Alleged TV and Radio - Broadcasts from Space - by Jon Hurst It may sound too good to be true, but there do exist several accounts of broadcasts on TV and radio purporting to come from concerned extraterrestrials. On 8th January, 1971, Greater London Radio featured a phone-in on the subject of UFOs. At 9.10pm, a caller announced in a cold, metallic voice that he was speaking from outer space. A guest of the phone-in was the late ufologist and theosophist, Rex Dutta, who compiled the transcript given below.

Assistant Producer: Why are you calling us?

Extraterrestrial: I have not phoned you, I am speaking by thought-transference guided by computer.

AP: What does that mean?

ET: It means how do you do.

AP: Very well. How do you do, Sir?

ET: Yes. Evidence of life in outer space is not visible to Earth eyes except the chosen few who have celestial ability to appertain and to appreciate higher intelligences.

AP: How does the planet Earth rate in your experience? Are we reasonably well developed?

ET: Planet Earth is in for a very difficult time, spinning very fast, making heads of men go round too quickly and think too much about silly little problems. But I think that long-term prospect for Earth is relatively good.

AP: Are you going to help us from wherever you are speaking?

ET: Maybe. That is to be discussed soon at a meeting of the Universal Planet Development Society, and we are considering shortly the special case of Earth.

AP: Have you spoken to Mr Heath? [In those days, the Prime Minister.]

ET: I know of Mr Heath, this gentleman. No? Yes, he is a gentleman. He is at this moment - Mr Heath - yes I can see him. Yes, I see him there. He is at the moment - he is having - he is sleeping, but very quickly he will get up to have his breakfast. He is at the moment not in your country.

AP: No, you are quite right, he is not in our country at the moment. You have spoken to him then?

ET: I have spoken not to him, no. But I have heard him speak, yes. But I have not spoken with him myself.

AP: What do you think the prospects are for this planet?

ET: Well, I tell you that very shortly now on Earth there will be very big trouble.

AP: What sort of trouble?

ET: I think mankind makes very silly, foolish mistakes. It does not look at elementary methods and forgets important principles; always looks at unimportant things and thinks unimportant things are important. And because of this there will be much trouble.

AP: How can mankind avoid this disaster?

ET: No, I cannot say because you will not listen.

AP: I am listening to you now.

ET: I know, it has happened before. Also men on Earth say men, other men, do not listen; they do not wish to listen. They wish to hear other things and they turn away. For a time on Earth the trouble must come and no words, it seems, can escape this.

AP: Where are you now?

ET: I am now approximately, Earth distance, 200,000 miles over 'x' in the centre of 'y'. [Marylebone High Street, Greater London.]

AP: What are you doing there?

ET: I am speaking at the moment to you by computer thought-transference system.

AP: Why don't you speak to me face to face?

ET: I have no face, I am very sorry.

AP: Do you exist in the way a normal human being does?

ET: It is possible to assume a human appearance, yes.

AP: How long do you do this for? And when do you do it?

ET: Oh, it is for maybe five minutes, ten minutes, at one time; but not for very long.

AP: Why do you do it?

ET: Amusement.

AP: You find us amusing on Earth?

ET: Yes. There is always great temptation to interfere, but to interfere is not scientific. It is not. It is to destroy that which is natural among men.

AP: You are obviously of superior intelligence. Why aren't you helping us?

ET: Because the first rule of life is that every creature must help himself and use his own intelligence. It is possible sometimes to guide the way, but very often guidance is ignored.

AP: Are you going to try and guide us?

ET: Yes. There are men among you now who would guide you, but you would also ignore that.

AP: What sort of men are they? Who are they?

ET: I shall not say.

AP: Why not?

ET: Because they would be attacked.

AP: Do you really believe that?

ET: Yes.

AP: Why would they be attacked?

ET: Because they speak the truth.

AP: So how do you intend to help us?

ET: The only way you can be helped is not by doing for you that which you must do for yourself. But possibly by guiding the way, but indirectly not directly. It is not possible to say to man, 'You must do this,' because it is in the nature of man not to do this, but to do something different because there is in the nature of man perhaps a perversity which we observe. But never mind, it is possible perhaps if man uses only one thing - that is intelligence. The greatest danger in man is pity. Man has a strong feeling of pity for his fellow men, for suffering. It is good but it is not the highest good. In the universe, the highest good is balance, is justice, not pity. A very interesting thing but justice is the most important element in the universe. And if man will find justice, there is hope for man.

AP: What you have been saying has made a great deal of sense to me. How could I contact you again?

ET: Call outer space sometime.

AP: How do I call you?

ET: Call me Sir.

AP: How do I call you Sir?

ET: You call me Sir any way you like, I don't mind. Any way. Now I must return to outer space.

AP: Well, it has been a great pleasure talking to you, Sir. Thank you very much indeed.

ET: Goodbye.