tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16894529760998961872024-03-13T11:42:36.838-04:00 I Saw One TooWorld's top Alien Philosophy sourceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689452976099896187.post-18401561324356147632022-01-24T07:54:00.001-05:002022-01-24T08:11:58.250-05:00Stuck in a Loop<hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: xxx-large;">I</span>n the years leading up to my experience in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">Gagetown</a>, the New Wave band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo" target="_blank">Devo</a> released a song called Stuck in a Loop. It was not a hit but was still pretty catchy. The song would go through my head, stuck in a loop as it were, when I was a software engineer in the 1990's - from time to time I would inadvertently (sloppily) write a piece of recursive code which repeated itself ad infinitum. It was supposed to stop when a certain condition was met. For example, I might tell the program to pull customers' names from a database until it had ten names. Then the code stops running and does something with those ten names. But if you forget to write the exit clause, the code will just keep running and running. It gets stuck in a loop or recursion. This has happened to every software engineer at one point or another.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXjpmDgNa4pKoWsjuAg-i7t_6W1Y6Vw-JB6sF1Ihm_ARRx63KbWN4m9fg-l1-btEIVsI_RhqPbetw-Ozs1Pyur6lMEakwPY-jESLFYQ88AzH6I7W_LxHR8I02Y5gb5h-AyUHBwW6kCZoTR9MivQl7z4X94aE8DRV7Iwg02GWsGqd5TKcgywpm2IpqJyw=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Stuck in a Loop" border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXjpmDgNa4pKoWsjuAg-i7t_6W1Y6Vw-JB6sF1Ihm_ARRx63KbWN4m9fg-l1-btEIVsI_RhqPbetw-Ozs1Pyur6lMEakwPY-jESLFYQ88AzH6I7W_LxHR8I02Y5gb5h-AyUHBwW6kCZoTR9MivQl7z4X94aE8DRV7Iwg02GWsGqd5TKcgywpm2IpqJyw=w192-h320" title="Stuck in a Loop" width="192" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Devo, Stuck in a Loop</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">The code would look something like the following pseudocode, where each line executes in step and then repeats:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Do Until X = 10</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> SELECT CustomerName FROM CustomersList WHERE City = "Ridgefield"</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> <b>X = X + 1</b><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Loop</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you forget to write that second to last line which increments X, then X never reaches ten and the code keeps running and running in a loop. The list you are building keeps growing and growing. This continues basically forever until the code breaks, perhaps because it had pulled out all the Customers from the list and could not read that list anymore, or the computer fills all available memory with Customer Names and runs out of memory. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">More often, what will happen is the programmer who wrote the code will realize his test run is taking too long. He will then smack his own forehead with his finger tips and do a Control+Alt+Delete to stop the code running. He then reboots his computer to release all the memory he used up and goes and gets a Mountain Dew while he waits for everything to come back online.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Another song I heard recently reminded me of this. I have been listening to some <a href="https://www.siriusxm.com/channels/phish-radio" target="_blank">Phish Radio</a> on the satellite radio when I drive into the mountains to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CXoM92pOb7m/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank">snowboard</a>. Once in a while they play a song called <a href="https://youtu.be/u73SfvSm7EM" target="_blank">Guelah Papyrus</a> which includes the phrase, "Expanding exponentially like some recursive virus." This got me thinking about aliens. (Also, pouring a cup of coffee in the morning gets me thinking about aliens.) If an advanced spacefaring civilization wanted to come here (and they have) and take over the planet would they come en masse or would they simply send one machine which had the ability to replicate itself? What if that machine was missing an exit clause and it kept reproducing copies of itself over and over for all eternity? What if the machine were a biological entity rather than mechanical?</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Are Humans a Recursive Machine?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">The first <a href="https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/matrix" target="_blank">Matrix</a> movie describes humans as a virus which replicates and consumes all the resources in an area until those resources are depleted, thereby destroying its own habitat. This is not far from our reality. It is happening all over the world and may eventually destroy our species. Why would we do this? We know better and yet we continue to do it. Also, smokers know better and yet they smoke. Humans are pretty stupid sometimes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RZ-MXBjvA38" width="320" youtube-src-id="RZ-MXBjvA38"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">The Matrix I Preview</div></span><p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps it is simply how we were programmed. Humans have only two instinctive drives, to eat and to reproduce. Everything else we do is either an involuntary bodily function or a premeditated plan. We eat to stay alive long enough to reproduce and we reproduce as many copies of ourselves as we are capable of feeding (more for some people, fewer for others). We find those copies to be adorable, by the way, because they look like younger versions of ourselves and we REALLY love ourselves *** WORD ***</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This seems like a poor design. While on the surface it helps the species to survive, to have strength in numbers, there is a law of diminishing returns. If those numbers are too great the system works against us. We are indeed consuming all available crops while putting housing developments on former farmlands, reducing the ability to grow more crops. We are eating all the animals and fishing out the oceans. In a few decades we will be out of oil. I am not being fatalistic nor am I trying to make a political statement by saying this; it is what it is and I am not pointing fingers at anyone. I am simply illustrating the point that humans seem programmed to expand exponentially like some recursive virus, like we are stuck in a loop.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Was this how we were designed? I have explicated theories before on <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/12/we-are-stardust.html" target="_blank">the origins of life</a>. I am not a trained biologist or anthropologist - more of a futurist, I suppose. But looking back, it seems there has always been a disconnect between the ancestors of humans and apes, the Missing Link, as it were. I have speculated (as have many others) that perhaps <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/what-on-earth-is-panspermia.html" target="_blank">humans were </a><i><a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/what-on-earth-is-panspermia.html" target="_blank">seeded</a> </i>here by an older, more advanced species. For that matter, perhaps all life on Earth was seeded.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If an advanced spacefaring civilization, say people on a planet two billion years older than our own, wanted to colonize a nascent planet like Earth they could do so. Think about the great <a href="https://youtu.be/X4XKVEm11dI" target="_blank">human achievements</a> of just the past hundred years. Give us another thousand and perhaps we will figure out how to reach another planet at the speed of light. Give us a million years and who knows what we could accomplish. If another planet had a one or two billion year head start on us, there is no telling what they could have achieved by now. They could perhaps seed life on another planet, ours for example. Why they would do this is beyond the scope of this article. For now, I will simply scratch the surface of the <i>what-if</i> and then leave it to the folks who specialize in this course of study to examine it further.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This parent civilization would not need to send a large body of people here to prep the planet for their arrival. They could simply send a machine capable of self-replicating. This is known as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine" target="_blank">Universal Constructor</a>, sometimes called a Von Neumann Machine after the mathematician who wrote extensively on the subject of self-replicating machines. However, Von Neumann also helped design the architecture for the modern computer so that latter term could be confused for a PC. I will stick with Universal Constructor. Sorry Von Neumann, you do not get to name either discovery.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If a Universal Constructor came here now, it could mine resources on the Moon, Mars, or even here on Earth and assemble a copy of itself. Those two machines would then create four, and so on and so on, in a Fabergé Organics shampoo commercial gone wild. At some point, some of those machines would exit the loop and begin prepping this planet for the arrival of their original creator. It is certainly possible (unlikely as it were) that humans were designed to serve this purpose.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hyxmj1Yf6Dk" width="320" youtube-src-id="Hyxmj1Yf6Dk"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Heather Locklear Expanding Exponentially</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The problem with that narrative, other than the statistic improbability, is that we Earthans consider this planet to be our own. We are not simply machines, at least we believe we are not. Our emotions make us feel attached to this planet and everything on it. If aliens showed up tomorrow and said, "We are here to take over what you have prepped for us," we would not simply reply, "OK fellahs, it's a wrap, let's go." We would turn on these <i>new guys</i> in an instant. It would not matter if another civilization created life on this planet. Humans will defend this planet or die trying.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The only way to prevent this would be if the replica species (us) were designed with an exit clause. Once a certain condition was met, our instincts to eat and reproduce recursively would stop. There would be no great battle between mankind and aliens. We would simply stop eating, or at a minimum stop reproducing, and within about a hundred years we would all be gone. That is not a lot of time for a civilization that is, say two billion years older than ours, to wait.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Prior to the discovery of DNA, the building blocks of life, this line of thinking would have seemed inconceivable. But now with the advent of technology like <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health-news/crispr-study-is-first-to-change-dna-in-participants" target="_blank">CRISPR</a> it begs the question, could DNA be programmed to stop reproduction when a certain condition was met? Perhaps not today with man's current understanding of science. But anyone who can get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there</i> is) could possibly... Well, we also cannot build spaceships capable of interstellar travel yet but <i>someone </i>has. 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I do not know how these things work.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A wrinkled suit stuffed with a man who has eaten too many pork rinds grilled me on my experience in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">Gagetown</a>, New Brunswick in 1992. I felt like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/technology/mark-zuckerberg-testimony.html" target="_blank">Mark Zuckerberg facing a Congressional hearing</a>, except I was the good guy. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Senator asked me why I laughed at a disperaging question. I responded, "When someone comes at me with premeditated skepticism bordering on scorn it's hard to take that person seriously." The Senator was taken aback by my lack of respect for his vaulted position, high upon a dais as it were.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am not one hundred percent sure why I was feeling so defensive hours before dawn this morning. Maybe it is because there has been so much news lately about the US Government finally taking the subject of UFOs seriously with the passing of the <a href="https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-117S1605-RCP117-21.pdf" target="_blank">National Defense Authorization Act for 2022</a>. Section 1683 establishes an organization to address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, even to the extent of reverse engineering associated alien technology. Cool stuff! Yet, there are still <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_West" target="_blank">skeptical clods</a> out there who want to believe conspiracy theories about UFOs being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident" target="_blank">weather balloons</a> or <a href="https://www.michiganradio.org/environment-science/2017-03-28/aliens-or-swamp-gas-the-mystery-of-michigans-most-famous-ufo-sighting-lives-on" target="_blank">swamp gas</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Or maybe my dream was based on something that happened with my youngest son yesterday. My little guy sat in my comfy TV chair, the throne of my castle if you will, while waiting for the school bus. He told me that a Catholic kid in his class, let us call him Jonny, told him that UFOs cannot be real because that would mean that Jesus was not "the one true God." Wow! Try unraveling that with a ten year old, minutes before he has to run out the door...</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Can Aliens and God coexist?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">I quickly devised a method for my son to disabuse his friend of this misconception. First, I validated the notion. I told him that this is quite a common perception. It is the same reason UFO Investigator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Elizondo" target="_blank">Luis Elizondo left the Pentagon</a>. He was uncovering mounds and mounds of verified data proving UFOs were real and they did not belong to any country on Earth. But <a href="https://youtu.be/e0m1ez3ejkI" target="_blank">Elizondo's superiors stymied him</a> because this evidence contradicted their religious beliefs. They put up so many roadblocks that Elizondo felt he had a better chance of getting the word out by leaving his government job and going out into the private sector. He was, of course, correct.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then, I told my son that UFOs and God were not incongruent. Even the Pope has proclaimed that intelligent aliens may exist and that does not violate the Church's teachings. I quickly opened a new browser tab and did a search on "pope life on other planets."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The first link I clicked on was from Reuters. It was titled, "Vatican scientist says <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-extraterrestrials/vatican-scientist-says-belief-in-god-and-aliens-is-ok-idUKL146364620080514" target="_blank">belief in God and aliens is OK</a>." I explained to my son that Reuters is one of the most trusted, unbiased news sources. All other reputable news outlets use their stories. MSNBC and Fox News and everything in between all trust Reuters.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyHtiMWHb4dvXXhmOjfPjjsW_Mj1LmyM_P2VNQblSpzR9WHGMdpQtS1E1yKUd4r3RvudvnR6wPuoCEoiaeGtRlB2s-XbBzYH55r89gPS7PyL8PcnmTqnsaIaMMMfis0pCIBMv68f84WfAVt79NgwS-JfOX0kMpnHJwtQcpgUYQUgNL8T7tpjQwXSDeMQ=s627" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Vatican Chief Astronomer" border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="627" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyHtiMWHb4dvXXhmOjfPjjsW_Mj1LmyM_P2VNQblSpzR9WHGMdpQtS1E1yKUd4r3RvudvnR6wPuoCEoiaeGtRlB2s-XbBzYH55r89gPS7PyL8PcnmTqnsaIaMMMfis0pCIBMv68f84WfAVt79NgwS-JfOX0kMpnHJwtQcpgUYQUgNL8T7tpjQwXSDeMQ=w400-h266" title="Vatican Chief Astronomer" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vatican Chief Astronomer Father Emmanuel Carreira</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">But hold on! Vatican Scientist? It turns out the Vatican has a Chief Astronomer. I never knew they even had an Astronomy Coordinator, let alone a whole team of astronomers. Oh, this raises so many questions for me. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Why does the Vatican have so many astronomers? There are only like <a href="https://www.vaticancitytours.it/blog/how-many-people-live-in-vatican-city" target="_blank">800 residents</a> in the whole country! Is that all they do, is look up at the skies all day? Are they waiting for the Son of God to come back in a beam of light but, you know, while they are at it, checking out what else is out there? Do these astronomers only do astronomy or do they also have second jobs, like maybe some of them load incense into those <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurible" target="_blank">smoke lantern</a> things the Bishops swing around? They are like, "Yeah, that's all handled by the Astronomy Department - real advanced stuff, you don't wanna mess around with the <i>thuribles</i>. We got this."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I skimmed the article to cherry-pick a few talking points my son could use with little Jonny.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>The Vatican’s chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of “extraterrestrial brothers” perhaps more evolved than humans.</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Extraterrestrial brothers! Groovy, baby. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>“In my opinion this possibility (of life on other planets) exists,” said Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict.</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Good stuff there, although it was an older article and the current pope seems to have appointed a new Chief Astronomer. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I then moved on to an article by the Catholic News Agency (CNA). Surely, this was another source of information that would not cause conflict with Jonny's fragile sensibilities. You have to take these things lightly with kids. My son runs with the <i>Jocknerds</i>. They are all really smart and can tackle these tough issues but they are also athletes with perhaps a touch too much confidence in their own physical and intellectual capabilities, for their own good.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The CNA article was titled, "<a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/32820/do-aliens-exist-pope-francis-tackles-this-and-other-things-in-new-interview" target="_blank">Do aliens exist? Pope Francis</a> tackles this (and other things) in new interview." This ought to be good. Let us get a quote for Jonny about the current Pope's take on aliens.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">"Honestly I wouldn't know how to answer," the Pope replied, explaining that while scientific knowledge has until now excluded the possibility of other thinking beings in the universe, "until America was discovered we thought it didn't exist, and instead it existed."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"But in every case I think that we should stick to what the scientists tell us..."</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Well, there you have it, folks. Even the Pope believes in Science. If he can get on board with this, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/05/anthroposcience.html" target="_blank">why is Academia ignoring UFOs?</a> That is a whole other ball of wax.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I still was not satisfied with my search results. I wanted to arm my son with the killer retort, something that would not put him at odds with his schoolmate but would rather allow the two to form some consensus without going against the other kid's religious teachings - I would not want someone evangelizing against my religion with my kid and also, I am friends with Jonny's parents and they are good people. I did not want to start anything with them.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidGhPK1AwAUpJtLJBSH1XcAslXNiG3uqj_LLx0XdJMOJcYtdIBneSDH-l1mQhgfgtbxZO0dyURdUHl-i507xaChBnVh6F0qm9v9ShdnQ5J4dHUoC9lw78EDbdtwMyiWa66rQLzq2QdYsff9qI96RTEJzQHSTQ-GaECpJeD-6h_7hMblSblPjAS-94wlg=s800" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Can Aliens and God Coexist?" border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidGhPK1AwAUpJtLJBSH1XcAslXNiG3uqj_LLx0XdJMOJcYtdIBneSDH-l1mQhgfgtbxZO0dyURdUHl-i507xaChBnVh6F0qm9v9ShdnQ5J4dHUoC9lw78EDbdtwMyiWa66rQLzq2QdYsff9qI96RTEJzQHSTQ-GaECpJeD-6h_7hMblSblPjAS-94wlg=w320-h213" title="Can Aliens and God Coexist?" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Martians, right? Green, with that long nose and big ears."</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">I went with the less-is-more approach this time and searched, "pope aliens." The search turned up more about, "<a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/05/19/ufo-alien-life-catholic-church-240702" target="_blank">the Pope's astronomer</a>."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">He agreed with me that the Catholic intellectual tradition would have absolutely zero problem with the idea of intelligent life — that is, substances of a rational nature (the classic definition of a “person” in my field) — on other planets.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">But when asked in a later, more in-depth interview on these topics if he would be willing to baptize an alien, he said, “Only if she asked.”</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">A Time Magazine article expands on this.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">[Pope Francis says,] “If—for example—tomorrow an <a href="https://time.com/99616/for-pope-francis-its-about-more-than-martians/" target="_blank">expedition of Martians</a> came, and some of them came to us, here… Martians, right? Green, with that long nose and big ears, just like children paint them… And one says, ‘But I want to be baptized!’ What would happen?”</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.pikpng.com/pngl/m/474-4744217_flintstones-cartoon-character-flintstones-characters-flintstone-martian-clipart.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Section 1683" border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="800" height="285" src="https://www.pikpng.com/pngl/m/474-4744217_flintstones-cartoon-character-flintstones-characters-flintstone-martian-clipart.png" title="Section 1683" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Pope's Martian?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Long noses and big ears? What kind of aliens is the Pope chilling with? I do not think he and I consume the same science fiction. Maybe he grew up on The Flintstones and does not have Netflix. He probably has more important Popey things to do than to spend time on secular entertainment. The Beatles never did a show at The Vatican, for example - probably because there was that thing between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus" target="_blank">John and Jesus</a> - people burned records, it got ugly.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4znfOpu3s9mLsJZSZT7eXE3DyryuvIvO8RFaw0rlXvdYX895A52rsg3dFJnHNb9OtPLuzlRGo4iuoU_f9_S-4QvdccY80P6UXrrLpmGI4laBEA7PKuLVMcTOOqIUWSyZZ42HSUuVSq_JHNWtZ6E9CQTJJ8F8AiHabAHgvOBCrhAo1ql6J0m2lMHtV1A=s324" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Beatles Jesus" border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4znfOpu3s9mLsJZSZT7eXE3DyryuvIvO8RFaw0rlXvdYX895A52rsg3dFJnHNb9OtPLuzlRGo4iuoU_f9_S-4QvdccY80P6UXrrLpmGI4laBEA7PKuLVMcTOOqIUWSyZZ42HSUuVSq_JHNWtZ6E9CQTJJ8F8AiHabAHgvOBCrhAo1ql6J0m2lMHtV1A=w304-h320" title="Beatles Jesus" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burning Beatles Records. Yay!!!<br />(I'll repurchase this on 8-track in five years.<br />Then on casette.<br />Then on CD.<br />Then on mp3.<br />Then on Spotify.)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">I saw the Little Bus go by the house which meant the big bus would be coming in about thirty seconds. I knew I needed to wrap things up quickly. I told my son to ask little Jonny, "Why can't aliens and Jesus coexist? Why does one obviate the existence of the other? Why can't Jesus be a god on other planets too?" The Pope and his Chief Astronomer seem to think all this is possible. Why is Jonny disagreeing with the Pope?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I heard the familiar turbo diesel engine wheezing from the stop sign down the street. "Bus is coming," I said. My son got up, put on his backpack and headed for the door. "A coat! Put on a coat! It's freezing out!" He grabbed a coat off the coatrack and tucked it under his arm and ran out for the bus.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="text-align: left;">Enjoying this blog?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/follow.g?view=FOLLOW&blogID=1689452976099896187" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2kYZ7gDab4/XnvolwL1HKI/AAAAAAAARho/-P9CiT1wi-8-AnwAcsnrwaEb99libENFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Subscribe.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="120" /></a></div><div align="left" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarceauOfficialPage" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-st2vxritob4/Xnvr4VQN2JI/AAAAAAAARh0/bS_Jl-Rsm6gBM4eGBIHfdKo7Ub021_ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/FB.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iiCigQEJXLA/Xnvsfh6ZCPI/AAAAAAAARh8/RnD0j3ZvszAmT7BrdvcgJMj9PxrluzcPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Twitter.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marceau.david" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrGpsYVbWq8/XnvtfPOXOKI/AAAAAAAARiI/YjCbYJnDmssad5CYB13k3jSFlcLLaL8SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Instagram.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you have seen an alien spaceship or any type of unidentified flying object (UFO) contact me using the Contact form at the bottom of this page. 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Things have changed and since that time there has been more activity in the UFO Community than any time in history. However, most of that activity has been focused on the subject of <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2021/06/is-disclosure-coming-from-aliens.html" target="_blank">Disclosure</a> or getting government entities to share what they know.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Indeed, there has been great progress on Disclosure. Yet, humanity is no closer to solving the mysteries behind alien technology than it was three years ago. So here I am, on the third anniversary of <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/well-how-did-they-get-here.html" target="_blank">The Marceau Contest</a>, reissuing the challenge and sweetening the deal.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Science Challenge</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Contest </i>is probably not the best term. Nobody ever seems to win a contest. I just got done watching <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/media/squid-game-netflix-viewership/index.html" target="_blank">Squid Game</a> with my kids - DO NOT WATCH SQUID GAME WITH YOUR KIDS. Spoiler Alert! It is dark and brutal. But it was the kids' idea and I did not know what it was about until half of the contestants were dead. From there, we had to see what was going to happen. The point is, for 455 of those contestants it would seem that nobody ever wins contests.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Maybe <i>Marceau Challenge</i> is better than Marceau Contest. Call it what you like, Earth has a problem and we need our most brilliant minds to solve it. Recently, the US Government acknowledged that there are Unidentified Arial Phenomena entering American-controlled airspace with impunity. These UAPs are not American, not Russian, and not Chinese, according to the <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf" target="_blank">government UFO report</a>. Presumably, they are also not any of our allies, because who would do that to us? Well, maybe France. France has always marched to the beat of a different chef. But probably not.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At any rate, the US government acknowledges there are what they call UAPs that are truly unidentified - lots of them. By process of elimination, even the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/us/neil-degrasse-tyson-ufos-new-day-cnntv/index.html" target="_blank">greatest UFO skeptic</a> among us is beginning to come around to accept the notion that UFOs are probably not of this Earth. If they are not of this Earth then by definition they are alien.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Once one comes around to accept the concept that we are being visited by alien spacecraft, many of the eye-witness accounts, my <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/07/unidentified-s2-e3.html" target="_blank">UFO sighting</a> included, begin to sound much more plausible - as if my good word was not enough. Word.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If stories of spaceships hovering silently above the trees are to believed we have to question how that is possible. The <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UFODenial/comments/ncx8yo/mick_west_is_an_idiot/" target="_blank">small-minded debunker</a> would say this violates what we know of physics, therefore it is impossible, therefore all the eye-witnesses and everyone who worked on the government report are all wrong. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">To the <a href="https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/people/avi-loeb" target="_blank">curious mind</a>, however, this then begs the question of, how do they do it? How are UFOs or UAPs or whatever you want to call them, able to hover silently above the trees? How are they able to sit there without creating any kind of downwash on the treetops? How are they able to defy gravity so effortlessly?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have proposed many times that when a UFO hovers over the trees perhaps it is not defying gravity at all. Perhaps it is in fact attracting gravity from a greater source! I admit, it is a far-out concept. But then, so was <a href="https://phys.org/news/2016-01-heliocentric-universe.html" target="_blank">heliocentrism</a> at one time. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9CQqFdvWqMFqkTyZlfhs4MT7muvdeDL4v-EVKICK2EHTjzGvtJ_9tz6aI1XANZrGeiSu-84-wXxJlheWamHputVPP0C3NN_5TNIKwd3mdDzNWfxBOHoOjaDrP1CpFguM68khcQrAHlDEj5yXMyYZsg_Z4p2ZUcWZphD8qbjW1qMWkbKODHqnuzkyC8w=s570" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Science Challenge" border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="570" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9CQqFdvWqMFqkTyZlfhs4MT7muvdeDL4v-EVKICK2EHTjzGvtJ_9tz6aI1XANZrGeiSu-84-wXxJlheWamHputVPP0C3NN_5TNIKwd3mdDzNWfxBOHoOjaDrP1CpFguM68khcQrAHlDEj5yXMyYZsg_Z4p2ZUcWZphD8qbjW1qMWkbKODHqnuzkyC8w=w320-h269" title="Science Challenge" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Earth revolves around the Sun? Blasphemy!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Here on Earth there would seem to be no greater source of gravity than that which is created by Earth itself. But then, we all learned in <a href="https://www.space.com/" target="_blank">Third Grade Science</a> that the sun's gravity is actually much stronger. This is what keeps our planet and the 7-12 other planets (depending on what year it is when you read this) revolving around it. Earth's gravity only <i>seems </i>stronger because the pull of gravity is relative to one's proximity. If you could stand on the Sun without being vaporized, Earth's gravity would be imperceptible. Or would it?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since the Sun's gravity is much stronger than Earth's, should people on Earth not feel the Sun's pull on some level? Are we so far from the Sun that its gravity has no effect on our planet? Clearly, that is not the case or else Earth would stop revolving around the sun and fly off into space. The Sun's gravity is strong enough to keep our entire planet in line. Could it not also have the strength to attract objects on this planet?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Given <i>Relative Proximity</i>, Earth's gravity will counteract the Sun's and prevent us all from flying off and getting sucked into the Sun. But what if we had a way to lock on to the Sun's gravity? Could we harness it somehow to let it pull us towards it? Why not? No, really, why not?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If theoretically that were possible (prove me wrong), then why not do it with other stars? The Sun is a star like any others. It just happens to be close enough to feel its heat. But it possesses the same properties as any other star. Why can we not lock onto the gravity of a distant star and let it pull us towards it?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Well, you may say, a distant star is too far away for its gravity to be felt on Earth. Really? We can see the star. Its light made it here. Why not its gravity? If any amount of a star's light can make it here it is feasible that some amount of its gravity can make it here. If any amount of a star's gravity can make it here, why can we not isolate it and measure it? If we can measure it, perhaps we can utilize it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Marceau Contest</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">With all this in mind, here is the challenge: Previously I had asked for Science (whoever that is) to prove my <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/well-how-did-they-get-here.html" target="_blank">Gravity Attraction hypothesis</a>. Perhaps that is asking too much. So I am now amending the Marceau Contest. Let us start smaller. Can we feel a distant star's gravity? Can it be measured here on Earth? I am not talking about the <a href="https://astronomy.com/news/2016/01/measuring-gravitys-pull-at-the-surface-of-distant-stars" target="_blank">Timescale Technique</a> which is more of an observation of how a star affects its more immediate surroundings. I am talking about right here on Earth. Is there any way to isolate and measure the gravitational pull from a star other than the Sun?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hogwash, you say. How could we possibly feel the effects of some object out in space? Fair enough. What about our Moon? The Moon's gravitational pull is only 17% of Earth's. Yet, it is able to shift entire oceans around, creating the daily tides here on Earth. Try carrying four gallon jugs (15 liters) around for ten minutes and see how strenuous that gets. Now imagine the force it would take to move the contents of our largest ocean, the Pacific. It holds 171 million cubic miles (714 cubic kilometers) of water. The Moon moves this every day.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Clearly, the effects of an object in space can be felt here on Earth. If the Moon's gravity can affect our tides so visibly, perhaps there is some method to detect, isolate, and measure the effects of a distant star's gravity here on Earth. That is my new challenge. Phase I of The Marceau Contest is now to be the first to isolate and measure the effects of a distant star's gravity here on Earth. Like the Moon's pull on our oceans, what effects does a star have on our planet? That is Step One towards being able to lock on and utilize that gravity to perhaps counteract Earth's gravity in an aircraft.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to making The Marceau Contest easier to win, I am also increasing the reward for winning. In the past, the prize was one dollar, a package of Archway molasses cookies, a box of Ring Dings, or a pizza made by yours truly. I cannot imagine why any one of those awesome prizes was not enough to get a curious mind to drop everything and get to work on my challenge. Nevertheless, this year I will continue to offer those prizes to the person or team which is the first to isolate and measure the effects of a distant star's gravity here on Earth. In addition, I will also offer something very special.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In order to come up with a better prize I had to enlist some help. As I sat at my desk scratching my head I shouted out to my kids, "What's a good prize for winning a science competition?" One kid suggested a million dollars. But that is just silly. Who would do this for the money? Then, one of my kids suggested, "One of those cheap trophies that says, 'Science' on it." Brilliant!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbtWi9Vdx_3S5bsju_gUlqwATiBdqjJyjnKUrsDIXRpYuMMJgboY6yJeZggoQ9-Ltmj9zw9lWq5-FI6-9TzPNCMPA2jFMWBj4xM-Gng9z1lIZ-VWqw78EA0jVD25Lwrtz9mZwUp25W2lZnS9PPiOJeFEBYN9327f998pxXdLUzRTPEjCOoadg7Z8GnKQ=s400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Marceau Contest" border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbtWi9Vdx_3S5bsju_gUlqwATiBdqjJyjnKUrsDIXRpYuMMJgboY6yJeZggoQ9-Ltmj9zw9lWq5-FI6-9TzPNCMPA2jFMWBj4xM-Gng9z1lIZ-VWqw78EA0jVD25Lwrtz9mZwUp25W2lZnS9PPiOJeFEBYN9327f998pxXdLUzRTPEjCOoadg7Z8GnKQ=w240-h320" title="Marceau Contest" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You Did It!</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">So, there it is. Be the first person or team to isolate and measure the effects of a distant star's gravity on Earth and I will give you your choice of one US dollar, a package of Archway molasses cookies, or a box of Ring Dings, PLUS one of those cheap trophies that says, "Science" on it. Now, drop everything and get on this.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="text-align: left;">Enjoying this blog?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/follow.g?view=FOLLOW&blogID=1689452976099896187" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2kYZ7gDab4/XnvolwL1HKI/AAAAAAAARho/-P9CiT1wi-8-AnwAcsnrwaEb99libENFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Subscribe.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="120" /></a></div><div align="left" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarceauOfficialPage" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-st2vxritob4/Xnvr4VQN2JI/AAAAAAAARh0/bS_Jl-Rsm6gBM4eGBIHfdKo7Ub021_ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/FB.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iiCigQEJXLA/Xnvsfh6ZCPI/AAAAAAAARh8/RnD0j3ZvszAmT7BrdvcgJMj9PxrluzcPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Twitter.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marceau.david" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrGpsYVbWq8/XnvtfPOXOKI/AAAAAAAARiI/YjCbYJnDmssad5CYB13k3jSFlcLLaL8SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Instagram.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you have seen an alien spaceship or any type of unidentified flying object (UFO) contact me using the Contact form at the bottom of this page. 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I have discussed my story many times on this blog, other people's podcasts, and History Channel's <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation/season-2/episode-3" target="_blank">Unidentified</a> so I will not go into that now. What is significant about that post was that it was a pivot point for me and perhaps by extension for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufotwitter" target="_blank">UFO Community</a>. As this blog approaches 300,000 views, I can say the world is much different than it was three years ago.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I posted blog articles every day that first week. I wrote about my pending <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/15-minutes.html" target="_blank">15 Minutes of Fame</a>. I wrote about one of the biggest Charlatans in UFOlogy at the time in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/whats-show-about.html" target="_blank">I'm Not Steven Greer</a>. I wrote a simple blurb about how a friend had continuously encouraged me to come forward with my story in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/whats-show-about.html" target="_blank">Why am I doing This?</a> I wrapped up that first week discussing the competing terms <a href="Three years ago on September 24, 2018, I started a blog. This first post was a simple narration of how and why I got into UFOlogy, titled Post One. I have discussed my story many times on this blog, other people's podcasts, and History Channel's Unidentified so I will not go into that now. What is significant about that post was that it was the catalyst which ignited the writer in me. I posted blog articles every day that week. I wrote about my pending 15 Minutes of Fame which has thankfully now come and gone (for the most part). I wrote about one of the biggest Charlatans in UFOlogy at the time in I'm Not Steven Greer. I wrote a simple blurb about how a friend had continuously encouraged me to come forward with my story in Why am I doing This? " target="_blank">UAP versus UFO</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I9CdsaVlhfI/YUsbMjk78RI/AAAAAAAATNE/TB6To5SlqjkYH2TTW83D0Zx6DCG6Da9qACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/MarceauShipISOTBanner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="David Marceau Blog" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="720" height="178" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I9CdsaVlhfI/YUsbMjk78RI/AAAAAAAATNE/TB6To5SlqjkYH2TTW83D0Zx6DCG6Da9qACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h178/MarceauShipISOTBanner.jpg" title="David Marceau's Blog" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">David Marceau's Blog</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Since that first week of writing, my 15 Minutes of Fame has thankfully come and gone, for the most part. It peaked when my episode of Unidentified premiered nearly two years later. Friends and family congratulated me on finally getting my experience publicized. I was then featured on <a href="https://podfollow.com/thatufopodcast/episode/fcb71d5c80f02871860d428d613c57701b709ecf/view" target="_blank">That UFO Podcast</a>, <a href="https://www.punkrockandufos.com/blog/2020/8/27/interview-unidentified-witness-david-marceau-unafraid-of-alien-stigma" target="_blank">Punk Rock and UFOs</a>, and numerous online forum posts. Things got quiet for a while until recently when I was contacted by Reddit's <a href="https://youtu.be/rAdkWoFwNoM" target="_blank">UFO Believers</a> podcast, <a href="https://youtu.be/8ngsUWZKeno" target="_blank">The Singularity Lab</a>, and finally <a href="https://youtu.be/G2ridqO3644" target="_blank">Podcast UFO</a>. I suppose it will continue like this indefinitely, waxing and waning periodically. That is fine. I do not want to be famous but I am comfortable discussing my encounter.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y43uBhv5xfE/YUsbYfAkfdI/AAAAAAAATNI/JArwTe_T__4cSpGl2nycZnBiHJGRs5tXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/ThatUFOPodcast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="charlatan Mick West" border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y43uBhv5xfE/YUsbYfAkfdI/AAAAAAAATNI/JArwTe_T__4cSpGl2nycZnBiHJGRs5tXQCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/ThatUFOPodcast.jpg" title="charlatan Mick West" width="200" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Moving on to Steven Greer - we do not hear as much about this joker lately as we did three years ago. It makes me wonder if it is because people are on to him and are not giving him as much oxygen as previously or if it is because he has bilked unfortunate "Believers" out of enough money and can retire now. I wonder if he ever feels guilty about that. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Maybe we do not hear as much about Steven Greer these days because he has been supplaced by an even bigger <a href="https://www.thedailyplane.com/mick-west-tries-to-lie-his-way-out-but-fails-again-mirror/" target="_blank">charlatan Mick West</a>. This is a guy who bills himself as a "Debunker" or someone who tries to dispel conspiracy theories. However, he comes at the subject with the forgone conclusion that all UFO sightings are lies or mistakes. He attempts to prove his points using a combination of pseudoscience and re-enactments akin to parlor tricks, thereby making him a purveyor of conspiracy theories himself, as it were. Irony is fun!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am still good friends with the guy who urged me to come forward with my story. I have referred to him as "<a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/07/unidentified-once-again.html" target="_blank">G-Man</a>" in several articles. These days he urges me to <a href="https://opensea.io/T_Chazone" target="_blank">buy NFTs</a> like <a href="https://opensea.io/assets/0x4961db588dd962abb20927aa38fa33e5225b3be2/1768/" target="_blank">Save The Martians</a>. I sold one that made me a 750% profit and paid for all the others I bought so it was not bad advice.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjhNcASp6uU/YUscg3iA27I/AAAAAAAATNU/0sxpLn5zC1QtCAqzdDUPgKcbO_voJTgxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s512/SaveTheMartians.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Save The Martians" border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjhNcASp6uU/YUscg3iA27I/AAAAAAAATNU/0sxpLn5zC1QtCAqzdDUPgKcbO_voJTgxQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h320/SaveTheMartians.jpg" title="Save The Martians" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Save the Martians</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">The UAP versus UFO debate rages on, three years later. The US Government continues to propagate the term UAP while people in the UFO Community seem OK with keeping the old term alive. Me too, I prefer UFO, generally speaking. When I talk about my own sighting I use "alien space ship" because that was what it was. It was not "unidentified" it was indeed identified as something humans were incapable of building. That sighting was nearly 30 years ago and we still cannot replicate most of the technology that ship exhibited.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">One subject I did not write about during that first week was what the government was doing about alien visitations. This was probably because, as far as I knew, they were doing nothing. Since then, there have been some new developments. In June of 2020, US Senator Marco Rubio and others on the Senate Intelligence Committee began demanding <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/senators-ufo-government-reports-336021" target="_blank">answers to questions</a>, questions which regarded national security. Are we being visited? If so, by whom? Is someone penetrating US airspace using technology which far surpasses anything in the US arsenal?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, three decades after I first asked myself the question, "Why does nobody in the government care about UFOs," someone was taking notice. About a month after Rubio announced his investigation was under way, my episode of Unidentified aired. I texted the show's host former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Aerospace_Threat_Identification_Program" target="_blank">AATIP</a> Director at the Pentagon, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/10/who-is-lue-elizondo.html" target="_blank">Lue Elizondo</a> to let him know I enjoyed the episode, especially seeing my incident being discussed by him and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophermellon1/" target="_blank">Chris Mellon</a>. That was all I had ever hoped for by going public, to get my information into the hands of people who could do something with it. Lue texted back, "And you are making a difference! People in D.C. are watching!" Awesome.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A year later, the Senate released the results of their investigation in a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf" target="_blank">UFO Report</a>. Most of the report was classified and it included the classic and ridiculous mention of balloons being mistaken for at least one sighting. (That one may have legitimately been a balloon, for once.) But still, there were a lot of questions the investigation could not answer. They could not say that UFOs are Russian or Chinese. They could not rule out extraterrestrial origins, either. That was a step in the right direction. Just having an open and honest discussion without giggling was a step in the right direction.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Did I have anything to do with that? I would like to think so, though I am not taking credit by any means. I would say the folks involved with the <a href="https://www.history.com/videos/uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-declassified-video" target="_blank">Nimitz Encounter</a> do deserve a lot of credit, as do the team at <a href="https://home.tothestarsacademy.com/" target="_blank">To The Stars Academy</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/tom-delonge-ufo-research.html" target="_blank">Tom DeLonge</a>, Lue Elizondo, Chris Mellon, etc. But still, I smile a little when I think I may have helped in some small part.