The Cylindrical UFOs of Saturn, and Emanuel Swedenborg

I am finding that there is just no end to the amount of information we have on extraterrestrial UFOs. In a previous blog entitled Emanuel Swedenborg was right, and NASA is hiding it, there is an excellent presentation on UFOs by Bob Dean, who had a long career in the U.S. military. Towards the end, he briefly discussed some huge UFOs in the rings of Saturn which were caught in Voyager pictures. This caused the scientist Norman R. Bergrun to publish a book entitled The Ringmakers of Saturn, in which he theorized that these huge cylindrical ships were making the rings of Saturn. Bob Dean says the opposite is more likely: they are mining the rings of Saturn.  Voyager 2 passed by Saturn in 1981. So I was wondering, are there any more recent sightings of cylindrical UFOs in the vicinity of Saturn? In previous articles I had discussed evidence of extraterrestrial UFOs near the Moon and Mars - plus an anomaly on Mercury.  As it turns out, we now have the Cassini-Huygens probe orbiting Saturn. Launched in 1997, it began orbiting Saturn in 2004. Its mission was supposed to end in 2008. Then, instead of ending it, NASA decided to extend it for another 2 years. Then in 2010, it was decided to extend its mission until 2017. So the question is, why does NASA keep extending the mission of Cassini-Huygens?  Well, take a look:



Here is another, called "Cylinder UFOs of Saturn - Cassini Photographs":



Here is another video, dedicated to the book, The Ringmakers of Saturn:


I have filtered the above videos - you will find plenty of disinformation on the internet, especially on Youtube, where ridiculous claims will be made about the Saturn moons themselves being UFOs. So instead of making the news, you have disinformants and hoaxers spreading false information to hide this.

So what of these cylindrical UFOs? Apparently not only do they seem to appear a lot around Saturn, but have been seen on earth. I showed a previous video of Soviet mig jets trying to intercept one of these things but it was too fast, and another one was seen around the moon Phobos.  Here is a shot of a cylindrical UFO over New York city from 1950, and appeared in Project Blue Book:

Now, we jump to the year 2011. Here is a video of a cylindrical UFO jumping into a thunderstorm cloud over Tulsa Oklahoma in May 2011:



Now for a video of one of these things from Brazil this year:


Here is another where the object is tracked, I cannot find the original, but looks genuine:


Another sighting over Somerset England:


Here is another one, where a cylindrical object is passing the ISS space station. Not sure where the original footage is, looks like it may be Russian footage:


I showed this before, declassified video of Soviet migs attempting to intercept a cigar shaped UFO:


And here are some shots of a cylindrical UFO that decided to fly right next to an aircraft, where the pilot and passengers were able to take pictures of it:


Here is another, passing next to the Sun:

DO THESE CYLINDRICAL UFOS COME FROM SATURN?

The question now is, do these cylindrical UFOs come from Saturn?  From the random sampling above, other than earth the most common sighting of these objects seems to be in the vicinity of Saturn. Compared to the flying saucers, these things can be huge. In ancient mythology, the Roman Saturnus and the Greek Cronus carried a sickle.  Here is a depiction of Saturnus, where we can see the rod of the sickle:

Now, take a look at the following picture of Norman R. Bergrun, author of The Ringmakers of Saturn - behind him is a model he made of one of these thing he spotted off the coast of California. In this case, it had appendages coming out from it, looking like...a sickle!

So how long have these things been around?  Quite possibly a long time. There is a report of these cylindrical objects appearing in the sky over Nuremberg Germany in 1561, which was described as a battle taking place in the sky.  Here is a drawing of the scene, where it was reported that disks and spheres were coming from the cylinders:

Sound far fetched?  Here is a video taken over Mexico City, where spheres appear coming out from a cylindrical UFO:


If these UFOs appeared in more ancient times, it is possible they would have been described in myths. These cylindrical UFOs at times hide in clouds. According to myth, Cronus castrated Uranus (meaning "heaven") with his sickle, and threw the testicles (spheres from these cylinders?) into the sea.  The testicles formed a "white foam" (clouds?) from which emerged Aphrodite. It is an odd myth, but perhaps these UFOs appearing in the sky would explain it. If so, it would be an indication that they are possibly from the planet Saturn.

THE PLANET SATURN - IS IT INHABITABLE?

According to our current knowledge of Saturn, Saturn is not inhabitable.  But the problem is it is hard to determine, as the surface is constantly covered by a thick layer of gases in the atmosphere.  According to Wikipedia:

Saturn's interior is probably composed of a core of iron, nickel and rock (silicon and oxygen compounds), surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium and an outer gaseous layer.

