E.T. Phones Thailand—and Picks Up the Tab for the Call - WSJ.com

E.T. Phones Thailand—and Picks Up the Tab for the Call - WSJ.com: "KAO KALA, Thailand—Everybody from fund managers to jet-setting diplomats is talking about the world's center of gravity shifting to Asia. Now, extraterrestrials appear to be taking notice, too.

Trackers in Colorado at the Mutual UFO Network, one of the oldest unidentified-flying-object research organizations in this world, say that since the slump of the Western banking system in 2008, UFO sightings among Asia's fast-growing economies have accelerated. Suspicious UFOs have shut down airports in China, buzzed resorts in Borneo and lit up the night sky in Myanmar.

All of that is dealing a fresh blow to the prestige of the U.S., which, as the DreamWorks animated movie 'Monsters vs. Aliens' observed, 'is the only country aliens ever seem to visit.'

'It's not surprising, really,' says Debhanom Muangman, a 75-year-old Harvard-educated physician and one of Thailand's leading UFO investigators. 'Aliens have been coming to Asia for decades, but now they sense a change. This is where the progressive countries are, so they are coming here much more often now.'"