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WHERE ARE THE ALIENS?

Rip Parker
4 min readMar 21, 2022

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THE UKRAINE WAR

Way back in 1947, a couple of months before Kenneth Arnold’s flying chevrons that acted like saucers skipping on water, I had my first UFO encounter at age nine. Fortunately, my parents were also confused and bothered witnesses, while I was excited. I quickly determined, “This intelligence is not us. Somebody from some- where is paying close attention to us.

Not then knowing about anything other than WWII foo fighters, I had no idea this was anything not really new, so I asked myself, “Why now?”. The answer was too easy. We had attracted “their” attention with our weapons of mass destruction.

We had begun detonating atomic weapons, and had demonstrated our willingness to use them to incinerate our own species. We revealed we could be a universal threat. They needed to pay closer attention to us.

Since then there are credible reports of alien interest in, and even control of, our nuclear missiles and other military operations. They know well what a primitive, combative species we are with our perpetual wars going on.

I see the current Ukrainian war to be far more threatening than most of our other wars, WWII victory, Korean defeat, Vietnam defeat, Desert storm victory, Iraq/Afghanistan defeat, and other wars in Middle…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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