UFO Witnesses Require An Apology and Reconciliation

Aboriginal reconciliation has been a hot topic in Australia for years now. The Australian government has finally agreed upon the unique status of indigenous Australians and their need for recognition, respect and understanding in the wider community.

However there is another group of people whose needs remain unaddressed and this is the collection of witnesses who have experienced UFO sightings or close encounters with extraterrestrials and/or their vehicles.

Over the years these people have been forced to live with their experiences in secret without the support they require from society. Their experiences remain invalidated by the wider community due to it’s lack of education about the existence of extraterrestrial life. This is a result of the various authorities and institutions that our civilization requires to act as its guide, and who indeed have this knowledge, and are withholding it from the general public. The true reason for this remains complex and elusive, and without full disclosure can only be speculated upon at best.

Nevertheless, the results are the same. A group of people within our society remain unrecognized, disrespected, humiliated and invalidated. They’re forced to live with a secret so profound that it drives wedges within their families often leading to family breakdown, estrangement and/or divorce, as well as loss of status among their friends, workmates or peers. The escalating stress caused by this lack of understanding of their experiences by others often leads to the manifestation of illness, behavioural problems or drug abuse in order to cope with experiences that far exceed the range of usual human experience.

They turn to voluntary UFO organisations - which lack manpower, funding and skills - to find answers to the meaning of their experiences. In Australia this situation has been compounded by the fact that in January 1994 the Australian Department of Defence advised they would no longer receive reports of UAS (Unusual Aerial Sightings), and members of the public seeking to report UAS to the RAAF would be referred to civilian UFO organisations.

This policy change, which the DOD claimed was the result of declining reports to the RAAF, came the same year UFO Research Queensland Inc received 512 reports from the public. The following year it received 813 reports, the most reports received in one year since the establishment of the organisation in 1956. Due to the overwhelming amount of these reports UFORQ and other similar organisations around the country continue to struggle to meet the needs of witnesses.

This situation is unsatisfactory. The authorities and institutions responsible for withholding the relevant information that can educate the public about the extraterrestrial situation need to face their responsibility to the people and come forward with the truth. It’s time to validate witness experiences by releasing what it knows to the public. If people like Dr Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the Moon, who stated in a public interview last week that ETs exist, then so can others. (listen to interview here

http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk:80/Article.asp?id=804160&spid=)

It’s time these witnesses were allowed to come in from the cold and be part of society once again. The greater public will only accept these people and their experiences in a new context which includes the reality of extraterrestrial existence within the public mind. The eradication of ridicule and rejection can only be achieved through reeducation via a campaign of raising public awareness of the subject. Civilian UFO groups can only do so much given their voluntary status and lack of resources, so the reeducation of the public needs to come from those who can provide these resources.

Many actions are required from governments, the media, the UFO community and the greater public, but many people have to work together.

To date, the global UFO community has been willing to work towards reeducating the public but this has had minimal success. It’s now time for larger groups to become involved and help the hundreds of thousands of witnesses world wide to be accepted within society. Only with the help of this larger group will this be achievable. All aspects of community must be cared for without exception.

Tracking The Unknown

The Satellite News, Brisbane. June 25, 2008

Do you believe in aliens? Jindalee residents study extraterrestrial life.

Do aliens really exist? Jindalee residents Martin and Sheryl Gottschall have no doubts the cosmos is filled with extraterrestrial life attracted to the sunshine state. The local skywatchers are members of UFO Research Queensland, a voluntary, non-profit association established in 1956 to receive, record and research UFO sightings.

They claim the existence of a large body of well-attested sightings so unambiguous, the only reasonable inference is that extraterrestrial vehicles are flying through our atmosphere, landing on the ground and entering our oceans.

The Brisbane-based group also provides support to individuals whose alleged encounters with UFOs have left them distraught, confused and searching for answers.

The married couple believe governments across the world will no longer be able to keep UFOs as an ‘X-file’ from society as the number of alien witnesses continue to increase.

Mr Gottschall, who is the organization’s sighting officer, said he had studied UFOs for the past 40 years after his ex-wife sighted one the size of a bus in front of their Adelaide home in the 1960s. “My wife was about to hop into her car when she saw the UFO in front of her. She yelled out to me but for some reason I ignored her”, he said. “When I finally went out it had disappeared but I believed her because of the look on her face.”

Also a consultant mechanical engineer, Mr Gottschall said he wanted to understand the science behind what made UFOs hover above the ground without making a sound. “About 20 years ago I realized that the craft is able to manipulate both space and time,” he said.

Unlike her husband who has had just one sighting, Mrs Gottschall has had four. “I’ve had sightings at Mt Gravatt, Wivenhoe Dam, Ipswich and above the Gateway Bridge,” she said. “I can’t explain why I have seen so many while others haven’t seen any. I guess some people just have an encounter prone personality type.”

Mrs Gottschall said she had also encountered an unknown life form in 1990. “I saw three small grey beings standing at the end of my bed,” she said. “As soon as I saw them I pulled the sheet over my head and started to pray. The next thing it was morning.”

Mrs Gottschall said she became fascinated with paranormal activity while hosting home bible-study groups about 20 years ago. “I started reading the bible because I questioned what our reason for being was,” she said. “I soon noticed a strong parallel between experiences of those who believed to see aliens and those who believed to see angels.”

UFO Research Queensland holds one meeting open to the public each month. The next meeting is on this Friday from 7.30pm at the Australian College of Natural Medicine, corner of Brunswick and Water Streets, Spring Hill.