At least in my news feed they are...
First comes a report from an investigation at London's Heathrow Airport, where a pilot says he swerved out of the way of a metallic, cigar-shaped UFO last summer.The United Kingdom Airprox Board, part of the country's Civil Aviation Authority, investigated the incident and found as follows, according to London's Daily Mail:
"'Although only supposition, members opined that this may have been due to a combination of a possible reflection of the low sun off one of the aircraft to the west, and of the pilot's head movement as he looked forward.
'It was decided that, although the reflection theory had some merit, the overall dearth of information relating to the event rendered and meaningful finding impossible.'"
In other words, no explanation at all. Hmmm.....
Even more intriguing was this piece by Travis Gettys at The Raw Story about a former Canadian defense minister who says space aliens live among us but won't give us most of their technical know-how until we disarm our nuclear weapons.
Defense minister Paul Hellyer, originally speaking to Russia Today (maybe not the most reliable journalistic organization, but you can't take the guy's credentials away, and there he is in the video yammering away) was quoted saying:
“We have a long history of UFOs and of course there has been a lot more activity in the last few decades, since we invented the atomic bomb, and they are very concerned about that and the fact that we might use it again, and because the cosmos is a unity and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos,” Hellyer said. “They are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again, and this would be very bad for us and for them, as well.”
Turns out, the Russia Today interview is quite in-depth, and includes warnings of galactic war and all sorts of sci-fi scenario stuff, aliens living on the planet for thousands of years, and etc. The entertaining interview contains many gems from Hellyer, including this one:
"I don’t know if you personally have ever read the Bible or not but I think the star of Bethlehem was one of God’s flying saucers."
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| Jesus may have been the work...of ancient aliens? |
That's pretty rich, really. But, who is this guy? Should we trust him just because he held a high-level Canadian government position 40 or 50 years ago?
I started Googling Hellyer. Turns out, he's been saying off-the-wall stuff like this for the past 7 or 8 years. But a thread from 2005 that kind of seems to discredit him early on. It refers to a Wikipedia article about Hellyer that states:
"In early September 2005, Hellyer made headlines by publicly announcing that he believed in the existence of UFOs. On 25 September 2005, he was an invited speaker at an exopolitics conference in Toronto, where he told the audience that he had seen a UFO one night with his late wife and some friends. He said that, although he had discounted the experience at the time, he had kept an open mind to it. He said that he started taking the issue much more seriously after watching ABC's Peter Jennings' UFO special in February 2005.[citation needed]
Watching Jennings' UFO special prompted Hellyer to read U.S. Army Colonel Philip J. Corso's book The Day After Roswell, about the Roswell UFO Incident, which had been sitting on his shelf for some time. Hellyer told the Toronto audience that he later spoke to a retired U.S. Air Force general, who confirmed the accuracy of the information in the book. In November 2005, he accused U.S. President George W. Bush of plotting an "Intergalactic War"."
Now, Wikipedia is clearly not the most reliable source. But if this is accurate, we are to believe that Hellyer saw something on TV, read a book that is controversial at best , and talked to someone in the US Air Force for his information. None of it seems to have had to do with any time he spent in government. Not very reassuring, it seems.
But what are we to make of the whole thing? A strange form of insanity that lets the victim comport himself in a completely sane and normal manner while saying things that most people think of as crazy? Or is there something more....
All the Googling I could do turned up little more about Hellyer, other than his stranger and stranger statements. Will we finally have to just accept what Yahoo Answers told "Jesus Was My Pal" seven months ago when he asked if aliens were real?
"probably. It is too arrogant to simply discount the presence or absence of other beings in the universe."
Seems like a guarded statement to me, Yahoo Answers. But I guess it's all we have for now...
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