Off-Planet Species, Part I of IV

There is an interesting, somewhat disarming video on YouTube which reproduces a series of mainstream media reports of recent mass UFO sightings.

Video of Mainstream Media Reports of UFO Sightings

The information contained in the video is not news to Dr. Steven Greer and the Disclosure Project.  They have been compiling eyewitness testimony from citizens, and government and military personnel for years.

Disclosure Project Website

I think it is time to re-frame the issue of "first contact."  I think it is very simple to equate our first meeting with an alien (or off-planet) race to first meetings which have been occurring for centuries "on-planet."

Consider:  1,200 years ago it was impossible to cross the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.   Red people (Native Americans), white people (Europeans), and yellow people (Japanese) lived among themselves, each with their own distinctive facial features, skin color, eating patterns, clothing design choices, physiques, languages, and other cultural attributes. 

It is certainly the case that when Europeans first came into contact with Native Americans, there was the sense that the other group was "alien" to them.  To cut to the chase, I would argue that, after dealing with the surface attributes, the fundamental issues were these (from the point of view of the Europeans):  1) are the Native Americans stronger than us or weaker than us?, 2) will we be building a friendly relationship or an adversarial relationship?, 3) do the Native Americans have something we want or need?, and 4) do we have something the Native Americans want or need?

There have been enough meetings of cultures on planet earth for us to get, as a species, that the superficial stuff (skin color, tuning of musical instruments, etc) is merely window dressing.  To be certain, there are plenty of ways in which we can spend our time exploring and celebrating our differences. 

But the core issues are the most imperative:  friend or foe?  Potential dominator or dominated?  Trade potential?

I would argue that there is very little difference between the distance of an ocean separating two cultures, and the distance of a galaxy.  Life is life.  Intelligence is intelligence. There is not much difference between a red skin / white skin meeting, and a slimy skin / white skin meeting; or a slanted eye / oval eye meeting and a big, bald, green head / average-sized, hair-covered white head meeting.

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