The account comes entirely through Dr. Carol Rosin, who served as von Braun's spokesperson and assistant at Fairchild Industries during the last years of his life before he died of cancer in 1977. Von Braun's stated purpose during his dying years was to educate the public and decision-makers about why space-based weapons are dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, and unworkable, and he tasked Rosin with continuing that effort after he was gone. He warned that once all other methods of control through manufactured fear had been exhausted, a sequence of escalating "threat cards" would be played: communism, then terrorism, then rogue third world leaders, then asteroids. The final card, which he returned to repeatedly over the four years Rosin knew him, was the extraterrestrial threat. His exact words to her were: "The last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie." He never shared specific details about what he knew regarding extraterrestrials, but the intensity with which he spoke led Rosin to believe he had direct knowledge he was too afraid to articulate openly. Rosin first brought this testimony to wide public attention at the National Press Club in 2001 as part of the Disclosure Project. It is worth noting that her account is unverified and uncorroborated, as von Braun left no written record of these warnings himself. submitted by /u/200kChrysler [link] [comments]