This study paper analyses the extent to which clandestine organizations embedded in the military and intelligence branches of government have been infiltrated by different ET factions, and the threat this poses to the sovereignty of humanity. The study begins by describing the dynamics of the interactions between clandestine organizations and various ET races. Emphasis will be on describing the different intervention philosophies and activities of ET races, and in identifying how this impacts on the decision making and organizational structure of clandestine organizations embedded within military and intelligence departments of the US and other national governments.  The evidence used in framing the analysis provided in this paper is primarily drawn from the testimonies of participants in clandestine government organizations which serve as the strongest evidentiary source for analysis of the ET presence. These individuals participated in ‘black projects’ which have the highest security classifications in the US and other countries, and carry severe penalties for divulging to the general public. The fact that many of these witnesses have been able to make these testimonies public in various lectures, videos, websites or books, suggest that an ‘acclimation program’ is occurring whereby the general public is being prepared for the more disturbing aspects of the ET presence. The recommendations made at the conclusion of this paper are designed to assist in developing an adequate response to the infiltration of clandestine organizations by various ET factions.

Dr. Michael E. Salla has held academic appointments in the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC (1996-2001), and the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1994-96). He taught as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University, Washington DC., in 2002. He is currently researching methods of Transformational Peace as a Researcher in Residence in the Center for Global Peace (2001-2003) and directing the Center's Peace Ambassador Program which uses transformational peace techniques for individual self-empowerment. He has a PhD in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Hero's Journey Toward a Second American Century (Greenwood Press, 2002) and co-editor/author of three other books, and authored more than seventy articles, chapters, and book reviews on peace, ethnic conflict and conflict resolution. He has conducted research and fieldwork in the ethnic conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Sri Lanka. He has organized a number of international workshops involving mid to high level participants from these conflicts. He has an academic website at http://www.american.edu/salla/ .

A growing number of individuals who have served in military, intelligence or government institutions testify to the presence of extraterrestrial (ET) races that compete among themselves and with clandestine (human) organizations for influence over global humanity. [2] Dr Steven Greer has gathered the testimonies of more than 100 of these witnesses in written and/or video format, and made these available for the general public and for a congressional inquiry. He claims a further 300 are ready to come forward to give testimony, if given legal protection from prosecution for violating their secrecy oaths. [3] The clandestine organizations are groups of individuals embedded within the intelligence and military services of different national governments whose role is to deal with all issues pertaining to the ET presence. The different ET races span the entire spectrum from non-interventionist races that have a philosophy based on not interfering with human free will when interacting with and influencing individuals, organizations and societies; to ‘interventionist’ races that intercede in human affairs without necessarily respecting human free will for motivations that range from a ‘self-serving’ desire to ‘harvest’ the resources of global humanity, to an altruistic desire to assist global humanity in developing to its highest species potential. The most credible sources providing evidence of these clandestine organizations and the different ET groups are ‘whistleblowers’ who participated in various clandestine military/intelligence projects. [4] Another important source are individuals who have directly experienced contact with different ET factions and/or been unwilling subjects of clandestine/ET projects. [5]

 

These former participants in projects run by clandestine organizations have testified to the relationships between humanity and various ET races in terms of the latter’s motivations, activities and moral philosophy, and the alliances they form with ‘clandestine organizations’ embedded within intelligence and security forces that interface with different ET races. The nature of these alliances appear to be very fluid in terms of how ETs and elites interface, and the various elites that come to the pinnacle of these organizations. It appears that a struggle between different factions of ETs who share interventionist and non-interventionist approaches to human affairs has been reflected in the various clandestine organizations that interface with them and dictate global policy. These factional differences appear both in terms of the relationships between these clandestine organizations, but also in the internal dynamics of clandestine organizations.

 

This study paper describes the dynamics of the interactions between clandestine organizations and various ET races. Emphasis will be on describing the different intervention philosophies and activities of ET races, and in identifying how this impacts on the decision making and organizational structure of clandestine organizations embedded within military and intelligence departments of the US and other national governments. Finally, the paper will finish by describing the extent to which clandestine organizations have been infiltrated by different ET factions and the threat this poses to the sovereignty of humanity.

 

The evidence used in framing the analysis provided in this paper is primarily drawn from the testimonies of participants in clandestine government organizations which serve as the strongest evidentiary source for analysis of the ET presence. [6] All of these individuals participated in ‘black projects’ which have the highest security classifications in the US and other countries, and carry severe penalties for divulging to the general public. The fact that many of these witnesses have been able to make these testimonies public in various lectures, videos, websites or books, suggest that an ‘acclimation program’ is occurring whereby the general public is being prepared for the more disturbing aspects of the ET presence. [7] The recommendations made at the conclusion of this paper are designed to assist in developing an adequate response to the infiltration of clandestine organizations by various ET factions.

 

Understanding the Dynamics of Interaction between Different ET factions and Humanity

The controversial Sumerian translater, Zecharia Sitchin describes in great detail the nature of the struggle between two factions of ETs whom the Sumerians called the Anunnaki. [8] He describes how this ET race provided the biological material for the genetic engineering of the human species which was created out of a fusion of the biological material of primates with the genetic material of this ET race. [9] Sitchin describes how the faction led by the ET/god Enlil was self-serving towards a humanity that was basically viewed as an expendable resource created to provide a variety of resources for use by the Anunnaki. The other ET faction led by the ET/god Enki had a far more altruistic view of humanity characterized by a deep affection that was oriented towards the development of humanity as a species. The ancient Sumerian factional struggle between ETs over how humanity was to be viewed and treated, is reflected in the mythological belief systems of later civilizations and their respective warring pantheons. This suggests that the ancient ‘war of the gods’, is an archetypal event that has been long embedded in the collective human consciousness from racial memories of an intense historical conflict between different ET factions. [10]

 

The historical conflict between different ET factions has most often been given expression in a dualist moral framework where these ET factions or ‘gods’ are respectively either ‘benevolent’ and ‘malevolent’ in motivation and activities. In the Sumerian records, the god Enlil could certainly be viewed as having a malevolent orientation towards humanity as opposed to his brother Enki who had benevolent attitude. This is certainly the scenario described by Sitchin in his translation of the ‘great flood’ where Enlil commanded that humanity should not be fore warned of the great flood due to the belief that humanity was corrupt and expendable, as opposed to Enki who forewarned the most enlightened members of humanity Utnapishtim/Noah. [11] A similar story appears in the ancient greek myth of Prometheus and Zeus suggesting that a factional conflict between ETs over how to interact with humanity was deeply embedded in the collective unconscious of humanity

