Centauri in less than four years. And I defy anyone to show me where you are on that match.

. . They say only that nobody on earth going to see you do it and they're correct and they say in in the foreword they say that for the purpose of these mathematics well let me give you the whole foreword it was written in german first but it was translated into english and the only place i've ever seen it in print in my life was in a small book which einstein himself wrote and published about 1914 and what i think was the last ditch attempt to break down the thought blocks he saw arising around these he gave it

up after that in his later years when people ask einstein about relativity he says my gosh don't ask me about this says after the other mathematicians got through with it i don't understand it myself those are his exact words i don't understand it myself anymore since they've gotten through it but he tried to forestall this with a foreword in which he said this all of the knowledge which we have concerning the universe about us must come to us through our senses there are the only contact with reality we have whether the number of those senses is five or six or some larger number they are still the only contact with reality that we have or can

ever get and all the knowledge which we have about this universe or can ever get must come to us through them no matter how large and precise the telescope the light that that telescope collects must still come through our eyes and reach our brain before it can mean anything or if we use it to take pictures the light reflected by the picture must come through our eyes to our brain before it can mean anything therefore he said if we are to formulate mathematical laws and he underlined twice if we are to formulate mathematical laws concerning this universe we must begin with the postulate that what our senses tell us

is true literally true so it's a difficult concept it means that if we observe through a large telescope the eruption of a nova in a remote galaxy at the same time you observe the eruption of a volcano upon our own earth we will be able to observe the eruption of a volcano upon our own earth we will be able to we must for the purpose of these mathematics and again he underlined for the purpose of these mathematics we must accept that these two events are simultaneous because they're simultaneously observed and we have no way of proving otherwise we cannot be at the same time and he put a question mark

after time we cannot at the same time be in both of these widely separated points to see whether they both occur at the same time or not and if we could be in those two widely separate points in space at the same time question mark time would have lost the only significance that it has would then have no significance whatever so to give it significance to give our mathematics validity we must begin by accepting our senses for the purpose of the mathematics after the mathematics are complete then we can allow reason to deal with that which we have created we cannot make some up in the creation we

cannot multiply apples by oranges and oranges never be quite sure what the product is and that was before it and as soon as you have read that forward you know that the velocity of light is going to turn out to be the highest velocity we can officially accept according to those mathematics because it's the highest velocity we can observe because it is through light that we make the observation or through other electromagnetic phenomena that has the same velocity let me give you a quick example it takes about one minute but it's something you should most of you

can understand you should take home with you and I've done it in college as in jaws fall open and professors who have taught relativity for years say my god I never thought of it that way but let us build it we're build a spaceship we're tremendous inventors we're geniuses we build a spaceship here we have found a way to apply energy from outside we found a source of infinite energy which you can apply to the spaceship in a form of a gravitational field which accelerates all matter equally so we won't be crushed by the infinite acceleration

we can't put to get that energy from inside the spaceship because that would have infinite mass the energy itself would have infinite mass so we take the energy from some source outside and we can apply that energy in any quantity at any rate up to infinity and we don't know anything about relativistic mechanics we are only classical mechanics engineers and the classical mechanic says that the velocity is proportionate to the energy applied or to the force times the time which is the same thing

if we find some of the energy we should have infinite velocity so we have discovered as a little kind of in orbit about alpha Centurion it will be exactly four light years away from us so when we make the trip we don't want to get there in ooh time we decided to take one hour to make the trip by something a little less than infinite energy So we'll get there in one hour we go over to a friend of ours who is an astronomer and who has a a laboratory short distance away from our launching pad

and we tell him we propose to go to this planet four light years away and we propose to do it in one hour. And he will immediately shake his head and he said,

oh no boys, you really can't do it because the mathematics of relativity point out very clearly that nothing can exceed the velocity of light and only with infinite energy

can it be achieved. You say you're going to use almost infinite energy and we'll make it in one hour. I say that instead it will take you four years and one hour to make it. But this is an excellent opportunity

to test these mechanics because I'm also a genius and I've just completed the telescope with infinite magnification and infinite resolution. I can follow you every step of the way.

