It would seem that UFO and alien life discloser will soon happen!!

It would seem that little by little, the citizens of the world are being prepared for the truth , that we are NOT alone. It would seem that all over the world , Those in offical positions are leaking out the truth that UFO and alien life forms are real and that we have been visited for many years. With the Vatican releasing this information are they preparing their people for this truth? What will this information do to the religions of the world and their followers, how will alien life forms fit in to their beliefs? it would seem that NASA will announce some surprising information. Just what might that be?

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

VATICAN CITY — Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.

"How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said. "Just as we consider earthly creatures as 'a brother,' and 'sister,' why should we not talk about an 'extraterrestrial brother'? It would still be part of creation."

In the interview by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures. Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom, he said.

The interview, headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother," covered a variety of topics including the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and science, and the theological implications of the existence of alien life.

Funes said science, especially astronomy, does not contradict religion, touching on a theme of Pope Benedict XVI, who has made exploring the relationship between faith and reason a key aspect of his papacy.

The Bible "is not a science book," Funes said, adding that he believes the Big Bang theory is the most "reasonable" explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.

But he said he continues to believe that "God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the result of chance."

Funes urged the church and the scientific community to leave behind divisions caused by Galileo's persecution 400 years ago, saying the incident has "caused wounds."

In 1633 the astronomer was tried as a heretic and forced to recant his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.

"The church has somehow recognized its mistakes," he said. "Maybe it could have done it better, but now it's time to heal those wounds and this can be done through calm dialogue and collaboration."

Pope John Paul declared in 1992 that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension."

The Vatican Observatory has been at the forefront of efforts to bridge the gap between religion and science. Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world's best.

The observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, is based in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the hills outside Rome where the pope has a summer residence. It also conducts research at an observatory at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.

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On the Net:

Vatican Observatory: http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo

Dr Dave Clarke has said:
Britain's Ministry of Defence are to publish their secret archive of UFO reports to dispel claims they have been hiding knowledge of alien visitors to the UK. ...

Although the MoD claim no UFO report has ever been judged to be of defence significance, a small number were subjected to detailed investigations by the RAF and DI55. The nature of these investigations, and their findings, have until recently been a closely guarded secret. During the same thirty year period covered by the French UFO project, more than 7,000 UFO reports were collected by DI55 whose precise role and responsibilities the British Government refuse to discuss. Until recently it was feared all 24 of DI55's UFO files could be destroyed as they had been exposed during storage to deadly asbestos dust along with 63,000 other 'sensitive' intelligence files from the Cold War. But at the end of a £3 million publicly-funded project all the contaminated papers have been saved and are scanned onto CD roms.

A decision was taken earlier this year to make the UFO archive a priority for release via the MoD's website which already hosts the papers on the Rendlesham Forest incident and the Condign report. The first electronic scans of the UFO files, which begin in the mid-1970s, will be added to the website later this year. The DI55 archive contains numerous reports by service personnel including RAF and Royal Navy pilots and by civilian aircrew. They also include the material used by the author of the Condign report who analysed more than 3,000 UFO reports collected by the MoD during the ten years 1987-97

   I know it's after Halloween, but here is a scary story that just has to be told. The names have not been changed because nobody is innocent.

   A few weeks ago I reported that My nephew and his wife are expecting a baby. Well, a few days ago they showed us the first ultrasound pictures. I was very excited at first.................until I saw the pictures. I am not joking. This is what the ultrasound looked like.

   I jumped up and began running around the room yelling, "It's an alien. It's an alien." I was told to calm down. It was not an alien, but I persisted. I grabbed my niece, Jennifer, and began questioning her about when she was abducted, did she remember any details, and what did the aliens look like? "Calm down Uncle Eddie", she said. "This is what all babies look like when they are that little." Eventually they got me to calm down but I wasn't convinced.

    They soon said; "Hey, let's discuss some baby names". I think they were trying to humor me because they asked; "What would you suggest for a name Uncle Eddie"? "How about Galaxor"? I replied. I think it was at that point that David pulled out a ray gun and shot me. I woke up here at the computer.

