Alien First Contact Expert Rewrites Protocols: UFO Conspiracy Nuts Cry Cover-Up

Contingency plans in the event of there ever being a first contact with an alien civilization aren’t just the work of science fiction authors, there are actual government-sanctioned, reviewed, and adopted protocols for eventualities that might occur should humans ever meet another space-faring intelligence (or communicate with beings from other worlds).

One Scot scientist has rewritten the standard protocols for first contact, the first such revision since 1989. But those new protocols have come with an unexpected price: He has been inundated with communications of a more Earthly and disturbing nature — the unfortunate recipient of messages from members of the UFO conspiracy theory crowd and the aliens-among-us believers, individuals he describes as “varying levels of mental health.”

Deadline News Agency reported on July 1 that Dr. Duncan Forgan, an astrophysicist at St. Andrews University in St. Andrews, Scotland, was charged with developing the protocols of just how the rest of humanity should be told about making contact with extraterrestrials. Working under the auspices of the research institute SETI (the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), Forgan developed parameters by which authorities and/or concerned agencies should be made aware of the existence of alien life forms. Given that interpersonal and general communications practices have expanded to a 24/7 news cycle, never-ending informational feeds via various telecommunications methods, and the person-to-person and person-to-group interconnectivity available now through social media outlets, his was the burden of attempting to find some way to tell humanity it was not alone in the universe without causing widespread — even worldwide — panic.

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Dr. Forgan’s work new guide, “#FoundThem- 21st Century Pre-Search and Post-Detection SETI Protocols for Social and Digital Media,” was published in May. Although alien life, the existence of extraterrestrials (whether intelligent or not), has always been a controversial topic, the astrophysicist was quite unprepared to see his e-mail in-box loaded with queries and accusations concerning UFOs and grand governmental conspiracy theories. He was also unprepared for those alien enthusiasts that believe they (themselves) are aliens among humans and were contacting him in an effort to return home — to whichever alien world from which they believed they originated.

Forgan says his “spam folder is quite a treat.” And the UFO and alien enthusiasts aren’t shy about what they think, nor are they restrained in speculative accusations and positing conspiracy theories.

“We’ve been accused of putting out this information because we’ve already found it out and the government are trying to cover it up. A lot of it is quite generic – ‘You would say that because you’re part of the cabal’.”

Dr. Forgan has been accused of one participating in an “ivory tower moon landing [conspiracy] theory.” But then there are those — self-described extraterrestrials living among us humans — who simply want his help returning to their home planet.

He recalled “one person saying they had invented a perpetual motion machine and he would give me the blueprints, and his reasoning was he had been sent to earth to wait for the next stage of evolution and he had got bored of waiting.” Forgan added, “He broke the prime directive because he wanted to go home.”

(Note: The Prime Directive, as explained by Forbes magazine, is a fictional overriding regulation regarding first contact in the science fiction television series “Star Trek.” It outlines the forbidding of interfering in any way with an alien civilization’s evolution that might in any way influence that species’ indigenous and cultural development.)

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Conspiracy theories and Earth-trapped aliens aside, it should be noted that scientists at Cornell University tweaked the Drake Equation with the Fermi Paradox and Copernicus’ Mediocrity Principle to determine that yes, there is assuredly intelligent alien life in the universe, but given that vast distances and the probable rise of extraterrestrials to the communicable stage make communication with such alien intelligence difficult, it could well be, as reported by Inquisitr in June, as many as 1,500 years before first alien contact with intelligent life occurs.

By then Dr. Duncan Forgan’s new guide to breaking the news of first alien contact with humanity will likely have undergone a few changes.

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