 

In the religious arena this perceived factional struggle between the creator gods of humanity has given rise to dualistic religions such as Zoroastrianism and Manicheaism where a supreme god of Light is locked in a great cosmic struggle against a god of Darkness. In Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions, this struggle is depicted in terms of the confrontation between two competing angelic hosts led respectively by the archangels Michael and Lucifer. The apocryphal Book of Enoch comes closest to describing the ET origins of this religious struggle in how the rebellious Angels/Nephilim led by ‘Semjasa’ corrupted the Earth, and how they were expelled by the Archangel Michael and his angelic host, while the Earth was purged by the great flood. [12]

 

A dualistic moral framework, however, is not an accurate basis for understanding ET efforts to influence and/or control human affairs through alliances with clandestine organizations. The complexity of the ET interactions described by different sources suggests that a more complex dynamic between different ET factions exists, and that simple moral categories such as benevolent/good and malevolent/evil are misleading. For example, according to Dr Jamisson Neruda who claims to be a ‘whistleblower’ who defected from a clandestine organization embedded within the National Security Agency, there are a number of ET races intervening on the planet with multiple agendas where simple moral categories are insufficient to fully understand the consequences of their activities and influence. [13] Consequently, a ‘triadic framework’ that doesn’t use such misleading moral categories is necessary since this more accurately reflects the dynamics of the ways ETs interact with one another, the rules of intervention that are set and observed by ET races, and the ‘political philosophies’ of these ET races.

 

The main factors influencing the dynamics of this three pronged ET influence are the interventionist philosophies of these races in terms of respecting human free will, the degree to which the ET ‘political philosophy’ dismisses or accepts the idea that humans have reached the necessary ‘species maturity’ to evolve and flourish without being controlled by advanced ET races; and the degree to which ET interaction with humanity is self-serving from the perspective of the ETs or serving the interests of humanity. These factors give rise to three models that will be used to describe the main characteristics of how ETs control and/or influence the development of human societies and clandestine organizations that interface with the ET races. These models are the ‘good shepherd’, ‘protective parent’, and ‘wise mentor’. While the list of ET races described in the following categories is not exhaustive when compared to some of the classification systems that are circulating on the internet by those claiming to be communicating with or ‘channelling’ ET races, the following list covers the most significant races in whistleblower testimonies, and whose influence is most felt in the policy making process.

 

The ‘Good Shepherd’ ETs

ET races that have an interventionist approach, share a ‘pessimistic’ view in their assessment of humanity’s ‘species maturity’; and are self-serving in moral orientation can be viewed in terms of the analogy of the ‘good shephard’. The ‘good shephard’ ETs hold views similar to the shepherd tending to a flock of sheep. The sheep and shepherd have different intrinsic value where the superiority and right of the shepherd to own and utilize his/her flock is accepted by the shepherd as self-evident and a natural part of existence. There is therefore no moral reservation on the part of the shepherd in controlling and using his/her sheep as a resource. The ‘good shepherd’ may develop an affectionate relationship with some members of his/her flock, especially those which exhibit qualities prized by the shepherd such as intelligence. These ‘members of the flock’ may generously rewarded for their prized qualities with the best feeding pastures and mating opportunities, but less endowed members of the flock are viewed as little more than expendable resource that serves the interest of the ‘good shepherd’ and his/her community. For the shepherd, it is inconceivable that the ‘sheep’ could be expected to tend to themselves since they could be stolen by other ‘shepherds’ and/or be exposed to predators thereby diminishing the shepherd’s resource base.

 

If the ‘good shepherd analogy’ is extended to humans it can be concluded that ‘good shepherd’ ETs have as part of their belief system the view that humans are too ‘immature’ as a species to be allowed to develop without being closely scrutinized in how humanity governs itself and uses the planet’s resources. The overly pessimistic view of human nature, leads to the desire to control human institutions so that ‘good shepherd’ ET races can monitor and limit the evolutionary growth of humanity in order to ‘harvest’ humanity and/or the biosphere (Earth) as a renewable resource for ET races. According to Sitchin’s translations of Sumerian cuneiform texts, and various religious traditions, there is evidence supporting a biological connection between humanity and the ‘good shepherd’ ETs, and that the latter played a key role in the creation or bio-engineering of the human race. The ‘good shepherds’ correspond in the Sumerian records to the Enlil faction of the Anunnaki. In terms of the different ET races described by whistleblowers, the ‘good shepherd’ ETs include the Greys from Zeta Reticulum, Tall Greys (from Orion), Reptilians (Earth based), Draco-Reptilians from Orion, and the Anunnaki (giant humanoids from Nibiru). [14]

 

The most common strategy used by ‘good shepherd’ ET’s to exercize control over humanity is to create the illusion of ‘wolves’ in the form of dangerous individuals, organizations or other contrived threats which allows individuals and communities to delegate their sovereign power to political institutions. This essentially replicates the political process described by the C17th English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan, where individuals in a ‘state of nature’ (an anarchical/lawless environment) will surrender their individual sovereignty to a sovereign ruler in order to protect themselves from potential aggression, theft and rape. [15] Similarly, good shepherd ET’s create sufficient ‘illusionary wolves’ who threaten law and order, to persuade individuals to surrender their individual sovereignty to powerful political institutions. Subsequently, ‘good shepherd’ ETs enter into a collection of ‘Faustian bargains’ with political elites who directly benefit if they agree to cooperate with these ET races in controlling all sectors of national life: political, religious, economic and military. [16] Such a ‘Faustian’ process is alluded to in the writings of ancient historians such as the Manetho who chronicled the 30 human dynasties in Egypt that emerged after the gods/demigods handed direct rule over humanity. [17]   The motivation of these human elites is similar to collaborationists in occupied countries, they see themselves as simply recognizing political reality and getting on with life in the hope that conditions improve in the future. There has been historical agreements/alliances between human elites and ‘good shepherd’ ETs that been the subject of investigation by conspiracy theorists such as Jim Marrs and David Icke. [18]

 

