In January
2011, the fifth Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
held its first-ever panel discussion of “space aliens” and the UFO phenomenon.
Attending
the forum were many of the world’s top business and political luminaries, and
speakers included such figures as former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The UFO
panel featured ufologist Stanton Friedman, journalist and well known British
UFO authority Nick Pope, venture capitalist and well known UFO authority
Jacques Vallée,
and well-known science writer and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
The title of
their discussion was “Contact: Learning From Outer Space.”
The
implication of all this, as explained by Nick Pope, was that venture
capitalists should look at UFO’s as an investment opportunity. There was money
to be made not only from the controversy surrounding the UFO phenomenon but
also from the eventual solution of the “mystery.”
Said Richard
O’Connor, M.D., executive director of the Crop Circles Research Foundation:
“The Friedman, Vallée,
Pope, and Kaku panel were not invited to the GCF in order that GCF attendees
could make fun of them, deride them, and call them ‘nut cases.’ They were not
invited to the GCF to provide entertainment.
“They were
invited there because the momentum of UFO Disclosure is accelerating, and a
great number of highly influential capitalists in our world now know with certainty
that the UFO Phenomenon is real. These business leaders are educating
themselves about the UFO Phenomenon, trying to put together their After
Disclosure game plan in the light of their new awareness of this unprecedented
reality. We should pay close attention to these developments and follow this
example.”
Jacques Vallée, Ph.D., identified himself to the
conference as the general partner of a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley,
which had so far funded some 60 high-technology startup companies in such areas
as nanotechnology, database software and genomics. He was perhaps better known
to the world as an astronomer who has written extensively on UFO experiences
for more than half a century.
The UFO
phenomenon, Vallée
said, “presents the kind of anomaly that leads to new concepts in science. In
other words, even if we don’t have a complete explanation in the next few years
or decades, the data is so compelling that it can lead to disruptive
breakthough.”
The
phenomenon is so complex, he said, that it is important not to jump to
premature conclusions.
He presented
a model for scientific investigation of the UFO phenomenon, which presented
“identical patterns” throughout the world. This model sought to “guide” the
analysis on six levels:
Level I – Physical
Level II – Anti-Physical
Level III – Psychological
Level IV – Physiological
Level V – Psychic
Level VI – Cultural
Level II, the Anti-Physical, dealt with what Professor Kaku
called the “physics of the impossible,” including UFO phenomena that might seem
impossible given today’s level of knowledge but which with further scientific
advances would eventually become understandable.
All six
levels of analysis, he said, could lead to technological breakthroughs.
He cited
several examples of UFO encounters involving French pilots that were recorded
scientifically but have never been explained. Vallée believed that such phenomena could
be studied objectively with today’s science, without prejudging their nature.
Currently
there was too much polarization, with academic skeptics arrayed on one side and
believers in “extraterrestrials” on the other. Vallée believed that the large number of
unexplained ancient examples of apparent UFO encounters, along with the high
frequency of sightings today and the occurrence of physical and biological
“anomalies,” argue for “bold new theories.”
He suggested
that UFO reports could provide the basis for an “existence theorem” involving
new notions of time and space, and at the same time could encourage
breakthroughs in technological innovation.
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