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    A Personal History of the Alien Controversy
    A Personal History of the Alien Controversy
    A Personal History of the Alien Controversy
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    A Personal History of the Alien Controversy

    By Steve Matthew Benner

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    An experience government investigator of paranormal events is sent to investigate the purported crash landing of an alien ship that is affecting local residents. The investigator arrives at the site and begins a meticulous examination of the evidence only to discover that there are many findings that cannot be explained. Also, some local residences are experiencing amazing improvements in health. Once a link is found between the alien presence and the improved health, a controversy starts as to whether this is a symbiotic relationship or a dominating take over of a human host. The fights between these two viewpoints and their variations ignite conflicts all over the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Matthew Benner
    Release dateAug 21, 2013
    ISBN9781301488544
    A Personal History of the Alien Controversy
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    Steve Matthew Benner

    Dr. Steve M. Benner received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Ohio State University in 1979 and has worked in industry, academia, and the federal government. He retired from NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in 2016 after 28 years of service. He has written numerous scientific articles as well as several articles on ancient history. Dr. Benner's extensive knowledge of science and history has led to his having an ego the size of New Jersey and may account for his being one of the most self-centered people in America today.

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      A Personal History of the Alien Controversy - Steve Matthew Benner

      A Personal History of the Alien Controversy

      Steve M. Benner

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      Copyright Steve M. Benner 2008

      It is hard to remember a time when the aliens weren't here. It's only been a decade since their first landing back in 2021, and yet it seems like they've been here my entire life. In the good old days, race, tribe, religion, sexual preference, or hairstyle was used to identify the fractious groups that comprised our society. I had always imagined that the arrival of sentient alien beings, whether conquerors or benefactors, would unite mankind into that fictitious brotherhood that we've historically found uncomfortable. Obviously, I was wrong. Since I am writing this as my personal recollection of this historic event, I guess the best thing to do is to start at the point at which I became involved.

      My name is Mack D. Wharton, and I work as a field investigator for the Office of Scientific Investigations (OSI), which is a branch of the Commerce Department. I have degrees in biology, engineering, and physics, some from very reputable correspondence schools. I also have a knack for being in the right place at the wrong time.

      One sunny day ten years ago, I was doing my usual excellent job studying the case of a genetically enhanced boy terrorizing a town in Utah. I had finally figured out a way to get out of the assignment, when I got the innocuous call from my boss that began this ongoing episode of the Twilight Zone.

      Frank Martins was seated behind his oversized oak desk, cluttered with the detritus of twenty-five years as a middle manager. He was well on his way to sixty, balding, and overweight. He was a bear of a man that didn’t really speak so much as bellow. It was always a good idea to not sit too close to him. I personally felt he should have retired years earlier, but that was because I wanted his job. I sat down directly in front of his desk and tried to look interested. He looked up and at me and smiled that smile that meant I was in for something really crappy. Mack, I want you to go up to the panhandle of Maryland and check out some reports of a spaceship landing.

      Come on, Frank, this is just another of those stupid trips into the backwoods to listen to stories about strange lights in the sky and alien abductions, usually associated with moonshine and a wish to get on the Newsnet. Can't you send that new guy—ah, what's his name, Pen or Gin? I'm getting too old for these wild goose chases into the back country. Actually, I was only 42 at the time and in excellent shape (at least that's how I remember myself).

      There seems to be more to this one. That's a good idea to send Glen, though. Why don’t you take him along as your assistant? You can teach him the ropes.

      Uh, let me get this right, Frank. You want me to be a baby-sitter, instructor, and investigator all at the same time, all the way out in Lyme-Disease, Maryland.

      Yep.

      Any way I can get out of this?

      Um, not really.

      What if I promise to stop calling you a 'Civil Serpent' behind your back? I didn’t really call him that, it just sounded good. I actually called him much worse names. It was hard for me to imagine what I would have called him if I hadn’t liked him.

      That's tempting, but I need my best man for this. However, since he's busy, I'm sending you. Get the file from Janet on your way out. Good luck.

      Thanks for the pep talk.

      I left his office feeling severely put-upon. I had done about fifty of these investigations over the previous five years, and by this point they'd become pretty routine. I would question the witnesses, visit the landing site, look at the pictures, take samples of this and that, take readings with Geiger counters, magnetometers, etc., sample the local alcohol to capture the mood, and sleep as much as possible. Most of my reports concluded that the cause was mass hysteria or swamp gas or the planet Venus or weather balloons—or just outright lies.

      Admittedly, every once in a great while, there would be a case that defied explanation. These would get filed in the Unknown--Possible ET folder for future reference. But I'd become too much of a cynic by then to believe in life from other worlds; plus I had way too much trouble with life on this world. Anyway, I could not figure out why anything with enough intelligence to visit Earth, would actually visit Earth intentionally. I was right, but the key word was intentionally.

      Early the next morning, I picked Glen Hobbart up at his home, and we drove to western Maryland in my car. Glen looked like a geek. His hair was slicked back, and he wore those dark-framed glasses that no one ever wore anymore. He was handsome in an intelligent, cute way. But the most disturbing thing about him was that he was 24 and still lived with his parents. What a dork. The baby sitter comment was coming back to haunt me.

      Glen was new to the OSI, which meant he still had plenty of energy and idealism left. I liked that, because that meant it would be easy to get him

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