Laura Peterson

recorder: Kenny O’Brien

July 2, 2001

Film: UFO Diaries – The Secret of Roswell directed by Doug Campbell, 1995

Text: The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells

Objective: 2. To identify, describe, and criticize several typical scenarios

or states of the future (as seen from 2001).

1. off-planet
2. alien contact

"A mystery that began with the reported crash of a UFO in

1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, the recovery of an alien body

and the 50 years of government cover-up continue to intrigue

experts to this day. Learn why the amazing story of the

incident at Roswell remains the most compelling evidence of a

"close encounter" with beings from another world."

Sources: The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells

1995

1. What do you believe about UFO’s and Roswell? Is the Roswell

   experiment real?

2. Is it possible that the sightings of UFO’s are really people from the future traveling back in time?

During the discussion of the idea of alien contact, a student from the class began by telling a story of some hunters in 1957. She stated that these two men were out hunting at night when they saw a huge red ball, the size of a basketball. One of the men was going to shoot it, and the other stopped him. The ball then disappeared. There were two others that saw the oddity, but this encounter was never formally reported.

Another student added that it seems to be strange that the sightings of UFO’s seem to be in certain areas. It seemed to be ironic to another student that these sightings are always in remote farmlands. The question then turned to, are these locations homes of future time travelers, or maybe airports?

Dr. White made the point that the idea of UFO sightings and the Apocalypse are often mixed.

I then turned the discussion to the question of did God create other worlds? A student then asked the question what if aliens created us? Could or would they come back to check on us? I then mentioned Third Rock from the Sun.

Dr. White then added that some people, Radalians, believe that aliens created us, and that they have control over the apocalypse (heaven and hell). This story and the story of Genesis and Revelations seem to meld together.

The conversation then turned to time travel. Dr. White mentioned that time travel is never quite explained. I then asked if aliens were really future peoples. Glenn then made the statement that there is evidence of strange unexplainable things being found. For example, he stated that there was a crystal skull of some sort that we are unable to reproduce. Then went on to mention that someone found a bison skull that looked as if it had a bullet hole in it, but it is said to be 1,000 years old.

Val then stated her concern about the age of computers and how fast these machines emerged, was this computer idea brought to us from the future?

Someone then began discussing the idea that Stephen Hawking writes about the concepts of time. He then stated that time travel has to do with gravitational pull. He gave an example that if you have two watches, one in space and one on Earth, they will move at different speeds. The one in space will move slower.

The ending of the discussion then came with me saying, "We don’t know what’s going on" in the course of the universe.