Thoughts and Tribute

The human race is on the threshold of a new millenium, a new age. Our brave Astronauts and Cosmonauts have only just stepped into a realm that will test our intellectual capacities and technological capabilities, and hone them to the degree we must possess to survive. We can now consider ourselves a cosmic member of a very elite group of planets exploring space.

The day will arrive when the governments of earth will finally admit we are not alone, that humans have come face to face with other lifeforms from the cosmos. Will we shoot first and ask questions later? Will our fears stall the inevitable encounter, and place yet another entry, another wound, upon our known dark history of terrible violence?

Was such a reaction demonstrated as we fired our SDI weapons at the unidentified ships escaping back into space during the STS-48 Space Shuttle mission in 1991? (There will be more on this astounding incident in the book.) Will the weapons of other lifeforms some day be targeted at our own human aggression and ignorance? We had better hope and pray they do not.

Space, and the infinity it has to offer, will afford us the opportunity to explore, learn, and do what we can only now imagine. Our future chosen leaders must have the vast hearts of cosmic statesmen, not the cold hammers of past earthly dictators. We will need more leaders like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Gandhi, Akhenaten, Martin Luther King, Confucius, and other excellent personages of human history, who considered peace, freedom and liberty the right of every living creature. Only then shall we here on earth arrive at the true promised land.
Clark McClelland

Recognition

In my many years as a UFO investigator, I've been able to study the various aspects of this unique field of science that may someday hold the key to the creation of the human race. Many have contributed their professional status, reputations and lives to this research, and to uncovering the truth about the greatest mystery of all time — to answering the grandest question: "Are we alone?" The following are some, but not all, of the pioneers that eventually will prevail.