• Left: Semjase and her beamship (source: “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier)
• Right: Orthon and his scoutcraft (source: George Adamski)

A common problem with what UFO contactees report is why don’t their Space People friends land in some very public place? Like the White House lawn or the Washington National Mall or New York City’s Central Park. I personally think that Central Park would be the best choice, because it has some nice open space not far from the United Nations headquarters, and the United Nations is the closest that humanity has gotten to a world government. Desmond Leslie once wrote about this issue (Flying Saucers Have Landed):

So why should they risk a public landing? They have seen what the mob does to that which it fears, and what it does to that which it worships. Their ship would be impounded for evasion of custom duties. Their clothes would be torn off and sold as souvenirs. They would be denounced as saboteurs, anti-Christs, disturbers of the peace, emissaries of Satan, and the rest, as happened on that ill-advised attempt made in France during the reign of Charlemagne.

The legal status of extraterrestrial visitors has been discussed by some people. Robert Freitas in Legal Rights of ETs proposes “stateless persons”, and Babak Shakouri in The Space Review: Legal implications of an encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence has proposed diplomatic status. I think that diplomatic status would be the best option, at least initially. BSH also concludes that the appropriate organization to negotiate with ET’s is the United Nations, because it’s the closest thing it’s the closest thing to a political organization that represents all of humanity. Something I also agree with.

Software credits:

• Orthon: The Tudors Scene Maker ~ Doll Divine
• Semjase: Action Heroine Creator ~ adventurer and hero dress up game
• Scoutcraft flying-saucer model: by myself in Cheetah3D from George Adamski’s photographs.
• Beamship flying-saucer model: classic flying saucer ufo 3d model
• Scene: Baseball field in Central Park | Upper East Side, Central Park | Flickr
• Orthon’s jumpsuit, overall composition: done with Pixelmator