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XrU4E_TlaD8/YUsdsHntbHI/AAAAAAAATNc/NGYL20ZS6fQ1bMNZipIIru2oDq8HKu7dACLcBGAsYHQ/s717/DavidMarceauHistory25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="UFO Sighting in Gagetown" border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="717" height="194" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XrU4E_TlaD8/YUsdsHntbHI/AAAAAAAATNc/NGYL20ZS6fQ1bMNZipIIru2oDq8HKu7dACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h194/DavidMarceauHistory25.jpg" title="UFO Sighting in Gagetown" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Three years... I could not have imagined how those years would have gone. I cannot imagine how the next three will go. But I am setting the course today. I now have about 55,000 words written in my memoires. The story will, of course, feature my <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">UFO Sighting in Gagetown</a>. I cannot wait to finish it. 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I realized it was time for a new blog post. It has been a couple months.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JrSrR8RjDqY/YS4X4-EJF7I/AAAAAAAATL0/9srfcwDN2Qc-hP8HLBgL9rPkyun959VHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s730/MyProfiles_sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="David Marceau 2021" border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="730" height="196" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JrSrR8RjDqY/YS4X4-EJF7I/AAAAAAAATL0/9srfcwDN2Qc-hP8HLBgL9rPkyun959VHQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h196/MyProfiles_sm.jpg" title="David Marceau 2021" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello me, it's me</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">Today's article is an opportunity to get my readers caught up with what has been going on with me over the past few months. I have been busy, so busy I was unable to write about my thoughts on the big <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf" target="_blank">UFO Report</a> that came out in June, amongst other things. That day, I was beginning a family road trip cross-country. For the following four weeks I would be unable to do much of anything other than drive and sight-see.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I will list a few details of the trip at the end of this article. Pictures are available at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marceau.david/" target="_blank">David Marceau on Instagram</a>. In a nutshell, we drove 10,000 miles over the course of four weeks, crossed through twenty states (six of them twice), visited a dozen National Parks and ten museums. My car needed three oil changes, two washes, and a new windshield. It was a tremendous amount of fun and we created memories the kids will have for a lifetime. But it was exhausting. I needed to rest for a week when I got back.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">After that, I spent the rest of the summer catching up on work, cleaning and doing some projects around the house, and I began my most earnest attempt at writing a book. Between the trip and the book writing, that has been my whole summer and that is why I have not updated this blog in so long.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The book is centered around my UFO Sighting in 1992. That event only lasted 5-7 minutes but I could have focused on that brief time for a hundred pages. I am not doing that, though. Instead, I am starting out writing about my childhood and all the events which led up to how I ended up in Gagetown where I encountered the UFO, and everything which affected how I reacted to this experience. Later in the book I will write about the time after the sighting and what led up to me being in the place I am now in as a member of the UFO Community.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Right now I am still in the beginning stages of a rough draft. As of this writing I have about 40,000 words written. Once I have completed detailing the facts I will go back through and rewrite everything into the nicest prose I know how to write. I hope people find it interesting and a pleasure to read. Either way, the book needs to be written.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I mentioned in a recent interview that I had embarked on this writing project, and someone criticized me on Reddit for "trying to make a buck" off of my experience. Well, that really is not the point. If writing the book helps pay a few bills I will not argue with the publisher about it. But the real reason for writing it is because I see my experience now as a matter of historical significance. It is important to document what happened before the memories fade.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Indeed, the memories are fading. Prior to my appearance on <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation/season-2/episode-3" target="_blank">Unidentified</a> the memories of my encounter seemed permanently etched in my mind. After nearly three decades I still got emotional when I told the story, reliving the trauma of the terror I experienced. But each time I told the story, the trauma subsided. Each blog article I wrote allowed me to focus on minute details. Each subsequent interview I did provided therapy. Now, I have mostly recovered. I no longer re-experience the event when I talk about it. The downside of that is it is getting harder to see the event in my mind's eye. I need to write it down before it is gone forever.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In conjunction with this effort I have agreed to do some new interviews after a year of declining them. I recently appeared on The <a href="https://youtu.be/rAdkWoFwNoM" target="_blank">UFO Believer's podcast</a> and Michael Mataluni's <a href="https://youtu.be/8ngsUWZKeno" target="_blank">The Singularity Lab</a>. Tonight (August 31, 2021) I will be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ridqO3644" target="_blank">Live with Martin Willis</a>. Part of why I am doing this is to tacitly mention the book. A bigger reason, though, is more of a public service.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Throughout all the years that I held on to my "open secret" (my closest friends and family knew about my sighting) I was unable to admit I was traumatized by it. I was more plagued by the thought that, "I can't be the only person this has happened to," even though I knew of no other similar encounters. I was not involved with the UFO Community. I had never heard of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufotwitter?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank">#UFOTwitter</a>. I knew there must be others out there but did not know for sure.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now that it is clear I am indeed not the only person who has had an experience like mine, now that the US <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/25/government-report-ufos-are-real-496319" target="_blank">Government has admitted</a> they do not know what UFOs are and where they come from, now that I have mostly overcome the trauma of my experience, I want to help others to do the same. I had thought for a while that I could do that by interviewing other <i>experiencers</i>, allowing them to air their stories. That was part of the reason for starting this blog three years ago. But there are dozens of other guys doing the same thing - a bunch of them have interviewed me.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A quarter million page-views later, rather than trying to compete with the Mini-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Douglas" target="_blank">Mike Douglasses</a> of the world, I think it is better to simply focus on setting the stage for people to step forward. I do not care if they share their story with me or anyone else (though a surprising number of people have spoken to or emailed me confidentially). All I really care about is fostering the atmosphere for people to feel comfortable stepping out of the shadows. I want to help destigmatize the subject of UFOs and alien visitations.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The way I will do this is simply by being myself. I am not someone who saw something because I "believe in UFOs." I write and talk about UFOs because I saw one up close. Other than that, I am just a regular guy. I have been married to one woman for fifteen years. I have three wonderful children. I own a small business. I have many friends and several really good friends. I am involved with my community. I do volunteer work. I take the family to religious services from time to time. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do not have all sorts of paranormal experiences. I do not believe in Bigfoot or El Chupacabra. I do not believe <i>Consciousness</i> affects aliens or anything else. I am rooted in Science.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Other than the fact that I grew my hair long in 2020 and I ski over twenty days a year, I am not much different from anyone else. I just happened to have had a close encounter with a UFO one time. Perhaps you did too. Or you know someone who did and you promised not to tell anyone. I am here to tell you it is not a big deal. Your friends will still be your friends. Your status in the community will not diminish. Some people will talk but those people talk about everyone - they are already talking about you, whether you know it or not. Forget them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">That will be my life's mission from here out until society has reached the point where discussing UFO encounters is as mundane as discussing the weather. Most of that effort will likely be via this blog. But these posts may be few and far between as I focus my creative energy on writing the book over the next few months. In the meantime, I will be accepting more interviews in hopes that I will reach the people who need to hear what I have to say.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And now, here are some more details on that cross-country trip:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We drove from Ridgefield, Connecticut to the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, back through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and home to Connecticut.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MB0iYLOiDOQ/YS4fMK5e0NI/AAAAAAAATME/kNggwzmfYPYwuQQyTHm0DjKjZCD2WAn3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s682/MeDT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="682" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MB0iYLOiDOQ/YS4fMK5e0NI/AAAAAAAATME/kNggwzmfYPYwuQQyTHm0DjKjZCD2WAn3ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/MeDT.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Devils Tower</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Major cities included, Cleveland, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Buffalo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We saw <a href="https://www.nps.gov/stea" target="_blank">Steamtown</a>, <a href="https://www.rockhall.com/" target="_blank">The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame</a>, <a href="https://www.profootballhof.com/" target="_blank">The Football Hall of Fame</a>, <a href="https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/" target="_blank">The Air Force Museum</a>, <a href="https://www.gatewayarch.com/" target="_blank">The Gateway Arch</a>, <a href="https://wondersofwildlife.org/" target="_blank">Wonders of Wildlife</a>, <a href="https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/" target="_blank">The Cowboy Museum</a>, <a href="https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/departments/parks-recreation/parks/prairie-dog-town" target="_blank">Prairie Dog Town</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/cave/index.htm" target="_blank">Carlsbad Caverns</a>, <a href="https://www.roswellufomuseum.com/" target="_blank">The UFO Museum</a> (more on that in a future article), <a href="https://www.rattlesnakes.com/" target="_blank">The Rattlesnake Museum</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm" target="_blank">The Grand Canyon</a>, <a href="http://mim.org/" target="_blank">The Musical Instrument Museum</a>, <a href="https://www.californiabeaches.com/beach/coronado-beach/" target="_blank">the beach at Coronado Island</a>, <a href="https://sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/" target="_blank">The San Diego Zoo</a>, a <a href="https://www.mlb.com/padres" target="_blank">Padres</a> game, <a href="https://sanpedro.com/san-pedro-area-points-interest/korean-bell-friendship/" target="_blank">The Korean Friendship Bell</a>, <a href="https://walkoffame.com/" target="_blank">The Hollywood Walk of Fame</a>, <a href="https://www.visittheusa.com/trip/pacific-coast-highway-road-trip" target="_blank">The Pacific Coast Highway</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm" target="_blank">Alcatraz</a>, <a href="https://www.fishermanswharf.org/" target="_blank">Fisherman's Warf</a>, <a href="http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/" target="_blank">San Francisco's Chinatown</a>, <a href="https://www.thecjm.org/" target="_blank">The Contemporary Jewish Museum</a>, <a href="https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/" target="_blank">The Legion of Honor Museum</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm" target="_blank">Muir Woods</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm" target="_blank">The Redwood Forest</a>, skied <a href="https://www.timberlinelodge.com/mountain/lift-tickets" target="_blank">Mt. Hood</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/oreg/index.htm" target="_blank">The Oregon Trail</a>, <a href="https://www.spaceneedle.com/" target="_blank">The Seattle Space Needle</a>, <a href="https://www.chihulygardenandglass.com/" target="_blank">The Chihuly Garden and Glass</a>, <a href="http://pikeplacemarket.org/" target="_blank">Pike's Place</a>, <a href="https://nezperce.org/" target="_blank">The Nez Perce Indian Nation</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/yell/index.htm" target="_blank">Yellowstone</a>, <a href="https://www.codystampederodeo.com/" target="_blank">The Cody Rodeo</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm" target="_blank">Devils Tower</a>, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/moru/index.htm" target="_blank">Mount Rushmore</a>, <a href="https://crazyhorsememorial.org/story/the-mountain" target="_blank">The Crazy Horse Memorial</a>, and <a href="https://www.niagarafallsstatepark.com/" target="_blank">Niagara Falls</a>.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T7OB9XBIaMQ/YS4edpBUG9I/AAAAAAAATL8/Er0mAizHqLAjFs3QaSoYQPcEBv28TK3dwCLcBGAsYHQ/s682/MeGC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="682" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T7OB9XBIaMQ/YS4edpBUG9I/AAAAAAAATL8/Er0mAizHqLAjFs3QaSoYQPcEBv28TK3dwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/MeGC.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grand Canyon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">We ate some great steaks in Oklahoma City, some of the best Mexican food we've ever had in Carlsbad, NM, surprisingly good sushi in Flaggstaff, AZ, In-n-Out burgers four times, Bubble/Boba Tea several times, Chicago Pizza in Chicago, and Buffalo Wings in Buffalo. 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And really, is any other cat name any better? Mittens? Snuggums? Walter?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Puzzum was not intended to be my cat per se. She just took a liking to me and slept on my bed every night. Maybe it was because I fed her. When I was in college I once slept in a girl's bed because she made me dinner. So I get it, Puzzum.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OE2w7Kuq8ys/YMyf_vgRSZI/AAAAAAAATFg/5-60LqqgkTcbk5zmK3Chjl88uUh07EZjACLcBGAsYHQ/s560/Are%2BAliens%2Bjust%2Bmessing%2Bwith%2BUs.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Are Aliens just messing with Us?" border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="560" height="319" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OE2w7Kuq8ys/YMyf_vgRSZI/AAAAAAAATFg/5-60LqqgkTcbk5zmK3Chjl88uUh07EZjACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h319/Are%2BAliens%2Bjust%2Bmessing%2Bwith%2BUs.jpg" title="Are Aliens just messing with Us?" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are Aliens just messing with Us?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">What was interesting about having a cat, for me, was the "Cat and Mouse" games she would play with other animals out around the yard. If she caught a mouse or a mole, for example, she would not kill it - at least not intentionally. Instead, she would pick it up with both front paws and toss it in the air. Then she would bat the mouse with her paw like she was hitting a baseball. The dazed rodent would hit the ground, shake its furry little head, and take off running. I would too! Then Puzzum would pounce on the creature and repeat the whole process.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Naturally, this got me thinking about aliens. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">My last article posed the question, "<a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2021/06/is-disclosure-coming-from-aliens.html" target="_blank">Is Disclosure Coming from Aliens?</a>" I never really answered the question (though I will address it again in an upcoming article - stay tuned...) because I could not get past the <i>Why</i>. Why would aliens care whether we acknowledge their presence or not? Then I remembered Puzzum Kitty.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">To a mouse, Puzzum displayed similar qualities to a UFO. She would swoop down out of nowhere, hover effortlessly over her prey, and draw the creatures up inside her mouth. She would then perform strange acts on her subjects which the rodents could not understand. It must have been painful for these small creatures, as many UFO abductees have reported their experiences to be. In the end, Puzzum may have released the animals in a random place near where she found them but not quite at the same location. Then she would zip off into the space above the grass at incredible speeds (to a mouse), never to be seen again. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Which brings me back to the <i>Why</i>. Why did Puzzum Kitty play these games with tiny rodents? That question is easy to answer - because she could. This was a fun game for my cat to play. She was a far superior being to the mice and did not care one bit about them. She just wanted to have some fun at their expense. She was just messing with them. This then begs the question:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Are Aliens just messing with Us?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">If I were an alien (cue the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc" target="_blank">Fiddler on the Roof music</a>) I might enjoy visiting the planets of lesser beings, like those found on Earth, and having some fun with them. I would not be a cruel or <i>inhumane alien</i>, mostly. But I would not have the same concern for humans as I do for my alien buddies.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Most people would do the same. Nay, you say? "I could never do something like that!" Yes you could. At some point, nearly everyone has crouched down over the ground to observe an ant mound. One will swoop in out of nowhere, like a UFO, and silently hovered over the mound. An ant may find itself pulled from its habitat, allowed to walk along the surface of your arm, and then flicked away like a booger. When the observer grows bored of watching the ants, he may step on the ant mound and crush it. Why? No good reason. Because it was there.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Some of us will grow out of this behavior. Eventually, most people learn to feel empathy even for the tiniest creatures. We come to value life of all forms - except spiders. All spiders can die, as far as I am concerned. But ants - I have no beef with them. They can live and I will not disrupt their cities. (For a deeper dive on this, read my article <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/01/we-are-like-ants-to-them.html" target="_blank">We are like Ants to Them</a>.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Playing God with lesser creatures seems to be in our DNA. My children are wonderful, sensitive, people who value others' feelings and who have never killed another animal. But they will catch them and play with them! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We have a large pond on our property. The kids have caught countless frogs and toads. They try not to hurt the animals. They hold the frogs. They may place the frogs in a kiddie pool and watch them swim around. When they have had their fun they let their froggies go. They may simply place the frog on the ground and let it hop away or they may carry it to the pond, the same way some alien abductees describe being <i>magically</i> transported to and from their homes, even through walls. Why did this happen to the frogs? No reason. The kids were just playing with the frogs.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The kids and I will catch fish in the pond that we do not intend to eat. We are not cruel to the fish (notwithstanding the hook through the lip). When the fish comes out of the water it may seem like an alien abduction to the fish, assuming fish have the level of consciousness to grasp such a concept. Then the hook is carefully removed and the fish is returned to the pond before it asphyxiates. Why? Because we can. It is fun to hook a fish and pull it out of the water. People all over the world love fishing. It is awesome!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Once, my daughter caught a beautiful brown trout in the Connecticut River. She put a leash on it (a chain through the gills) and "walked" it in the water, like walking a dog. She was little and did not think about the consequences of this. I made her release it because I thought it might be uncomfortable for the fish, to say the least. But to her, at a young and naïve age, it was fun to walk her fishy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We also have a "humane trap" for pesky varmints that cause trouble. If a raccoon learns to knock off the bricks we keep on top of our garbage can lids and get in the garbage, that little trouble-maker will need to, "take a ride." Now, when I was a kid, "take a ride" meant my dad was going to shoot the animal and toss its carcass in the woods. But today, we are more civilized than my redneck roots would belie. Instead of killing an animal that is just looking for a meal, we may trap the filthy little trash bandit in a cage and release it elsewhere.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XJbYOQUUxRw/YMyZ35y7uxI/AAAAAAAATFY/YFlLiGDzQKUDwn-HM-BwklSNE8JJpHVQACLcBGAsYHQ/s553/Little%2BTrash%2BBandit.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mick West" border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="553" height="326" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XJbYOQUUxRw/YMyZ35y7uxI/AAAAAAAATFY/YFlLiGDzQKUDwn-HM-BwklSNE8JJpHVQACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h326/Little%2BTrash%2BBandit.jpg" title="Mick West" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Filthy Little Trash Bandit</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">That is what the trap is <i>supposed </i>to be for. In practice, the trap is another children's toy for kids on the fringe of Suburbia and Country Living. Raccoons and possums tend to get caught in there most often. They are not harmed in any way, though it probably really freaks them out. After the animal is discovered in the trap the kids will observe it like little scientists. They may try to feed it. They may gently push a stick through the openings in the cage and watch the critter viciously attack the stick. It is great fun. When they grow tired of playing with this <i>pet</i>, they will place the cage on the stone wall with the opening facing the woods and release the animal into the forest while standing behind the safety of the stone barrier.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Why do the children do this? Because they can. Again, they are wonderfully kind and loving people who would never intentionally harm anything they did not then intend to eat (with the exception of catch & release fish). But they will capture these pestilent beasts from time to time, just to check them out and play with them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are many other examples I could iterate through. But I believe I have made my point. Humans like to mess around with what we consider (perhaps subconsciously) <i>lesser beings</i>. Ants, frogs, fish, raccoons, it does not matter what it is. If we can catch it and play with it, we will, especially at a younger age.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Clearly, the analogy is, perhaps aliens are doing the same with us. Anyone who can get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is) would consider us Earthan creatures to be lesser beings. We would hope they would mean us no harm, and so far it appears that way because surely they could have wiped out all of humanity by now if they wanted to, just the same as a human can step on an ant mound. But that does not stop them from messing around with us.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In relation to the concept of Disclosure, aliens may be in charge of this subject to the extent that it does not matter to them if we accept them or not. I would not care if the fish in my pond <i>believe </i>in me. My children make no attempt to establish diplomatic relations with frogs. We will not follow a raccoon back to its den to share our technology with them. That would be ridiculous!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am in charge of Human Disclosure with ants, frogs, fish, and raccoons. But I am neither for nor against the concept. I doubt any of these animals could have any kind of benefit to me. I could not trade with them. They are of no value to me other than to maintain the food chain. I could care less either way if they acknowledge my existence. And yet, I hold all the cards.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aliens are likely in the same position. Could aliens make Contact? Sure! Could aliens force government Disclosure? Absolutely! Could aliens establish diplomatic relations with humans, share their technology, and trade with us? Naturally! Would any of those things ever happen? I doubt it. We do not do it with animals, why should aliens do it with us?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Our visitors from other planets hold all the cards in the Disclosure department. They could do whatever they want. Their choice seems to be to observe and to play with us like we would do to any other lesser wild animal. Aliens are just messing with us. Do not count on them to intentionally cause Disclosure.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F5lUN9NaVyI/YMygL1q4GnI/AAAAAAAATFk/Y6yFYKHyFHwdp0yZCcT9HDbzGrMb91W4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s524/PuzzumKittyonBed_sm.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A boy and his cat" border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="477" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F5lUN9NaVyI/YMygL1q4GnI/AAAAAAAATFk/Y6yFYKHyFHwdp0yZCcT9HDbzGrMb91W4gCLcBGAsYHQ/w291-h320/PuzzumKittyonBed_sm.jpg" title="A boy and his cat" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puzzum Sleeping on my Bed</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">When Puzzum Kitty's playtoy arrived safely back in his burrow, presumably, the other mice would never believe his story. They would be like, "Oh yeah? Did you get a picture of this [muffled laughter] <i>Puzzum Kitty</i>?" The other mice would all laugh hysterically. Then the reviled debunker, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22463659/ufo-videos-navy-alien-drone" target="_blank">Micky Mouse West</a>, would tell him, "In the five seconds since you announced this I have concluded an investigation into the incident. Perhaps you saw something but since I am unable to wrap my tiny noggin around this concept of a 'cat' I command you to believe that what you saw was not actually a Kitty Cat. It was in fact a top secret <i>test rodent</i>." All the other mice would turn and stare at Micky Mouse West in silence. In the distance a car comes screeching to a halt. Crunching metal and shattering glass is heard. There is an explosion. 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A member named Chris posted, </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I hear a lot of people talk about disclosure but sometimes I wonder if the real disclosure does not come from UAPs and possibly aliens or their AI?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">I mean, if UAPs are in fact ET tech, maybe they are just initiating contact progressively. In other words, they are disclosing their presence to us in a step by step way."</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Interesting concept. Let us explore this.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EDAyWzddfVM/YMkHYFmei8I/AAAAAAAATFM/PGBN6XMYj8U77XwbeXZV5qfkSE_1lfhKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s480/AlienDriving.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EDAyWzddfVM/YMkHYFmei8I/AAAAAAAATFM/PGBN6XMYj8U77XwbeXZV5qfkSE_1lfhKgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/AlienDriving.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><br />Are Aliens Driving Disclosure?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">The term Disclosure is baited with all sorts baggage. <a href="https://www.seti.org/" target="_blank">Conspiracy Theorists</a> and their pseudo-science <a href="https://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/" target="_blank">Debunker</a> counterparts look at the concept of Disclosure as marking a moment in time. It will be the pivotal point when some sort of announcement by The Government (whoever that is) ushers the world from not <i>believing</i> in UFOs to having a clear-headed awareness that we are not alone. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Level-headed people see Disclosure as more of a <i>process </i>than an <i>event</i>. The pending Senate Report on UAPs is evidence of that. There is acknowledgement that there are things flying around in our airspace that the government knows about but cannot identify. But they will not go so far as to announce that it is alien technology.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In related news, I drank a black, bitter, caffeinated beverage that I could not identify, this morning. I will not go so far as to announce that it was coffee, though.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In my <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/10/what-does-lue-elizondo-know.html" target="_blank">interview with Luis Elizondo</a> in the fall of 2020 Lue stated:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><blockquote>"I think [Disclosure is] happening. I think you're already seeing me having the ability to have a discussion that just even a year ago I couldn't have... It's happening now. Again, this is a process, it's not an event. People have to understand you have to have patience. We only made it this far because we're running a marathon. This isn't a sprint."</blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eeJoLHnC4_c" width="320" youtube-src-id="eeJoLHnC4_c"></iframe></div><div style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer" force-default-style="" style="word-break: break-word;">Disclosure is Happening</yt-formatted-string></div><p style="text-align: justify;">If Disclosure is indeed under way who is driving it? Most people would say it is the major Influencers in the UFO Community, popular #UFOTwitter members like <a href="https://twitter.com/PostDisclosure" target="_blank">UFO Jesus</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanSprague51" target="_blank">Ryan Sprague</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/LueElizondo" target="_blank">Luis Elizondo</a> himself. I would add-in the collective force of everyone who follows and contributes to UFO news. It is all of us.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Still, the question keeps popping up. I asked Lue a similar question, "Who is driving the Disclosure process?" I told him that some folks think it is aliens. I expected Lue to laugh off the question and move on to more rational topics. But he was ready with a response. I wrote:</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Lue likened the belief that humans are not in control of Disclosure to forces beyond our control which influence us, like the weather. "Is it possible there's something out there that is influencing us? Well we know the environment sure as hell does. It's not purposely trying to hurt us or influence us but it does." </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Could there be other forces out there trying to interfere with us? "Sure, but you have to have the evidence to back that up."</p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the time, I left the question with the response Lue provided and did not revisit it. I was satisfied with the notion that it is probably not the case that aliens are driving Disclosure but if someone has some evidence, bring it on.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Certainly, I offer no evidence of this. Even my own <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/07/unidentified-s2-e3.html" target="_blank">UFO encounter</a> is evidenced solely by mine and <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/meeting-with-other-witness.html" target="_blank">Mike's eye-witness testimony</a>. But what I can offer is <i>thought - </i>a <i>What if?</i> What if aliens were driving Disclosure?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It seems the first question one would have to ask prior to answering the <i>What if</i> is, <i>Why?</i> Why would aliens want to drive this process? The answer to that would have to be because they want the people of Earth to know they are here, right? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">OK, but then why not just make the proverbial landing on the White House lawn? Certainly, anyone who can get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is) would have the ability to do this without being shot down by fighter jets. Maybe they have tried that in the past on other planets and all hell broke loose. In that case they would know from experience that even if they can evade our defenses that landing on the White House lawn, or in Red Square for that matter, would be perceived as a provocative action, one which may instigate retaliation. It would shame us and we would never forget it. We would have to get back at them, vengeful little beasts that we are.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Imagine you just moved into a new house. You want to meet your new neighbors. Your options are, </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ol type="A"><li>Bring them a gift like a pie or a bottle of wine, or</li><li>Kick the door down and yell, "We're here, biaches!" </li></ol><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Option A would probably leave a better, lasting impression.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Another option aliens may consider is to take over our airwaves and make an announcement. Surely, a society which has mastered the ability to manipulate the fabric of gravity and spacetime would have no problem commandeering our TV/Radio airwaves. But what if humans found them grotesque to look at? If they all looked like big hairy spiders, for example, most Earthan people would demand we immediately squash these disgusting creatures. (Of course, we would probably be as ugly to them as they were to us, word.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, if aliens wanted us to know they were here they might try some covert operation to bring about a <i>softer </i>form of Disclosure than bursting in like Yosemite Sam. That makes sense. But again, why? </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f4gqeP0uGLI/YMkBkBnbCyI/AAAAAAAATFE/1YzGMx1vokMYhgycLS3iva2Dqax8yXbzACLcBGAsYHQ/s220/YosemiteSamGif.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="220" height="222" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f4gqeP0uGLI/YMkBkBnbCyI/AAAAAAAATFE/1YzGMx1vokMYhgycLS3iva2Dqax8yXbzACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h222/YosemiteSamGif.gif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We're here! Where all the Earth girls at?</td></tr></tbody></table><h4 style="text-align: justify;">Why would aliens want us to know they are here?</h4><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li>Aliens can gain financially from us</li><li>Aliens see us as a threat to them</li><li>Aliens see us as a threat to ourselves</li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/10/how-would-we-trade-with-aliens.html" target="_blank">How Would we Trade with Aliens</a> economist, Dr. John Glascock, discussed trading with aliens, with me. Glascock seemed convinced that aliens have nothing to gain from interacting with us. Anyone who could get <i>from there to here</i> could produce anything they wanted without any raw materials simply by modifying the structure of any atoms, for example. I want to believe that is not the case but I have a lot of respect for Dr. Glascock and know he is probably right.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z7YOStVItXY" width="320" youtube-src-id="z7YOStVItXY"></iframe></div><div style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer" force-default-style="" style="word-break: break-word;">Dr. Glascock on Interplanetary Trade</yt-formatted-string></div><p style="text-align: justify;">If aliens have nothing to gain financially from interacting with us why else would they? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If they saw us as a threat to them they may want to put a leash on us. But they have not done that, so far. US, Russian, and other advanced defense manufacturers keep churning out bigger and badder weapons and our governments keep buying them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If they saw us as a threat to ourselves they may want to help us but, like I wrote in the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/03/the-frog-corollary.html" target="_blank">Frog Corollary</a>, they do not seem to care. I actually prayed, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/whats-show-about.html" target="_blank">Greer</a>-style, that aliens would heal me when <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/04/Cancer-and-Skiing.html" target="_blank">I had cancer</a> a couple years ago. But they did not. For the record, a hot-shot surgeon with a remote controlled laser beam took care of me.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Really, when it comes down to it, there are no good reasons for aliens to make contact with us. They would be much better off observing us like the wild zoo animals we are and staying in their <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/01/time-flies-when-youre-alien.html" target="_blank">safari UFOs</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, could aliens be driving Disclosure? OK, sure, why not? 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Some media, like the New York Times, treat the subject of visits by other intelligent beings with the dignity it deserves, while rags like the Los Angeles Times continue to poke fun at the subject and its adherents. They liken all members of the UFO Community to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat" target="_blank">Tinfoil Hat People</a>, and conspiracy followers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The NY Times, noted for "<a href="https://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/york-times-used-slogan#:~:text=In%201897%2C%20Adolph%20S.,to%20report%20the%20news%20impartially." target="_blank">All the News That's Fit to Print</a>" will cite <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/books/review/phenomena-esp-annie-jacobsen.html" target="_blank">scientists</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html" target="_blank">government officials</a>, pointing towards <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-releases-footage-aerial-phenomena-it-says-are-unidentified-n1193606" target="_blank">evidence of UFOs</a> and <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">eye-witness accounts of UFOs</a> while the LA Times apparently likens the <i>belief</i> in UFOs to belief in ghosts and Bigfoots. A superficial <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2021-06-02/ufos-harry-reid-congress-essential-politics" target="_blank">LA Times article</a> from June 2, 2021 states, "As with many conspiracy theories, UFO devotees have claimed for decades that government disclosure is imminent." There is so much to unpack in that one sentence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I can picture the topic assignment meeting with the editor and all the writers. It probably went something like, "OK, next up [feigned suppression of laughter] we've got this, heh heh, UFO piece? Um... [whispers to a senior writer] What's the new kid's name? Blakesly? Blasely? Ya, Blasey! You, Blasey! You get to do the UFO piece. [more lightly suppressed laughter]"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-USwUd-98PeY/YL4RW0r43qI/AAAAAAAATEI/PfjHN64gBXosU7AipfqxIRLGFoalyuV1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1303/LATimes.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tabloids like the Los Angeles Times" border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="1303" height="362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-USwUd-98PeY/YL4RW0r43qI/AAAAAAAATEI/PfjHN64gBXosU7AipfqxIRLGFoalyuV1gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h362/LATimes.png" title="Tabloids like the Los Angeles Times" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Staff writer Laura Blasey whose previous accolades include <a href="https://www.latimes.com/people/laura-blasey" target="_blank">producing audio for smart home devices</a> and whose Twitter tagline begins with, "<span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">*eye roll* [typing sounds]</span>" looks up from her phone for the first time, visibly startled, and sheepishly replies, "But... like? I don't knowww??? Anything? About UFOhhhs???"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The editor snaps back, "Just write about conspiracy nuts, kid! Tin Foil Hat people! This will all blow over in a few weeks anyway and you can go back to writing about COVID vaccines, while we can still milk that."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And onward we digress.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">UFO Devotees are not Tinfoil Hat People</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/" target="_blank">Tabloids</a> like the Los Angeles Times tend to recklessly categorize the subject of UFOs alongside the supernatural. They will liken the subject's followers to crazy people who believe in conspiracy theories and mythology. They pen lines like, "As with many conspiracy theories," without investigating eye-witness accounts, ignoring photographic and video evidence. Why would they do this?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The answer is because one, it is easier to hate on people than to practice journalistic integrity, and two, because the paper's writers and editors lack the courage displayed by more reputable papers like the New York Times. Calling UFO visits a "conspiracy theory" enables the LA Times staff to distance themselves from the folks they perceive to be wackos. It is like saying, "Hey, I don't believe in this stuff, I'm not one of those Tinfoil Hat nuts, but here's what everyone else has been talking about recently, about what's happening in Washington." The LA Times was behind the curve in reporting on all this so they seem to feel the need to differentiate themselves from the news leaders by sensationalizing the subject.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, Ms. Blasey, conspiracy theorists do indeed believe in UFOs and in government cover-ups. But so do many scientists and scientific minded people, investigative journalists (those who spend more than a few hours writing each article, who do research by means other than Googling), and government officials, both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid" target="_blank">elected</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/e0m1ez3ejkI" target="_blank">appointed</a>. You can joke all you want about, "The Truth is Out There," but the joke is on you. The truth is indeed out there, you just cannot be bothered to take the time to find it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But enough about hack writers. What happens next? Most leading figures in the UFO Community have taken a restrained approach to the content of the Congressional Report. It is assumed the report will not contain any smoking guns nor an official acknowledgement that Earth is being visited by aliens. It will contain an admission that the government does not know who built aircraft like the "<a href="https://www.history.com/videos/uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-declassified-video" target="_blank">Tic Tacs</a>" nor how those aircraft are able to seemingly defy the known laws of physics. In other words, "I'm not saying it's aliens, but..."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n8E8lH-ZZqA/YL3_lNY_C3I/AAAAAAAATDs/52Gj9MPmebkgcGEPSVDnnY74uLsKJ5F8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/Duchovny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="UFO Devotees are not Tinfoil Hat People" border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="600" height="385" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n8E8lH-ZZqA/YL3_lNY_C3I/AAAAAAAATDs/52Gj9MPmebkgcGEPSVDnnY74uLsKJ5F8QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h385/Duchovny.jpg" title="UFO Devotees are not Tinfoil Hat People" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">UFO Devotees are not Tinfoil Hat People</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will the LA Times later print a correction, saying they were wrong to belittle the greatest story of our collective lifetimes? I am not holding my breath. The best they will do is some type of tacit acknowledgment that there is something to the "UFO Conspiracy Theory" while continuing to shamelessly distance themselves from the topic and its proponents.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The weakest links in media will print sensationalistic dribble like, <i>the tinfoil hat people may have been right all along.</i> No, tinfoil hat people are still tinfoil hat people. I am not making a judgement about the veracity of people who cover their heads in aluminum foil to prevent aliens from manipulating their minds. I am saying, they are a different group of people, as are people who believe in ghosts, Bigfoots, ESP, and mental telepathy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just as <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/08/strange-bedfellows.html" target="_blank">politics makes strange bedfellows</a>, so too does the UFO topic. Many people who believe in the above subjects also believe in life on other planets. But there are a number of us who advocate to normalize the discussion of UFOs who are highly rational and not prone to conspiracy theories of any type. We take it from a scientific perspective. Statistically it is nearly impossible for humans to be the most intelligent life in the Universe. More likely, there are people on other planets who are millions of years ahead of us and they figured out long ago how to get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, there are those of us who have actually had close encounters with aircraft that could not possibly have been created by people on Earth. For us, it is no more of a <i>belief </i>than it would be to believe I had coffee this morning. I know what I poured in my coffee cup and I know what I saw in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/07/unidentified-s2-e3.html" target="_blank">Gagetown in 1992</a>. And yes, LA Times, WE <i>were </i>right all along. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When lazy or cowardly "journalists" lump the scientific-minded people in with what they perceive to be the crazy people, they may think they are tipping their hats in acknowledgement of a truth. In reality, this will still be an attempt to avoid the appearance of "belief" in aliens at the expense of making the rest of us all look crazy. There needs to be some delineation between the groups.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Tinfoil Hat people are who they are. The conspiracy people are who they are. The supernatural believers are who they are. None of them should be included in the current UFO discussion. There are plenty of scientists, government officials, and eye-witnesses to include in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/" target="_blank">legit news articles</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is time for the folks at the LA Times and other would-be journalists to grow up and find the courage to take this topic seriously. Or, they keep hating on a subject that will only expand from here out. 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You may remain anonymous if you want. I will not ridicule you or try to tell you why you are wrong. I get it, I saw one too.</span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />Thank you for reading and keep an eye on the sky.</span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I will be starting a members-only service through <a href="https://www.patreon.com/">Patreon</a>. The blog will remain free but I would add additional benefits for paid subscribers.
