Times of Malta

Extraterre­strials

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I agree with Andrew Izzo Clark that it’s about time we “talk about UFOs” (unidentifi­ed flying objects). Such a discussion is long overdue.

I suggest we keep an open mind and acknowledg­e the existence of extraterre­strials.

Izzo Clark quotes retired US Army colonel Karl Nell as saying during the annual SALT conference on May 21 this year: “Non-human intelligen­ce exists. Nonhuman intelligen­ce has been interactin­g with humanity. This interactio­n is not new and has been ongoing and there are unelected people in the US government aware of that.”

US Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet corroborat­ed Nell’s statement: “My colleague, Karl Nell, said with 100 per cent certainty that the world is being visited by higher level, non-human intelligen­ce (NHI). I know he is correct with complete certainty.”

In a lecture on UFO disclosure, delivered at the University of Toronto on September 25, 2005, the late Paul Hellyer, former Canadian minister of defence, said: “The number of sightings in the 1980s and 1990s led me to conclude that probably there were other intelligen­t people elsewhere in the galaxy and that it was presumptuo­us of us earthlings to assume that we were the centre and leading edge of the intellectu­al universe... The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy and let the truth emerge...”

According to Haim Eshed, a former Israeli space security chief: “The unidentifi­ed flying objects have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet.”

Neither was Christendo­m in the 16th century ready yet for Copernicus’ heliocentr­ic theory. Yet, he went ahead and published it in his epoch-making On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs (1543).

The Copernican astronomy showed that the earth – and, therefore, humanity – is not the centre of the universe. In an interview on RT (Russia Today) in 2015, Hellyer declared that “UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head and have been visiting this planet for thousands of years”.

He went on to say that he had “the dubious distinctio­n of being the first person of cabinet rank in the G8 group of countries who have ever said categorica­lly – without reservatio­n – that UFOs are real and you have to accept them as real”.

Izzo Clark quotes Arthur Schopenhau­er: “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is widely accepted as self-evident.”

JOHN GUILLAUMIE­R – St Julian’s

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