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MISSION CONTROL: Can you see
anything? Can you tell us what you see?
GRODIN: Oh boy, its really...really something super-
fantastic here. You couldn't ever imagine this...
MISSION CONTROL: O.K....could you take a look out over
that flat area there? Do you see anything beyond?
GRODIN: There's a kind of a ridge with a pretty
spectacular...oh my God! What is that there? That's all I want
to know! What the hell is that?
(Apollo Astronaut "Bob Grodin" - Alternative 3 by
Leslie Watkins, David Ambrose, and Christopher
Miles)
20 June, 1977
On that Monday evening, the UK's Anglia Television
broadcast the last program in its Science Report series, a
series of serious science documentaries that were produced by highly
respected science reporters. The program was called Alternative 3,
and it was simultaneously broadcast in the UK, Australia, New
Zealand, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greece, and
Yugoslavia. However, it was never telecast in the United States.
Some say that the "powers that be" prevented it from being screened
here.
The documentary focused on a number of amazing "facts":
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There is a secret joint U.S./U.S.S.R.
space program that has gone far beyond what the public sees.
Astronauts landed on Mars in 1962. It has been discovered
that there is other intelligent life in the universe.
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The earth is dying. We have polluted
it beyond repair. The increasing "greenhouse effect" will
cause the polar ice caps and glaciers to melt and flood the
Earth.
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Extreme heat, such as that which is
now inevitable, will melt land glaciers. That will result in a
marked rise in sea level and then there'll be the start of the
extensive flooding - with London and New York among the first
cities to be affected.
There are three possible solutions for
mankind:
Alternative 1 - Stop all
pollution immediately and blow two huge holes in the ozone
layer. This would allow excessive UV light to reach the earth
and millions would die of skin cancer.
Alternative 2 - Immediately begin digging underground
cities for the Elite (The "New World Order"?) - the lucky ones
deemed worth saving - and let the teeming billions perish on the
polluted surface.
Alternative 3 - Build spaceships and get the Elite off
the planet - to the Moon and Mars. Kidnap and take along some
"ordinary" people for use as slave labor. Use "mind control"
techniques to control them. Leave the remainder of humanity to
wallow in its own filth.
The disappearance in bizarre
circumstances in the past two weeks of 20 people from small
coastal communities in Oregon was being intensively
investigated at the weekend amid reports of an imaginative fraud
scheme involving a "flying saucer" and hints mass murder.
Sheriff's officers at Newport, Oregon, said that the 20 individuals
had vanished without trace after being told to give away all their
possessions, including their children, so that they could be
transported in a flying saucer "by UFO to better
life".
(Alternative 3)
The Elite chose "Alternative 3"
You may recall that during the 1970s and 1980s, there were news
items about a British "Brain Drain." It was said that the top
scientists of Britain were being lured away to foreign countries by
high salaries and lower taxes. Many of these, the television program
intimated, were never heard from again. It was as if they had simply
vanished off the face of the earth....
The television program hinted that these scientists were really
being whisked away as part of ..... "Alternative 3."
Not only were scientists leaving their homelands for higher pay in
foreign countries, many of them were killing themselves or were
dying under mysterious circumstances. I believe Omni magazine
carried an item about this. Were these deaths really suicides? The
TV documentary hinted that scientists who refused to cooperate with
"Alternative 3" didn't live long. They knew too much.
Or.... were all of them really dead at all? Maybe some of those
graves were empty.....
The phones at Anglia Television began ringing as soon
as the program was over. In the context that it was presented, as
the final installment of a non-fiction science documentary series,
people became quite alarmed. Callers were told that the program was
originally intended to be shown on April 1st, as an
April Fool's joke, but some glitch in the programming schedules
had prevented it from being telecast until June. Anglia insisted
that the program was a merely a hoax, and that all the people seen
in the footage were actors portraying newsmen and scientists.
The
newspapers of the next few days made a joke of the whole affair,
comparing it to Orson Wells' War of the Worlds
broadcast in the 1930s.
The Book
That, however, was not to be the end of Alternative 3.
By the next year, a book titled Alternative 3 by Leslie
Watkins, David Ambrose, and Christopher Miles,
appeared on the bookstore shelves. According to Watkins,
Ambrose and Miles didn't help write the book, but their
names were included for copyright purposes because they had written
the television program on which it was based.
The book was a greatly expanded version of the same story that was
told by the television program, with many items that have become
part of modern UFO conspiracy mythology thrown in. Things
like censored communications between NASA Mission
Control and the Apollo astronauts in which the
astronauts are supposed to have seen aliens on the moon. The book
version also elaborated on the themes of environmental problems and
vanishing scientists.
William Cooper incorporated
many of the Alternative 3 elements into his complicated
conspiracy theories. See
MJ-12 and the Secret Government.
Several readers have written to me about Alternative 3. Many
are looking for
videotapes
of the original Anglia Television
program. No video tape of the program has ever been released in
the U.S., as far as I can determine. You can still obtain a copy of
the film on videotape from Anglia Television, but it's expensive,
and they won't convert from the European Standard to VHS format for
you.
Other readers ask about the book. It's difficult to locate a
copy of the book in the U.S. these days. It was first printed in the
UK by Sphere Books, which was later bought by Robert
Maxwell, who died under mysterious circumstances after
his company published one of the last editions of the book. The book
has been through at least seven printings, but it is currently out
of print in the U.S. Amazon.com doesn't even list it,
and they list a follow-up book -
Mind Control and UfO's : Casebook on
Alternative 3 by Jim Keith - as being out of
print as well.
Was the Anglia Television program fact or fiction?
