The conversation takes a darker turn as Ed outlines environmental catastrophes he says remote viewers have tracked, including ozone layer collapse and an artificial component detached from Comet Hale-Bopp carrying a plant pathogen toward Earth. Art presses him on the timeline for global disruption, and Ed points to late 1998 as the beginning of widespread agricultural and economic consequences.
Ed then reveals his most ambitious undertaking, Project Starman, a plan to initiate contact with a non-human race using laser technology. He explains that technical remote viewing identified the means, location, and recipients for a laser beacon he intends to build at a facility in Polynesia. He describes the target race as transient occupants of a planet within our solar system who are angry about the deteriorating condition of Earth.
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Roswell as orchestrated crash erased by time travel: Dames lays out SciTech's stance on Roswell: a real crash with real aliens, then an advanced race went back in time, prevented the crash, and the physical artifacts vaporized while the witnesses' memories remained.
300 displaced Soviet nuclear engineers gone south and east: Asked about loose Soviet nukes, Dames says proliferators got something better than the weapons themselves: roughly 300 displaced Soviet nuclear engineers who now ply their trade abroad.
Hale-Bopp companion carries a plant pathogen: Dames stands by his earlier remote-viewing call that an artificial component detached from Comet Hale-Bopp is en route to Earth, will enter the atmosphere over Africa first, and is a plant pathogen carrier or inducer.
Project Starman: a laser to a planet, not a star system: Dames reveals SciTech's capstone project: a laser beacon facility - not in another star system but at another planet - to initiate contact with a race they say is already here in transient form.
Crop circles as time-travel registration stamps: Dames frames crop circles as time-registration markers: a half-meter blue sphere descends, embeds a unique geometry on a specific day so time travelers can pinpoint the date when they return to that era.
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