   OK maybe I didn't tell the story exactly the way it happened, or, what with all of the excitement, maybe it was a dream, but this is my story and I'm sticking to it.

  Alien Sextet

Alien (1979 – A1) Ridley Scott

Story: Circa 2097 AD - The space tug Nostromo is returning to earth with 20-million tons of mineral ore, and a human crew of seven.  The crew is awakened from their hypersleep hibernation by "Mother" – the spaceship’s central computer, notifying them that a distress signal is being sent into outer space from nearby planet Acheron.   On the planet, some members of the crew spots a giant derelict spacecraft, and, once inside, discover hundreds of strange looking eggs.   One crewmember, Kane, is attacked by a crablike alien creature (commonly referred to by Alien fans as a “facehugger”) that attaches itself to his face.   

Much to Lt. Ripley’s disapproval, Kane is brought onboard the ship.  In the lab, the crew discovers that part of the creature is lodged inside Kane’s throat, and that any attempt at removing it will kill him.    Also, when one of the men try to cut the alien organism, it bleeds acid, which burns through several decks of the ship.   Shortly thereafter, a wormlike Alien larva bursts out through Kane’s chest (killing him in the process) and escapes into the bowels of the ship, thereafter further molting, and getting bigger.  Eventually the creature grows more than seven-feet-tall.   The rest of the crew  prepare to abandon ship in the shuttlecraft Narcissus, but the creature quickly kills them, until only Ripley and the ship’s cat “Jones” are left alive. 

Having previously programmed the ship's self-destruct sequence, Ripley succesfully launches the shuttle, and the giant tug blows up behind her.  She prepares for hypersleep, but is horrified to discover that the Alien is now a stowaway and had previously hidden itself from sight.   Mustering enough courage, she dons a spacesuit, and straps herself securely into the pilot’s seat.   The Alien is forced out of its hiding place, and slowly advances on her.  Just  then, Ripley depressurizes the cockpit, sending the Alien flying out into the lifeless vacuum of outer space. 

Aliens (1986 – A2) James Cameron

Story: Circa 2154 AD - Sometime after the Weyland-Yutani Corporation recovers their Narcissus and its slumbering occupants, Lt. Ellen Ripley must now undergo a legal trial for having blown up the Nostromo, and its precious cargo.  Nobody believes her seemingly preposterous story.   During trial we discover that a human colony has long been established on the planet – now known as Planet LV426 – that Ripley said was infested with Alien eggs.   After the colony mysteriously stops sending transmissions to earth, Ripley is ostensibly pardoned of her crimes, and called back to active duty.  The Corporation sends a band of Marines to the planet to investigate, with Ripley accompanying the troops as advisor.   The USS Sulaco now begins its long journey to the planet.   When they arrive on LV426, tragedy greets the troops...  Apparently, there are no humans left on that planet.   Worse still, the search party stumble into a nest of Alien eggs and a swarm of adult Alien "warriors."   The Aliens use and exterminate most of the troops as host for more Alien progeny.    Ripley, in saving the planet’s erstwhile sole human survivor (a little girl nicknamed “Newt”), stumbles into the giant Queen Alien's birthing lair; the Queen, Ripley discovers, is in the process of laying even more eggs.   Eventually, Ripley dispatches the Queen in much the same manner she got rid of the solitary drone in A1—death by depressurization.   Ripley, Cpl. Dwayne Hicks, Newt and Bishop are sole survivors.  The story ends with their hypersleep journey back to earth.

