Table Of ContentEARTH
AN ALIEN ENTERPRISE
THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND
THE GREATEST COVER-UP IN HUMAN HISTORY
T I M O T H Y G O O D
W F J C QC
ITH A OREWORD BY ONATHAN APLAN
For Professor Stefano Breccia
(1945–2012)
CONTENTS
Foreword by Jonathan Caplan QC
Introduction
PART ONE
Chapter One: Environmental Survey
Chapter Two: Galactic Guardians
Chapter Three: Italian Developments
Chapter Four: Eisenhower and the Extraterrestrials
Chapter Five: Public Landings
Chapter Six: Tales from the Vienna Woods
Chapter Seven: Infiltration
Chapter Eight: Airborne Encounters
Chapter Nine: “A New World—If You Can Take It”
Chapter Ten: Gray Liaison
PART TWO
Chapter Eleven: The Overlords
Chapter Twelve: Reluctant Guinea Pigs
Chapter Thirteen: Amicizia
Chapter Fourteen: Alternative Spacecraft
Chapter Fifteen: Technology Transfer
Chapter Sixteen: Leviathans of the Skies
Chapter Seventeen: Exploitation
Chapter Eighteen: Special Forces
Chapter Nineteen: What on Earth?
References
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
FOREWORD
BY JONATHAN CAPLAN, QC
I
n any democratic society, a process for the proper evaluation of evidence is
essential, usually within the context of criminal or civil proceedings or of
public or governmental inquiries. We are used to assessing the credibility and
reliability of witnesses and of seeking corroborative evidence where possible.
We know that even honest witnesses may be mistaken, and many people have
been sentenced to life imprisonment or even the death penalty on the strength of
a single uncorroborated witness.
The history of the UFO phenomenon, going back to Biblical times, is
essentially a record of human testimony of lights, objects, or events that cover
the spectrum from the unusual to the high strangeness of close encounters. No
doubt the same can be said of paranormal phenomena. This record has its share
of charlatans, those who are mistaken, and perhaps those who have been
deceived by others—or even by themselves. But the fascinating feature of
ufology is the core of honest, intelligent people in different eras and from
different cultures all over the world, including many who are scientifically or
aeronautically trained, who describe very similar objects or similar experiences
of high strangeness which on any basis cannot be the product of a “black”
research program. In many cases there are multiple witnesses or there is
corroborative evidence in the form of photographic images, radar readings, or
physical traces. For the lawyer, who too often has to make bricks out of straw,
such a body of material represents a refreshingly strong case, particularly if
examined in the same way in which we examine evidence in other contexts.
We cannot, of course, though, accept these accounts at face value. In the world
we inhabit, all is often not what it seems, so how much more so in the world of
ufology where our reference points, let alone our vocabulary, are wholly
inadequate? This was the hard lesson of Shakespeare’s Macbeth who, having
interpreted literally the predictions of the three ethereal witches that strongly
implied his future safety, was left dejectedly to ponder that the “instruments of
darkness” often “win us to our harm” by half-truths and “with honest trifles.”
And so to the question asked as long ago as 1955 by Captain Edward Ruppelt
(the former head of the U.S. Air Force Project Bluebook): “What constitutes
proof? Does a UFO have to land at the River Entrance to the Pentagon, near the
Joint Chiefs of Staff offices?” The answer is no easier to provide after more than
fifty years of further reports and investigations, despite the advent of the digital
camera. UFOs seem to be a phenomenon that coexists with us and which is as
baffling to an Israelite in the Sinai desert, or a medieval monk, or a modern
fighter pilot or astronaut. That we are not alone is no longer in doubt. But at
present that still remains an inference rather than a proven fact.
There are many powerful institutions that would balk at recognizing such proof
even if a landing did occur at the Pentagon on prime-time television. The risk of
destabilizing organized government and religion would be too great, and the risk
of advanced technology falling into the wrong hands would be greater. In that
event, who is to call the shots on whether proof exists or not, especially if key
evidence is to be concealed or confuted? If we cannot expect official and honest
recognition, then maybe only the people can decide on the basis of the
“evidence” that is placed before them. Maybe the much-criticized “new age”
culture is the only way to combat the clandestine secrecy that certainly surrounds
this subject.
