What to do on World Contact Day
- cowinboots team
- Jun 1, 2018
- 2 min read
World Contact Day
The International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) voted to hold World Contact Day on 15 March 1953, theorising that if both telepathy and alien life were real, a large number of people focusing on an identical piece of text may be able to transmit the message through space. According to Wiki, IFSB members focused on the following message during 1953:
“Calling occupants of interplanetary craft! Calling occupants of interplanetary craft that have been observing our planet EARTH. We of IFSB wish to make contact with you. We are your friends, and would like you to make an appearance here on EARTH. Your presence before us will be welcomed with the utmost friendship. We will do all in our power to promote mutual understanding between your people and the people of EARTH. Please come in peace and help us in our EARTHLY problems. Give us some sign that you have received our message. Be responsible for creating a miracle here on our planet to wake up the ignorant ones to reality. Let us hear from you. We are your friends.”
Founder of the IFSB Albert K. Bender made a series of discoveries that summer which led him to believe that he had finally found the truth to the UFO cover-up. He had planned to reveal his findings in the October issue of the Space Review (the IFSB magazine), but before the issue was published, Bender was visited by three "men dressed in black," who had already read the unpublished report and confirmed his findings. Scared, Bender then suspended publishing on his publication and dissolved the IFSB in late 1953.
It was not until 1962 that Bender elaborated on his experience, writing Flying Saucers and the Three Men. The Legend of the “Men in Black” was born.
As well as saving Will Smith from a career of Rom-Coms, Bender had further influence. The World Contact Day message is referenced in the song "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", recorded in 1976 by Canadian prog rock band Klaatu which was later and more memorably covered by The Carpenters.
The IFSB may have disbanded after only one observance, but World Contact Day persists.
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