Exopolitics Magazine edition 1 by British Exopolitics Expo by Exopolitics Hungary

Welcome to the first edition of Exopolitics

magazine, a magazine dedicated to the study of UFOs and the progression of Ufology. Within these pages you will find articles on some of the topics and themes that will come under the lens at the Annual British Exopolitics Expo and the Extraterrestrial Communication Conference in the summer of 2014.

caused phenomena; this includes the extraterrestrial hypothesis but also other explanations such as interdimensional, time travel and also spiritual explanations.

The evidence for this goes back far into recorded history. What we are experiencing collectively may not be new. Throughout history the ruling paradigm of the time – enforced for political or theological purposes – has always come to be challenged and The term “Exopolitics”, meaning the politics of our undermined, not necessarily by the beliefs and interactions with others not of this planet, brings practices of percieved heretics to othodoxy, but by with it the challenge of framing it within what the very nature of reality itself. is now nearly seven decades of UFO sightings, intrigue, misinformation, disinformation, media spin, If we are in similar times, albeit placed into our civilizations circumstances, then we should not be propaganda and even psychological operations. too surprised when the end result of deception is This challenge means that the data presented ultimately revelation. at the Exopolitics Expo is not always necessarily “exopolitical”, nor is it necessarily old-school UFO disclosure is often expressed in terms of the “ufological”. It is presented however to allow a authority that an official body has to disclose it. broader and clearer cognisance of our own place in While politics (and indeed exo-politics) describes the policies of instruments and institutions of our this world. society – rarely do people consider that it relates to This is a necessary prerequisite for understanding the intent of being of the individual aswell. – or rather – comprehending our interactions with, or the influence of, any “others” terrestrial or other- Whatever the true nature of the UFO phenomenon is, we, as sentient and sovereign human beings, are wise. all the authority that UFO disclosure needs. That “others” exist is evidenced by the meticulous work of researchers, stretching over the last seven Therefore, in that sense, this is disclosure. decades; work that leads people to consider various points of origin for what is inarguably intelligently Anthony Beckett — May 10th, 2014 www.exopoliticsgb.com www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

Contents Expand Your Reality!

Flying Saucers, Contactees and Extraterrestrial Communication

Looking back at ‘Contact’

Upcoming Conferences

Dr. George King: Contactee with the Gods from Space

Belief or Proof?

The John Lennon UFO Story

Porn, Scorn and Evolutionary Apex Points

Book Review: ‘Encounter in Rendlesham Forest’

Open Letters: An exopolitical walk down memory lane

“Is there anybody out there?”

Speaker Profile: Richard Dolan

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Expand Your Reality! by Andrew Johnson “Religion, which is the relationship of a being to its Creator. Here we have a hodge-podge of superstition dressed up in pageantry giving lip service to something in which very few people actually believe, and practically no one knows anything about. Every great religion says ‘Love Thy God’ but how many understand what this means?” – Wilbert Brockhouse Smith By listening to and in some cases, vicariously re-living the experiences of contactees such as Travis Walton, Leah Haley and others, we are challenged to realise and accept that we are indeed “not alone.” Non-human beings have been interacting with us – even manipulating us – for centuries. This is just one aspect of how our consciousness can be changed, but there are many other examples of things we can study that can force us into a new understanding of our true nature and our place within the universe.

Thinking of UFO’s and ET’s The UFO/ET subject is hugely complicated and filled with contradictions, puzzles and challenges. For all those people that explore this field and whose curiosity or experiences propel them past the study of “lights in the sky,” they will start to encounter something more profound. Their understanding of the universe will most likely change – perhaps gradually, or even quite suddenly. They may therefore experience a huge shift in their consciousness. Similarly, for people like me who have “an itch” and start to “scratch through” the veneer of reality, a change in consciousness often occurs – we see a larger reality, with more distant and stranger horizons. These new perspectives make us think and even behave in new ways. In many cases, things that once seemed important to us become less and less significant. The age old questions of “What am I doing here? Where did I come from? Is there a creator?” can take on a new dimension – as we begin to consider the possibility that we are part of a larger, grand “Cosmic Plan.”

What Wilbert Smith Learned ... over 50 years ago! In talking about the UFO/ET subject and consciousness, I feel I cannot pass on an opportunity to mention Wilbert Smith, the Canadian Radio Engineer, inventor and contactee. Through the work of Grant Cameron and others, I learned of Smith’s writings about “The Boys Topside,” as well as his realisation that metaphysics and a study of consciousness were of huge importance in understanding the whole UFO/ET phenomenon. (I hope that Grant Cameron will also be addressing this in his own presentation at Exopolitics 2014.) Smith realised that we have to consider ourselves in a much larger “scheme of things.” Smith said that he was told by his contacts that all of us have come here “to experience a sequence of events” and that some things in this sequence “must not be changed.”

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human culture, civilisation and thinking for thousands of years. For millions of people even today, following a religion dictates many of their daily routines - from cradle to grave. Only a small percentage of them will stop to consider “where their religion came from”. In my presentation at the Exo- Christians, for example, may not politics 2014 conference, I hope stop to consider there are over to share a few of the pieces of 30,000 branches or denominaevidence I have come across which tions of their religion. For most, have shaped my thinking and my they will have never heard of understanding of consciousness. the connection of Christianity to I hope that a presentation of this Gnosticism. evidence will give people a better appreciation of some facets of the I had never even heard of GnostiET/UFO phenomenon and how it cism until about 5 or 10 years ago. My interpretation of it is that it is can fit in to a “larger view of us.” based around an “inner knowing” (gnosis) and understanding that UFO Religion? Ironically, “UFOlogy” is classed by we are indeed not just “physical some people as a kind of “religion” beings”. In an essay, author John – as if it is something that is based Lamb Lash suggests “Gnosis is on belief or faith only, with no hard intuitive knowing of the heart evidence and/or not something that liberates us from social conyou can have personal experience ditioning and ego-fixation.” The of. This classification is all too often fundamental point here is one of made by those in the mainstream knowing, not believing – Gnostiwho have a “reductionist” view of cism encourages the development the world and who will reject any of inner knowledge – not faith or evidence that proves, or strongly belief. A number of people have spoken about “finding a path” during their search for the truth – as if they have become aware that there is, indeed, a “sequence of events” they need to experience or “align with” in some way.

indicates, that human beings are not just a collection of water and other chemicals that have self-organised over billions of years to become some type of “sophisticated organic robot.”

Separately, in Lash’s work, he refers to the Archons – a group who came to the earth and began to “mess with” humans – in an attempt to control them, it seems. Indeed, most religions suggest that Like others, I have in the past, “other beings” play some role in argued that evidence which proves our history (angels, demons etc.) that ET’s have been interacting and books have been written dewith mankind is quickly “shut out” scribing, in some cases, how these by those who cannot let go of appear to be ET’s or aliens of some their own beliefs about what they kind. However, these stories so think is the nature of the universe. often seem to be over-simplified That is, it is the naysayers and re- in scripture and other religious ductionists who are the victims of writings and these writings often a belief system, not those who are seem to lack important details. witnesses, experiencers and conI have heard it said that the one tactees. thing that is common to all reliOrganised religion has shaped gions are writings about or recogwww.exopoliticsmagazine.com

nition of the Mystical Experience – an experience which alters one’s view of the world and the universe – through some kind of connection to a “larger reality.” This could be described as “talking to god” or undergoing an out-of-body experience, where you may zoom away from yourself and get a sensation of what it is like to have another form of being.

Transcendental Experiences from Fungi and Plants John Lash also discusses the role of psychoactive mushrooms (and plants) in shamanic practices which, it would seem, are all about changing our self-awareness and interacting with “other realms.” In Western Cultures (such as our own), experimentation with these sorts of substances is frowned upon and, in the main, discouraged. Also, possession of some substances having psychoactive effects is legislated against in our culture. Is someone or some group worried that experiencing these “other realms” can catalyse the acquisition of profound new knowledge which would result in a new understanding of ourselves? Another “substance” that has received more attention in recent years is Ayahuasca – a “brew” of

plants which is made by Shaman in Peru. People can drink this as a way of ingesting DMT (di-methyl-tryptamine) – a substance which has a profound effect on a person’s conscious experience. When a person 6

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is under the influence of DMT, they report various unusual effects – such as coming into contact with intelligent but distinctly non-human entities. Some people seem to be able to communicate with their “spirit guide” or even with an entity known in Gnostic teachings as “Sophia” – a “fallen goddess” who now inhabits the earth. (This is explored in more depth on John Lash’s metahistory.org website.)

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cases where it can be proved these people had no access to information nor could they have actually witnessed what they reported when they recovered.

Despite sceptics’ and reductionists’ attempts to explain the evidence, I can only, rationally, come to conclusions similar to those that figures such as Dr Peter Fenwick, Dr Michael Sabom and Dr Jeffery Long have documented UFO/alien contactee/abductees and written about. I have no doubt often report that they have had that in many documented NDE some type of psychic, transcen- cases; the person’s consciousdental or mystical experience ness became separated from their – either before their abduction physical body and then, at a later or even as a result of it – so it point, returned. This is a profound seems clear that considerations conclusion – yet it is not taught in of altered or expanded conscious- any school subject and is not accuness are one of the central issues rately described and characterised in the contactee/abduction phe- in any religious writings that I am nomenon (and this has been aware of. written about by several authors, including Dr Karla Turner). Wingmakers and the Lyricus

Near Death Experiences’s Often written off by the medical profession as an aberration in the brain’s operation caused by hypoxia (a lack of oxygen), Near Death Experiences (NDE’s), I have concluded, also offer us important and potentially transformative knowledge about ourselves.

WingMakers is part of the mythological expression of Lyricus that typically accompanies its first exterial expression within a species. It is the “calling card”, announcing its initial approach as it treads softly among the species to which it serves. WingMakers is the mythological expression of the underlying structure of the Lyricus Teaching Order. It is symbolic of how Lyricus is brought to the planet.

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Some years ago now, I was told about an unusual Website called “Wingmakers” (wingmakers.com). Thought by some to be an “Elaborate Marketing Scheme”, this site offers some detailed information and distinctive and provocative graphics and music. It talks about a “mythology” and “a central race” that is here to help us discover the “grand portal” – of consciousness.

