Author: ssgeneralsilva10

Approximately two hours before sunrise at 0430 hours on Sunday November 8, 2020; I had my first unmistakable naked-eye UFO sighting and it was a “blow my mind” incredible thing to see. I am so excited and now, I am even more motivated to find some answers to the extraterrestrial communication question(s). The UFO sightings lasted for approximately 30 minutes before the visible activity slowed down and then stopped. I am convinced that there can be no other plausible explanation for what I saw other than UFO activity.

Ironically, the “About” page of this blog site which I first published 2 weeks ago, lead off by saying I have never seen a UFO. I have to change that now for sure. I am also definitely going to report an official sighting at the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)

I had been lying awake in bed for a couple hours thinking about all sorts of things and could not sleep. I finally decided to get up and do a little research on some extraterrestrial topic ideas that were in my head. This sort of thing happens to me a lot. It is not unusual. When I do this, standard procedure is to make a pot of coffee, sit out on the back deck and have a smoke, clear my head, organize my thoughts and write some notes etc. It was a beautiful clear night with only a few random clouds over head. The sky was full of stars.

I was watching the sky thinking and admiring how pretty it all was. I saw a couple of what I presumed to be satellites go by which is a fairly common occurrence. Nothing to get overly excited about. I then saw a cluster of approximately twenty very “dim” stars located between two very bright stars I was using as reference points. Then I saw something incredible.

With my eyes now well adjusted so I could see these dim stars very clearly, I noticed that one of these stars (a UFO) just took off like a rocket to the left, stopped on a dime and started darting all over the place making sharp ninety-degree maneuvers (or sharper) over huge distances at incredible speeds. It would stop then instantly reverse directions also. It was nothing less than amazing. Nothing we know of, or at least that I have ever heard of, in heaven or from earth moves like that.

As I continued to watch, several of the other UFOs in this star group started darting around in the same way as the first. Then they would move more slowly (but still quickly), over huge distances, as a group in various formations like a single line side by side, single file one behind the other, in a “V” formation like a flock of geese or in a circular ball cluster. The larger initial group of approximately 15 individuals would break up into groups of three to five or so. They would dart around in these smaller groups and then come back together as a single group. Sometimes a single object would dart up to another so they looked like one object for a few seconds then peel off again. This happened several times. If I had to describe the activity, I would say it looked like either some sort of training exercise or an engagement between enemies. Whatever the purpose; these UFO maneuvers were clearly under intelligent command.

In the middle of all this, I ran to the bedroom and forced my wife to get up and see this incredible event. She was instantly and clearly able to see all of the things I am describing to you as well. I’m telling you right now that if she was not able to verify what I was seeing; she would have hit me over the head with an iron skillet for waking her up at that hour for no good reason. That is a fact I promise you.

There was no way we were going to get a picture of the UFO activity from a cell phone but my wife cleverly busted out the star gazer app on her phone.  We wanted to at least try to identify a reference star or something to document this sighting as best we could. Wouldn’t you know it – all of this activity was happening within the constellation Orion and right over Orion’s belt. Orion is visible in the northern hemisphere from November through February so it is just now becoming visible from my back deck looking south. I know what Orion’s belt looks like but I did not pick up on it because it was just below the tree tops and not immediately obvious. I created a diagram to show this (see below). Orion’s belt being in play with this UFO sighting is a huge extraterrestrial event. There has been so much documentation about the significance of Orion’s belt being linked to ancient cultures and their relationships to the stars of Orion’s belt and extraterrestrial visitors for thousands of years. In addition; I have found more and previously undiscovered evidence of its importance that is a big part of my book (Extraterrestrial Communication Code). The book will be coming available very soon. This UFO sighting occurring right over Orion’s belt just before dawn and just as Orion’s belt has become visible again in the northern hemisphere has never been documented before as far as I know.

I can tell you that these UFOs were moving from one side of Orion’s belt to the other in approximately one to two seconds. From my point of reference, it seemed like they were moving up and down much faster than they were left to right across Orion’s belt. Not sure if that means anything.

