Perhaps you’ve noticed fiber optic cable being laid along U.S. 169.
The cable permits information to travel faster from point A to point B than more conventional means. The material is a flexible transparent fiber made by drawing glass or plastic to about the diameter of a human hair. Transport is by light rather than being borne by metal wires.
If that sounds high-tech, it is.
And, if we are to believe what Lt. Col. Philip Corso wrote in “The Day after Ros-well,” fiber cable was given an immense research boost by artifacts collected after a flying disk crashed near Ros-well, N.M., in 1947.
I read the plodding book with some skepticism, but a part of me is romantic enough to want to believe something extraordinary occurred in the desert 70 years ago this summer.
Corso wrote several things were recovered from the crash site that led to reverse-engineering to produce such appliances as lasers and stealth skins for aircraft. As recommendation, his book spent some time on the New York Times bestseller list.
He had opportunity to know about such things, working in the early 1960s in research and development for the Army, on the foreign technology desk. I guess technology wouldn’t be much more foreign than that harvested from an extraterrestrial craft.
A second source of information I have tapped about the Roswell Incident was a visit several years ago in Ros-well with Jesse Marcel Jr., son of the Army information officer at the Roswell Army Air Corps base in 1947. Marcel Jr. told me his father admitted, not long before his death, the crash was in fact of a mysterious disk — not a weather balloon — and small bodies were found nearby.
During the 1950s UFOs were in the news practically every day, spawned in large measure by the Roswell Incident. Many folks claimed to have seen one and some said they were picked up and spirited away, objects of examinations while aboard.
Many a night I sat outdoors and watched, hoping to see one. Never did — for sure.
Corso claimed visits of spacecraft from the great beyond were a huge well-kept secret, with many in the military and White House knowing of their existence.
He also claimed to have seen little bodies floating in a protective solution during transport by Army trucks that arrived at Fort Riley from Roswell a day or two after the alleged crash. At one point Corso wrote the assumption was the bodies were of androids, manufactured to fly the ship — its crash occurred during an intense lightning storm — and then report back to real aliens.
I suspect that somewhere in the vastness of the universe there are other worlds that harbor life, perhaps much advanced compared to what is on Earth
The question: If people who have discovered ways to cross in timely manner the immense distances between star systems do exist, why would they want to spend time with us? There would be nothing on earth, with the possible exception of the enigma that is Trump, that they should find interesting.
But then, why are some people fascinated by ant farms?
