hile re ti; NewYork’s Journal of Arts & Trends = Pee ea 0 ea 1G) Ress <3 RT Rots | a : TsaacAsimov& the Space Experts ., Give You the Facts— , &theFiction. : ioentend BU Leh emule Cees) US sehr BB e os occa Cline Ale Neue ferent rete sone coy Million-Dollar Coens Unicorns&Other Peete atone!A few weeks ago, NBCTY reported three creatures, examined. and re feared. One of ihe fishermen, wccord ing to @ tslentit who observed. hin ing @ nervous breakdown. The other tired up on the Dick Covet show ‘quoted two Soviet axtrophysicists who Shim they have received inteligent And finaly, word has it that the Governor of Michigen sighted snucer ‘UFO, im other words, are back the news and although some author tes tay they are merely cyclical the Hons, Changes decided fo ark «group of space-onented writers and scents trove tt whe fst ad ROD SERLING Rod Saring& the orator of Te Twit Zonand Night Caley Do you think people are seeing something? [think some people are, Flying saucers beget dying saucers. 1s forever boo thus. I think some peopl ae suffenng From mass hypnosis. Sometimes ite wish thinking, sometimes 2 Jesper tke dere to conform. But some of these siting, tank, ae petty ep What do you think they're sing? T suppose they are seeing things from cuter space. I sippose we're besng ol served, Ihave no doubt of i have nothing inthe way of a sce cntfe body of iafomatin to suppor this these, But it becomes simost. = theolopial thine. Godin his tfinite wisdom, I'am convinced, couldn't pos bly hve made only ue and no one ‘te, I you've ever traveled in South: {rm waters and looked up at the South. fmm Cross and the star system in the CGribtean waters, atthe blions and bilo of star apart fom feeling midgettike, and particie-ofsunatke, ‘yu come to the avarenes that, Jess Yee are aot alone Thave 1 funay feling that within the spin ofthe nxt two oF three years ey" wil become # fact Io us, Too many "professional “people have laid aim (© viewing them, including si Tine pilots wh ate tained to obseave ‘Now obviousy ninety percent of UFO Sighting ate probably answersle in tems of natural law, But since 1947 ind °48 when thew sightings began, there area whole puss of them that aie not explained Why haven't they spoken to ae? 1 don't know, I know it sounds Ind ‘tous and almost Laughable to talk about it seriously. T suppose if their charactedstie ae remotely like our, they're seared to denth of ws ar we ane of them, And they've got ample reason to be scared, Because if one of tome bhggers landed ima meadow in any fone ofa bilion counties frm coast oust, expect they'd be destoyed be fore they had a chance to say “take me to yourleades.” Do vow think we could destroy expect if they arent flesh snd blood they are something comparable. And nies they'ne been able to set-up Some kind ofa force fel (now we're beginning to talk like science ction swriten) my ese fs if they were to [und and ad four eyes and green skin fof a parchment type and held up feta, wed shoot ther as easily at wwe shoot deer. Ost of fear. Ost of “spore, paraiyzing fear. Because we ‘nt hide. difference. Difference is ‘uted with ugliness TT they areas right a we think they are, sificintly. bright to cross the billions of miles, they must also be Ina postion to know the nature ofthe bring that they are facing down here Do you think there i some sort of, snowledge higher up that Being kept from ust Judging from the perfomance of this don't put anything past them. 1s ator ihe posite tat igen member ‘would guess if the goverment had Knowledge that these things were from ater spacey they'd be very careful Shout how they diseminated ‘his in Formation or fear of pani What do you think abou the claims they" have been taken iio 3 apace ship? I pather they've heen profesional in tetropted, that they have been tra Obviously, Fim a romantics. tend to you an emotions reaction eather than 2 scientific one, ‘Why do you want to believe it? Ob, Hoe to betive. For the excitement and thrill of i Jes, it woul he whole new chapter Columbus behing It leaves every con ‘quest of space behind, It suddenly pens up a whole universe to brand new esh beginning Tl ove my kids tobe arauod when we shake hands wie the fist of them Do. you think we are ready to handle al thi? hope itsmy Kis, who are ready It the peoples of earth were to come to you and say, "Rod Serling, they have landed and you ae the only person, who can handle th” how ‘would yout Wen, 1 have a funny feetng that Beyend panic would be a mansre de- pression. Because whoever we ae and Whatever we do we think were the chown. And the fact that there ate people who are better than we sre that ,"T think, the singly most de Pressing area of awareness ¢ human Sticke result? T-don’t know. I can hologically bearable to many people, Soiyou say how would