The associated Lyricus Website (www.lyricus.org) contains another section of “FAQs” (frequently asked questions) – one of which is, “What is the definition of the soul?” Part of the answer is given below: The soul is literally a God Fragment that is composed of a hierarchy of capabilities and functionality that permit it to be simultaneously individuated and whole. As it enters the soul carrier at or near the physical birth, it begins to form a matrix of interaction with the soul carrier…

How is it possible for people to gain specific information when they are “clinically dead,” uncon- It is a complex and detailed site – scious and even “flat-line”? containing thousands of pages (and therefore dissimilar to other sites How can that information be accu- which just want to make money rately transferred to their memory, or start a “pyramid” scheme). so that they can describe to people Personally I think, the skill of prewhat was happening to them – or sentation of the material, and the what was happening a few metres depth and eloquence therein is away, behind walls and/or closed “a level above” what I have seen Whether it is just because this defidoors, when they were “deaf and elsewhere. Wingmakers is linked nition “fits” with the way I think from an engineer’s perspective, I blind” in unconsciousness? to another site called Lyricus. don’t know, but nowhere else have There are now hundreds or maybe According to the bibliotecapleya- I seen this sort of language used to describe what might loosely even thousands of documented des.net website: www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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be called “spiritual matters” or “matters pertaining to the nature of the soul.” Further study of the FAQ may leave one wondering what this site is actually for.

stories” he read out an example of a News Story that you would never hear being broadcast in a mainstream bulletin. “Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There’s no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we’re the imagination of ourselves…. Here’s Tom with the weather.”

A Summary by Bill Hicks So, in studying the UFO/ET phenomenon honestly, we are soon confronted with questions about our “full selves” – and what we are made of. We must consider questions of time, evolution, mind, body, soul and consciousness. In the 1990’s I became aware of comedian Bill Hicks – who developed quite a big following in the UK. Within some very blue and quite

political stand-up routines, he would suddenly change the subject and talk about the true nature of ourselves and what we were doing here. He spoke I think Bill Hick’s was right… out against the demonization of By Andrew Johnson hallucinogenic drugs and in one May 2014 such “rant”, about “positive drugs

About the author Andrew Johnson, born in 1964 in hamshire College. After moving Keighley, West Yorkshire, but now back into industry he was offered lives near Derby. Having been ed- software development work based ucated at Ermysted’s Grammar School in Skipton with ‘A’ Levels in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and General Studies he went on to Lancaster University do a degree in Computer Science (with a minor module of Physics) and graduated in 1986. He worked in Software Engineering (real-time software process control and telecommunications) before developing an interest in teaching and education and spent two years as a lecturer on BTEC National and Higher National Diploma Courses at West Notting-

jobs, earning most of his income from assessing disabled students for access to assistive technology for higher education. He also tutors part time on an Open University course called “Computers and Processors”. He began actively campaigning about 9/11 issues in September 2004 and is an active campaigner and researcher in other areas including Exopolitics & Disclosure, Evidence for Extra-terrestrial Civilizations, Chemtrails, and suppressed “Free Energy” Technologies.

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Flying Saucers, Contactees and Extraterrestrial Communication by Anthony Beckett

Flying Saucers, Contactees and Extraterrestrial Communication By Anthony Beckett “It was learned that the aliens had been and were then manipulating masses of people through secret societies, witchcraft, magic, the occult, and religion.” - The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12 by Milton William Cooper, 1989

I first heard Bill Cooper’s

voice in 1994. The above quote, spoken by the controversial ufologist and whistleblower at a 1989 MUFON lecture, was used in a piece of music by the band Eat Static on a track called Abnormal Interference on their 1994 album Implant. It was possibly the first time I’d heard it suggested that extraterrestrials would seek to influence human culture through the manipulation of people at such an all-encompassing level. It was Cooper’s claim that, not only did the US government know from very early on that extraterrestrial contact was going on, but it was interfering with society, and was outside of the ability of the government to control it. The tone implied that this was something to be afraid of.

Disks, cigars and saucers On June 24, 1947, American aviator and businessman Kenneth Arnold from Boise, Idaho witnessed ten unusual objects in the skies over Washington, USA. He had been flying his private plane near Mt. Rainier in western Washington State when he encountered flying craft that were “half-moon shaped, oval in front and convex in the rear”. The unusual aircraft he described as “something like a pie plate that was cut in half with a sort of a convex triangle in the rear”. According to Arnold “they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water”. It is perhaps ironic that it was the press who, when reporting his sighting, misquoted Arnold and coined the term “flying saucer” that would come into widespread use.

Interestingly, Arnold’s description of the craft in this case bears a close resemblance to the advanced It is of course possible for governments and other aircraft design created by Walter Horton and his terrestrial organisations to utilise these same facets of human society for the perversion of reality and the manipulation of others. So, is there any evidence of this outside of unverified claims of alleged insiders? Where could we start our search for signs of it? Well, the controversial contactees of the 1950’s come to mind. Their claims of extraterrestrials living on planet Venus for instance, a planet that later space exploration showed to be inhospitable and far from an abode of recognisable life, make those initial claims seem a little foolish on the surface. However, before we delve a bit deeper into that, we brother Reimar, rather than the widely understood will start our story with a step back to a time in recent shape of a flying saucer. German aircraft using the history, before the contactee movement began... Horton Flying-wing design flew in the closing stages of World War II and a similar flying-wing aircraft was www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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designed by leading US aircraft manufacturer the Northrop Corporation. The US design was built by the Glenn L. Martin Company in 1944 but technical difficulties and, not surprisingly, the end of WWII saw the cancellation of the operational program. Development work however continued and the first US jet-powered flying wing, the Northrop YB-49, was first flown on October 21, 1947, only a few months after Arnold’s sighting. While Arnold discription of the craft is similar, the flight characteristics he described differs; with the “skipped it across the water” remark impling a characteristic wobbling motion. There had of course been sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena prior to this; such as the Scandinavian “ghost rockets” of 1946 and the phenomena described as “balls of fire” that accompanying planes during World War II that became known as “foo fighters”. There had been sightings of cigar-shaped and disk-shaped craft too; such as the object that was responsible for the Los Angeles Air Raid incident of 1942, that saw five

An Encounter in Brontë Country

The Aviation Technology Backdrop

An early cigar-shape craft sighting that predates international air travel was recorded by two Police Constables who had been on patrol in the village of Haworth, West Yorkshire at the turn of the 20th Century. Haworth is only a couple of miles from where I live and it would have been as typical a Yorkshire village as you could get back in 1901.

In the modern era flight was first achieved with the use of buoyant vehicles. Airships and blimps are buoyant due to them being lighter than air and were invented during the late 19th century. Aerodynamic flight using an aerofoil to generate lift, mirroring the flight of birds, was first demonstrated by the Wright Brothers in 1903 and their first fixed wing aircraft was developed between the years Situated at the edge of the high 1905 and 1907. While propulsion moorland of the Pennine Hills, it to achieve flight went on to use is famous for being the home of chemical rockets, and later ion classic writers, the Brontë sisters, drives in spacecraft, these both and was the backdrop to Emily use mass displacement to achieve Brontë’s posthumously published propulsion to generate lift. Wuthering Heights only 16 years earlier. The same desolate land- If conventional thinkers are to be scape that inspired Wuthering believed, human ingenuity has Heights came to find Police Con- not progressed beyond these stables Johnson and Clark on basic three methods of maintainpatrol around the winter solstice. ing flight; buoyant vehicles, the aerodynamic aerofoil and mass December 21st, 1901 was report- displacement using rockets and edly a cold and clear night and, as jets etc. Technological advances Constable Johnson was checking a are thus seen to be limited to adbootblack’s (shoe polisher’s) door, vancing these particular modes Constable Clark saw a pale green of flight. However, evidence light engulf them both. Looking of another leap forward in our up they saw a cigar-shaped craft ability to achieve flight, overcomhovering approximately 100 feet ing gravity, came shortly after the above them. The light was so Wright Brothers took to the skies. bright that several other people were aroused to witness the spec- Anti-gravity Aircraft tacle. They watched the object for In 1921 Thomas Townsend Brown approximately 10 minutes after discovered a physical phenomewhich time, the green light went non that became known as the out and the object moved towards Biefield-Brown effect; joint credit the horizon. is given to his mentor from Califor-

While commercial international air travel did not exist in 1901 it is not inconceivable that dirigibles could have been in responsible for 1942 photo of the LA Air Raid flying disk cigar shaped objects in the skies during that period. However the civilians die as an indirect result of specifics of the sighting do seem anti-aircraft fire directed against a to preclude the notion that the flying disk. object was an airship or a blimp. www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

nia Institute of Technology, Dr. Paul Biefeld. This discovery kick-started his work towards developing electrogravitic propulsion and attaining flight by controlling gravity using electrical means.

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to various scientists and military officials such as top military officer Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the commander-in-chief for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. By some accounts various companies were investigating the use of anti-gravity platforms up until the early 1950’s. Indeed John Lear claims that his father Bill Lear, the founder of the Lear Jet Corporation and inventor of the Lear jet, worked on such a program in the 1950’s; only to lose his position because, according to his son, he “couldn’t keep his mouth shut”. Over a century after Townsend Brown felt the kick of his Coolidge X-ray tube, and wondered how a solid state device with no moving parts could “kick” at all, we have not seen the harnessing of that potential fourth generation of aviation in the open – or, have we? Aviation Journalist Nick Cook in his book “Hunt for Zero Point” details the point at which he believes reporting of this kind of technological development ceased being discussed in the open. In 1954 it would seem, something had changed, and open (acknowledged) development of this technology stopped all together. A cursory look at this raises the simple question: did the open development of antigravity aviation stop in 1954 because the technology didn’t work? — Or did it stop because it did work? Townsend Brown would go on to found the civilian unidentified flying object research group NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) in 1956. Still in the early 1950’s, reports of unusual disk shaped and cigar shaped aircraft would continue.

The “UFO” Problem

“Flying Saucers Have Central to the widely held ufolog- Landed” ical view is the premise that flying disks, cigars and saucers, objects that the US Air Force would rename as UFOB -- “Unidentified Flying OBjects” in 1953, are extraterrestrial in origin.