So the surface, it would seem is one big liquid ocean. Is it possible that the surface is not liquid hydrogen and helium?  I am not sure.  There is even doubt expressed as to whether or not it has a solid core:

Saturn is classified as a gas giant planet because the exterior is predominantly composed of gas and it lacks a definite surface, although it may have a solid core.

So it sounds like according to our knowledge, the surface of Saturn is uncertain - but most currently assume it does not have a solid surface. Look at how our perception of the Moon and Mars have changed - both have abundant water. A few years ago they were assumed to be dry and desolate, without any water.  What about the atmosphere of Saturn?

The outer atmosphere of Saturn contains 96.3% molecular hydrogen and 3.25% helium. The proportion of helium is significantly deficient compared to the abundance of this element in the Sun. The quantity of elements heavier than helium are not known precisely, but the proportions are assumed to match the primordial abundances from the formation of the Solar System. The total mass of these heavier elements is estimated to be 19–31 times the mass of the Earth, with a significant fraction located in Saturn's core region. Trace amounts of ammonia, acetylene, ethane, propane, phosphine and methane have been detected in Saturn's atmosphere. The upper clouds are composed of ammonia crystals, while the lower level clouds appear to consist of either ammonium hydrosulfide or water.

So the question I have, if Saturn is not inhabitable, then why do these cylindrical UFOs appear several times in the vicinity of Saturn? Perhaps just mining it for minerals? Or clearing the rings of large debris, so as not to interfere with travel? In a previous blog entry on a mass UFO contact in Italy, I discussed Voltaire's ideas on extraterrestrial life.  He had written a story where extraterrestrials from the Sirius star system and Saturn came to visit earth, and its one of the earliest "science fiction" stories ever written - although it is more of a satirical philosophical story.  This was long before Robert Temple uncovered evidence of an ancient extraterrestrial contact with the Sirius star system, which he describes in his book, The Sirius Mystery.  So if Voltaire was right about Sirius, was he right about Saturn?  Did he have inside knowledge of "terrible secrets" from the Count of Saint Germain?

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG ON THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS OF SATURN

I had written a previous blog entry on The Confirmed Clairvoyance of Emanuel Swedenborg.  So I find his opinion hard to ignore. I had initially put aside his opinions where he thought the planets of a solar system were inhabited, as that goes against everything we had been taught. But now NASA is starting to reverse that - Mars has water, and may have been able to support life in its distant past. There has been a cover-up of evidence of the presence of UFOs and "luminous phenomenon" (going back centuries) on the Moon.  Swedenborg said that was inhabited as well. The Disclosure Project found a witness with top secret clearance who stated that NASA had discovered artificial structures on the surface of the Moon. This has been covered up as well. Moreover, there is indisputable evidence that NASA has tampered with photos to hide the existence of UFOs.  So if they hide the existence of UFOs, the inevitable conclusion is that if any planets could support life, it is possible that will be hidden as well. Especially if they just happen to be more advanced than us. Not everyone who works for NASA would know this. There would be publicly available data for all scientists to examine, and then there would be private data that would be held back.

Sound hard to believe? Richard Hoagland was present at NASA when the Viking probe landed there.  And when the pictures were returned back from Mars, the sky of Mars was blue.  And at that moment, people came into the room and added redness to the monitors, to hide the fact that the sky of Mars was blue.

So contrary to our current scientific knowledge, Swedenborg stated that in his visions he saw that Saturn is (or once was) inhabited, and thus has a solid surface. If he was right about the Moon, and right about Mars, perhaps it is also possible he is right about Saturn?  Or perhaps he confused Saturn with one of its moons? But now, we have this odd phenomenon where these UFOs are popping up around Saturn.  Despite this, I am still in doubt, and lean toward disbelieving what Swedenborg had to say. Swedenborg is very explicit about the inhabitability of Saturn:

There are some also on that earth who call their light at night, which is great, the Lord; but these are separated from the rest, and are not tolerated among them. This light at night proceeds from the great belt which encompasses that earth at a distance, and from the moons which are called the satellites of Saturn. They were asked concerning that great belt, which appears from our earth to be elevated above the horizon of that planet and to vary its positions. They said that it does not appear to them as a belt, but only as a snowy light in the heaven in various directions.(Heavenly Arcana, n. 8951-2)

Are there any clues, as with Mercury, that they are capable of interplanetary travel?  Yes:

...those spirits seem to themselves often to be carried away or caught up into heaven, and afterward let back, thus alternately. (Heavenly Arcana, n. 8953)

