The world, as you probably have heard, did not come to an end in May 2003. That was the original date given by aliens to Nancy Lieder for the imminent return of a 'Planet X' into our solar system. She warned through her website zetatalk.com and various media, that a rogue celestial body would wreak dire changes to the Earth, including a cataclysmic pole shift. Prepare! she exhorted for several years in advance of X's due date.
But as in a false pregnancy, no new body ever reared its head (at least as of this writing in 2005). Was Lieder simply an Internet-enabled Chicken Little, corralling would-be Henny Pennies into survivalist mode? Or is she actually sharing valuable information about a phenomenon hidden from the public, that we may yet face?
When the calamity didn't happen according to the aliens' timetable, Lieder did not blame them for giving her faulty information. She now says that her contacts were propagating a "White Lie" for the good of humankind. Her justification involved a plot by the aliens to get the U.S. to attack Iraq "too soon," --- but more on that later. First, you may be wondering how Nancy, a sixty-ish former computer professional, got so chatty with these aliens in the first place.
Scroll back to 1995, when she became aware she was receiving telepathic messages from the Zetas. During that same year, as the aliens' "emissary" she began relaying their missives to an audience in Michael Lindemann's ISCNI (Institute for the Study of Contact with Non-human Intelligence) online chat rooms. Around this time she also recovered memories of encounters with the aliens dating back decades. The success of her chat room appearances led to her own website, zetatalk.com, which has now been translated into 14 different languages. In addition to presenting the Zeta information, the site offers a labyrinth of material that appears to be stitched together from numerous new age and fringe science sources. Her communications have also been compiled into the book ZetaTalk by Granite Publishing.
Zetas? You may ask. They hail from the Zeta-Reticuli star system, according to Lieder, and are of the large-head/spindly-body type popularized in such books as Whitley Strieber's Communion. "There are actually 127 different types of Zeta [and] because there are so many different planets (in their system) they have evolved under different circumstances," she noted. Nancy claims to be plugged into a sort-of ET party line with them that is available whenever she feels like accessing it.