UFO EVIDENCE
Scientific Study of the UFO Phenomenon and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
articles & documents
John Alexander, Ph.D, NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science)
Would irrefutable proof of intelligent extraterrestrial life in
the universe have any effect on religious ideology in the U.S.? The UFO
Community maintains there are several reasons the U.S. government has
withheld information on the UFO phenomenon (and its component aspects). A
reason prominently offered is that there would be a religious crisis in
this country. Yet, in my research I could find nothing to substantiate
this premise. This conundrum led to the hypothetical question: if a mass
UFO landing were to take place how would pastors, priests and rabbis
address the event to their congregation? What if, in the weeks that
followed a face-to-face contact, we found out (as the UFO Community's
leaders proclaim) these obviously technologically superior beings had no
religion?
John Alexander, Ph.D, NIDS (National Institute for Discovery Science)
The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis survey addresses just one of
many problems facing the UFO Community: how would organized religions in
the United States react to confirmation of contact with an advanced
extraterrestrial civilization. These are the statistical results of
this survey.
Conducted by Victoria Alexander, (NIDS / Bigelow Foundation)
The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis survey addresses just one of
many problems facing the UFO Community: how would organized religions in
the United States react to confirmation of contact with an advanced
extraterrestrial civilization. The results of this pilot survey are
straightforward and remarkably simple. The theologians surveyed would
not feel their faith and the faith of their congregation would be
threatened. The following results, based upon a 23% return (230 surveys)
should have a significant and meaningful impact on the UFO Community,
its doctrines and attitudes.
Paul Davies, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003
The discovery of just a single bacterium somewhere beyond Earth
would force us to revise our understanding of who we are and where we
fit into the cosmic scheme of things, throwing us into a deep spiritual
identity crisis that would be every bit as dramatic as the one
Copernicus brought about in the early 1500s, when he asserted that Earth
was not at the center of the universe.
R
David Wilkinson, The Plain Truth, Apr-May 2004
Will Christians have to hold a closing-down sale if
extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) is found elsewhere in the Universe?
Or has there already been the passion of the Christ on different worlds?
R
CNN, August 7, 1996
A humbling possibility. That's the way some officials in the
country's religious communities are describing NASA's recent discovery.
Theologians say the possibility that life exists on Mars moves beyond
an "anthropocentric worldview" -- one that places humankind at the
center of the universe. R
Joseph L. Spradley, Department of Physics, Wheaton College (in PSCF 50, September 1998)
Recent SETI literature reveals that this effort is sustained by
quasi-religious motivations, but both the possibility and improbability
of alien contact have theological implications relating to Christology
and human significance.
Dennis G. Balthaser, June 2004
Over the years at symposiums and in conversations, I've been
questioned several times about whether I was a Christian or not, and my
answer is always, "Yes I am." Many people seem to have a problem or
"hang up" about that, whereas I never have.
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Vatican theologian
Finally I have obtained an English translation of the
unprecedented paper Monsignor Balducci gave me at our historic Meeting
in Rome in December (2002). In this seminal work, the
Monsignor-theologian, (who is the Pope's choice as Chief Exorcist for
the Archdiocese of Rome/Vatican itself), not only makes an air-tight
case for the reality and acceptability of Star Visitor contacts with
humans, but argues that these Visitors are more highly intellectually
and spiritually evolved than humans. (Boylan) R
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Vatican theologian
Finally I have obtained an English translation of the
unprecedented paper Monsignor Balducci gave me at our historic Meeting
in Rome in December (2002). In this seminal work, the
Monsignor-theologian, (who is the Pope's choice as Chief Exorcist for
the Archdiocese of Rome/Vatican itself), not only makes an air-tight
case for the reality and acceptability of Star Visitor contacts with
humans, but argues that these Visitors are more highly intellectually
and spiritually evolved than humans. (Boylan) R
Monsignore Corrado Balducci, Rome
Msgr. Balducci is one of the best-known and most respected Italian
theologians. We publish his paper for the first time in an English
translation. It is indeed noteworthy, since it is the very first
detailed statement of a senior Roman Catholic theologian and Curia
member on the UFO phenomenon. More than that, it demonstrates the
openness of the Roman Catholic church in this question and can be
considered the first ever complex positive statement regarding the
UFO/ET reality from the point of view of a major world religion - with
its over 1 Billion faithful, the RC Church is indeed the largest
religious community on Earth. R
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