Going back and forth...between earth and Saturn?  That seems to be what is happening now from the photographic and video evidence.  Swedenborg later speaks of intermittent association between those of the planet earth with the planet Saturn.  There also seems to be an association between those of Mercury, who have a habit of travelling between solar systems, which I had earlier tentatively associated with the alien greys The reason for that theory is that Swedenborg associates them with memory, and the greys have a habit of wiping out portions of the memory of reported abductees. Here is what Swedenborg says concerning contact between those of Mercury with the inhabitants of Saturn:

They said further that another kind of spirits who go in troops frequently come to them, desiring to know how things are with them, and that by various methods they get out of them what they know. Concerning these they said that they are not insane except in this, that they want so much to know, for no other use than just to know. They were afterward instructed that these spirits are from the planet Mercury, that knowledge and intelligence derived therefrom alone delight them, and not so much uses resulting from these, unless knowledge indeed be of use to them (Heavenly Arcana, n. 9106)

There is not much more that Swedenborg said, except that they were peaceful, worshiped one God, and it was revealed to them that this God was our Lord born on our earth.  But at the moment, this goes against our scientific knowledge - or at least the data that has been publicly made available. If there is any extraterrestrial life, scientific opinion currently favors the moons of Jupiter and Saturn rather than those planets themselves, as they are considered to be gaseous giants without a solid surface.

Here is the song from the first video, Gary Jules "Mad World".  Indeed, from anyone coming from another world viewing ours, earth would indeed appear (and often is) a mad world.

The Divine God Man

In many religions, God is abstract, unseen, unknowable...without form and amorphous.  In eastern religions, many of them instruct people to meditate on "nothingness" and remove other thoughts from the mind.  Islam is similar when speaking of Allah: "Vision perceives Him not, but He perceives [all] vision; and He is the Subtle, the Acquainted." (Qur'an 6:103).  According to wikipedia: "In Islam, God is beyond all comprehension or equal and does not resemble any of his creations in any way. Thus, Muslims are not iconodules and are not expected to visualize God." However in ancient religions, God was always worshipped under a human form. When modern anthropologists look back at these religions, they call them "anthropomorphic." In other words, the underlying assumption is that man is projecting his own image upon God. But is that true?  Actually, scripture says the exact opposite: WE were created in His image, not the other way around:

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Gen. 1:27)

Also before the incarnation, He revealed Himself as Jehovah in the human form multiple times, I will mention one of them:

Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity.  But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank. (Ex. 24:9-11)

Which is interesting, because other passages of the Bible state that no one can see God and live:

You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live. (Ex. 33:20)

So how to explain this? In the New Testament, again God is unseen, but Jesus is His image:

No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. (John 1:18)

And Paul states that Jesus is the image of the unseen God:

He is the image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15)

And more explicitly:

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person (Heb. 1:1-3)

Which is interesting: Jesus is not a second person of a trinity of three persons: this was completely unknown to the apostles. He is the visible image of the person of God.  Not only that, but Swedenborg saw that God Himself was a Divine God Man: one that lies hidden in the spiritual Sun of heaven (the light that people see in the Near Death Experience), who created all things.  Even before the incarnation, He appeared to angels and man as a Divine Man. As contact with heaven began to be broken off due to man's sinfulness, it became necessary for Him to become incarnate. Why?  Because with no image of God, there can be no thought of God. Think about it. You cannot think about it, unless you have an object or image to think about. Thinking about nothing leads to...nothing.  God is love, God is merciful, God is truth - these are universals which make all of us more human.  But what Swedenborg was shown is that these are not abstract thoughts without any form - in fact, every single truth has a form.  The highest form of truth, or any idea, is the human form. This is because these higher level truths originate from the Divine God Man, which Swedenborg calls, the "Divine Human."

So what is ironic, is that the primitive peoples - who worshiped God under human form - were correct!  Modern scientists like to think that they are smarter.  But Swedenborg says the opposite. Those who are simple, who have not studied theology, especially the ancients - they who worshiped God in the human form were closer to the truth that modern people who think God is amorphous, or some universal energy. Yes, He is all energy, but that is what flows from His human form. If one believes in a universal consciousness, they begin to get closer to the truth. For a universal consciousness implies a human form.  This universal form is everywhere, and omnipotent: it is also outside time and space.  Yet God "localizes" Himself so that there can be conjunction between Himself and each and every person, in thought, will and deed. We are His walking images. We are the three dimensions of a higher dimensional Being. This is one thing that makes the New Church unique from churches that preceded it: God is worshiped under a single human form, creating a closer conjunction with God Himself.

