Mulder in “Little Green Men”

Mulder

We wanted.. to believe... we wanted to call out. On August 20th and September 5th, 1977, two spacecraft were launched from the Kennedy Space Flight Center, Florida. They were called Voyager. Each one carries a message ... A gold-plated record depicting images, music and sounds of our planet - Arranged so that it may be understood if ever intercepted by a technologically mature extraterrestrial civilization. Thirteen years after its launch, Voyager I passed the orbital plane of Neptune and, essentially, left the solar system. Within that time, there were no further messages sent. Nor are any planned. ..We wanted to listen. On October 12th, 1992, NASA initiated the High-Resolution Microwave Survey; A decade-long search by radio telescope scanning ten million frequencies for any transmission by extraterrestrial intelligence. Less than one year later first-term Nevada Senator Richard Brian successfully championed an amendment which terminated the project.. I wanted to believe, but the tools had been taken away. The X-Files had been shut down. They closed our eyes.. our voices have been silenced.. our ears now deaf to the realms of extreme possibilities.