CITIZEN
HEARING ON DISCLOSURE
A SUMMARY REPORT
As is often the case, the world
media under-reported what should be a game-changing event that took place at
The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure was convened by the Paradigm Research Group, an advocacy lobbying organization founded and headed by a "beltway insider," Stephen Bassett who has for years fought a very public battle to coax, lead or force the Federal Government to acknowledge publicly that it knows a lot more about the 70 year old issue of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), which thanks to leaked documents, are found to have been designated as "Alien Visitation Craft" in civilian and military classified communications and reports within the American Government.
In the words of the communiqu???? from PRG: "The Citizen hearing (will) attempt to accomplish what the U.S. Congress has failed to do for forty-five years: seek out the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time".
In the last few years a real
flood of information on UFOs and their occupants has streamed from official
sources in various parts of the world, from
Additionally many retired civilian and military officials, several of high rank, have given sworn public testimonies about their personal exposure and involvement in UFO-related incidents such as the 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico and various other similar ones in which "alien vehicles" in whole or part were recovered by the USA Government. More than two hundred such witnesses were interviewed by Dr. Steven Greer and a number of them spoke on record at a press conference also held at the National Press Club in 2001, under the aegis of Greer's Disclosure Project and in 2007 a group of eminent persons gathered, again at the Press Club, at the invitation of film maker James Fox and researcher Leslie Kean.
Faced with an avalanche of hard
evidence, most governments have had a muted response and tend to display a
embarrassed attitude, often stating that they are not interested in "UFO
sightings" (a position mirrored by most high-profile scientists concerned with
the search for extraterrestrial life) although many give evidence to the
contrary by quietly investigating the cases that come under their purview. However
in recent years several nation-states have officially acknowledged their
awareness and preoccupation with the matter of UFOs and suspected ETs and have
released a large number of documents from their archives to the public. They
include the
The U.S. Government for its part continues to claim that it has no knowledge of any "Alien" or "Extraterrestrial" activity behind the UFO situation but it has been confirmed for quite a few years that this position reflects an official policy enforced under National Security directives since at least the late nineteen forties and is designed to hide the truth rather than reflect it. Furthermore there is considerable evidence that some agencies belonging or linked to the American Government have carried out for decades very complex, secretive and expensive research and development activities, with budgets running into hundreds of billions of dollars, based on scientific and technical information they could muster on the UFOs. The official denial of the reality or at least the significance of the phenomenon is thus intended to protect the secrecy of the programmes being pursued in connection with that self-same phenomenon.
It is in this situation which has become an open secret that Bassett undertook to gather a group of former Members of Congress in the National Press Club to listen to the most convincing and solid information and witness the best proofs that could be assembled on UFOs in conformity with the time honored hearing procedure which the US Congress should normally have called many years ago but consistently avoided doing, reportedly under the pressure of the National Security organizations that consistently prevented or at least opposed any public acknowledgement of the issue.
The six retired Members of Congress all had extensive experience in sensitive issues of national security during their respective tenures in either the House or Senate on Capitol House. For more than thirty hours they listened to forty witnesses, among them eminent former civil servants and senior military officers, from ten countries and often questioned them to seek clarifications or elicit controversial points. The goal of the organizers in adopting that procedure was to overwhelm the ambient skepticism with a massive amount of precise and wide-ranging information, where possible backed by hard physical data and confirmed by multiple sources from diverse backgrounds and from several countries. The former Congresspersons are:
Senator Mike Gravel (L-Alaska), a former Presidential hopeful who
served on the Senate Finance Committee and the Ad hoc Subcommittee to study
secret and Confidential Government documents.
Representative Darlene Hooley (D-Oregon), a former whip of her party and member of the Science, Space and Technology Committee.
Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick (D- Michigan), who served on the Appropriations Committee.
Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-California) who was also on the Committee for Space, Science and Technology.
Representative Merrill Cook (R-Utah)
Representative Roscoe Bartlett
(R-Maryland) a former member of the Committees on Space, Science and
Technology and on the Armed Forces.
Some controversy was aroused by the fact that the six panelists were paid $20,000 dollars each for their time; but in the US of today there is no free lunch and it is understandable, though regrettable that people no longer actively employed in the legislative branch of government may expect to be compensated for a rather strenuous work week. Some of the notable testimonies they heard may be quoted here in a few words, though not in the order in which they were heard.
