Keith Carpenter <
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> We're lead to believe he's a traitor trying to contact us with a
> "medium power commercial transmitter". But they don't speak english,
> heck they don't speak at all. Universal translator? (oops wrong series)
Some aliens surely know English by now, at least enough to interrogate
captured Earthmen who are not telepathic.
> Or is it just a "come and get me" signal?
Most likely.
> Not wise since SHADO's policy seems to be shoot first, ask questions later.
It would have been if he had directly tried to fly in his UFO to SHADO
headquarters. Perhaps ordinary UFOs' radios are designed not to be able to
communicate with Earth radios, to discourage defections.
> For me, the apparent aimless communications (using the old woman's
> ramblings to contact SHADO) seems to support the idea that the alien
> "humanoids" are really zombie drones. This one got away and without
> control, was "going through the motions" of radio communications.
Perhaps he didn't know English.
Or, being stranded without his UFO, he couldn't talk understandably with his
vocal tract full of liquid.
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