How to Talk to an Alien

By Nancy du Tertre and Stanton T. Friedman

“Even for nonbelievers, the author’s palpable excitement over the subject matter is endearing and entertaining. Ufologists won’t want to miss this work.” —Foreword Reviews

In 1972, American astronomer and ufologist J. Allen Hynek first coined the term “close encounter.” He also identified three types of close encounters with UFOs. Since then, several more types of encounters have been proposed. A close encounter of the fourth kind is an alien abduction. A closer encounter of the fifth kind is voluntary, bilateral contact with an alien species.

We are no longer just looking at strange flying objects in the skies; now we are beginning to interact with the actual pilots, crew, and passengers!

Do aliens exist? In 2013, one poll showed that nearly half of all Americans (48 percent) believe UFOs may be a sign of extraterrestrial visitation; another found that 10 percent of Americans claim to have actually witnessed an actual UFO; and yet another showed that 2.9 million Americans believe they had actually been abducted by aliens.

If aliens exist and are visiting us, we need to talk!

Who will speak to them on behalf of planet Earth? Who can translate their intentions—good or evil—toward the human race? How can we learn about their advanced technologies? Can aliens speak human languages?

These and even more fascinating questions are all addressed in How to Talk to an Alien.

“Nancy du Tertre covers the various considerations involved with extraterrestrial communication, including the use of alien technology, ET linguistics, and the possibility of using telepathy and dreams. Her handbook for the future should be on every thinking person’s bookshelf.” —Jim Marrs, New York Times–bestselling author

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Oct 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781632659774

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HOW TO TALK TO AN ALIEN

CAN THEY SPEAK OUR LANGUAGES?

CAN THEY READ OUR MINDS?

WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO TELL US?

NANCY DU TERTRE

FOREWORD BY STANTON T. FRIEDMAN

Copyright © 2016 by Nancy du Tertre

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HOW TO TALK TO AN ALIEN

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Du Tertre, Nancy.

How to talk to an alien : can they speak our language? can they read our minds? what are they trying to tell us? / by Nancy du Tertre ; foreword by Stanton Friedman.

     pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-63265-021-4 -- ISBN 978-1-63265-977-4 (ebook) 1. Human-alien encounters. I. Title.

BF2050.D8 2015

001.942--dc23

2015028941

This book is dedicated to all those who have heard the alien voices of angels and demons.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To the government for maintaining such fantastic secrecy in such matters that it gave me the impetus to write this book.

To the intelligences from beyond our current worldview who probably co-wrote this book without my conscious awareness. Thanks for the tips.

To my dearest friends and colleagues who have dared to share their stories and adventures with me. I won’t name you by name because that would defeat the purpose. I love you all.

To my friends at Career Press/New Page Books for their encouragement and professionalism. In particular, my thanks to Michael Pye, senior acquisitions editor, for believing in my concept right at the starting gate and acting so quickly to make it happen; Laurie Kelly-Pye, director of sales and publicity, for her insights, professionalism, and help in guiding me through the mysterious world of marketing; Adam Schwartz, acquisitions editor, for organizing the development behind the scenes; and Gina Schenck, editorial director, for her invaluable input on visual concepts.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

By Stanton T. Friedman, Nuclear Physicist and Ufology Investigator

CHAPTER ONE

The Art of Exolinguistics

CHAPTER TWO

Are Aliens Biologically Equipped to Talk?

CHAPTER THREE

Do Aliens Speak an Alien Language?

CHAPTER FOUR

Do Aliens Speak Human Languages?

CHAPTER FIVE

Do Aliens Speak With a Foreign Accent?

CHAPTER SIX

Who Needs Language When You Have Telepathy and Dreams?

