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Huneeus:
I am sure you are familiar with recent scientific articles in mainstream publications
stating that there is no Planet X [an "invisible" planet rumored to exist in Earth's
orbit, but on the opposite side of the sun].
Sitchin:
The notion that there is no Planet X stems from the work of Dr. Myles Standish at
JPL [NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory]. In 1993 he said, "There remains no
need to hypothesize the existence of a tenth planet in the solar system."
Traditionally, scientists have said that if there was a Planet X, we would have found
it by now. I think somebody also said that if there are extraterrestrials, we would
have met them by now. So if we don't meet ET's, they don't exist, and if we don't
find Planet X, it doesn't exist.
There's the story about the thief who was brought to court and two witnesses gave
evidence that they saw him steal. The judge turned to him and said, "What do you
have to say for yourself? We just heard two witnesses that say that they saw you
steal." The thief said, "Your honor, two people may have seen me steal, but I can
bring you a hundred that did not see me steal." That's the same kind of evidence
used to refute the existence of Planet X.
I wrote a letter to Standish asking him to corroborate his his statement, and he
wrote back, saying, "What I said or what I wrote does not mean there is no Planet
X; it merely means that I think it would be futile to look for it."
The interest in Planet X began when it was sighted by IRAS [Infrared Astronomical
Salellite] in 1983. There was a clamp-down on the press after the sighting and
hurried discussions between Reagan and Gorbachev, and between Bush and
Gorbachev, all leading to the agreements to cooperate in space. Suddenly,
Gorbachev dropped his objection to Star Wars.
As you know, there is no more Star Wars program, yet the budget for Star Wars
has been increased [under the name Ballistic Missile Defense program]. It's about
$4.5 billion a year, officially -- unofficially, who knows! So I ask you, against who
is the defense intended?
Huneeus:
The latest public relations statement claims that it's intended for use against
asteroids.
Sitchin:
I don't buy it. For the video Are We Alone? I interviewed the late Dr. [Robert S.]
Harrington, supervising astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory, which
is part of the U.S. Department of Defense - this isn't a university project we're
talking about. I talked to him for almost two hours on camera, and neither I nor the
producer could believe our ears.
He used our meeting as an example to explain his beliefs about Planet X: "If you
ask me if there is a person named Zecharia Sitchin, for instance, I cannot tell you
for sure that he exists. But if there is such a person, I would say he probably has
gray hair and he wears glasses and he lives in New York City."
In effect, Harrington said, "I don't know if there is such a person," yet he still goes
on to describe me in perfect detail. On the subject of Planet X, he had similar
comments: "It's probably three to four times the size of Earth and it could have an
atmosphere. It's a nice planet that has life on it. He went on and on, describing a
planet that officially doesn't exist. He said, "It's as you said in The 12th Planet. The
planet comes at a 30-degree angle to the ecliptic. In Biblical times it would come in
Sagittarius the way you say, and now it would be from Libra, where we are
looking.
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