Treat itt were fold T have to handle this? I wouldnt jst sy, Ladi. and gentlemen, | Would like you to meet my frends Uno, Mono’and Pono and they ae feom Wherever and want £0 sy Bi to yar Obsiouay” you don" do that There’ pot to be conditioning of the sthole earth to prepare us for what it ISAAC ASIMOV lease Asimov i he author of over 100 fiction to Shakespeare. He teaches Bio- ‘hemtuy at Boston Univers. Do you think we are being washed by extraterrestrial beings who are wait Ing for more knowledge about us be- {ore making direct contac? No.1 don't believe that for» minute Are people secing UFOs because they are fed up with civiation and Ine walting for something to come oxt of the skies? Inthe Midale Ages peo ple were sighting angels 1 think ee chance of UFOs existing are jut about the chance of angels fxisting. T'don’t think any sightings that have so far boen made Rave ny lpufcunce whatsoever, as far ae terrestrial lations ee concemed. 1 think that if the newspaper would top printing. these mports, people would stop seine them ‘Do you think tere fstelignt ite cout there somewhere? Tm sare there But 1 think that if any other form of ie visited vs, we'd iow, Either we sre not intersting ind they wouldn't rit ue more th tote, or wo ae inleeating and they'd rake themselves known. They, have hothing to fear from us. If they ea it Us across the depths of space, thetr technology & far in advance of fre an they ave about a8 much 4 Shance of fearing us as we would have offering chimpanzees If, onthe oth fr hand, they fesl we are not worth Contin, why the de shuld they Would thee fist communication be aradio contact? T havent the faintest idea. would say ‘hat in order to believe we ae seeing fxtraterestrial visitations, would feed a grea deal more and beter eve If they were there, we would all “There'd be ao doubt shout it, whatsor ever. Nobody is woing to come down Some Michigan. Tiean, this ily Is or government making enoush cffont to make radio contact with ‘whatever inellizent life might be out Well, we aren't doing as much as we an. Thats not the quertion, Are we doing as much ss we should? Our Scientitis resources are finite and its hard to say how much we should spend in is divesuon ané how much tre should spendin that diection think we ought to'do more in spa Sas "of pice hy vty pone in. So Pm in favor of spending money fon it T'think it would befor the onetie ofthe huntan nce, 00, ERICH VON DANIKEN our omored by the aan Leste Your theories about ancient vita: tions to earth by space travelers are wall known. What do you think about‘the possibility of extraterestrial vss ‘ons today? You know I try to prove — and for me itis definitive ~ that we have teen Visted from outer space thousads of Years ago. Tyo even father to say that fon this planet, which means that we be their products, The way of tink ing and thls technology would, there fore, be similar to airs, So I believe posible that UFOs canbe vison From outer space. But there is no sc entific proot ofthis IF they have vst us inthe past, why are they being so coy now? Why en they contacting us dicey? (OF course, it may be that UFOs are inerly phil phenomena which We an not explain yet. But it we wer, In ‘i speculations, to consider UFOs 36 Wiskore from oer space, there could te many seasons why they don com fact ue Perhaps they are afud of Werate much stonpor toda than our ‘things like hydrogen Boat. We have « igeat, mass of people and military forces apunst, perhaps, two or three UFOs, They are ust aad Woulda’ something capable of crossing billons of miles of pace be 30 far technologically advanced it would ‘fear us? Certainly a technology o far advanced would doubtless beable to destroy the Bur ths. is not the purpose of the UFOs, if they are from ter space ‘They ‘could probably nol use thelr type of weapons, They would have to wut, And whe they wait, they are How do you azine they would The best ofl way, imagine, would be through the teevbion system, You now we have astlites sround ut planet ‘and thos satelites hare pro ‘ams in different countries would fe vey easy with (Ret technology to cSmmenteate with ue on normal TV Tu the whole things pare specu: tion, We dont kaow if they are from ‘ater space. Maybe they ar fom an Siner dimension, another time in the future tts pure scence ition ‘On the other hand, maybe they don't want to contact us because we fe too primitive, After all, we would not have diplomatic contact with cows fr chickens. They would not either Maybe i's just not interesting for them, How are people reacting (0 your theories in your current lecture tour of the U8 My books are very controversial They are explosive and provocative. So there Sr naturly atacks nen ther. But SIT the attacks are coming from the faichacological sie and the theological