Free The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race by Len Kasten

familiar, so that the world would know of that remarkable event in Roswell. Once again, fate has conspired to put the right person in the right place at the right time, for the benefit of humanity.
     

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    Roswell and America’s Destiny
     
    The crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft outside of Roswell, New Mexico, on July 4, 1947, has now taken on the dimensions of a historical watershed event comparable to other significant dates in world history, such as the invention of the printing press, the discovery of America by Columbus, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. More than any other event involving UFOs, this one has achieved mythic proportions and has succeeded in becoming the marker of the beginning of the space age. Why this should be so is not entirely clear. After all, it is now believed that the Nazis were dealing with ETs in the early 1930s. But certain events, in hindsight, just take on an aura of extraordinary importance and significance for the human race, for inexplicable reasons, and this is one of them. Before Roswell, the world continued to reflect on the horrors and glories of World War II. It was still a time of dance bands, the promise of the stock market, and total cosmological innocence. Distant stars were just the subjects of romantic songs. After Roswell, the entire planet entered a distinctly new and different era, and now the stars became the origins of strange new visitors to Earth. Everything changed. We were no longer alone in the universe.
     
    When analyzing watershed events of this type, one can only marvel at their timing and geographic placement because they seem to occur at a time and place that are absolutely necessary so that subsequent events can most easily follow. It is as if a long freight train is steaming down the tracks, expecting the switch to be in place when it arrives at a crossing point. If that switch is not in place, the train will wreck, and its valuable freight will be scattered to the winds because it is not slowing down. But through some miraculous agency, the switch is thrown just in time, and the train passes safely through, now able to unload its precious cargo to anxiously waiting hands. In 1450, the Renaissance was the freight train carrying the burgeoning intellectual and artistic products of an explosive cultural revolution in Europe, but the hand-printing of literature was the exclusive province of the church and the royal courts because it was too expensive and time consuming for anyone else. If Johannes Gutenberg hadn’t invented the printing press at that moment in time in central Europe and thereby thrown that critical switch, the Renaissance, inspired by widespread access to classical art and literature, could never have happened, and we might still be in the Dark Ages.
     
    THE REAL WAR OF THE WORLDS
     
    The timing and geographic placement of the Roswell crash was extremely fortuitous, and it set in motion a chain of discoveries that allowed us to realize that we had been virtually catapulted into the middle of extraterrestrial warfare. According to Colonel Philip J. Corso and William J. Birnes in the breakthrough book
The Day After Roswell,
this shocking realization caused a panic in the American military establishment when it was understood that we were actually pawns in a struggle between supertechnological adversaries, against whom we ourselves were practically defenseless. Out of this panic emerged a Faustian agreement with hostile aliens as we began to play the game of exopolitics while embarking on a crash program to develop the technology and weaponry we needed to protect the planet.
     
    All of this has been conducted under a thick blanket of secrecy, allegedly to avoid alarming the public and creating financial anarchy. And the secrecy itself became a bargaining chit with the ETs. Our agreeing to the cover-up allowed them to carry out most of their nefarious operations away from the prying eyes of the press. In return for our collusion in