The ‘good shepherd’ faction of ETs has three sub-groups that are strategic competitors, but also cooperate to minimize the influence of the other two dominant ET factions that are dedicated to the evolution of the human species. The first are the Earth based ‘Reptilian’ ET’s who have been ensconsed on the planet for millennia, and have managed humanity as a resource in a way that doesn’t deplete the planet’s resources and threaten the integrity of the biosphere. [19] Strictly speaking, this sub-group is not extraterrestrial, but is an advanced non-humanoid race that inhabits sub-terranean realms. Some authors claim that this Reptilian/non-humanoid race inhabited the Earth’s surface long before humanity but had to abandon the surface after severe environmental catastrophe and/or interplanetary warfare. [20]

 

This Earth based Reptilian race, due to its long presence on Earth, and efforts to restrict humanity’s more destructive tendencies, has historically acquired the myth of being a ‘guardian race’. In the Gothic architecture of many European cathedrals, one can witness the numerous sculptures of ‘Gargoyles’ that symbolize a protective force in humanity’s growth towards religious truth. This sub-group therefore partly corresponds to the Enki faction of the Anunnaki described by Sitchin. This sub-group does not wish to share control of the human race with other ET races and tries to prevent off-world ET intervention (which constitutes a threat to Earth based Reptilians’ ability to manage humanity) either by assisting humanity in dealing with a range of problems such as the environmental degradation, the threat of nuclear war, and overpopulation all of which threaten the resources of this sub-group of ‘good shepherds’. This sub-group therefore assists in the development of a one world government that centralizes political power that restricts human sovereignty and freedom without eliminating it all together. Giving credence to this scenario, Phil Schneider  a civil engineer contracted to build secret underground facilities for clandestine organizations, described the evidence he encountered that ETs would be the true rulers of a one world government, and was why he and many others left the ‘service’ of US based clandestine organizations. [21]

 

A second sub-group of the ‘good shepherd’ ETs are an off-world race that have entered into agreements with clandestine organizations where advanced technology is exchanged for the right to establish a presence on the planet and to collaborate on joint ET/human projects. A secret Treaty signed in 1954 between the Eisenhower administration and an ET race has been disclosed by William Cooper and other ‘whistleblowers’. [22] Cooper narrates the events surrounding this Treaty from classified documents he had to read when he served in Naval Intelligence as part of the briefing team to the Commander of the Pacific Fleet:

 

[I]n 1954 the race of large nosed Gray Aliens which had been orbiting the Earth landed at Holloman Air Force Base. A basic agreement was reached. This race identified themselves as originating from a Planet around a red star in the Constellation of Orion which we called Betelgeuse. They stated that their planet was dying and that at some unknown future time they would no longer be able to survive there. This led to a second landing at Edwards Air Force Base. The historical event had been planned in advance and details of the treaty had been agreed upon. Eisenhower arranged to be in Palm Springs on vacation. On the appointed day the President was spirited away to the base and the excuse was given to the press that he was visiting a dentist. President Eisenhower met with the aliens and a formal treaty between the Alien Nation and the United States of America was signed. [23]

 

Alluding to the same treaty signed by the Eisenhower administration, Col Phillip Corso, a highly decorated officer that served in Eisenhower’s National Security Council wrote: “We had negotiated a kind of surrender with them as long as we couldn’t fight them. They dictated the terms because they knew what we most feared was disclosure.” [24]  

 

The technology exchange directly aids the development of highly advanced weapons systems that US based clandestine organizations desire in order to maintain influence, to contend with and limit the ET presence, and to compete against one another for strategic advantage around the globe. This sub-group is typically described as comprising ‘Greys’ from Zeta Reticulum who desire to use the resources of humanity and the bio-sphere for reestablishing the genetic integrity of their race. According to Col Corso, the Greys “weren’t benevolent alien beings who had come to enlighten human beings. They … were harvesting biological specimens on Earth for their own experimentation.” [25] This sub-group loosely cooperates with the first sub-group in encouraging the development of a centralized world government that would enter into agreements with this sub-group where it could better utilize human and planetary resources. While the first sub-group desires a one world government due to the greater efficiency this provides for their management of global humanity, the second sub-group desires it since it is more consistent with their philosophical belief that the interests of the individual are subsumed by the needs of the collective.

 

The third sub-group comprises two races that share a more pessimistic view of human fitness for being in charge of the planet’s resources and historically have formed an alliance in controlling humanity. The first is a very large humanoid race who are described in the book of Genesis as the Nephilim (literally giants) who impregnated human females who then gave birth to giants. [26]   This race is reported to originate from the constellation of Lyra and inhabits the mysterious planet Nibiru (Sumerian for ‘planet of crossing’) that, according to Sitchin’s translations of Sumerian documents, returns every 3,600 years to this vicinity of the solar system. [27] The second race is described as comprising a Reptilian species from the Draco system of Orion who are genetically related to Earth based Reptilians but are more dominant and advanced technologically. [28] The two races of this sub-group correspond to the Enlil faction of the Anunnaki described by Sitchin in his translations of Sumerian texts. This subgroup of ‘good shepherd’ ET’s is very hierarchical in nature and views the domination of one species over others as being the most natural and efficient way of managing planetary resources. Their racial world view is very similar to that held in Nazi Germany and it is argued that this ‘good-shepherd sub-group’ assisted some of the elites of Nazi Germany escape from the allied invasion and escape to Antartica and other regions in the South Atlantic to establish secret bases. [29]   The self-serving agenda of this third sub-group of ‘good shepherd’ ETs is to encourage militaristic responses among different clandestine organizations that not only destablize global humanity by channeling resources and influence into the military-industrial complexes of different nations, but so that these clandestine organizations overextend themselves by sparking overt military conflict with the Grey Zeta ET race (second sub-group of ‘good shepherd’ ETs). Such a scenario is evident in Col Corso’s revelation that for “over fifty years, now, the war against UFO’s [Zeta Greys] has continued as we tried to defend ourselves against their intrusions.” [30]

 

An escalating military confrontation between Zeta ETs and clandestine organizations could eventually culminate in intervention by the third sub-group of ‘good shepherd’ ET’s – Draco Reptilians/Giant humanoids who correspond to the Enlil faction of the Anunnaki. The intervention by Anunnaki-Enlil faction of ‘good shepherd ETs’ would occur as global environmental upheavals and/or military conflict with the Zetas occur to the extent that this provides these two ET races the opportunity to intervene as ‘saviors’ of humanity and the ‘returning Elohim’. [31] With the advanced holographic, time travel and shape shifting abilities that has been reported to belong to this ET race, it could contrive a ‘Second Coming’ comprising a genetically manufactured ‘Jesus’ accompanied by the ‘Ascended Masters’ and the ‘Angelic Host’ that would be celebrated by religious adherents as the start of the Kingdom of God. [32] Posing as saviors, these two allied ET races, Draco Reptilians/giant humanoids, would essentially take over a weakened global humanity after a series of catastrophic environmental and military events and usher in an ‘era of peace’ under a united world government whose leadership is overtly controlled by this sub-group of the ‘good-shepherd’ ETs. They would be helped by the other two losing ‘good shepherd’ sub-groups in preventing other ET factions from assisting global humanity in its predicament.