George Adamski was a polish born American occultist who, while not the first, is arguably the most famous, or perhaps infamous, of the contactees who claim to have met the occupants of the saucers. This contactee movement sprang However, the term UFO, or up in the early 1950’s and would originally “UFOB”, was stated as change the cultural lens through being: which “flying saucers”, now called “unidentified flying objects” “any airborne object which would be seen. by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual Adamski claimed to have met an features, does not conform to extraterrestrial in the California any presently known aircraft desert in 1954 in a meeting witor missile type, or which can- nessed from a distance by several not be positively identified as a close friends. The extraterrestrial, familiar object.” calling himself Orthon, claimed to be from the planet Venus. Tales of There is clearly a recorded history Adamski’s extraterrestrial encounof a terrestrial origin for early ters and the teachings imparted to “flying saucer” development in him by Orthon were published in the United States; and claims the 1953 blockbuster book “Flying that even more advanced devel- Saucers Have Landed” which was opments were under way under co-authored by the British writer the Third Reich. This technology Desmond Leslie. is seen to have ended up in the hands of the United States and At the time of his encounters the Soviet Union after WWII. The Adamski lived and worked at a researcher Joseph Farrell even ranch near California’s Palomar postulates that the technology Mountain where he flipped may have stayed in Nazi-hands burgers in the Palomar Gardens post-war and could perhaps have Café. His first encounter with been flown out of Argentina under what we can regard as a UFO was the Perón government - although on October 9th, 1946, when he not necessarily under the control and a number of friends claimed of it - perhaps as an extra-territo- to have witnessed a huge cigarrial Nazi state. shaped object they described as a “mother-ship” while observing the It is against this technological Orionid meteor shower. backdrop, two years after the non-specific term “UFO” was In 1947 he witnessed another invented by the US Air Force, and huge cigar-shaped object that he around the same time that the de- was able to photograph. After velopment of antigravity platforms another sighting in 1950 it was late by terrestrial corporations ceased autumn of 1952 when, accordbeing discussed in the open, that ing to Adamski and his friends, it we find one of the more contro- seems that the flying saucers had versial areas in the UFO arena. landed. www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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“A Human Being from another World!” On November 20th, 1952 George Adamski set out into the Mojave Desert, with his secretary and the owner of the café where he worked, on a sky-watch looking for flying saucers. At 8am that morning they met with a number of friends, including George Hunt Williamson who would later become a well-known contactee himself, and together they drove towards the town of Desert Center, California before heading northeast to the town of Parker in Arizona, where they stopped for a meal before beginning their skywatch. It was then that, according to Adamski: “riding high and without sound, there was a gigantic cigar-shaped silvery ship” At which point Williamson asked “is that a spaceship?” Adamski yelled “Someone take me down the road, quick! That ship has come looking for me and I don’t want to keep them waiting!” Jumping in a car with two of his intrepid sky-watchers they drove half a mile down the road and, with the object shadowing them, Adamski told the driver to turn off the road. The car pulled up and Adamski exited the vehicle telling his companions to join the rest of the group half a mile away from a safe vantage point.

The Venusian “His hair was long, reaching to his shoulders, and was blowing in the wind ... He took four steps towards me, bringing us into arm’s length of each other. Now, for the first time I fully realised that I was in the presence of a man from space -- a human being from another world!... The beauty of his form surpassed anything I had ever seen. And the pleasantness of his face freed me of all thoughts of personal self. I felt like a child in the presence of one with great wisdom and much love, and I became very humble within myself ... for from him was radiating a feeling of infinite understanding and kindness, with supreme humility ... “[He had] calm, grey green eyes, slightly aslant at the corners; with slightly higher cheek bones than an Occidental, but not so high as an Indian or an Oriental; a finely chiselled nose, not conspicuously large; and an average size of mouth with beautiful white teeth that shone when he smiles and spoke. As nearly as I can describe his skin, the colouring would be an even, medium-coloured suntan”

The “being from another world” told Adamski that his name was Orthon and that he was from Venus. After warning him of the dangers of atomic weapons and wars, Orthon apparently refused to allow Adamski to take a photoThe first craft was chased away by graph of him, before he returned interceptor jets, however another to his craft and departed. Adamski “beautiful small craft” arrived then called his companions over and landed behind the crest of a and Williamson, who had had the mountain about half a mile away. foresight to bring plaster-of-paris Adamski shortly saw a figure wave on the trip, proceeded to make casts of Orthon’s footprints. to him and he walked towards it. www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

In his writings and lectures Adamski always went out of his way to make sure his followers understood that the being he encountered was an actual physical entity.

Space Brothers In common with other contactees, Adamski claimed that in his one-to-one meetings with benevolent aliens he was imparted with messages to be shared with humanity. The beings, often referred to as “Space Brothers” in contactee literature, would give contactees stern warnings about humanities new technologies — such as the use of atomic weapons. However, they would also present an offer of a fraternal assistance towards our moral and technological improvement as a species. As the proclamations of Orthon via Adamski unfold we hear that Orthon himself was not strictly an extraterrestrial in absolute origin, but had been born originally on the planet Earth and had become ascended spiritual adept that, at the time of Adamski’s meeting with him, had already passed over to the higher plane on the planet Venus.

Theosophy Revisited George Adamski was a follower of the beliefs of the Theosophical Society of the late 19th and early 20th century. In this belief system, ascended masters, often referred to as simply ‘brothers’, would offer teachings and assistance much like that offered by the 20th century’s contactee’s liaisons – who would often be referred to as ‘space brothers’. According to Madame Blavatsky, the founder of the Theosophical Society, the central theosophi13

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cal teachings of the society were the result of her instruction in an ‘ancient wisdom’ which, she claimed, was the source of the spiritual themes and ethical ideals of all the world’s religions. Throughout history, according to Blavatsky, ‘ascended masters’ taught humanity theosophical truths, and she claims that her own instructions were presented to her by a similar ‘hidden adept’ or ‘ascended master’ — of which such figures as Buddha and Jesus were included. While the masters were usually considered to reside in Tibet, it was Blavatsky’s belief that certain masters, including those she was in contact with, resided on Venus. It was Blavatsky’s belief that the true founders of the society were two ascended masters called Koot Hoomi (Kuthumi) and Morya, and that the society’s very existence was as an instrument to carry out the work of these ‘ascended masters’. The teachings of these masters were conveyed through two Anglo-Indian Theosophists, A. P. Sinnett and A. O. Hume, and were compiled in a document known as The Mahatma Letters. The mission of the society was therefore to communicate these teachings to humanity and thereby contribute to the moral and spiritual evolution of the species. These ascended masters were living, breathing, human beings whom had evolved through many reincarnations and had acquired and become a custodian of an ‘ancient wisdom’. They now sought to impart that wisdom to humanity in order to lead it into a new age of spiritual and global community.

A Contactee Doctrine While there are some differences between the theosophical masters and the early accounts of aliens given by many contactees such as Adamski, these differences are quite superficial when compared to the similarities. Both the ascended masters and the aliens are seen to be highly spiritually evolved and more technologically advanced. They are both apparently benevolent beings with a deep concern for humanity’s salvation and its disregard for the planet Earth. The principal religious themes of the Theosophical Society, described by Madame Blavatsky in her book The Secret Doctrine, bear many close similarities to the beliefs and intentions of Orthon and also extraterrestrials who visited other contactees. The principles of Theosophical Society as described by Blavatsky are:

guides. In addition to the spiritual aspect there is a notable physical aspect to them; they are considered to have a better understanding of the physical nature of the cosmos (a natural philosophy perhaps) and also utilise this wisdom in their superior science and technology. It would appear therefore that George Adamski’s claims regarding his Venusian contact was, at one level, a re-interpretation of a pre-existing philosophy of Theosophy — in which ascended masters of the Venusian variety — came to be called the “Space Brothers”.

Alleged Military Figures Influence on Adamski

Back in the Palomar café in 1946, according to Adamski, it was a chance meeting with six military officers that first suggested to him the idea that the flying saucers and cigar shaped craft that were being witnessed were of extra-terrestri1. To form a Universal Broth- al in origin. Prior to this meeting erhood of Humanity without Adamski claims that he had conthe distinction of race, colour cluded that such craft must have or creed. been some secret military project. 2. To promote the study of Aryan and other Scriptures, of the world’s religion and sciences, and to vindicate the importance of old Asiatic literature, namely, of the Brahmanical, Buddhist, and Zoroastrian philosophies. 3. To investigate the hidden mysteries of nature under every aspect possible, and the psychic and spiritual powers latent in man especially.

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While conversing with diners on the subject of the sighting of a cigar-shaped craft over San Diego several weeks earlier, Adamski notes that: “Six military officers who were sitting at another table listened intently to all points brought up. Then one of them spoke up and said, ‘It is not as fantastic as it sounds. We know something about this.’ I immediately asked what knowledge they had, but they would not reveal it. Yet they assured us that the ship we had seen and were discussing was not of this world.” 14

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Adamski also claims to have been asked by people working for the military to attempt to take photographs of flying saucers: “Then late in 1949 four men came into the café at Palomar Gardens. Two of them had been in before and we had talked a little about the flying saucers. This day it was around noon, and raining -- really pouring. They ordered some lunch and we began talking about flying saucers again. One of these men was Mr J. P. Maxfield, and another his partner, Mr G. L. Bloom, both from Point Loma, Navy Electronics Laboratory near San Diego. The other two men were from a similar setup in Pasadena. One was in officers’ uniform... “They asked me if I could cooperate with them in trying to get photographs of strange craft moving through space, since I had smaller instruments than those at the big Observatory. I could manoeuvre mine more easily than those on top could be moved, especially my 6-incher, which was without a dome. I could point it as much as pointing a gun at ducks... “I asked them where I should look to be the most likely to see the strange objects which they were asking me to try to photograph. We discussed the pros and cons of the possibility of bases being on the moon for interplanetary craft. And finally the moon was decided upon as a good spot for careful observation.” Researcher Joseph Farrell points out that it is unlikely that the military would be in such need to ask an amateur astronomer

and photographer to photograph these elusive craft “unless it was trying to manipulate him”.