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Today, I want to push back. </p><p><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/30/feds-cover-up-of-ufos-puts-us-at-risk/" target="_blank">Luis Elizondo</a> quit a government job with a pension to do what he is doing. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Mellon#:~:text=Christopher%20Karl%20Mellon%20(born%20October,Senate%20Select%20Committee%20on%20Intelligence." target="_blank">Chris Mellon</a> is risking the <a href="https://www.grunge.com/360870/how-the-mellon-family-really-got-so-rich/" target="_blank">Mellon family name</a> and his future political career. <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/05/Stanton-Friedman-Memorial-Tribute.html" target="_blank">Stanton Friedman</a> surely missed out on countless opportunities as a nuclear physicist in a time before the aforementioned people helped make talk of UFOs mainstream. These are just a few folks in the UFO Community who have exhibited great courage.</p><p>Me, I have never felt like I was doing anything extraordinary by tracking down Lue Elizondo. It was an act I had wanted to do for decades, if only I knew whom to contact. When Lue introduced me to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jess-philipps-14390259/" target="_blank">Jessica Philipps</a>, a producer on the then secret <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation/season-2/episode-3" target="_blank">TV show Unidentified</a>, he never mentioned Jessie was a producer or that I might be featured in a documentary. Still, at this point, no courage was required. Things progressed slowly and I never felt like I was taking a leap.</p><p>I was (and still am) a <a href="https://ridgefieldone.com/" target="_blank">small business owner</a> and was also teaching some business classes on the side so I had no fear of ruining my career by going on TV. Maybe I have been passed over for some opportunities to re-enter the workforce because I am a <i>UFO nut</i>, but these days my business is recovering from the Pandemic and I think I will be OK.</p><p>My wife has known of my sighting since a week or two after we first met seventeen years ago and she still married me - I am a lucky guy. She has been supportive of this entire process. It was her sister who first sent us the infamous <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html" target="_blank">New York Times Article on UFOs</a> which kicked off this whole adventure. No one in our family has ever expressed an issue with any of this (at least not to me). A couple people in the family and their close friend have a UFO story of their own, a mass-sighting, of sorts. I have started making a video about it for <a href="http://www.davidmarceau.com" target="_blank">my YouTube channel</a>.</p><p>I had also told some of my closest friends. One of them, referred to as "<a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/07/unidentified-once-again.html" target="_blank">G-man</a>" in other articles, told me for years that if my experience had happened to him, "I would tell everyone who would listen." You could say he was encouraging. Even recently, when he and I were talking about the mutual acquaintance I mentioned in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2021/05/mission-accomplished.html" target="_blank">my last article</a>, who has publicly ridiculed me, G-Man asked me, "Did you really see a UFO?" I said yes. He said, "Then what do you care what this guy says?" Point taken. G-man's parents, coincidentally, had their own sighting too - both highly credible people.</p><p>You may say that it took courage to hang in there in the two year period between first speaking with Lue and when my episode aired on <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation/season-2/episode-3" target="_blank">History</a>. No, that took perseverance for which I will take credit. One friend told me it took guts to start this blog. I would disagree with that statement too. Once the process was in motion it was like dominoes falling. I just went with it.</p><p><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Courage in Silhouette</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p>Courage, is what <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/meeting-with-other-witness.html" target="_blank">Mike, the other witness</a> to my sighting did. Now, wait, you may say. Those who have followed my saga know that Mike has never been willing to reveal his identity. He "appeared" on my episode of Unidentified over the phone, with his voice disguised. He has given permission to use his first name but not his last. How courageous is that? Read on.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOWtlSI9p3w/YK-ACL7iCNI/AAAAAAAATDE/UJ6HY_xoOOMf-EW5gDL3getDCM06DZnmgCLcBGAsYHQ/s644/DietrichSilhouette_sm.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Alex Dietrich Silhouette" border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="644" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOWtlSI9p3w/YK-ACL7iCNI/AAAAAAAATDE/UJ6HY_xoOOMf-EW5gDL3getDCM06DZnmgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h240/DietrichSilhouette_sm.png" title="Alex Dietrich Silhouette" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alex Dietrich in Silhouette</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Mike, you could say, is my <a href="https://www.usna.edu/LEAD/DivisionStaff/Dietrich_Alex_LCDR_NL310.php" target="_blank">Alex Dietrich</a>. When <a href="https://m.facebook.com/JOEROGAN/photos/a.68982729901/10157091197999902/?type=3" target="_blank">David Fravor</a> went on Unidentified in Season 1 the whole world learned his name. Backing up his story was another Naval airman who would not appear on TV because she was still serving in the military. Alex Dietrich did not want to risk her career by speaking out publicly about what she saw in what is now known as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTLSQCF6ohQ" target="_blank">The Nimitz Incident</a>. Today, thanks to a recent <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-16/" target="_blank">60 Minutes Story about UFOs</a> we now know who Dietrich is.</p><p>On the night of the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">Gagetown Incident</a>, my Dietrich, Mike, got picked up by the transport truck at the end of our guard shift before I did. By the time I got in the truck everyone was talking about the UFO we saw. The <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/what-happened-to-guard-2.html" target="_blank">third guard</a> who was out on our shift was already making jokes and doubting our stories, even though Mike and I both talked about our own perspectives of the same sighting and those accounts jibed. This was at 1:00am. The rest of the camp was asleep. We went to bed having only told a handful of people.</p><p>By the time we went to breakfast, the entire camp was abuzz about the two kooks (us) who "claimed" to have seen a UFO the night before. The story had become embellished by the game of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers#:~:text=Chinese%20whispers%20(Commonwealth%20English)%20or,second%20person%20in%20the%20line." target="_blank">telephone</a>" before Mike and I even had the opportunity to tell more than a handful of people. The jokes were harsh. We were humiliated. We were embarrassed and shamed. I quickly stopped telling people about it and stopped answering questions early that next morning. Mike went as far as completely recanting the story. He said it never happened even though he had tried to report it the night before.</p><p>I resented Mike for that. In the decades prior to going public, I had written and rewritten many accounts of our encounter. Some of these were told in the first person as historical non-fiction, just the facts. Other versions were told in third person with slightly fictionalized dialogue to make it a more interesting read in hopes I could get the story published. In every account, Mike was my <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Brutus" target="_blank">Brutus</a>, the guy who turned on me at the end and made me look like a liar. I made him the bad guy in all these stories.</p><p>In reality, I now know that Mike could not be a nicer guy. I will go on a limb and say he is a kind and gentle man. He is extremely polite and respectful. These and other associated character traits are surely what led him to pull back the reins and deny what happened back in 1992 because he simply could not stand up to the ridicule. I no longer blame him for that. It is who he is.</p><p>But still, he will not reveal his identity. There is a reason for that and I respect it. Since becoming reacquainted with Mike he has shared with me that he has struggled over the years. The biggest thing in his life right now, other than the love of his family, is his church. Mike is a strong adherent to his religion and a loyal and dedicated member of his church. He does not want to jeopardize that. It would ruin him.</p><p>After searching for years I finally tracked Mike down in the fall of 2018. When I asked him if he would go on Unidentified and back up my account of our sighting he initially declined. I asked him why and his response surprised me. I thought he would say it was because he did not want to relive the humiliation we had endured as young soldiers. </p><p>Instead, Mike told me about his involvement with his church and said that talking about UFOs within his circle of peers would be considered, "a distraction" from their mission. I can understand that. I do not agree with it per se but that is the crux of his belief system. I would not want people to tell me my religious beliefs are wrong. They are beliefs. They are neither right nor wrong, just beliefs. Mike has a right to shelter his beliefs.</p><p>Now, putting all of this together, despite Mike's strong association with his religion and its mission he knows what he saw that night in August 1992. His own eyes told him something that contradicts his belief system. There are those in Washington whose religious beliefs have prompted them to put up roadblocks to the work that Luis Elizondo was doing while working at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Aerospace_Threat_Identification_Program" target="_blank">AATIP</a>. Lue had documentation of flyovers in restricted airspace from <i>people </i>whose technologic abilities were thousands of years ahead of our own. These higher-ups would not set aside their religious convictions to accept the undeniable evidence of what Lue was showing them. </p><p>Mike did. Mike would not show his face for fear of repeating the past ridicule we both suffered and fear of losing what is currently most important to him, his affiliation with his church. But he did come forward and support me. He said he was there that night and he saw something too. He even added in some details I did not see from where I was stationed. He summoned the courage to validate something that went against his core beliefs. That was a leap. It took guts. For that, Mike is now the hero of my story. 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In case you do not follow <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" target="_blank">#UFOTwitter</a> or <a href="https://www.davidmarceau.com" target="_blank">UFOlogy</a> in general, many people in the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/" target="_blank">UFO Community</a> eagerly await the results of a <a href="https://www.wjbf.com/news/ufo-report-might-miss-deadline-senator-says/" target="_blank">Senate investigation</a> into what the US Government knows about UFOs. Some are hoping for full <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously" target="_blank">Disclosure</a>. Others anticipate lies and secrecy. Me, I am ambivalent.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Much progress has been made over the past few years in bringing this subject out of the shadows of conspiracy theory and into the mainstream spotlight. Four years ago I only mentioned my own <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">UFO sighting</a> to a few close friends and family. I never spoke openly about alien visitation. Writing this blog would have been out of the question for me. I did not even follow anyone on Twitter other than maybe a dozen friends from college. None of them was into UFOlogy.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zpzNy0M67Ow/YKzi67YxcPI/AAAAAAAATCc/4GWKzF4qNLwalsxppkijFbN9W_OQHg0RgCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/MissionAccomplished.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zpzNy0M67Ow/YKzi67YxcPI/AAAAAAAATCc/4GWKzF4qNLwalsxppkijFbN9W_OQHg0RgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/MissionAccomplished.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Then, people like <a href="https://youtu.be/e0m1ez3ejkI" target="_blank">Luis Elizondo</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Mellon" target="_blank">Chris Mellon</a> began moving the ball forward, with the help of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialtomdelonge" target="_blank">Tom DeLonge</a> and others too many to list. I jumped into the fray and brought my story to the public. It was then in the two year period leading up to my appearance on <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation/season-2/episode-3" target="_blank">Unidentified</a> that I decided to finally dive into this thing head first.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">About ISawOneToo.net</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Two hundred thousand page views later, I am proud of what I did and what I have accomplished. Yesterday one of my kids asked me, "Are you famous?" I laughed and said, "Um... in certain circles, but not really." Only a few days earlier I had joked with someone on a Facebook UFO discussion group that my "<a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/15-minutes.html" target="_blank">15 Minutes of Fame</a>" had recently expired. Fame was something I had not ever sought out; quite the opposite and I am glad it is about over. All I ever wanted in regard to my sighting was to find someone in government who would document what I experienced and alert their chain of command that we should be concerned. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We are being visited by <i>people </i>with the ability to move over restricted airspace at low speeds without any visible means of propulsion, completely evading radar. These same individuals then have the ability to zip off in a streak of light without any sonic boom. It was three decades ago that my colleague <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/meeting-with-other-witness.html" target="_blank">Mike</a> and I saw this. It is still happening today, around the world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I did finally get my chance to tell my story. It did not go down the way I had expected. I had always envisioned something like what you see in the movies where I would go into an ugly, lowest-bidder office building, be ushered into a small conference room with cheap metal furniture and no windows, and be questioned by a couple "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_(1997_film)" target="_blank">Men in Black</a>" with Steno Note pads. Maybe they would do something with my information and maybe they would not - I could see the notebooks going into a crate which would get wheeled into an enormous warehouse, like at the end if Raiders of the Lost Ark. But at least I would have done my part.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8rcQyjTX6bc/YKzdFrHJoFI/AAAAAAAATCU/zK44TmtACLwK2QM-tgjihJNdmKhRGPb_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-warehouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mission Accomplished" border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="2000" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8rcQyjTX6bc/YKzdFrHJoFI/AAAAAAAATCU/zK44TmtACLwK2QM-tgjihJNdmKhRGPb_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h200/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-warehouse.jpg" title="Mission Accomplished" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mission Accomplished</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">This fantasy was an alternative to a competing vision of me growing old without having ever told anyone about my encounter, other than my closest friends and family. Then, the fantasy ends with a guy like <a href="https://www.punkrockandufos.com/blog/2020/9/24/review-the-phenomenon-an-important-credible-documentary" target="_blank">James Fox</a> (who I had never heard of until a year ago, but someone like him) showing up to interview me shortly before I died.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The reality was, I never did get my chance to speak to someone currently in a government role but I am told that my story is known by those who need to know about it. Shortly after my episode of Unidentified aired Lue Elizondo and I exchanged a few texts where he said, "...you are making a difference! People in D.C. are watching!" OK, mission accomplished.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I assume that means that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/17/ufo-report-marco-rubio-urges-us-take-seriously-uap" target="_blank">Marco Rubio</a> and others who are behind the current <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ufos-are-make-way-us-senate-know-rcna973" target="_blank">Senate investigation</a> have read the details of my encounter or at least watched my episode of Unidentified. It makes no difference to me how the information flowed to where it did. I am completely satisfied that it got there. I did my part.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the two year interim between when I first reached out to Lue and my TV appearance I started writing. I did not know how those years would go but I did know that it was important to begin documenting what was happening. Sometimes, in the day to day struggle of life, extraordinary events can seem mundane. Indeed, most of the build up to Unidentified was a lengthy series of calls and emails with various producers and their assistants, scheduling and canceling meetings, elaborating on small details between business calls and teaching classes. These details would have been overlooked by most people.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I knew it was a big deal. Most people will not appreciate it today but years from now historians will want to know the timeline leading to Disclosure (assuming it indeed happens). What happened and how? My thinking was not that grandiose at the time. I did not know where this journey would take me. I just knew I had to document it. So I began writing. This blog was initially intended to be sort of a diary that I would share with the public. If a post got seven views I was psyched - people are reading it! Now, most of my posts get hundreds of views and some have thousands. I am no <a href="https://twitter.com/PostDisclosure" target="_blank">UFO Jesus</a> but I am happy that some folks seem to enjoy my writing.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Given the pace of progress it was not long before I ran out of updates. But by that point I had begun opening up to a larger circle of friends about my experience. They introduced me to other <i><a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/ufo-conference.html" target="_blank">UFO nuts</a></i> like me and they introduced me to others. I also began following some influencers on Twitter and researching the subject of UFOs. This led me down one rabbit hole after another.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Much of what I initially encountered online was conspiratorial. Being an apolitical, rational person, with a strong proclivity for logic, I was immediately turned off by the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/whats-show-about.html" target="_blank">conspiracy theories</a>. My third blog article was about this. I was not sure if I was committing blasphemy in the <a href="http://isawonetoo.net" target="_blank">UFO Community</a> by taking a stand against people like <a href="https://www.disappointmentmedia.com/reviews/close-encounters-of-the-fifth-kind-a-ridiculous-pseudoscience-documentary" target="_blank">Steven Greer</a>, the subject of that article. Perhaps there would be repercussions. But I wanted to do what was right. If going against the conspiracy guys meant going against the audience I was writing for, so what! I was not looking to build a big following. I just wanted to share the truth.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately, it seems I made the right choice. It took a while to find others with a similar stance as me, but they are out there. Thousands if not millions of people view the topic of alien visitation with a purely scientific view point and they do not fall prey to conspiracy theories.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">That, I decided, was my audience. I wanted to speak to people who were curious about UFOs but who did not believe in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/08/strange-bedfellows.html" target="_blank">Bigfoot</a> and <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/ufo-conference.html" target="_blank">demonic possessions</a>. These people had questions. They probably had few others with whom they could discuss these questions. I had questions too. I wrote about those questions. <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/whats-next.html" target="_blank">Why do aliens hide from us?</a> <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/why-are-we-being-visited-now-part-1.html" target="_blank">Why are we being visited now</a>, more than ever? <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/12/the-alien-commute.html" target="_blank">What is a day in the life of an alien</a>? This quickly became an obsession for me. I wrote nearly every day for months.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Ridicule over UFOs</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">In the beginning I was not so concerned with reducing the stigma of reporting UFOs. If that has happened then I am happy to have contributed. God knows, I have faced my share of the results of this stigma. The reason I kept my experience to myself for so long was because of the ridicule Mike and I faced from our fellow soldiers immediately after our sighting. I never told my fraternity brothers or other friends back home. I do not even know if I ever even mentioned it to the girl I soon dated for four years afterwards.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since going public, most people are kind to me about it. Some are fascinated and want to talk more about it, knowing that I am a credible and lucid person with an education, actively involved in my community. Others are skeptical; they may believe <i>I believe what I saw</i> but they are not so sure themselves. A few others are downright hostile towards any mention of visits to Earth by people from other planets. They can be cruel with their disdain for it. I recently had to defriend someone on Facebook, in part for publicly chiding me as an "alien" (amongst other trite comments) and for trying to rally others around his disdain for me, the guy who "sees UFOs."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Whatever... I actually do not care what people think about me for telling my story, nor should anyone else who has had some sort of encounter. People can believe you or not believe you. Again, I just wanted to get my info into the hands of someone who could use it. That is done. I can now resume my life. Also, one only needs so many friends. True friends will respect you. The others, the immature debunkers, you can do without. Besides, the tide is turning. Even former president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/20/ufo-obama-cbs-60-minutes-america-aliens" target="_blank">Obama chimed on UFOs</a> and former Speaker of the House <a href="https://www.gingrich360.com/2021/05/20/newt-gingrich-audio-update-ufos-the-next-national-security-threat/" target="_blank">Newt Gingrich added his two cents</a> recently, further validating the subject. History will show that the debunkers were on the wrong side. I am content with that.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="text-align: left;">Enjoying this blog?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/follow.g?view=FOLLOW&blogID=1689452976099896187" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2kYZ7gDab4/XnvolwL1HKI/AAAAAAAARho/-P9CiT1wi-8-AnwAcsnrwaEb99libENFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Subscribe.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="120" /></a></div><div align="left" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarceauOfficialPage" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-st2vxritob4/Xnvr4VQN2JI/AAAAAAAARh0/bS_Jl-Rsm6gBM4eGBIHfdKo7Ub021_ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/FB.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iiCigQEJXLA/Xnvsfh6ZCPI/AAAAAAAARh8/RnD0j3ZvszAmT7BrdvcgJMj9PxrluzcPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Twitter.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marceau.david" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrGpsYVbWq8/XnvtfPOXOKI/AAAAAAAARiI/YjCbYJnDmssad5CYB13k3jSFlcLLaL8SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Instagram.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="20" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you have seen an alien spaceship or any type of unidentified flying object (UFO) contact me using the Contact form at the bottom of this page. 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As the Internet has shown all of us, whatever <a href="https://siriusdisclosure.com/" target="_blank">batshit nonsense</a> someone can come up with, there are likely many others out there who have also thought the same thing. So here it is:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Scientists say the Universe is expanding. OK. When I hear that, in my mind's eye I picture an even expansion either two-dimensionally on a plane or in all directions like the <a href="https://youtu.be/da79l0tXtM0?t=181" target="_blank">Death Star getting destroyed</a>. But what if neither of those is true?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Last night I was lying in bed, scrolling through Twitter while fighting a losing battle against sleep. As I drifted in and out of consciousness I scrolled up to a picture of <a href="https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/waterfalls.htm" target="_blank">Yosemite Falls</a>. The picture made me think of aliens. Also, eating toast or watching my grass grow makes me think of aliens but that is a whole other story. In this case, I thought more specifically of the Universe. I pondered the question, is the Universe really expanding or is the Universe falling? What if we were flowing down a waterfall or a <i>Space Falls</i>?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I5YsHFSX_7o/YJEogrkPc-I/AAAAAAAAS9s/TnZ3UFBNLrEC3STNkc20YgpWfKaTQdrRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s577/YosemiteFalls_sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Is the Universe Falling?" border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="433" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I5YsHFSX_7o/YJEogrkPc-I/AAAAAAAAS9s/TnZ3UFBNLrEC3STNkc20YgpWfKaTQdrRgCLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/YosemiteFalls_sm.jpg" title="Is the Universe Falling?" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Is the Universe Falling?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">We have all heard the the theory that our planet may be an atom in someone else's Universe. Some would even say the Sun is the atom and all the planets in our solar system are electrons flying around it. It is an interesting thought to ponder but you would have to be puffing on some serious stuff to actually believe it. Still, that kind of free thinking opens the mind to entertain new ideas. Humans do not know everything - we barely know how to make popcorn in an office microwave without making the whole building smell like burnt popcorn; how are we supposed to solve the mysteries of the Universe?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Back to my premise, last night I looked at that picture of Yosemite Falls and all sorts of ideas began to swirl in my mind like the swirling drops of water falling from the Falls. My half-asleep mind overlaid the Universe on the Falls. I pictured our planet as a drop of water, swirling around other drops of water, among our galaxy and an infinite number of other galaxies. All these galactic particles were falling at the same rate and in the same general direction and yet they were expanding away from each other at the same time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the picture of Yosemite Falls, the water starts in a narrow channel at the top and ends in a wide spray at the bottom. It is like the scatter-shot of a shotgun except the water is not being propelled by an explosive force, it is simply falling due to gravity. As the water falls it expands out in every direction. It goes a little more to the left, right, and straight ahead than it does to the back, and some portions of the water shoot off in an unpredictable manner. This could be due to wind or to the shape of the exit chute above. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If the Universe were the same, to us it would seem like everything was expanding away from an initial source. Perhaps then, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang" target="_blank">Big Bang</a> was not an explosion after all. Perhaps something is causing the Universe to be drawn in a certain direction like gravity draws water off a cliff. We would not be aware of what is outside the Falls. We would only observe water, like an astronomer observes space. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There would be finite boundaries to our Universe in this scenario. These boundaries are not physical; nothing would constrain us from penetrating the boundaries of the Universe other than Newtonian principles. Occasionally "a drop of space" would drift away from the path on a gust of wind. But for the most part all particles of our Universe would adhere to each other while also expanding away from each other.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the picture, the water that is farthest from the top is expanding farther than the water at the top. If our Universe were the same, would it seem like the expansion is increasing in velocity the farther we got from <i>The Source</i>? Is our Universe not expanding at a more rapid rate as time goes on? Perhaps this rate is relative.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What would be The Source, in this case? A water source is derived from a weather cycle. Are there similar cycles in space? Perhaps, rather than everything expanding from a single point, the "weather" cycles of space eventually bring everything back to that "mountain stream" where we have perceived the Big Bang to have taken place. My <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/11/mobius-universe.html" target="_blank">Möbius Universe</a> theory could be adapted to accommodate this new Space Falls theory, congruently.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What happens when the waterfall expands to the point that there are air pockets in the stream? Is this the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter" target="_blank">Dark Matter</a> that Science (whoever that is) has observed in space, pockets of an outside substance seeping into our ever expanding drift from The Source.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">We're gonna need a bigger boat</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">If this were all true, what consequences does this bestow upon space travel? If we wanted to travel away from The Source it would be easy. We would just need a ship. Our ship would be buoyant in the Falls, in a weightless environment similar to that created by a Reduced-Gravity Aircraft, also known as a "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9h42yspbo" target="_blank">Vomit Comet</a>" where there is gravity but its effects are not felt. Perhaps in space, it is not really a zero-gravity environment. Rather, there is a tremendous amount of gravity - we just cannot feel it because everything we know is within the stream, all falling and expanding somewhat in unison (though, not quite).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Traveling towards The Source would be another story. In this case we would need a ship that could in a sense fight gravity. A rocket-propelled ship could travel to other water particles in our Space Falls but there would be extremely low limits on its range. Eventually, the ship would run out of fuel or its occupants would die of old age. Current technology would not ever allow us to reach The Source by traveling towards it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We could, conceivably, reach The Source by traveling away from it. If we view our Space Falls as part of either a space weather system or as something like a <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/11/how-to-make-mobius-strip.html" target="_blank">Möbius Strip</a>, traveling in the direction of the fall/flow would eventually transport us back to The Source. But that could literally take forever. There would have to be a better way. After all, aliens can get here and leave here. If they can get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is) we know that somebody solved the problem.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you stand at the top of a waterfall, right near the edge, your face will get wet. How does that happen? As water shoots off the cliff, scattering in every direction, some drops of water get <i>mistified</i>. Gentle winds may then carry these droplets of mist in the opposite direction of gravity, back towards The Source, or even in an entirely different direction. Could similar processes be at work in space? Is there a way to escape the Flow of space expansion and ride a breeze (or preferably a gust of wind) back towards The Source or away from The Flow to a whole other Flow?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have never been a fan of the Multiverse theory but what if these concepts are related? Yosemite Falls is not the only waterfall in the world, and certainly not the only river. What if these Space Falls were all over the place, all part of a space ecosystem, eventually flowing out to a space sea?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Comment below.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="text-align: left;">Enjoying this blog?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/follow.g?view=FOLLOW&blogID=1689452976099896187" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2kYZ7gDab4/XnvolwL1HKI/AAAAAAAARho/-P9CiT1wi-8-AnwAcsnrwaEb99libENFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Subscribe.png" width="120" /></a></div><div align="left" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarceauOfficialPage"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-st2vxritob4/Xnvr4VQN2JI/AAAAAAAARh0/bS_Jl-Rsm6gBM4eGBIHfdKo7Ub021_ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/FB.png" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iiCigQEJXLA/Xnvsfh6ZCPI/AAAAAAAARh8/RnD0j3ZvszAmT7BrdvcgJMj9PxrluzcPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Twitter.png" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marceau.david"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrGpsYVbWq8/XnvtfPOXOKI/AAAAAAAARiI/YjCbYJnDmssad5CYB13k3jSFlcLLaL8SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Instagram.png" width="20" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><font size="2">If you have seen an alien spaceship or any type of unidentified flying object (UFO) contact me using the Contact form at the bottom of this page. You may remain anonymous if you want. I will not ridicule you or try to tell you why you are wrong. I get it, I saw one too.</font></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><font size="2"><br />Thank you for reading and keep an eye on the sky.</font></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I will be starting a members-only service through <a href="https://www.patreon.com/">Patreon</a>. The blog will remain free but I would add additional benefits for paid subscribers.