 

In general, ETs in the first and third sub-groups of the ‘good shepherd’ category desire non-disclosure of the ET presence and go to great lengths to intimidate, silence and eliminate individuals who have participated in clandestine organizations from revealing the full extent of their activities. The main goal of all sub-groups in the ‘good shepherd’ ET category is to ‘harvest’ the resources of humanity without compromising the integrity of the biosphere and ET control over the evolution of global humanity. Thus the moral orientation of the ‘good shepherd’ ET in general is analogous to the historical way in which colonial governments dominated and assimilated indigenous communities. While the three sub-groups of the ‘good shepherd’ faction are strategic competitors over who exercizes control over global humanity, they share a common interest in restricting the sovereignty and independence of the human species so that it can be used as a global resource. While the first two sub-groups (Earth based Reptilians & Zeta Greys) would lose some of their influence in controlling humanity if the Draco Reptilians/Giant Humanoids were to assume outright control of humanity, they would lose even more of their ability to influence and control humanity if the next ET faction were to intervene. This guarantees a loose alliance between these three sub-groups of the ‘good shepherd’ ET faction.

 

Protective Parent ETs

The second analogy to be used to describe the motivations and activities of a distinct category of ET races is the ‘protective parent’ model. The ‘protective parent’ ET category wish to shield humanity as an ‘adolescent species’ as far as possible from the dangers that exist for it as an evolving species. ET’s in this category have a moral orientation of helping humanity become aware of the presence of other ET races throughout the galaxy and to cooperate with these races in an alliance often described by whistleblowers and other sources as the Galactic Federation. [33] The Galactic Federation  depicted in the Star Trek series is a fairly close approximation of how these ET  races. There is a respect for the sovereignty of humanity and a desire to help humanity unite and integrate advanced technology in order for it to be ready for accession to the Galactic Federation as explained by Dr Neruda:

 

Each galaxy has a Federation or loose-knit organization that includes all sentient life forms on every planet within the galaxy. It would be the equivalent of the United Nations of the galaxy. This Federation has both invited members and observational members. Invited members are those species that have managed to behave in a responsible manner as stewards of their planet and combine both the technology, philosophy, and culture that enable them to communicate as a global entity that has a unified agenda. Observational members are species who are fragmented and are still wrestling with one another over land, power, money, culture, and a host of other things that prevent them from forming a unified world government. The human race on planet earth is such a species, and for now, it is simply observed by the Federation, but is not invited into its policy making and economic systems. [34]

 

These ET races do not enter into agreements for providing advanced technology for weapons programs by clandestine organizations which places these ET races at a considerable disadvantage to ‘good shepherd’ races. It has been recorded, for example, that a meeting between President Eisenhower and representatives of these races in 1953 (before the 1954 Treaty with the Zeta ET group) did not lead to an agreement since these ET races believed humanity was too immature for the technology desired, and that nuclear weaponry, for instance, should be destroyed. [35] Cooper describes in some detail the events surrounding this meeting:

 

In the meantime a race of human looking aliens contacted the U.S. Government. This alien group warned us against the aliens that were orbiting the Equator [Those who Eisenhower eventually signed a Treaty with] and offered to help us with our spiritual development. They demanded that we dismantle and destroy our nuclear weapons as the major condition. They refused to exchange technology citing that we were spiritually unable to handle the technology which we then possessed. They believed that we would use any new technology to destroy each other. This race stated that we were on a path of self destruction and we must stop killing each other, stop polluting the Earth, stop raping the Earth's natural resources, and learn to live in harmony. These terms were met with extreme suspicion, especially the major condition of nuclear disarmament. It was believed that meeting that condition would leave us helpless in the face of an obvious alien threat.… Nuclear disarmament was not considered to be within the best interest of the United States. The overtures were rejected. [36]

 

The protective ‘parent ET’ races spend considerable time assisting various human organizations to counter the agendas of ‘good shephard’ ET races that are actively trying to control global humanity for the purpose of harvesting the resources of humanity and the planet. This category of ET’s promotes an agenda of full disclosure of the ET presence, and are dedicated to serving the best interests of humanity as viewed from the lens of a ‘protective parent’ that served as a biological source for humanity. [37] Thus the ‘protective parent’ ETs corresponds more closely to the Enki faction of the Anunnaki described in Sitchin’s translations of Sumerian cuneiform texts. Some of the ET races that fall into this category are typically described as the Nordics (Lyra); Sirians (Sirius B); Pleiedians, Orions, and Alpha Centaurians. [38]

 

There are two sub-groups that can be identified in the testimonies of those having had contact or witnessed evidence of ETs in the Protective Parent category. The first is an on-world presence of humanoid races that have historically assisted humanity in its evolutionary development. Such a race has been argued by a number of authors to be the remnants of the ancient Lemurian and Atlantean civilizations that established large crystalline cities inside the Earth’s crust after abandoning their cities/civilizations established on the Earth’s surface. [39] In a secretive flight to the Artic Ocean in 1947, Admiral Richard Byrd reported in his diary – whose veracity continues to be debated [40] - of an encounter with a tall Nordic looking race in a subterranean city under the North Pole in which the following conversation occurred with the city’s leader:

 

'We have let you enter here because you are of noble character and well-known on the Surface World, Admiral' … you are in the domain of the Arianni, the Inner World of the Earth…. Admiral, I shall tell you why you have been summoned here. Our interest rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was at that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the "Flugelrads", to your surface world to investigate what your race had done…. You see, we have never interfered before in your race's wars, and barbarity, but now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely, that of atomic energy. Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the powers of your world, and yet they do not heed. Now you have been chosen to be witness here that our world does exist. You see, our Culture and Science is many thousands of years beyond your race, Admiral.' [41]

