
Up
till now, the whole world is still wondering what could have happened
to the Boeing 777-200ER which took off from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian
capital, at 12:41 a.m. on Saturday, with 239 people on board.
It
was expected to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. the same day, after a
roughly 4,350 kilometre journey. But around 1:30 a.m., air traffic
controllers in Subang, outside Kuala Lumpur, lost contact with the plane
over the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.
Since
then, all mouth has been agape with the unanswered question, what in
the world must have happened to this jumbo jet? Thirty-four planes, 40
ships and search crews from 10 countries have been scouring the South
China Sea near where the plane was last detected. The search has proved
futile. It was thought that the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 must have
crashed in the waters or maybe have exploded in the air, leaving debris
as evidence of its end. But debris in the area has turned out to be
unrelated to the plane.
“We have not found anything that appear to be
objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft,” Azharuddin Abdul
Rahman, Director General of the Malaysian Civil Aviation Department,
said on Monday.
Similarly, a slick in
the area was determined to be from fuel oil typically used in cargo
ships, not from the plane. So, the civil aviation chief concluded that
the plane’s disappearance is an “unprecedented mystery”.However, because
the event is certainly mysterious, it has spawned all sorts of theories
and mysterious connections. The pilots of the lost plane did not
indicate any problem to the tower, and no distress signal was issued.
Malaysian military officials cite radar data as suggesting the plane
might have turned back toward Kualar Lumpur; but the pilots did not tell
air traffic control that they were doing so, and no one knows why the
plane would have turned around. There were also terrorism act
speculations as being the cause of the sudden disappearance.
This
is why the internet space has been abuzz with all sorts of conjectures
ranging from the reasonable to the bizarre. Of course people need an
explanation: planes don’t just disappear. In the plane were five
passengers younger than 5 years old. There were 14 nationalities
spanning the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America. Passengers
from China or Taiwan numbered 154, followed by Malaysians, at 38. There
were three US citizens.What if the plane was snatched by aliens in their
unidentified flying objects, popularly known as UFO? Mysterious
disappearances in certain areas are not new on Earth.
There
are records of aircraft disappearing in the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
In December 5, 1945, Flight 19 (TBF Avengers) got lost with 14 airmen,
and later the same day PBM Mariner BuNo 59225 lost with 13 airmen while
searching for flight 19.
On January
30, 1948, Avro Tudor G-AHNP Star Tiger lost with six crew and 25
passengers, en route from Santa Maria Airport in the Azores to Kindley
Field, Bermuda. On December 28, 1948, Douglas DC-3 NC16002 lost with
three crew and 36 passengers, en route from San Juan, Peurt Rico, to
Miami. On January 17, 1949, Avro Tudor G-AGRE Star Ariel lost with seven
crew and 13 passengers, en route from Kindley Field, Bermuda, to
Kingston Airport, Jamaica.
There were
also reported cases of lost vessels at sea in the same area. The
Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is an undefined
region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of
aircraft and ships are known to have disappeared under mysterious
circumstances. According to the US Navy, the triangle does not exist,
and the name is not recognised by the US Board on Geographic Names.
However,
popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal
or activity by extraterrestrial beings. But the South China Sea is not
Bermuda, so how come this Malaysian Airlines jet disappearance?
Nevertheless, I am of the view that if we wish to explore the UFO/aliens
hypothesis, there still exists a link between the disappearance of the
plane and paranormal activities in the region. This is hinged on two
crucial facts. One, paranormal activities are supernatural; science
cannot explain them.
In the sudden
disappearance of such a giant airliner without any trace whatsoever, we
cannot afford to foreclose the handiwork of
inter-dimensional/extraterrestrial creatures who are known to visit the
earth occasionally, but which is always kept in the shadows by the
governments and the mainstream media. We all know that the world is in
constant denial of seeming supernatural manifestations because of
obvious reasons. A writer once stated, “The world is in denial. Every
passing day there are reports of paranormal occurrences all over the
world.
Crop circles in England;
unidentified flying objects (UFO) sightings and alien abductions in
America; dead-come-back-to-life in Africa; psychic healing in India, and
so on. But these occurrences are down-played by the press and explained
away by scientific researchers.” Secondly, there had been media reports
about UFO sightings in China, specifically in Chinese airports, over
the past couple of years. The lost Malaysian airliner was headed for
China, and with two-thirds of the passengers being Chinese nationals.
According
to media reports, at about 8:40pm local time, in the evening of July 7,
2010, in Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan Airport, China’s ninth-busiest, a UFO was
reported by a flight crew that was preparing to land. As a precaution,
flight controllers delayed or redirected eighteen flights. Another
similar incident happened the next year, 2011, in Chongqing, China. The Shanghai Daily reported
that a UFO was spotted one Wednesday afternoon in August floating high
about Jiangbei International Airport in the city of Chongqing, an
important aviation hub for southwestern China.
Worried
officials diverted several flights to other airports before it
disappeared about 50 minutes later and air traffic was allowed to return
to normal. So, with my knowledge of how UFO/aliens have reportedly
being operating throughout history – always certainly showing up in
leading civilisations, empires and powerful governments – I have the
following unanswered questions. Are aliens interested in China? Is the
lost Malaysian plane brouhaha yet another incursion into mankind’s abode
by these inter-dimensional/extraterrestrial beings? If it happens that
stronger evidences emerge as to the verity of this troubling reality, is
the world prepared to face squarely, this intimidating clear and
present danger?
By Greg Odogwu
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