Post-NICAP UFO Reports The aforementioned inventor, Townsend Brown had founded the civilian unidentified flying object research group NICAP in 1956 – the first such organisation that would be a model for later groups such as MUFON. After leaving the organisation Brown would continue to assess UFO reports. To help her father, Brown’s daughter Linda would read through these reports to help organise them. She recalls that her father would often use the term “Adamski Scout Craft” in reference to certain descriptions. She also handled a model of one that he kept on his desk – only to be told that it was one of the most expensive paperweights in the world.

ing Saucers (this is the fifties remember) were either ridiculous fantasies or were dangerous and needed to be shot full of holes… I just thought they were being silly to not see something that I recognized as obviously real… and the shape of the ‘saucers’ which were ‘wobbling’ were generally reported in those years as ... what Dad referred to as ‘the Adamski Scout Ship’ style.”

Thomas Townsend Brown’s Flying Capacitors

Townsend Brown had continued to work on the development of technology using the phenomenon that he discovered in 1918 while a student at California Institute of Technology. This early work led to a career on classified military projects and he is linked to work on the Philadelphia Experiment for U.S. Navy. While the detail of his work for the military She would read through many of is uncertain, what is known of his his documents that came through work comes after he re-joined from Townsend’s colleagues at civilian life. NICAP even after he had officially left the organisation: In 1957 Brown met Agnew Bahson, a pilot who was working at a private “Material was being sent to funded laboratory in Windsonhim by Rose Hacket, his for- Salem. Bahson was experimenting mer secretary at NICAP. She with electrodynamics and had stayed on with NICAP after gravitation with the objective Dad left for Florida but it was of revolutionising the science of obvious that she was still work- aeronautics. Together with Brown ing for him and I always looked they worked towards harnessing forward to these stacks of re- the lift and trust potential of the ports that she sent us. [It was] Biefield-Brown effect; refining always interesting reading the Brown’s earlier disk shaped reports of saucer sightings “condensors”. around the world. And it was then that he handed me those Inspired by a visit by Physicist reports and told me to concen- Bryce DeWitt and his wife Cécile trate on the ‘saucers that wob- DeWitt-Morette, both professors bled.’ ‘Those are ours’ he said. at the University of North Carolina, Bahson and Brown shifted their “I used to get into terrible fights focus to “parabolic canopy” design with my classmates at school as these proved more successful because they all thought Fly- than the earlier “condenser” type www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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disks. In film footage of the lab, the pair, along with J Frank King Jr. and Beth Ball, can be seen celebrating achieving 100% counterbary by drinking champagne out of laboratory beakers.

Brown’s “Adamski Scout Ship”

Although it is not known if Townsend Browns path ever crossed with that of George Adamski, it is known that Adamski visited the Bahson labs on September 12th 1960, after Brown had parted company with Bahson.

The Photographs

At his initial encounter with Orthon, Adamski’s request to take photographs was apparently refused. However, he claims to have photographed his Venusian Scout Craft on multiple occasions and even to have taken movie film This design, rather than being a of the object in the 1960’s. These classic saucer shape, is still circular photographs have been the source and could be described as half an of controversy for decades with oyster shell, hollowed out with some prominent UFO researchers three spherical nodes extending referring to them as being “obvislightly below the skirt of the shell. ously faked”. More remarkably is the cylindrical dome shape compartment, It is here that we find another situated above the disk complete anomalous coincidence with the style of the alleged Venusian Scout with portholes. In addition to the “condenser” and the “parabolic canopy” models tested by Bahson and Brown, they also tested experimental models that resembled an “Adamski Scout Ship”.

Craft. This distinctive style can be seen in the photograph taken by Stephen Darbishire in Coniston in Cumbria, England in the 1950’s. Stephen eventually declared the photograph to be a hoax, however in letters to UFO researcher Timothy Good in the 1990’s, Stephen informed Good that the photographs were indeed authentic; he claimed to have only recanted his initial claim of authenticity after the pressure of unwanted publicity got too much.

Another Time and Place Like the DeLorean car in the 1984 Spielberg movie “Back To The Future”, kitted out by a fictional inventor (Dr. Brown) with its famous “flux capacitor”, Adamski’s 1950’s depiction of an alien spacecraft looks dated and a symbol of its time.

Images taken by George Adamski; (below) taken in 1952, and (right) a frame from a movie film taken in 1965 of a “Venusian Scout Craft”.

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It is Joseph Farrell’s premise that the craft that George Adamski witnessed — if he witnessed anything at all — was a terrestrially built “flying saucer”. This would perhaps account for the “retro” appearance of the craft; whose style indicates a hint of the limitations of the technological age of the 1950’s. It has been noted by other researchers that the UFO phenomenon appears to go through phases where significant aspects of UFO sightings can dominate the phenomenon only to disappear over a period of time. It is interesting to consider that rather than the phenomenon itself being the driving force of this change, it is possible that the change is indeed driven by our own society. This need not necessarily be due to terrestrial UFO vehicles and occupants following human societal trends. If consciousness is indeed a factor, and the UFO phenomenon somehow draws from our own consciousness as suggested by some researchers, that could perhaps manifest as significant trends in the phenomenon; either driven by our expectation of it or by drawing from the witness in its manifestation. However this is just speculation.

Another Dimension What we do know, is that George Adamski made it his mission to continue an established tradition of contact with “others” specifically through channelled communications with the “ascended masters” of theosophy. It is here that the similarity between this aspect of Adamski’s contacts and that of other contactees lies. George Hunt Williamson, who was

with Adamski immediately prior to his initial contact with Orthon, claimed to have had contact experience himself; however this was limited to channelling. The British contactee George King channelled and claimed to “meet” with Venusian masters. Unlike Adamski however, neither King nor Williamson attempted to claim that these “masters” where entirely physical aliens.

the cultures that worship Sirius and whose symbol for it is a five pointed star – in common to other symbols of Venus.

Transmission of spiritual energy

The Aetherius Society is an organisation established by contactee George King and named after an ascended master named Aetherius. A central tenet of the society is that its followers actively This view has more commonality engage in transmission of spiritual with contactees such as Barbara energy; a concept in common with Marciniak and her channelled ‘shaktipat’ (sending energy) in contact with the Pleiadians. Acthe both the Hindu and Buddhist cording to their imparted infortraditions. mation, the Pleiadians are from the constellation Pleiades; a star According to the Theosophical cluster that, in our cosmology is writers, Alice Bailey and Benjamin deemed too young to be have Crème, the Seven Stars of the given rise to an extraterrestrial Pleiades are believed to be the civilisation, being only about 70 source of transmission of spiritumillion years old. However, acal energy; part of a transmission cording to the Pleiadians commuthat is collectively called the Seven nique, they not only convey their Rays. According to Theosophy, an messages over space but over ascended master who resides at time too, emanating from a future the Galactic Centre transmits this civilisation in that location. spiritual energy to the Seven Stars of the Great Bear, then on to Sirius. Comparative Mythology From Sirius, so theosophists tell British researcher Pierre Sabak us, it travels to our Sun and then suggests that the meaning of the on to the ascended master Sanat term Venus in theosophy, and thus Kumara (referred to as the god the related contactee doctrine, of Earth) and finally through the may be different from being seven Masters of the Seven Rays simply a reference to an ascended (traditionally Tibetan masters) to abode on the second planet from the human race. our Sun. According to Sabak, his study into comparative linguistics An Intelligence Problem indicates that Venus, the name of The veracity of claims of chanthe Roman goddess, may actually nelled information and transferbe a covert reference to Sirius – ence of spiritual energy aside for the Dog Star. a moment; the main thing that strikes home is that contact with Sirius is in the constellation Canis extraterrestrials, as claimed by Major and is the brightest star in the spiritualist contactees such the night sky. There is also a symGeorge Adamski, is not a phenombolism reference linking Venus enon solely of the 1950’s era. It is and Sirius. The Dogon tribe of Mali a system of alleged communicaand the Serer of the Senegal and tion and influence that, as we can Gambia, West Africa, are among www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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see with the Theosophical Society, has a lineage that goes back much further. With regards to the veracity of the information, is it something we can prove? Science deals with natural things only and thus it cannot describe the big picture for the simple reason that channelled information — regardless of its actual origin — is born of intelligence, an artefact of a conscious mind, and therefore it can only be dealt with from that perspective.

intelligence. If I get 95 percent of the data I know this is the ‘cheap’ part of the information. I still need the other 5%, but I will have to pay a higher price to get it. You see, Hilter had 95 per cent of the information about the landing in Normandy. But he had the wrong 95 per cent!’” So what of Bill Coopers claim that the U.S. Government and military had “learned that the aliens had been and were then manipulating masses of people through secret societies, witchcraft, magic, the occult, and religion”?

In this limited and, in many ways simplistic look at extraterrestrial communication, we have seen that communication is on the whole seen as positive and indicative of benevolent beings looking out for humanity. In the rationalisation that can be found in the literature of UFO religious belief systems there are subtle contradictions regarding extraterrestrial benevolence however.

While on the one hand they claim that aliens are our benevolent kin, the Aetherius Society perspective Here, UFO researcher Jacques for example, has it is that, because Vallee explains this problem in the of our backward evolution here on context of a conversation with an Earth, the Earth has been open to acquaintance, whom has a back- We have seen that according to frequent attack from evil forces ground in US Military Intelligence. these contactees and the spiritu- from other parts of the universe, Vallee gives him the pseudonym alists it seems that, yes, from their attacks that the “masters” have Major Murphy: beliefs perspective at least, there apparently sought to repel. is a history of communication with “Now the UFO phenomenon our galactic neighbours going back So surely bad aliens must therecould be controlled by alien centuries if not millennia; a history fore be responsible for that? beings. ‘If it is,’ added the Ma- that permeates through in the trajor, ‘then the study of it doesn’t ditions of many aboriginal peoples Maybe not… belong in science. It belongs in on this planet. It would seem though, that, as intelligence’. Meaning counterespionage. And that, he point- It is of course possible that this with the so called Law of Attraced out was his domain. communication and influence tion, as a species, the terrestriis extraterrestrial contact by its al human race brings it on itself. “‘In the field of counterespio- nature and, if so, Bill Cooper’s Whatever it wants, it gets. While nage the rules are completely claim may indeed have merit. The most people engaging in contact different.’ ‘You are a scientist. question of proof here is moot in a may choose to access (commune In science there is no concept certain sense because, if it isn’t ex- with) positive benevolent forces, of ‘price’ of information. Sup- traterrestrials – then exactly who we should ask if there are those in pose I gave you 95 per cent is it that has had such a fundamen- our society who would choose to of the data concerning a phe- tal influence on many thousands seek out these negative energies nomenon. You’re happy be- if not millions of people through- alluded to by these spiritualist cause you know 95 per cent out the ages in propagating these groups? of the phenomenon. Not so in beliefs? www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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On the side of all this, there is the — shall we say, coincidence — of the development of terrestrial antigravity platforms around the time that the contactee movement began in the 1950’s.