I am wondering if anybody else out there saw what my wife and I saw. I will definitely be hawking the usual space news sites to see if anything pops up.  I will tell you that I have seen many videos and interviews with people that have seen UFOs but until you see one for yourself, there is always at least a thread of skepticism in what you take away from these things. Now that I have seen one, I am so thrilled. Plus, it was not just a single streak across the sky for a couple minutes. Our UFO sighting was a whopper in my opinion. Many vessels for a long time making incredible maneuvers. Any lingering skepticism I may have been harboring is gone without question.

I look forward to any comments and opinions you might like to share with us here at the Extraterrestrial Communication Group. Thanks for dropping by.

Stephen J. Silva

The following was authored by a person named “Dr. Murray” and published by the St. Lawrence Institute for Faith and Culture in April of 2020. The article in its entirety is as follows:

What would the discovery of intelligent life mean for Christianity? Is there anything in the Bible or Church teaching that would support or reject their existence?

One of the joys of working with college students is that I often get exposed to questions that I wouldn’t normally hear. With our culture so immersed in superhero movies and shows on the paranormal, the topic of alien life seems to be a real area of interest for people today, more so than in the past. I think this is a fascinating question and I am grateful for the students who recently brought up this topic. Here are five thoughts on the subject.

1) The role of wonder. The first thing that comes to mind is how pastimes like stargazing, or thinking about the universe and what might be in it, has been a privileged path to experiencing wonder. Why is wonder important? Well, wonder is what takes us out of our everyday affairs and humdrum routines and inspire us to ask questions and think more deeply. It can potentially open us up to God and his grace. If thinking about aliens takes us away from our boredom and leads us to ponder reality in a new way, that’s a good thing!

2) Not to be afraid. Christians should not be afraid of the questions of aliens (or of science more generally). Many people mistakenly believe science to be against faith or that faith somehow requires one to go against science, but as Catholics we believe that faith and science do not contradict each other. Why is this? Because God is the creator of the universe (or multiverse if it exists) and the author of our faith. We should trust that God expects us to use our reason and to actively engage in learning, whether that means studying slugs or pondering the origins of the cosmos. If Christianity is true, and we believe it is, then there should not be any contradiction between what it reveals and what we discover to be true with science, because God is the source of both the ‘book’ of nature and the ‘book’ of revelation. If there happens to be some discrepancy, then either our understanding or interpretation of Revelation is wrong, or our science is wrong.

3) Nothing is incompatible. In my judgement, nothing in Christianity is incompatible with the existence of other intelligent life forms. In fact, Christians already believe in the existence of intelligent life forms in (immaterial) Angels (which technically are their own ‘species’ so we shouldn’t label them with one term), so it wouldn’t be a huge leap to believe that God could make physical intelligent life forms. Here, some people might object that there are passages in Scripture which encourage a ‘human-centric’ view of the universe. A classic example is from Psalm 8:3-8.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

At first glance, this might make you think that everything God created, all of the universe, is geared toward, and exclusively for, humanity; that we are ‘little lower than God’ and that there are no other intelligent beings with a similar dominion over the works of God’s hands. However, a closer reading actually suggests a humility of spirit and the recognition of our smallness in the grand scheme of things. In the author’s mind, all that he sees (earth, sky, stars) does point to the uniqueness of humanity from a phenomenological point of view (like a god) but it doesn’t exclude the possibility that there might be others who could know God in a rational way.

The only real difficulty with Aliens, theologically speaking, is the degree to which our rejection of God (Original Sin) extends beyond earth. For there are passages of Scripture which speak of ‘all creation’ being negatively impacted by our sin and awaiting the final redemption of humanity or the final coming of Christ (Rom 8.19). However, the question is whether this phrase of St. Paul’s referred to all of earth or the universe. It is a real question but I don’t think it would present a contradiction or serious problem either way. It would just make it a bit awkward if Aliens were negatively impacted by our sin.

4) God’s character does not change. How God acts reveals who He is. For example, the deeds and actions recounted in Scripture reveal to us the character of God. Once we know something about God’s character (such as his faithfulness and love of Israel), we naturally expect Him to act in a certain way in the future (such as His desire to save them from their enemies and from sin). In the context of aliens, this means we would expect God to act in a way consistent with how he has acted with Israel in the past and to us in the present. We would expect the same God who, by his nature, is ‘over-flowing’ with goodness, to want to share his goodness with aliens as well as us.

