In Filer’s UFO Files #48, the Eastern Regional Director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), George Filer examines the Vatican’s acknowledgment of the extraterrestrial presence during its Astrobiology Study Week on the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life.

Here are excerpts from his article:

Vatican Acknowledges ET Presence with Astrobiology Study

VATICAN CITY – A weeklong conference on Vatican grounds with respected scientists was convened by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, chaired by its religious leader Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, from 6 to 10 November 2009 concerning Astrobiology the study of life’s relationship to the rest of the cosmos. The scientists discussed the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life.

A major driving force behind the conference was the Director of the Vatican Observatory, the Jesuit priest Father Jose Gabriel Funes. In May 2008, Funes gave an interview to the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper saying that, “the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials posed no problems to Catholic theology”. ‘Just as a multiplicity of creatures exists on Earth, so there could be other beings, also intelligent, made by God,’ says Father Jose Funes, a Jesuit astronomer at the Vatican Observatory. Together with Funes’ 2008 interview and subsequent public comments by him, the conference demonstrates a welcome openness by the Vatican on the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. The Vatican also worked with President Reagan to bring the down fall of Soviet Communism and is working to open the discussion on extraterrestrial life and UFOs in our skies. The Vatican is playing a leading role in preparing the world for extraterrestrial disclosure. The Vatican Library is full of UFO case histories from reliable members and priests. The Bible states, “In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth. God made two fantastic lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image”. Genesis 1 This belief is often in conflict with modern Science so the study week had an ambitious agenda: to bring together leading scientists in diverse fields, to share the latest results of their own research. The Vatican program was organized into eight sessions:

Session 1, on The Origin of Life, concerned the hard problem of the mechanisms by which molecules became organized in such a way as to permit life to start. Life as we know it on Earth is built on a structure of proteins and nucleic acid polymers which carry the information to build the proteins from their constituent amino acids. While complex, life is a very specific and selective organic chemistry: out of the broad range of possible organic acids that abiotic systems can produce, life utilizes just a handful; likewise, life largely utilizes just left-handed amino acids and right handed sugars.

Session 2, Habitability Through Time, concerns water on Earth’s surface when the Sun was so faint suggests that our atmosphere must have provided a much stronger greenhouse effect than, and been quite different from, that of today. Episodes of severe glaciations in the geologic record suggest that from time to time the atmospheric ‘thermostat’ failed. How life – even at the molecular level – and the environment have interacted over geologic time is the subject of Session 3, Environment and Genomes. Molecular signatures of the biochemical reactions sustaining life remain in the geologic record, giving us hints of the changes over vast periods of time. Lessons from life forms that live in extreme environments, such as submarine vents and the Earth’s driest deserts, aid the interpretation of this record. The relatively sudden appearance of animal life late in the Earth’s history remains a mystery whose solution might be found in both the environment of the time and the workings of the genome. Earth seems to be unique in our solar system in terms of its abundant life, and yet we cannot be sure that life is not present on Mars or elsewhere in the solar system.

Session 4, Detecting Life Elsewhere, explores the prospects and techniques for finding life elsewhere in the solar system. Whether or not life exists elsewhere within our own solar system, the vast Milky Way Galaxy of which we are a part contains over 100 billion stars. If planets are a common feature of such stars, might life be as well? Session 5, Search Strategies for Extrasolar Planets clarifies the various techniques used to find planets around other stars and determine their properties. Already, about 380 Extrasolar planets are known, and the number of stars searched suggests that at least 10% of stars similar in properties to our own Sun have at least one planet. Session 6, Formation of Extrasolar Planets, details progress in understanding how planets form as a part of the process of the formation of stars. Two outstanding questions are what determines when a rocky planet like the Earth will form versus a gas giant like Jupiter, and is the process of planet formation materially different around stars much smaller than our Sun.

Finally, Session 7, Properties of Extrasolar Planets, brings to bear computer modeling, astronomical data and a bit of speculation on the question of the properties of extrasolar planets, and distances from their parent stars. Ultimately, much of the fascination of astrobiology comes from the question of whether sentient life forms exist on other worlds, and whether forms of life alien to our own in fact coexist with us – today – on our own home world. Session 8, Intelligence Elsewhere and Shadow Life, explores both these issues. The search for intelligent life elsewhere is being conducted by listening to the cosmos with radio telescopes in an effort to pick up a signal of inarguably artificial origin. A search for life with biochemistry different from that of all the known life on Earth – what has been termed ‘shadow life’ – on our own planet is a fascinating possibility but one fraught with daunting difficulties. Astrobiology is an effort to use a diverse range of scientific techniques, focused on targets from the molecules in cells to the vast cosmos around us, to provide a deeper appreciation of humankind’s place in the cosmos. It is a recognition of the remarkable intricacies of all that is within and around us. Dr. Paul Davies shown here, who spoke at the conference is a theoretical cosmologist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University stated, “Alternative forms of life might be happily co-habiting with us on Earth. If life does form readily under Earth-like conditions, shouldn’t it have formed many times over, right here on our home planet?” “If we find that life has happened in the solar system twice, from scratch, if we can be sure of that, then it’s going to have happened all around the universe,” Davis said. “The universe is going to be teeming with life, and there’s a very excellent chance that we are not alone.” We can speculate that other civilizations may exist under the sea or inside the Earth and have chosen not to reveal themselves. Often Christianity and science appear to have an adversarial relationship but perhaps we are looking at the same objects and giving them different names based on our backgrounds. The pope and some of the worlds’ top astronomers believe the two need not be in conflict. “How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere?” questioned Vatican astronomer Father Jose Gabriel Funes. He expressed the view that there could be alien intelligences elsewhere in space. “This is not in contrast with our faith,” he stated, “because we can’t place limits on God’s creative freedom.” Fumes’ musings had a clear theological flavor. “Some aliens could even be free from original sin,” he opined. “The Bible is not a scientific textbook.” (This is a excellent thing, since science textbooks change every year. And if God made everything, then He made the Laws on which we base science, and, being all-knowing, His Word would be accurate on every subject it touches, including science).