 

Strictly speaking, this sub-group is not extra-terrestrial in origin but simply a sub-terrestrial humanoid race that is genetically linked to humanity. A number of archeologists/historians believe that these ancient advanced races are the basis of numerous myths concerning the intervention of mysterious ‘white brothers/gods’ in the development of civilization around the planet. [42] The Aztecs and Incans, for example, at first believed that the Spanish Conquistadores were their returning ‘white brothers/gods’. These sub-surface Lemurian cities continue to interact with ET races, have advanced technology and assist humanity in dealing with its myriad social, economic, political and environment problems. Sources describe the pyschotronic crystal technology used by these Lemurian sub-surface cities, and the efforts to promote this technology for peaceful purposes. [43]

 

This sub-group race loosely cooperates with the first sub-group of the ‘good shepherd’ ET faction (Earth based Reptilians) in ensuring that humanity doesn’t destroy its surface habitat. However, they are strategic competitors when it comes to the evolutionary development of humanity which this sub-group (Lemurians/Atlanteans) supports but which the Earth based Reptilians restrict. It is this loose alliance of Earth based ET races that influences/controls the leadership of the secret societies that have historically dominated humanity. Thus the leadership of Freemasons, Illuminati, Knights Templars, etc. all reflect a loose cooperation by terrestrially based ET races that share common interests in preventing global catastrophe on the planet, but differ profoundly over the evolution of the human species and whether ‘off-world’ ET races should intervene on Earth. [44]

 

The second sub-group in the Protective Parent model are off-world ETs that intervene to assist humanity in dealing with off-world ET races. This category are commonly described as ‘Nordics’ and ‘Semites’ that come from Sirius B, Pleiedies, Altair Alpha Centauri, and Andromeda, who are humanoid in appearance, between 7-8 feet in height, and have an interventionist strategy in dealing with the destabilizing strategies of the second and third ET sub-groups from the ‘good shepherd’ faction. In an interview with Dr Michael Wolf, a former National Security Council consultant who became part of the new ‘acclimation’ program, Dr Richard Boylan reports as follows:

 

Wolf was nonchalant about such human-extraterrestrial interactions, having himself worked side by side in classified government laboratories with a human-appearing ET from the Altair system and a "Grey" humanoid scientist from the Zeta Reticuli system. "Altair's fourth and fifth planets are inhabited. In fact, the people from Altair colonized the Pleiades system long ago. The human-looking Pleiadean extraterrestrials some people meet are actually ancestrally Altairians. There are two variants, the Semitic-looking ones and the Nordic-looking ones. The 'Semitics' are the race which landed at Holloman Air Force Base (New Mexico) in the '60s, and conversed with some generals there." [45]  

 

Some of the ways in which these ‘Nordic/Semite’ ETs assist humanity is for example to counter the harmful environmental effects of advanced weapons technology developed and deployed by clandestine organizations. Also, significant terrorist actions sponsored by the ‘good shepherd’ ET faction, are presumably mitigated or prevented by Nordic/Semite races. [46] For instance, terrorist actions subsequent to the September 11, 2001 attack, may have been prevented by covert assistance to security forces around the planet by these races thereby helping stabilize the Earth’s security situation.

 

These Nordic/Semite off-world ETs do not enter into agreements with clandestine governments in terms of weapons technology but do assist in encouraging the development of advanced technology which does not have a military application. Dr Wolf for example witnessed tall ‘Nordic/Semitic’ in joint ET/Clandestine government facilities. [47] Individuals describe the positive experiences they have in interacting with these ET races as opposed to the more intimidating experiences with the ‘good shepherd ET races. [48] This sub-group is essentially a strategic counter weight to the influence of the off-world elements of the ‘good shepherd’ faction. The ‘off world’ ‘good shepherd’ sub-groups view the off-world ‘protective parent’ ET sub-group as its mortal enemy since the latter presents a threat to the ability of the former to intervene and control humanity as a resource.

 

Wise Mentor ETs

The third analogy to be used to describe ET control and influence, is the ‘wise mentor’ category. These races have a hands-off approach to global humanity and only offer assistance if it is in the best interest of all concerned in such an intervention. They promote ‘consciousness raising’ and have a moral orientation that is deeply spiritual insofar as they present the unity of all life, and the importance of honoring the role of all forces in the evolutionary development of humanity. The do not offer technology in the conventional sense but a highly advanced ‘language of light’ technology consisting of sacred geometrical forms that are simultaneously found throughout the universe, in the atom, and the human energy field. They teach that understanding the sacred geometrical light patterns in all life will lead to the emancipation of individuals and life on the planet.

 

Wise mentor ETs do not go directly confront and counter the influence of ‘good shephard’ ET races which differentiates this category from the ‘protective parent’. Indeed, ‘wise mentor’ ETs warn against the implicit dangers of intervention since this may retard the evolutionary growth of humanity. Put simply, the wise mentor ETs view the hard knocks of humanity’s encounter with ‘good shepherd’ ETs as part of the evolutionary process for a species and thus don’t intervene. In contrast, protecting humanity from the ‘hard knocks’ of humanity’s encounter with ‘good shepherd’ ETs is an important goal of ‘protective parent’ ETs. The philosophical issues here are the same confronting an ‘energy healer’ in preventive medicine. If the alternative medicine practitioner simply healed the illness without active collaboration by the patient, then the patient recovers but would be susceptible to future recurrences. The accomplished alternative medical practitioner, simply demonstrates to the patient how to heal him/herself thereby minimizing the chances of future recurrences. [49]

 

There are two sub-groups of the ‘wise mentor’ faction. The first are non-humanoid races from Arcturus, Sirius A and Orion. The second are described in the Neruda interviews, as the ‘Central Race’ who seeded the Galaxy untold millennia ago. [50] The first sub-group comprises ‘Councils’ that interact with receptive humans and organizations to offer assistance and guidance when requested. Most evidence for the existence of such ET Councils comes from reports of telepathic communications with these beings who typically are described as having a mixture of humanoid features and birdlike or catlike heads. [51] It appears that these beings may have been the inspirational source for ancient Egyptian sculptures depicting humans with animal heads such as the ‘god’ Thoth, who had the head of an Ibis (a native Egyptian bird). 

