The Last Christmas On Earth

EPISODE IV-1

Episode IV

Ufo Crash

A deep and reflective silence had suddenly seized the audience. Until a moment before, Professor Hamilton had carried out his explanations with such simplicity as to make it appear that they were dealing with everyday topics, perfectly tangible and real, and when no one had expected it anymore, he had concluded by seizing everyone unawares. It was only then that a couple of scientists quickly put the pieces together and the obvious conclusion they reached was that the participants in that meeting were not randomly chosen individuals. Seated around that horseshoe there were the major specialists in the most diverse disciplines, specialists who together could certainly have formed a perfect team to attempt the interaction with an alien subject. The President sensed that things were getting complicated, there was the risk that meeting would not reach its conclusion because even if only one of the scientists had left the room at that time he could have started a chain of defections. On the other hand, someone, driven by curiosity, could have stayed until the end of the meeting and then decided to leave the group once learned some very confidential information. And in one case or the other he would not have known how to behave, because although they were working in the interest of the entire planet, he would not have considered it right to hold people against their will. He, therefore, judged that it was better to ignore the protocol and to jump the gun, so he decided that the moment of the choice had arrived.

"Now that your attention has finally awakened, those who will have the patience to dedicate some more time to it will listen to the rest. As I said two minutes ago, anyone who wants to leave can do it now," he repeated, looking at Carl Viewer, who had proved to be the most skeptical of all during the discussion, "but he must do it now together with Professor Riise. Those who decide to stay will be engaged from that moment in a paramilitary mission, which will have a presumed duration of a few days and which could entail a series of significant consequences in your lives. Whoever will stay with us will do it conscious that everything that will be seen and discussed from now on is subject to state secret and that for this reason will be constantly monitored over time, during the mission as well as after its conclusion. Obviously, you will not be happy to suffer this intrusion into your private lives just as obviously we will not be happy to have to do it, but too many things can really depend on the outcome of this mission. I leave you the choice, you have five minutes to think about it."

Riise told himself that he was too curious to leave and immediately ran back to his seat, a couple of people stood up hesitantly and walked away mumbling inaudible excuses followed shortly after by a third person.

Carl Viewer responded to the President's defiant look, placed his palms on the table as if he were about to get up and stood in that position. The President waited a few more minutes, seeing then that the situation seemed to be defined urged the bespectacled guy with his eyes.

"I think we can proceed," he said after consulting his notes.

"Have you all fully understood the possible implications of your choice?" The President then asked those who had decided to stay and all those present nodded.

"Anyone with a last-minute second thought is still free to leave," he repeated for the last time looking at the Viewer again. He took his hands off the table and smiled. None of those present stood up, now everyone was eager to know the rest of the story and hung on Professor Hamilton's lips.

"Very well. I am one of those who still believe that a given word and a handshake are worth more than a thousand signatures", the President concluded, "so we will think later about the documents and the bureaucratic part. It's up to you now, professor."

Hamilton picked up the remote control and saw the list of files in memory, found what he was looking for and opened it to project images of flying saucers of various shapes and sizes on the screen, some perfectly intact and others partially destroyed.

"Each of you has heard of the famous alleged Ufo Crash happened in Roswell 1947 at least once, am I right? That of Santilli Footage, to be clear, the famous and controversial movie of the autopsy on the alien."

"You mean the famous fake movie about an autopsy on an alien?" Viewer corrected to tease him.

"I mean the very famous remake of the original movie that was destroyed in mysterious circumstances, a movie that dealt with an autopsy on a Gray type alien being," Hamilton pointed out, and again the meeting participants exchanged confused looks. "That is the best-known case, but in reality, it was neither the first nor the last in which our army came into possession of alien material of organic or technological nature. There had been a previous Ufo Crash six years earlier in Missouri, exactly in 1941. On a spring night that year, Reverend Huffman was called by the local police officers who invited him to go to the site of a plane crash occurred outside the city, to give the last blessing to any victims. A car picked him up soon after, but according to the reverend's wife, it wasn't a police service car. This is what his niece, Charlette Mann, declared in this regard: "My grandfather told me that at the scene of the accident he found a strange elliptical device, which he described as a large plate of colored metal devoid of joints, and said he had never seen anything like that before. What struck him most were some marks impressed on the interior walls of the passenger compartment that resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics. There were three bodies but they were not human bodies, the impact had knocked two of the cockpit out, while the third was still inside.

They were wrapped in a rippled aluminum foil that must have been their dress and they seemed to have no bones, they were soft and had very long fingers"," the professor finished while old black and white images still scrolled on the screen to accompany his report.

