Extraterrestrials following the money to Asia

Investors aren’t the only ones heading to the East

From Dateline Zero — The Wall Street Journal reports that “Trackers in Colorado at the Mutual UFO Network, one of the oldest unidentified-flying-object research organizations in this world, say that since the slump of the Western banking system in 2008, UFO sightings among Asia’s fast-growing economies have accelerated.”

“Aliens have been coming to Asia for decades, but now they sense a change,” says Debhanom Muangman, one of Thailand’s leading UFO enthusiasts. “This is where the progressive countries are, so they are coming here much more often now.”

Seth Shostak, the always vocal senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, totally agrees that this is an intriguing idea and warrants further investigation.

I’m joking of course. Shostak did what he and almost everyone else at SETI does: He dismissed it all out-of-hand as total nonsense. He believes the growth of Asia’s economies is one of the primary factors contributing to more and more UFO sightings, because the people are suddenly being influenced by western culture.

“I ascribe this simply to two things,” Mr. Shostak says. “The greater reach of TV, which means that more people have seen television specials dealing with UFOs, and the widespread availability of the Internet, which allows people who would formerly describe strange sightings to their neighbors to now send me an email.”

Dr. Debhanom in Thailand, for instance, says he saw his first UFO in New Hampshire when he was training to become a doctor in the 1950s. He has been researching the spike in strange UFO-related activity in Thailand, and observes that there have been many more sightings as the country went through its economic boom of the 1980s and 1990s. This boom has brought a media network expansion that includes cable TV and the Internet.

From the WSJ article [Via Death and Taxes Magazine]

The aliens that allegedly visit Southeast Asia tend to have a rather different view of the universe, following Buddhist precepts such as reincarnation and greeting one another by cupping their hands together in the shape of a lotus flower.

After years of trying, Dr. Debhanom says he finally made contact with bona fide aliens one morning at 2 a.m. in 1996. Surprisingly, he recalls, they called him on the phone, using an ordinary land line.

“They said they were from Mars and spoke a strange version of Thai. They also said not to worry about the phone bill,” Dr. Debhanom recalls.

Since then, he reports that aliens often have contacted him with warnings about where they will appear, enabling Dr. Debhanom and other researchers to report a series of UFO sightings. Their conclusions: Aliens are typically slightly taller than humans, communicate telepathically and sometimes are accompanied by pets resembling hairless dogs.

One alien visitor calling itself “Kai”—the Thai word for chicken—often visits to warn of natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami or political upheavals that could affect Thailand’s economic progress, Dr. Debhanom says. Kai previously presented himself as Eddie to U.S. authorities at Area 51, the famously secretive U.S. military base in Nevada, while he told officials in the former Soviet Union to call him Ivan, Dr. Debhanom says.

Other researchers have gone further. Several members of the Chansamnuen family in Nakhon Sawan province say they have managed to communicate with the aliens telepathically. It began with Cherd Chansamnuen, an army sergeant, who used to go into a trance and then begin speaking and issuing commands in a strangely altered voice.

“The air began crackling,” says Thanyasak Patamatanasun, 39 years old, a member of the Kao Kala group who once attended one of Sgt. Cherd’s attempts to communicate with extraterrestrial beings. “Then an alien voice spoke to us through Sgt. Cherd and told us he was there to help human beings reach the next level of development.”

Sgt. Cherd has since died, and his mission is now pursued by his three daughters. One of them, Wassana Chansamnuen, a 38-year-old nurse, says she, too, is able to enter a trance and receive messages from otherworldly entities.

Full article online: WSJ “E.T. Phones Thailand and Picks Up the Tab for the Call”

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