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The show was called <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation/season-2/episode-3" target="_blank">Unidentified</a>. It was exciting for me to see my story told to an international audience. This was not why I did the show, in fact I never wanted any publicity from this event. I had kept it somewhat of a secret between me and a few close friends and family members for three decades. Nevertheless, it was indeed exciting to see myself on TV and to hear my story told.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Not long after the show's airing I received a few calls and emails from friends telling me, "I Saw One Too," as it were. One of them stood out because it came from a very credible person whom I had not spoken with, other than on social media, in probably ten years. She is an educated, senior-ranking professional with a major corporation. I have known her since the 1990's and we have dozens of mutual friends. I have no reason to doubt this person or her stories. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, stories, plural. I do have skepticism when I hear that someone has had multiple UFO experiences. What are the odds? I had one close encounter, out in a forest while guarding an ammunition cache on a military base. There are numerous reasons why I was in the right place at the right time. There is no reason anything like this would ever happen to me a second time. Most people never have one encounter. Why is it that some people would have two or more?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Skepticism notwithstanding, I approach every conversation about a sighting with an open mind. After all, my story itself is unbelievable to anyone who has not gone down the <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" target="_blank">#UFOTwitter</a> rabbit hole. Who am I to say that my story is true and all others are not. I want to listen and learn. Maybe there is some good information that should be shared with others, like the YouTube interview I did about <a href="https://youtu.be/0HwHVtSXzGQ" target="_blank">cops and aliens</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The subject of this blog post today wanted to keep her anonymity. That is the main reason I have kept this to myself for the past half year. Also, I was waiting for the right time to tie it in with some analysis and further pontification. That time is now. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Red Flying Orbs</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">I will call my friend "Mrs. Grey" to protect her identity. Our call started off the way any call between two old friends would start. How you doing? Good! How you doin'? OK! OK! How are the kids? Good, how are you? Busy working... I saw your show... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">One of Mrs. Grey's stories was about several lights that came out over a field in Somerset County, New Jersey around dusk every night in the summer of 2007. The lights were red and about the size of the globe at the World Trade Center. I asked if she meant the one that was moved to Battery Park. She said yes. We guessed it was somewhere between twenty and thirty feet (7-10 meters) in diameter. There were multiple witnesses. One night there was some interaction between the lights and a motorcycle rider. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMkbu3Gad1c/YDZZckh_yFI/AAAAAAAASvw/ugix02IbodgUrEQy-tFn09LV7Fdyh7x-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s732/Flying%2BRed%2BOrb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Red Flying Orbs" border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="732" height="223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMkbu3Gad1c/YDZZckh_yFI/AAAAAAAASvw/ugix02IbodgUrEQy-tFn09LV7Fdyh7x-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h223/Flying%2BRed%2BOrb.jpg" title="Red Flying Orbs" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">I asked if Mrs. Grey thought the lights were some kind of being or some kind of craft or ship. This question seems to have never occurred to her. She could not answer. She seemed to think they were looking for something or gathering information, "Just checking it out." One thing she was certain of was, "They could see me, I could see them."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There was nothing conclusive about this but it was interesting to listen to my friend recount her memories.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The better story, the one that gave me a slight chill took place in the spring of 1978 outside Allentown, Pennsylvania. Around age sixteen, Mrs. Grey and her friend were driving down the Pennsylvania Turnpike heading home from a drum and bugle corps show. There was much less light pollution at the time, making it quite dark in that part of the state. She says you could see the Northern Lights, it was so dark. "And all of a sudden... this... sphere..."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mrs. Grey's friend noticed a light coming up on the two girls from behind them and said, "What the hell is that?" It was colored, more like a taillight than a headlight. Then, one light became two. The girls freaked out. They sped up. The lights sped up. This continued for several miles. Then the lights were, "<i>Boom</i>, gone!" </p><p style="text-align: justify;">All these years later, Mrs. Grey says, "It was bizarre. It was bizarre," almost doubting her own story. I asked if the lights dissolved or disappeared. She said they flew away, "You know, up and out."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Over the years, Mrs. Grey would see her friend and ask if she remembered the incident. The friend would reply, "Yup, I remember that night." Other than that, she had never told anyone this story until calling me.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We talked more about the lights. "It was just these round, red, spheres. That's all I can say," Mrs. Grey continues. "I guess they could see our red taillights; maybe they thought we were their friends?" The lights were probably about the size of a basketball, small enough that she could not imagine there was anything (or anyone) in them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">To clarify, I asked if they looked like the size of a basketball in the mirror or they were actually the size of a basketball. Mrs. Grey confirmed they were the size of a basketball. She knows because at one point the lights actually came up on either side of the car. At this point, Mrs. Grey struggles to describe what she saw. "You couldn't see... I'm not going to say you couldn't see through it. You could see through it but..." She fumbles through the words in her mental thesaurus, "Opaque," and "Translucent," discarding both before settling on, "Milky. But red." It was bright. "To me, it felt like it was energy," Mrs. Grey offers.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I asked if she had a good feeling or a bad feeling about it at the time. She said good. Were you scared? She indicated the girls were a little scared but the lights approached them too quickly to have had time to think anything other than, "What the hell is that and how long is this going to be here?" Then when the lights went away the girls were left dumbfounded and curious. "Intrigued," is the word Mrs. Grey uses.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Because there were two incidents, I asked Mrs. Grey if she thought there was something significant about her. She said no, she was in the right place at the right time. Going back to '78 she returns to the thought about being the only ones driving on a very dark road in a big car with red taillights. Maybe the lights following them identified with her taillights. It is clear she has thought about this many times over many years, just as I have about my own incident. She is not sure what drew the lights to her car but keeps coming back to the color of the lights and her taillights and that perhaps there was a feeling of kinship on the part of the flying orbs.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The lights moved at the same speed the car did. Mrs. Grey did not think it was anything man-made. She could not determine if they were beings or crafts - maybe both. But they were definitely not something from Earth, "yeah, like, 'Oh, UFO...'"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Oddly, I remembered my mom had told me about UFO sightings on the Pennsylvania Turnpike during that same time period. She did not personally see anything but remembered hearing about it on the radio on a night when she and my dad were driving down that same stretch of road. I asked her about it afterwards but we could not conclude definitively that there was any connection to Mrs. Grey's story.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I mentioned to Mrs. Grey that she was not the only old friend to tell me a sighting story now that people know about my story. She replied, "We live in a big old fat galaxy - people are really stupid to think we're the only ones here. With all these planets??? Come on, now."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We continued talking about other UFO incidents for a while and wrapped up with a chat about my real favorite subject, skiing. We made loose plans to meet up during the ski season sometime. I agreed not to use Mrs. Grey's real name if I ever published any of this.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Are Humans like Dolphins to Aliens?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">One of the first blog articles I wrote in 2018 analogized humans to aliens the same way dolphins relate to humans. In other words, perhaps <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/dolphin-contact.html" target="_blank">humans are like dolphins to aliens</a>, I wrote. In each instance, a ship full of intellectually superior beings floats overhead, sometimes abducts one of the lesser beings, and shoots off at incredible speeds.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I got thinking about this dolphin analogy again after hearing my friend Mrs. Grey's story. I remembered how I took the family to Key West a few years ago. We drove over the Seven Mile Bridge to the southern most point in the continental United States. We made some of our favorite memories.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Key West is known as a party town, the Bourbon Street of Florida. There are more bars on one block than in my whole town. My family did not partake in these festivities. One of our plans in The Keys was to swim with dolphins. That sounded like a lot of fun. It is also pretty expensive and we began having moral issues debating how humane it is to do that. In the end we opted to go on a dolphin-watch boat ride instead. But still, many people do this swimming-with-dolphins thing. Why?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Why do people like to swim with dolphins? Well, they are cute, for one thing. They are incredibly smart, for animals. They seem like animals we would like to befriend and make pets out of. They are like dogs but wetter - probably smarter too. Maybe we could make a connection and be friends! Swimming with dolphins sounds like a lot of fun. I am told it is.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When Mrs. Grey tells me her story about red flying orbs I am reminded of other stories. I think of <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/05/first-ufos-reported-by-us-servicemen.html" target="_blank">Foo Fighters</a>, shadowing early fighter planes. I think of the similarities between the stories. The lights appear out of nowhere, like humans do to dolphins. They seem to tag an airplane, or in Mrs. Grey's case, a car. They fly along at the same speed as the plane or car, maintaining a certain distance. Maybe to a flying orb, following us around is like swimming with dolphins. It is fun. It makes great memories. Maybe they could even make a connection with us and be friends!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Earth just may be the last habitable planet in the <i>Continental Milky Way</i>. We do not know. We are definitely not at the center of the galaxy. Perhaps Earth is the Key West of the Milky Way and we are like dolphins to aliens.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Does that make Earth a <i>party planet</i>? 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I should have made it smaller.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I looked around the room in the blue light of a full moon. I could take it. I like the cold. But maybe the kids could use some more heat. I got up and put on my slippers and favorite blue hoodie, the one from the motorcycle shop. It has a stain on the sleeve and has shrunken in the wash but I still wear it around the house. I went downstairs to load up the wood stove.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was careful not to wake the dogs. I did not want to be up long, waiting for them to come inside after begging to go out. I stirred the coals and stacked the stove full of logs. I took the opportunity to visit the bathroom. The fire was catching. I walked to the kitchen to get a drink of water.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sipping water from a porcelain tea cup, I looked out the windows over the sink. The bright moon lit up everything. It reminded me of the night of my <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">UFO encounter in Gagetown</a>, New Brunswick. So bright, it was almost like the day.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes on nights like that I will think about aliens. Sometimes on nights not like that I will think about aliens. I stood there staring through the blue haze and wondered what I would do if a spaceship touched down on the lawn right at that very moment.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If it were summer I would probably be upset that they were messing up my grass. I have about the worst lawn in my neighborhood but I put a lot of work into it each week. It is winter, though, so I would not worry about the grass right now.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I should get a camera, I thought. If I saw another spaceship no one would believe me. I myself am skeptical of people with multiple sighting stories. What are the odds? It was a freak occurrence that I saw even one spaceship, let alone as close as I was and for as long as I did. It is extremely doubtful anything like that would ever happen to me again. I would certainly need photographic evidence this next time. Otherwise, I would probably just keep it to myself like I did with the first sighting for so many years.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But what if it took off while I was running up the stairs to grab my phone? Would it be better to go out and greet the ship's occupants without any photos or to risk missing that but possibly get a clear photo of it? I have thought of this many times. When you have a close encounter in your past you tend to think about things like this with some frequency. I have had this internal debate before.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have vacillated on this more times than I can remember. Sometimes I think having the photo would be better. Sometimes I go with greeting the visitors. This night I decided I would go outside, freezing as it were, and try to make contact. This led me down the rabbit hole to my next thought:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">What do I do if I meet an alien?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">The few credible alien abduction stories I have heard do not sound like positive experiences. People are scared out of their minds. They are cold. They are uncomfortable. They may be in pain.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fear, I understand. During my encounter I experienced a level of fear few will ever comprehend. I responded to a <a href="https://twitter.com/davidmarceau" target="_blank">Twitter</a> follower recently that it was as if every nerve in my body was screaming. This went on for the majority of the five to seven minute encounter. It subsided only after the ship began gliding out of view and I summoned the courage to get up and follow it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Cold? Well, see above. I grew up six miles from Canada. When I was a kid we played soccer before school every morning regardless of the temperature. We usually did not have hats and gloves. The one kid who wore gloves would be the goalie. Getting hit by a frozen soccer ball is like getting hit by a cannonball. For the record, I have never been hit by a cannonball but it cannot be much worse than playing goalie in sub-zero temperatures.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Discomfort, I can do - I am over six feet tall with arthritis in my knees and have flown cross-country in coach dozens of times. It is not a pleasant experience. But I suck it up and do it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And pain, well, I am not a fan of that but I have broken bones in a motorcycle accident, fought off cancer and pneumonia, and been married going on fifteen years now. I suppose I can deal with some level of pain.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do not say all of this to brag. It is merely to make the point that I am prepared to deal with whatever is thrown at me if I had the opportunity to board an alien spaceship. I may eat those words if it were to ever happen but right now I am willing to take the chance.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If I ever did see another UFO, unlikely as it were, I would flag it down and try to hitch a ride. I would want to meet the people inside and find out what they were like. I would want to initiate Contact. I am doubtful they would stop and pick me up. I once tried to hitchhike around Valencia in Spain and no one picked me up. I must have walked thirty miles before jumping on a train back to Xàtiva. (There is a lot more to that story but it will have to wait for another time.) I would expect things to be different if a spaceship landed on the lawn. But who knows?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, OK, what if I did manage to make it aboard an alien spaceship? What would I do?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I think the first thing I would want to do is to make sure my hosts did not perceive me as a threat. Think about how a strange dog acts. He will mirror your reaction to him. If you are scared or aggressive, he will be scared or aggressive. If you are calm and kind, you can put your hand out and he may come over and sniff it. This may not be the case with every dog but it is a fair generalization.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What you do with your hands in that situation matters a great deal. Dogs know that hands can harm the same way their teeth can harm. People know this too. It is why Western gentlemen have shaken hands for thousands of years, to show each other there are no weapons in their hands. Easterners do something similar before sparring with martial arts - they wave their arms across their bodies and stand with their hands at their sides, fists open, prior to taking a combative stance and opening up a can of whoop-ass on you.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would to the same with aliens. Not the part about opening up a can of whoop-ass - I would want them to see that my hands were not hiding anything and were also not to be used as weapons themselves.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Next, I would want to show respect. Anyone who can get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is) must be thousands, if not millions, of years more advanced that humankind is. They would be highly intelligent. They would have had much time to work out a complex and advanced culture. They would be my superior in every way.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is difficult for many people to accept, especially here in America. Humans are the dominant species on our planet and Americans are the dominant people in the species - that is to say, Americans believe we are the best, whether that is true or not. Surely we must be the baddest daddies in the Universe. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hollywood leads us to believe that any invading cosmic army can be defeated by human/American grit and ingenuity. But in reality, we need to face the likelihood that with aliens <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/01/we-are-like-ants-to-them.html" target="_blank">we are like ants to them</a>. They could squash us or study us or simply ignore us. If we were graced with their interest in communicating we would have to accept our position in the pecking order. We are way down towards the bottom of that list, probably somewhere just above <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/06/dead-air-from-space.html" target="_blank">a planet full of dogs</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps over time we could work towards a more equal footing. We could meet other civilizations and find out where this first one ranked in the cosmic pecking order. Are they more like the EU nations or Afghanistan? Imagine if we were visited by the Afghanis of space? We would be screwed. I hope they are more like the Europeans - modern Europeans, that is, not the ones that came to America and killed off most of the Indians and started the slave trade.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In order to show my respect for my alien hosts I would take a deep bow. This is common across most human cultures. Bowing one's head is a sign of respect and courtesy no matter where you are from. Bowing at the waist is even more respectful and taking a knee, even more so. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Initially, I would not look them in the eye. Even between species it is often advised to not look a predator in the eye. This may cause the animal to charge at you and attack you. Instead, you should look away and slowly back away.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">My first demonstration of respect and peace would be to open my palms, bow my head, and take a knee. I would hold this pose for some time before slowly returning to a more natural stance and gradually looking my hosts in the eye.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWMRFPpYkzs/YB1L5Mf54CI/AAAAAAAASuM/XmyooLY0pQQt_8K_PGLGUNP7XCTB6fsOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s525/What%2Bdo%2BI%2Bdo%2Bif%2BI%2Bmeet%2Ban%2Balien.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="What do I do if I meet an alien?" border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="525" height="276" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWMRFPpYkzs/YB1L5Mf54CI/AAAAAAAASuM/XmyooLY0pQQt_8K_PGLGUNP7XCTB6fsOgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h276/What%2Bdo%2BI%2Bdo%2Bif%2BI%2Bmeet%2Ban%2Balien.jpg" title="What do I do if I meet an alien?" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Eye contact is something I am less certain of. In my interview with "John" the European <a href="https://youtu.be/0HwHVtSXzGQ" target="_blank">police officer who had a close encounter</a> he was extremely frightened by the eyes of the creature. He said the eyes were big and black and looking at it inspired fear, no other emotions, just pure fear. I wonder if I would have the courage to look an alien in the eyes and maintain my stare. John had a pistol which he drew on the creature. I would be unarmed, most likely.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Once both parties had established that we are mutually peaceful my next instinct would be to start asking a bunch of question like, "How does faster-than-light travel work," and, "Why do men have nipples?" But I would have to squelch that urge. As I wrote in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/05/what-would-you-ask-alien.html" target="_blank">What Would You Ask an Alien</a> no one travels across the galaxy to be greeted by primitive people with a bunch of questions about physics or anatomy. I probably would not understand the answers anyway. I have only the most rudimentary understanding of physics. I would have to hold my questions until a more appropriate time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would also want to ask for something but that too would be wrong. Right now, if an alien granted me three wishes I would wish cure humanity of all diseases, eternal life for all those who want it, and then I would have to think fast and come up with something more personal just for myself. Being on the spot I would likely ask for something stupid like an alien-designed snowboard. It would be cool to have something like that but then people would mock me for all eternity for screwing up one of the wishes, like, "Why didn't you ask for wealth or your own spaceship or three more wishes?" And then I would have to be like, "It was aliens, not a genie, you fool!" I would get tired of this after a while.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I wrote in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/01/alien-proxy-war.html" target="_blank">Alien Proxy War</a> that our leaders would want aliens to share military tech with us. Then I wrote in <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/01/alien-health-and-beauty.html" target="_blank">Alien Health and Beauty</a> that most individuals would want health and youth, as restated above. But if I were to actually meet an alien I would not ask for anything right off the bat. Sure, people would ask me afterwards why I did not ask a bunch of questions or ask for any gifts but that is not how diplomacy works. I am not a diplomat but I did see <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/" target="_blank">Dances with Wolves</a> and I am pretty sure that relations with people of a highly different culture should begin with an offering rather than a request.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n_0hyZtPF_k/YB1N-9W2cTI/AAAAAAAASuY/pKxmvf40cYMrmcMrK_Jy5W6Qpnx0I62kQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Tatonka.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Alien Diplomacy" border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n_0hyZtPF_k/YB1N-9W2cTI/AAAAAAAASuY/pKxmvf40cYMrmcMrK_Jy5W6Qpnx0I62kQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Tatonka.jpg" title="Alien Diplomacy" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tatonka!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">In time, I would ask many questions and make many requests but initially I would offer something instead. What would I have to offer aliens that they would not already have? Anyone who can get <i>from there to here</i> would be able to produce anything they wanted. Like Dr. Glascock said in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKs6ZMiT4CmL_k6RQKBcsQLYimztGQK-" target="_blank">Trading with Aliens</a> series of video clips I recorded, aliens would likely not need any of our commodities or products. Maybe they would have a curiosity about some native wares, the same way I was interested in buying a wooden mask when I went to Africa. But otherwise we would not have much to offer, as a people.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The one thing I could offer to alien visitors that is more valuable than any product is myself. In an effort to further spur official Contact and intergalactic relations I would offer to be an ambassador or a liaison between our peoples. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am pretty good with languages. I picked up Spanish in two weeks - do not test me, that was twenty years ago, but it came pretty naturally. I already had a background in French. Spanish is like French but with different pronouns and an O at the end of everything. German was pretty easy too. It is like English with a German accent. I think I could pick up Klingon or whatever they speak on Kepler-62f pretty quickly. Obviously, I am exaggerating a little, but not much.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am also good at blending with different cultures. I come from a small farm town, got an education, lived in good and bad parts of New York City, and traveled the US and the world. I have employed or found jobs for hundreds of blue collar workers and highly educated professionals alike and gotten along well with each of them. I could chill with some aliens, brah. It would not be long before I would be sporting the alien versions of a Dashiki and a Sombrero with a Kilt and some Wooden Shoes. Certainly, I would look ridiculous to my Earthan brethren but I would represent my new friends from space, y'all. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-znubbD3om8s/YB08jzTGE2I/AAAAAAAASuA/QuJ9bUGaCxQZ1MDMenQMsy4yGk4y5U0mQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Dashiki%2Band%2BSombrero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ambassador to Aliens" border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="911" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-znubbD3om8s/YB08jzTGE2I/AAAAAAAASuA/QuJ9bUGaCxQZ1MDMenQMsy4yGk4y5U0mQCLcBGAsYHQ/w285-h320/Dashiki%2Band%2BSombrero.jpg" title="Ambassador to Aliens" width="285" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps aliens would scoff at me being their ambassador. I mean, who am I, really? After hearing my offer they may look around the room at each other, uncomfortably scoping for any note of approval or a sign of how to let me down easy. The head alien guy would be like, "Actually, puny Earthan (* ahem *, no offense, like, you're just puny, you know?), we were hoping you could introduce us to Luis Elizondo." And then I would be like, "Ya, I could text him for you but you see, I left my phone at home. What had happened was, I was going to grab it so I could get some pictures of you guys but then I thought it would be more important to like, you know, make contact? How about you give me <i>your </i>number and I'll put you guys in touch." Then I would probably crumple up the number and never call it like every Saturday night in my twenties. It was all about getting the digits.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps these are delusions of grandeur. But I think it would be pretty cool to be an ambassador to aliens. I have been looking for a career change recently. Running <a href="https://ridgefieldone.com/" target="_blank">The Best Staffing Company in the World</a> is hard work. I am pretty sure that <i>Ambassador to Aliens</i> would be an easier job. It would be a fun challenge, anyway. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Before heading home I would ask the aliens if I could use the bathroom. It does not matter if I had to go or not. I would just want an opportunity to pocket something I could use later to prove I was there. Maybe it would be one of those fancy soaps that you put out for guests that are shaped like rose blooms. I would not take one of the monogrammed guest towels, though. That would be way overboard, like petit larceny or criminal mischief. Maybe I would just snatch a piece of alien toilet paper. I bet it is super soft and absorbent. It does not matter what it is, just something little, a trinket to prove I was there.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I then would ask the aliens to return me to my house - not a few miles away like they did to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_UFO_incident" target="_blank">Travis Walton</a>. What's up with that? It is too cold out for me to be put to sleep in a snowbank far away from home I would freeze to death if I were not able to make it back inside within twenty minutes. My friends would all be like, "So weird, he went out in his pajamas and no shoes. What, was he chasing another UFO, or something?" Then they would all have a good hearty laugh. They know me.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br />Back at my kitchen sink my daydream faded and the windows came back into focus. They need to be cleaned, I thought. I finished my water and put the empty cup aside to reuse later. I walked back into the living room to check the fire. It was raging. I closed the flue and the damper and went back to bed. 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It helps for me to put things in writing in order to sort out and consolidate innumerable fragmented thoughts. Mostly, though, this is for the community which reads this blog.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/e0m1ez3ejkI" target="_blank">Lue Elizondo</a> said it best, "<a href="https://twitter.com/LueElizondo/status/1316797723572486144" target="_blank">This topic is a-political</a>." It is. My followers on <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MarceauDavid" target="_blank">YouTube</a> are Americans from all different backgrounds as well as citizens of dozens of countries around the world. If we all sat in the same room and discussed politics it is likely we would have hundreds of different opinions. None of us would be wrong per se, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon" target="_blank">baseless conspiracy theories</a> notwithstanding. We would simply have different opinions.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-muzGOHMp1Nk/X_b858pIyeI/AAAAAAAASp4/qZSRIIgQwZoDzzrj4rkBJxkZFyuydyBawCLcBGAsYHQ/s917/APolitical.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Phenomenon is Apolitical" border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="917" height="156" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-muzGOHMp1Nk/X_b858pIyeI/AAAAAAAASp4/qZSRIIgQwZoDzzrj4rkBJxkZFyuydyBawCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h156/APolitical.jpg" title="The Phenomenon is Apolitical" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">One topic we can and should all agree on is that we are being visited by people or entities from outside our planet. There are thousands of <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation/season-2/episode-3" target="_blank">eye-witness UFO accounts</a> and even video footage of the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos" target="_blank">Tic Tac</a>" encounters, certified by the US military. This is the common ground of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufotwitter" target="_blank">UFO Community</a>. Whether you are Conservative or Liberal, American or any other national, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, et cetera, we have all found common ground behind <a href="https://thedebrief.org/uap-task-force-set-in-motion-with-passage-of-intelligence-authorization-act/" target="_blank">#Disclosure</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Why then can all people not do the same? We Americans have spent the past few years focusing intently on what we hate about each other. We have said, "America First," in impudence to our longtime allies and admirers around the world. We have stoked fears and promoted divisions. It has been us against them, whoever <i>they </i>are.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In "us against them" who are <i>we </i>and who are <i>they</i>? It is all of us. We are them and they are us. Americans from all backgrounds are Americans. People of Earth from all countries are Earthans. We all eat, sleep, breathe, love, work, and play. We all want our basic needs to be met and we all want the best for our families. Yet we continue to strive for a world where <i>my way</i> of accomplishing those goals is the best way for everyone. It is not.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This type of thinking is what divides us. It is the fuel for war. It is what <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55568613" target="_blank">attacked the American Capitol</a> on January sixth. <i>My way is better than your way</i>, they would say.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If the people of the UFO Community can set aside this type of thinking in order to unite behind a common cause, as we have, then surely others can do the same. All Americans can find common ground with each other. All people of Earth can do the same.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What that common ground is, is beyond the scope of this article. That is something each individual needs to identify for him or herself. Each community, each country needs to seek out what makes us all the same, what can unite us.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Why is this important? Why can we not just agree to disagree with each other? You can. But that should not be the focus of relations with others. This is an existential threat to America. Moreover, it is an existential threat to the world. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The UFO Community recognizes that if official <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ready-for-contact-76322347/" target="_blank">Contact</a> is made with an alien civilization we can no longer hide behind the flags of our nations. We must unite in the face of a potential threat from a much more highly advanced civilization. We will need to find some common ground, whether we like it or not, because our survival as a species will depend on it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We should not wait for this to happen. It needs to start now. We Americans need to unite under whatever common ground we can find with each other if we are to survive as a nation. We Earthans need to do the same with other countries if we are to survive as a species. This will not happen by chance. It will not be easy. It will take courage, hard work, and stamina. 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Yet, sometimes there are too many coincidences to ignore, too many unassociated events which could possibly have an association if you used your imagination. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">People do this all the time. Often they are wrong: the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/08/strange-bedfellows.html" target="_blank">bigfoot hunter</a> who sees a shadow in the woods, the anti-vaxxer who meets a mom whose kid has autism, the climate change denier who gets frostbite. But then there are the times when going on a hunch based on limited data can bear fruit: Columbus reaches the Western Hemisphere, Pasteur cures rabies, the TV weatherman predicts the weather.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday some weird things happened to me. I was at the local wholesale club with Mrs. M. We had two shopping carts filled to the rafters like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. We looked like those guys in India who carry an entire year's harvest to market on a motorcycle. Sometimes the rest of the family is on the bike too. How do they do that?</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZbVF1oSUuM/X8evWIq0lyI/AAAAAAAASnQ/Oillr212eD0EztaYQwLuzSJHsoQcEvqaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Overloaded%2BMotorcycle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Overloaded Motorcycle" border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZbVF1oSUuM/X8evWIq0lyI/AAAAAAAASnQ/Oillr212eD0EztaYQwLuzSJHsoQcEvqaQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/Overloaded%2BMotorcycle.jpg" title="Overloaded Motorcycle" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Me and Mrs. M. shopping at the wholesale store</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Usually we do the self-checkout but we had a lot of stuff and a cashier was open so I went to him. It must have been his first day, or something. He was awful. He slammed my bananas around like they owed him money. He took the ground turkey out of its produce-bag-turned-salmonella-prophylactic to scan it and then left the bag off. He completely ignored the case of Bubly seltzer under my cart. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Some people would see the cashier miss an item and just roll with it. Even some good God-fearing people feel OK about ripping off a "Big Box" store. Believe me, I debated it for a brief moment. But it did not require much thought for me to point out the guy's mistake to him. Part of me felt bad for him and did not want to be the reason he got fired. Part of me just wanted to do right, whatever that means. I directed him to scan the seltzer. However, he failed to scan the enormous cases of toilet paper and paper towels Mrs. M. had under her cart. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We did not notice this second malfeasance because we were trying to figure out which two of the three pairs of ski gloves we wanted to keep and which one we wanted to put back. That place has everything! When we finally decided, the guy tried to deduct the cost of the third pair from our total. We had to explain to him that he had never scanned it and we simply did not feel like walking the item back to its home. All in all, we could have gotten out of there with close to $100 of free stuff but we did end up paying for everything after an embarrassing moment at the door due to the unscanned TP and paper towels.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then, the moment we got out into the vestibule at the exit it started to pour rain. We were in a rush to pick up some pizza we had ordered for the kids before it got cold and dried out but we needed to buy a bottle of wine to cook with later in the week. I told Mrs. M. to wait out the rain in the vestibule for a few minutes while I ran next door to the liquor store. When I got to the register the tab was $93. OK, so it was not just a bottle of wine, there was some other stuff, some rum and some rye and three more bottles of wine. So the cashier says to me, "If you want to round it up to an even hundred, you can take something else." I did not get what she was slinging so I just said, "Yeah, I'm good, thanks." Then she pointed at a gift set of a bottle of something I did not recognize packed with some nice glasses. It was $37. She said, "Are you sure? You could get something like that," pointing at the gift set, "<i>for an even hundred</i>."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If I had had time to put any amount of thought into it I cannot honestly say if I would have done the right thing. Maybe it was good that I was in a hurry. I went with my first instinct and that was to decline the offer. She even winked at me! It was one of the most bizarre things that has ever happened to me in my life - and I have had a close encounter with a UFO! It reminded me of the time Eddy Murphy <a href="https://youtu.be/l_LeJfn_qW0" target="_blank">dressed up as a white person</a> to infiltrate the White World and people started giving him free stuff.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I got back to Mrs. M. the rain had died down enough to take our shopping carts out to the parking lot without getting soaked. We proceeded to the pizzeria. I got out of the car without my mask, something I cannot remember having ever done since I started wearing one in early March. I almost made it inside before Mrs. M. shouted at me and reminded me. That woman saved my life! OK, maybe not but I would have obsessed about having exposed myself to COVID for at least a week afterwards. Once inside, the woman behind the counter who I think is one of the owners asked me if I wanted a free cheese pizza. Someone had ordered it and not picked it up.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There was no moral dilemma this time. I have worked in a couple pizza places when I was younger and I know how it goes. When someone orders a pie without paying and decides not to pick it up, it is given to the staff or thrown away. This pizza was like an abandoned puppy in shelter. I had to take it home or it would die. Plus, it was the owner who was offering it to me, I think. I gladly accepted. I cannot bear to see pizza thrown away. That is a sin, in my house.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Back in the Family Truckster, I told Mrs. M. that I should have played Lotto. Then I explained all the weird things that had happened, all of which went in my favor, the possible free stuff in the wholesale store, the offer to collude on a heist from the liquor store, the gifted pizza. I really should have gone back out to buy a lottery ticket after we got all the food and supplies put away in the Zombie Bomb Shelter. I think it was my lucky night - even though I do not believe in luck. No such thing.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then there was today - totally opposite. I went to the post office - no parking. I had to wait for a spot to open and then had to squeeze my gigantic Chevy Suburban (said Family Truckster) into a space meant for a Fiat. The guy at the counter gave me a hard time about the birthday card I was trying to mail because it was too thick. He wanted to charge me extra. Then he had me sign for a certified letter. I have not opened it yet but nothing good ever comes by certified mail - except one time last year. My neighbor was required by law to notify me by certified mail that she was having her pool filled in. At first I thought she was suing me for something. We had a good laugh about it afterwards. Then Lockdown happened. I asked her if she regretted filling in the pool. Her adult children who had moved back in all said, "YES!!!" Oops! Sore spot.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, then I went to the bank and missed the turn and had to go around and try it again. When I arrived I messed up my approach to the drive-thru ATM. I could barely reach the machine and had a hard time getting my card and my cash out of it. I thought I was going to make it rain twenties all over the parking lot.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I bought a lottery ticket.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Moments later I was on the road back home and there was a municipal tractor coming the other way. Several cars were speeding around it in my lane. After I had gotten close enough to the tractor that the oncoming traffic should have stopped going around it a guy in a BMW felt entitled to squeeze through. He floored it as I approached the tractor. The closer I got, the faster he accelerated. By the time I realized I was playing a game of Chicken the only way to prevent a head-on collision was for me brake hard enough to activate the anti-lock feature. All my mail fell on the floor.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Moments after that a deer ran out into the road and stood there for a few seconds, also apparently playing Chicken with me. I braked again and beeped at him. I am pretty sure that if deer had fingers he would have given me one. The whole trip out of the house was like one stumbling block after another. My lottery ticket is probably a dud - I will probably lose so badly I will owe <i>them </i>money.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Coincidences and Aliens</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">All of these coincidences, positive one day and negative the next, made me think about aliens. I wanted to write these things down in my blog. But what is the link? What do weird coincidences have to do with aliens?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then something just happened which brought it all together. I have been corresponding with a Twitter follower from Wales over the past few days. The guy's name is Chris Fowler and he is <i>really </i>into UFOs. I should probably interview him for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MarceauDavid" target="_blank">my YouTube channel</a>. He seems like the kind of person who would have a lot of cool stories to tell.