Side note: One of the difficulties many people have with Christianity is that it appears that God’s nature does change. In contrast to the God of the New Testament (often seen as a more loving God), many interpret God through Old Testament passages as being angry and even vengeful, filled with emotion and unstable, changing on a whim; surely not evidence of an eternal and immutable God. This is an important topic that should be taken seriously. God’s nature and his loving provision does not change. God deals differently with people depending on where they are at, but always out of love. For example, I may shout at my one year old to stop playing by the stove’s flame to get her attention immediately and stop her from hurting herself. However, with an older child, I would explain why they should not play with fire (the flame will burn them). But with an adult visitor, who perhaps is unfamiliar with a gas stove, I would explain the mechanics of the stove and how to properly use it (the gas line, the knobs, perhaps how to turn it off and what to do if they smelled a gas leak). In this case, my actions are different with each person depending on their age and abilities, but my good intention is the same: to teach them about the stove and keep them from harming themselves and others. It is the same with God. In the Old Testament, God is essentially dealing with a stubborn and hard-hearted people (like children). After Christ, Christians believe we have come to maturity through the Holy Spirit and so God treats us differently, he expects more of us and he treats us like adults. Another example comes from the Old Testament book, Deuteronomy. Divorce was allowed because Israelite men would presumably have killed their wives if that was the only way out of a marriage. But for Christians, God expects more of us and calls us to not even look at another woman with lust. Different actions, the same loving God.

5) The unique human nature of Jesus. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this question is pondering how Jesus would relate to aliens. As Christians, we believe that ‘God’ is a mysterious tri-unity of Father-Son-Holy Spirit (aka The Trinity). We believe that the Son, Jesus, assumed a human nature by uniting it to his person for our redemption and that he continues to exist with both a human and divine nature forever. Since Jesus will always have a human nature, he would presumably appear as human to aliens (if they exist). Yet his physical body would not be bound by the normal laws of nature as evidenced after his resurrection when crashes the Apostles’ party, walking through walls and locked doors. Jesus’ miraculous human nature is also why we believe he can be physically present in the Eucharist around the world, all at the same time (Aquinas says he is present via his substance and not via the accident of location or place). Therefore, if God did create other intelligent beings with the presumed intention of sharing his love with them, one could believe that Jesus might appear as human looking like, well, an alien! On the other hand, the Holy Spirit could communicate directly to them, either as love or as the voice of conscience; or perhaps with certain shapes such as we see in ‘tongues of fire’ that resulted in the ‘speaking in tongues’ in Acts. It’s hard to conceive of the Father communicating directly to aliens since we believe that the Son is the Father’s act of communicating, just as the Holy Spirit is the love of the Father and the Son. Of course, the Father could certainly communicate via the Son and Holy Spirit in a way that we just simply can’t imagine, which reminds us of the speculative nature of this question, and we haven’t even considered how God might ‘redeem’ such aliens. Who knows, if they severed their relationship with God by sinning, perhaps God could redeem their nature without uniting it to the Son’s divine person?

One of the most fascinating attempts to imagine what such an encounter might look like comes from C.S. Lewis in his famous Space Trilogy. Not only does Lewis imagine the creation of new worlds and the interaction between God and the other rational beings, (and even different alien species), but he also displays the interaction between fallen (and redeemed) human beings with aliens. One of the highlights is that Lewis allows us to ponder what an ‘unfallen’ rational species might look like and contrast it with our current state. For example, in his book Perelandra, the female alien seems to communicate directly with God via some sort of telepathy, or better yet, through the clear voice of conscience untainted by sin and distrust of God. Lewis portrays the incarnation of Jesus as a unique and eternally present reality that the other aliens come to know of, and that knowledge actually helps them reject the temptations of the Nietzschean scientist /devil who tempts the aliens to reject God. I don’t want to give too much away, but I would highly encourage those interested in this question to read Lewis’ books; they are fascinating and thought provoking.