"But why is everyone talking about the Roswell case rather than this one?" Lia Robson asked.

"This case has been the subject of cover-up and has always remained top secret because it had a really fundamental importance in the development of some sectors of our technology at that time, which was a very special moment in our history."

"The Second World War," Riise recalled.

"Are we talking about alleged reverse engineering studies on alien equipment?" Said, Erasmus Wayne.

"We're talking about reverse engineering studies that are too easy to carry out," Hamilton said.

"What do you mean?"

"In a memo dated February 27, 1942, not even a year after that Ufo Crash, President Roosevelt wrote: "The availability of the material in our possession can be of great significance for the development of a super war weapon. I advise to consult Dr. Bush in this regard - who by the way was one of the founding members of the Majestic 12 Project - and other scientists on the problem of finding practical uses for the atomic secrets acquired from the study of celestial artifacts"," explained the professor. "In any case, you will find the details and a copy of some top-secret documents in the second part of your file, which will be delivered to you at the end of this meeting, so you can read them calmly later," he added.

"So you claim that we owe the atomic bomb thanks to aliens?" Asked Viewer.

"Not entirely, but not only that. Think of the laser and microwave oven beams, the optical fibers and many tools used in modern medicine, as well as a lot of other things we normally use in our daily lives."

"But what does all this mean, that the aliens would have purposely given us the atomic bomb and all those things? For what purpose would they do it?"

"Maybe to earn our trust, to make us think the day they will come to visit us we won't have to fear them because it will be a fairy meeting," suggested Dr. Eagle.

"It may be ... but instead, it could also be that they provided us with those deadly weapons to accelerate our self-destruction ... maybe they just need a new home and they intend to take our Earth ..." Litterman objected.

"These are all imaginative and interesting hypotheses," commented Professor Hamilton, realizing with satisfaction that the discussion had finally begun. "However, we are all here to try to find it out. But maybe we'll come back to this later, now we have to move on to the second case.

What I am about to read is taken verbatim from one of the many Internet sites dedicated to ufology: "Roswell is certainly the most known and controversial UFO case. There are many theories and ideas, it is difficult to get a clear opinion without getting involved in emotions and opinions. The fact is that recently the U.S. Air Force declared the Roswell case definitively closed by stating that the precipitated object was nothing more than a high-altitude balloon and the alleged aliens found were simple dummies, and that it was only an experiment. Is this the truth, or did a UFO really fall on Earth and were alien beings bodies really recovered? Let's see how things went: in the early days of June 1947 some inhabitants of Roswell, New Mexico, declared that they saw some strange objects moving through the night sky. It was supported by people from all walks of life, there were members of high society as well as nuns, workers, farmers and even an Army Corporal. In any case, the evidence in this regard was confused and contradictory.

Later someone even retracted what had initially declared so as to make it impossible to determine whether the object that had been repeatedly sighted was a UFO or a meteorite. On June 8th, the Roswell Daily Record published an article about a sighting dating back to the previous week and on that same day some FBI agents intervened to interrupt a radio broadcast of Lidia Sleppy from the KSWS studios: the speaker had in fact begun to spread news that the remains of an unidentified object had been found near the Foster farm. In the following days, while a certain William Brazel continued to claim to have seen the wreckage of an unidentified flying object and even managed to get some pieces before the military would make a clean sweep. General Clemence McMullen advised General Roger Ramey, commander of the nearby Fort Worth base, to organize a meeting with journalists to cover the story of the flying object, declaring that it was actually a high-altitude ball. On the same afternoon, General Ramey himself held the press conference and declared what was suggested to him by General McMullen, showing some images of a damaged sounding balloon and stating that this was the object precipitated just in that area. Meanwhile, the news had spread throughout America; the national press split between those who spoke of an accident during an aviation experiment and those who wrote the history of the mysterious object that fell to the ground. The Chicago Daily News, Los Angeles Herald Express, San Francisco Examiner and Roswell Daily Record supported the "alien" hypothesis, while the official cover-up version was reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune the following day. A few days later a squad of soldiers was sent to the crash site to recover all the material. They were accompanied by numerous officers of the Military Police who had to prevent civilians from accessing the area around the Foster farm. A mile or two from the real area the central body of the UFO was found and a couple of miles from it the famous humanoid bodies.

The military took over William Brazel, the main supporter of the alien theory, and kept him in solitary confinement for about a week. When he was released he denied everything he had said in the previous days declaring that he had taken a big crab"," Hamilton concluded, then fell silent waiting for someone to open a new debate.