He believes in UFOs. Do you?

Have you ever seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)? A trick question, isn’t it? If you respond with a ‘yes’, chances are people will say you’re bonkers.

It’s safer, then, to assume that any suspicious looking thing moving in the sky is some exotic military aircraft and pay no serious attention to it. But hold on, there is a
gentleman out there who believes that not only do such UFOs exist but that the encounters experienced on earth are intentional leaks by advanced extraterrestrial civilisations.

Meet 65-year-old Alfred Webre, author, lawyer, space activist and futurist, who has an unflinching belief in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life forms. He was also the principal investigator of a civilian scientific study of extraterrestrial communication undertaken by the White House, Pentagon and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during Jimmy Carter’s regime.

Webre, who was in Mumbai recently, spoke exclusively to DNA on the subject that has fascinated mankind for years.

As an appetiser, Webre lists the compelling reasons behind his belief. “After studying the huge database compiled on UFOs and following interactions with a number of air-traffic controllers, military, intelligence and Federal aviation personnel, there can be no doubt that many UFOs have been non-Earth objects,” he says.

As an example of the presence of extraterrestrial activity, Webre quoted an unusual phenomenon that was experienced by Soviet Space Agency officials.

“The then Soviet Union had sent a space probe to Mars’ satellite Phobos. However, preliminary verifications using photographs showed that the probe was mysteriously shot down. High ranking Russian officials and President Eisenhower’s advisors believed that Phobos was an artificial satellite,” Webre added.

Besides, Webre has been motivated by the Drake equation which hypothesises that the number of civilisations could be more than one and the string theory which talks of extra dimensions and parallel universes.

The UFO phenomenon though is not restricted to mere sightings. “Contact by UFOs is a grassroots education program for humanity,” Webre says. He further adds that there are technologies like anti-gravity and time travel in the possession of certain governments that have been transferred by extraterrestrials.

Webre is a proponent of the Exopolitics model which states that the Earth is an isolated planet in the midst of a populated universe.

“We live in a populated universe in which our planet has been quarantined and this is no random event. The quarantine was lifted in 1947, the year from which the UFO phenomenon began in full force around our planet,” Webre says.

As per the quarantine hypothesis, Earth’s humanity is not yet sufficiently evolved to be included in the universal society. In this model, life-bearing planets such as earth are members of a collective universe that operates under universal law.

This model states that life was planted and cultivated here under the stewardship of more advanced societies, in accordance with the over-all principles of universe ecology.

So when will this quarantine end? Webre believes the militarisation of outer space by humans may be the single most important factor preventing the end of Earth’s isolation from civilised space society.

“Humanity may not be permitted into Universe society without an absolute ban on warfare and weapons in a jurisdiction ruled by the standards of a common universe government,” he concludes.