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Chris sent me a link to a show which featured the famous <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chris.fowler.3538/videos/10158793990139354" target="_blank">Ariel School mass UFO encounter</a> in Zimbabwe, which was also recently featured in the movie <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onEXmLX2ZZQ" target="_blank">The Phenomenon</a>. I love that story. It is the most convincing eye-witness account(s) ever - even moreso than my own because there were more witnesses. The Phenomenon's director James Fox participated in the interview. At one point, the show's host asked the now grown up students if they felt lucky to have been a part of this encounter. They all had mixed feelings. They were lucky because they had been a part of something amazing and historic. But they were unlucky because of the stigma associated with a close encounter. No one wants to be thought of as a crazy person who "believes" in UFOs even though each one of them steadfastly says, "I know what I saw."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Coincidentally, I had asked "John" the <a href="https://youtu.be/0HwHVtSXzGQ" target="_blank">police officer who encountered an alien</a> while on duty how he felt about his close encounter. Mostly, he was traumatized. I suspect that in time, having now finally told someone about it (me) he will come to feel like the Ariel School students do. I certainly do. It took me a long time to come around to that point of view. I feel like my encounter was something which defied the odds. I was extremely fortunate to have witnessed it. At the same time, as a parent, a businessman, and an active member of my community, it sucks being "That UFO Guy." I do not want people in my everyday life to know me for that despite the fact that at this point it is no longer a closely-held secret.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Someone on Twitter named Jon asked me about John the policeman's sighting. Jon was caught up in the fact that John had a car pull up at a police checkpoint and no one was in the car and then John and his partner came face to face with an alien. Jon remarked, "So two anomalous incidents on a quiet road, at night, interesting." Yup. Sure was. But I think it was just a coincidence. The reason John goes into so much detail about stopping the car, in the video, is because that was what caused him to leave the road and ultimately encounter this creature. The two events had nothing to do with each other. It is likely the driver was drunk, panicked, and bolted. But the second event would not have happened without the first.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Is spotting a UFO or an alien lucky, pure chance, a coincidence? Some would say it depends on your belief in luck versus odds, fate versus coincidence. I still do not believe luck exists, only chance, odds and coincidence. I was not lucky, I was coincidency or chancey or maybe just oddsy. 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It read, "<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hello! Sorry to disturb but i need some help... i want to write to <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/10/who-is-lue-elizondo.html" target="_blank">lue elizondo</a>, but i don t know how to reach him... sorry for my english</span>" Interesting...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Before reaching out to Lue I decided to do a little sleuthing. Why bother the guy if this is a big waste of time. I checked out the Facebook profile of the person who messaged me - I will call him "John" to protect his identity. John joined Facebook over ten years ago and has been a pretty active member since then. There are dozens of public posts documenting John's travels, friendships, and relationships. This is a real guy, not a fake profile someone made for nefarious purposes.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">John's posts did not reveal anything bizarre about him. There are no articles about Bigfoot sightings or El Chupacabra on his page. He does not even post anything about UFOs. What could he possibly want to talk to Lue Elizondo about, I thought.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">John does not explicitly list his profession on Facebook but it was not difficult for me to discern what it is. He is a police officer. I then looked John up on LinkedIn and he had an account there too. This did in fact list him as a cop. That was when things got really interesting. Odds are, a cop is not going to risk his reputation with an outlandish story. He saw something.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hgsjIbsmGsQ/X75Up3sS33I/AAAAAAAASms/yb5lZHtjPcsa4_WKgehiXXJEoG_GXZ6lACLcBGAsYHQ/s1035/JohnThePoliceman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Police and Aliens" border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="1035" height="301" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hgsjIbsmGsQ/X75Up3sS33I/AAAAAAAASms/yb5lZHtjPcsa4_WKgehiXXJEoG_GXZ6lACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h301/JohnThePoliceman.jpg" title="Police and Aliens" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the video<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/0HwHVtSXzGQ" target="_blank">"John" Eastern European Police Officer</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">I replied to John and asked him if I could tell Lue what this was regarding. He replied, "<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok.. i will tell you.</span>"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">John confirmed he is indeed a police officer and then gave me a high-level overview of the night he was on duty and came face-to-face with an alien.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">By this point I had texted Lue, asking if I could give the guy his email address. Lue said yes.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Police and Aliens</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">John went into more detail about his sighting, under the condition that, "<span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f1f0f0; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nobody needs to know, because it may cost me my job.</span>" I agreed. He began by telling me he comes from a part of the world where people are very superstitious and they believe in all kinds of paranormal folklore. He is not one of those people. From what I have gathered, John seems to believe in Science and he disregards anything that is outside the bounds of reality. <i>Just the facts, ma'am</i>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This faith would be tested one night in August 2011 when John was out on patrol with a colleague from the military police. It was a slow night and the Dispatch had not given the two comrades any calls to respond to. They needed something to put in their report of their eight-hour shift so they decided to set up a checkpoint and pull over some cars.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was late. Some time passed and nobody came down the road. Finally, a little white van approached the checkpoint. It stopped a ways down the road from them. They waited a couple minutes to see what it would do. Its headlights were extremely bright and they could not see past the windshield. This gave the driver an opportunity to slip out the back door, unseen.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When the two cops realized the driver was not proceeding they approached the van. It was empty. They set out to find the driver. Their search led them a couple hundred yards up a hill which had once been an orchard during the days of Communism but was now overgrown with brush. They never found the driver. It was too dark and too large of an area to search with just the two of them. They gave up and returned to the van to check its registration and any other papers that may have been left behind. On the way down, they had the shock of their lives.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A dark figure over seven feet tall rose inexplicably from a tiny bush. It stared at the two men, blankly. It was extremely skinny with long arms and legs and four fingers on each hand. Its head was large and its eyes were large and black. In a panic, the men pulled out their guns and shouted, "Don't move! Police!" The figure was unfazed. It continued staring at them. Then it took a step about seven or eight feet to the side and collapsed into another tiny bush. The men jumped into the brush but the figure was gone. It had completely vanished.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I asked John a number of questions. He elaborated freely. This was not something he had to put much thought into, in the moment. The responses came immediately despite any lag there may have been in sending messages to the other side of the world or the latency of five people simultaneously live-streaming school and work in my house. It seemed to me like John was replaying the memories in his mind like a movie.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I was little my dad took me pheasant hunting a few times. I learned that when you walk through a field of tall grass and brush gamebirds will often not immediately fly away when they hear you. They will wait until you pass and then fly away in the opposite direction, to your rear. I asked John if it was possible that he and his partner missed this creature on the way up the hill and they inadvertently flushed it out of its hiding spot just before turning around. He said if it had been hiding there on his way up the hill he would have stepped on it. It had not been there.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Was John crazy? If he had been alone that night he might have thought so, himself. But he had a partner with him and they both saw the same thing and reacted the same way. Still, this was crazy. How could they return to the cop shop and report that they had pulled their guns on an alien? They agreed to keep their mouths shut about it. That was nine years ago. John had kept this to himself until he told me last week.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Having determined that John was for real I wanted to know more. How did this experience affect him? Luis Elizondo asked me that same question when he interviewed me here at my house. My response did not make it into <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v7zsp" target="_blank">my episode of Unidentified</a>. I told Lue that the fear I experienced was so great, beyond anything that I can describe with words (and I consider myself a wordsmith) that I am no longer capable of feeling great fear. It is like the first time you ride a roller coaster or try a cigarette. There is an intensity to the feeling. Then you never feel that intensity again no matter how many times you try.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">John described something similar. He also no longer feels much fear. He told me about an incident on duty when a passing "gypsy" tried to hit him in the head with an ax. John disarmed the man without ever pulling out his gun. I related a similar story to John about how one night two men walked into my house and I ran downstairs into the darkness without any weapons, ready to do whatever needed to be done - I never thought twice about it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There were other similarities between John's experience and my own. We both had a <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/meeting-with-other-witness.html" target="_blank">second witness</a> but never filed an official report with our chains of command. Neither of us kept in touch with that second witness. We went about our lives as if nothing had happened. We kept our stories to ourselves for many years before finally having the right opportunity to share it for the first time. We were concerned about our reputations, our credibility. We were both regular guys, not into the Paranormal or even UFOs prior to our respective experiences. Neither of us wanted to be known as "that weird UFO Guy."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I first started this blog it was not with the purpose of sharing my pontifications on aliens. It was simply to document the steps I was taking in my descent "down the rabbit hole" of the UFO Community while I attempted to set up a podcast. The purpose of that podcast would have been to allow other "experiencers" to share their stories, both to get the information out to the public as well as to provide some therapeutic release to people who have had to keep their mouths shut about what could be a traumatic event - by far, the scariest moment of anyone's life.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Later, I decided not to bother with the podcast and just to continue writing. I found writing to be gratifying while audio or video production is a chore I do not enjoy. That has been changing recently, following an offer by Lue Elizondo to do an interview with me for this blog. I put the interview on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MarceauDavid/" target="_blank">my YouTube channel</a> and it was a big success. Then I did another interview with a <a href="https://youtu.be/YQ4c1KAoYLc" target="_blank">veteran of the USS Nimitz</a>. That was well received. People have told me, "Keep'm coming." So I asked John if he would also like to do an interview with me for YouTube. He agreed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We had to take some precautions. John is still concerned about losing his job if he becomes known as the cop who pulled his gun on an alien. At the very least he would never be thought of the same way by his brothers on the police force if he is found out. <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><i>I get it, I saw one too.</i></span> We arranged to do the interview at night, his time, so John could shroud his image in darkness. I told him I could run the audio track through a program to distort it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The interview went well. I feel like I really captured some powerful moments. I do not know if the same feeling will come across to viewers given the distortion of John's voice. But I was affected by hearing him tell his tale from his own mouth. I hope this same effect is conveyed to viewers.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">John liked the first take but thought his voice was too recognizable. I added additional distortion. He wanted to do a re-shoot but I pushed back. There was so much authenticity in this first telling. I thought that if John sounded too "scripted" it would be less believable. After over a week of messaging back and forth and couple a two-day gaps of no contact, John finally agreed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I wrote this blog article to explain what transpired behind the scenes. This was both for transparency as well as to fill in some details, answer some questions viewers will have. I told John I would take any additional questions on the <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" target="_blank">David Marceau Twitter</a> page and relay them to him.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here is the video of that interview:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0HwHVtSXzGQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="0HwHVtSXzGQ"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Video of "John" Eastern European Police Officer</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/0HwHVtSXzGQ">https://youtu.be/0HwHVtSXzGQ</a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="text-align: left;">Enjoying this blog?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/follow.g?view=FOLLOW&blogID=1689452976099896187" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2kYZ7gDab4/XnvolwL1HKI/AAAAAAAARho/-P9CiT1wi-8-AnwAcsnrwaEb99libENFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Subscribe.png" width="120" /></a></div><div align="left" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarceauOfficialPage"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-st2vxritob4/Xnvr4VQN2JI/AAAAAAAARh0/bS_Jl-Rsm6gBM4eGBIHfdKo7Ub021_ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/FB.png" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iiCigQEJXLA/Xnvsfh6ZCPI/AAAAAAAARh8/RnD0j3ZvszAmT7BrdvcgJMj9PxrluzcPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Twitter.png" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marceau.david"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrGpsYVbWq8/XnvtfPOXOKI/AAAAAAAARiI/YjCbYJnDmssad5CYB13k3jSFlcLLaL8SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Instagram.png" width="20" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><font size="2">If you have seen an alien spaceship or any type of unidentified flying object (UFO) contact me using the Contact form at the bottom of this page. You may remain anonymous if you want. I will not ridicule you or try to tell you why you are wrong. I get it, I saw one too.</font></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><font size="2"><br />Thank you for reading and keep an eye on the sky.</font></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I will be starting a members-only service through <a href="https://www.patreon.com/">Patreon</a>. The blog will remain free but I would add additional benefits for paid subscribers.
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My office was in a high-rise building downtown, not far from the train station. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The elevators had little TV screens that would show the day's weather, a few news blurbs, maybe a human interest story, and some advertisements - lots of them. Most of the ads never registered with me. I would look away when they came on. But one ad was preponderous. It featured a garden gnome and made no mention of the company the ad was promoting.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mfYSeYiz2bY/X7usBqdrC6I/AAAAAAAASmY/8W7KELKCg_4pehnzdwOD-iENEbdrhuEZACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/gnome3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Where do Alien Abductees Go?" border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mfYSeYiz2bY/X7usBqdrC6I/AAAAAAAASmY/8W7KELKCg_4pehnzdwOD-iENEbdrhuEZACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/gnome3.jpg" title="Where do Alien Abductees Go?" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Where do Alien Abductees Go?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I can still remember, two thoughts entered my mind. One was how stupid it was, what a waste of money it was, to make no mention of the name of the company. That kind of nonsense had contributed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" target="_blank">Dotcom Bust</a> just a few years earlier. Well-funded tech companies had blown millions of dollars on <a href="https://youtu.be/nXHrlm5Nk5w" target="_blank">poorly executed advertising campaigns</a> which yielded no results.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The other thought I had was, hey I know that gnome! I had seen this gnome before, had I not? I had never paid much attention to garden gnomes. It seemed like a silly concept, something kitschy that people did to ornament their homes instead of investing in some landscaping. I knew there were different types but really they all looked the same to me. Yet, I had seen this guy before; this garden gnome in the ad on the elevator, I had seen him before.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">After that I started seeing this gnome in other places. It stuck with me. It worked. Fifteen years later, many readers can probably remember this was an ad for a travel website. It was very successful and even won some awards.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The premise of these <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Is_My_Gnome%3F" target="_blank">Where is my Gnome ads</a> was based on a real life prank. Someone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_gnome" target="_blank">stole a garden gnome</a> out of someone else's front yard, took it on a trip, snapping pictures of it in famous places, and then returned the gnome with a photo album of his journey.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This got me thinking about aliens. Also, eating snacks, watering my plants, and walking the dog make me think of aliens. But back to gnomes, I thought about people like Travis Walton, one of the most <a href="https://www.travis-walton.com/" target="_blank">famous alien abduction cases</a>. Travis was taken from a worksite, held for a few days, and then released at another location. This is a common theme to other abduction cases.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I cannot say I am one hundred percent onboard with alien abduction stories. Many are just too far out there to believe and some people who tell the stories can also be a little unusual - although perhaps that is just the folks who choose to tell their stories. They have nothing to lose by speaking up. The more successful and level-headed abductees keep their mouths shut for fear of destroying their credibility. At least that is the pattern with UFO sightings. Why would it be different with abduction cases?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At any rate, tin-foil hats notwithstanding, there are a few very credible and believable abduction stories, Walton's being one of them. What do aliens do with the people they abduct, I have wondered. Why take someone, hold them for a few days, and them return them? I have pondered the question of <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/08/why-do-aliens-abduct-people.html" target="_blank">Why do Aliens Abduct People</a> before and come up with some possible answers but really, we in the general public have no way of knowing. So until some aliens hire a PR firm and publish an official press release, I will go on speculating about it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Where do Alien Abductees Go?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">One thought I have had is maybe abductees are Traveling Garden Gnomes, of sorts. Maybe the reason some people are abducted by aliens and then returned home (or close to home) is the aliens think it is cool or funny to take some pictures of the humans. They may go to different places with the human, like people do with the garden gnomes, and then when they get back they cannot remember exactly where they found the guy so they put him back a mile away. Distance may be relative (with a small R) for someone who traveled many lightyears to get here.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It could be that there is no real travel at all, just a park the ship behind a billboard, snap a few selfies with the human, post them to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarceauOfficialPage/" target="_blank">Spacebook</a>, and then put the guy back in his yard. Do aliens snap selfies? Clearly I am personifying aliens to an extent which is unrealistic. Most accounts portray aliens less like the people/creatures encountered on Star Trek and more like a silent boogeyman slipping in and out of the shadows. Although there are probably many thousands of civilizations with the ability to get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is) and statistically there should be a bell-curve of how they act, meaning that many of them may be similar but there will be some that are far different from the others.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Whatever it is, I thought it was a cool concept to liken alien abductees to Traveling Gnomes. I am not making light of the experiences these people go through. I have heard it is extremely traumatic and as someone who experienced a 5-7 minute long close encounter I know what terrorizing fear is and the trauma that it leaves behind. 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When I have conducted all the business, volunteer work, and writing I can do for the day, the kids have their homework and chores done, and Mrs. M. is busy with her own work, sometimes I will play a video game.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I cannot get into the First-Person Shooters. There is too much going on and the movement gives me vertigo. When I sit down at the computer for non-work-related activities I want to relax. I might pour a glass of peaty Scotch and open up a Realtime Strategy (RTS) game. On Moderate settings I can play at my own pace and slowly build up resources, working towards the dramatic conclusion.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">My Go-To for years was a game from the 1990's called <a href="https://www.ageofempires.com/" target="_blank">Age of Empires II</a>. Mrs. M. asks me how I can keep playing the same game over and over. I tell her it is like chess; it is a different game every time. Also, like chess, the game may take hours to play but I can be done in one night.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Recently I have begun playing another RTS game, <a href="https://civilization.com/" target="_blank">Sid Meier's Civilization VI</a>. It is a game of world domination. I love this game, although it is a commitment. I may start it on a Friday night and not finish until Sunday night. Of course I will walk away and do things with the family or projects around the house during that time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Civilization, if you move several military units close to one of an AI player's cities the AI player will notify you that they are offended by your troop build-up on their border. You then have the option of telling them you were just passing by or you can admit your aggression and declare war on them or you can simply ignore the message and go about your business without revealing your intentions. This got me thinking about aliens and UFOs. (What else is new?)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">UFOs vs. Nukes</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Much has been publicized recently about the connection between UFOs and nuclear weapons. My appearance on <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v7zsp" target="_blank">Unidentified</a> was lumped in with stories about UFO encounters at nuclear weapons facilities, titled, "UFOs vs. Nukes." For the record, I was guarding conventional weapons the night of my UFO encounter and I know of no nuclear connection. But maybe Lue and the guys at <a href="https://home.tothestarsacademy.com/" target="_blank">TTSA</a> know something I do not - well, they probably know a lot of things I do not. Anyway, some of the other stories in that episode clearly did have a connection to nukes.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OnNL2R6cYPo/X65tlEKcOqI/AAAAAAAASjw/E7sfJP6898o_t9D_re3Jg7uUgG30jwzCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1653/Young%2BDavid%2BMarceau.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="UFOs vs. Nukes" border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1653" height="226" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OnNL2R6cYPo/X65tlEKcOqI/AAAAAAAASjw/E7sfJP6898o_t9D_re3Jg7uUgG30jwzCwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h226/Young%2BDavid%2BMarceau.jpg" title="UFOs vs. Nukes" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not me, but a darned good representation of <br />a young David Marceau<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">More than one story talks about a UFO taking over control of a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silo. This is also discussed in the documentary <a href="https://thephenomenonfilm.com/" target="_blank">The Phenomenon</a> - it happened not only here in the US but also in Soviet Russia. This begs the question of whether or not China has also experienced this, although I doubt they would ever admit it. What about the other nuclear nations?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I first saw one of these stories on my episode of Unidentified I got a chill. I had heard this before. My friend I will call "<a href="https://youtu.be/sA3B6B5z0k0" target="_blank">Falco</a>" like the super cool German rock band from the 1980's, has an uncle who worked in a missile silo. The uncle will not speak with Falco about what happened to him while on duty but it disturbed him so much he mentioned it to his wife. Falco's aunt speaks freely about the time his uncle's missile silo was taken over by a UFO. This really happens.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Falco first told me this story when I ran into him at the Ridgefield High School. Our kids were practicing their sports in separate fields and we met in the middle. We made plans to get together and talk more about this and about doing podcasts but the plans fell through. I mentioned this shortly afterwards in my article <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/some-ufo-psychology.html" target="_blank">Some UFO Psychology</a>. I am providing these details for transparency, so it is clear I am not creating a new narrative to fit the current topic. Falco is a real person and he told me his uncle's story long before the similar stories appeared on Unidentified or in The Phenomenon.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, Falco's aunt and uncle do not want to talk to <i>me </i>about their experiences. I will keep pestering Falco to the point of annoyance until he gets them to relent or he gets pissed off at me and tells me to drop it. Then I will bring him a bottle of Scotch and either thank him or apologize for being a douche. It's all good.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Alien Civilization</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">When I play the Civilization video game my goal is usually world domination. In order to do that I need to build up a large arsenal of various types of military units. Other AI players are keeping tabs on my progress and will notice my military strength relative to their own. If I am weak they may attack me before I have a chance to get stronger. If I am strong they will likely leave me alone. Of course, I am doing the same with them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I am about ready to launch an attack I will begin moving my forces from their defensive positions towards the borders of the first foreign city I plan to take over. I need to be careful to get everyone into place and move en masse because as soon as the first few units arrive at the neighbor's border they will ask me what is going on - why am I placing military units on their border? If I am just passing by on my way to another civilization I will respond to let them know I mean no harm. Otherwise, if I am ready I will acknowledge their suspicions and declare war. If I am not ready I will ignore the question and continue amassing troops until the right moment. This will often cause this AI player to "Denounce" me to the rest of the world which hurts my standing amongst the other players.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXINSOtVlcY/X652cL6ez2I/AAAAAAAASj8/peCI_Fc0VLcjjT9GAKrT22VLiz3uym9OgCLcBGAsYHQ/s645/Alien%2BCivilization.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Alien Civilization" border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="645" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXINSOtVlcY/X652cL6ez2I/AAAAAAAASj8/peCI_Fc0VLcjjT9GAKrT22VLiz3uym9OgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h240/Alien%2BCivilization.jpg" title="Alien Civilization" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sid Meier's Civilization VI<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Drawing a parallel to real life, if the United States were to post 100,000 Army soldiers on the Mexican border and anchor a few dozen Navy ships off of both Mexican coasts President Obrador would likely have some questions for President Biden. Prime Minister Trudeau would do the same if US forces approached the Canadian border. They would react first with astonishment, "Really, America? Is this necessary? What are your plans for this troop build-up on our border? Are you threatening us?" Each of those leaders would then amass their own troops along their borders and assemble their Navies. There would be a stand-off until one side attacked or the US stood down. At some point, Mexico or Canada may even "lob a shot over the bow" of one of our ships - a warning shot to let us know they mean to defend themselves while also testing us to see if we actually intend to attack them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This scenario has played out countless times around the world throughout history. At one time it was a regular occurrence along the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone#:~:text=The%20demilitarized%20zone%20(DMZ)%20is,kilometres%20(2.5%20miles)%20wide." target="_blank">DMZ</a> border between North and South Korea. Leaders get edgy when when foreign powers threaten their sovereignty, as they should. This is human nature.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Would aliens react the same way? It is difficult to project "human" nature onto aliens. We know very little about their habits, their ways of thinking, other than their general reticence. But we do see the same behavior amongst virtually all animals on our planet. A herd of zebras will react to the presence of a lion. Likewise, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/18422-lions-human-conflict.html#:~:text=Fear%20of%20humans%20is%20now,drives%20lion%20behavior%2C%20studies%20find.&text=Some%20lions%20in%20the%20wild,of%20threats%20posed%20by%20humans." target="_blank">lions fear humans</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do a bit of hiking, sometimes deep in a wild forest. There, I may come across coyotes and bobcats or even wolves, cougars, and bears. Thankfully I have never seen one of these animals up close. But I know what I would do if I did. First, I would try not to threaten them. If they feel threatened they may attack. Instead, I would slowly and quietly back away until they were out of sight and then would quickly leave the area. Hmm... this sounds exactly like what UFOs do...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If I were to inadvertently threaten a North American predator they would likely charge at me. There is little chance I would outrun them. Instead, depending on the size and nature of the predator, I would likely stand my ground and make myself look bigger. I would raise my arms in the air. I would make loud noises. I would try to scare the animal away. I would acknowledge their fear with a reason to be afraid. I would not want to hurt the animal but if it comes down to him or me I would make every effort to get out of there unscathed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is not just human nature, it is <i>interspecies nature</i>. Each species has learned over millions of years to fear other species and to react to each other in a way that will preserve their existence. It is reasonable to assume that aliens play this same game with humans and with the inhabitants of all other primitive planets like ours. They know it is dangerous to get out of their vehicles or even to touch down on the surface of our planet. If we feel threatened we will defend ourselves. We are like wild animals to them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">On a larger scale, if humans were to somehow amass troops in the orbit of an alien planet they would feel threatened. They would ask us what our intentions are. They would take a defensive position - perhaps they would even fire a shot over our bow. We would react the same way to them. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The moment the first <a href="https://www.spaceforce.mil/" target="_blank">Space Force</a> ship arrived at "Planet X" the preceding series of events would begin. Far prior to that, like in the game Civilization, aliens would know we were creating a <i>space force</i>. They would be watching us to see what kinds of capabilities our Space Force ships had. How do we maneuver? What kinds of weapons can we deploy?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyone who can get <i>from there to here </i>(wherever that is)<i> </i>would have weapons capabilities we cannot even imagine. There is little in Humanity's conventional arsenal that could stand up to an alien warship, just as I cannot outrun a bear in the woods. But we do have one (not-so-secret) weapon which would create massive devastation on an alien planet. That weapon sits at the tip of a rocket capable of leaving Earth's atmosphere - the ICBM nuke.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Interspecies Nature would tell any alien civilization that our nukes are a problem for them. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" target="_blank">bombing of Japan</a> would have raised the first alien eyebrows. (Do they have eyebrows? They must wax because they are never depicted with any. Maybe they do electrolysis.) In 1945 humans did not have enough of these weapons to cause much damage to an alien planet and the payloads had to be dropped from airplanes which could not leave our atmosphere. But soon afterwards the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history" target="_blank">Cold War</a> instigated incredible advancements in Humanity's ability to destroy ourselves (or was it the other way around?). Aliens would likely have interpreted this as Humanity's ability to destroy them - that is just smart thinking, scanning the horizon, seeing around corners like a good business person does every day.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At one point in the mid-1980's there were over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons#:~:text=From%20a%20high%20of%2070%2C300,nuclear%20warheads%20in%20the%20world." target="_blank">70,000 active weapons</a> of this type around the world. This could have been viewed by alien civilizations as being akin to a troop build-up on their border. We did not physically put these weapons along their borders but we equipped the warheads with the ability to travel outside our atmosphere. We humans know that there was no intention to launch a strike against another planet; it was a stand-off between two human civilizations in a game of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction#:~:text=Mutually%20assured%20destruction%20(MAD)%20is,nuclear%20strike%20and%20second%20strike)." target="_blank">mutually assured destruction</a>. In a game of Civilization we would have told the aliens we are just passing by - no need to worry. But still, they would want to come here and check us out. They would want to know our intentions.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I believe this is the reason UFO sightings dramatically increased in the 1950's. Soviet Russia kicked off the Space Race in 1957 with the successful launch of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile" target="_blank">first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile</a> and subsequent launch of Earth's first satellite, Sputnik. The US followed suit as fast as possible culminating with putting a <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html" target="_blank">man on the moon</a> as well as the greatest arms build-up in history. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Between 1947 and 1969 the Air Force's <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos" target="_blank">Project Blue Book</a> investigated over 12,000 UFO sightings. Prior to that, UFOs were practically unheard of. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object" target="_blank">term UFO</a> did not even exist until 1953. It stands to reason that the dramatic increase in UFO reports following the first nuclear attack and enduring through the end of the Cold War is a result of alien concerns about Humanity's <i>troop build-up</i> along their borders vis-à-vis the nuclear arms race.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is likely the reason there are multiple eye-witness accounts of nuclear missile silos being taken over by alien spaceships. Accounts vary between completely disarming the missiles and initiating a launch sequence but the end results are all the same: aliens were able to take over the controls of our most dreaded weapon, the ICBM nuke. They lobbed a shot over our bow to test us. We did nothing in return - probably good that we did.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Why would aliens do this? Clearly they were trying to send us a message. That message is, "Don't even think of it." They probably do not care about the real reason for the arms build-up, mutually assured destruction. Their maps of Earth may not have national borders drawn on them. They would just see one unified planet with 70,000 nukes. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Witnessing this, aliens cared about their own security. We were the bear in the woods. Aliens wanted to make themselves appear bigger and scarier. They wanted us to acknowledge that we were threatening them and that they were not afraid of meeting that threat. They would meet our fear with a reason to be afraid.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aliens can disarm our nukes or launch them if they want. They do not want to harm us (because if they wanted to they could have by now) but they will if it comes down to us or them. In the meantime they will continue to explore our wild planet, watching us from afar. If they are spotted they will cautiously back away and then zip out of sight. If they are confronted they will display a show of force to get us to back down. 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The US Navy has even released some <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/paranormal/uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-declassified-video" target="_blank">UFO videos</a>. In many of these stories the aircraft involved is able to float effortlessly without any visible means of propulsion. They are somehow able to repel gravity. How do they do that? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have some ideas. Bear in mind I am not a scientist and I do not suppose that my ideas have any basis in science. They are merely ideas, hypotheses, and I would be just as happy if someone disproved them as if someone actually proved them - at least then we are narrowing down the options.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fyzGb10qIfw/X5f4bj2cUGI/AAAAAAAAShY/2cOxPFfMWIEsIIESLJmwK4Mxu1Vw2EqbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s862/24318d64aad1cbd0d8c2cced79b64699c9ed1a2c.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Attract Gravity," border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="862" height="210" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fyzGb10qIfw/X5f4bj2cUGI/AAAAAAAAShY/2cOxPFfMWIEsIIESLJmwK4Mxu1Vw2EqbwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h210/24318d64aad1cbd0d8c2cced79b64699c9ed1a2c.png" title="Attract Gravity," width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Attract Gravity<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: Khan Academy</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">I have proposed that perhaps when we are visited by aircraft from other planets their means of floating is not actually repelling Earth's gravity but rather locking on to some other, stronger gravitational pull. Perhaps it is our sun or the sun in the solar system the aircraft comes from. Maybe it is our moon. Since that other source of gravity is far away, it is <i>relatively </i>weaker than Earth's gravity so we are not affected by it. But a star's gravity is still <i>absolutely </i>stronger than Earth's.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">With humanity's understanding of physics it is science fiction to suggest we can lock onto a distant star's gravitational pull and allow ourselves to get sucked into it. But then, hand-held communicators/computers were science fiction in the 1960's and fifty years later everyone carries one around in their pocket.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g3q1pVNSSMc/X5f7-_X0a9I/AAAAAAAAShk/Q1qNzDiDZwQoXrdDj4N2G4J4K8yBx1hmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Kirk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hand-held Communicator" border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g3q1pVNSSMc/X5f7-_X0a9I/AAAAAAAAShk/Q1qNzDiDZwQoXrdDj4N2G4J4K8yBx1hmwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h209/Kirk.jpg" title="Hand-held Communicator" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">The challenge I issued to Ms. Science was for someone, some brilliant physicist, to prove my hypothesis. I would like someone to take up the cause and prove it is possible to lock on to a source of gravity that is absolutely stronger than Earth's gravity but which is so far away that is is relatively weaker and then to use that gravity to attract an object. This is what I call <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/10/gravity-attraction.html" target="_blank">The Marceau Contest</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I first issued this challenge I offered the winner a grand prize of one dollar. You could say it was <a href="https://youtu.be/dv5G7pTt7DY" target="_blank">a gentleman's bet</a>, of sorts. Second prize was an Archway Molasses Cookie. A year later no one had won. I cannot imagine why. This should be an easy academic exercise and there is a whole dollar in it for the winner, or maybe even a cookie. I upped the ante in Year 2 with a whole box of Ring Dings. I concede that not everyone likes molasses cookies but who does not like Ring Dings? They are fully of saturated fat and high-fructose corn syrup, also known as "flavor." Plus, in these days of COVID, a box of individually wrapped Ring Dings is probably more attractive than one cookie from an open package. I get it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Still, two years after issuing this challenge no one has made a bit of headway on proving this concept. Neither has anyone attempted to disprove it. So once again, I will up the ante. If a dollar or a box of treats is not enough, perhaps this time I need to think bigger. If someone can prove my concept I will get The Beatles to reunite for a live concert. This would be an incredible feat since I do not know any of the Beatles and I am pretty sure <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-ringo-starr-stop-sending-him-crap-835316/" target="_blank">Ringo hates everyone</a>. I am joking of course. <a href="https://www.distractify.com/p/are-ringo-starr-and-paul-mccartney-friends" target="_blank">Paul and Ringo are good friends</a>. Getting John and George to join will be a greater challenge, though, for obvious reasons.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As a sort of side bet in The Marceau Contest I have also proposed that light may have components similar to DNA. I came to this realization when I thought about the light that was emitted from the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">spaceship I saw</a>. The three horizontal lights that wrapped around the front of the aircraft were intensely bright but they did not shine. They were so bright that Mike, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/meeting-with-other-witness.html" target="_blank">the other witness</a>, thought he was looking at a flare from his vantage point. Yet, they did not seem to illuminate anything in front of them. (The artist's rendition below shows them shining like headlights but they actually did not.) It was as if they were five-sided cubes of light. I know that sounds illogical but it is what I saw with my own eyes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ew8gmaOyiyM/X5f_7SVDIjI/AAAAAAAAShw/0F8E5vwfWc8vheWO3oecShK0wXa6jxO3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MarceauShipFavicon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="DNA of Light" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ew8gmaOyiyM/X5f_7SVDIjI/AAAAAAAAShw/0F8E5vwfWc8vheWO3oecShK0wXa6jxO3gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/MarceauShipFavicon.jpg" title="DNA of Light" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Somehow, whoever built that aircraft was able to manipulate light in a way we humans do not understand. Perhaps the basis of this ability is the same foundation which allows them to get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is) in a reasonable amount of time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If someone can identify the "DNA of Light" and map it there is a whole package of molasses cookies in it for you. In addition, I will now sweeten the pot by getting Nirvana to reunite for a live show.