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60 Years of UFO Research
by Brad Steiger
FATE :: April 2007

On August 3, 2006, the Arkansas Times carried a feature article with the intriguing headline, “UFOs are not what you think.”

It turns out that the revelation disclosing the true identity of UFOs is from Terry James of Benton, Arkansas, who has written a novel entitled The Rapture Dialogues: Dark Dimension, wherein UFOs are controlled by fallen angels who have incredible powers that can only be thwarted by fundamentalist Christians. The Rapture Dialogues is undoubtedly inspired by the enormous success of the Left Behind series of Christian thrillers authored by Religious Right leader Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.

Combining UFOs with the Rapture, the arrival of the Antichrist, the approach of Armageddon, and the return of Jesus is really not a new concept to readers of Fate. And while many UFO researchers may become impatient with this approach to the UFO enigma, millions of Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists agree with the premise that the mysterious signs in the sky herald the end times.

Indeed, there is even a growing number of UFO theorists who wonder if perhaps the flying saucer phenomenon may be somehow tied into an approaching Doomsday.

From George Adamski onward, flying saucer contactees have passed along stern warnings from the Space Brothers that humankind must stop its primitive warlike ways and prepare for a coming physical evolution and a spiritual elevation in consciousness.

New Age adherents have also begun to weave Doomsday scenarios. Currently, a number of channelers are relaying messages from Count St. Germain advising us to prepare for the end times, and others interpret the Mayan calendar as declaring the end of our world sometime in the year 2012. And always, these prophetic visions proclaim, the entities associated with UFOs stand ready to assist earthlings during these times of dramatic transitions.

While some UFO investigators are pondering the links between UFOs and ancient texts predicting a fast-approaching Armageddon, others are resisting an increasing amount of evidence that such landmark UFO “proofs” as the Roswell crash (1947), the Socorro sighting (1964), and many others were, indeed, our own secret craft jump-started by the 1,600 German scientists smuggled into the United States during Operation Paperclip at the close of World War II. Shunning such conspiracies of silence by the government as evidence that the flying saucers of the late 1940s were experimental craft of our own Earth scientists, a number of diehard UFO researchers continue their efforts to prove that alien spacecraft and their crews come from outer space. Incredible amounts of energy are expended in the UFO community by internecine quarrels over the validity of government documents, alien autopsies, and deathbed disclosures from high-ranking military figures who claimed to have seen alien bodies and held fragments of crashed alien vehicles.

Any observer of the UFO scene had to sense new attitudes and theories within the field when James W. Moseley, who founded S.A.U.C.E.R.S.—the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society—in July 1954, postulated in a 1998 issue of his newsletter Saucer Smear the rhetorical question of what Great Truths he had learned about UFOs in four decades of research: “The answer,” he responded, “is none.”

Noted for his satirical sense of humor, Moseley became uncharacteristically serious when he stated that his current view of the UFO mystery was that it is just one of a vast spectrum of unexplained events that seemed to be unsolvable, “but which should convince us that this Universe is a much more complex place than most people have ever imagined.”

Continuing in a philosophical vein, Moseley said that one reason why UFO researchers will never solve the mystery “is because it is interrelated with the most fundamental mysteries of human life: Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where, if anywhere, do we go next? These questions can be answered through religious faith, but seem to be well beyond present-day science. Possibly UFOs come from other planets, but it is much more likely that they are a part of the Earth’s environment—whatever that means. Even the so-called ‘Government Cover-Up’ has never been properly documented as to its extent and purpose or even to its existence.”

After 60 years of serious investigation, we UFO researchers can’t even agree among ourselves if the enigma originates from outer space or within ourselves—or if it is some metaphysical combination of the two. In its beginnings, UFO research was so much simpler ....

Read the rest of this article in the April 2007 issue of FATE

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