The Vatican astronomer’s comments about the possible existence of extraterrestrial life are the inevitable outcomes of allowing man’s word preeminence over God’s Word, instead of using the Bible as our starting point with which to interpret the universe. With a recent poll finding that just 4 in 10 Americans believe in evolution, one might be tempted to question who’s more antiscience: the Vatican or the average American? Scientists (many of them nonbelievers) offered presentations on subjects as varied as how life might have begun on Earth; what newly found “extremophile” microbes living in harsh places on our planet tell us possible life could be on other planets; and how life forms might be detected in our solar system, or how their bio-signatures might be found on and around the many distant exoplanets. - Filer’s Files #48 – 2009, National UFO Center.

Read more HERE and explore Filer’s analysis of the Vatican’s movement towards disclosure. He also reports on a new map that shows that the density of valley networks on Mars reveals that the planet once had a large ocean body. With pictures and illustrations, Filer provides details of the latest UFO sightings in America including the California boomerang, the 50 lights in V formation over Colorado, the Florida lights, the Louisiana vapor trail, the Massachusetts triangle aerial object, the weird lights over Missouri, the New Jersey and New York UFO objects, the Ohio cylinder, the Oregon rods photograph, the South Carolina cylinder, the Pennsylvania flying cylinder, the Tennessee photograph and the Texas sightings. Also included are several worldwide sightings from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Mexico, the UK, and Scotland, as well. Filer ends with a look at the mutation of the Swine Flu (H1N1) virus in the Ukraine and Europe.

UPDATE: Bill Ryan of Project Camelot on UFO/ET Disclosure

Several weeks ago, Bill Ryan of Project Camelot revealed that discussions were underway to reveal the existence of the extraterrestrial presence on November 27 or by the end of the year. This was based on the testimony of Dr. Pete Peterson. Today, in a news release from Project Camelot, Ryan sheds further light on this:

Many people have questioned us for our current view of the information provided to David Wilcock and ourselves in June by Dr Pete Peterson that “time had been booked with the networks” for an announcement about Disclosure by Obama tomorrow – 27 November.

We’re not holding our breath: there’s no immediate sign of this, and we doubt that this will happen. Dr Peterson himself stated as an immediate caveat that it was just a plot, and that plans often change. Our recent marathon audio interview with Clay and Shawn Pickering (alongside the most fascinating July Barcelona panel discussion on Disclosure, which Camelot hosted) offers insight into the many problems of the subject. And as a note of interest, we were told recently by an insider source that a speech had been written for Bill Clinton – in his first term – as a Disclosure announcement. But of course, that never saw the light of day. We don’t know why it was canceled.

Recent events, but, suggest a steady build-up to an announcement of something, sometime. Two weeks ago the Vatican held a conference on extraterrestrial life (we loved the ‘ET phone Rome’ headline). NASA has now stated that there’s water on the moon. And there have been more interviews by Larry King on UFOs this year then ever before. Like everyone else, we’re watching and waiting for the announcement to be made: whether it’s this year, next year, or in 2012, it has to come sometime. The world’s as ready as it ever will be.

UPDATE: Life On Planet Mars
The question of whether mankind is alone in the universe maybe settled soon, if you follow the news emanating from several online science news outlets, who are reporting today on the possible existence of life on the Red Planet:

Scientists have learned compelling new evidence that life has existed on Mars and was brought to Earth in an ancient meteorite. State-of-the-art instruments and techniques reveal that tiny fossils in the rock found in Antarctica are microscopic aliens and not produced by other effects. The meteorite found in the Antarctic’s deep freeze is called Allan Hills 84001. – Scientific American

NASA scientists working on a meteorite learned in 1984 have found “strong evidence of Martian life,” sources told the Spaceflight Now website. It is believed that a comet or asteroid hit Mars and diverted the rock off the planet’s surface, before it crashed in Antarctica 13,000 years ago. In 1996 NASA found what looked like tiny fossils in the meteorite and said they were traces of Martian organisms… Now the NASA team has claimed that new evidence strengthens the case for life, reports say. Dr Dennis Bazylinski reviewed the findings for the journal of the Geochemical Society and the Meteoritic Society. He told Spaceflight Now: “One indication there was life on ancient Mars are these particular magnetite crystals in the meteorite that look like they came out of magnetic bacteria.” Emily Baldwin, deputy editor of the UK’s Astronomy Now magazine, told Sky News Online: “If the features in the meteorite do turn out to have an extra-terrestrial biological origin then that’s pretty exciting stuff in terms of understanding how life is distributed across the solar system.” The findings are expected to be officially released by NASA in the next few days. – Sky News.

Compelling new data that chemical and fossil evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars was carried to Earth in a Martian meteorite is being elevated to a higher plane by the same NASA team which made the initial discovery 13 years ago. Sources tell Spaceflight Now that the new data are providing a powerful new case for the Allen Hills Meteorite to have carried strong evidence of Martian life to Earth — evidence that is increasingly standing up to scrutiny as new analytical tools are used to examine the specimen. The latest findings are the product of new research using more advanced High Resolution Electron Microscopy than was in existence when the initial findings were made and announced by NASA and the White House in 1996. – Spaceflight Now.

Covault said the new work centers on what is called magnetic bacteria that on Earth, and Mars as well, leave distinctively-shaped remnants in the rock. These features test with a high chemical purity more like a biological feature than geological. – Universe Today.

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