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Better yet, what if Nirvana and The Beatles joined up and jammed together? Here you go:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/624HfkMty_8" width="320" youtube-src-id="624HfkMty_8"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Video - Sir Paul Jams with Grohl & Novoselic</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=624HfkMty_8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=624HfkMty_8</a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Back to reality, obviously I will never get The Beatles or Nirvana to reunite due to the permanent absence of some key members of each band. But despite the light-hearted nature of this article I am serious about these Gravity Attraction and DNA of Light concepts. I do not have much to offer. I can make you a pizza from scratch, maybe. You can choose the toppings. <a href="https://youtu.be/e0m1ez3ejkI?t=2833" target="_blank">Lue Elizondo likes to make pizza</a>. Maybe I can talk him into joining if it is an accomplishment this monumental. I might have to sell him my motorcycle to get that to happen, though. <a href="https://youtu.be/e0m1ez3ejkI?t=499" target="_blank">He really likes that bike</a>.</div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">So there are two ways to win The Marceau Contest. Prove (or disprove) one of these two hypotheses. Aliens can get to Earth in a reasonable amount of time because: </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>They lock-on to and attract far-away sources of gravity</li><li>They have discovered a "DNA" of light, decoded it and mapped it</li></ol><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The winner gets a dollar, a box of Ring Dings, and a homemade pizza. 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I completed my graduate degree near the top of my class.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Much of the credit goes to luck of the draw with an outstanding cohort of fellow students. We shared work, leaning on each other's existing professional competencies. We also shared many drinks, laughs, and a class trip to South Africa. My team was awesome! Much additional credit goes to some outstanding professors. They were not all winners but nearly all of them were a real credit to their profession, people who could teach at more prestigious universities if they wanted but for whatever reason had found a home at UConn.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">One professor who stood out amongst this elite cadre was <a href="https://www.business.uconn.edu/person/john-glascock" target="_blank">Dr. John Glascock</a>. He teaches Economics. Students appreciated his deep knowledge of Economics and its relationship to our everyday lives. Moreso, we loved his energy and delivery. He was not your typical professor by any means. He had style, not from a fashion sense, but in the way he conveyed somewhat mundane content in a manner that made it interesting. My class voted him our favorite professor. Other professors looked askance and grumbled as he accepted his award at our graduation ceremony.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bvuHQYAdMhs/X5AOMOdjXUI/AAAAAAAASfE/QgLiFTwYyfcJ0rHT0AWZifSPnuOW3rgvwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1599/How%2BWould%2Bwe%2BTrade%2Bwith%2BAliens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="How Would we Trade with Aliens?" border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1599" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bvuHQYAdMhs/X5AOMOdjXUI/AAAAAAAASfE/QgLiFTwYyfcJ0rHT0AWZifSPnuOW3rgvwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/How%2BWould%2Bwe%2BTrade%2Bwith%2BAliens.jpg" title="How Would we Trade with Aliens?" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. John Glascock, Professor of Economics<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">As I sat at my desk preparing this blog post about trading with aliens a few weeks ago I thought I should reach out to an expert on Economics. Even though this blog is <i>my </i>philosophy, I want to back up my hypotheses with facts, valid sources, and expert testimony whenever possible. I want to bridge conjecture and reality. Maybe, one source will even prove me wrong or at least give me some ideas I had not yet thought of. I decided to use my professional network to find such a person.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The first step in finding an expert in a certain profession is to check <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarceau/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>. I have many thousands of contacts on LinkedIn. I quickly located a few folks who looked like they would be able to weigh in with credibility. After telling each one that I write a <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/" target="_blank">blog about Alien Philosophy</a>, one did not respond, one declined, and the third referred me to someone who would be "a better fit" with "the right kind of experience." Uh-huh... That guy declined too. It was like I have said in previous articles, most people in Academia lack the courage, or perhaps the imagination, to pontificate on the subject of life elsewhere in the Universe.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I pushed my wheelie chair back from my desk, leaned back, and interlaced my fingers behind my head. I stared at the sky through the big picture window in front of me. I thought and I thought and I thought. That window has a crack in it, I thought. I should get that fixed. Maybe I should wash it too before it gets too cold out.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then I thought, what Economist would be brave enough to have an intellectual conversation with me about aliens? With whom could I broach this subject without derision? Oh, I know, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stein" target="_blank">Ben Stein</a>! But I do not actually know Ben Stein or how to contact him. Scratch that. Oh! Why did I not think of this before? John Glascock!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">How Would we Trade with Aliens?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Contact with aliens could happen at any moment. Or it could never happen. I was a boy scout. I like to <i>Be Prepared</i>. When the pandemic hit and everyone was scrambling to acquire toilet paper, Clorox Wipes, hand sanitizer, N95 facemasks, latex gloves, and canned goods, I had all of that. I had had it for years. Just before Lockdown <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/03/should-we-panic-about-aliens.html" target="_blank">I went out for bread, milk, and bananas</a>, and that was it. I did not know I would need all that stuff for something that would come to be called COVID-19. I just knew I might possibly need it someday.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have a plan for what to do in case there is a fire in my house. I practice the plan with my kids. I yell, "Fire! Fire! Fire!" and they all crouch down and head to the nearest safe exit. I have a plan for tornados - we go to the Zombie Apocalypse Shelter. I have a plan for a home invasion. Watch out! We are ready for anything. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When alien contact occurs I want to be prepared for that too. I want to have a plan in place - not for if they were to show up at the house. I do not know what I would do then. Maybe I would serve coffee - the good kind. And I would put out those hand towels my wife never lets me use and the soap that looks like little rosebuds. But what I am really talking about is a plan for interacting with aliens on a societal level. As a businessman, I want to establish trade relations with them. Is that not the first step?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Throughout history, traders have often been the first people to establish relations with other civilizations. Think <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo" target="_blank">Marco Polo</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company" target="_blank">British East India Company</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company" target="_blank">Dutch West India Company</a>, French fur trappers, pirates. The United States was founded on Jeffersonian <a href="https://famguardian.org/subjects/politics/thomasjefferson/jeff1450.htm" target="_blank">principals of free trade</a> amongst the states and with other countries. We fought <a href="https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/first-barbary-war/" target="_blank">America's first foreign</a> war over free trade. Traders may be the first alien explorers to reach out to humans.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If we establish trade relations with aliens we will need to establish a means of exchange, a currency or a barter plan. I have actually taught a college course on Money and Banking so I know a little bit about this myself. Barter is great when you have only two or three products or services to trade. It breaks down when multiple products are introduced because the permutations grow exponentially as you add products. Currency (or money) is better for large-scale trade. Currency does not have to be paper money or even gold. It just needs to be something that is considered valuable by each interested party, is not easily reproduced, and is in limited supply. The best example of non-monetary currency is cigarettes in prisons.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I did not want to simply cite myself for this article. Despite better than average knowledge of this subject it is not something I have done deep analysis on. I do not practice Economics. Dr. John Glascock does.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I spoke with Dr. Glascock via video conference in September 2020. I began the conversation by establishing my history with <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v7zsp" target="_blank">Unidentified</a> and this blog and then I just threw it out there. I asked John, "If we were to make <i>Contact</i>, how would we establish trade relations with <i>them</i>?" </p><p style="text-align: justify;">John sat back. He said, "Mmm, OK." He pushed at the inside of his cheek with his tongue in an effort to hold for dear life. He cocked his head to one side to listen more carefully.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">He did not try to end the conversation so I continued, "We don't have a common currency. Maybe they have gold?" I shrugged my shoulders, "Maybe they have something else we could use as a currency?" John was still with me, nodding, taking it all in. I looked up to think. "What I'd like to do is, use examples, historic examples, of you know, how do we trade with third-world nations or, " I swallowed hard, "Maybe Communist countries or places that lack hard currency or <i>much</i> currency but maybe have some natural resources, maybe have something else that we can use as a currency or as a mechanism for trade."</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uh1SiiP9xVg/X5AOrQl_VLI/AAAAAAAASfM/2Iq9zV8Lh8MoeAwkMa8kQbx-s6v_Snb9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1599/Interplanetary%2BTrade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Interplanetary Trade" border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1599" height="221" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uh1SiiP9xVg/X5AOrQl_VLI/AAAAAAAASfM/2Iq9zV8Lh8MoeAwkMa8kQbx-s6v_Snb9ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h221/Interplanetary%2BTrade.jpg" title="Interplanetary Trade" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You want to talk about Aliens???<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">Clearly, from the picture above, I had gone to the right guy. Dr. Glascock let me know that while this area of Economics was not his specialty it was part of the foundation of Economics which all Economists share. He could respond with authority. "In our world there would be two reasons to trade. One is, [third-world countries] want some advanced technology. Maybe they wanted a steel plow, back in England's day, and we wanted cheaper wheat, which they were making, or potatoes. So they would trade us a lot of potatoes and we'd trade them the steel plow."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Glascock offers an exception where the US buys oil from OPEC countries with cash but generally the deal is the advanced country will trade technologically superior products for cheap commodities. So far, we are in lock step, moving towards a parallel with Earth being the third-world country and any alien civilization being the more advanced country.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The second trade," he goes on, "Governments want information about the other country. We want to trade enough with Russia or China or ever who it is, so that we collect information." He gives examples of working with wealthy business people to help them make money and in the process we ask them to reveal what they know about the goings-on of their country. This is not necessarily secret information but still intelligence that benefits our country. Giving products or technology to the people of the other country creates a relationship which enables us to get what we want, information. Other countries, no doubt, do this to us and everyone else too, if they can.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Given these two reasons for a country like the US to trade with say Vietnam, John then moves on to how this might work with Earth and another planet. "It's not likely to be commodities in the normal sense." He says our would-be trading partners are so far away, "They have to have technologies that can kind of bend the space-time continuum in order to get here." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have said many times in this blog, "If they can get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is) they can..." Then I will give examples of what a highly advanced civilization might be able to do. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Glascock has this same understanding. If <i>they </i>can perhaps warp space, allowing them to get here in a reasonable amount of time, "They have technology that I suspect allows them to make any kind of commodity they want." OK, I did not see that coming, John. At this point the premise of my article is beginning to come off the rails. But I am intrigued. I want to hear more.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fxy6E9sL_qU/X5AWW1bxSXI/AAAAAAAASgY/kX0Spw9gDwsCndn9bzl9N5nOuRkd2fjDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1305/David%2BMarceau%2BThinking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="David Marceau Thinking" border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="1305" height="230" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fxy6E9sL_qU/X5AWW1bxSXI/AAAAAAAASgY/kX0Spw9gDwsCndn9bzl9N5nOuRkd2fjDQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h230/David%2BMarceau%2BThinking.jpg" title="David Marceau Thinking" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me thinking, how do I phrase this? Um... Aliens!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">John thinks we Earthans may get to that point too within 200-1000 years, depending on how much money government is willing to put into this, "To help us crack some of the things." If we can print products using 3D printers, we can print food or anything else - not today, but soon. "It's kind of like they do in Star Trek, you know, they used to have that little place you went, and pushed a couple buttons, and you got your meal. Now, that's coming." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If a visiting civilization is already at that point, Dr. Glascock says, "I suspect no normal commodity is tradable. So most likely what they would want is they're observing us to see our behavior so they could understand us like we would like to do to Russia or China."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is then revealed that John has read quite a bit of science fiction, especially <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" target="_blank">Isaac Asimov's</a> writings. He has based his economic views of interplanetary trade on the suppositions of Asimov. "I love good science fiction, it's just one of my hobbies." He says, if <i>they </i>can get from there to here, "It's unlikely they want to trade with us." In other words, "No one who can get to us wants to trade with us."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was surprised to hear this because I have assumed that perhaps there is a dying planet out there somewhere and they want our water. Then you have the old Twilight Zone episode, <a href="https://vimeo.com/374158564" target="_blank">To Serve Man</a>, where the aliens want to herd us off to their planet so they can eat us. This was the premise of the miniseries <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(1983_miniseries)" target="_blank">V</a>, as well. You could even look at the absurdist comedy <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/" target="_blank">Space Balls</a> where one planet wants to steal the other planet's air. These are all a part of my foundation of what alien contact might bring.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EVkF5XR9Jtk/X5ApLQN51VI/AAAAAAAASgk/1w8D_EV3UnIZx659OHKK1SI56RjLMrKeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/V.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="V for Victory" border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="831" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EVkF5XR9Jtk/X5ApLQN51VI/AAAAAAAASgk/1w8D_EV3UnIZx659OHKK1SI56RjLMrKeQCLcBGAsYHQ/w260-h320/V.jpg" title="V for Victory" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remember V?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Glascock is an academic. He reads books - lots of them. His foundation on alien Contact is different from mine. He says, "Now they do want to observe us because we are a damned good experiment to observe 'cause we're likely not as advanced as them but we likely evolved different than they did. And they want to study us the way we would study monkeys in Africa. What they would try to do is do it without intervening, though, because that," he chuckles, "Messes up the project, right? If they let you know too much that they're there we might change our behavior."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z7YOStVItXY" width="320" youtube-src-id="z7YOStVItXY"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Video - Economist Dr. John Glascock on Interplanetary Trade</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/z7YOStVItXY" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://youtu.be/z7YOStVItXY" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://youtu.be/z7YOStVItXY</span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am not saying I agree with my friend John, but let us say his assertion is true. That answers one question for many people on <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" target="_blank">#UFOTwitter</a> while opening up a new one. The question it answers is the one I have posed on this blog many times, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/fermi-paradox-introduction.html" target="_blank">Why are They hiding from us?</a> I have asked this so many times I decided to name the question The Marceau Paradox * word *. Perhaps the reason they, aliens, do not want to be detected is because they simply want to watch us go about our lives, reliving their days of antiquity, so they can sit back and say, "Aw, that's adorable." This would be a validation of the popular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis" target="_blank">Zoo Hypothesis</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The question this now opens up relates to quantum physics. Often times when physicists observe something new, when they try to replicate their findings the subject of the experiment decides not to respond in the same way. I call this <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/morrissey/comments/bd3yrj/has_old_morrissey_ever_cancelled_a_concert_on_you/" target="_blank">The Morrissey Effect</a>. I named it after the singer who is reputed to have sold out many shows and then gotten stage fright and decided not to go out and perform. Is there some <a href="https://www.livescience.com/what-is-consciousness.html" target="_blank">consciousness</a> within quantum physics that we are disturbing in our observations? I am not saying I believe this, I am simply posing the question.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7jjFia6ya0/X5AQkSgRzfI/AAAAAAAASfc/N-YN4f8DQKEKRW0AD5NvvpCYnqetbRStgCLcBGAsYHQ/s609/The%2BMorrissey%2BEffect.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The Morrissey Effect" border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="609" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7jjFia6ya0/X5AQkSgRzfI/AAAAAAAASfc/N-YN4f8DQKEKRW0AD5NvvpCYnqetbRStgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h269/The%2BMorrissey%2BEffect.jpg" title="The Morrissey Effect" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morrissey fans waiting...</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">At this point in the conversation I bring it back around to my initial premise. I say to Dr. Glascock, "Maybe [aliens] would be interested in some natural resources?" I shrug my shoulders and push out my bottom lip, "Maybe they need labor?" Maybe aliens would not want to trade with us. But maybe I would never need a <a href="https://www.majorsafety.com/blogs/news/whats-the-difference-between-an-n95-and-r95-respirator" target="_blank">P95 facemask</a> and then Bam! COVID-19 hits us and thank God I had a respirator sealed up in its original packaging down in my Zombie Apocalypse Shelter. Regardless of the likelihood of trade taking place, if it did, how would we do it?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I ask Dr. Glascock, "If there was something we could provide, what would we provide in exchange? I mean, clearly, they have technology that we want. And they could just simply give us something that is 20 years ahead of our technology, we'd be thrilled with it." Think about traveling back the early 1990's and trading someone a smartphone for their monochrome desktop pc with 512kb of memory and dual floppy drives. They would be doing backflips. Hopefully they would not try to trade you front-row tickets to a Morrissey show instead. Or maybe he was still with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiths" target="_blank">The Smiths</a> at the time. They were cool. I can think of quite a few other bands I would like to see if I could go back, like maybe <a href="https://www.nirvana.com/" target="_blank">Nirvana</a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0" target="_blank">this guy</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I went on, "Meanwhile, they may be a million years ahead. We don't know."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">John begins his response talking about Faster-than-light (FTL) travel. He expounds on the unfolding of space which is happening faster than the speed of light and how one would have to travel in a sort of pocket that would protect the body from inertial forces in order to get <i>from there to here</i>. Man, I really did pick the right economist! Then he brings it back around with, "The problem for trade becomes, if I'm that clever, I can manipulate everything. I can make everything in the Universe. I could make gold, silver, I could make food, I could make energy, it's just a matter of transferring energy to matter, matter to energy." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now Dr. Glascock addresses my question head-on. "I suspect if we're that clever, machines do all the basic work. All the people do (let's call them what they are) is there's kind of a thinking or control process that they run. So they've gotten to the point where the way we think of constraints of labor, resources, simply doesn't exist. And it's really unlikely that it will if you can move through space at that time." John tells me to think about the knowledge it would take to move at FTL. "The answer is you've solved these elementary problems." The implication about all our knowledge at that point is, "We're gonna be pretty damned smart."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VOqGgOOw7Ok" width="320" youtube-src-id="VOqGgOOw7Ok"></iframe></div><br />Video - Why Aliens would not trade with Humans</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/VOqGgOOw7Ok" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/VOqGgOOw7Ok</a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Again the answer is, "I don't think there's a way to trade 'cause I think they're just gonna observe us like us observing an ant." He laughs, "We're gonna be the ant and they're gonna be the humans. And we don't trade with ants."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Wait, what? Did you say <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/01/we-are-like-ants-to-them.html" target="_blank">We are like Ants to Them</a>? I already wrote that story, Jonny. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mMO7h_xZxmU/X5AREmTbXBI/AAAAAAAASfo/EXXAQt5hneoNgBUud4IW5nxq8uLzXhziACLcBGAsYHQ/s1599/We%2Bare%2Blike%2BAnts%2Bto%2BThem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="We are like Ants to Them" border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1599" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mMO7h_xZxmU/X5AREmTbXBI/AAAAAAAASfo/EXXAQt5hneoNgBUud4IW5nxq8uLzXhziACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/We%2Bare%2Blike%2BAnts%2Bto%2BThem.jpg" title="We are like Ants to Them" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">We are like Ants to Them</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">But still, are you saying that once a society reaches a certain level of technology there is nothing here on Earth that they would want? He says yes, other than as an intellectual understanding how some other part of the Universe evolved. "So let's roll forward with that," I say. "People on Planet X have reached that level. In a relatively short distance from them people on Planet Y could have also reached that point. Neither one of those planets would have the need to trade with each other, correct?"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Glascock thinks, "At that point they would be really independent of each other. The only trade that might occur at that level is there still may be some phenomenon in the Universe that they haven't figured out so they may want to cooperate to understand that last... they may want to try to figure that out but it won't likely be at the commodity level."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Back to Earth, Dr. Glascock says, "Even today, for example, how many tribes in Africa does the United States trade with? Or the Aborigines in Australia? Do you ever notice us thinking about trading with those two groups? We won't because there's nothing they can offer us."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I suggested maybe some kind of craftwork. I bought some when my grad school class went to South Africa. It hangs on the wall of my office. I lugged that stupid mask from Johannesburg to Cape Town and back and then back to New York. It sucked. But now I am glad I did.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ptXX9GYxBM/X5ATanevygI/AAAAAAAASgA/LuXhzMvBvhYQGJ7UaIkpEGAFAtOtVPKiQCLcBGAsYHQ/s717/African%2BArt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="African Art" border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ptXX9GYxBM/X5ATanevygI/AAAAAAAASgA/LuXhzMvBvhYQGJ7UaIkpEGAFAtOtVPKiQCLcBGAsYHQ/w155-h320/African%2BArt.jpg" title="African Art" width="155" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">African Art</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">John was kind enough to indulge me on this, "You could maybe think about it from an artistic point of view," but a society that comes here may be so much more advanced than us that they do not find our art to be art. We are likely closer to the Aborigines than we are to aliens which is why we find value in their art.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It sounded like John may have been under the impression that all aliens are from the same place. I offered that with all the thousands of eye-witness accounts of different types of spaceships, aliens are likely from many different species and societies. He had a response for that too, "If they are smart and have good technology they of course should hide who they are by making it look to us like they're from different places. As an Economist, we always look for the rational expectation answer." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Glascock says there is no point to give away information. He then gives the example of playing in the stock market, "If I'm trading in the marketplace, remember the good traders, long-term management capital, they were trading like ten different trades, one of them's real, the nine were shadow trades to keep the observers from knowing what the real trades were. So if these people are this smart... it is not to their benefit to look the same every time."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">That makes sense. I do not agree it applies to every sighting but it makes me think of playing cards. If you know you have a "tell" or a habit which alerts your opponents to the quality of the hand you hold, you may either cover up that tell or you may intentionally use it to indicate the opposite of what is in your hand.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This one time, I was in Atlantic City with my friend I have referred to in other blog posts as "G-man." We were up all night. Normally, I am fighting the Zzz Monster at 10:00pm so I do not know how I did this but we were still playing cards in the wee hours of the morning. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I told G-man it was my last hand when I started falling asleep at the table. I had to be woken up more than once when it was my turn. Other players were getting angry. But they ignored me and built up the pot, betting against each other. I turned over my hand and won over $800. I was done. Time for bed. But while I was raking in all my chips the dealer dealt me in another hand. Since I had money to play with, I rolled with it. The angry mob at the table counted me out because they figured the guy who was falling asleep just got lucky. Being sleepy was my <i>tell </i>that night. I played it. I intentionally looked sleepy and disoriented in this next hand, even though I was now wide awake. I called every raise between two other players who were duking it out with each other, barely noticing me. Why not? I won another $500.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Poker is all about bluffing your opponents. I was not intentionally trying to look like I was falling asleep, at first. I was really falling asleep. I am a morning person, not a night owl. But I sure had them all fooled that night. It happened that I was dealt two good hands in a row. But if I had really been trying hard to win those hands my opponents would likely have known I had good cards and they would have folded and I would not have won so much. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aliens have probably been down that road a few times. (Maybe I should write an article titled, Do Aliens Play Poker?) Dr. Glascock seems to think so, or some variation of it. He says what aliens should do is, "They should have different kinds of ships, they should have different attributes, they should look like they came from different time periods..."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">OK, let us have that conversation. I said, back in Colonial Days, if you were a Native American in Massachusetts, you may have only known of the English. Meanwhile, there were French, Spanish, and Dutch traders landing in other parts of the continent, each staking out their own claims. If that same Indian stood on the shores of Cape Cod and saw a multi-masted sailing ship drop anchor in the harbor and unload men on horses it would be the most amazing thing he had ever seen. His friends would have had difficulty believing him. Debunkers would ask, "Are you sure it was a boat? Could it have been a whale? Maybe it was a Flock of Seagulls." The Indian would say, "I know what I saw!"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At any rate, all these different nations were sailing here to The Americas, independent of each other. Their ships had many similarities but each was distinct and could be identified or differentiated by a trained observer. Perhaps this Indian would know the difference, perhaps not.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Back on topic, I asked Dr. Glascock if he was saying that we Earthans will someday reach the point where we no longer need to trade with each other, let alone other planets. In this question, we assume there are still separate countries rather than one world government. The response is, "We will probably want to trade so that we don't kill each other."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I agree. This is the reason the European Union (originally the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community" target="_blank">European Economic Community</a>) was formed. After two world wars in half a century the people of Europe decided the best way to avoid a third world war was to become so interdependent they would be forced to get along. They did this through free trade, the same way the American states did amongst ourselves. It would be unthinkable for New York to attack its tiny neighbor Vermont even though New York would kick Vermont's butt. Yeah, take that, Vermont! Maybe the same could not be said of every state. I have met some guys from Texas who would love to take out Oklahoma. But overall, free trade between the states has perhaps been the greatest uniting factor of the states.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Glascock says, "When you trade with people, you know people. You are less likely to go to war." He concludes that, "That kind of trade may be necessary in order to keep the society from breaking apart." Then John cites <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community" target="_blank">Asimov's Trilogy</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Back to commodities he believes we are close to being able to produce anything we want, like our alien visitors probably already can do. We are beginning to crack the code of how to make gold or diamonds or even potatoes. Money has to be something that is in limited supply. If I had a machine that could make gold our whole system of valuating material items would be turned upside-down. There would be no shortages of goods, "If we can get to that point..." John says.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What bothers him is we, as a society, may decide that this technology is something that should only benefit the wealthy or some other privileged few. "That's a political issue, though, not a technological constraint," he says. As an example of how this future may play out, Dr. Glascock says in Singapore everyone in the country has high-speed Internet for about $15 per month. Think about what you pay for Internet and what quality you receive, now. Our connection at my house goes down all the time, despite paying a fortune for the fastest service offered. The reason, John says, is because America places a higher value on enriching corporate shareholders than on providing value to our citizens. He says that aliens have probably gotten past that systemic hurdle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CINsrrweYZM" width="320" youtube-src-id="CINsrrweYZM"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">Video - Why Aliens may or may not Trade</div><div style="text-align: center;">And how Humanity may mirror This</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/CINsrrweYZM" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/CINsrrweYZM</a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Interplanetary Trade</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">What if people on Planet X are green and people on Planet Y are blue and they do not like each other because of that? Perhaps they feel the need to trade in order to get along with each other, like Europe did after World War II, I supposed to Dr. Glascock. He agreed that may happen, "Either we're going to kill each other off or we're gonna solve that problem." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here is where Dr. Glascock gets to the most important take-away from the conversation, "As you go through technology over time there's gonna be a couple of bottlenecks I'm gonna call them, that are gonna require us to catch - we have to cooperate trade intellectually, scientifically, and quit competing in order to make that leap. If we don't, the bottleneck's gonna kill us. And I think, ever who gets to the point they can travel at the speed of light - my own view is they had to go through these and we know they got through them because they can travel at the speed of light. Think about the intellectual ability it takes. It's gonna take a lot of time for a lot of people to work on this puzzle to crack it. And if we're fighting war all the time we can't be cracking that puzzle."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was not where I had anticipated the conversation to stray but after reviewing the recording I found it to be mind-expanding to contemplate this concept. Science fiction typically envisions people from other planets to be one people, united. Yet here on Earth, we are many peoples. Most people value our diversity within the United States. Still, there is a deep vain of ethnocentricity here. That feeling is compounded in other countries. Worldwide, most nations want to be Number One, most ethnic groups as well. At some point we will all need to unite if we are to solve our greatest challenges. It seems right now our greatest challenge is getting to the point where we can begin to address those greater challenges.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Still, notwithstanding this new revelation in my pocket, I was not satisfied with the outcome of the conversation because John did not address my burning question of, how do we trade with aliens? What currency would we use? I threw another supposition at him. What if people on Planet Z were only a couple hundred years ahead of us but they somehow acquired FTL technology. Maybe they bought it or they reverse engineered a crashed spaceship, whatever. Since they are only a couple hundred years ahead of us that would be a civilization that might want to trade with us, right John?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">No, Dr. Glascock says, "They might want to wipe us out and conquer - take the Earth. That's more like England going to India or China back in '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_globalization" target="_blank">The First Globalization</a>' where they exploited India and exploited China. I think at that level they won't see us worth talking to they'll see us worth being exploited."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was still not satisfied. "Maybe they think that even though we're more primitive than they are, we're armed to the teeth and it would be a blood bath so they wanna figure out another way, they wanna trade." Or maybe they are not more advanced than us. There was an old <a href="https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live" target="_blank">SNL</a> skit (I wish I could find a link to it) where aliens come to Earth and are talking about their technology which includes covered wagons. It does not take long for the people of Earth to figure out the aliens <i>found </i>the spaceship and are actually over one hundred years behind us, technologically.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">John was not biting, "It's all based on my premise. If you could travel at faster than the speed of light, if you could bend space, we have no weapon that can harm them. I mean, they can wipe us out so fast there would not be a war there'd just be a second and we'd be gone." John has already discussed this issue with other intellectuals over beers. He and his peers suspect that the folks who actually developed that technology would not allow this to happen. If Planet Z were aggressive, why would Planet X allow them to grow with this more advanced technology? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aDqe6w98hLg" width="320" youtube-src-id="aDqe6w98hLg"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">Video - Why Aliens would never share their Technology</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/aDqe6w98hLg" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/aDqe6w98hLg</a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have suggested the same concept about life on Earth when people have asked if the spaceship I saw could have been some advanced prototype our military was testing. I counter this with the fact that my sighting was three decades ago. If we had the abilities that ship had, 28 years ago, we would have used it on the battlefield by now. There would probably no longer be any American adversaries - maybe not even any independent countries. The same could be said if most other nations possessed that technology.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Two years ago I wrote a series of articles related to this. In <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/are-we-too-violent-for-aliens.html" target="_blank">Are we too Violent for Aliens</a> and <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/snakes-in-box.html" target="_blank">Snakes in a Box</a>, I posit that humans are a violent, aggressive species. Nearly every one of the 200-some countries has a military and most have used their militaries. Why would any planet with FTL technology make contact with us? If they did we would certainly ask them to share that technology with us. Disagree? If you have kids, put a box of cookies in a cabinet and tell the kids not to eat any. I do not know how long it will take your kids to get into the cookies but they will. If they do not sneak them one-by-one they will pester you ad nauseum until you give in.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aliens know that one. They know all the tricks. In <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/02/why-dont-aliens-contact-us.html" target="_blank">Why Don't Aliens Contact Us</a>, I spelled it out clearly. Aliens do not contact us because they know it is a trap. We will acquire their technology one way or another and then turn it against them. It has no doubt happened to them before - or maybe they were the ones who did it to someone else. They will not allow it to happen again.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This then begs a bigger question, though. If aliens do not want us to acquire the technology to wipe them out to the extent that they will observe us but refuse to contact us, would they take it a step further? Would they actively work to stymie our efforts to advance? Will they let us get a step ahead and then push us two steps back? How would they do this? Would they sabotage a company or University with a computer virus? Would they sabotage humanity with a biological virus? Would they sabotage our democracy with a human virus (insert politician of your choice)?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps we are indeed living in a version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show" target="_blank">The Truman Show</a> as I wrote in my article <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/the-earth-show.html" target="_blank">The Earth Show</a>. Our lives are scripted - not what we do on a day-to-day basis, but on a greater scale. When we make the right choices, everything proceeds as planned. When we do not, the show's Director makes it rain or introduces a new character to steer us back on course.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-psgO6Aydqu0/X5AU7ujpRbI/AAAAAAAASgM/qV3JjQ842B82tx8mzAWxJZ3Gf1cJLXx7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1414/David%2BMarceau%2BInterviewing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="David Marceau Interviewing" border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1414" height="236" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-psgO6Aydqu0/X5AU7ujpRbI/AAAAAAAASgM/qV3JjQ842B82tx8mzAWxJZ3Gf1cJLXx7wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h236/David%2BMarceau%2BInterviewing.jpg" title="David Marceau Interviewing" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me Interviewing<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">I posit to John that a spaceship could crash and we could reverse engineer it. Or someone else on Planet Z could do that. Dr. Glascock says if that did occur, the more advanced society would simply wipe out the more primitive one before they had a chance to use that technology against them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">John wrapped up with a statement that some on #UFOTwitter will enjoy. There is a subgroup, I will call it, that believes a conspiracy theory related to "the Military-Industrial Complex." Some people believe that aliens could share with us the knowledge which will allow humanity to acquire energy for free. This would then put all the energy companies out of business. That is why the government will not disclose its knowledge of aliens because the Military Industrial Complex does not want to go out of business.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do not subscribe to that point of view and Dr. Glascock reaffirms this. As an economist he says aliens would never share that knowledge with the Earth's governments in the first place because then they would lose their competitive advantage over us. But, he says, we may be on our way to reaching true energy independence on our own. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FGLKmgirIBQ/X5ASHQVulYI/AAAAAAAASf0/Iw0SZxaSGGkW0ilrrRryG3y3U6YU7NJHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1598/Dr%2BGlascock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dr Glascock" border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1598" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FGLKmgirIBQ/X5ASHQVulYI/AAAAAAAASf0/Iw0SZxaSGGkW0ilrrRryG3y3U6YU7NJHwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/Dr%2BGlascock.jpg" title="Dr Glascock" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Glascock saying, "You can quote me"<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">Before he decided to become an economist John was thinking of being a physicist. That is why he knows so much about warping space and how aliens could possibly get <i>from there to here</i>, wherever <i>there </i>is. He reads 8-10 books on physics every year in addition to all his science fiction and economics reading. I wish I had the time he has. Maybe I need to delete my Facebook account. FB is a huge waste of time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Glascock says, according to the books he reads and the conversations he has with other brilliant minds, Earth will achieve true energy independence within the next hundred years - much sooner if there is a coordinated effort similar to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project" target="_blank">The Manhattan Project</a> - then we could do it within 25 years. There may be people or companies lobbying against this but there are plenty of scientists working on cracking it. This is a problem Man will work out without the intervention of a smarter alien society.