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I look forward to any comments and opinions you might like to share with us here at the Extraterrestrial Communication Group. Thanks for dropping by.

Stephen J. Silva

Today is an exciting day and I am very excited to post up my first ever blog about extraterrestrials for my Extraterrestrial Communication blog site. We call ourselves the Extraterrestrial Communication Group.

As we begin to discuss this topic, I think it’s appropriate to first get our heads around what an extraterrestrial might look like and what their behavior and demeanor might be like. What can we expect? The answer is that we can expect anything and everything a person’s imagination can cook-up. The possibilities are without bounds.

My guess is that communication with an extraterrestrial species will be from a planet that will have a diversity of cultures within that planet that may look similar but with regional differences much like the diversity of humans on earth. I would also expect that these aliens live on a planet that has many different creatures and plant types much as we do on earth. They surely must have homes where they raise their children, prepare meals and sleep. They probably go to school and have jobs. They will have a societal structure, system of government, play games, laugh, cry and have and do all of the types of things we do here on earth. This not to imply that they will be like the human animal. I would expect they survive in a different planetary ecological environment and as such; the diversity of plants and animals would be there but would probably be very different than the plants and animals of earth.

The day is coming soon when contact and communication will be established and perhaps even become common. I hope that happens while I’m still alive to be part of that very exciting possibility coming true. In the same way humans, and all animals really, are threatened and afraid of things that they do not understand – extraterrestrials probably have those same survival instincts.

When the day of communication with extraterrestrials happens, I’m sure we will be afraid and will take a cautiously optimistic approach to growing a relationship with them. They will probably do the same thing.

My favorite president has always been Theodore Roosevelt. There are many reasons for this but one of the most important is his “big stick” foreign diplomacy policy – “speak softly and carry a big stick”. He coined the phrase “Big Stick diplomacy” at a State fair in Minnesota in 1901. He then demonstrated to the world what USA’s big stick looked like by showcasing America’s naval fleet (the “great white fleet”) all over the globe. Roosevelt applied his “big stick” diplomacy tactics in numerous important foreign diplomacy situations including:

1. Making a USA favorable agreement for the construction of the Panama Canal
2. Increased American influence over Cuba
3. The creation of a peace treaty between Russia and Japan. This effort won Roosevelt a 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.

Big Stick is a fairly self-explanatory policy and has been proven to be an effective approach to international diplomacy for the U.S. Government (and others) over the years. What that means in the context of extraterrestrial communication is that we will need to have an open mind when we finally communicate with extraterrestrials but we must also be prepared to defend ourselves if our new found friends are not so friendly.

Humans would seem to be at a serious disadvantage in the Big Stick game. If the extraterrestrials are not friendly there is probably not much, if anything, we can effectively do about it. Hopefully they will take a “big stick” approach with us. I imagine their stick will be bigger than ours. That being said; I choose to be optimistic about the inevitable encounter. We are probably not much of a threat to extraterrestrials coming to earth so maybe they will work with us in a peaceful way for the betterment and preservation of humanity and our fragile earth environment. An optimist designed the airplane but a pessimist invented the parachute.

What would I do if I actually met an alien and we could talk to each other? I think that after all the weirdness settled down; the first question I would ask my new alien friend is if he (or she or it) or any of their kind believe in God. The overwhelming majority human cultures that exist now or have existed in the ancient past all over the earth believe or believed that their ancestry and culture began with some level of assistance or the full creation of their people by a deity or multiple deities. Humans have historically gone to war and persecuted people in a most horrible and painful manner over disagreements on the subject of religious beliefs. We still do that to this day. I wonder what “people” from other planets and galaxies think about that concept.

Can you imagine the implications if the alien told a story of religious belief that was consistent with that of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hindu or any other earthly religious faith? Maybe they have something completely different or perhaps nothing at all.

Extraterrestrial communication impact on religious philosophies will be the subject of my next blog – unless I change my mind first.

I look forward to any comments and opinions you might like to share with us here at the Extraterrestrial Communication Group. Thanks for dropping by.

Stephen J. Silva