So to get back to the problem in scripture - we have two conflicting passages.  In one, it is stated that no one can see God and live. In the other, the elders of Moses were able to see God, and were immediately happy - it says they ate and drank. This, in Christianity, is called Communion or the Eucharist.  So is this yet another   Biblical "error" for skeptics? If you are a skeptic looking for errors, yes, its an error intended for you to stop looking and to not pay attention. But if you look deeper, God reveals Himself by degrees: each lower degree is a symbolic representation of the former degree.  There are three levels of God:

1. The Divine Itself. This no man can see, or comprehend. He is completely beyond us. To encounter the Divine directly, would mean we would cease to exist.
2. The Divine Human. God has an image of Himself, the human form. This human form is a reflection of the invisible Divine.
3. The Proceeding Divine. Also known as the Holy Spirit...others will name it differently, such as "universal consciousness" or "Divine energy."  This lowest level can interact directly with the will and mind of all humans.

The above three levels or degrees are united in one Being. Each person or human form also has these three degrees of existence: the soul, the body, and a proceeding spirit or aura around one's body. Or, more universally, these three degrees exist in every action as the intent, the thought, and the act. More philosophically, one can say these three exist as end, cause and effect.  So not only is a trinity of three persons - or Tritheism - completely false, it also happens to completely obscure this truth.

PROOF THAT GOD IS A DIVINE MAN

So, do we have to just depend on revelation, or does there happen to be any "proof" - or scientific indication - that God is a Divine Man.  Scientists will say no.  All we have are these laws of order.  But Swedenborg was shown that God is order, and God is more present where there is more order. So lets look at the different degrees of order. Everyone will dispute the existence of God, but no sane man will dispute that there is order in the universe.  Not only is there order, but there are increasing levels of order.  For this, lets take a look at the theory of The Reflexive Universe, by Arthur M. Young. Its a bit hard to summarize, as this theory covers...everything.  But it neatly divides order into several levels of existence.  As published, the theory of Arthur M. Young is incomplete, and as it was formulated in the 1970s and earlier, there are some mistakes in it.  So I proceeded to correct it a bit - and the reason why I focus on it is that it confirms many of the ideas that were revealed to Swedenborg in his visions. You can see the former blog entries by looking up the label "Universal Order" to the left, but I will provide links to these former blog entries:

The Seven States of Creation

The Universal Order of Design - part 2

The Seven Dimensions of Space Time

The Universal Order of Design - the Symbolism of the Atomic World

The Universal Order of Design - String theory

The Universal Order of Design - the Tetrahedron

The Universal Order of Design - the Symmetry of Matter

The Universal Order of Plants

The Spiritual Symbolism of Plants

The Universal Order of Design - Animals

The Seven Dimensions of Physics

The Spiritual Symbolism of the Four Forces

I think that's all of them - so far.  That's a lot, but very little, considering we are discussing---everything!  But we are discussing things by dividing them up into degrees of order. The beauty of the theory, is each level or degree corresponds with each other. All of existence can be divided into seven states or degrees - and each degree has its own seven sub-levels.  So what are the seven states or degrees of order?  They are as follows:

1. The Space-Time continuum
2. The Subatomic world
3. The Atomic world
4. Molecules
5. Plants
6. Animals and Man
7. The Universal Man (God)

So, each level or degree of order forms a foundation for the next level. There is always a repeating pattern of seven.  Arthur M. Young got the first level wrong, and confused it with light.  This level, by the way, is the hardest to learn about, and public science knows so little about it because there are areas of study in there that are the subject area of top secret programs...so progress in that area has been "slowed down" a bit, but some details have leaked out here and there. The beauty of the theory, is that it exposes gaps in our own scientific knowledge, and once the gaps are exposed we can start to make very good guesses about them from symbolic correspondence.

But back to my main point. At first, declaring God as a Divine Man seems non-intuitive, the subject matter of religious revelation only.  But once one examines the increasing levels of order, it begins to become an inescapable conclusion.  Everything that we see in the universe - once we understand the increasing planes of order - is leading to that conclusion.  Which is why when God chose to become incarnate, that was His ultimate conclusive revelation.  As for the seventh plane of existence, it was a big question mark in Arthur M. Young's mind - he knew it was there, he knew it was big...he just could not completely grasp it.  The sixth level or degree of order culminates in man. The seventh level is the spiritual world - and there are more things there than we can even imagine.  But it is quite ordered. What Swedenborg saw is that there were heavenly communities, all arranged in the form of a grand human being - the Divine Man. Each human angel, each angelic society, corresponded with some aspect of the human body. The more people who died and entered heaven, the more perfect this grand human being would become.  Thus is it is very true: the church is part of the body of Christ. For each human forms a cell, like a hologram, of the Universal Human.  Yes, it is quite logical to conclude: God is a Divine Man.