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kBKlBiwblPk" width="320" youtube-src-id="kBKlBiwblPk"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">Video - Dr. Glascock on Free Energy</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/kBKlBiwblPk" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://youtu.be/kBKlBiwblPk" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/kBKlBiwblPk</a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">The Marceau Paradox</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">My conversation with Dr. Glascock led me to several new conclusions. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li>As much as I would like to think about it, and contrary to what many science fiction shows and movies would lead us to believe, aliens may not want to ever trade with us. Therefore there may be no common currency we could use to buy or sell anything with aliens. </li><li>Despite the thousands of eye-witness accounts of UFO sightings, aliens may never make official Contact with us. We have nothing to offer them other than as subjects of observation and they do not want to mess up their science experiment (us) by intervening in our lives.</li><li>Although <a href="https://youtu.be/e0m1ez3ejkI" target="_blank">Lue Elizondo</a>, Harry Reid, and others have confirmed the US government knows more about aliens than it admits, they probably do not possess alien technology that would lead us to energy independence - the aliens who developed this tech would not permit it.</li><li>It is possible that if we get too close to FTL, energy independence, or the ability to convert matter into any commodity, aliens may intervene to set us back so that we do not try to conquer or control them. They would do this in a way we would not be able to detect so they do not piss us off and cause us to retaliate.</li></ul><div>In developing The Marceau Paradox I have refuted some elements of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox" target="_blank">The Fermi Paradox</a> while adopting others. My best reason for Why do they not make contact is a variation on The Zoo Hypothesis which I call The Earth Show Hypothesis, based on the movie The Truman Show. Aliens will never make contact with us because it is more beneficial to them to observe us, however, it is a controlled experiment. 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However, I believe having spoken with Lue many times that people tend to think he knows more than he does on a variety of tangential subjects. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, he was privy to extensive amounts of Classified information, enough he says to convince any skeptic we are indeed being visited. But there are many other subjects related to UFO investigations which he is assumed to know about which he is simply out of the loop on. This includes most conspiracy theories about aliens and UFOs and their purported connection to government.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We began this most recent conversation talking about how much things had changed since we last met. When Lue came to my house to interview me for <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v7zsp" target="_blank">Unidentified</a> on the History Channel that was less than a week before we went into complete lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. He told me my interview was the last one he was able to do with a full camera crew.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2yRSUEarKwU/X33CIx8aIbI/AAAAAAAASdE/RKYpRDzZpSQgys3bd81OZIhImsY3IjEiQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1413/Disclosure%2BIs%2BHappening.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="What does Lue Elizondo Know?" border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1413" height="374" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2yRSUEarKwU/X33CIx8aIbI/AAAAAAAASdE/RKYpRDzZpSQgys3bd81OZIhImsY3IjEiQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h374/Disclosure%2BIs%2BHappening.jpg" title="What does Lue Elizondo Know?" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What does Lue Elizondo Know?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">After Lue interviewed me in February, A&E Networks was not able to put anyone on a plane and send them on location to finish Unidentified. Lue was given some equipment which he had no experience with and told to do the work himself. He was apologetic about the "poor camera work and sound engineering" quality of the last few episodes. I had not noticed but joked with him that I would go back and re-watch the series so I could scrutinize it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since then, the news media has been consumed with everything Coronavirus, on top of everything that is going on politically and economically. Regarding Unidentified and other news about UFOs, Lue said, "In any other time had this information come out we would probably be seeing a tsunami of people who are interested... maybe even Congressional hearings."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This article is Part II of a video conference interview I had with Lue on October 1, 2020. The first article focused on <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/10/who-is-lue-elizondo.html" target="_blank">who is Lue Elizondo</a>, as a person. This article will detail some of what Lue knows, some breadcrumbs he dropped during the course of this and other discussions and some conclusions I drew from that data. I will go over:</p><ul><li>Is Lue Elizondo an Agent of Disclosure?</li><li>Why does the Government keep secrets about UFOs?</li><li>When will Disclosure Happen?</li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;">I wrap up the Disclosure section at the end with some conclusions based on this and other conversations I have had with Lue.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Is Lue Elizondo an Agent of Disclosure?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">There are a small number of people on social media who believe Lue is still working for the US government. Some believe he was put out there as an "agent of Disclosure" to ease the public into a big announcement confirming that aliens exist. The rest seem to think he is tasked with spreading disinformation, for some reason. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue casually defended himself without seeming defensive about it. "You're entitled to your opinion," he replied. "Hopefully you have an open enough of a mind to look at the facts and data and see what we've done over the past three years." This is logic people on #UFOTwitter have expressed, as well. I am a good example. I was able to get the story of <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v7zsp" target="_blank">my UFO sighting</a> out to those who can do something with it after having sat on this information for nearly three decades. My experience is contrary to the notion that Lue would be in the business of spreading disinformation. So if I seem a little biased it is with good cause. But I am one person with one story. I will let Lue tell his own story.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"I'm not asking for credit for this," he goes on to say. "Look at this and rather than reflexively saying, 'Oh, this is a Government Op,' well, what does that even mean? You haven't even worked for the government. How do you know what a Government Op looks like?" </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"We don't do these things to our own people." Lue acknowledged that at one time many years ago the US government did some terrible things to its own citizens. The <a href="http://tuskegeeairmen.org/" target="_blank">Tuskegee Airmen</a> is a prime example. When these stories came to light things changed. Laws were passed to prevent that. He is not aware of anything like that today. "If I were to do that I would have been fired and put into jail, lost my badge, lost my Security Clearance." This does not convince some people. Lue shrugs it off, "People are ultimately entitled to believe what they want to believe."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IxvE2OG-eWQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="IxvE2OG-eWQ"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lue Elizondo on Government Ops</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/IxvE2OG-eWQ" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/IxvE2OG-eWQ</a></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">There may always be a category of people who will never believe Lue. He does not concern himself with that group. "These are individuals that have their own minds made up," he says. "They have come to some preconceived conclusion, some narrative that they feel comfortable with and nothing is gonna dissuade them." Instead, Lue will, "Continue to do my job: Collect the truth and speak the truth, that's it."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The job Lue does now for <a href="https://home.tothestarsacademy.com/" target="_blank">TTSA</a> is not much different from what he did while working in the Pentagon. He collects information and presents it, "in a consumable manner," for the American People to process and draw their own conclusions.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">While explaining this, Lue falls back into some old personal history. He begins a narration with a projection of the UFO Community ("#UFOTwitter") as the "jury" which judges his presentations. In mid-sentence this morphs into that jury being his former colleagues in the government, "At the end of the day I don't care what it means to them. It's their decision. If they want it to be a national security priority, 'You know what, this is interesting but, yeah, not worth spending tax-payer dollars on,' fine. I'm fine with either decision, but at least let them have that conversation and the decision. Don't squelch the conversation because you don't like where it's going. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"And that's my biggest concern and probably my biggest challenge I had when I was in the government is that some people didn't even want to have the conversation. That to me, I think it's disingenuous. I don't think we have the best interest of the American People when we do that. When we hide the truth inevitably the truth is gonna come out either way."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Why does the Government keep secrets about UFOs?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">One of the criticisms often levied against Lue and others whom #UFOTwitter considers to be in a position of authority is there is too much secrecy. Responses to simple questions are enigmatic. These authorities stand above the peasants obfuscating their data - they say much and reveal little. People simply want to know do we have evidence of alien visitations? For example, do we or do we not have crashed spaceship materials? If so, why not have a transparent public examination of these materials?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">From the conversations I have had with Lue it seems like if it were up to him he would dump most if not everything he knows onto the public. The reason he cannot explicitly declare everything he knows is because he is bound by the covenants of his Secret Clearance. He colloquially calls it an "NDA" or Non-Disclosure Agreement because that is the vernacular most private citizens are familiar with. In actuality it is the SF86 form he was required to sign while in the service of the government which gives very specific limits on what information you can and cannot share with the public. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue can <i>never </i>talk about information declared Classified until that designation expires. That expiration date is up to the government, not him. Sometimes it is twenty-five years, sometimes seventy-five. It is out of Lue's hands. Even though he is no longer working for the US government he is still bound by federal law to abide by the secrecy terms of that contract. The consequence of breaking that contract could mean prison time. He has a family to consider. Prison or exile à la Edward Snowden are not options.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue has been forthcoming in this interview. That includes the admission that there is a level of deliberate secrecy on the UFO Phenomenon in the government. His explanation again is National Security, however, he provides further details - he lifts the covers on this blanket reason. Our government does not want to acknowledge what it knows because that would give American adversaries the impetus to "build against it." If we had a game-changing technology in our hands, like a crashed UFO, other countries would attempt to replicate it, just like they did after the development of the nuclear bomb. This, to me, implicitly declares we do indeed have something. But he did not say that and would not be able to say what it was, if asked. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is a segue into Lue's then upcoming blog post about the time <a href="http://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/blog/progress-vs-congress-a-reminder-to-our-elected-officials-why-they-should-take-ufos-seriously-by-luis-elizondo?fbclid=IwAR2Tul9tVdCZaKhgRtzb6GH-3UqWH6K7TG4eX0q43F4EW2kdzihio7UfNuA" target="_blank">Soviet Russia shot down a U2 spy plane</a>. "It wasn't until the Russians were able to shoot down, successfully, a U2 spy plane did they admit to their own people, 'Hey, the Americans are flying a reconnaissance aircraft over our country.'" The implication is that perhaps there are some people in the US government who know UFOs are observing us but for national security reasons the information is being withheld - the detailed reason being that they do not know what to do about it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XH_NHOzhnd4" width="320" youtube-src-id="XH_NHOzhnd4"></iframe></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Lue Elizondo on Keeping Secrets</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/XH_NHOzhnd4" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/XH_NHOzhnd4</a></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">In the case of the U2, "They didn't have a solution. Why do you tell your people you have a problem and that you don't have a solution. That's a bad thing." Lue disagrees with this approach though, "The problem is, the longer you sit on that secret, it has a perishable shelf-life - the longer it becomes a liability, because at some point when the truth does come out people are gonna look back and now that secret that you used to protect yourself is now being used as a weapon against you." He wraps up with glints of hope for those yearning for Disclosure, "Keeping secrets from your own people can only last for so long before the advantages start getting outweighed by those disadvantages of keeping something secret."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If the government does have a crashed UFO or some materials alien to our planet, as many in the UFO Community assert, perhaps those who are studying it do not understand it. They do not want to admit there is a problem without a solution. Or they do not want to admit the solution is too complex to implement. "Governments are paid to have answers. Governments are paid to protect their people and ensure national sovereignty." These metaphors provoke further tacit implications.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WZygBJhrwQM" width="320" youtube-src-id="WZygBJhrwQM"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;">Lue Elizondo on Secrecy<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/WZygBJhrwQM" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/WZygBJhrwQM</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Who is driving the Disclosure Process?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Some #UFOTwitter folks question the National Security "excuse". Conspiracy theories say that we, here on Earth, are not the ones driving this UFO Disclosure process. Most others would say that notion is absurd. Lue took the question seriously. He said before the interview began that no question was off limits. Apparently, he had already put some thought into this one.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue likened the belief that humans are not in control of Disclosure to forces beyond our control which influence us, like the weather. "Is it possible there's something out there that is influencing us? Well we know the environment sure as hell does. It's not purposely trying to hurt us or influence us but it does." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Could there be other forces out there trying to interfere with us? "Sure, but you have to have the evidence to back that up." He says you need data to support the hypothesis, otherwise it is just a belief. To be clear and to dispel any new conspiracy theories before they start, he does not seem to be aware of any data which would confirm this hypothesis. "It doesn't mean you're wrong, you could still be right. Lots of people take an educated guess on something and wind up being right. I'm not criticizing them. I'm just saying be very careful when someone states something as a fact when indeed it's not really a fact; maybe it's a belief, 'I think,' right? Versus, 'I know.'"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue does have some "I thinks" in addition to the "I knows." A few of his beliefs may have been changed after he read the book <a href="https://medium.com/@adam.kehoe/chains-of-the-sea-the-1973-science-fiction-novella-influencing-ttsa-2c5eb9903c07" target="_blank">Chains of the Sea</a>. He has mentioned this to the public before. Lue says, we may be asking the wrong question. The question is not, where are UFOs from? Lue emphasizes that our concept of who or what is visiting us should not be thought of as either human or alien. It is not a black and white issue. There may be a third or even fourth option. He does not say what those options are but the book talks about AI and "Others". He is ambivalent towards concepts expressed in the book. He draws no explicit connections between the book and real life. He simply states that his mind, his way of thinking, was expanded by reading this short story. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CGODppUkncI" width="320" youtube-src-id="CGODppUkncI"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;">Lue Elizondo on Chains of the Sea<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/CGODppUkncI" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/CGODppUkncI</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">When will Disclosure Happen?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">The times, they are a changing. I recapped Season I of Unidentified with Lue, how no one used the term "UFO". They said "UAP" which means the same thing but is the preferred nomenclature in Government. It is an attempt to remain distanced from people in tin-foil hats and discussions of <i>little green men</i>. There was some mystery as to what the "Tic Tac" and other spaceships were, on the show. They continuously asked, did a foreign government leap-frog us? I intended to challenge that and perhaps change it with my interview in Season II. I came right out and said that what I saw was indeed, "an alien spaceship." Then, watching Season II, I heard Lue use the term "UFO" for the first time. There was less mystery throughout this season. What changed?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue said, "We're beginning to see a shift in the openness of people to have the conversation." People in Congress and the highest levels of government are starting to talk about this. Some Congressmen have even privately shared their own personal UFO stories with Lue. "We've helped destigmatize the conversation... 'We' collectively, all of us, even the 'UFO Twitterverse' that's out there." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are now regular classified briefings by the new <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/" target="_blank">UAP Task Force</a>. They are viewing real hi-fidelity data that they can look at, classified data, "not just 'fuzzy images' that people see on a video. Really, real good data on this." He credits sighting witnesses who have come forward with their stories rather than himself or TTSA.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In addition, there are many of what I will call "Lone Wolf" reporters trying to bring forth whatever information they can uncover. Lue gives them much credit and says, "There are serious people now finally taking this topic seriously."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Conclusions</b></p><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">How does one usher in Disclosure when bound by Non-Disclosure. It happens slowly. The door to a vault does not swing with ease. It is pulled with great effort. When it is first cracked open not much can be seen inside the vault. The more time that passes the more the contents are revealed. When that effort stops the door stops and nothing more is available. Lue is pulling on that door with all his might. We have seen the results of his (and others') efforts since 2017.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to what Lue has explicitly shared by way of helping people like me get our stories out to the public, there are breadcrumbs being spread for the public to draw their own conclusions thereby revealing what Lue is unable to say. It just takes some astute people to collect, analyze, and interpret the data and extrapolate the correlations. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For example, if Lue knew the government was in possession of a crashed UFO, due to his NDA he would not be able to report that. If he wanted the public to know about it he would have to introduce the topic in some other way, say by urging his current employer to acquire their own <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/11/are-metamaterials-real.html" target="_blank">metamaterials</a> suspected to have come from a crashed UFO. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This would then imply that perhaps there are more crashed UFO materials out there somewhere in a government facility. Then it would be up to the American People to draw these conclusions and submit specific <a href="https://www.foia.gov/" target="_blank">FOIA</a> requests for more information. Of course, this is just an educated guess like Lue stated above. He never told me the government has a crashed UFO. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But this is how we need to view the pictures Lue paints in broad strokes. The common criticism of him saying much and revealing little is valid but perhaps we need to listen more closely. He is not showing us what we want to see, he is not able to, but he is tacitly pointing out what should be in plain sight. Picture two kids playing Hide-and-seek. You know where one is hiding. The other one, the Finder, comes and asks where he is. You cannot come out and say, "He's next to the wardrobe." But you can point in the direction of the wardrobe and wink your eye. From there it is up to the Finder to figure it out.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue said he will collect information and present it, "in a consumable manner," for the American People to process and draw their own conclusions. He has done that. Now we need to start drawing those conclusions and asking each other the right questions based on those results.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue's U2 story obviously correlates to current times. I asked Lue, "What's our <i>U2 Moment</i>?" He does not refer to a specific incident in the past or future. Instead, he comes back to the notion that a small handful of people believe he is not genuine and ties it in to the times we are living in right at this moment. Regardless of people's beliefs about him he says cheekily, "You're getting what you wanted anyways, right? You wanted Disclosure, here you go. And you wanted your government to take this seriously, here you go. You wanted people to come forward and the media to talk about it. Here you go. OK. Happy birthday!"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">#UFOTwitter has been waiting for an official announcement about Disclosure. The Disclosure process may indeed be happening right now. It seems to have begun when Lue resigned from the government. It will not conclude fast enough for many people. Even once the vault door is completely open there will be smaller boxes within the vault which can only be unlocked using two keys, one from the owner of the vault, the US government, and one from the owner of the box's contents, many many individuals. Lue and others are coaxing those individuals to reveal what they know, to unlock their safe-deposit boxes. I am a prime example.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eeJoLHnC4_c" width="320" youtube-src-id="eeJoLHnC4_c"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Disclosure is Happening</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/eeJoLHnC4_c" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/eeJoLHnC4_c</a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue feels confident this will continue to happen. "I think [Disclosure is] happening. I think you're already seeing me having the ability to have a discussion that just even a year ago I couldn't have." Little by little he is able to reveal more of what he knows. "It's happening now. Again, this is a process, it's not an event. People have to understand you have to have patience. We only made it this far because we're running a marathon. This isn't a sprint."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What happens next? "I think there's a lot more to come," Lue told me. 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Within the UFO Community, or <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufotwitter" target="_blank">#UFOTwitter</a>, Lue is perhaps the greatest force in Disclosure, #UFOTwitter's effort to push the US Government to admit and reveal its knowledge of UFOs.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I first reached out to Lue after reading that New York Times article. Eventually, he brought my own <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/07/unidentified-s2-e3.html" target="_blank">UFO story</a> to the public with an appearance on Unidentified. Shortly afterwards, he texted me on a Saturday night to tell me he and his wife were watching and enjoying the episode I appeared in. He asked me how my blog was doing. I told him I would love to interview him for it, "Not the typical interview where the interviewer tries to pry secret info about UFOs from you. More on a personal level - who is Lue Elizondo?"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue wrote back, "Sure thing!" We had planned to do this the following week but then Hurricane Isaias knocked out power and Internet to my house for over a week. It would take us about another two months to coordinate our schedules.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SCSVMtDH9rQ/X3u8VPbS3fI/AAAAAAAASco/-qY0U6P1xAYuvcr7-2RYO_s2O9N70o1qgCLcBGAsYHQ/s588/WhoIsLueElizondo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Who is Lue Elizondo?" border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="588" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SCSVMtDH9rQ/X3u8VPbS3fI/AAAAAAAASco/-qY0U6P1xAYuvcr7-2RYO_s2O9N70o1qgCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h284/WhoIsLueElizondo.jpg" title="Who is Lue Elizondo?" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Lue Elizondo October 1, 2020</div></span><p style="text-align: justify;">We spoke on October first of 2020, the latest in many conversations we have had both on the phone and in person. I was in my home office in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Lue called in from his camper, "The Château de Lue," as he calls it, somewhere in Wyoming. He is there with his wife and their dogs, scoping out some land. Here in the New York City area houses are snapped up by City People upon market listing without negotiation. It is an effort to outrun the pandemic. Lue may have similar motivations, though officially he is outrunning the Tax Man. Taxes are lower in Wyoming and the people are friendly, he says.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue and I kibitzed momentarily prior to staging my official introduction for YouTube. With respect, I told Lue it was OK if there were questions he did not want to answer. He ponged back declaring no questions were off the table, security issues notwithstanding. He joked it would be acceptable to ask his favorite color. I laughed; a follower had suggested that in jest on Twitter. For the record, it is black - no surprise to anyone who has seen Lue on TV.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">My introduction began with heaps of praise. I would not be writing this article right now if Lue had not left government service and went to the New York Times with his assertion that people in the US government know UFOs are real. He deserves great credit for bringing people like me out of seclusion and giving us a platform with which to share our experiences with the world. Lue brushed my accolades aside and spent the next two minutes praising me for coming forward with my story. I appreciated the affirmation.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">True to my word, the focus of the interview was:</p><ul><li>Who is Lue Elizondo?</li><li>What does Lue Elizondo Like to do?</li><li>What does Lue Elizondo think?</li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;">However, when a UFO blogger and the de facto spokesman for the UFO Community get together on Zoom for an hour and a half, a myriad of subjects will come up, including UFOs. #UFOTwitter wants to know not just what is Lue's favorite color but when will Disclosure happen? Lue's revelations will be published in the follow-up to this article, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/10/what-does-lue-elizondo-know.html" target="_blank">What does Lue Elizondo Know?</a> For now, I am happy to present:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Who is Lue Elizondo?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">"Look in the mirror. I'm you," Lue said. He wants to be viewed like the rest of the world. If Lue were placed on a pedestal he would step down and help someone else up. He is nothing special, so he would say.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There is much that people read into him, who he is, what he is all about. He presents himself as a regular guy, a husband, a dad. L<span style="text-align: left;">ike most dads family is valued above all else. He wants to feed and provide for them, pay for his mortgage, "My children are fundamentally my greatest accomplishment of my life, ever! I will never be able to achieve something that great ever again so for me everything else is frosting on the cake."</span></p><p>Lue has one job: to look over his two daughters, "It's not me, it's," he hesitates for such a brief moment it is nearly imperceptible but just long enough to reveal some emotion. "It's my family." He holds a staturous position in the UFO Community, requiring constant vigilance, "There's been some people in the press who've actually went after my kids to try to get information about me." The apprehension in Lue's voice and body language is palpable. </p><p>Here, Lue is haunted by past experiences, efforts stymied by political or religious beliefs of those in power. "A lot of people, you know, let's face it, this rubs up against their philosophical and theological belief system sometimes. And people can be cruel sometimes." Looking out for his family occupies a permanent position at Lue Inc.</p><p>The family reciprocates. "It's a conversation we had when I came out. We had a very serious conversation around the table and I told them what I was going to do and that I was resigning from my post in the Department of Defense and I wanted this to be a mutual decision by the family." Everyone was supportive. "My daughters were amazing. They looked me straight in the eye after hearing a half an hour speech, all teary-eyed, leaving the one thing that I loved so much and they said, 'Dad, we're proud of you, we got your back, don't worry about it.'"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7urcOiRGElU" width="320" youtube-src-id="7urcOiRGElU"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lue Elizondo on Family</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://youtu.be/7urcOiRGElU" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/7urcOiRGElU</a></span></div><p><span style="text-align: justify;">Lue is the proud son of a Cuban refugee. His father fled to Miami seeking safety and security after fighting in The Bay of Pigs. Lue is native to the US. He titles himself an "Exile Kid," a status he says would lead him to face a firing squad if he returned to Cuba. This may be friendly hyperbole. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The words and deeds of the Refugee Dad left their mark on the Exile Kid as he matured. "My dad came to this country with a dime, literally a dime in his pocket." Dad would say, "Nothing in life is free, son, you have to work for everything but do not take from anybody." Those have since been guiding principles, ones the son passes on to his own progeny.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When Lue assumed his current role with <a href="https://home.tothestarsacademy.com/" target="_blank">To The Stars Academy</a> the family followed, trailing him to San Diego. It is a beautiful and interesting place inspiring a kinship with the pioneers who ventured out before him seeking a better life for themselves and their families. California turns out to be an alien land to the Exile kid with frequent earthquakes and abominable fires sending smoke as far as his current location in Wyoming. Sometimes pioneers flee their settlements, seeking safety and security.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Along with his girls, Lue also adores his two German Shepherds. One, "Doesn't have a predatory bone in his body." The other - Lue advises, "Don't come around the Elizondos' late at night, uninvited."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">TV show hosts may earn a respectable salary, though most are not driving Rolls-Royces. Lue has probably done well as the host of Unidentified. He tempers this with, "If you're looking to get rich, most people will tell you chasing UFOs is not a way to do it. So I've never expected to make really any money off of it."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue does not wear his net worth and cannot be judged on appearance. He is proud of his Blue Collar roots and prefers to maintain that image and lifestyle rather than transitioning into "Mr. Hollywood." When he joined the Army after college he worked two other jobs to make ends meet, while serving full-time. His wife worked too. "I'm not afraid to have dirt under my nails," he says.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a74R9t4fXG0" width="320" youtube-src-id="a74R9t4fXG0"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I am Lue</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://youtu.be/a74R9t4fXG0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/a74R9t4fXG0</a></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">No kid has ever said, "When I grow up I want to be that weird UFO Guy." Lue agrees, there is an injurious stigma to his line of work. He accepts this. It is what he signed on for. But he is deeper than the two-dimensional view of him on a TV screen. That person is the same guy camping out with his wife and their dogs in Wyoming right now. If one hates the guy on TV they will hate the guy in the camper. If someone thinks, "'Hey, this kind of quirky guy with the funny goatee on TV, I think I kind of like him,' You're probably going to like having a beer with him."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">What does Lue Elizondo like to Do?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue is "a cheapskate," his own self-deprecating moniker of frugality. He downplays his purchase of his latest toy, the camper he and his wife are staying in. It is a mid-range model, "The Chevy Malibu," of campers, he says. He pulls it with a humble 1996 Ford F-350 pickup. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Other toys are investments as it were, picked up cheap. He gives them TLC, some attention and elbow grease, and they appreciate. He enjoys his status as, "a gearhead." A self-diagnosed introvert, Lue is content in the garage, "tinkering". He builds cars, boats, and motorcycles. "If it's got an engine, that's right up my alley." He has a Korean War era Jeep, a World War II Jeep, and a Ural, a 2-wheel drive Russian Military motorcycle with a powered sidecar. It is pictured in Season 2, Episode 7 of Unidentified.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The days of racing around on fast bikes are over for Lue. At his age speed has lost its appeal. The Ural takes him from Point A to Point B in a "safe and civilized manner." He compares it more to driving a John Deere tractor than a racing machine. Although, it is still a motorcycle. He has fun on it.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CDl6ZSP99WY/X3jiwzD62qI/AAAAAAAAScY/XiX_EHTyfbIZPRGV_zpK0V_E6p5WX8MKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1677/Lue%2BElizondos%2BMotorcycle.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="What does Lue Elizondo like to do?" border="0" data-original-height="953" data-original-width="1677" height="364" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CDl6ZSP99WY/X3jiwzD62qI/AAAAAAAAScY/XiX_EHTyfbIZPRGV_zpK0V_E6p5WX8MKQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h364/Lue%2BElizondos%2BMotorcycle.jpg" title="What does Lue Elizondo like to do?" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lue's bike in Unidentified S2 E7</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Given a relaxing scenario of having a drink with a friend, Lue brightens up. He enjoys a nice peaty Islay Scotch. "It's got that pungent smell of where you almost feel like you're eating a piece of Scotland, like a Scottish Sandwich, or something." Lately he has developed a taste for Absinthe. He stresses, the legal kind. There is meaning in the history behind it and how it is distilled. "I'm kind of a traditionalist." Lue appreciates the human effort, the, "Love, caring, pride, into the work by someone," to create something, "Rather than just something generic, that is mass produced. To me, someone who paints me a hand-made painting means more to me than someone spending ten times that amount on some sort of generic print that I can go to the mall and buy."</span></p><p>Once the drinks are poured it is time to eat. "I love cooking. I am absolutely a cook. I admit it." With his military service in the past, today Lue would rather eat a tasty meal than stay in shape. "I'm not a big baker but I love using my cast iron almost exclusively. I take pride in seasoning it and getting that thing, you know, perfect and just cooking a fabulous meal for others to enjoy. It goes back to what we were saying about drinks, it's really the craftsmanship that I appreciate."</p><p>The same goes for wrist watches. The brand is not important, "It has to do with the amount of human effort it took to create that time piece. Crafting every gear and knowing that the gear ratios have to be just perfect... it has to be balanced and it has to be synchronized. That's what I appreciate. That's why I like cars. It's poetry in motion to me. It's taking something that has been thrown away and considered garbage and spending a little bit of time, a little bit of effort and attention to now bringing new life into it." There is a recurring theme, "I do the same thing with cooking and pretty much other things that I enjoy."</p><p>Dinner at <i>Chez</i><span style="text-align: justify;"><i> Lue</i> might include</span>, "A fantastic little recipe," for seafood with, "White wine, lemon, butter." He kisses his fingertips and says, "<i>Bellissimo!"</i> The next course may be Italian, possibly pizza from scratch. "Pizzas are super simple if you do your own dough, your own homemade dough, homemade sauce..." He uses fresh basil and "good quality cheese."</p><p>It would seem that every hobby is a labor of love with Lue. He does have one simplistic guilty pleasure: playing video games. He owns both of the top game consoles and plays mostly first-person shooter games. He is especially fond of games with a rich storyline. There must also be an endless map he can explore. He plays the entire Borderlands series, Fallout 4, and Portal 2. Strategy and good graphics appeal to him. His wife and daughters play too. They are both partners and rivals.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/afEhpTRCqDg" width="320" youtube-src-id="afEhpTRCqDg"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lue and family, gamers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://youtu.be/afEhpTRCqDg" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/afEhpTRCqDg</a></span></div><p>Music plays a constant soundtrack in Lue's life. "I love music!" He may listen to Classical, Classic rock, Hard-core Industrial, Classic Country, Italian Café. Favorite artist range a narrow contemporaneous band from 70's Easy-Listening legend, Gordon Lightfoot to 90's hard rockers, Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson. "Music tells a story and music is very emotional." Playing now in the F-350's CD player: 90's Punk Rockers, Social Distortion.</p><p>Presumably then, Lue would have been thrilled when Pop Punk rocker Tom DeLonge reached out to him with an employment offer at his To The Stars Academy. Apparently not - Lue had no clue who DeLonge was. He knew some of DeLonge's music, Blink-182's hits are ubiquitous, but he was not a follower.</p><p><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">What does Lue Elizondo Think?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Lue values genuity. Others may judge but lack self-judgement. While conscious of this he says everyone has bias, including himself. He loves the spirit of human beings, the positive not the negative. As a new user of social media he is astounded by what "normal people" post online, how strapping-in behind a keyboard empowers some to make statements about others whom they do not know personally, that they would never say face-to-face. "Is that how they really are, or is that just something that is a part of their personality that comes alive when they get on social media? I don't know."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Lue only recently began posting on Twitter, an unofficial induction into #UFOTwitter, "There are some people [in the UFO Community] that are really working hard to get to the bottom of this [UFO phenomenon] and they're using their brains and they're engaging and they're highly intelligent people. I could tell you there's probably about five or six, when I was at AATIP, had I known they were out there and they had applied for a job, I would have hired them to come on to AATIP."</span></p><p>He dismisses accolades towards him and passes the credit to others. He does not know if his approach to reporting information is the right way but, "There are a lot of people doing it wrong." He was diplomatic about naming names. "My mother always told me not to talk ill about people if they're not in front of me." Generally, "Anybody who tries to give you a preconceived narrative, or worse tries to tell you not to listen to somebody else, that's your first sign that they don't know what they're talking about." Lue believes, "Knowledge is power. I think the more people you talk to, the better the situation. If you want to talk to me and then turn around and talk to anybody else, I don't care; I think you should. I think you should try to arm yourself with as much information as possible."</p><p>Yes, but who, Lue? "Anybody who's gonna tell you that they know for what these things are, can conjure things up at will and charge money for it - anybody who's going to charge you money to have an encounter..." he hesitates, " with -- a -- UFO... and again, I'm just talking general here - I think you got to be careful with that." </p><p>There are a few snake oil salesmen who will immediately come to mind to #UFOTwitter members. "There are some charlatans. There's people out there that have spent twenty years creating a cottage industry for themselves of lies and deception and now that the truth is coming out, they're scrambling. It's all hands on deck, baby. Full information campaign to try to squelch the truth because now, 'My narrative is in trouble.' That's the problem. You never should have had a narrative because you don't know. There are no such things as experts in UFOs, not even in the US government, otherwise we'd all be flying in them right now."</p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">In casual conversation Lue mentions his coworkers at To The Stars Academy using labels like, "my colleague Steve Justice," or "my buddy Tom [DeLonge]." #UFOTwitter knows these people without introduction. Some may call these men Lue's friends</span><span style="text-align: justify;">.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"'Friend' is an awfully big commitment," he joked, "I don't know if I have any friends." He has a "profound" level of "comradery and respect" for his coworkers. The starkly varied backgrounds of each individual in the organization is fodder for friendly and professional debate. They may not share views on politics or religion but they respect one another. They trust each other. They can speak openly "without fear of reprisal," like Lue has faced in the past.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, but do you guys hang out after work? Do you meet up for 50 cent wings and five dollar pitchers and watch Monday Night Football at the corner pub? The crew's professional diversity leaves little common ground outside the subject of UFOs. Lue explains that Tom DeLonge is a musician and spends much of his free time rehearsing. In contrast, Lue prefers to work on an engine in his garage. That notwithstanding, Lue has been to Tom's house many times. Jim Semivan, Hal Putoff, Chris Mellon, all the TTSA gang are, "incredibly welcoming and warm." They each have received Lue and his family at their homes as part of their family.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Bonus Content</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">When Lue was here to interview me at my place last February he picked up on an art piece that hangs in my office. It is artist Tim Kelly's colored pencil sketch of the Grady Twins from The Shining depicted as aliens. I bought it at the <a href="https://pinebushufofair.com/" target="_blank">Pine Bush UFO Fair</a> last year. Lue asked confirmatively if I had only just recently gotten into the UFO scene. I said yes, only since first engaging with him and the producers of Unidentified. When I interviewed Lue last week I asked him the same thing. "Was this always something that you followed and had a belief?" He said no. "Was there a turning point at which a lightbulb went on and you said, 'Woah! There's something to this.'"</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2csObhuHxU/X3yuKgLyFwI/AAAAAAAASc0/OIVa86nQRlgkYrtbgBXa5u8wyuGMBNSRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s570/Grady%2BTwins.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="What does Lue Elizondo think?" border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="437" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2csObhuHxU/X3yuKgLyFwI/AAAAAAAASc0/OIVa86nQRlgkYrtbgBXa5u8wyuGMBNSRgCLcBGAsYHQ/w306-h400/Grady%2BTwins.jpg" title="What does Lue Elizondo think?" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Grady Twins as Aliens</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Lue never had the luxury to think about UFOs prior to becoming involved with the subject, "I was too busy catching and chasing bad guys. It wasn't until I had my... initial meeting with the then director of the former [AATIP] program that I came to the understanding that they really mean that there are UFOs out there. When he says 'UAP' they mean, 'UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects,' and we're taking this topic very seriously, and at that point it was kind of a slow, gradual realization that we're dealing with something here that really, truly is not some sort of conventional technology. We really don't know what they hell these are but they really are there. I think that was kind of the epiphany for me which occurred in the 2008 timeframe."</p><p>I pressed further, "What was that one piece of information that pushed you over the edge?"</p><p>"Ooh," Lue shook his head. "It wasn't one. It was many. I got to be careful what I say here but I can guarantee you that 99 percent of your audience right now, if they were to see a couple things that I was privy to..." he shakes his head vigorously from side to side, "There'd be no question in their mind what this is. None! Kind of like your experience, right? You saw something and were like, 'Hey, I don't know what to tell you but that ain't ours.'"</p><p><span style="text-align: justify;">At home, Lue tells his kids to make up their own minds about the UFO Phenomenon. When they ask him a question he tries to give them a straight answer. He arms them with information and then lets them decide what it means.</span></p><p>Somehow, over the course of the conversation we went down <i>the Rabbit Hole</i> and spent over half an hour talking about UFOs and what Lue knows about them. That will be the subject of the companion article to this piece, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/10/what-does-lue-elizondo-know.html" target="_blank">What does Lue Elizondo know?</a> For this article I really wanted to focus on, Who is Lue Elizondo?</p><p>Through all of Lue's successes in moving the Disclosure needle to the right he remains humble about the part he has played. Within the #UFOTwitter crowd Lue is a celebrity. He shakes off the term but it sticks to him. How does someone who spent his first career concertedly out of the public eye remain grounded with this new-found fame? </p><p>"Look at yourself in the mirror every day, change your own oil to your car, mow your own lawn, go to a homeless shelter and help serve food. That's how you keep yourself humble. You remind yourself that I am no different than anybody else and I'm steps away from being in your shoes anytime, any day."</p><p>Lue credits any success he has achieved to the hard work of other "incredible people" who were smarter and more capable than he is. "I Stand on the shoulders of giants. I rode on the coat tails of great people. That's how I got to where I am."</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Some readers will be disappointed I did not pin Lue down on what he knows about government conspiracies, that I did not hold his feet to the fire on this or that. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I had originally planned on leaving that sort of thing to folks like <a href="https://silvarecord.com/" target="_blank">Danny Silva</a> or <a href="http://www.ufojoe.net/" target="_blank">"UFO Joe" Murgia</a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PostDisclosureWorld" target="_blank">UFO Jesus</a>. That is their modus operandi and they are good at it. But despite my intention to keep the conversation on Who is Lue Elizondo, he did drop a few pearls here and there - some may call them bombshells. I will write this up in a follow up article which will go into, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/10/what-does-lue-elizondo-know.html" target="_blank">What does Lue Elizondo know?</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">For now, my intention was to show the world the guy I know, the guy who stood in my kitchen and compared notes with me on making pizza from scratch, the guy who stood on my porch and talked about his daughters and his concerns as a dad, the guy who stood in my garage and drooled over my motorcycle while showing me pics on his phone of his bike, the guy who sends me a random text on a Saturday night to tell me his wife liked my episode of Unidentified. 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Lue has a commanding presence. I think years in government service does that to you. I have a friend who is in the FBI and he is similar in that way. For some people this is a way of compensating for a bit of social anxiety. Initially I did not get the impression this is the case with Lue. He seems like a genuinely confident person. So I was surprised when Lue told me he is an introvert. He likes to keep to himself. You would never know it.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Lue is a really down-to-earth guy. After my <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/03/my-first-interview-for-unidentified.html" target="_blank">first interview for Unidentified</a> my wife asked me if Lue was nice to the crew at A&E. I laughed and told her he is not an actor; he is a guy who was in the military and government service. He is no prima donna. Lue likes to emphasize that. He likes to talk about how he is a blue-collar guy from humble beginnings who had to grind it out the whole way to get where he is today.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When Lue came over in February we hit it off right away. Of course, this was not the first time we had met. We met last fall in my old 'hood in Brooklyn to record my first interview and have spoken on the phone and traded texts and emails many times over the past two years. But our meeting in February was our first time really talking about anything of substance beyond my UFO sighting.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lue and I found common ground on quite a few things. He admired my house. We talked a bit about how I oversaw all the construction directly and did quite a bit of work myself. Lue also did some construction when he was a young man, and could relate to some of what I went through.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Connecticut Style Pizza</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><div style="text-align: justify;">As I poured him some coffee, Lue admired my kitchen. He pointed out my kitchen mixer and said how much his wife loves hers. I told him that I probably used ours more than my wife does. I then found out that Lue likes to make pizza from scratch. We traded some of our little tricks. Lue uses pizza stones while, at the time, I had gotten pretty good at making a nice crust without one. I had recently begun putting my pies on slate tiles but was considering admitting defeat and buying some decent stones. I did.</div>