Stephen Bassett, as the convener of the Hearing and the founder of PRG pointed out in his recapitulative summary of the situation that some high ranking officials in various executive administrations, such as former White House Chief of Staff and head of President Obama's transition team, John Podesta and former New Mexico Governor and cabinet member Bill Richardson went on record to demand a release of government documents and information on the UFO issue. Podesta significantly stated on camera: all UFO files should be released because, "the American people can handle the truth and because it is the law".
Bassett announced that the proceedings of the hearing would be the basis to produce a new documentary on the subject, entitled Truth Embargo.
Gary Heseltine, former British police detective, a veteran
investigator of UFO-related events, declared: "I now have 425 cases involving
940 police officers (in the
Nick Pope, the former "UFO Desk"officer at the British Ministry of Defence pointed out that his Government released to date some 50 000 pages of files pertaining to UFO case investigations and that he personally ordered the reopening of the famous 1980 Rendlesham case at the Bentwaters RAF base which involved in his words "multiple UFO encounters by military personnel" some of which were attested by radio-active anomalies and other physical traces. One of the direct witnesses to the case, Sgt. James Penniston (US Air Force, Rtd.) also gave his testimony, backed by his credibility as a former Strategic Air Command (SAC) Elite Guard with U.S. Top Secret/BI/SCI and NATO Top Secret Cosmic/ATOMAL clearances.
Going back much earlier in time
to the fabled Roswell incident in New Mexico in 1947, nuclear physicist and
veteran researcher Stanton Friedman recalled
that multiple military witnesses from that base had confirmed, some under oath,
that, as stated at the time and reported in the media before a denial was issued,
there had indeed been a UFO crash in the region and that the army had recovered
pieces of the downed craft as well as bodies of its occupants who were found to
be from a non-human species. He was supported in this conclusion by Jesse Marcel, Jr., MD, son of a key
witness the late Major Jesse Marcel, MD
(USAAF), the first officer on the Base to see the craft wreckage, some of which
he brought home and showed to his son, then a child of twelve. Another
recognized expert on the
John Callahan, ex-Director of Accidents and Investigations Division of the US Federal Aviation Administration commented on a number of UFO-related situations to which he had been confronted in his official capacity, such as reports from civilian pilots, airport personnel and air traffic controllers.
Linda Moulton Howe who founded and manages the earthfiles.com and is one of the leading Ufologists in the USA and
perhaps the greatest authority on cases of unexplained animal mutilations in
the American West which have run into the tens of thousands, pointed out that "ranchers have seen the
glowing discs shoot beams down. They have seen the animals rise (in those
beams)". She underlined that there is "a
Canadian UFO historian Grant Cameron produced transcripts of the papers left by the late Canadian Government scientific investigator Wilbert Smith, first made public in 1982 after his death. Smith who worked for Canada's Transportation Department attested that "tons of ET equipment" had been collected and analyzed by US military laboratories in the fifties and that some of it was sent to him for further research and testing as well as much film material, some of which reportedly was of the downed flying saucer and bodies retrieved from the crash at Aztec, New Mexico in 1948.
Former Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, the Hon. Paul Hellyer, a member of the Queen's Privy Council and the highest dignitary from a G-8 power to have formally recognized the extraterrestrial presence gave a historical background to his own interest in the issue and recalled that he had received an unequivocal confirmation of the US Government's involvement with ETs and their technology alleged by the late Colonel Philip Corso in his book The Day after Roswell by a top-ranking unnamed US General. Hellyer said that according to his sources at least two aliens were currently stationed in an American Government facility under a cooperation agreement and he quoted a well known abductee who had reported, like many others that the "Extraterrestrials" had given him an urgent warning about the rapidly worsening environmental situation on earth and the need for people to act fast to reverse that trend, mainly induced by the current industrial exploitation of planetary resources and the polluting technologies that go with it.
There seems to be a remarkable consistency in the extraterrestrial messages as they mostly focused on the grave danger we are in because of our misled race towards material growth. Hellyer gave full support to the call for making all information on UFOs available to the public with the possible exception of certain facts which he felt might not be disclosed as yet, in view of their possibly troubling or upsetting nature, probably to the belief system of millions of people, although he did not elaborate.
Captain Robert Salas (US Air Force, Rtd.) a former Missile Launch officer, reported in detail on the incidents at the Malmstrom Air Force base when the launch and control mechanisms of several missiles were and temporarily suddenly deactivated while UFOs came down and stopped at low altitude nearby.
