If you’ve ever looked to the heavens, dreaming of the possibilities of life on a faraway planet, curious to whether humans exist on Earth alone, you’re not alone.
If you ever wondered if government officials could be space aliens or human vessels controlled by space aliens, you might be alone.
If you believe a higher life form from the galaxy of “O’Ryan” has been telepathically sending you great ideas, including its wish that you run for governor of Arizona, then you must be Robert Wollner.
Mr. Wollner, a retired house painter, says he will run for governor if he can generate some media coverage from the “Book of the Universe,” the 52-page carefully assembled manifesto he has mailed to about 100 newspapers, television stations, gubernatorial candidates, including Governor Napolitano and 40 members of her staff.
He said that he has spent around $100 to produce and mail the booklets, which are complete with binding, chapters, and numerous type and font sizes. The packages were mailed in a hermetically sealed envelope with individually printed labels. They also included a press release from an institution Mr. Wollner identified as the Space Science Laboratory in Tucson.
The illustrated text takes the reader from the “dawn of the universe” to present day where the 64-year-old Phoenix resident promises to become vice president of the United States in 2008.
It is not Mr. Wollner’s first attempt to contact government officials. Over the years, he estimates that he has sent mail to about 500 government officials and even embassies.
“I’ve mailed information to mayors, governors and foreign leaders offering to help them with their economies,” he said. “And I haven’t gotten one response.”
According to the book, human beings are limited in their abilities because they endure frailties, hardships and the possibility of injury and the reality of death.
Mr. Wollner acknowledges his birth in 1941 and his parents Ida and Morris, but wrote that they were unaware that their child was, in fact, one of 750,000 offspring of the Being of Stored Knowledge, an all powerful life force that resides above a planet light years from Earth.
He said that he had lived unaware of his unusual origin for a long time. He took the usual route through junior high school, high school and later joined the Navy where he stayed until he was discharged at 21.
When he reached age 25 his life changed completely. The supernatural force began giving him ideas that would change the world, he wrote.
Unfortunately his transcriptions of the visions that he received from the Being of Stored Knowledge while he slept, disappeared “mysteriously and instantaneously” after he wrote them down.
With guaranteed proper media attention from a television station Mr. Wollner said that he would detail his foolproof economic plan that would make him an undefeatable candidate and set the groundwork for him to relieve the world of poverty.
“If I could get on the air I would be governor,” he said.
Mr. Wollner said that he has no formal training in economic theory. He likens his innate expertise to that possessed by 18th century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
“He never went to any school,” said Mr. Wollner. “It’s natural ability.”
A peaceful world government inspired by his “unceasing solutions and unique methods” to solving global problems, will also take shape, but he lists no specific plans of having a role in the body.
Book sent to governor, staff
Jeanine L’Ecuyer, press secretary for Ms. Napolitano, confirmed to the Arizona Capitol Times, that they had received a copy of the “Book of the Universe,” but preferred to withhold further comment upon the completion of the legislative session.
“The governor receives many letters and quite often gifts,” she said.
The address listed for the Space Science Laboratory is bogus. In fact, the laboratory is bogus, too. Mr. Wollner admits to fabricating its existence and its project manager, Jack Benjamin, in order to help rouse the curiosity of people who receive the package.
“It doesn’t really exist,” he said. “That’s just something to make it more interesting.”
Reporter Jim Small contributed to this report.