Side and are made with yesterday's tyes, Vou cant argue today’s theory ih yesterday's eye, Are people ready to accept the real possibalty of life more advanced than there are sometimes six or eight more or less open mind. Do you think we might want to gun down 2 creature that dors’ ook ike Wet, in practic bn theory maybe yes. Bul not DR.CARL SAGAN (Gel Sign icon strom and exobio fit at Coma Unrate the coathor Would you tke to say anything about UFOs that you didn't get chance 0 say on The Dick Crvett Show? My stand on the matter i discussed in a chapter of The Selemfie Debate. | lon’ think i’ very Important sen tte problem Does science have any theory om how inteligent life might ty to Som ‘municate with? ‘The cheapest way. Which is by radio, Is our gorerment making suff sient cfforts to contact extraterrestrial iter fa listen. And we're doing that at ‘What do you think of the Russians! satement that they have received sig als fom outer space? Wal, radio astronomers receive radio Sens from outer space sil the tine That docs't mean that 13" due to Inteigence. This one it almost cera ys United: Staea military satelite ‘over the Soviet Union, So i was asi oF inteligeat life, but not extratees fran ie Do you find it strange we've never been contacted ‘by other stellgent iter Not at al, You see, there isa kind of oncelt that's involved inthe UFO st postion which is that there Is Something. absolutly” extraordinary happening here, But if tat were te, thee i would mean that fe was tela tively nae. And if so then there af very fow of thowe other guys to come few and take a look My goer view ie thatthe interes. ing cas are untellable: the reliable foes ane uninteresting, end that there gre no caves that ae simultaneously {ntorestng and elible DR. ALLEN HYNEK Dr, Allen Hynek is Charman of western University, and wes chief con Intent tothe dir Force during We have been told that afterall the known events are weeded out, the fsidual sightings ae to compeling to Ignore, Could: you elaborate on this? ee the residual sightings which are important, of course. They are the fonts that count. And unlike what ‘most people think, isnot the freaks andthe crackpot that give us the fost important accounts. The most ‘ourae scountings ae trom airforce pilots and from technteallytrined Tes not true thats people stoped writing about them, people would top Seeing them. After the Condoa report Sn sites the Army withdrew its uP port and said that nothing existed it far believed there would be no more fiohtines Bue the sightings continue We simpiy don't know what they are So the govemmen has discontinued The government, at this moment, # taking no lattes, publily. That'll “owevsr, fT didn’ belive there wore something ald tthe reports, T Investigation of them. Thete are ma take off or make sudden turns terest That they are The Key word is “unk ‘Course, whose Venue and don't Know what 1, im fact, extetertestrial beings should try fo comet earth, would you imagine they might do so more simply by radio contact rather than by Wt Wnen you remember that we have Kitty Hawk to a landing on the moon, and that thete ave suns a millon years itive to other forms of life as sake Sala. There may be ways of contact Jmagine. OF course iti all speculation scienits who examined the fiahermen from Misisippi, after thelr exper 1 examined both Hickion and poor asker. Parksr i inthe Norpital with Both men obviously underwent a tea matic experience which appears enie: Iy genuine. When attempts were made fo hypnotize Hickson back into the xpentnee, he was too tenfied to ive {hough i nen. There was no PAY Si evidence, however, where they said the craft landed ~ broken trees, bart trast There was no concrete evidence ‘You know, sometimes these surveys of experts inthe eld such as you are Sondusting, can backline. When De Strue, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, questioned the leading 30 astronomers in 1950, not one of them predicted a Tanding ‘on the moon in the 1960s So you see how wrong people canbe in ther pr setting up center to provie informa tion on UFO's and to receive reports There & no place at te moment for Such reports-and no place where per ple can get accurate information. The foi-free umber where such informs tion wil be handled: 800-621-9725, CAPTAIN EDGAR MITCHELL Set aboud the Apa XIV mason 197 What are the odds of extraterres: Avil beings contacting exth at ths The probablites I certainly. don't know, but ii fooish not to consider ‘tava posuilty. The evidence ssl ‘ently strong that we should be ives: fientingt more thoroughly. ‘Obviously, if there are extateres sil vistations, they do not tel ia the t)re of spacacratt we understand But T am not foolsh enough to think that oar knowledge of space Uave!, fspecilly interstellar, itera