Well, everyone involved with the Alternative 3 documentary
admits that it was fiction, as
Georginia Bruni explores in
this column. She spoke to one of the film crew, located the names of
the actors, and tried to trace the writers. She says that
Christopher Miles, who also directed and co-wrote the
documentary, is the brother of actress Sara Miles, but that
she was unable to trace David Ambrose, the other writer.
There is, however, a British science fiction writer of that name,
who may or may not be the same individual. The writer of the book,
Leslie Watkins, was a writer of thrillers even before
Alternative 3. The Fortean Times recently printed an
article in which Nick Austin, then editorial director of
Sphere Books, reveals how he commissioned Leslie Watkins
to write the book version at the behest of literary agent Murray
Pollinger.
The question remains, however, as to whether there was any fact
behind that fiction.
In fact, the amazing mountains of
letters from virtually all parts of the world - including vast
numbers from highly intelligent people in positions of
responsibility - convinced me that I had ACCIDENTALLY trespassed
into a range of top-secret truths.
Documentary evidence provided by many of these correspondents
decided me to write a serious and COMPLETELY NON-FICTION sequel.
Unfortunately, a chest containing the bulk of the letters was among
the items which were mysteriously LOST IN TRANSIT some four years
when I moved from London, England, to Sydney, Australia, before I
moved on to settle in New Zealand. For some time after Alternative 3
was originally published, I have reason to suppose that my home
telephone was being tapped and my contacts who were experienced in
such matters were convinced that certain intelligence agencies
considered that I probably knew too much.
(Letter from Alternative 3 author Leslie Watkins to "MS
Dittrich" of Windwords Bookstore) |
Could there be fact behind Alternative 3?
There really was a "Brain Drain", and there still is.
Scientists are no different from anyone else; they'll go wherever
they can make more money and obtain support for their research. The
main cause of Britain's "Brain Drain" was their high
income tax rate. I've never seen any evidence that people who left
Britain for higher pay elsewhere "disappeared".
I also recall reading in the late 1970s and early 1980s about a
mysterious spate of suicides and untimely deaths among scientists,
not just in Britain, but all over the world. I believe there was an
item in Omni magazine about it. However, no conclusions were reached
about any links between the deaths that I ever heard. The statistics
may have been exaggerated at the time.
Alternative 3:
There is a secret joint U.S./U.S.S.R. space program
that has gone far beyond what the public sees.
Astronauts had already landed on Mars in 1962. It has
been discovered that there is other intelligent life in
the universe. |
There may be many secrets contained within the U.S. space program,
but the scenario that it is really so far beyond the public
perception as to have landed on Mars 37 years ago seems
highly unlikely. It also seems unlikely that the U.S
and the U.S.S.R. would have cooperated to such a
degree. More likely, they would have been trying to outrace each
other, as was the public perception. As for NASA
having knowledge of alien life, who can say?
Alternative 3:
The earth is dying. We have polluted it beyond
repair.
Extreme heat, such as that which is now inevitable, will
melt land glaciers. That will result in a marked rise in
sea level and then there'll be the start of the
extensive flooding - with London and New York among the
first cities to be affected.
(Alternative 3 by Leslie Watkins) |
Well, destruction of the environment is surely a problem. In 1977,
it seemed possible to many that we had damaged the environment
beyond repair. We don't hear as much about the ozone layer and the
greenhouse effect today as we did then.
The Alternatives
Alternative 1 - Stop all
pollution immediately and blow two huge holes in the ozone
layer. This would allow excessive UV light to reach the earth
and millions would die of skin cancer.
It seems that there are already "two huge holes in the ozone
layer" - at the poles, attributed to our use of CFCs. Is that
really how they got there? Maybe this alternative was tried....
Alternative 2 - Immediately begin digging underground
cities for the Elite (The
New World Order?) and
let the teeming millions perish on the polluted surface.
Some conspiracy theorists apparently think that this alternative
is already reality. There are many sites on the Internet about "underground
alien bases" and the like.
Alternative 3 - Build spaceships and get the elite off
the planet - to the Moon and Mars.
Take along some "ordinary" people for use as slave labor. Use
"mind control" techniques to control them. Leave the remainder
of humanity to wallow in its own filth.
It doesn't seem likely that the space program is that far ahead
of the public perception. It doesn't seem possible that the
technology was available for self-sufficient colonies on the
Moon and Mars in 1977. Theoretically, it could be done today,
though....
Alternative 3:
The disappearance in bizarre circumstances in the past two weeks
of 20 people from small coastal communities in Oregon was being
intensively investigated at the weekend amid reports of an
imaginative fraud scheme involving a "flying saucer" and hints mass
murder.
Sheriff's officers at Newport, Oregon,
said that the 20 individuals had vanished without trace after being
told to give away all their possessions, including their children,
so that they could be transported in a flying saucer "by UFO to
better life". |
Sound like "Heaven's Gate"?
Anyone want to be a lobotomized
slave of the New World Order?
Alternative 3:
The names and personal details of tens of thousands
of people scrutinized by the Special Branch for reasons
of national security are to be fed into a new criminal
intelligence computer bought by Scotland Yard and
shrouded in mystery. |
This would have been possible on a limited basis in 1977, but
possible now on a grand scale .... What's all this talk in the news
lately about establishing DNA databases, not only of
convicted criminals, but of all newborns?
Leslie Watkins,
author of the book version of Alternative 3:
It would be a mistake to file "Alternative 3" away too
cozily with Panorama's spaghetti harvest and other
hoaxes. Suppose it were fiendish double bluff inspired
by the very agencies identified in the program and that
the super-powers really are setting up an
extra-terrestrial colony of outstanding human beings to
safeguard the species? |
It would also be a mistake to take this or any other conspiracy
theory too seriously without some solid evidence.... Gosh, with the
right actors, wouldn't it make a good TV series, though......
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