— and literally made it occult — secret — in the process.

The space program that the world is familiar with is seen by many as a symbol of the height of human technological achievement. HowWhile the contactees revitalised ever, in the context that a secret the occult theosophical beliefs space program exists utilising in the era of the flying saucers, advanced, yet secret, technology it seems the terrestrial secret — NASA is seen as a distraction keepers, whose work would have masquerading as the pinnacle of been expected to bring about a our technical achievement. Many revolutionary technological leap authors have reported on the in aviation, took that technology occult influences at play in NASA underground, into the black world and this can been seen going back

even before NASA’s inception. The infamous occultist and rocket scientist, Jack Parsons, for instance, a key figure in the formation of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is also said to have met a “Spiritual Being”. A being that Parsons himself considered to be a Venusian. Coincidentally, this was in the same locale where eight years later George Adamski would meet with his own Venusian. By Anthony Beckett May 2014

About the author Anthony Beckett was born in 1975 in and lives near Keighley, West Yorkshire. After graduating in Chemistry at Loughborough University with honours in 1997 and gaining a Masters degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Huddersfield in 1998, he went on to work as a Pharmaceutical Development Scientist until leaving the profession 2006 having become disillusioned with the industries unethical profiteering. He is now a Software Engineer by profession and a freelance Web Designer.

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Anthony’s interest in UFOs started at an early age with newspaper reports of sightings in the Keighley area during his childhood. He continues to research the subject of UFOs, Extraterrestrial Life, Exopolitcs, Free Energy Technologies and various other subjects. Anthony organises lectures and speaking tours around the UK and organised the first European Exopolitics conference in 2009 and founded Exopolitics Great Britain. He is the creator and editor of Exopolitics Magazine. www.anthonybeckett.com

Looking back at ‘Contact’ By Robbie Graham

Looking back at ‘Contact’ By Robbie Graham In a time when the idea of alien visitation is becoming inseparable from Transformers and Battleships, the 1997 movie Contact seems more rare and precious than ever...

Based on the novel by famed astronomer Carl Sagan, the 1997

movie Contact has become a firm favourite in the UFO community. Sagan, of course, was a vehement UFO sceptic, and so it is ironic that Contact connects so profoundly with so many in the UFO field; ironic, but perhaps not surprising considering the movie lends itself freely to UFOlogical readings.

In the movie, SETI scientist Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) – whose character is inspired by real-life former SETI director Jill Tarter – discovers an alien signal beamed from Vega, a star in the constellation of Lyra, some 25 light years from Earth. Her discovery and its subsequent public disclosure by President Clinton constitutes proof that we are not alone in the universe and captures the imagination of the entire planet, sparking fervent scientific, political and religious debate. Soon, Ellie and her team realize the signal is actually a complex schematic for a transport pod designed to carry one person to a destination unknown. That destination, it transpires, is Vega itself, and is to be reached via multiple wormholes. Naturally, it is Ellie who takes the cosmic voyage, and, at the end of her epic journey, she finds herself in an elaborate simulacrum of a childhood memory: a warm beach in Pensacola, Florida. It is here that she speaks face-to-face with an alien intelligence which has assumed the form of her dead father, whom she lost as a child: “We thought this might make things easier for you,” he says, smiling gently. No little green or Grey men for Ellie, then; no flying saucers, no motherships or gleaming alien cityscapes, only a mirage of Earthly forms created for her personal comfort. “You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix,” he tells her. “You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.” She longs to learn more before being sent home, but is told “This was just a first step. In time you’ll take

another… this is the way it’s been done for billions of years. Small moves, Ellie, small moves.” And so an individual is selected for contact and provided with philosophical nuggets but zero physical evidence of their alien encounter, before being left to tell their story to whomsoever will listen. Ellie, it seems, has much in common with the contactees of UFO lore.

“I can’t prove it” Back on Earth, during a government inquiry into her claims, Ellie is reminded by a panel member that she has “no evidence, no record, no artifacts. Only a story that, to put it mildly, strains credibility.” Ellie is asked: “why don’t you simply withdraw your testimony, and concede that this ‘journey to the center of the galaxy,’ in fact, never took place?” She responds: “Because I can’t. I... had an experience... I can’t prove it, I can’t even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how rare and precious we all are! A

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vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not, that none of us, are alone! I wish I could share that. I wish that everyone, if only for one moment, could feel that awe, and humility, and hope. But... That continues to be my wish.”

servers her transport pod travelled nowhere at all. It is implied that her experience occurred in the space between spaces. Certainly it was beyond her limited comprehension and of those she would seek to convince of its actuality – something UFO witnesses can relate to.

Ellie is visibly frustrated. She has experienced direct contact with an alien intelligence, but she has done so in a manner that flies in the face of our preconceived notions (a saucer on the White House lawn, for example – a notion, which, ironically, was borne of cinema), and thus her claims are dismissed by official culture.

Contact and Clinton

An intriguing UFOlogical side-note on Contact relates to President Bill Clinton. When in the movie the President announces the discovery of the alien signal, the Clinton we see and hear is the real Clinton – which is to say his image and words have not been manipulated by the filmmakers, as could so easily have been done through As Ellie leaves her hearing, the digital trickery. The President says, hardheaded atheist realizes that in part: her contact experience was, in essence, a spiritual awakening not “...If this discovery is confirmed, so different from those claimed it will surely be one of the most by religious disciples. Indeed, the stunning insights into our universe throngs of worshippers who greet that science has ever uncovher outside with placards hailing ered. Its implications are as far her discovery of “the new world” reaching and awe inspiring as can confirm her new status as a reli- be imagined. Even as it promises gious icon. Like many a contact- answers to some of our oldest ee, Ellie has attracted followers questions, it poses still others with her stories of otherworldly even more fundamental. We will communion. Certain elements of continue to listen closely to what society see fit to believe her, while it has to say as we continue the most do not. Either way her story search for answers and for knowlis out there. edge that is as old as humanity Although Carl Sagan was UFO sceptic, the screenwriter for Contact, James V. Hart, is a self-proclaimed UFO believer. Not that this seems to have had much bearing on the film. Any UFOlogical readings we might ascribe to Contact the movie are also identifiable in the book. Intentionally or not, the idea of ‘missing time’ features prominently as Ellie assumes her hyperspatial voyage has lasted hours or even days, when to the eyes of outside ob-

itself but essential to our people’s future...”

However, these words, although actually spoken by Clinton, were presented out of context in the movie. While in the scene in question it certainly sounds like Clinton is delivering a cautious disclosure of contact with an alien intelligence, in reality his comments were delivered in August 1996 and referred to the possible discovery of fossilized microbial life in a Martian meteorite. Director www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

Robert Zemeckis simply lifted this part of Clinton’s speech and used it to heighten the believability of his fictional movie. It was a decision that landed the director in hot water with the White House, which issued a complaint to the film’s producers citing unauthorized use of the President’s image. In truth, Clinton was probably delighted to be seen on the big screen announcing alien contact. By his own public admission, the Democratic President was and is fascinated by the idea not only of extraterrestrial life, but of UFO visitation; he has even spoken publicly of his frustration at being stonewalled on the issue. At a speech in Belfast in 1995, the President made a point of bringing up the famous Roswell Incident of 1947: “If the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn’t tell me about it, either, and I want to know.” He was even more direct in a question and answer session following a speech in Hong Kong in 2005. When asked about Roswell, the President replied: “I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too. And, if there were, well I wouldn’t be the first American President that underlings have lied to, or that career bureaucrats have waited out. But there may be some career person sitting around somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents. But if so, they successfully eluded me.” A contemplative film calling to mind the likes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and even 2001: A Space Odyssey, Contact is a spectacular sci-fi that milked every penny of its $90 million budget to gross in excess of $171 million worldwide. 17 years on from its 22

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release Contact remains distinct from most all other movies to have explored the idea of human/alien interactions. It belongs to that lonely group of films which has dared to dream that life beyond the stars might one day extend to us a peaceful hand. Although from a screenwriting perspective it is arguably more challenging to explore the positive implications of otherworldly contact than the negative – explosions being easier

to pen than profound socio-political or spiritual debate – Contact is testament to the fact that the challenge can be met with gusto, and to both critical and commercial success. Here’s hoping that, in the years to come, Hollywood will be more inclined to shake ET’s hand rather than to blow it off with a bazooka and a one-liner. by Robbie Graham March 2014

About the author

Robbie Graham is the author of Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood’s UFO Movies, which is due for publication in September 2014 through White Crow Books. Robbie has been interviewed about UFOs and the politics of Hollywood for BBC Radio, Coast to Coast AM, Canal+ TV and Vanity Fair, among others. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications including The Guardian,

New Statesman, Filmfax, Fortean Times, and the peer-reviewed journal of North American Studies, 49th Parallel. He holds an MA with Distinction in Cinema Studies from the University of Bristol. As a professional educator, Robbie has designed and delivered Film and Media courses at multiple learning levels at Stafford College and the University of Bristol. Robbie is the editor of silverscreensaucers.com.

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Extraterrestrial Communication Conference Saturday June 28th, 2014 In 2014 we have two major events in the British Ufology calendar. The first sees the return of our Extraterrestrial Communication Conference on Saturday June 28th, 2014. The first event features lectures by experiencers and researchers into anomalous phenomena and extraterrestrial contact and communication.