Commenting on that particular testimony which is confirmed by several other similar cases in other nuclear weapons launching facilities, including another witness at the Hearing Captain David Schindele (USAF, Rtd.) a launch control officer who experienced a similar situation in 1966 at the Minot ICBM base, Ex-Senator Gravel said at a press conference afterwards: "The smoking gun of the whole issue is when they saw hovering spacecraft in Wyoming and South Dakota over the ICBM silos that the missiles could not work."
Capt. Edgar Mitchell, PhD, former Apollo 14 astronaut and the sixth man on the Moon confirmed that awareness of an alien presence is prevalent in the NASA personnel, especially among his follow astronauts, some of whom witnessed UFOs and also pointed out that classified Government documents refer to "Extraterrestrial Biological Entities" (EBE) as a factual reality. "There is no doubt we are being visited" was his unambiguous conclusion.
Daniel Sheehan, JD an eminent lawyer who was chief counsel to the Jesuit Order in the USA and who was professionally involved in many highly publicized cases including the Iron-Contra Congressional Investigation and the Silkwood legal case, narrated how director of the CIA George Bush Sr. refused to provide information requested by president elect Jimmy Carter, saying that he had no "need to know" and referring him to the Science and Technology Service Division of the Library of Congress. Sheehan was eventually allowed to peruse in the Library, under strict conditions of confidentiality "eyes only", the classified sections of the Bluebook Report commissioned by the U.S. Air Force where he saw photographs of several UFOs and at least one crashed saucer carrying inscriptions in unknown characters which he noted down surreptitiously on a pad he managed to smuggle out of the building.
Sheehan was not the only witness
to mention the intrinsic and still poorly understood connection between UFOs,
their technologies and the mental effects felt by human experiencers or
contactees. It should be mentioned in this regard that the glyphs etched on the
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Steven Greer, MD the well known founder of the Disclosure Project and the convener of a National Press Club conference of May 9th, 2001 reported among other things, that he had briefed General Patrick Hughes, director of the Defence Intelligence Agency who was "not aware of the Cabal" controlling access to UFO-related intelligence. Greer also mentioned that according to his information, more than two billion "chips" designed for implant in humans had been manufactured at a factory in the neighbourhood of Nellis Air Force base within Area-51 and that directed energy weapons had been secretly built based on the physics of scalar electro-magnetic waves, without any Congressional or even Presidential authorization or supervision. Those programs along with many other "waived" special access ones (SAPS) may have been funded with some of the "2.3 trillion dollars missing from the Pentagon's account" according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's statement on September 10th, 2001. Greer also indicated that there were reports from National Security and military sources of at least one "alien" spacecraft of a size estimated at 26 miles. The fact that those seemingly incredible allegations were taken seriously by the panel shows that on the subject of UFOs nothing is to be viewed as impossible in principle and that indeed some of the evidence in existence is too "far out" to be easily shared with all and sundry.
Dr. Sun Shih was the sole Chinese expert called to testify. A former translator to Chairman Mao who founded the first study group on UFO related phenomena in the People's Republic, he explained that he was often called at the Air Force Headquarters to give his input to the military and civilian personnel tasked with analyzing the observations made. He further noted that he had been shown photographs of disc-shaped UFOs over the national airspace, including some shots taken from Chinese military satellites. There were rumors of at least one "alien" craft shot or downed on the PRC's territory though he could give no confirmation of that allegation. He indicated that the official viewpoint in his country was, after an initial period of apprehension and fear of an invasion, that the UFOs were non-threatening and should not be attacked. The armed forces were hence generally instructed to desist from making aggressive moves against the unknown visitors although jets were occasionally scrambled to watch and follow them.
Richard Dolan, the noted UFO historian and author of the research
volumes UFOs and the National Security
State and other authoritative books on the topic highlighted the fact that
the two leading UFO investigative bodies in the
Dolan took pains to make clear
that several times a year even now the US Air Force scrambles jets to intercept
and chase away UFOs, sometimes over restricted air space and that speeds,
maneuvers and technical abilities of the "alien" visitors remain well beyond
the capability of any known man-made plane or missile. He noted that no one in
the official chain of command in the U.S. Government seems to be in control or
even in the know and wondered who might be. A short filmed interview by Dolan
of the "deathbed confession" of a former, unnamed CIA employee was shown. The
man testified that in 1960 while in the CIA he had been sent with his superior,
one of the Agency's station chiefs, to Area 51 in
Gravel encapsulated the conclusion of the panel in the final press conference: "I believe the White House is hiding the truth about the extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet. It goes right to the White House and of course, once the White House takes a position: "well there is nothing going on", it goes down the chain of command, everyone stands toe".
