I have been over the years very sceptical like many others. But in the last ten years or so, I have known the late Dr Alan Hynek – who I highly admire. I know and currently work with Dr Jacques Vallee. I’ve come to realize that the evidence is building up to make this a valid and researchable question. Further, because my personal motivation has always been to understand our universe better, and my own theoretical work has convinced me that life is everywhere in the universe that has been permitted to evolve, I consider this a very timely question ... By becoming more involved with the serious research field, I’ve seen the evidence mount towards the truth of these matters. I rely upon the testimony of contacts that I have had – old timers – who were involved in official positions in government and intelligence and military over the last 50 years. We cannot say that today’s government is really covering it up – I think that most of them don’t know what is going on any more than the public. Dr Ed Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, MSN interview 1998
I feel that they’re everywhere out there and they’re doing interstellar travel – we’ll think differently about ourselves once we accept that. Story Musgrave
You now face a new world, a world of change. We speak in strange terms, of harnessing the cosmic energy, of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy. The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets. General Douglas MacArthur 8th October 1955
We have, indeed, been contacted – perhaps even visited – by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public. Victor Marchetti, former Special Assistant to CIA Executive Director
The simplest answer is that it is the only conclusion merited by the enormous amount of evidence. In my lectures I review 5 large scale scientific studies and ask after each one how many have read it. Typically fewer than 2% have read any. I note the 5000-plus physical trace cases that Ted Phillips has collected from over 70 countries. In these, people see a craft land and then take off leaving behind various markings on the soil such as burn circles, landing gear marks, small footprints, dried out rings of soil etc. These are not crop circles where normally no saucer is seen. About 1/6 of these cases involve reports of small beings. I refer to the more than 1000 abduction cases that have been investigated by Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, John Mack, and Raymond Fowler and the Betty and Barney Hill case as recorded by John G Fuller. I review the outstanding work by Marjorie Fish clearly indicating that Betty’s star map makes sense and provides information not previously known to us. Furthermore, I have spent time at 20 archives, had a security clearance for 14 years, and find it perfectly obvious that crucial data has been withheld and many government people have lied with regard to UFOs. Saying some UFOs are of ET origin, of course, doesn’t answer other questions such as WHY are aliens coming here. Stanton Friedman
I take a clear-cut unambiguous stand: 1) The evidence is overwhelming that planet earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft ... 2) We are dealing with a cosmic Watergate ... 3) None of arguments made against the first two conclusions by a very small but very noisy group of negativists as I call them – the debunkers – stand up under careful scrutiny. Stanton Friedman
I’ll tell you what it is – it’s an alien, brov. Attack the Block 2011 starring Jodie Whittaker & John Boyega & Alex Esmail & Franz Drameh & Leeon Jones & Simon Howard & Nick Frost & Luke Treadaway & Sammy Williams et al, director Joe Cornish, young gangsta
Her little pastime was calling up and palpably filling the sky with UFOs and watching everybody’s excitement. And some of the most outstanding sightings were in the early seventies in Ohio, and she used to laugh about it. Because she’d be standing in a circle out in a field somewhere calling up demons, and that’s all they were – angels of light playing games in the skies. Remember, a demon gets a little spooky picture, they’re a fallen angel, an unclean spirit. They can assume any form or go into anything. John Todd
We can establish through this testimony that these objects of extraterrestrial origin have been tracked on radar going thousands of miles per hour, stopping and making right-hand turns. That they use anti-gravity propulsion which we had already figured out how they work. Extraterrestrial life-forms have been retrieved, and their vehicles have been taken and studied thoroughly for at least fifty years. Dr Stephen Greer
There seems to be no evidence yet that any of these craft or Beings originate from outer space. Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review 2003
A study had been initiated in 1961 and everybody was talking about it. They were gossiping about it. The subject was UFOs. And that intrigued me a bit. When that study was concluded in 1964 and it was published and I was still working in the War Room at that time I had access to this document ... I read first-hand reports, verifiable NATO military material, that indicated that the UFOs were not only real, that they represented something far beyond anything I had ever imagined before. When the study was concluded in ’64 they concluded that there were four different groups apparently coming and visiting us. Out of those four different groups one group that looked exactly like we do. Robert Dean, NATO Intelligence Analyst
For twenty-two and a half years I served in the United States Army. During my tenure I was on many occasions asked to serve as the official/unofficial UFO consultant dealing with UFO matters ... I was able to ascertain that the United States government knew a whole lot more about UFOs than it was telling on to the American public ... We were carrying on a dialogue with this intelligence ... We also had an officially sanctioned deception program. Cliff Stone
I have found that some people can achieve the contact phenomenon simply by being hypnotised. And the same general message permeates over 90% of the millions of words received by thousands of people around the world. Don Elkins, Secrets of the UFOs
You want to keep things under cryogenic temperatures ... In the underground vaults would be the ideal place to keep it ... The biggest kept secret was the huge cryogenics networks that were required to support and preserve these bodies. Robert Collins, research analyst, author Exempt from Disclosure
There was three times that I am aware of ... One was the Roswell and there was two others ... He called them ‘little green men’. Then he described them as a bluish-green. And they were four foot tall. And they were dead. Non-humans. June Crain, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base typist, interview 1997
Maybe they want to have sex with us ...The legions of alien abductees are full of people who have claimed to have sex with aliens ... How do they do it? And is it fun? The World’s Strangest UFO Stories s1e2: Close Encounters, Discovery 2005
The hot romance between aliens and humans had begun. ibid.
A tale that would shock America: it happened here. In Lincoln New Hampshire ... 1961: Betty and Barney Hill were about to experience the first close encounter of a sexual kind with aliens. And it wasn’t going to be a pleasant experience. ibid.
Now imagine that this all powerful group comes from another planet. And our rulers are in league with them ... Is this the biggest alien conspiracy of all? The World’s Strangest UFO Stories s1e3: The Great Alien Conspiracy
Why oh why would governments hide their encounters with aliens? ibid.
More UFOs are reported by people in Scotland than any other country. And some residents suggest some elaborate theories to explain it. The World’s Strangest UFO Stories s1e4: Have Aliens Invaded Scotland?
Erich is now convinced that all over the world ancient man has mistaken aliens for gods ... Erich von Daniken has an explanation for the whole of human development. Creatures from outer space, he says, not only designed and built ancient monuments, they inspired all great religions too. This is heady stuff. But there are two small problems. Not a single expert agrees. And none of his evidence stacks up. The World’s Strangest UFO Stories s1e5: Did Aliens Build the Pyramids
Among the UFO believers some places have emerged as firm favourites ... The dog-star Sirius ... A place called Planet X. ibid.
Before the dawn of civilisation an alien force descended on planet Earth. Nothing would ever be the same. Millions of people believe we are the creation of extraterrestrials. Ancient Astronauts
Perhaps the truth will be found in ancient cave drawings: the earliest evidence we have of a human search for something outside ourselves. When archaeologists began studying the stories our ancestors left carved in stones and caves, some people noticed images and artefacts that didn’t seem to fit with our assumptions of history. Many people found it difficult to explain images like these – depicting what appear to be men in spacesuits with helmets and antennae. ibid.