 

The second sub-group are described in the Neruda interviews as the ‘Central Race’. According to Neruda, these races inhabit a region within the central galaxies of the universe and seeded the galaxies many billions of years ago and left ‘subtle fingerprints’ of their presence which if interpreted correctly, opens the door for different species to reestablish communication with them. [52] Neruda equates these with the Elohim of ancient religious texts, and argues that they act as silent helpers in the evolution of humanity for those that choose to ‘re-connect’ with them.

The idea of root races that seeded the Galaxy is found in ‘advisory bodies’ such as the ‘Council of Nine’ that supposedly offers spiritual counseling for the evolution of the human species according to individuals claiming to be in communication with them. [53]

 

The Structure of Clandestine Organizations

The key in understanding how the above ET categories influence clandestine organizations is that the latter are generally aware of the political, moral and philosophical orientations of the different ET races and of other clandestine organizations. Clandestine organizations therefore try to steer a cause through these various ET intervention philosophies and strategies while cooperating and competing with one another in a way that maximizes the power of the clandestine organizations, without being unduly compromised by ‘infiltration’ by the different ET factions/subgroups. Thus for the respective leaders of clandestine organizations, there is a three dimensional chess game occurring involving multiple players, theaters and goals that influence the dynamics within and between clandestine organizations.

 

Clandestine organizations focused on the ET presence first became established when various intelligence and military organizations became aware of the ET presence in 1941 when a downed ET spacecraft was found in low ocean water west of San Diego. [54] The Navy took charge of the investigation and assumed a leading role which it continues to play up to the present. There subsequently emerged a need for public secrecy while an adequate policy response could be developed by the US government. This had led to the emergence of clandestine organizations embedded within various military, intelligence, and policy making branches of government each of which have different though overlapping functions according to the larger goals of the department, wherein members of the ‘parent department’ are not aware of the full extent of activities and influences of these embedded clandestine organizations, even though they share the same overarching function. [55] For example, the three main branches of the US military - Navy, Army and Airforce - has its own weapons development and intelligence departments all designed to ultimately protect the national security of the US. Within each of these specialized departments there is embedded a clandestine organization that is responsible for reverse engineering ET technology for the purpose of weapons development, and for gaining intelligence on ET operations on the planet for developing an adequate defense policy. [56] Thus the clandestine organization embedded in the US Navy, for example, will be unknown to other Naval units focused on broader issues concerning weapons development and intelligence gathering, and whose lower secrecy classification would make it a crime for Navy personnel to gather information about these clandestine organizations. [57]   This effectively leads to clandestine organizations embedded in the Navy that have a degree of autonomy, power and resources unknown to personnel the wider Navy even at senior leadership levels.

 

The way in which these clandestine organizations are embedded in various military/intelligence organizations without being discovered by prying congressmen is described by former Airforce Sergeant Dan Sherman in a recalling a Captain’s briefing to him:

 

Black missions, which we call Level 2, are what the alien projects are effectively hidden behind. The existence of black missions is only known by a handful of Congressmen and the President. These black missions are the last line of defense for the alien projects. Wherever an alien project is located there must be a black mission to cover its existence from prying eyes. It creates a highly sophisticated shield designed to mask the grey project’s existence from high level officials who have no need-to-know. Otherwise, the alien project would eventually come under scrutiny by someone within official channels. As it stands under the current system, if a nosy Congressman starts looking where he has no need-to-know, he can be briefed on the black mission, be made to feel important and thereby squelching any further digging. It’s an extremely effective method of hiding alien missions and is the reason they have been hidden so effectively for so long. [58]

 

The National Security Agency was created in 1952 with its primary responsibility being intelligence gathering. Within the NSA there is embedded a clandestine organization responsible for intelligence gathering on ET races and establishing communication with them. According to Dr Neruda, the clandestine organization in the NSA is called the ‘Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization’ and is embedded within the Special Projects Laboratory. As in the case of the US Navy, the larger membership of the NSA will be unaware of the true activities of its embedded clandestine organization Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization (ACIO) due to the higher secrecy classification of the latter. Sergeant Sherman recalls how he was briefed by his captain that he was part of a secret NSA project called ‘Project Preserve Destiny’ in which he was a result of an experiment designed to enhance telepathic communication with the ‘Grey’ ET species: “The experiment that I’m referring to was, and still is, named ‘Project Preserve Destiny.’ It started in 1960 and was fully operational by 1963. It was a genetic management project with the sole purpose of cultivating human offspring so that they would have the ability to communicate with the greys.” [59]

 

The most important of all the clandestine organizations embedded in US government agencies is that contained within the National Security Council (NSC). The NSC was established in 1947 by President Truman and its function was to coordinate policy recommendations from different branches of government, military and intelligence communities into a coherent set of policy recommendations that Presidents can choose from. [60] This coordinating function played by the NSC in general is replicated in the clandestine organization embedded in the NSC, which has been known by a number of names including Majestic-12 which derived from a document signed by President Truman in 1947. [61] Created by Truman as a Presidential policy coordinating committee on the ET presence, MJ-12 was formally incorporated into the NSC in 1954 with an NSC edict creating the parent organization in which MJ-12 would be embedded. The ‘official’ version pertaining to this part of NSC history is as follows:

 

In 1954 NSC 5412 provided for the establishment of a panel of designated representatives of the President and the Secretaries of State and Defense to meet regularly to review and recommend covert operations. Gordon Gray assumed the chairmanship of the "5412 Committee" as it was called, and all succeeding National Security Advisers have chaired similar successor committees, variously named "303", "40", "Special Coordinating Committee," which, in later Presidential administrations, were charged with the review of CIA covert operations. [62]

 

The 5412 Committee contains a subcommittee called PI 40 whose role is to coordinate information from all other clandestine organizations focused on the ET presence so that a coherent set of policy choices can be developed for deliberation by those policy makers comprising PI-40. [63]   Clandestine organizations embedded in private organizations such as the Council of Foreign Affairs provide the best personnel and resources for recruitment and policy discussion in PI 40. In describing the early composition of MJ-12, William Cooper, noted the reliance on a group from the Council of Foreign Relations he dubbed the ‘wise men’:

 