CHAPTER SEVEN

Electronic Voices and Alien Technology

CHAPTER EIGHT

A Brief History of Alien or Angelic Writing

CHAPTER NINE

Examples of Alien Writing

CONCLUSION

In the Beginning Was the Word

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FOREWORD

How times have changed! In 1958, I ordered my first book on UFOs, USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt’s seminal The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, because it was only one dollar and I needed one more book to save on shipping costs for my large book order. The Air Force was co-sponsor of the General Electric Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program on which I was then working as a nuclear physicist. We spent $100 million that year and it was fun, so I was an Air Force fan.

I have read a great many other UFO books since then and even written some of my own as a full-time ufologist since 1970. Nancy du Tertre’s stimulating new book, How to Talk to an Alien, represents a unique contribution to the now huge volume of publications about UFOs. She has rather unusual qualifications as both a licensed attorney, former host of her own radio show, and practicing psychic who has worked with police departments and UFO witnesses. This book covers a great deal of ground and contains many fascinating discussions. These range from what can easily be accepted as ufological aspects of the beginning of the major religions to the abductions of Betty and Barney Hill and others. She discusses not only a choice between oral and telepathic communication, but physiological requirements for oral communication. She reviews both the abduction and contactee literature. She also takes note of the SETI community’s efforts to send messages to aliens both via radio telescopes and plaques on various spacecraft. The SETI literature doesn’t deal with talking to aliens because they know nobody is visiting earth. Presumably, according to their logic, if we had visitors, they would want to land on the White House lawn or talk to SETI practitioners!

Nancy notes several cases in which there seems to be more than one mode of communication by and with aliens. In our book, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, written primarily by Kathleen Marden (the niece of Betty Hill) in 2007, we documented how the Hills heard their abductors making sounds they could not interpret and that they also appeared to be communicating by telepathy. Nancy also examines the old biblical story of the Tower of Babel, which seems to have led to there being many different languages being spoken on Earth from a new viewpoint. Obviously, this leads the reader to the possible conclusion that there may have been many colonies established by different aliens from various extraterrestrial locations, each speaking a different language. We know that prior to Christopher Columbus’s long voyage to the New World, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch were not spoken in the New World.

Nancy also delves in to written languages possibly related to alien visitors. If we were able to crack these codes, then we would be able to interpret the symbols described by Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr., as found on an I-beam in the wreckage collected by his father, Major Jesse Marcel, at the Roswell UFO crash site. There was also an interesting symbol reported by New Mexico Patrolman Lonnie Zamora as being on a craft that he observed on April 24, 1964, in Socorro, New Mexico.

There has been a very important change in our understanding of the probable abundance of other life forms in our galactic neighborhood over the last 20 years or so and the consequent need for communication with aliens.

We can see that some civilizations may be very close to other planets and there may be galactic communities, colonization, trade, and defense protocols. After all, we are talking of billions of years in which systems could grow and learn to use the power source of all the stars, nuclear fusion, for star travel, energy production, and so on. We first considered fusion in the 1930s, and then demonstrated its power with the first detonation of the hydrogen bomb in 1952, releasing one million times as much energy as the biggest World War II bombs. Thus, it seems reasonable that we should start to seriously examine the question of how to talk to an alien and the parallel question of how they might communicate with us. Clearly, we would not be the most advanced civilization in the local or galactic neighborhood since we have just begun to get smart.

I suspect that How to Talk to an Alien will stimulate the production of many more books on this brand new field of Exolinguistics. It is a great and very stimulating beginning.

—Stanton T. Friedman,

nuclear physicist and ufology investigator

Mother of Time, by Valenya. Permission obtained.

CHAPTER ONE

THE ART OF EXOLINGUISTICS

Question: How do you talk to an alien?

Answer: Very politely! Either they’ve never been here before (in which case you’re a diplomat for all of us, so don’t screw it up), or they’ve been here since the dawn of mankind (in which case you don’t want to piss them off!).

