The article below was published in the daily newspaper Libération, Paris, France, pages 1 and 4, on October 19, 1954.
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"— WHATEVER happens, do not shoot at the pilots of flying saucers," declared German theologian Philipp Dessauer, a member of the "Oratorianer" brotherhood, to the Catholic magazine "Wort und Wahrheit". "We must approach them with a charitable spirit... Governments should consider it their duty to prepare their people for such an encounter."
"God chose Earth among His creations to be the stage for the redemption of man through His Son, just as He chose, among all countries, little Judea as the place of His birth. Therefore, it is inconceivable that Jesus Christ could have incarnated in any other human or 'planetary' form elsewhere than on Earth."
The theologian thus suggests a compromise solution: he does not believe that the "planet-beings" bear the original sin of Adam and Eve, nor that they live in a paradisiacal state. He grants them a physical and mental resemblance to humans but concludes that they have not received the gift of divine grace.
And there you have it. Be skeptical no more: warned by an angel, the inhabitants of other planets come to seek revelation on Earth, and that's why you see so many unidentified flying objects.
But these relationships with our visitors from elsewhere, in search of universal salvation, still lack friendliness. Thus
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an Italian "witness," a farmer in the Po Delta, saw a disc skim the roof of his farm, empty his watering trough in the blink of an eye, and horribly mutilate his cow.
Elsewhere, a farmer from Chauny (Aisne), who was busy fixing his car, narrowly escaped being shot in the head by shotgun pellets that miraculously smashed against the bodywork of his vehicle. It was a neighbor, a decent and upright man, who, believing he was seeing a Martian repairing his saucer, fired two shots in his direction.
Moral of the story: don't shoot at the saucers...
J. D. [Jacques Derogy]
