The Last Christmas On Earth

EPISODE IV-2

"But in the end what did you want to tell us with this story?" Asked Evan Carbel almost annoyed. He was the personal trainer of many Hollywood stars and he was good at treating biceps and abdominals, but he wasn't used to participating in that kind of meetings and all those arguments had already exhausted him.

"To put it in one word, cover-up."

"Please, explain yourself better," said Hugh Graham, an expert in Food Science.

"The truth, in all this, is only that in those days a perfectly intact flying saucer was found in Roswell, inside which there were six alien individuals belonging to the Grey race."

"So why was all that confusion around the case created?"

"I thought this was obvious, it was an event of exceptional importance and we didn't know if other events would have happened. And if so, we didn't even know how the population would react. The Great War had been over for just a few years, the people needed to be quiet and have fun, certainly not to spend their time watching the sky with a gun in their hands for fear of seeing a spaceship landing in their garden, piloted by hostile beings. Thus, while most Americans enjoyed progress and Boogie Woogie and went mad for Marilyn and later for Elvis, a small group of military scientists racked their brains in an attempt to understand who these beings were and what they wanted from us. Simply, they had the arduous task of establishing whether they were good or bad and, of course, first of all, to look for their weak points so that we could be able to defend ourselves from them," the President intervened.

"It seems logical to me to think that they were good, if only because their degree of technology, apparently infinitely superior to ours, showed great intelligence," suggested Erasmus Wayne.

"I am sorry to disappoint you," the President objected, "but the reasoning does not run exactly in this direction. Intelligence and goodness do not necessarily go hand in hand, the fact that some of them are so intelligent as to create wonderful things does not mean that those who have to use them are equally intelligent and to understand this it is enough to look in our house. For example, when Bill Gates made the computer accessible to everyone he certainly didn't think that someone would use it to scam other people, or worse, to feed plagues such as p********a and similar filth. Like the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, when in December 1942 he succeeded in producing the first controlled atomic fission reaction of history in a makeshift laboratory, he had thought about the production of energy on a large scale.

But certainly not to the realization of a weapon capable of exterminating millions of people at once," he explained.

"But then who do we have to thank for the atomic bomb, the aliens or Enrico Fermi?" Carbel asked more and more confused looking at Professor Hamilton.

"Let's say that it was a sort of remote collaboration, thanks to the study of alien material we were able to explore much faster the road that separated us from the objective. However, to conclude, I was saying that this whole chain of admissions and retractions, of news escapes and red herrings, also had the purpose of planting in humanity the first seed of awareness of the fact that we are not alone in the Universe. We were convinced that those two cases represented only the beginning of a long series of meetings that would have continued over time and that, from that moment on, an escalation of contacts that would have led the two peoples to meet. But on the other hand, we also thought that mankind was not yet ready to hear such great truth in a clear and direct way. Moreover, although over seventy years have passed, we are yet convinced of it today."

"But ..." Viewer said, objecting, but the professor anticipated him without letting him finish the sentence.

"There is no but! I know what you want to say, but please, every one of you now think about what would happen if tomorrow morning, when we left home and go to work, we found a flying saucer parked in the garden and a couple of those beings sitting on a swing under the porch."

"It would be a real disaster ..." Riise admitted.

"Exactly! Providing two conflicting versions of the facts, already packaged and ready for use, served to leave us in doubt so that we could begin to have the idea that sooner or later there will indeed be a meeting between our race and theirs". The professor concluded with extreme naturalness, as if in the last two hours they made small talks. At that point he fell silent, he was certain that those present had now fully understood that they were the chosen ones to meet the aliens.

"But if the UFO ship was intact then it was not precipitated, so those beings ..." Margareth promptly realized.

"Yes, the six Greys aliens were alive and well! In fact, more vegetative than alive, they were hibernated inside special capsules. Among other things, inside the disk, we also found some parchments made of a practically indestructible material, as indeed every single object found inside the spacecraft as well as the spacecraft itself were indestructible. The parchments carry engraved inscriptions that have some features in common with many of the ancient languages known, but they do not appear to be perfectly identical to any of them. And to be honest, after all this time we are still waiting to be able to decipher them," said the professor, and Margareth was finally happy to find out the real reason why she was there.

Again the silence took possession of the room, each one of those present had begun to reflect alone and above all to look inside them, to try to understand if they really felt ready to meet an alien. The President judged that it was time to draw conclusions and start the adventure.