Apart from the formal resolution issued and signed by the panel of ex-Congressmen (http://www.citizenhearing.org/foundation.html), a few major conclusions can be drawn from the evidence presented:
1-There is, once and for all, an "alien" or "non-human" factor at work on our planet and in the space around it. Many who are either afraid to admit it or who have a vested, religious, ideological, political or economic interest in denying it have been resorting to increasingly implausible and illogical tactics to "debunk" or at least cloud the issue when they don't simply refuse to take it seriously in principle and even turn abusive or threatening in certain cases.
Grant Cameron has drawn a very
long and complete list of possible reasons for governments, especially the U.S.
Government, to hide the facts and discredit or punish witnesses and
whistle-blowers. No matter what their motives are, they stand exposed for
trying to keep mankind in the dark about reality, even though a real flood of
feature films, TV programs, press articles and books of all kinds have been
spreading an awareness of Alien life at all levels of society, especially among
children and the young. According to Stephen Bassett since 1951, more than
300 American fiction movies have been produced about Aliens and spacecraft,
generating revenues superior to 50 billion 2012 U.S. dollars. This may all be an effect of the capitalistic
entertainment industry realizing the commercial value of Extra-terrestrial
visitors for the box office, but there may also be a covert interest from the
intelligence community and the military/industrial sector in popularizing the
theme of alien visits and even invasions, peaceful or violent. It is well known
that almost since its beginnings
In any event, the time for pleading ignorance and raising jejune objections and doubts is past. It has become as disingenuous to claim that there is no proof that UFOs are real and non-humanly crewed as pretending that the Earth was created in 4004 BC which, let us not forget it, was part of the "official" cosmological doctrine of the western world as late as two hundred years ago and remains a core belief for many today.
2-There is also considerable evidence that at least some of the "aliens" (in the sense that they are not people belonging to any known nation or ethnic community) are using their very advanced technological knowledge to carry out a number of activities and operations, many of which remain mysterious, such as abductions of people (a recent article in Vanity Fair of May 10, 2013 (www.vanityfair.com/culture/20135/05/american-alien-abduction-science), quotes a Roper poll to point out more than half a million Americans claim to have been taken on board spaceships by "ETs"), cattle mutilations and implanting of "microchips" in humans (as documented at the Citizen Hearing by Dr. Roger Leir, a veteran medical investigator) along with collecting of soil and vegetal samples, lifting electricity from high power lines, pumping water from lakes, rivers and seas, diving and moving under water, tunneling and penetrating deep underground and surveying military and industrial installations, especially nuclear plants and missile bases while in some cases disabling the missiles, perhaps for their own protection or to send a message.
Among abductees prominent figures have been listed, including Ronald Reagan (long before he became president), UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar in 1989 (according to the investigation presented in the 1996 book by Budd Hopkins titled Witnessed) and more recently the President of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who went public about it on a national television show from Moscow whereas Perez de Cuellar refused to discuss or deny the allegation to Vanity Fair journalist Ralph Blumenthal and Reagan reportedly commented on his experience only to a few intimate friends.
The visitors (maybe not the same) also resort since more than twenty-five years to designing sophisticated geometric patterns on the ground, the famous "crop circles", possibly to convey certain messages either to mankind in general or to specific recipients capable of understanding their meaning. There is also much evidence that at least some of the Aliens collect genetic materials from the humans they abduct and in some cases impregnate women or artificially inseminate them or take semen from human males.
The inescapable conclusion is
that those who indulge in such practices are carrying out some kind of genetic
engineering, breeding or hybridization programme and the ominous
implications of that finding may also have led many governments to hide the
truth from the public. Such a conclusion was presented at a 1992 seminar held
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, convened by eminent nuclear
physicist David Pritchard with the
participation of the well known
3-The Aliens, at least those who are involved in the breeding and manipulation of life on earth may or may not have an interest in making their presence "official" and in engaging in open public interaction with mankind. Indeed they may prefer to operate in secrecy or at least semi-secrecy by not lifting the veil of fear, confusion and doubt that hides the truth to most people. On the other hand, some Aliens seem to show great concern for the fate of the planet and all creatures on it, including ours and though they don't intervene, at least not directly and visibly in "our" affairs, they issue warnings and put pressure in various ways.
