Mr. Chambers, Don’t Get On That Ship!

First, a former Canadian defense minister said that world governments should come clean about their knowledge of UFOs and alien technology, so that we could use that technology in our alternative-fuel fight against global warming. "Some of us suspect they know quite a lot," he said.

Then, France declassifies 50 years of UFO files and puts them online for public consumption. Of the 1,600 cases registered since 1954, about a quarter are "type D," which means that "despite good or very good data and credible witnesses, we are confronted with something we can't explain."  Finally, a former governor of Arizona says that in 1997 he saw a UFO himself (he joins former President Jimmy Carter, who also said he saw a UFO in 1969).

Perhaps as payback for our Martian genocide, it seems like the table is being set for us to be debriefed on alien visitors. But just remember: that book, "To Serve Man," it's a cookbook! A cookbook!

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