Alien³ (1992 – A3) David Fincher

Story: During their trip back to earth, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop die in the Sulaco shuttle’s crash landing on a penal colony planet - here called 'Fiorina "Fury" 161.'   Ripley is sole survivor.   Fiorina's prisoners are all male, worshipping God with a vow of celibacy.  Their heads are shaved bald because the planet is infested with lice, and soon Ellen too is shorn of locks to prevent infestation.  It turns out that Ellen was infected by a facehugger enroute to earth, and is now carrying a gestating Alien  lifeform, as is one inmate's mascot; a Rottweiler that quickly ‘gives birth’ to an Alien/canine hybrid.  This quadrupedal Alien breed proceeds to kill all the humans in the facility, except Ripley and the inmate that helps her kill the Alien by luring it into a pit of molten lead.   When a Weyland-Yutani rescue team finally arrives to save them, Ripley discovers a conspiracy -- the team is actually there to take back the Alien specimen  (still gestating inside Ripley's body) to earth for further study in the name of biological warfare.   But Ripley will have nothing to do with their nefarious plot, and instead suicides by diving into the pool of fiery metal, taking her Alien ‘child’ with her.

Alien Resurrection (1997 – A4) Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Story: 200-years after events in A3 - The Auriga (a large medical research vessel travelling through outer space) has hired a rogue team of human body snatchers so that the scientists can breed more Aliens for warfare purposes.  The team commandeers their own smaller pirate vessel The Betty.   Among the variety of creatures created in the lab are an Alien-human hybrid cloned from cells taken from Ripley's bloodspill in A3.  

Once the incubating Ripley clone quickly reaches adult age (an impressive time-lapse shot using morphing digital-FX that take only seconds onscreen), the Alien Queen incubating inside her is surgically extracted and kept alive by the scientists.   Likewise, the Queen quickly grows to adult size and begins laying eggs.   Soon, about a dozen Alien drones infect the sedated human cargo, then escape from their containment pods to kill off most of the Auriga and Betty crewmembers. 

Ripley, of course, along with some Betty survivors, escape in the smaller ship and make it back to earth safely... but not before Ripley vanquishes another Alien-human hybrid - in this case, a newborn specimen that is more Alien than human in size and appearance. 

Alien vs Predator (2004 – A5)

Paul W. S. Anderson 

Story: October 10, 2004 - On planet earth, a subglacial pyramid is detected buried miles beneath Antarctica.   A Weyland Corporation search team is sent to investigate, but soon the human explorers discover themselves caught in a war between Alien and Predator species that use each other and humans as quarry in their hunting games.  The story ends with a promise of a sequel involving an Alien/Predator hybrid. 

So far, this is the first Alien movie that does not feature the Ripley character nor actress Sigourney Weaver.   Actor Lance Henriksen, however, appears here as Charles Bishop Weyland, the founder of the robotics Company that, years later, merged with John Yutani's Company and became corrupt.   During pre-prodution, actors Peter Weller and Gary Busey were considered for the character of John Yutani, the fictional Company's other half.

Note: None of the previous two Predator films are reviewed here.

Alien vs Predator: Survival of the Fittest

(Scheduled Release - December 21, 2007 – A6)

Alien and Predator species are loose in Midwestern United States.  

A6  is the upcoming sequel to  A5.   Filming begins September 23, 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada).   Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis from Amalgamated Dynamics will handle special effects, as they did for A5, and Daniel Pearl will be director of photography.   The script is written by Shane Salerno.     

Recurring 'Alien' Themes & Props

1. Facehugger and Chestbursters (an Alien, in its larval stage, that bursts out of a human host's chest) is featured at least once in every Alien movie - up until A5.  In A2, two facehuggers try to 'impregnate' Ripley and Newt.

2.  Reigning Queens - From A1 to A5, the lead female character eventually spars  against and manages to defeat a formidable alpha Alien species - two of these being Queens (the lead female in A5 helps a Predator drown the Queen in icy water).  In toto, there have been three separate Queens featured in A1 through A5.

3.  Androids - Ash is the villainous android in A1.  Friendly android Bishop surfaces in A2, Bishop II shows up in A3, and the original human template Charles Bishop Weyland is introduced in A5.

4.  Martyrdom - Initially Ripley devotes herself entirely to the Corporation, even follows their rules to the letter.  Often, she sacrifices her own personal interests in the name of humanity and mankind's better welfare.  In A3 she performs the act of ultimate sacrifice through immolation. 

Note: This blog entry is a work in progress.  Check back periodically for revisions and additions.