All kidding aside, this is a very serious topic and I intend to treat it that way. There are certain assumptions I will ask you to make right off the bat. Primarily, I ask you to understand that the alien presence on Earth is undisputed. If you have a problem with this, I suggest you stop reading now and consult the massive amount of excellent literature on the subject. My main purpose is to explore how aliens communicate with us so we can understand how to communicate with them. This is the field called Exolinguistics (exo meaning outside, outer, external and linguistics meaning the study of language).

It is often said aliens only communicate by mental telepathy; this is only partially true. But it certainly presents a problem for many of us who haven’t learned psychic skills. Namely, it’s great to receive their telepathic signals—but what about sending them? When can we learn how to have a real dialogue with aliens? The answer is when we learn to speak their languages. If they can shut down our nuclear missile defense systems and power plants, mutilate cattle, violate our commercial and military airspace, and abduct people from their bedrooms, we need to know their intentions. How can the president of the United States have a real, down-to-earth conversation with another head of state, let’s say the president of Russia, if he doesn’t speak Russian? If he has no interpreter with him then he must rely on the Russian president’s knowledge of English in order to have a conversation. The American president would never be able to truly understand the mindset of the foreign leader or his intentions if he doesn’t speak the Russian president’s language. He would miss all the sidebar comments, nuances of meaning, criticisms, taboos, and cultural constraints. It’s important to learn a foreign language—and the same goes for aliens. They actually communicate in a number of different ways, and I will show you how. So let’s get started!

It really isn’t a stretch to imagine our galaxy is loaded with extraterrestrial species. Our astrophysicists and astronomers have been suggesting this for a while now without even blushing! It is becoming increasingly difficult to believe we are the most intelligent species in the universe. We don’t even need to rely on the growing body of evidence of UFOs and alien contact to arrive at this conclusion. All we need to do is to look at cutting-edge scientific data. In science’s quest to find the perfect Goldilocks planet (just like the fairy tale, it is neither too big, nor too small, but just right to theoretically sustain human life), we have uncovered evidence that is impossible to ignore. In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler space observatory to survey part of the Milky Way in hopes of discovering Earth-sized extrasolar planets lying in or near the desired Goldilocks or habitable zone. Kepler was also designed to estimate how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy might have such planets. The results that came back were truly astounding.

In 2013, the Kepler space mission data revealed there could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of stars similar to our own sun or other red dwarf stars within the Milky Way alone. There was, however, a setback in the program that year when two of its four reaction wheels, which kept the craft oriented in the same direction pointing at the same cross section of the galaxy, had become non-operational. This threatened the continuation of Kepler’s mission, originally scheduled through 2016. However, follow-up observations made by Kepler as of January 17, 2015, confirmed 1,876 exoplanets in 1,181 planetary systems (including 475 multiple planetary systems, which are stars with at least two or more planets orbiting a star). The closest of these planets is estimated to be only 12 light years away from Earth.

This was good news for forward-thinking people. After all, it gave us a more optimistic assessment regarding the possibility of moving the human race to another planet in the (increasingly likely) event that Earth suffers a catastrophic event (global freezing, global warming, a meteor hit, solar radiation storms, a devastating hole in our ozone layer or atmosphere, or we just continue to pollute our environment into a state of unsustainability). The existence of nearby Goldilocks planets in our neck of the galactic woods created a welcome fallback position to ensure the perpetuation of our species.

But to anyone who was really listening, the Kepler space mission data was also sending a different type of a message. The data was not just pointing out the existence of empty life-sustaining planets around the galaxy; it was also suggesting the strong possibility that life exists elsewhere in these Earth-like life-enhancing environments and, most importantly, that we may not be alone in the universe. If you go by the odds of probability, the huge number of Goldilocks planets in our galaxy alone suggests that other species have been able to thrive, grow, and evolve into intelligent beings similar to humans. If this is true, is it safe to assume we are probably similar to them as well.

IMAGE 1-1. Morse code was first developed in America in 1836, using a system of dots, long dashes, and pauses to represent each letter of the alphabet. It was sent across an electric current to an electromagnet at the receiving end.