THE "COSMIC
FRONTIER" ESSAYS
"The Cosmic Frontier" and "The
Cosmic Frontier " Essays are © by Mauro Porto
When dealing with extraterrestrial and ufological
matters I use to introduce myself as a retired Brazilian electronics engineer,
aged 65, who has been, since a long time, one of those able to testify on the
reality of the "nuts and bolts" highly advanced kind of UFO because
one of them crossed the highway near enough to stall the car in which I was in
with my parents, barely a teenager at the time.
It was a very simple kind of sighting, just a flying
whitish object about ten meters wide, looking like a reversed soup plate glued
upon another, silently cruising the valley that goes up the first steps of the
Petropolis mountain range near Rio de Janeiro, moving slowly at low altitude, a
couple of hundred meters ahead of the car.
After the initial shock my family decided it had to be
one of the nazi secret weapons taken from the Germans by one of the allied
powers [the year was 1949, and yes, they were a smart and well informed kind of
people] and soon forgot the whole thing.
During the following years I occasionally read about
the UFO phenomenon and became more and more convinced that all impartial
research pointed to a situation where our planet is subjected to an important
alien presence.
Presently I can't do less than absolutely agree with
Steven Greer and others like him that think this situation is kept secret by a
very powerful military-industrial steering group derived from the wartime
Manhattan Project, that escaped governmental control.
So I heartfeltedly praise the effort Dr Greer and the
Disclosure Project team are undertaking to awaken the USA Congress -- and the
rest of the world -- to the great importance of this matter, using the clever
strategy of concentrating on the testimony of old military officers and
civilian officials of good standing and impeccable careers.
Up to the present time he has refrained himself and
has successfully avoided to bring up all controversial matter, including the
supremely important question of what motivates the extraterrestrial presence
among us...and rightly so, because, as Greer himself noted in one of his
"position papers", the ET civilizations are likely to have very
different sociological and ethical values compared to what we are accustomed
to.
But, even agreeing with him that we must be very
careful in selecting the words we use to communicate the truth that we can
verify, that doesn't mean that we mustn't confront difficult issues like the
probable interference of ETs with human evolution, and the so called
"abductions" and "cattle mutilations" questions -- that
Greer is prone to interpret as well intentioned "clinical
examinations" and "farm animal dissections".
The inclination to see all extraterrestrial activities
under a favorable light derives from the supposition that ancient civilizations,
hundreds of thousands or millions of years older than our own must necessarily
be benign, that is, morally evolved along lines we think must universally
prevail.
Besides that, our religious upbringing makes it
difficult to accept the possibility that the moral quality of our heavenly
brothers (or competitors, or masters, or a combination of these) could be left
to chance alone, by a benign, endowing God, preoccupied with us human beings,
as his preferred children -- a strong judeo-christian-mohammedan notion.
The problem is that nature isn't showing any evidence
that there could be such a thing as preferred children. Despite Einstein, God seems to be playing
dice all the time.
So we must fend for ourselves and accept the fact that
we are not living in a well-guarded planet, divinely protected against inimical
alien interference. And consequently we have to be attentive to all bad signs,
because, if reality is like that, we are exposed to all imaginable dangers
inherent to the wild west quality of our cosmic frontier, a promising,
beautiful, but savage place, with no fences, sheriffs, circuit judges nor
courts of appeal.
That is why we must oblige ourselves to examine
attentively all data we have about the sensitive issues, including "cattle
mutilations" and the scarcer but --
as you are going to see in the first of the following essays -- very
difficult to deny cases of "human mutilations".
THE COSMIC FRONTIER 
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May, 20, 2001