"In summary," he explained, "our opinion is that in the first Ufo Crash the Greys deliberately crashed a shuttle occupied by some supposedly already dead individuals to the ground, probably in order to show us how they were made and to provide us with useful tools to do a technological leap forward, so as to earn our trust. As for the second case, we have not yet succeeded in formulating a completely convincing hypothesis, but our opinion is that they found the outcome of that second mission unsatisfactory and therefore changed strategy. We believe that they are continuing to try to communicate with us "from remote" using the Crop Circles," concluded the President, looking at the professor who nodded. At that point, they left the attendees free to develop their own personal reflections from which the final debate would then arise.

"Speaking of the Greys in the Roswell case you used the word "were "... what happened to them?" Lia asked after a few minutes of total silence.

Professor Hamilton looked at the President, who took a minute before answering to be able to choose the most suitable words with extreme care.

"We have been far more foolish, careless and presumptuous than necessary. We tried to revive them, but then we encountered problems of all kinds, from not knowing how to satisfy their most basic physiological needs to how to communicate with them. Moreover, they have great telepathic abilities and are able to break into our minds, this has frightened our scientists of that time who have created a helmet capable of shielding their brain waves. But this way we took away the only way they had to interact with us."

"... But why?"

"As I told you before, we're not ready yet! Trust is good, but in these cases not to trust seemed much better to all of us" intervened the professor.

"So they're all ... dead?" Hypothesized Margareth sadly.

"Only one is still alive, it's still lying in its original hibernation capsule," Hamilton replied.

"And we believe the time to wake him up has come, so that he can explain to us what all the signals they continue to send us mean," the President added, "because we have reached the reasonable certainty that they are connected to some terrible event that could happen very soon."

"But then why did you wait so long?" Asked Carbel, perplexed.

"As I said before, that Grey is the last we have. If he dies he would be the biggest failure in human history."

"But maybe not everything would be lost, there are still those who claim to be in constant contact with them," said Jacob.

"It is true ... but do you think there is someone who believes them seriously?

Those individuals become psychotic, they remember almost nothing of their encounters and are unable to give us rational reports on abductions. All we could understand, treating them with regressive hypnosis, is that their subconscious carries with it a large number of phobias and terrifying memories of the episode. The abductees feel a great need to go and live in the countryside or in the mountains, often we find strange objects implanted in their bodies but we don't know what they are for."

"But if at first, they tried to help us proceed along the evolutionary path, then why do they now behave in this way? Why are they treating us like lab animals?"Wayne asked.

"Once again there are at least two theories. The first one maintains they have come to the conclusion that, whatever the thing they want to warn us or what they want us to do, we are not yet ready to meet them and therefore we will not make it in time. Consequently, they would be behaving with us in the same way that we behave with the endangered species, which is trying to safeguard at least a small part of the humankind. The second one hypothesizes instead that the alien races that come into contact with us are more than one, so it is not said that those good ones who seek dialogue with us are the same as those who practice abductions. Leaving aside the imaginative creations, such as the Chubacapras and the Mothman's, according to someone there would be at least four alien races that have entered or continue to come into contact with us: the Reptilians, the Pleiadians and two different species of the Greys."

"If, as you explained, who comes into contact with the alien will have to use protective helmets because of its dangerous telepathic powers, how will this person communicate with him? We will continue to have the same problem that our predecessors had, so we are destined to fail,"said Eagle.

"I am sure you have understood by now that every one of you will play a very specific role within this project, it is no coincidence that here with us we have the world's leading expert on ancient languages," the professor explained.

"And so?" Asked Carbel.

"The idea is trivial and that's probably why it will work. As Dr. Turner teaches us, the studies carried out so far have shown that the ancient written testimonies found practically in every part of the globe suggest, due to their similarity, that they descended from a single code subsequently barbarized by men. Moreover, as everyone knows, the epic legends of each of these peoples are more or less the same thing. Please, tell us what they talk about, Miss Turner."

"They tell of gods came from space aboard fire-spitting wagons and about a long period of peace and prosperity, followed by wars fought in the highest skies with impressive means of destruction. Subsequently, there would have been a chain of catastrophes that ended with the Great Flood, which took place around a period between ten thousand and twelve thousand years ago. At that time one of these gods, or one of their descendants, allegedly saved humankind and then go to his house, among the stars, leaving us with the promise that he would come back to save us again in the future."