The "Wise Men" were key members of the Council on Foreign Relations. There were 12 members including the first 6 from Government positions thus Majority Twelve. This group was made up over the years of the top officers and directors of the Council on Foreign Relations and later the Trilateral Commission. Gordon Dean, George Bush and Zbigniew Brzezinski were among them. The most important and influential of the "Wise Men" who served on MJ-12 were John McCloy, Robert Lovett, Averell Harriman, Charles Bohlen, George Kennan, and Dean Acheson. Their policies were to last well into the decade of the 70s. It is significant that President Eisenhower as well as the first 6 MJ-12 members from the Government were also members of the Council on Foreign Relations. [64]

 

In theory then, PI 40 should be at the pinnacle of power when it comes to the ET presence employing the best minds for a coordinated response to the ET presence. In reality, however, due to bureaucratic resistance, separate agendas and ‘rogue individuals’, different clandestine organizations are reluctant to share information that could compromise their power, resources or influence. [65] This is exemplified in Dr Neruda’s discussion of how the clandestine organization he was a member of, refuses to share its most important information with the parent organization in which it is embedded, the NSA. As might be imagined, these problems are magnified even more at the global level when the chief clandestine organizations at the national level, meet to discuss and coordinate global policy on the ET presence.

 

According to ‘whistleblower’ testimony, the annual ‘Bilderberg group meeting’ has embedded within it a clandestine organization whose express goal is to coordinate national policies concerning the ET presence. [66] Such a claim is given greater credence by the role played by Nelson Rockefeller in starting the annual Bilderberg group meetings. In 1954, President Eisenhower appointed Rockefeller his ‘Special Assistant for Cold War Planning’, a position that officially involved the ‘monitoring and approval of covert CIA operations’. This was merely a cover for Rockefeller’s true role in directing US foreign policy in the wake of the ‘secret treaty’ earlier discussed between the Zeta ET race and the US. Rockefeller’s main concern was on designing, implementing and monitoring the extensive military and intelligence programs set up in response to the ET presence in general, and the formal treaty with the Zeta ET race. Rockefeller played a key ‘coordinating’ role in the clandestine organization embedded within the National Security Council – Majestic 12.  With the Bilderberg annual meeting, Rockefeller would play a similar role in ensuring that different Western bloc national governments would coordinate their resources in both meeting the challenge posed by the Warsaw Pact and the ET presence.

 

While clandestine organizations should in theory operate in a similar fashion to their parent departments which coordinate and share resources for the overriding goal of protecting the National Security of the US, the truth is that these clandestine organizations cooperate to a minimal degree. Their ‘cooperation’ is limited by perceptions of a zero-sum competition against one another for influence, prestige and resources. For example, clandestine organizations in the Army, Navy and Airforce working to integrate ET technology into weapons systems will be in competition over which weapons systems deserve funding and the threat perceptions justifying such expenditure. Unlike the intense debate over conventional weapons that emerges into the public arena, debate over ET technology acquisition and deployment is highly classified. The compartmentalized nature of these organizations, the security classification which puts them beyond congressional/departmental oversight for regular branches of government, the interaction with ET races and their technology, makes these clandestine organizations prime targets for ET infiltration.

 

ET Infiltration of Clandestine Organizations

The infiltration of clandestine organizations occurs through technology exchange/development programs, and intelligence gathering techniques which supposedly assists these clandestine organizations in performing their specific functions, but which in reality, make them susceptible to ET infiltration. One common technology used by these organizations which is highly questionable in terms of the degree to which this permits ET infiltration is ‘Brain Enhancement’ Technology which, according to Dr Wolf, "allows utilization of a vastly-increased percentage of the brain, in order for humans to mentally engage the extraterrestrials in full telepathic mental exchange." The Treatment involves "a way of opening the brain up, a way to stimulate the neurons. It allows billions of synapses to form." [67] According to Dr Wolf he underwent mental enhancement process where his IQ was raised from 141 to 186. [68] Similarly, Dr Neruda describes the Brain Enhancement technology used in the clandestine organization, Labyrinth, embedded in the NSA, and the expectation that all reaching a sufficiently high security classification were “invited to undertake the process.” [69] Al Bielak, a participant in the infamous Montauk program run by the US Navy, also reported the use of Brain enhancement technology by the NSA. [70] Rather than solely increasing IQ and brain capacities, such technology raises serious concerns over its capacity to program recipients in cognitive and behavioral patterns that support ET influence and infiltration into the highest policy making spheres.

 

The result of these numerous clandestine organizations having different functions and interactions with ET technology, is that this contributes to a high level of distrust and competition among clandestine organizations in the US which superficially cooperate but are suspicious to the degree to which ET infiltration has occurred with ‘partner’ organizations. This ET infiltration problem is alluded to in Col Phillip Corso’s analysis of the relationship between the US military, the CIA and the intelligence services of other countries:

 

The CIA, KGB, British Secret Service, and a whole host of other foreign intelligence agencies were loyal to themselves and to the profession first and to their respective governments last…. Spy organizations like the CIA and the KGB tend to exist only to preserve themselves, and that’s why neither the US military nor the Russian military trust them…. CIA penetration by the KGB and what amounted to their joint spying on the military was a fact we accepted during the 1950s and 1960s… [71]

 

While Corso was referring to the Cold War struggle, the ET focus of his book, The Day After Roswell, implicitly was suggesting this infiltration problem also applied to the ET interaction with different clandestine organizations. A revealing factor in Corso’s comments is that institutional culture plays a role in how a clandestine organization may be infiltrated by different ET factions and sub-groups. The different branches of the US military place an emphasis on loyalty, discipline, hierarchical decision making, and weapons development which makes them susceptible to ET races that share these values. Therefore it is likely that Reptilian sub-groups from the ‘Good Shepherd’ ET category which have been noted to share these military cultures are likely to have infiltrated various branches of the US military. [72] Such infiltration would manifest itself in extremely aggressive behavior by sectors of the US military towards the Zeta Grey race. That such infiltration has occurred is supported by testimony by Dr Wolf in an interview by Dr Richard Boylan concerning a group he calls the ‘cabal’:

 

Wolf has labeled this conspiratorial group of plotters "The Cabal". Made up of extremist, fundamentalist, xenophobic, racist, and paranoiac officers, the Cabal fears and hates extraterrestrials. And, without any Presidential or Congressional authorization, the Cabal has commandeered Star Wars weaponry to shoot down UFOs, taken surviving extraterrestrials prisoner, and attempted to extract information by force. [73]

