The Beacon

Beacon: a signal for guidance; a radio transmitter emitting signals to aircraft.
Image: Psilocybe cubensis

There’s an agreement between the US government and the aliens. They signed a contract with them to do experiments here. America was about to reveal them, but they are saying, ‘Wait, let people calm down first.’ They don’t want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understanding. They have been waiting for humanity to evolve.
— Haim Eshed, Israeli Military Intelligence Brigadier General & Ministry of Defense Space Program Director

You have lately achieved the means of destroying yourselves. Do not be hasty in your self-congratulation. Yours is not the first civilization to have achieved and used such means. Yours will not be the first civilization to be offered the means of preventing that destruction and proceeding, in the full glory of its accumulated knowledge, to establish an era of enlightenment upon the earth…
You are amazed, and those of you who open your mouths and tell of what you have seen are accounted dupes and fools. Actually, you are prophets, seers in the true sense of the word. One of you says ‘I saw a torpedo-shaped object.’ Others report ‘disc-like objects’ and some of you say ‘spherical objects’ or ‘platter-like objects’. You are all reporting correctly and accurately what you saw, and in most cases, you are describing the same sort of vehicle.  In any event you see us, we do not care. If we chose to remain invisible, we could do so, easily, and, in fact, we have done so almost without exception for hundreds of years. But you must become accustomed to our shapes in your skies, for one day they will be familiar, friendly, and reassuring sights.
— A.B. 1947