UFO Secret: The Friendship Case, Voltaire, and Germain

 

UFO CONTACTEES: THE FRAUDS AND THE HOAXERS

First off, I am skeptical of anyone who claims to be a UFO contactee.  In most cases, they are fraudulent, and the early UFO contactees that popped up during the UFO craze of the 1950s and later certainly seemed to be there to get attention...and money to sell their books.  Again, as with cult leaders, individuals who claim to be a UFO contactee are there to to make their selfish ego bigger by getting attention from others.  If the UFO contactee claims to have any spiritual message, they tend to be generic mumbo-jumbo, are not in line with scientific facts...and are quite pitiful in scope when compared with what was revealed in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.  Please...if there are any UFO contactees out there, please just give us simple, verifiable facts - such as what star system they come from, a description of the planet, and the planet's orbital period.  Then....we will just eventually point one of our telescopes there and verify it.  Pure and simple.  If its too far away, give a description of a star system within reach of our telescopes. We now have the technology where we are building up an exoplanet database.

EARLY CONTACT FROM THE SIRIUS STAR SYSTEM

There is one case of UFO Contact that I consider very strong, and it is described in the book The Sirius Mystery, by Robert Temple.  It discusses a case of an extraterrestrial contact with humans that occurred millenia ago, and is recorded in the secret oral traditions of the Dogon tribe of Africa.  The reason why I consider it strong is that the Dogon leaders revealed their secrets to these French anthropologists in the 1950s, and in their traditions they were able to reveal detailed astronomical information concerning the Sirius star system, long before they were later verified by modern astronomy.  The book describes extraterrestrial contact that occurred with the ancestors of the Dogon tribe of Africa from the Sirius star system.  As a result of that, the secret tradition of the Sirius star system then propagated into the the ancient religion of Egypt, influenced the building of the Great Pyramid, and influenced the ancient myths of Mesopotamia and Greece.  There are chapters of our human history on this planet that have been completely lost and forgotten.

UFO CONTACT IN ITALY: THE FRIENDSHIP CASE

Until recently, I felt the extraterrestrial contact described in the book The Sirius Mystery was the best and only evidence we had.  Until I saw this video: it describes a series of direct contacts that occurred with over 100 witnesses in Italy beginning in the 1950s.  It is backed up with photographic and video evidence.  Until recently, this was kept secret from the public.  All that the public knew is that these people took these photographs of UFOs.  What the public did not know, is that these people taking the pictures were having more direct contact with these extraterrestrial humans.  The incident is quite revealing...because the question that I have had in my mind, is that if there are so many of these UFO sightings, why don't they make contact with us?  Apparently they have...but these meetings seem to take place in a private secretive manner.  The reason why I pay attention to this case is the following:

1.  Despite having direct extraterrestrial contact, they keep it completely private and secret...for decades!  Compare that to UFO contactees who seek public attention.  They are coming out now because they are beginning to die off, and want this amazing story to be known.
2.  We are not dealing with one witness here. We have multiple witnesses, who acted together as a group.
3.  There is strong physical evidence: photographs and videos of the flying saucers.

Judge for yourself, here is the video:

 

 

Several points I wish to make:

1. The group of human extraterrestrials, known as "W-56", wish to let humanity know that they come in friendship and peace.  Love is important.
2.  Their concern, and reason for contact, was that mankind had gained the ability to destroy the planet through atomic weapons. Humans of this planet are generally of a low moral character, prone to violence and power, and need to be elevated spiritually.
3.  Separate from this documentary, there are multiple witnesses from nuclear weapon sites who have reported UFO sightings near their site, coinciding with mysterious deactivation of nuclear missiles.
4.  Another reason for contact, is that contact had been made with other humans by another extraterrestrial group, whom they considered malevolent, who are focused on technology and science.  I am wondering if they are talking about the alien greys, who have reportedly abducted humans against their will.
5.  They, and possibly others, have underground and underwater bases here on earth.  Which would explain their concern concerning nuclear weapons, especially underground testing.