Mike Clelland is a talented illustrator and an avid outdoorsman, and many of his experiences have occurred while in the great outdoors. In his UFO research he has written extensively on the

From the USA, abduction experiencer and researcher Mike Clelland will take a deep look into the meaning of his own alien experiences and those of others.

subject of alien abductions, synchronicities, high strangeness and owls, as well as his own personal experiences. He has had a lifetime of unusual events that seem directly intertwined with the UFO reality and in his talk at the Extraterrestrial Communication Conference he will take the audience on a journey through that world of high strangeness and present some fascinating insights into the true nature of his experiences. Ellis Taylor, is an experiencer who first inspired the leading ET abduction therapist Mary Rodwell to

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look at the alien abduction phenomenon. Ellis Taylor is a genuine and first hand experiencer of what really does lie in the ‘beyond’. Born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, he now resides in the UK, he has been described as “a shaman of the modern world”.

will present cases where her regression thearapy has uncovered bizarre tales of past lives on other planets and alien civilisations.

facinating and poorly understood facet of Extraterrestrial Communication.

The event will be held in Leeds, UFO experiencer and broadcast- West Yorkshire at Leeds Metropoler Tony Topping will be recount- itan University’s The Rose Bowl at ing his own personal experiences the city centre campus. of UFO encounters and of agents Lorraine Flaherty is a Past-lives that sought to persecute him as a Conference Venue: Leeds Metropolitan University, The Rose Bowl, therapist who has come across result of this experience. Portland Way, Leeds LS1 3HB. many cases where her subjects have described lives of oth- Exopolitics Great Britain producer er-worlds, and even described Anthony Beckett will exploring the BOOK NOW! abduction scenarios in past-lives world of the 1950’s contactees, Reserve your place today! as well as in the present. Lorraine look at the what lies behind this www.exopoliticsgb.com

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Dr. George King: Contactee with the Gods from Space By Richard Lawrence

Dr. George King: Contactee with the Gods from Space By Richard Lawrence “Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament.” – The Master Aetherius, to Dr. George King

“Prepare

yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament.” These words, spoken by an interplanetary intelligence known as The Master Aetherius, to Dr. George King on May 8th, 1954 in London, triggered a series of interplanetary contacts which would continue regularly until his passing in 1997. This is one of the great contactee stories – in my view the greatest. Controversial even in UFO circles, his cosmic encounters are nevertheless a mustknow for any serious ufologist. Fusing spirituality and cosmology with straightforward commonsense, Dr. King’s legacy continues unabated through the organisation he started in 1955, The Aetherius Society, which has headquarters, branches and groups in Europe, North America, Africa and Australasia, and members in many parts of the world. Dr. King was born in 1919 and his childhood, sandwiched between two world wars, was spent in the English countryside, wherever his father’s work as a village schoolmaster took the family. The hardy conditions, especially in North Yorkshire where he spent several of his formative years, were not helped by his poor health, giving him a practical grounding in the necessities of life. But even then

his central focus was on spirituality and the nature of existence. He was also developing pronounced healing and psychic powers at an early age. As a Quaker he took a principled stand in the Second World War, as his father had done in the First, by playing a non-combatant role in the fire service, of which he was a section leader during the London Blitz. The shocking human suffering he encountered only furthered his pursuance of truth through personal realisation. It was thus, at the end of the war, that he turned to the little known practice in those days of yoga.

mental and physical yoga exercises. He practised these for approximately eight hours a day for ten years, an extraordinary commitment for a westerner to make, especially at that time. To pay the bills, he worked in a variety of jobs, particularly as a driver. Those who question why Dr. King would be chosen to be the channel for extraterrestrial intelligences, using trance medium-ship and telepathy to do so, should really supply a list of alternative candidates. Who else in 1954 in London, or any other city for that matter, had trained so intensively and so long in the advanced practices necessary to become Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel as the Gods from Space described him? I have yet to hear of one.

Most of us, who have written and spoken in the media and other public forums about UFOs, are all too familiar with the closedminded disbelief, which can assail us, especially from the establishment. Imagine then declaring the truth about flying saucers and their interplanetary Instead of seeking material controllers in the deferential advancement through a formal world of post-war Britain. When education and lucrative career, Dr. King led a public rally for the he turned his attention to truth about UFOs to be revealed inner development through a by the government of the day in demanding regime of spiritual, Trafalgar Square, the climate was www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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markedly different from that of today’s disclosure project, which still receives political resistance. He was mercilessly ridiculed in Fleet Street, but his bravery shone through and he gave regular demonstrations of his cosmic medium-ship, often in the Caxton Hall in Westminster and, on one occasion, on television for the BBC. The messages he received revealed the truth about extraterrestrial spacecraft and their reasons for being here, giving accurate public forecasts of when and where they would be operating around the world. As with certain other claimed contacts of that period, there were detailed warnings about the use of nuclear power. These included one sensational revelation of a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union which was published by Dr. King 18 years before it was confirmed in the western media. Even The New Scientist admitted in 1978 that they had been “scooped by a UFO”.

But predominantly these extraterrestrial communications, known as cosmic transmissions, were spiritual in nature. They described the multidimensional life existing throughout the universe, even on planets which we might consider to be uninhab-

itable. Perhaps the most contentious of these at the time was Dr. King’s claim to be a channel for The Master Jesus who came from the planet Venus in the so-called ‘Star of Bethlehem’. As controversial – heretical even – as it seemed to some, the sublime voice and moving words of The Twelve Blessings which The Master Jesus delivered through Dr. King in 1958, has transformed the lives of thousands around the world and continues to do so. Dr. King’s mission as Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel expanded when he was commissioned by the Cosmic Masters to climb 18 mountains in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, so that they could be charged with powerful spiritual energies. Additionally, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania was charged without requiring his physical presence. Designated as Operation Starlight, this demanding and often dangerous task was completed successfully in 1961, since when pilgrimages have been conducted to all of them. Thousands of pilgrims have travelled to one or more of these – this year alone, pilgrimages by the Society have already been scheduled in Britain, France, USA and New Zealand.

of Aetherius Society teaching. From the challenging skills of mountaineering in hazardous conditions, Dr. King was now directed to the arena of seamanship. Whereas the mountains had been charged in Operation Starlight so that spiritual energy could be sent by pilgrims to heal and uplift humanity, an even greater consideration now entered the equation: the well-being of the planet upon which we live. Dr. King was a champion of ecology long before the term became fashionable. His ecology however was not solely focused on the material survival of the human race, but upon the Mother Earth as a living, compassionate, suffering Being. He was given the mission Operation Bluewater, which took place at sea, off the California coast and required him to skipper a boat with a small crew. This time the energy was sent by the Cosmic Masters through the waters directly to the planet herself.

Ten years on from the initial Command, he had indisputably become a UFO contactee with a difference. His ‘can do’ practicality, coupled with other-worldly sensibilities, meant that fair-minded believers and disbelievers Dr. King was instructed to move alike had to acknowledge his one his residence to the United States hundred percent commitment to and unquestioningly did so, even his mission. He worked tirelessly though he always remained a seven days a week with the same citizen of the United Kingdom, single-minded determination he which he visited regularly. He had shown when he first took up established the Society in Los the practice of yoga. With just a Angeles, and to this day the Soci- few helpers and a very limited ety’s two headquarters are based budget, he continued regardless in both countries. In LA he received of the noises off, which could be a series of Cosmic Transmissions hostile to say the least. called The Nine Freedoms from an elevated Martian Intelligence He revealed that, on July 8th 1964 which, along with The Twelve the Mother Earth, as a living intelBlessings, forms the centrepiece ligence, was initiated with great www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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spiritual powers by the Gods from Space and that a quickening of vibrations upon the surface of Earth would gradually start to take place. This would mean increased freedom of spiritual expression but also could exacerbate the more extreme behaviour of fanatics and extremists. In short, the human race would embark upon a period which has been referred to as the Great Change. He identified the asteroid belt as the planet from which the human race originated, but which had been destroyed through atomic warfare. He spoke of the previous civilisations on this Earth of Lemuria and Atlantis which had also been destroyed by nuclear conflict, and warned of the same challenge facing us today. He identified the solution to the environmental and humanitarian crisis which overshadows our future as being an outpouring of spiritual energy to the world as a whole. Dr. King had now moved beyond being solely an instrument for the Gods from Space to also being an active contributor to their plan for our world. He invented equipment and devised missions which were accepted by the Cosmic Masters whose authority was always sacrosanct to him.

many hours in prayer or mantra in the vicinity of the battery, can be released in conjunction with the Cosmic Masters in a matter of minutes. In a disaster situation caused by an earthquake, hurricane or war, for example, it would be the equivalent of hundreds of people gathering at that exact instant when their prayer would be most needed and directing it to the spot instantaneously. The Society, which has kept logs of the results of such energy releases, has recorded significant outcomes on several occasions. Most contactees have an outstanding experience, be it a close encounter or a so-called abduction, which they speak and write about for many years to come. Some, such as George Adamski and Dan Fry, claimed to have a number of these. It is extremely rare though, if not unprecedented, for any contactee to have regular communications over a forty-three year period, as Dr. King did up to his passing in 1997. As a close colleague, friend and student of Dr. King, who was in touch with him almost on a daily basis for the last twenty years of his life, I can vouch for the fact that he was always on duty.

not. He was, as you would expect from a master of yoga, a highly intelligent man who was not prone to fantasy or wishful thinking. On the contrary he was, strange as it may sound, a very down-to-earth

person with a discerning, enquiring mind and an infectious sense of humour. He did not seek eccentricity for its own sake, but much preferred tradition and conformity where possible. He disliked publicity but he recognised that he was obliged to propagate the cosmic message he had received without trying to convert, indoctrinate or recruit anyone against their will.

It is predictable but inaccurate – and very lazy – of some One of these missions, Opin the media to describe him eration Prayer Power, which as a cult leader, because he has been featured extensiveeschewed the type of bely in television broadcasts haviour for which certain around the world, is now cults have become known. performed in the UK, USA To the end of his life he lived and New Zealand. It enables very modestly with his wife, attenders to store spirituMonique, who was one of al energy which has been his leading disciples, splitinvoked through prayer and ting his time between an Richard Lawrence with Dr George King mantra in physical containers average-sized bungalow in known as batteries. This means He could be contacted by the Santa Barbara, California, a small that energy, stored by hundreds Cosmic Masters at any time, apartment at the Society’s headof people who have each spent whether convenient to him or quarters in Los Angeles, and an www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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even smaller one when he visited the European Headquarters in London. He worked tirelessly in the last ten years of his life, with a few advisors, to ensure that the Society could continue without his unique abilities as a UFO contactee. None of us were equipped to replace him, and it would be delusory for anyone to think they would be in the foreseeable

future. Despite this, thanks to him, we are still able to cooperate directly with the Gods from Space in no less than five missions on land and water, without needing a terrestrial mental channel as he had been.