 

Confirmation that a secret war using highly advanced technology is being conducted by sections of the US military against the Zeta comes from Col Steve Wilson, a highly decorated military officer who claims to have led a clandestine project (Project Pounce) to retrieve downed ET craft. [74] In the case of intelligence services such as the CIA and NSA which focus on the intelligence gathering, sharing of information, establishing communication with different ET races, makes them more susceptible to infiltration by Zeta Greys who share aspects of this institutional culture. [75]  

 

The extent to which these clandestine organizations have been compromised by ‘good shepherd’ ETs is evident in whistleblower testimonies such as Phil Schneider who witnessed the secret joint underground facilities between humans and ET, and the key role played by these ETs in the establishment of a New World Order. [76] Schneider described how the clandestine organization he worked for was compromised by ‘tall Greys’/’Reptilians’ and how these were preparing for a ‘one world government’. Similarly, Dr Neruda describes the existence of the ‘Corteum’ a group of ET’s which is closely associated with a clandestine organization called the ‘Labyrinth’ comprising 1800 humans and 200 ETs embedded within the National Security Agency. [77] The paranoia, strict hierarchical control and secrecy by which the Labyrinth operates suggests that the ‘Corteum’ comprises the off-world Reptilian sub-group of the ‘Good Shepherd’ ETs. [78] There are also a number of former participants in clandestine programs that involved joint ET/human collaboration in testing and developing new technologies in organizations embedded in the Navy, Army and Airforce. [79] According to Stewart Swerdlow, and other participants in a highly classified series of projects led by the US Navy dubbed the ‘Montauk Project,’ clandestine organizations involved in kidnapping US citizens for mind control experiments are collaborating with Grey/Reptilian ETs in trying to learn more about human emotional and behavioral responses. [80] Finally, Bill Cooper believes that a joint human/ET power structure exists which has an agenda for the total control over human institutions and populations. [81]

 

The ‘protective parent’ ET races have a distinct disadvantage in dealing with clandestine organizations since their unwillingness to exchange technology that has a military application, and indeed restrictions on the use of advanced weaponry leads to them having limited influence with clandestine organizations. As mentioned earlier, a meeting between President Eisehower and this faction of humanoid ETs, resulted in failure due to a disagreement over the utility of the US nuclear military program. [82] Subsequently, ‘protective parent’ races focus their efforts on minimizing the chances of global warfare breaking out, minimizing the harmful effects of advanced weapons testing, preventing the destabilizing agendas of ‘good shepherd’ ETs from succeeding; and countering the infiltration of ‘good shepherd’ ETs into key clandestine organizations. [83]

 

The influence of ‘wise mentor’ races on clandestine organizations is even more limited since their ‘spiritual counseling’ has only limited appeal to clandestine organizations as bureaucratic institutions locked into a zero-sum conflict for power, resources and influence. Dr Neruda describes in his interviews how he was forced to defect from the clandestine organization embedded in the NSA since the spiritual counseling by the ‘central race’ in the form of philosophy, art and music was deemed to be insufficient for offering the sort of weapons technology deemed necessary for defense against ET intervention. When Neruda was suspected of being under the influence of this ‘wise mentor race’, Neruda had to defect or risk having invasive memory technologies applied that would remove all knowledge of the interaction he had with this race. The influence of these ‘wise mentor’ races does appear to have a significant impact on those individuals in clandestine organizations that open themselves to the influence of the former. [84] These individuals become progressive forces for public disclosure of the ET presence through a gradual ‘acclimation program,’ and for a more benign military response to ET interventions, yet they remain in the minority in the policy making process. [85]

 

Conclusion: Responding to ET Infiltration in Clandestine Organizations

The compartmentalized nature of clandestine organizations with their specialized functions concerning technology exchange, intelligence gathering, and development of advanced weaponry, makes them vulnerable to infiltration by ET races that do not serve the highest interest of global humanity as an evolving species. The danger of such infiltration is that policy making at the national and global level concerning the ET presence is skewed to serve the interest of a particular faction of ETs termed the ‘good shepherd’, whose agenda is to utilize humanity and the biosphere (Earth) as a resource base that serves the agendas of the different ET sub-groups in the ‘good shepherd’ category.  Those ET groups who can play a more supportive role in the development of global humanity (‘protective parent’ and ‘wise mentor’ ET factions) are marginalized in the policy making process due to the manner in which clandestine organizations are dominated by interests dedicated to technology acquisition and intelligence gathering. The danger of maintaining such a focus on technology acquisition and intelligence gathering is that it will play into the hands of ‘good shepherd’ ETs intent on ‘harvesting’ humanity as a resource while marginalizing those ET groups that can offer better assistance to global humanity in its evolution as a distinct species. The following policy making recommendations are therefore encouraged.

• Full disclosure of the ET presence to allow public awareness of the different ET factions and the extent to which these have influenced clandestine organizations.
• Oversight of all clandestine organizations and operations concerning ETs by specially convened congressional/legislative bodies designed to provide information on the scope and implications of these technologies and activities.
• Full and ‘open’ diplomatic relations with ET representatives ensuring peaceful relations and interactions between global humanity and ET races.
• Elimination of clandestine weapons programs infiltrated by ‘good shepherd’ ETs whose intent is to destabilize national governments and encourage military responses to the ET presence.
• Transparency in all global policy making in organizations such as the Bilderberg group that attempts to coordinate global policy on the ET presence.
• Monitoring of ‘brain enhancement’ technologies in terms of the extent to which compromise the independence of individuals assuming important leadership positions in dealing with the ET presence.

 

ET infiltration of clandestine organizations needs to be recognized as a phenomenon that requires immediate response by policy makers and by global humanity more generally. Such infiltration makes it difficult if not impossible to effectively coordinate national and/or global policy making on the ET presence regardless of the competency of those playing a coordinating role for all clandestine organizations dealing with the ET presence. Hesitation in developing an adequate response to such infiltration threatens the short term sovereignty of global humanity and indeed the long term presence of humanity as a resident species on this planet. Truth, transparency and close oversight of all activities concerning ETs is the best policy course for policy makers and global humanity in the challenges that lie ahead in integrating the technologies, knowledge and possibilities posed by the ET presence.