The interaction described between those of Italy and this extraterrestrial group is very similar to the relationship between the U.S. military and the "Tall Whites" reported by Charles Hall.  So...things have just got incredibly more complicated.  You have extraterrestrials who wish to act in secret, you have governments who know about them but keep it secret, you have government disinformation campaigns, you have hoaxers that unwittingly help these disinformation campaigns, and now...extraterrestrial groups that are afraid that another extraterrestrial group is gaining undue influence, and also act in secret. Related to this subject, I found the following article entitled, Watch "Men In Black" Russian Prime Minister Recommended Documentary:

On Friday, December 7, the current Russian Prime Minister and former President, Dmitry Medvedev, made some startling off-air comments to reporters while his microphone was still switched on.
He was asked whether the President is given any secret files on extraterrestrials while in office.
In his responses, Medvedev not only confided that extraterrestrials are visiting the Earth, but that some are actually living among us. He went even further to say that the Russian documentary, "Men in Black", could give you more details about this issue.
But western mainstream media first ignored and later intentionally twisted Dmitry Medvedev statement and reported that:
"While joking Russian Prime Minister said more details on alien situation here on earth could be found in Hollywood Men in Black movies"

Here is the documentary the Russian prime minister had recommended, which like the above documentary from UFO TV, also mentions witnesses who report underground extraterrestrial bases (its a bit frustrating, as everything is not subtitled in English):

 

THE LETTER OF VOLTAIRE TO THE COUNT OF ST. GERMAIN

In the first documentary, "UFO Secret: The Friendship Case", what caught my attention was an interesting letter that was written by Voltaire to the Count of St. Germain on 6 June 1761, which was shown to one of the Italian contactees as an example of a possible previous extraterrestrial contact in the 18th century.  Voltaire (1694 - 1778) was a famous French writer and philosopher, who happened to be a contemporary of Emanuel Swedenborg. At first I was skeptical about this letter, as I could find no references to it, but finally found the original letter in a  French book by Jan van Helsing. Here is the original French letter:

Je réponds, Monsieur, à votre lettre que vous m'avez fait parvenir au mois d'avril, dans laquelle vous révélez des secrets effrayants, parmi lesquels le plus terrible pour un vieil homme comme moi, l'heure de ma mort. Je vous remercie, Germain; votre long voyage dans le temps sera éclairé par l'amitié que je vous porte, jusqu'au jour où vos révélations se réaliseront, au milieu du XXe siecle. Les images qui parlent sont un cadeau pour le temps qui me reste à vivre, votre machine volante mécanisée pourrait un jour vous ramener à moi.  

Adieu, mon ami. 

Voltaire 

gentilhomme du Roi

And here is the English translation of the letter - I discovered that there are some slight mistranslations of the letter in the UFO TV documentary:

I reply, sir, to your letter you sent me in April, in which you reveal frightening secrets, among which the most terrible for an old man like me, the hour of my death. Thank you, Germain; your long journey through time will be illuminated by the friendship I have for you, until the day your revelations will come true in the middle of the twentieth century. The talking pictures are a gift to the time I have left to live, your mechanized flying machine could one day bring you back to me.
 Farewell, my friend.
Voltaire
gentleman of the King

According to the UFO TV documentary, the theory is that this Count of St. Germain was a possible UFO contactee.  This would push back the UFO phenomenon by 200 years. Moreover, not only did the Count of St. Germain seem to foresee Voltaire's death, but also made a prophecy concerning the middle of the 20th century - could this have been the explosion of the atomic bomb, and the reappearance of the "mechanized flying machines" - our modern UFOs?  And what are the "talking pictures"?  And did the Count of St. Germain have a drawing of a flying machine, or was he indeed a UFO contactee? Another one of his fantasy stories?

This letter of Voltaire to the Count of St. Germain was passed over quite briefly in the documentary. I discovered that this Count of St. Germain was quite a mysterious character. On another occasion Voltaire said that Germain was "a man who knows everything and who never dies."  He was a European courtier, served the French court on some diplomatic missions, and he seemed to deflect questions on his origins by inventing lively fantasies, to the point where people thought he had lived several centuries. Multiple people have written that he never seemed to age. On another occasion Voltaire called him the "Wonderman."  He was educated in Italy. Legends grew about him in later biographies. 

A MYSTERIOUS MANUSCRIPT OF ALCHEMY: THE MOST HOLY TRINOSOPHIA

One thing caught my attention in my research into the Count of Saint Germain - he seems to have been involved in some kind of mystical alchemy. One book attributed to him is La Très Sainte Trinosophie (The Most Holy Trinosophia). He possessed this book at one point, but the authorship of the book is uncertain. The book was also in the possession of an Italian mystic Cagliostro, who is another possible author of the manuscript.  According to Wikipedia:

La Très Sainte Trinosophie, The Most Holy Trinosophia, or The Most Holy Threefold Wisdom, is a French esoteric book, allegedly authored by Alessandro Cagliostro or the Count of St. Germain. Dated to the late 18th century, the 96-page book is divided into twelve sections representing the twelve zodiacal signs. The veiled content is said to refer to an allegorical initiation, detailing many kabbalistic, alchemical and masonic mysteries.

