Show Me the Downside

Richard O’Connor
6 min readOct 28, 2021

“Considering the long arc of human inquiry, the concept of biodiversity is relatively new. Charles Darwin laid the foundation when he expounded on natural selection and devised the evolutionary tree of life in the mid-19th century — yet biodiversity only joined the scientific lexicon as a well-developed concept in the 1980s. Recently though, the loss of biodiversity has accelerated. From 1970 to 2016 there was a nearly 70% average decline in populations of birds, amphibians, mammals, fish, and reptiles. And by the year 2070, research suggests, the Earth could lose a third or more of its species if steps are not taken now to stop it. Many threatened species are the plants, insects, birds, microorganisms, and marine life that underpin human survival.” — Nature Conservancy magazine, summer 2021.

That We Might Live to See the Day

Given mankind’s clear tendency toward “business as usual”, these sobering statistics portend a future planetary milieu much different than the relatively pristine and intact natural environment in which many of us have had the good fortune to live out our lives. That lift to our human spirit we all find in nature, that solace and wonder we encounter when confronted with the richness of Earth’s natural systems and its fascinating, intricate, and delicate web of life is eroding at an increasingly alarming rate. The good news is that, if we can find the will to act, we still have time to turn these undesirable and saddening trends around. The bad news is that nuclear weapons threaten all of this.

The Nature Conservancy’s statement presumes we will all still be around in 2070 to work together in collegial harmony to correct the negative impacts our human civilization and our “business as usual” behavioral tendencies are having on Earth’s fragile biosphere. But is this a reasonable assumption? Left to our own resources, North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and its clear intent to use it, China’s new hypersonic nuclear weapon, Iran’s unrelenting aspiration to have its own nuclear weapons, the UK’s recent moves to expand its nuclear arsenal by 40 percent, India and Pakistan’s long standing, nuclear-armed mutual animosity, and the current US nuclear strategy now bent toward lower yield, “strategic” nuclear weapons and mobile nuclear weapons delivery platforms are all incontrovertible evidence that “our own resources” are taking us directly down an express route to perdition. In this case we can define perdition as a nuclear holocaust. When that happens, the important work being done by Greta Thunberg, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, Earth First, Greenpeace, and so many other environmental organizations around the world will be rendered irrevocably and immutably irrelevant over the span of a few minutes. With our nuclear weapons we are faced with a quickly evolving existential crisis, while leaving its management to “A Few Good Men” whose worldview is steeped in a “might makes right” mentality. To say the least, we are in deep, deep doodoo.

Enter the UAP

On October 19, 2021, “A Few Better Men” stood onstage at the National Press Club and, once again, informed us about UFOs/UAP that have disabled US Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) nuclear weapons on multiple occasions. It is highly recommended that you listen to their presentation here. We now know that not only have UAP switched off both US and Russian nuclear weapons, but on at least one occasion in the (then) Soviet Union, their nuclear weapons were briefly switched on for a period of about 15 seconds before they were then disabled. As the Masters of Ceremony of this tedious, ongoing, drip-by-drip Disclosure of the UAP reality continues to unfold, the semi-official spokesmen for the Pentagon, that is Luis Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, have both confirmed that, just as the UAP is real, so, too, have been these incidents of UFOs vs. nuclear weapons. These two have further suggested that these incidents could be interpreted as acts of aggression and hostility coming from the occupants of the UAP. So, are we to trust in these Others, those who control the UAP/UFOs? Or do we continue down the road to perdition upon which we have placed ourselves? Do we cut the red wire or the blue wire?

The Others Are Communicating with Us

The Others may not speak English (they can, but that’s another story) but they are clearly communicating with us. Have they been letting us know that our infatuation with nuclear weapons of mass destruction is not acceptable? We must each decide what message the Others’ numerous nuclear interventions have been intended to communicate but, for me, this is the clear message. Nuclear weapons of mass destruction are not OK. I encourage everyone to give this question your deepest and most deliberate consideration because our own survival, and that of the biosphere of this planet, may well hinge upon how we collectively answer that question.

We have reached an unprecedented juncture in human existence on planet Earth. We are at a crossroads. We must lay bare the fabric of our souls for all the universe to see. Will we knowingly choose to render this entire jewel of a planet unlivable due to nuclear fallout and nuclear winter, and potentially murder all of its species over our perceived philosophical differences, or will we allow our better selves to shine through? We are making that choice every day as we continue to embrace nuclear weapons. The Others have been observing us for decades or, more than likely, for millennia. But it is not up to the Others to save us from ourselves. Doing so would contravene the laws of evolution. They have done enough. It is up to us to save ourselves. We can stand pat, or we can transcend. We can choose to take a giant step toward our transcendence by jettisoning and forever banning nuclear weapons on planet Earth. This is the step we must take if we wish to survive. Show me the downside of that decision.

A Call for Congressional Hearings and a Guarantee of Amnesty

Through a compulsion to secretly exploit recovered UAP technologies (yes, that has happened), the US military has seen fit to effectively exclude, for decades, the vast majority of members of Congress from any awareness of these nuclear interventions carried out by the Others. Whether or not some US Presidents have been similarly excluded from the certain awareness of these critical events remains a question that needs to be answered.

The sole means by which this question and many others will be answered is through open Congressional hearings. Such hearings will take place only if accompanied by a guarantee of legal amnesty for the protection of those still-living persons unfortunate enough to have inherited to “UAP/UFO problem” and who are presently “in the know”. It is they who must be called upon to testify. Those persons will include not only US military career officers in the Pentagon, but also those who, both presently and in the past, have been privy to classified, UAP-related information by virtue of their employment by aerospace companies that have, also for decades, collaborated with the Department of Defense on projects intended to exploit recovered UAP technologies.

If we as US citizens value our country, our democracy, and this planet we depend on for our very lives, we must all lend our voices and our votes to demand open Congressional hearings on the topic of UFOs/UAP. Those hearings must be held under a guarantee of legal amnesty for all who will step forward to testify. We must insist that our Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Department of Energy immediately begin taking the necessary steps to collaboratively disarm our world of nuclear weapons and forever ban them. Our nuclear clock is ticking. If you believe the unthinkable will not happen, I believe you are wrong and, apparently, so do the Others.

Richard O’Connor, M.D. is a retired physician/anesthesiologist and author of the book UFOs, Nuclear Weapons, and a New Age of Reason. The book is available from Amazon. The e-book format is recommended.

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Richard O’Connor

I am a retired physician born a US citizen in 1955. I, like you, have lived each day of my life with a nuclear weapon “strapped to my back”. I am tired of that.