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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

William S. Burroughs

Funny, Hilarious, Witty

William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.125, Arcade Publishing

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In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!

Charles Camarda

Ufo, Contact, Comment

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That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

Percival Lowell

Nature, Space, Mars

"Fantastically Wrong: One Astronomer’s Quest to Expose the Alien-Built Canals of Mars" by Matt Simon, www.wired.com. May 21, 2014.

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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.

Nathan Myhrvold

Running, Stars, Men

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We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?

Edgar Mitchell

Real, Needs, Want

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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Civilization, Ideas, Tuesday

"Cosmos/ Encyclopaedia Galactica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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CSETI (The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has in the past 18 months succeeded in intentionally establishing contact with extraterrestrial spacecraft, on two occasions at very close range, and with multiple witnesses present.

Steven M. Greer

Past, Two, Months

Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.

Timothy Leary

Dna, Plant Life, Space

Timothy Leary (2003). “Musings on Human Metamorphoses”, p.14, Ronin Publishing

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We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

Bill Bryson

Doors, Years, Four

Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.319, Lulu Press, Inc

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The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Doe, Ufo, Phenomenon

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Mission control, We have a UFO pacing our position, request instructions!

Catherine Coleman

Instruction, Pacing, Missions

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We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars.

Carl Sagan

Stars, Space, Earth

Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

Nathan Myhrvold

Real, People, Random Things

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Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

Carl Sagan

Life, Sullen, Grumpy

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After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling UFO reports into a scientifically defensible conceptual framework. By such reports I mean those with credible multiple or independent witnesses, instrumented observations, and physical evidence.

Jerome Clark

Mean, Independent, Lifetime

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Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

David Pilbeam

Peculiar, Paleontology, Study

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"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Frank Drake

Stars, Echoes, Perfect

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A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not alone, what could cause a new Copernican revolution, a quantum leap in our thinking and perspective. We would finally realize that we are one mankind and all the small differences which separate humans from each other today-nationality, race, religion-would disappear. Only together can mankind explore the universe, our true home and destiny.

Michael Hesemann

Home, Destiny, Thinking

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More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth.

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

Majority, Earth, Flying Saucers

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I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.

Barry Goldwater

Strong, Believe, Space

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As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.

Deke Slayton

Weather, Feet, Three

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About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.

Deke Slayton

Running, Climbing, Going Away

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On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom itself is such a mercurial, elusive, Zen sort of personality that I never believe a word it says. I simply entertain its notions and try and sort through them, and I found that to be the most enriching approach to it.

Terence McKenna

Believe, Ideas, Mushrooms

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It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

Kingsley Amis

Women, Fiction, Theme

Kingsley Amis (2011). “The King's English”, p.299, Penguin UK

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In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.

Eknath Easwaran

Prayer, Real, Heaven

Eknath Easwaran (1996). “The Undiscovered Country: Exploring the Promise of Death”, p.57, Nilgiri Press

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