CQ WEEKLY – VANTAGE POINT
April 24, 2006 – Page 1062

Iran Nukes Stalemate an Outrage . . . to Space Aliens

By Shawn Zeller, CQ Staff

The doctrine of pre-emptive war has evidently spread beyond our humble
planet. According to a pair of scholars specializing in
extraterrestrial contact, recent reports that Pentagon war planners
were gaming out plans for tactical nuclear warfare with Iran are
stirring some bellicose opposition from the heavens. And the concerned
aliens are reportedly taking a page from the Pentagon's own playbook,
with their own brand of mutually assured destruction: a comet fragment
— from comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachman, to be precise — scheduled to
land in the Atlantic Ocean on May 25 and to wipe out millions of
people between the equator and the Tropic of Cancer.

The ET contingent has been closely following the course of nuclear
diplomacy on Earth, says French researcher Eric Julien of the
Hawaii-based Exopolitics Institute. It's a self-interested
fascination, Julien explains, having to do with the impact of nuclear
explosions on the fabric of space and time.

"You can compare it to a big earthquake," says Julien, who describes
himself as a former air-traffic controller who's had both psychic and
physical contact with alien beings. "Of course, they want to protect
themselves. This is why the comet is going to destroy humanity."

The Exopolitics Institute was founded last year by Michael Salla, a
faculty member at American University's School of International
Service from 1996 through 2004; he issued the news release about the
comet earlier this month. Salla, 47, a native of Australia, was on his
way back home after his contract at AU wasn't renewed when he met an
American in Hawaii, got married and decided to set up an institute
there dedicated to the study of extraterrestrial life.

"In the major media, people tend to look at the whole UFO issue and
extraterrestrials as fringe issues not worth considering," he says.
"Exopolitics exists to say there is a lot of data out there — and
credible people talking about it."

Salla dates much of his interest in interplanetary politics to a 2001
National Press Club event convened by the Disclosure Project, a group
of 20 mostly ex-soldiers organized by an emergency room physician in
Charlottesville, Va., to demand government disclosure of information
on alien visitations. "When I saw that press conference, when I saw
this was very real, I thought this was ideal to study and I was
probably naive that my director and dean would be enthusiastic," says
Salla. "In fact, it was the opposite."

The Exopolitics Institute's mission is to propagate that enthusiasm
far and wide. The group's research "has very important political
implications," he says. "If there is extraterrestrial visitation and
information is being withheld from the general public, who is making
the decision to withhold it? How much is Congress apprised of all of
this?"

Still, won't these all become tragically idle questions after the
planet's rendezvous with intergalactic destiny one month from now?
Fortunately, Julien counsels that all is not yet lost: If the Bush
administration makes it clear to the aliens that it has no intent of
using nuclear weapons against Iran, then we will be spared the comet.

The aliens "don't care whether we fight ourselves," he says. "But if
we are to begin a nuclear war — and since nuclear weapons are a threat
for them — it means they will intervene."

The Institute clearly holds out hope for such a diplomatic solution:
It's scheduled a conference on alien contact — featuring prominent
champions of the subject such as former Canadian Defense Minister Paul
Hellyer and retired Air Force Capt. Robert Salas — on Hawaii's Big
Island in June.


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Further information:
Exopolitics Institute website: http://www.exopoliticsinstitute.org
Conference Website: http://www.etworldpeace.com