According to various contactees
and researchers, the Aliens have long ago concluded, or perhaps always knew,
that governments don't have the power to change important things or control the
populations for good so that they act in other ways on the "zeitgeist", to
influence mankind subliminally or subconsciously. There is a lot of controversy
in ufological and exopolitical circles on whether and to what extent some
Aliens may be cooperating with certain agencies in certain governments,
particularly the U.S. Government, as various statements during the hearing,
such as the allegation by Paul Hellyer, implied. It would appear however that
any such contacts are rather one sided as the human side does not seem to have
much if any control over the alien counterparts who retain the ability to act
as they please if only because the parties are so unequal. An implication of
the many reported and documented cases of UFOs tampering at will by remote
control with the atomic weapons of nuclear powers is that those powers don't
have a free and sovereign control of these weapons and at some level must be
aware of that limitation which may make the stockpiling of such arsenals appear
futile.
4-At least some Aliens appear to play a seminal role in transferring and launching new technologies which have revolutionized life on earth in the last half a century more than all the changes that occurred in previous centuries. There are many accounts from people in position of authority tracing such breakthroughs as lasers, fiber optics, silicon chips, artificial intelligence, the Internet, quantum and cloud computing and nano-technology to the reverse engineering of "exotic" samples at the Foreign Technology desk of the Pentagon, ATIC at Wright Patterson Base, DARPA, Area 51's Dreamland, Rand and other known and unknown public and corporate laboratories and think tanks. Other, even more game-changing "discoveries" are in the pipeline, many locked in the more than five thousand patents that the U.S. Government took "off the table" by secrecy orders for national security reasons since 1951 (G. C. Schultz, Center for Investigative Reporting, 04-16-13, click here).
Although the sheer volume of
innovation appears too massive to be absorbed by the body politic and the
economy in a short span of time, some of the most critical opportunities in
the areas of energy generation, high speed propulsion and new materials are
clearly being hidden, restricted and denied by those who have access to them in
the government or in the private sector out of sheer greed and lust for power.
While the U.S.
Military-Industrial complex wishes to control and dominate "battlefield earth"
for generations to come and thus fears all possible rivals, major corporations
wish to continue as long as possible their exploitation of fossil fuels and
other resources in which they have gigantic investments. They arguably fear
above all the impact of a decentralized energy generation process which would
make power plants, stations and grids redundant and would provide all people to
free, potentially unlimited access to electricity on a local or even individual
basis. The global ambitions and the financial income of some dominant elites
are indisputably threatened by the ongoing process of ET-inspired transition to
new form of socio-political and economic organization.
Given that elected government
officials, in the USA and in other countries even at the highest level seem to
have incomplete or even scant knowledge of the "Alien" situation, the
inescapable conclusion is that other, not publicly identified and unelected
persons and agencies are managing it and not keeping executive and legislative
decision-makers informed. The existence of a secret government at least in the
5-The fact that the Aliens who are present here must all be more developed, technically if not biologically and mentally than us logically leads us to think that they must be much older in the scale of evolution, and indeed many of the statements reported by abductees as well as by government and military-related sources confirm that the Aliens are far ahead of us in many if not all areas to the extent that their understanding and awareness of the universal reality is too complex for our minds. That lends credence to the often heard claim that they have been coming to Earth for thousands of "our" years, have played a critical role in our evolution, even allegedly genetically engineering our homo sapiens ancestors an shaping our religious beliefs, either by sending us "prophets" or "gods" to teach us or by projecting visions of the icons and symbols which many people have worshipped through the ages and still do.
6-Finally, the irruption on the world stage of the ET factor is likely to bring about radical geo-political changes once inter-national and inter-civilizational divisions fade into relative insignificance compared with mankind's natural unity and solidarity in the midst of a densely populated universe or multiverse teeming with life, some much more evolved and sophisticated than our own. What effect that would have is still a matter of speculation. Would it lead to further disorder and strife or to the rapid formation of a global government over and above discredited and collapsing national authorities once their inability to face the ET issue and their failure to tell the truth to their citizens are exposed? Would the power shift already taking place in the world -- from G-7 to BRICS, from West to East -- accelerate or would a new balance emerge as in the 1815 Vienna Congress or the 1945 Yalta Summit?
The answers to those questions
may be forthcoming in the next very few years and the recent
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