From: jim@apsicc.aps.edu (frost...)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Why America ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:42:00 GMT
Organization: Albuquerque Public Schools - Career Enrichment Center
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In article <1992Jul24.031658.10283@news.unomaha.edu>, jcitro3@cwis.unomaha.edu (Joe Citro III) writes...
>alanj@dadd.ti.com  writes:
>> In article 114610@axion.bt.co.uk, achaplin@axion.bt.co.uk (Anthony Chaplin) writes:
>> >
>> >I have a question for all you Phoenix Project fans out there
>> >
>> >	Why America, why not the old Soviet Union ?
>> >
>> >Think about it logically,
>> >
>> >	1. Russia has vast tracks of barren, unpopulated lands. Compared to Russia the remote places in America really aren't that remote.
>> >
>> >	2. Russia's air traffic control and radar network is much less comphensive than the USA's, therefore the aliens could come and go more easily..
>> >
>> >	3. Russia, during the cold war was far behind the technology of the west and so would be willing to pay a higher price for alien technology ?
>> >
>> >	4. People could be silenced much more easily in the old Soviet Union than they could in the USA (except if your name was Silkwood !)
>> >
>> >Therefore if these supposed aliens had observed the earth they would have found the Old Soviet Union a much more inviting place to build K-2 ??
>> >
>> >But let me guess they do use the Soviet Union for bases, and someone somewhere (who also forgot his camera) has seen it !
>> >
>> >Don't get me wrong I don't have a closed mind to aliens (otherwise I wouldn't subscript to this newsgroup) but massive alien bases in the USA ?
>> >
>> >Cheers
>> >
>> >Tony        
>> >achaplin@axion.bt.co.uk    
>> 
>> Good point.  In fact, why not Antartica, northern Canada, or the middle of an
>> ocean?  The only reasons I can think of would be:
>> 
>>   a.  They are working with Americans which require access to the base.
>>   b.  Their work is in that area (outside the base, assuming they must leave
>>       the base to accomplish some part of their work), and fuel requirements for
>>       transits to/from the more remote locations is prohibitive.
>>   c.  Their work is in that area, and transits to/from more remote locations
>>       would increase the probability of detection.
>> 
>> It really comes down to this - why do they have a base on Earth at all?
>> 
>> Of course, the possible existence of an alien base in the U.S. does not preclude
>> the possibility of bases existing in these other, more remote, places either.
>> 
>> ---
>> sincerely,
>> Alan Jones  /  Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX  /  email=alanj@dadd.ti.com
>> 
>Why not use the moon as a base? (of course maybe they are).  The close 
>proximity to Earth and the seclusion would make it ideal!
> 
>                                        Joseph A. Citro III
>                                        
The moon would be the most ideal candidate for earth observation, even if only
of an anthropological nature to watch a species evolve. For any race that was
capable of crossing between stars a short hop from the moon to the earth and
back when necessary would be a minor thing.

Remember the days about thirty years ago when lights were reported seen moving
along crater walls, one of the most notable events occured in Plato. There was
also the reputed bridgelike structure seen and a photograph of the shadow it
cast was even published in an issue of Sky and Telescope of the period I believe.

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