EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ASSOCIATION

E.T.A was founded by Roger A Day in 1995 to research extra-terrestrial activity in South Africa and the African continent.

I would like to credit Cynthia Hind, Pam Puxley and Rosemary Howell who were instrumental in the founding of ETA.

E.T.A is based in Cape Town , South Africa.

 

 

Roger and the aliens

September 17, 2003 Edition -1

A Cape Town man believes the truth is out there - in space, that is. His own UFO sighting set him on a quest to find what that truth is, and his new ET Association is gaining members.

It's difficult to know what to expect when you're about to interview the founder of the local ET Association, as in extraterrestrials. But Roger Day of Observatory is surprisingly ordinary in a blue tracksuit top, with deep-set blue eyes and short hair. He's young, soft-spoken and intensely interested in whatever's visiting our planet.

As we chat about ETs and cover-ups, I'm struck by his conviction: the question for him is not whether there are ETs, but why there is so much secrecy around what's going on.

And something is definitely going on, he believes.

He has a thick file documenting extensive evidence of UFO sightings; physical evidence of ET remains; government cover-ups of ET activity as testified to by top military officials and scientists; and, closer to home, mysterious fireballs and ETV sightings.

Day prefers to talk about extraterrestrial vehicles (ETVs), rather than UFOs.

Should we be scared?

No, says Day. Of course, no one knows why ETs are visiting our planet (and, according to some accounts, implanting "chips" in humans), but if they were intent on harming us they wouldn't gently put us back into bed after abducting us and wiping out our memory of the experience. And they haven't invaded us yet.

Hogwash?

Day doesn't think so. There's too much evidence for those willing to see and hear, he says.

He first became interested in ETs and ETVs more than 10 years ago.

"I had a sighting in 1991. As a river guide on the Orange River, I saw four bright white lights in a cross formation, and asked, 'Is that a UFO or an aeroplane?' Five years later when I was reading The UFO Casebook by John Spencer, I read that same description."

The next day Day heard about an incident in Citrusdal. A mysterious fireball was seen by many people crashing into the mountain. No trace was ever found - officially.

Then in August 1996, he heard a radio report about an incident in Pretoria, where a police helicopter was dispatched to chase an unidentified craft. "I phoned the air force's media liaison officer in my capacity as a member of the Mutual UFO Network, and was faxed a 10-page report on it," he said. He shows me the fax, a questionnaire custom-made for UFO sightings.

"When I submitted questions to them, I was told it was a police matter and the person who had spoken to me denied the conversation with me."

His curiosity piqued, Day set out to investigate incidents in southern Africa.

It's surprising how many clippings he has of ETV sightings right here in southern Africa. They include Graaff-Reinet, the Kalahari, more recently Angola and Zimbabwe, and the latest, on January 6 this year, in Pretoria.

His question is why there is always a denial by

official sources. Is there a cover-up?

This is where we enter the realm of conspiracy theories.

One story refers back to an event in 1947 famous as the "Roswell Incident", a crash in the New Mexico desert in which it is alleged an extraterrestrial vehicle and its alien occupants were recovered. The story goes that technology on board included a substance later named Teflon, a laser, which was appropriated for human use, and an anti-gravity

reactor, which wasn't. Imagine the threat this would pose to the oil industry, is the argument.

In the ET world, tales of harassment and even the death of scientists and those who speak out are legion, and if this is all sounding like Men In Black and movies of that ilk, don't be surprised.

There's a lot being done to discredit ETs, Day says, via "the laughter curtain", to ridicule the information leaking out. "The times are changing, the cat's out the bag," he claims.

What added momentum to this belief was the Disclosure Project, which, in May 2001, held a press conference where 21 military and scientific experts gave evidence on alleged exposure to ETs and ETVs.

They said they had seen physical evidence of these phenomena and testified to this effect.

Another reason for a cover-up would be the fear of panic: how would the public react to evidence of ETs in our midst?

Day doesn't know why ETs would want to visit our planet. "But I don't think they're hostile and selfish, not more than we who destroy our own planet are."

Day's aim is to raise awareness of the subject. Already he has 60 members and ETA has just held its first public meeting.

He's not fazed by the inevitable ridicule.

"It's interesting to see how people react. Many are closed-minded, and can't entertain the thought that we're not the most intelligent beings in the universe," he says. "Many people shut down. But you'd be surprised how many people are relieved to tell their stories of UFO sightings."

Could ETs simply be the product of our imaginings and projected fears, I suggest tentatively?

"No," says Day emphatically. "There's really not a lack of evidence."

SOURCE : http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=342&fArticleId=237686