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by Ray Bilger

On July 19, 1952, at 11:40 p.m., in the skies over Washington, D.C., nine UFOs darted about, reversed directions abruptly, and drifted over the White House, at times reaching speeds of 7,000 mph as calculated by Andrews Air Force Base (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C._UFO_incident ). The activity lasted until sunrise, then continued for several days. This was also picked up and observed on radar at Washington National Airport.
The entire incident made the front page in newspapers all across the country. The Cedar Rapids Gazette (Iowa) read in large black letters SAUCERS SWARM OVER CAPITAL.
President Harry Truman, concerned about the incident, called Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, the supervisor of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, who told the President that “the sightings might have been caused by a temperature inversion.” However, Lt. John Holcomb, a U.S. Navy radar specialist, said that the inversion was not “nearly strong enough to explain the ‘good and solid’ returns” on the radarscopes. Jets had been scrambled as well, and one of them was surrounded by the saucers. Around sunrise, E.W. Chambers, a civilian radio engineer in the Washington suburbs, observed “five huge discs circling in a loose formation. They tilted upward and left on a steep ascent.”
All of this took place over two consecutive weekends and several days in between, and was witnessed by numerous military top brass, civilian and military air traffic controllers, countless witnesses on the ground, military fighter jet pilots, and civilian airline pilots both on the ground and in the air. This whole event is what can be termed a highly credible sighting, or series of sightings, unless everyone was suffering from a mass hallucination shared by all, and that was simply not the case.
This is only one of many many similar events that have happened since the end of World War II, including more recently the so-called Phoenix Lights of 1996, where thousands of people saw a huge silent triangular craft drift slowly over the Phoenix night sky; and the 2008 incident at Stephenville, Texas, where dozens of highly credible witnesses saw a mile-wide craft slowly drift just overhead (see www.StephenvilleLights.com ).
So, what was the meaning and purpose of the event over Washington, D.C. in 1952? It would seem obvious that the UFOs were not from this planet because they operated outside of the laws of physics that we are familiar with. Thus, it seems safe to say that the UFOs (or flying saucers, as they were called at that time) were from some off-planet civilization that is advanced, or is certainly using advanced technologies, and that they were operating under intelligent control.
When speaking about those operating the UFOs, and asking what was the meaning and purpose of the event, it would seem that they were showing us that they have advanced technological capabilities, and that they are here to observe what we are doing — they were letting us know that they are present, and for all we know, they may have been present in our world for a far far longer period of time, perhaps for thousands of years.
Of course, the military response is always to presume these encounters to be from hostile ETs(extraterrestrials), but the truth is that these ETs have never shown any hostile intentions whatsoever, while we always scramble our fighter jets up to try to intercept the UFOs.
If we as a species can move beyond our hostile, negative response and move instead toward an attitude of curiosity and wonder, then we may not scare the UFOs away, and if we really wanted to see and know more about them, they can certainly sense our thoughts and know that, and maybe, just maybe they might land and we could become friends and they might show us some of their technologies, which certainly seem like they might be just what we need at this critical time of us having used up much of the valuable resources of the planet only to pollute and poison our Mother Earth.
We need help, no doubt about it, and these ETs from afar happen to know that, and they have come here specifically to help us — not to do it for us, but to help us.
Our planet Earth is a highly evolved, living, breathing, conscious organism functioning on a level beyond the comprehension of most Earthlings. Off-planet cultures are intimately aware that our planet is in process of cleaning up what we Earthlings have done to poison and pollute her. You would do the same if you were infested with fleas, and ticks, and other organisms that were destroying you. Off-planet civilizations monitor all planets with humanoid-type life under these and similar circumstances (because what happens here can affect outer space), and they are here to assist us in understanding all this, but they can only make planet-wide contact where they are welcome. And our scrambling of fighter jets to greet them is just plain wrong, and serves only evil purposes for these beings who have only ever shown us their peaceful intentions.
If we are ever to advance ourselves as a civilization on this planet it would be wise for us to realize that we are part of a greater galactic and cosmic community of planets that do not thrive on wars, but live in peace, and that if we ever want to become an active participating part of that cosmic community then we must change our warlike ways to peaceful ways. Otherwise that cosmic community, with all they have to offer, will have no other choice but to simply leave us to ourselves as we self-destruct under the weight of our hatred and greed, which most surely is destroying the world.
That is not a pretty picture, but it is one that we should think about seriously, because if we don’t want that then we need to let our government leaders know, in no uncertain terms, that we want to live in a peaceful Universe, and we want to meet our cosmic neighbors, now!
Is it time for off-planet contact? Off-planet cultures appear quite ready to befriend us, so the answer to that question really depends upon us. Are we ready to live in a futuristic dream world, or are we happy with the world in turmoil that we have today? It is up to us to decide the destiny we want, and then do what needs to be done so that we may live it.