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At five thousand dollars a ticket, some business leaders got more than they bargained for when they
attended the first day of the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
They were told flying saucers are real, and they had better start thinking about the business
implications of extraterrestrial life and technologies. Convened each year by the Saudi Arabian
General Investment Authority, the GCF brings together business and political leaders to discuss ways
of promoting business competitiveness. For the first time at its annual conference, the GCF held a
panel discussing UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Titled "Learning from Outer Space" the panel
comprised five speakers who all endorsed the view that extraterrestrial life is real, and has many
implications for the world as we know it.

The panel was held on January 23, and was a "main plenary" session meaning all GCF participants were
able to attend and hear what the experts had to say about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Up to 1000
participants included business and political elites such as former British and Canadian Prime
Ministers, Tony Blair and Jean Chretien; Jim Albaugh, President and CEO of Boeing; Andy Bird,
chairman of Walt Disney International; Jared Cohen, Director of Google ideas, and many others. The
advice they got was that the issue of extraterrestrial life is real, and they better start paying
attention to the business implications. Here's how the GCF summarized the panel presentations on its
website:

Learning from Outer Space - Panel

The unconventional and highly relevant topic of extraterrestrial life
forms was addressed by yesterday's panel discussion "Contact: Learning
from Outer Space". Experts Zoaghloul El-Naggar, Stanton Friedman, Michio
Kaku, Nick Pope and Jacques Vallee made compelling cases for the
existence of living beings elsewhere in the galaxy, drawing upon
empirical evidence, religious theology and logical reasoning. Mr.
Friedman opened his remarks with a bold statement, "Flying saucers are
real!" and this summed up the perspective of the panel members. Mr. Pope
explored the potential business implications of outer space, such as the
profitability of alien branding or sponsorship. While El-Naggar was also
convinced of their existence, he raised the interesting point that it
may not be ethical to spend resources trying to contact alien societies
when we still face war and poverty in our own society. Mr. Vallee
encouraged more academics to analyze the evidence. However, on behalf of
his successful Venture Capital fund, he said, "We are not ready to
invest in this type of research, but we think that somebody should."


The 2011 GCF conference panel on Outer Space has opened the door for
world business leaders to seriously consider the implications of
evidence concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life. A graphic
summarizing GCF discussions by artist, Sunni Brown [1], reveals
the prominence given to issues of extraterrestrial contact and the
overwhelming changes new energies will bring to humanity. Business
leaders are poised to do what political leaders have so far failed to do
- proactively deal with compelling evidence that we are being visited by
galactic civilizations who have advanced technologies to share with humanity.


Global Competitiveness Forum webside.
http://www.gcf.org.sa/

Global Competitiveness Forum YouTube Channel.
http://www.youtube.com/gcfchannel

[1] http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5214/5384320090_c4ebe89138_b.jpg

Jan Rasmussen