Space, I could easily be described as biased. Nevertheless I must say that I believe Dr. George King to be one of the greatest Masters ever to visit our world. For the record, he was also a wonderful man who is in my thoughts, as he is in those of many others, every day.

As the co-author of the last book he published in his lifetime, By Richard Lawrence Contacts With The Gods From April 2014

About the author Described by Kindred Spirit magazine as one “of the biggest talents in MBS (Mind/Body/Spirit)”, Richard’s books, DVDs and CDs have been sold in many countries - translations have included Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.

grammes on all the terrestrial and many of the satellite channels.

as well as to an audience of thousands at an open-air pop concert.

In addition to having had a column in The Observer, he has written for the Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Sun, Woman’s World, Here’s Health, Health and Fitness, the USA’s Whole Life Times and Phenome-News, New Zealand’s Lifestyle magazine and many other journals. He has appeared in most of Britain’s national newspapers, and many magazines and local papers.

Richard is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. He has devoted his life to the work of his late master and

He has taken part in hundreds of radio shows around the world including several appearances on Coast to Coast AM, which broadcasts to 475 radio shows throughout the USA. He regularly appeared as a co-host on Mike He has lectured in the USA, New Allen’s weekly show on LBC called Zealand, Australia, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Nigeria, and for The Phenomena Files. over 30 years, has been a keyHis TV appearances include GMTV note speaker at London’s largest on topics ranging from UFOs to an- and most prestigious Mind Body gels, psychic powers and comple- Spirit Festival. He has spoken inmentary medicine. He has also ap- ternationally at various venues peared on TV with Esther Rantzen, including churches, synagogues, Eammon Holmes, Gloria Hunni- Buddhist temples, schools, uniford, Terry Wogan, Noel Edmonds versities, business conventions, and James Whale, and a host of charitable meetings and numerdocumentaries and magazine pro- ous conventions and bookstores, www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

personal friend, Dr. George King (1919-1997), who founded the Society. www.aetherius.org 28

Belief or Proof? Ufology and the Verificationist’s Dilemma By Grant Cameron

Belief or Proof?

Ufology and the Verificationist’s Dilemma By Grant Cameron “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.” – Stuart Chase

Everyone in society today has heard of UFOs and the

possibility that this phenomenon may represent the arrival on earth of extraterrestrials, advanced spiritual beings, or beings from another dimension.

To use a golfing analogy — if I tell you I got a hole in one yesterday, like a UFO sighting I might claim, you can only believe or disbelieve my story. There is no proof. You cannot know unless you were a witness, and even then there still exists the possibility that I, like a magician, made you think you saw a hole in one.

Everyone inside the UFO research field is also aware that there is a strong skeptical group of scientists that are determined to crush any conclusion that UFOs represent anything outside the random physical The things you base your beliefs on are the same things that support most beliefs in UFOs. world view. Their major counter to UFO researchers claims that UFOs represent something non-local and separate from the physical world view is usually summed up with the expression, “There is no conclusive evidence that proves the UFO claim.” This sets up a high mountain for Ufology to climb because the skeptics are dogmatically hard liners in their religious world view that everything is physical. They are riveted with fear, like a small child on his bed in the dark, waiting for the bogeyman man under the bed to reach out and grab him.

Belief or Proof? No one will ever prove the UFO non-local argument to a skeptic because proof itself is illusive and impossible to prove to someone who it determined does not to believe. Moreover, in the end everything is belief, and proof is an elusive word with no real meaning.

Someone told you the story of the hole in one or the UFO and you chose to believe them. Someone filmed the hole in one or the UFO and you chose to believe that the film was not altered or faked. You assumed that the hole in one or the UFO happened because so many people have told such stories and this represents collective reality. Therefore understanding that only those who have had direct experience can really know, what is the best evidence for UFOs that support the belief that UFOs are real non-local phenomena and probably not from this physical world?

The Evidence

1) The Canadian government said UFOs are a reality. There is a formally Top Secret document that is held in the Canadian government archives that says just Take the example of something that should seem that. The Canadian government does not discount quite straight forward and considered proved – the document as a fraud. The four page document people from time to time get a hole-in-one while was written in November 1950 and was finally degolfing. When you look closely, however, this is just classified in 1978. a belief we hold like everything else in life if we have The document sums up “discrete enquiries” made no direct experience. in the United States through the Canadian Embassy www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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about the subject of flying saucers.

especially if we can help… We like to contribute… Yes you stick about and work under contract.”

The memo, authored by the head radio engineer at the Department of Transport, stated that the America officials had revealed five The story Brandon told was that he was at CIA Langley headquarkey facts: ters in the Historical Intelligence Flying saucers exist. Collection area which is a vault containing archive boxes of files. It is the most highly classified While waiting for a film crew to subject in the United States. arrive he was looking at all the It was even two points high- labels on the various boxes and er than the hydrogen bomb saw one marked Roswell. He which would not be first tested looked inside and, till two years later. “It was not a damn weather A small group headed by Dr. balloon — it was what it was Vannevar Bush, the former scibilled as when people first reence advisor to President Rooported it. It was a craft that sevelt was trying to figure out clearly did not come from this what was going on. planet, it crashed, and I don’t doubt for a second that the use The subject is considered of of the word ‘remains’ and ‘catremendous significance to the davers’ was exactly what peoAmerican government. ple were talking about. One hundred per cent guarantee, in Things such as mental phemy heart and soul I say – Rosnomena might be associated well happened. There was a with the flying saucers. craft… absolutely cadavers.” 2) A 43 year veteran of the CIA is on the record that the UFO phenomenon is real and extraterrestrial. This man, Chase Brandon, came forward in front of millions of people to make the statement. He, had been a covert agent for the CIA from 1970—1995, and then became the CIA liaison man to Hollywood. Brandon described that period as being “paid for 10 years to be the most overt face and voice in the CIA, second only to George Tenet…” In 2005 Brandon retired but as he described it: “No one wants to give it up… Most of us still like the work

Asked about this public statement a CIA spokesman did not call Brandon a liar. They simply said they could not find the files Brandon had referred to.

The word of the president is very important because he is the most powerful person in the world, and if there is any reality to the UFO phenomena he should know. The President is also at the top of any agency that might be running a cover-up such as the US military. The president is the civilian commander of the military which would make him in charge; if the intelligence agencies are running the cover-up they all work for the president as they provide him information. That is their main job. If the government is running the cover-up the president is the CEO of the government and therefore in charge. If someone is dealing and negotiating with aliens it has to involve the president who is constitutionally responsible for any treaties or negotiations with foreign entities. With these points in mind on June 27th, 1981 President Ronald Reagan confirmed publically that the ET story was real. The event was the screening of the movie “ET: The Extraterrestrial” in the White House theatre by director Steven Spielberg. There were 39 people in the room besides the president.

Bill Gates, former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense was asked According to Spielberg, who put his about Brandon claim in February statement on tape, Reagan stood 2013. He defended Brandon and up after the film was finished, did not discount the extraterres“and looked around the room trial claim. “I have a lot of respect like he was doing a headfor Chase… So I’m not going to count... and he said, ‘I wanted question Chase. I’m just telling you to thank you for bringing E.T. to what I said.” the White House. We really en3) Many people say that when the joyed your movie,’ and then he president stand up and says it is looked around the room and real then they will believe it. It is said, ‘And there are a number therefore important to note that of people in this room who Ronald Reagan did just that. know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.’ And www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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he said it without smiling!” 4) Another president who confirmed there was a solid reality to the UFO phenomena was Jimmy Carter who had his own UFO sighting. According to actress Shirley MacLaine: “He told me many times that when I first wrote ‘Out on a Limb’ that he would support me – that it was true - there were occupants. Why should we be the only people in the universe? He wanted to shine the sunshine laws on intelligence to expose it – to see how the people would react but he said he didn’t and wouldn’t and couldn’t as he explained to me.” This statement by MacLaine is given further support by Daniel Sheehan, the former chief counsel for the Jesuit headquarters in Washington, D.C., who has testified publically on many occasions that he worked on two highly classified studies on ETs and UFOs that were prepared for Carter by Marcia Smith, whose was senior level specialist in aerospace and telecommunications policy at the Congressional Research Service. As a part of his work Sheehan was given access to the classified portion of the USAF Project Blue Book in May 1977. As to the two reports Sheehan stated: “The first report on extraterrestrial intelligence stated the Congressional Research Service of the official United States Congressional Library, in its official report to the President, through the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee, con-

cludes that there are from two to six highly intelligent, highly technologically developed civilizations in our own galaxy over and above our own. “In the second report they had drawings of different shapes of UFOs that have been sighted,” continued Sheehan. “They didn’t cite any particular cases, but they said that they believed there was a significant number of instances where the official United States Air Force investigations were unable to discount the possibility that one or more of these vehicles was actually from one of these extraterrestrial civilizations. They put this together, and sent it over to the president. I ended up seeing a copy of it.” 5) President Barack Obama also confirmed reality to the UFO and ET subjects in statement that he has made in public. In a March 2012 speech in Roswell New Mexico Obama started his speech by telling a humorous story about Roswell questions asked to him by young boys. Following this he paused before going to the speech and stated, “We will keep out secrets here,” thus confirming that there is a secret about the Roswell crash that he knows and which must be kept secret.

have had to have been a discussion about it, it would have taken place in this room.” 6) Edward Ruppelt, who was the original head of the official government study of UFOs known as Project Blue Book, wrote in his 1956 book “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” stated that an USAF estimation of the UFO problem in 1948, just after the major sightings had started, concluded it was an extraterrestrial phenomena. The fact that the first major investigator for the government stated that the government knew it was extraterrestrial almost from day one has been forgotten by UFO history. Ruppelt wrote: “The situation was the UFO’s; the estimate was that they were interplanetary! When the estimate was completed, typed, and approved it started up through the channels to higher command echelons. It drew considerable comment but no one stopped it on the way up.”

