The U.S. Government Has a Secret Pact with Aliens | Masaru Tomita (Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
2007.02.01
"In 1947, a UFO crashed in New Mexico, and its alien occupants were recovered alive. Since then, the U.S. government has had a secret pact with the aliens. In exchange for their advanced scientific technology, the U.S. tacitly allows 25 humans to be taken each year as specimens for 'human experimentation'—."
About 30 years ago, Japan was in the midst of an unprecedented "UFO boom," and UFO specials were often broadcast during primetime as "emergency specials." Starting with UFO photos and videos, a variety of shocking scoops appeared one after another, but if I were to sum them all up in a single sentence, it would be the one above.
Truth be told, I believed all of this completely.
I read the front-page headline story in the local paper from when the UFO crashed. I obtained the UFO photos taken by Apollo 11. I heard stories from people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens and had something implanted in their heads. I read through all the classified U.S. government documents related to UFOs that had to be released under the Freedom of Information Act. The more I investigated, the more convinced I became of the secret pact with aliens. The clincher was a top-secret document called "MJ-12." It was a detailed briefing document for the incoming president about this secret pact, prepared at the end of President Truman's term and bearing his signature.
Then, when I was studying abroad in the United States, I found a club called the "UFO Research Society" and immediately joined. When I passionately declared, "I want to uncover the truth about MJ-12 and the secret pact with aliens," they treated me like a child, saying, "That's great enthusiasm, but first, try reading these. I'm sure you'll change your mind," and handed me a stack of papers. They were from a serious academic journal called *Skeptical Inquirer*, which aims to scientifically debunk popular, dubious stories. It turned out the club was actually a group of people who studied UFOs from a critical, skeptical perspective.
What I read there was a collection of papers that soberly presented and discussed objective, scientific evidence showing things like the tricks behind UFO photos and videos, how the "UFO" captured by Apollo 11 was actually a flash reflecting off the window, and that what crashed was not a UFO but a weather balloon. The dispassionately objective tone of each paper was so persuasive that I couldn't help but think that maybe UFOs were a lie after all. And when I read the paper titled "The Possibility that the Presidential Signature on the MJ-12 Document was a Forgery Cut and Pasted from a Public Document," I became convinced that MJ-12 was also a fabrication, finally putting a complete end to what I had devoted my youth to believing.
When they told me, "See? You don't believe it anymore, do you?" I was so mortified it felt like my entire personality had been rejected, but I suppose there was nothing I could do. However, thanks to this bitter experience, I developed the good habit of not blindly accepting what the media says, but instead analyzing things for myself and not believing them until I am convinced.
I still don't deny that "paranormal phenomena" that cannot be explained by modern science might exist. However, I am firmly confident that almost all of the dubious stories about self-proclaimed psychics and supernatural powers that appear on TV are hoaxes. And even now, whenever I see a scoop like "Alien Autopsy!" I am reminded of those bittersweet memories from my youth.
(Date of publication: 2007/02/01)