This book is full of symbolism that it would take someone like Swedenborg to decipher its symbolism. Manly Palmer Hall, who produced a translation of the book, mentions Dr. Edward C. Getsinger, "an eminent authority on ancient alphabets and languages," in emphasizing that La Très Sainte Trinosophie is couched in secret codes intended to conceal its contents from the profane.

"In all my twenty years of experience as a reader of archaic writings I have never encountered such ingenious codes and methods of concealment as are found in this manuscript. In only a few instances are complete phrases written in the same alphabet; usually two or three forms of writing are employed, with letters written upside down, reversed, or with the text written backwards. Vowels are often omitted, and at times several letters are missing with merely dots to indicate their number. Every combination of hieroglyphics seemed hopeless at the beginning, yet, after hours of alphabetic dissection, one familiar word would appear. This gave a clue as to the language used, and established a place where word combination might begin, and then a sentence would gradually unfold. The various texts are written in Chaldean Hebrew, Ionic Greek, Arabic, Syriac, cuneiform, Greek hieroglyphics, and ideographs."

This, I just could not resist.  I found a translation of this manuscript in English, and it begins with the author writing in a dungeon, in fear of the Catholic Inquisition:

It is in the retreat of criminals in the dungeons of the Inquisition that your friend writes these lines which are to serve for your instruction. At the thought of the inestimable advantages which this document of friendship will procure for you, the horrors of a long and little deserved captivity seem to be mitigated… It gives me pleasure to think that while surrounded by guards and encumbered by chains, a slave may still be able to raise his friend above the mighty, the monarchs who rule this place of exile.

He mentions a secret knowledge, one that should not be revealed to the public, a holy sacred mystery that should not be profaned:

God leaves men the task of punishing the imprudent minister who permits the eye of the profane to look into the mysterious sanctuary.

On reading it, there is a lot of symbolism, an invented story it seems...but it struck me as a bit contrived.  Contrived, in the sense that once all the languages were deciphered, one would at first think that it was describing some alchemical or secret masonic ritual. But is it?  To me, it seems that story is an additional "blind" to deceive the reader: once translated, they would think it was some secret religion being hid from the Catholic Inquisition. But there are some weird passages that just do not fit. Imagine my surprise when I read this passage in section 5:

Scarcely had I risen to the surface of the earth, when my unseen guide led me still more swiftly. The velocity with which we sped through space can be compared with naught but itself. In an instant I had lost sight of the plains below. I noticed with astonishment that I had emerged from the bowels of the earth far from the country about Naples. A desert and some triangular masses were the only objects I could see. Soon, in spite of the trials which I had undergone, a new terror assailed me. The earth seemed to me only a vague cloud. I had been lifted to a tremendous height. My invisible guide left me and I descended again. For quite a long time I rolled through space; already the earth spread out before my confused vision… I could estimate how many minutes would pass until I would be crushed on the rocks. But quick as thought my guide darts down beside me, takes hold of me, lifts me up again, and again lets me fall. Finally he raises me with him to an immeasurable distance. I saw globes revolve around me and earths gravitate at my feet. Suddenly the genius who bore me touched my eyes and I swooned. I know not how long I remained in this condition.

So, is this a secret description of a UFO encounter, and it is then being hidden as a masonic ritual?  Imagine if that had happened - would someone have been able to tell anyone? No, they would have had to have kept this very secret, especially in countries where the Catholic Inquisition was strong.  If there was a group of people, initiates would at first think it was a secret masonic society -- but the adepts would know the true secret. There are quite a few strange passages in this document, and here is another in the final section, section 12:

The hall into which I had just entered was perfectly round; it resembled the interior of a globe composed of hard and transparent matter, as crystal, so that the light entered from all sides. Its lower part rested upon a vast basin filled with red sand. A gentle and equable warmth reigned in this circular enclosure.
 With astonishment I gazed around this crystal globe when a new phenomenon excited my admiration. From the floor of the hall ascended a gentle vapor, moist and saffron yellow. It enveloped me, raised me gently and within thirty-six days bore me up to the upper part of the globe. Thereafter the vapor thinned; little by little I descended and finally found myself again on the floor. My robe had changed its colour. It had been green when I entered the hall, but now changed to a brilliant red. A contrary effect had taken place in the sand on which the globe rested. Gradually its red colour had been transformed into black. After finishing my ascent I remained three more days in that hall.