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I texted Lue these pictures the next morning - thought he would appreciate what went into making them. He wrote back that the pics made him hungry. He said he would send me some the next time he made his pizza.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lue shared that he did his basic training at a much worse place than I did. I hated Basic (does anyone really like it?) but I should be grateful I did not go to some other places, which I have heard were worse. Lue confirmed that. His location was worse.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lue was wearing a Bigelow Aerospace jacket. I told him it was cool and I would like to get one of those. He told me he would try to get me one. Fortunately, I did not hold my breath. Maybe he can introduce me to Bob Bigelow and I can just ask him myself.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After my interview for Unidentified, I joined Lue out on my porch as he wrapped up a phone call. I mentioned my concern for my kids possibly being bullied because now people will know their dad is, "That weird UFO guy." I was preaching to the choir with Lue about that. He mentioned his concerns for his daughters. Clearly, he gets it.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We chatted a lot whenever there was a break in the interview due to the dog barking, the sun shifting, or other normal interruptions in recorded interviews. I told Lue I am trying to steer clear of guys like <a href="http://www.actforlibraries.org/dr-steven-greer-is-a-fraud/" target="_blank">Steven Greer</a>, and focus more on science-based theories. Lue shared some of his thoughts on others in the UFO Community. He has great disdain for one of the other big charlatans of #UFOTwitter and shared some information which I will not repeat. I tried to find a citing online of where the two of them got into a tiff but could not find anything.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After several hours Lue kept saying he wanted to wrap it up and give me my house back. That is a nice way of saying <i>I am done here, I want to get going</i>. But I did not take the bait. I was enjoying the experience and wanted to extend it a little longer. I told him all my family had gone out except my one son who was playing video games. Lue admitted to video games being a guilty pleasure for both him and his wife. I told him I could not get my wife to play any video games with me. Lucky!</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After my interview, as the crew packed up the truck they all rode up in, Lue and I stood by the door saying our goodbyes. Somehow we got on the subject of motorcycles. I mentioned my bike to Lue. It is a <a href="https://www.triumphmotorcycles.com/motorcycles/classic/bonneville-t120" target="_blank">Triumph T120</a>. He told me that was the exact bike he wanted. I took him to the garage to show him. We walked down the stairs, dusty from a steady traffic stream of firewood, into my garage. Lue said, "That's the bike!"</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He asked me how much I wanted for it, ha ha! I told him if I ever decide to sell it I will call him first. Months later we were exchanging texts and I told him he could buy it for "one million dollars" and attached a picture of Dr. Evil from Austin Powers. Maybe I will sell it to him cheap if he can get me one of those Bigelow jackets. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jYnte4N95Bc/X3dATxtZxiI/AAAAAAAAScA/kbBbCIbVF9U3OCWpWXXXRHtKWwEqUIbDACLcBGAsYHQ/s300/DrEvil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dr Evil" border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="300" height="207" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jYnte4N95Bc/X3dATxtZxiI/AAAAAAAAScA/kbBbCIbVF9U3OCWpWXXXRHtKWwEqUIbDACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h207/DrEvil.jpg" title="Dr Evil" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He then showed me pictures of, "My buddy Tom's bike." I asked, Tom DeLonge? He said yes. It was funny because the way he said, "my buddy Tom" was like I would not have known who he was talking about. I recognized the bike from the first season of Unidentified. Lue confirmed it was the same bike. He also showed me some pics on his phone of a couple other prized toys including his bike. Good times.</div>
<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I really wanted to ask Lue a bunch of UFO questions for this blog but there simply was not enough time. He is a busy guy. He was gracious enough to let me take a selfie with him. Then Jason, the site producer, offered to take some pics for me. He made sure to get one of me holding his print-out of The Marceau Ship. I included it in another story <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2020/03/my-second-interview-for-unidentified.html" target="_blank">about Unidentified</a>. The one here was the first one I took.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Luis Elizondo the Man" border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1600" height="411" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IPoQBceiO4w/XlvQpqL-tCI/AAAAAAAARVE/_NTjzDAa1lw6ykh_NAET8u80UZuBlnhzACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h411/MeAndLueSelfieSm.jpg" title="Luis Elizondo the Man" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A couple months after Lue was here the government officially released the three UFO videos that Lue helped bring to the public. They admitted they did not know the origin of the aircraft. Prior to that, some people doubted the veracity of the videos. I texted Lue, congratulating him on the release. I said, "Must feel vindicating." He said not yet, there are still a few "Lue haters" at the Pentagon but it is a great step forward. I told him there are a few of those in the UFO Community too but it seems like most people are behind him and TTSA and he should, "Keep your chin up." He wrote back, "Thank you, sincerely."</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">Coming up next week I will write about the recent conversation I had with Lue via video conference. Stay tuned...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="text-align: left;">Enjoying this blog?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/follow.g?view=FOLLOW&blogID=1689452976099896187" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2kYZ7gDab4/XnvolwL1HKI/AAAAAAAARho/-P9CiT1wi-8-AnwAcsnrwaEb99libENFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Subscribe.png" width="120" /></a></div><div align="left" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Also follow me <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarceauOfficialPage"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-st2vxritob4/Xnvr4VQN2JI/AAAAAAAARh0/bS_Jl-Rsm6gBM4eGBIHfdKo7Ub021_ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/FB.png" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iiCigQEJXLA/Xnvsfh6ZCPI/AAAAAAAARh8/RnD0j3ZvszAmT7BrdvcgJMj9PxrluzcPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Twitter.png" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marceau.david"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrGpsYVbWq8/XnvtfPOXOKI/AAAAAAAARiI/YjCbYJnDmssad5CYB13k3jSFlcLLaL8SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Instagram.png" width="20" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><font size="2">If you have seen an alien spaceship or any type of unidentified flying object (UFO) contact me using the Contact form at the bottom of this page. You may remain anonymous if you want. I will not ridicule you or try to tell you why you are wrong. I get it, I saw one too.</font></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><font size="2"><br />Thank you for reading and keep an eye on the sky.</font></div></div></div>
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But no, I think there has to be a better explanation than that. We do not even know if aliens can smell. The typical "Grey" alien depiction does not appear to even have a nose.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have often thought that aliens are not interested in contacting us because Earth is not their destination. Rather, this is a waypoint on the way to somewhere more interesting. In other words, Earth is a rest area on an interstellar highway.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-afdTAjRKPnI/X3RjZvhy-bI/AAAAAAAASbo/Qz_uI5mxTesMn1Egcx9qABRRwDjMMzJbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/Is%2BEarth%2Ba%2BRest%2BArea.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Is Earth a Rest Area?" border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-afdTAjRKPnI/X3RjZvhy-bI/AAAAAAAASbo/Qz_uI5mxTesMn1Egcx9qABRRwDjMMzJbwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/Is%2BEarth%2Ba%2BRest%2BArea.jpg" title="Is Earth a Rest Area?" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">I travel by road a lot. Throughout the winter I may take dozens of trips north to snowboard in New York's Catskills or Adirondacks or The Green Mountains of Vermont or the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I have also skied Maine, Pennsylvania, and Quebec, among other places. Each time, I drive to these destinations.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">During the summer, pre-COVID, my family and I have taken a lot of car trips to beaches on the Atlantic Coast from Cape May to Cape Cod. Most of our Spring Break trips to Florida have been by car - it was much easier and more convenient to do that than to fly when we had three little ones with all their baby gear and an Au Pair with a suitcase bigger than she was. We have even traveled during this Pandemic, going to my dad's place in South Carolina three times and a few trips to Upstate New York; we wore masks everywhere, of course, even though many people we encountered were not masked south of Delaware, for some reason.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I try not to make many stops when I drive. It adds too much time to the trip. Once Mrs. M. and I rented an RV and took my sister and her two kids and my mom to Florida. The plan was to drive straight through but there were many requests to stop. Each stop was at least 15-60 minutes in duration. That easily added a half day to our 20 hour drive. We arrived at our condo too late to find a parking spot for that enormous vehicle. I parked illegally and got a ticket. It was a whole mishegos.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When the kids were little we tried driving straight through to Disney World in the Family Truckster. We left from southern Westchester County, New York on a Friday afternoon. We had packed about a dozen DVDs for the kids to watch on the way. They had watched each one by noon Saturday. By the time we hit the Florida state line the kids were bonkers. They were complaining about each other and crying. I knew they needed to get out of the car to play and maybe get a bite to eat. I pulled off of I-95 at the next exit. I wanted to find a McDonald's with a playground. Luckily there was one there right off the exit.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We then spent two days at Disney and a week at our condo. We played in the pool where the kids made friends with some kids visiting from Montreal. We went to the beach. We had dinner at the Hard Rock Casino. We did a lot of cool stuff. When we got home I asked the kids what their favorite part of the trip was. They unanimously agreed it was that McDonald's with the playground off of I-95.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The next time we drove down to the condo Mrs. M. planned out our itinerary. We stopped at a playground or a fast food place with a playground for a few minutes every two hours. We stayed overnight in Virginia and watched a small town's July 4th fireworks show. We stayed two nights in Jekyll Island on the way and two nights in Virginia Beach on the way back. It was a lot more expensive and required an extra week but it was a wonderful trip.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Often I will travel by myself for business. My most-visited destination is five hours away, non-stop. Rarely have I actually made it there in five hours. More often I will have to stop to walk around and stretch my legs. Or I will pull over and take a little nap. Maybe I will sit down in a hamburger restaurant and stare at the locals. The drive and the stops on the way help to break up the monotony of having worked from home for the past five years.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So what does all this have to do with UFOs? As usual, I am building up to a corollary.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">Is Earth a Rest Area?</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">On every car trip I have taken, whether I liked it or not, I have had to make stops. I do not like to pull off the highway if I can help it. So I will most often stop at rest areas. I suspect that interstellar space travelers must have to do the same. I do not know how long it takes aliens to get from one habitable planet to the next but I know how long it would take humans. It would take us more than a lifetime. Surely, aliens can do it much faster than that. But it still probably takes some time. Maybe it is like driving from New England to Florida. Perhaps Earth is a place they will stop along the way.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I stop at a rest area, that is not my destination. I do not want to spend a lot of time there. I have somewhere I need to be. I spend as little time there as I need to. Maybe I will use the restroom. Maybe I will pump some gas or grab a burger if there are facilities. But ultimately my goal is to get back on the road and get to where I am heading. Interstellar travelers would likely have the same intentions. They need to get from their home planet to another highly-advanced civilization (and Earth ain't it, bub). This is the place they stop on their way - a rest area.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would imagine that an interstellar spaceship would have a bathroom on it. But the RV I rented that one time had a bathroom and still most of our party wanted to stop to use the restrooms at rest areas. Could aliens be using Earth as a toilet? OK, that is a stretch. But they could be gassing up the <a href="https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/happy-35th-to-vacation-and-the-awful-wagon-queen-family-truckster/" target="_blank">Family Truckster</a> here. Earth is mostly water. If you separate the two elements in water you have hydrogen, a great fuel source, and oxygen, a useful by-product. If those visitors also breathe oxygen and drink water they may be very interested in our abundant, free water supply. Earth is like one of those rare gas stations that still has a free air pump. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Is that what was happening in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos" target="_blank">Nimitz Incident</a>? Was the disturbance in the water someone refueling their spaceship? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A77787sjA0w/X3RlXs9VB7I/AAAAAAAASb0/AAYTL1UzxR4TsrWbnRDvpYPTEyyoiEV4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s539/airpump.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Free Air Pump" border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="539" height="396" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A77787sjA0w/X3RlXs9VB7I/AAAAAAAASb0/AAYTL1UzxR4TsrWbnRDvpYPTEyyoiEV4gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h396/airpump.jpg" title="Free Air Pump" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Burgers anyone? There are many reports of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation" target="_blank">cattle abductions and mutilations</a> around the world. Perhaps aliens see hundreds of cattle roaming around ranches, untended, and think they are free for the taking. If I saw a table stacked with hamburgers at a rest area and no one was tending it, I might think they were free. Why else would anyone just leave them there? I do not know if I would actually eat a free rest area hamburger. It would depend on how hungry I was.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would not take one of these burgers if I knew they belonged to someone. But maybe aliens do not care about that. I would not think it is stealing if I took a nut from a squirrel - especially if it was on my property. Could aliens believe that Earth is theirs and we are just woodland creatures they allow to stay here? Or maybe Earth has been declared a park or a game preserve by some governing civilization and we are the animals who live there. Hmm...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I often see animals at rest areas - birds, squirrels, chipmunks, etc. I do not try to make contact with these animals. Why would I? They are just dumb animals. What kind of contact could I make with them? They are also wild animals. If I got too close they might bite me. I avoid any animals I see at rest areas. Aliens probably do too, out of an abundance of caution. They must know that we bite (or shoot on sight). At the very least we are dumb animals to anyone who can get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">My kids have a different point of view on this. When I pull over at a playground so the kids can burn off energy on a long trip I do not care what they do as long as they are being safe and respectful to others. My goal is for them to get out of the car and have a short break from being on the road. At home they catch and release frogs, insects, worms, fish, and other wildlife including a few racoons! Why would it be any different on the road? This could explain some accounts of alien abductions. Maybe someone's kids just wanted to catch a human and play with him.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A couple nights ago my kids and I went out and sat on the front steps. We had lamb for dinner and wanted to give our dog the bones. The bones would make a big greasy mess inside so we took the dog outside for this. While sitting there I noticed a frog by a large flower planter. It was just sitting there by itself, minding its own business, not hurting anyone. Upon hearing this the kids immediately ran inside to get a container to put the frog in. Why? No one could explain it. They just wanted to have the creature.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The frog spent the next fifteen minutes in a plastic storage container on my daughter's lap. She kept the lid cracked open for air. The frog was not harmed. If this was not such a common occurrence the kids might have tried to play with the frog but they were unimpressed with this one. It just sat there in the container. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Maybe this is what happens sometimes when people say they are abducted by aliens. It is the aliens' kids burning off some energy on their way to somewhere else. They see someone all alone and decide they just have to have him. They bring the person on-board and put him in a container. If this is a new experience they may play with him. If not, he will just sit there until Dad Alien says it is time to go.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When it was time for us to bring the dog inside my daughter said she wanted to bring the frog over to the pond and release it there. I asked why and she said that was where it belonged. I protested that we found it by the house and that was where it should be released. She suggested that maybe the frog was lost and did not know its way to the pond; she would help it on its way. I told her that maybe this is why some alien abductees say they were taken from one spot and returned to some other random spot. Maybe alien kids are trying to help. But in actuality, they are just confusing the poor person and inconveniencing him. She released the frog back by the flower planter.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">UFOs Welcome</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Most rest areas seem to be built like a NASCAR pit with His and Hers bathrooms. Some, though, are just a place to pull off the road with no facilities at all. The opposite extreme would be the ones with dozens of fuel pumps, several restaurants, gift shops, kiosks, free wifi, and enough toilets for a bus-load of tourists to socially distance from everyone else. Which one of these three examples is Earth?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would say we are the parking area with no facilities. We have not put out the Welcome Mat for interstellar travelers. This is just a place for them to pull over. There are a couple of these on the Taconic Parkway between my place and Albany, New York. The dirty (not-so-well-kept) secret about these places is that people relieve themselves there, despite not having any toilets. There are several well-worn paths into the woods which all dead-end at a pile of toilet paper. Is this what we have set up Earth as?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If New York State were to build some simple facilities at the rest stops on the Taconic people would use them instead of using the woods. I would. If one of these rest areas also had some gas pumps and some fast food I would use those facilities too. It is about 80 miles (~130km) from the point where I get on the Taconic until I hit Albany. There is nowhere to stop and take care of every need in that space. I would definitely take advantage of a full-service rest area at the halfway point. New York State would benefit from the sales, the sales tax, and the jobs it would create. There would also be less raw sewage in the woods. Are you listening <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/" target="_blank">Andrew Cuomo</a>?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-se8s8n4vGdk/X3ReUE_1v-I/AAAAAAAASbc/d9k1JmjupmksTQfFrwI1HDFXcqQNIv9zACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Motel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="UFOs Welcome" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-se8s8n4vGdk/X3ReUE_1v-I/AAAAAAAASbc/d9k1JmjupmksTQfFrwI1HDFXcqQNIv9zACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Motel.jpg" title="UFOs Welcome" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">What if we built a service area for aliens here on Earth? If we built it, would they come? What would they need from us? Toilets? Restaurants? Refueling points? What is in it for Earth? This could be the first step in establishing diplomatic or trade relations - it would be more than we have done so far.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes I will drive by a cheap motel and see a sign that says, "Trucks Welcome!" That is good to know if you are a cross-country trucker. I am sure these signs help to bring in a lot of customers who drive those rigs. It must work because I have seen this all over the country. Perhaps we need to put up a, "UFOs Welcome" sign out by the International Space Station if we want to make Contact. 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I knew nothing about the subject other than that I had had an experience which linked me to these folks.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the two years that followed my <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/post-one.html" target="_blank">first blog post</a> a lot has happened. UFOs have gone more mainstream in large part thanks to the efforts of <a href="https://home.tothestarsacademy.com/" target="_blank">TTSA</a>. This has culminated in the founding of an official US Government <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2314065/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/" target="_blank">UFO Task Force</a>, to study alien visits. That is amazing!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In an effort to create a relationship with people who are interested in my own sighting story, to further identify with this community, I have done a tremendous amount of research. I have studied other <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYH8m4zyehr0rN3feBZ4mCA" target="_blank">UFO cases</a>. I have watched <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/oumuamua.html" target="_blank">UFO current events</a> on this topic. I have read up on quantum mechanics. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I will never know as much about any of those subjects as I would like to. But I have scratched the surface enough to get a good idea of what the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UFOTwitter" target="_blank">UFO Community</a> is all about and also, to share some feedback on it. I have pontificated, permulated, and perseverated. I published over 150 articles here.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Who knew this thing would take off! It did. By the end of this month the blog will have over 100,000 page views. Wow!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">People are reading this in over 55 distinct countries - the list is at the end of this article. Find your country. There are a lot of "Other" or "Unknown Region" listings so if you do not see your country listed, let me know in the Comments so I can give your country a shout-out.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AXWCza0_-Vs/X2tGWckqIkI/AAAAAAAASaQ/zu9b1AKaZV8yqNWZrhgrHy02I80ZKpqogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1191/2yearsMap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Logic of UFOs" border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="1191" height="322" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AXWCza0_-Vs/X2tGWckqIkI/AAAAAAAASaQ/zu9b1AKaZV8yqNWZrhgrHy02I80ZKpqogCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h322/2yearsMap.jpg" title="The Logic of UFOs" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shout out to Uganda, Turkmenistan, and North Macedonia<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">UFO vs UAP</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">Much has happened within the subject of UFOs since that first blog post two years ago. <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/identified-flying-object.html" target="_blank">UFOs changed their name</a>. My sister changed her name when I was a kid. I am not sure why. She was still the same person we all loved on the inside. There was no need to change her name. I feel the same with UFOs. Call them UAPs if you want. I am OK with still using the UFO moniker despite the fact that what I saw was clearly identified.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Once you change the name of something it is hard to go back. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson_Parkway" target="_blank">Interboro Parkway</a> in Queens will forever more be the Jackie Robinson Parkway. I am OK with that but I will never get used to calling the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Zee_Bridge_(2017%E2%80%93present)" target="_blank">Tappan Zee Bridge</a> the Mario Cuomo. I remember hearing an interview with the guy who starred in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein" target="_blank">Young Einstein</a>. He had changed his name to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Serious" target="_blank">Yahoo Serious</a> for show business. One day decided he wanted to change his name back to Greg Pead but found it was much harder to change your name back to its original than it is to change it in the first place. So he kept the new bizarre name. I hope we get this UFO/UAP thing sorted out soon.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--abaLOPFCGE/X2tFWmTUKmI/AAAAAAAASaE/BGCySM5DQv8HM3WCkeSoHGr9ECxlreW4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s428/Young-bg.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="UFO vs UAP" border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="233" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--abaLOPFCGE/X2tFWmTUKmI/AAAAAAAASaE/BGCySM5DQv8HM3WCkeSoHGr9ECxlreW4wCLcBGAsYHQ/w174-h320/Young-bg.gif" title="UFO vs UAP" width="174" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">UFO vs UAP</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Two years ago, it took a couple weeks of writing for me to initially find my voice. It happened accidentally when I went to watch a friend play with his band. Between sets my friend introduced me to his friend who is a psychologist. I do not remember how it came up but we started talking about UFOs. It must have been the pint of pilsner in me because I opened up to this guy about the years of trauma my UFO sighting had caused. It was not an everyday occurrence. It was only when I would tell people the story of my sighting. In my mind I would be transported back to the spot where the sighting took place. People would tell me I was visibly shaken after telling them about it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I went home that night and wrote about this <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/some-ufo-psychology.html" target="_blank">UFO PSTD</a> and some other psychology. That pretty much set the tone for future articles. I decided I was not going to recreate the wheel and be the next <a href="http://www.ufojoe.net/" target="_blank">UFO Joe</a>, an investigative journalist. I was not going to be the next <a href="https://www.youtube.com/postdisclosureworld" target="_blank">UFO Jesus</a>, and advocate for Disclosure. I definitely was not going to be the next <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/09/whats-show-about.html" target="_blank">Steven Greer, a charlatan</a> who sells UFO Snake Oil. I was going to philosophize. I would use my experience as a jumping off point. I do not need to prove aliens exist, I saw a spaceship. That gave me the liberty to say, now that we know this, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/why-are-we-being-visited-now-part-1.html" target="_blank">why are aliens here</a> and <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/fermi-paradox-introduction.html" target="_blank">why are aliens hiding from us?</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then I went further on that tack. I began thinking about aliens a lot. Columbus Day rolled around and ignited a flame. I imagined all of Planet Earth being like North America in the 1400s. Perhaps there is an <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/alf-columbus.html" target="_blank">alien Christopher Columbus</a> out there who will "discover" Earth. Let us think about how that might turn out. * Spoiler Alert * it did not turn out so well for the people who were already living in North America when Columbus arrived.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">After that I wondered, what if aliens are already here walking amongst us? I wondered, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/how-do-you-spot-alien-part-1.html" target="_blank">how do you spot an alien?</a> It reminded me of one time when I took my kids for a hike and I found some strange insects who all built the same little houses around their larvae. I wondered if <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/how-do-you-spot-alien-part-2.html" target="_blank">aliens disguised as insects</a> was a thing. I followed that up with an insinuation that maybe <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/how-do-you-spot-alien-part-3.html" target="_blank">aliens are here</a> and they disguise themselves as guys who look like Steve Carell. I had a lot of fun with that. No offense to Steve Carell. He is a great actor. I chose him because he is like an "every man" that a smart race of aliens would choose to emulate rather than standing out as a bunch of Brad Pitts.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fRt9HmhfwJU/X2tE93H_8II/AAAAAAAASZ8/Kr4Lo3IiTdYaqep51ZV7YK0HI23tG8O3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s317/SteveCarrell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="Every Man Steve Carell" border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="214" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fRt9HmhfwJU/X2tE93H_8II/AAAAAAAASZ8/Kr4Lo3IiTdYaqep51ZV7YK0HI23tG8O3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/SteveCarrell.jpg" title="Every Man Steve Carell" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every Man Steve Carell</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Not long after beginning this blog I had a reunion with the guy I have often referred to here as <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/meeting-with-other-witness.html" target="_blank">Mike, The Other Witness</a>. The article I posted about this has not received a lot of views. I wonder why. I have always thought that Mike's reluctant cooperation with <a href="https://home.tothestarsacademy.com/" target="_blank">TTSA</a> and <a href="https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation/season-2/episode-3" target="_blank">History Channel</a> was key to corroborating my account. It makes me think that either people want to believe in UFOs and Mike's testimony is unnecessary or they steadfastly refuse to believe any number of eye-witness accounts and Mike's verification is irrelevant. People are strange. Sometimes I feel like I understand aliens better than people, even though I have never met an alien.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;">The Logic of UFOs</h1><hr style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">I always figured that my story alone is not enough to convince some people that we are being visited. Maybe I can pepper in a little Science. I took a look at some of the common reasons people list for believing there is no one else in the Universe but us <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2019/04/do-aliens-feel-sentimental.html" target="_blank">Earthans</a>. I wrote about why the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/rare-earth-hypotheses-right.html" target="_blank">Rare Earth theory</a> is invalid. I wrote about why the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/dont-you-ever-listen.html" target="_blank">SETI Institute</a> is on the wrong track. One by one I knocked off all the reasons why human beings cannot be the only <i>people </i>in the Universe.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So if we are not alone, and I know that is true, I have to keep coming back to why are they hiding from us? I wondered, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/are-we-too-violent-for-aliens.html" target="_blank">are humans too violent for aliens?</a> Or, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/aliens-against-eating-tasty-animals.html" target="_blank">are aliens afraid we will eat them?</a> Maybe they think of us like pets or zoo animals and they like us right where we are. That would support the <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/puppies-in-box.html" target="_blank">Zoo Hypothesis</a>. Or it is a combination of those topics. We are like snakes or alligators to aliens. In other words, Earth is like an <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/11/snakes-in-box.html" target="_blank">alien reptile house</a> at a zoo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, this is all in good fun. I have no idea why aliens do not make contact with us. But I like to think about it and to then share my thoughts. So I took this a step further. As I sipped hot coffee in the quiet predawn darkness, I stared out the window and wondered, OK, if aliens truly exist (and I know they do), what are they like? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Again, I have no way of knowing what they are like for sure. But I do know some basic facts. Aliens visit - there are thousands of eye-witness accounts, mine being one of them. They do not want to make official contact (as far as we know). Sometimes <a href="https://www.travis-walton.com/" target="_blank">aliens abduct people</a>. Aliens travel from far-away places. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">From there, I use a little logic. Anyone who can get <i>from there to here</i> (wherever <i>there </i>is) must use faster-than-light ("FTL") speed travel, or an alternative to that. This means that unless space-faring aliens acquired this technology from people on other planets, all inter-stellar space-faring aliens are far more technologically advanced than we are. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">How much more advanced are aliens? Again, I use data and logic. I know how far Earthans have come in the past couple hundred years. In Colonial Days, the most advanced technology was the steam engine and interchangeable parts. Today, we can travel to the Moon and instantaneously share cat videos. But we are not even close to figuring out how to shoot off into space like Mike says The Marceau Ship did or to withstand the instantaneous changes in inertia that the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/paranormal/uss-nimitz-tic-tac-ufo-declassified-video" target="_blank">Tic Tac UFO</a>(s) did. Logically, at the very least humans are thousands of years behind any alien civilization that visits.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Could it be more? Sure! Maybe another planet identical to Earth did not get struck by a meteor 46 million years ago and the dominant species there was able to develop language and tools a million years later. That would give them a 45 million year head-start on us!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">All these data points and resulting logic has guided much of the writing I created in the past two years. Here and there I have elaborated on my own sighting. I had my brother in-law <a href="https://www.instagram.com/camchase_illustration/" target="_blank">Cam Chase</a> create a truly remarkable illustration of what I now call <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Saw-One-Too-Spaceship-T-Shirt/dp/B07S3LN1C1" target="_blank">The Marceau Ship UFO</a> * word *. I did not bother to Google that term ahead of time. Who could imagine there was already a battleship called The Marceau Ship! I do not have a common name. I then wrote all about, <a href="https://www.isawonetoo.net/2018/10/the-spaceship-i-saw-part-1.html" target="_blank">what did the Marceau Ship look like?</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mostly, though, I have enjoyed philosophizing about aliens and UFOs. It is fun and rewarding and it gives me great satisfaction to see other people enjoying this too. Thank you for reading over the past two years. Please continue to follow this blog, share it with your friends, and follow me on <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau" target="_blank">#UFOTwitter</a>.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kkwXTLF6J6I/X2tI6W1hWwI/AAAAAAAASao/A50fy3N4C38tnZ0h3dpgqpL9aLgKcyROwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/2YearsCountryList.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="UFO Philosophy Blog" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kkwXTLF6J6I/X2tI6W1hWwI/AAAAAAAASao/A50fy3N4C38tnZ0h3dpgqpL9aLgKcyROwCLcBGAsYHQ/w512-h640/2YearsCountryList.jpg" title="UFO Philosophy Blog" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few countries where this UFO Philosophy Blog is read<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Here is the list of countries my readers come from, compiled from Google Analytics:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you did not see your country listed, share it with me in the Comments below.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="" style="text-align: left;">Enjoying this blog?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/follow.g?view=FOLLOW&blogID=1689452976099896187" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n2kYZ7gDab4/XnvolwL1HKI/AAAAAAAARho/-P9CiT1wi-8-AnwAcsnrwaEb99libENFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Subscribe.png" width="120" /></a></div><div align="left" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Also follow me <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMarceauOfficialPage"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-st2vxritob4/Xnvr4VQN2JI/AAAAAAAARh0/bS_Jl-Rsm6gBM4eGBIHfdKo7Ub021_ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/FB.png" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMarceau"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iiCigQEJXLA/Xnvsfh6ZCPI/AAAAAAAARh8/RnD0j3ZvszAmT7BrdvcgJMj9PxrluzcPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Twitter.png" width="20" /></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marceau.david"><img border="0" height="20" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrGpsYVbWq8/XnvtfPOXOKI/AAAAAAAARiI/YjCbYJnDmssad5CYB13k3jSFlcLLaL8SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Instagram.png" width="20" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><font size="2">If you have seen an alien spaceship or any type of unidentified flying object (UFO) contact me using the Contact form at the bottom of this page. You may remain anonymous if you want. I will not ridicule you or try to tell you why you are wrong. I get it, I saw one too.</font></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><font size="2"><br />Thank you for reading and keep an eye on the sky.</font></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">I will be starting a members-only service through <a href="https://www.patreon.com/">Patreon</a>. The blog will remain free but I would add additional benefits for paid subscribers.
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