We owe the few reliable researchers like Timothy Good a huge
acknowledgment because they keep the record of this phenomenon, which may
be all that we can do, and they get it into the public consciousness. I greatly
admire the quality of his books and his perseverance. And I strongly suspect that
the real value of his work will only be fully appreciated in years to come.
J C is a well-known lawyer practicing in London and has acted in
ONATHAN APLAN
many high-profile cases. He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in recognition of
his standing in the profession. He has been interested in ufology for over forty
years.
INTRODUCTION
A
liens “have landed on Earth, infiltrated British and American nuclear
missile sites and sabotaged weapons, according to U.S. Air Force officers,”
declared The Daily Telegraph in 2010, citing an extraordinary press
conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “Six retired
officers and one former non-commissioned officer claim to have gathered
witness testimonies from more than 120 military personnel revealing the
infiltration of nuclear sites by aliens as recently as 2003. In some cases, nuclear
missiles supposedly malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object hovered nearby.”1
“We saw this thing—it was coming right at us and was as low as the car and
huge,” reported Bruce and Priscilla Wetherill in January 2012, two years after an
incident which had occurred between Gainford and Barnard Castle, in the
Teesdale area of England’s Northern Pennines. “It was very frightening,”
admitted Priscilla. “Bruce kept driving but we both ducked down, expecting it to
hit us. I thought, ‘This is it. We’ve had it.’”
Described as saucer-shaped, dark on top but glowing underneath and
soundless, the object also had “steel-like tentacles hanging down.” At the last
moment, it lifted up and narrowly missed the car before disappearing into the
sky. The couple expected the car roof to have scratches, but none could be seen.
“I’m a realist, but I know what I saw and it was unbelievable,” said Mr.
Wetherill. “If I lived to two hundred I would never see anything like it again.”
The couple came forward two years after the event, following a spate of
sightings in Teesdale.2
Roy Shaw did not believe in aliens, ghosts, flying saucers—or anything he
could not touch or explain. That is, until 2010—around the same period as the
Wetherills’ experience. At about 21:30 on February 6th, he encountered a large
craft of unknown origin while walking his dog in Phear Park, Exmouth, Devon.
“The object was round in shape and about thirty feet in diameter and a hundred
feet long, with blue and red flashing lights on its perimeter, and it appeared to
land at the top end of the park by the bowling green,” he described to local
reporter Becca Gliddon. “My dog started to growl when what I can only describe
as a white shape came toward us. It was about four feet high and seemed to be
translucent, and moved very slowly toward us. I was transfixed because it made
a droning sound…. I didn’t know where the sound was coming from but it was
coming straight toward me. I immediately ran back down through the park.”
Mr. Shaw said the UFO seemed to hover over the hedge of the bowling green,
then flew horizontally from left to right before immediately shooting off at high
speed back to the left, at a 45-degree angle. It had “appeared from nowhere”—he
did not see it actually land or fly overhead. His normally placid border collie dog
ran away from it after baring its teeth at the approaching object. “I twisted my
ankle when I ran like hell. My dog Syd kept whimpering and looking out of the
bedroom window toward the park until at least two in the morning.
“I still can’t believe what I saw and I am still in a state of shock. Syd doesn’t
like going back up there. Something put him off. Everybody thinks you are a
crank when you report something like this. I am an engineer. I like to touch and
feel things. If I can touch it, it exists, but there’s no way I can explain this.”3
Another dog-walker told Roy Shaw the following morning that he had also
witnessed the incident.4
In August 2010, the Ministry of Defence released another of its voluminous (if
often innocuous) files on reported UFO sightings and related correspondence.
True to form, The Times remains behind the times—at least from an editorial
standpoint—debunking the subject in its tendentious commentary on leading
articles:
“In reality, there is exactly no evidence that Earth has ever been visited by
spacecraft from other worlds, but reports of UFO sightings do form a pattern.
They manifest the boundlessness of human credulity, which takes shifting forms
in different ages but has a stubborn irrationalism at its core…. A culture of
pseudoscience impoverishes the condition of the masses as well as the life of the
mind.”5