This is quite a bizarre find.  The French philosopher Voltaire writes to the Count of Saint Germain concerning his mechanized flying machine.  There is a prophecy for the mid twentieth century, in which UFOs start making more dramatic and common appearances.  Voltaire and the Count of Saint Germain exist in the same time period in which Emanuel Swedenborg makes clairvoyant contact with extraterrestrial humans.  A secret group in Italy that had UFO encounters is then told that the Count of Saint Germain belonged to a former group in Italy that had extraterrestrial contact. The Count of Saint Germain and the Italian mystic Cagliostro both possess a secret alchemical masonic manuscript, which seems to hide within its story a possible UFO encounter.  Freemasons, and Secret Masonic societies in this time, were responsible for the American and French Revolutions. I don't know, I think I have stumbled upon something here, it is quite a strange story. Any ideas on this, anyone?

UPDATE: VOLTAIRE'S VIEWS ON EXTRATERRESTIAL LIFE AND CONTACT

I decided to do further research into Voltaire and the Count of Saint Germain. One theory as to why the Count of Saint Germain left his identity and parentage hidden is that he may have been Jewish. He confided to one person that he knew Yiddish, would at the time only Jews knew. The Most Holy Trinosophia makes heavy use of Hebrew and Aramaic, which would lend support to the theory that is was written by the Count of Saint Germain who was known to have an interest in alchemy, rather than Cagliostro. But the big surprise is this: by 1778 when Voltaire died, extraterrestrial life pops up in a dozen or more of his works.

Voltaire was influenced by the French author Fontenelle, whose work Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), speculated on the existence of extraterrestrial life.  Voltaire made use of an extraterrestrial commentator in Discours en vers sur l'homme (1738).  In 1752, he published a short story entitled Micromegas, which happens to be one of the first stories in the genre of science fiction. And what is it about? It is about an extraterrestrial visitation of earth by a giant from the star Sirius, accompanied by a smaller human life form from the planet Saturn. When they arrive at earth, they circumnavigate it in 36 hours. At first they think the planet is devoid of life, as they are so large they don't notice the tiny humans on the surface. Eventually they notice them, and establish a form to listen in and are surprised that humans actually possess intellect. A conversation about a variety of philosophical topics ensues. When they here the theory of Thomas Aquinas that the world was made uniquely for mankind, they burst out in a fit of laughter. The extraterrestrial from Sirius decides to educate humans by writing a book, and when the book is presented to the Academy of Science in Paris, all the pages are found to be blank. This work is probably based on a previous lost work he had sent to Frederick the Great in 1739. Voltaire also talks about extraterrestrial worlds in a short story called Memnon, or Human Wisdom probably written in 1749. In the story Zadig (1747), Voltaire writes of Zadig the Babylonian who at one time leaves earth to travel among the stars. Later, in Le philosophe ignorant (1766), he again talks about extraterrestrial worlds, in which he states that although he believes the planets are inhabited by intelligent beings, he believed that they cannot communicate with us.

Take a look at the following drawing found in Voltaire's book Micromegas (1752):

In The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900, Michael J. Crowe says this:

The surprising fact that this lifelong opponent of speculative systems never in his writings critically analyzed pluralist arguments admits of two explanations. Possibly Voltaire set aside whatever doubts he had about pluralism lest they detract from his literary, philosophical, and religious uses of it. Alternatively, perhaps some of this pluralist writings, such as Micromegas, should be seen as satirizing, along with much else, the pluralist claims of such authors as Fontenelle, Leibniz, and Wolff, as well as works in the cosmic voyage genre.

Both of the explanations of Voltaire's viewpoint are a bit weak. Voltaire did not merely sidestep the issue, but rather the satirical short stories criticize the exact opposite to pluralism, supporting the view that the universe is full of extraterrestrial life. There is a third explanation - Voltaire was privy to some knowledge that extraterrestrial life did indeed exist. This would be in line to the secrets he refers to in his letter to the Count of Saint Germain. Coincidentally, one of Voltaire's stories concerned the Sirius star system, and I had already referenced the research concerning extraterrestrials from Sirius in Robert Temple's book, The Sirius Mystery.

UPDATE: INTERVIEW WITH ONE OF THE CONTACTEES OF THE FRIENDSHIP CASE

Someone pointed out this interview with Gaspare De Lama, so I decided to upload it to Youtube and link to it here.  Its in Italian with English subtitles, and shows some very interesting photographs that did not appear in the UFO TV documentary.