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| Greer at Podium in Washington, D.C. |
The
problem? This refers to the Spitsbergen UFO crash. Several messages were
exchanged in the early 1950s by various government agencies. Those messages
have long been declassified and the crash has long been discredited. This
specific case does nothing to advance our knowledge and gives us nothing of
value. The tale is true, the officer did see the messages but they have been available
to UFO researchers for decades.
Greer
has a new passion that is Sirius.
This is a feature length production that covers a great deal of territory,
though my interest was in the remains of a little creature found in Chile a
while ago. It is about six inches tall and according to reputable experts,
lived to be six to eight years old.
True,
I wasn’t all that interested in the discussion of the energy policies of the
government, nor in the ways that energy can be produced without damage to the
environment and little expense. Yes, that could potentially be of greater value
than the little alien or little creature, but that was what I wanted to know
about.
Greer
took the podium and gave us an abbreviated lecture. He told us that many in the
media, who had seen an advance copy of the movie, or had viewed it on the
Internet before it was removed, said the DNA proved the little being was a
human. But that wasn’t quite right. He noted that our genetic makeup matched
that of the Neanderthal to more than 99% and that we shared 97% of our genes
with the great apes.
This
little creature had a genetic makeup that was about 90 or 91% of ours. That
left some 9% that was unidentified. Greer said that this could be caused by
problems with the computer analysis; it could be bad sequencing, or just
damaged genes. There were many plausible answers for this discrepancy, but at
the moment, there were none. Experts in genetics, top scientists in the field
at prestigious universities were intrigued by these problems.
In
fact, one of them, Garry Nolan, director of stem cell biology at Stanford
University's School of Medicine in California, said that it wasn’t a monkey,
that it had lived to six or eight based on an examination of the bones, and
that it had been a living, breathing creature. In other words, Nolan, with the
proper scientific credentials is just the sort of man you’d want to examine
something like this.
And,
as he pointed out, the creature, little human, tiny alien, whatever it might
be, shouldn’t have been able to survive years given its size.
You
could say that it was some sort of mutation that survived birth. A single
example of a mutation that didn’t live long enough to reproduce, if it had ever
been able. Greer, however, said that they may be other examples and he is
chasing them down. One, in Russia, might have been seen alive by people who are
still alive. In other words, there might be some very exciting evidence that
these little things exist in the world today.
So,
I found his documentary interesting, which is usually code for “I didn’t like
it much but don’t want to say anything bad.” What I mean is that I didn’t agree
with some of what he said, did enjoy the various clips of UFOs shown, and was
very interested the information about the little being. Parts I ignored and
other parts that I watched carefully.
But
the point for me was the analysis of the little creature. Greer made it clear
that the analysis was continuing and the final answer, if we get there, will be
fascinating whatever it is.
