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In early November 1989, a very strange, and highly controversial document was circulated among various prominent individuals in the field of UFO research. One of those individuals was Leonard Stringfield, a former intelligence officer with the United States Air Force. The document told the sensational story of an incident involving nothing less than a UFO that supposedly crashed to Earth in the large swamps of Carp, a community in the Canadian city of Ottawa. According to the anonymous writer of the document: “On November 4, 1989, at 20:00 hrs., Canadian Defense Department radars picked up a globe shaped object travelling at a phenomenal speed over Carp, Ontario. The UFO abruptly stopped, and dropped like a stone.”

The source of the story claimed that both Canadian and American military personnel were involved in a secret operation to retrieve the fallen UFO, which was allegedly taken to a secret facility in Kanata, Ontario. Stringfield was told that a number of alien bodies had been recovered from within the UFO, and were described as being reptilian, fetus-headed beings. One presumes they weren’t locals.

Matters became even more controversial when the alleged whistleblower claimed that after the craft from another world was carefully examined, evidence was found that shocked the investigation team to its absolute core. That evidence was in the form of small metallic devices that, analysis suggested, were being implanted into the bodies of people, with one goal in mind: to give the aliens complete mental and physical control over the implanted unfortunates.

Stringfield was told that: “All individuals implanted by the aliens are classified as zombies. The zombies have been programmed to help overthrow mankind in the near future. When China finishes with Israel, it will invade Europe. At the same time, Chinese space-based bacteriological weapons will be launched at the Arctic. The winds will carry the diseases into Russia and North America. In days, hundreds of millions will be dead; the survivors will have to deal with the Chinese, the aliens, and the zombies. The aliens want an all-out war so that human resistance would be minimal.”

It turns out, however, that the aliens were not quite so alien after all. String-field’s informant explained: “Data aboard the sphere explained why the aliens are so comfortable in our world. They preceded man on the evolutionary scale by millions of years—created with the dinosaurs. Some sixty-five million years ago, an inter-dimensional war destroyed most of their civilization, and forced them to leave the Earth. Now, they have chosen to reclaim what was once theirs.”

Well, that’s quite a story. It seems very likely, however, that it was nothing stranger than a bizarre hoax, since the alleged insider maintained that “the alien forces with their Chinese and Arab allies will attack within the next five years.” That would have placed any such attack no later than 1994. Clearly, no such attempt to wipe out the human race occurred between 1989 and 1994, suggesting that the whole thing was someone’s idea of a tasteless joke. Unless, that is, the aliens decided to put their plans on-hold for a couple of decades. And let’s face it: fraught Middle Eastern issues, the growing power and influence of China, the fear of bacteriological weapons, and, of course, zombies, are all staple parts of twenty-first-century civilization. Maybe Leonard Stringfield’s source was not so wide off the mark after all. The time frame might have been off-target, but perhaps the future we face is not.