Date: 26 Dec 1994 21:52:38 GMT

How UFOs jump light-years

First, why do I assume that UFOs are interstellar spacecraft, rather than 
some natural phenomenon, psychic phenomenon, or visitors from the future 
or some other dimension?

Living creatures display animacy.  Natural phenomena follow simple 
natural laws.  For instance, meteors never hover, or travel soundlessly 
parallel to the ground.  Nor do they land and disgorge inhabitants.  We 
do not know if it is possible to travel through time or to other 
dimensions.  We do not even know if the future or other dimensions exist. 
 But we do know it is possible to travel through space.  

And we can be pretty sure that many G singlets will have an M planet 
with a large moon in a stable orbit in the comfort zone, where water is 
usually liquid.  How do we know that?  From the dynamics of the formation 
of stellar formation.  But how can we be sure that such planets will 
develop intelligent life-forms after 4.6 to 5 billion years or so?  
Because evolution is everywhere pretty much the same.  How do we know 
that?  The aliens themselves demonstrate that because they are all 
humanoid, i.e. bipedal, bilateral, binocular, with a head on a stalk, 1 
pair each of legs and arms, eyes above nostrils above mouth.

It is easy to prove that the UFOs do not travel in rockets or any other 
kind of propulsion known to physics.  With known technology, trips to the 
stars we can see in the sky with the naked eye would take anywhere from 
30,000 to millions of years to make the trip.  But what about unknown 
technology?  What about unknown physics?  Physicists don't know 
everything, do they?  According to Stephen Hawking, discoverer of one 
kind of black hole radiation, they do...almost.  The only thing missing 
is a theory of quantum gravity.  It is very likely that the theory of 
Super-Symetric Strings (SSS) will get rid of the singularities that 
plague QED and QCD and unite physics sometime in the next few decades.  
And there is nothing in fact or theory to give any hope to Star Trek fans,
 who expect physicists to pull a warp drive engine out of their hats.  It 
will never happen.  Scientists know this, because they pay attention to 
the numbers, and that is why they are so sceptical about UFOs.

By the way, there is one thing (only one thing) which Star Trek has right,
 and that is the Prime Directive: "thou shalt not change the course of 
evolution on other planets."  And this is surely why bug-eyed aliens in 
flying saucers do not land on the white house lawn and say "Take me to 
your leader."  Most of the 30-40 species that visit us take pains to 
disguise their craft, and make human contact only in remote, almost 
uninhabited places.  The aliens are anthropologists.  Admittedly, the bug-
eyed species tend to treat us the way we treat chimps, possibly because 
of the way we treat chimps, but even they induce amnesia, and have never 
been known to deliberately harm anyone.  They do so inadvertently.

The UFOs can't get here by physics; yet they are here.  Paradox?  No, it 
simply means they travel by psychic powers rather than physical powers.  
They may be masters of technology as well.  The only known phenomenon 
which resembles a jump over light-years is the apportation phenomenon 
sometimes observed in poltergeist cases.  Poltergeist phenomena is caused 
unconsciously by a repressed adolescent in the family.  Haunts are a 
different kettle of fish.  In any case, Hans Bender (a German poltergeist 
investigator) has personally witnessed apportation along with levitation 
in poltergeist cases.  Apportation is when an object disappears in one 
place in space-time and reappears somewhen/where else.

An interesting fact, not widely reported in the popular press is that an 
object that reappears after apportation flutters like a leaf as it only 
gradually recovers its normal mass.  The same falling leaf phenomenon has 
been observed of flying saucers which suddenly appear.  This too is not 
widely known.

Comments anyone?  I invite constructive criticism by knowledgable students 
of both UFOs and Psychical Research.


Chris Humphrey, Ph.D. (physics and philosophy)
cvkx96a@prodigy.com