THINGS WE WON'T TALK ABOUT

Every Tuesday Morning we have a visitor from the other side of the lake. He is the laconic Swede I mentioned earlier. I brought up the possibility of an alien presence in our Solar system. I expected silence and I wasn't disappointed. I asked him why people were afraid to acknowledge interest in the subject. He said it came "with your Mother's milk". When we have a former astronaut who writes about the subject and enough literature to fill a large library; why would people be afraid to bring it up in casual conversation? Well, there is a ready answer; their terrified of ridicule. They're afraid that their friends will give them a aluminum foil hat for their next birthday.

How are we so easily controlled that we can't discuss something of such obvious interest? And for what purpose?

Our friend is a pilot and he volunteered that he did see something that thought might be a UFO. Neither Jamie or I have ever seen anything and we are "seeing is believing" kind of folks. But there, certainly, is enough information around for discussion. I have heard about things all my life. When I was in the Air Force [1952 to 1958] I had a friend, whose father was a physicist at Los Alamos. His father was one of the first acknowledgers of extra-planetary beings. As far as I know, they didn't make him wear a funny hat, but perhaps times were different then. Personally, I have had no experience to draw from. I did see a strange triangular pattern of material, apparently burning in our atmosphere, late 1974, I think; the explanation, on the news, was that it was reentering space junk. I have had no reason to doubt that. Back when I was in the Air Force, there was the occasional bogey we would pick up traveling at velocities, exceeding our known capabilities, over the Gulf of Mexico. We were ordered to scrub them. We assumed they were our own experimental craft. 

So, as you see, I know nothing; familiar ground for me. Yet since there is a huge source of 'underground' information, shouldn't we be talking about it? I want to know. I would like to have an open intelligent conversation about the possibilities of an alien presence and everything that would mean. I could talk to myself, but that gets boring.

It is certainly not something that invites fear. Any beings capable of traveling to Earth are likely to have evolved, further than we have, and left war and exploitation behind them. At least that would be my assumption. I would assume their only interest would be in helping us with our evolution. Then, I can only talk to myself, as this is one of those subjects that have become taboo in our culture.

There are several other subjects, that for some reason, we won't talk about. But I will. I will make a list and bring one up every now and then.

Love and Peace,  Gregg