So I'll train my telescope on you and you take off and you apply your almost infinite energy and I will watch you as you go and I will keep a log of your progress. We say fine,

we go ahead and jump in the ship and take off and apply almost infinite energy and in 15 minutes we have covered one quarter of the distance. We are now one light year away from Earth.

The light which we emit at that point requires one year to return to Earth. One year later it enters the barrel of his telescope. He sees and notes

in his logbook I see that they reached the one quarter point one year in 15 minutes after takeoff. In 30 minutes we've reached

the halfway point. We're now two light years away. The light we emit at that point requires two years to return to Earth. The astronomer sees and notes in his logbook

I see they reached the halfway point two years and 30 minutes after takeoff. In 45 minutes we're three quarters of the way.

We're now three light years away. The astronomer sees and notes in his logbook I see that they reached the three quarter point three years and 45 minutes after takeoff.

In one hour we've reached their destination. We're four light years away. The astronomer sees and notes in his logbook I see they reached their destination

exactly four years and one hour after takeoff exactly as the mathematics have relatively predicted. They used almost infinite energy. They couldn't quite

reach the velocity of light. Now we might have gone up there an hour or might have turned around and come back in an hour. For three years 365 days

and two hours we might have been seated beside him at his telescope assisting him in his observation. It wouldn't make one particle of difference

what he saw in that telescope. It wouldn't make any difference in the conclusions he would have to reach according to the primary postulate

of those mathematics that what our senses tell us is true. He'd have to say I see you there you're just getting started you had hardly started

yet. I see you here too so I have to accept that you're here but there's nothing in the mathematics of relativity that says this can't be.

There's nothing that denies it. I have to accept both postulates at the same time. So quickly we say well now we're going to make one more trip.

This time we're going to open the throttle wide open. We should get there in zero time. You watch and see what happens. He turns his telescope

we get there in zero time. We're still four light years away. It still takes exactly four years for the first light we emit to return to the telescope. He sees notes

in his telescope this time they took exactly four years they used infinite energy it took exactly four years to go exactly

four light years. Again the mathematics of relativity are completely proven. But also something else was proven because they returned

immediately. Something else was proven and that is the very mathematics on which the mathematics of relativity were based.

Einstein based those mathematics on Lorentz transformations because he became interested in the work of the ,

of Lorentz and these were simply extrapolations of Lorentz mathematics. One of those is the time contraction theory which says as an object

increases in velocity away from a fixed observer the time differential will develop between the observer and the point he's observing. If that velocity

reaches the velocity of light time will cease aboard the moving object. And astronomers see that's exactly what happened. Just as predicted.

Time ceased for you. You got there and back in zero time because you actually achieved the velocity. And thereupon time ceased for you and so no time

went by. No time elapsed on your going or coming. The time didn't cease for me because I was at the fixed point and I observed

that it took you four years. So these are the basis of relativity. They're the perfectly true basis. They have nothing to do with the time

it will take a traveler to get from here to Alpha Centauri or anywhere else because he is a part of the system. The system has no velocity

with respect to him. It's something that should be understood by everyone and something that somehow this thought block of velocity of light

has to be understood in its true context. There's nothing in those mathematics that says you can't get from here to Alpha Centauri in less than four years because if you

as you increase in speed time slows down. If you reach the velocity of light time ceases and you'll get to your destination

in zero time if you apply infinite energy which is exactly what classical mechanics predicts. And if you study this you'll know that

the only difference in the world or in the universe between celestial mechanics and relativistic mechanics is the position from which the observation

is made. After that stay from the physics if any of you that aren't confused by now it's after 11 o'clock. Dr. Street

you said subject but these space people that are traveling in space like you say in these planetoids that are there what about their

life spans? Well I imagine there are very many different life spans the whole problem with talking about the space people is assuming

that they're all the same. Yeah. I mean if you have different races coming from different planets and different places there's going to be

more differences than you could possibly define. You could only answer such a question as this for one particular spacecraft

and it's inhabitants. I think that we have to get out before we get thrown out we're already past the time we're supposed to be out.

Thank you for listening. Well if you'll get out