7) Senator Barry Goldwater provided a number of pieces of evidence that UFOs are real and that non-human entities are involved. Goldwater is a key figure as he held the position of the Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee which would have placed him at the top of the In May 2012 during a White potential members of congress House tour for Men in Black actor to be briefed about the classified Will Smith and his family, his son aspects of the UFO phenomena. Jaden started to ask a question The strong evidence provide by about aliens as they touring the Goldwater included: Speaking situation room. Anticipating the of an encounter with powerful question that was coming Obama General Curtis LeMay at Wright stated, “The aliens, right? OK, I Patterson Air Force Base in the can neither confirm nor deny the early 1960s while running for existence of extraterrestrials but I President Goldwater stated: can tell you if there had been a top secret meeting and if there would “I think the government does www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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knows. I can’t back that up but I think that at Wright Patterson Field if you could get into certain places you would find out what the Air Force and government knows about UFOs. Apparently a spaceship landed and it was all hushed up and people had not heard much about it. I called Curtis LeMay and I said ‘General, I know we have a room at Wright Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Can I go in there?’ I have never heard LeMay get mad but he gotten madder than hell at me. He cussed me out and said don’t ever ask me that question again.

In a 1981 letter Goldwater stated:

After he became Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee he took a letter from a ham radio friend on the accuracy of the information in the 1980 “Roswell Incident” book. Goldwater hinted that the extraterrestrial conclusion in the book had merit:

“In all your jobs in government (Cheney was Chief of Staff in the Ford White House, Secretary of Defense in the Bush Sr. White House, and Vice President in the Bush Jr. white House), have you ever been briefed on the subject of UFOs, and if so when was it and what were you told.”

“To tell you the truth, Mr. Graham, this thing has gotten so highly-classified, even though I will admit there is a lot of it that has been released, it is just impossible to get anything on it.” 8) I questioned Dick Cheney about the reality of UFOs and he, like Goldwater and the Canadian government, indicated the subject existed inside government but was classified. The question came when he was an April 2001 guest on the Diana Rehm radio show in Washington D.C.. I asked,

“Relative to your question about the accuracy of the details in the ‘Roswell Incident,’ Cheney paused and then replied, they are partially true, but not “If I had been briefed on that completely. I can’t give you subject it would probably be any other answer than that so classified, and I couldn’t talk please don’t push it.” about it.” In a 1975 letter Goldwater stated: 9) General Wesley Clark was a “About ten or twelve years United States 4-Star Army General ago, I made an effort to find who held a unified command out what was in the building putting him in a position to be at Wright Patterson Air Force briefed on the reality of the UFO Base where the information is situation. In November 2004 he stored that has been collect- was asked by Dr. David Rudiak if he ed by the Air Force, and I was had been briefed on the subject understandably denied this re- of UFOs. This question was asked quest. It is still classified above in light of a statement Clark had Top Secret. I have, however, made while running for president heard that there is a plan un- in 2004 stating he believed that der way to release some -- if we could go past the speed of not all -- of this material in the light. Clark’s replies indicated he knew what was going on and that near future.” www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

there was a non-human reality to the UFO subject. This was the conversation. Q: Gen. Clark, when you were running for president, you said you thought mankind would one day fly faster than light and visit the stars. My question is, when you were in the military were you ever briefed on the subject of U.F.O.s? A: I heard a bit. In fact, I’m going to be in Roswell, New Mexico tonight. Q: So you were briefed? A: There are things going on. But we will have to work out our own mathematics. 10) In 2013, at my request, Jesse Marcel Jr. told a story about being approached by Dick D’Amato, a legal assistant to the Senate Appropriations Committee who was sent with every classified clearance and the power of the Senate to find out what was going on at Area 51. The appropriation committee was responsible for allocating the money spent by the US government and they wanted to know if we were in fact back engineering UFOs. Marcel told the story of being taken to a secure room in the subbasement of the Capitol and sat at a large boardroom table. On the table was a copy of the book “Majestic”, written by Whitley Strieber which told the story of the 1947 Roswell crash and the above Top Secret group known as MJ-12 that had been formed to control the extraterrestrial secret. Pointing to the book, D’Amato stated, “This is not fiction.”

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Asked by Marcel when he was Dr. Ketei is the main researcher going to let the people know, behind the March 1997 Phoenix D’Amato stated, light case. Before the lecture began Dr. Kitei asked how many children “If it were up to me I would believed we were alone in the have done it yesterday. I’m just Universe. Not a single hand went here to investigate the costs up. Then she asked how believed of keeping it secret. In reality there was other intelligent life in there is a black government, the Universe. Every hand went up. and they have control of the debris. They answer to no one. These are just a few items that They are not elected and they point out that there is evidence have unlimited funds to spend. which backs up the reality of UFOs They’re the ones who have it. and its non-local characteristics. They are the ones who have There are many other things that could be raised like the fact that control over it. 11% (35 million) Americans report 11) And finally a piece of evidence having seen a UFO, or that a Roper that might not seem like evidence poll in the 1990s showed 2% (6.3 but it is. It concerns a speech given million) Americans have reported by Dr. Lynne Kitei to a group of 281 symptoms similar to alien abducschool children. tion.

There have been tens of thousands of photos, over 17000 humanoid report in one data base alone held by Albert Rosales, 4000 landing trace cases, over 600 1st, 2nd, and 3rd hand witnesses that state the 1947 UFO crash was not a weather or Mogul balloon. The evidence is there but “to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Like the group of school kids who unanimously voted that we are not alone in the Universe, the accepted reality of the UFO truth is just a matter of time. By Grant Cameron April 2014

About the author Grant Cameron became involved in Ufology as the Vietnam War ended in May 1975 with personal sightings of an object which locally became known as Charlie Red Star. The sightings occurred in Carman, Manitoba about 25 miles north of the Canada-US border. Hundreds of other people sighted objects at the same time during a prolonged flap of sightings. Over the next 18 months he had many sightings of large objects and small (monitor) objects in the area. He spent countless days in the area photographing a series of strange objects and interviewing hundreds of witnesses who were involved.

to 1954. During two decades of work on Smith, Cameron was able to collect most of Smith’s files and written material and he interviewed most of the associates around Smith who worked on the flying saucer investigation. In the past few years Cameron has turned his research interests to the involvement and actions of the President of the United States in the UFO problem, making over 25 trips to the National Archives and most of the various Presidential archives looking for presidential UFO material.

Some highlights of his presidential UFO research were a chance to question Vice-president Dick Cheney on his knowledge of the After composing a manuscript UFO subject, and a FOIA to the about the flap, he moved on to White House Office of Science and research the work of the late Technology which yielded 1,000 Wilbert B. Smith who headed up pages of UFO documents from the the Canadian government flying Clinton administration. saucer investigation known as Project Magnet between 1950 He has lectured widely in Canada, www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

Europe, and the United States and in September 2005 he was denied access to the United States to lecture on UFO’s and why the government has chosen to withhold the truth. www.presidentialufo.com 33

The John Lennon UFO Story By Grant Cameron

The John Lennon UFO Story By Grant Cameron “Like a U.F.O. you came to me and blew away life’s misery, Out the blue life’s energy, Out the blue you came to me” Lyrics from “Out of the Blue” by John Lennon — from the album Mind Games, published by Apple Records 1973

The

Beatles will undoubtedly go down in history as the greatest musical group ever. John Lennon, who started the group in the fifties, will probably go down in history as the driving force behind the group.

Those who have studied abductees or experiencers will immediately pick up the flaming pie to be a screen image for a glowing red flying saucer used by the aliens to get across a message while masking the true nature of who they were. This interpretation is supported by John’s later accounts of close encounters with UFOs and by an album produced in 1997 by Paul McCartney that continue the story of the man of the flaming pie.

The group started out as the Quarry Men. Paul McCartney was invited into the group by John who was impressed with his talent and Paul brought in George Harrison. Later these three replaced drummer Pete Best with Ringo Starr and the rest was history.

Flaming Pie was the tenth studio album by Paul McCartney. The first song of the album talks about John’s man who came on the flaming pie. The lyrics of the title song start:

What many don’t know is that UFOs played a role in John Lennon’s life, and he may have been an abductee based on some of the things that have been reported about his experiences.

“Making love underneath the bed, Shooting stars from a purple sky, I don’t care how I do it, I’m the man on the flaming pie.”

On the album cover of the flaming pie album there is The first thing to consider related to aliens is the a drawing of the flaming pie which looks much more name of the band. The band started off as the Quarry like a flying saucer than a pie. Men, which changed to Johnny and the Moondogs, and then the Rainbows. Most histories concede that John Lennon would also go on to describe two very dramatic UFO experiences that were not just lights the name Beatles came from John. in the sky. The first was a very close encounter. The John liked the name The Crickets (from Buddy Holly’s second event was complete with missing memory band), and the story is told that based on this, John’s and an object that had been given to him by four friend Stuart Sutcliffe suggested the name Beetles. “bug-like” beings. Then it was changed to Beatles with an A instead of an E.

The first UFO event reported by Lennon occurred on August 23rd, 1974 at May Pang’s 52nd street New When Lennon was asked, “How did the band get its York penthouse apartment after spending a long name?” he would reference a dream that he had. “I day at the Record Plant East recording studio. When had a vision that a man came unto us on a flaming Lennon first saw the object he crawled out of the pie, Lennon would say, ‘You are Beatles with an A.’ window onto part of the roof. And so we were.” John was very open about what had occurred and www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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later described what he saw clearly despite the fact that he was very short sighted and didn’t have his glasses on; “If you see a little note on Walls and Bridges (album) you will see it says ‘I saw a UFO.’ I just finished doing Walls and Bridges. I had just mastered it or had done the last tape of it, and I was just reading, relaxing, feeling good. “It was summer in New York and I had the window open, and low and behold there was this thing just hovering about a hundred yards away. I saw it so close. It wasn’t in the sky or nothing. I could have hit it with a brick if I had thrown a stone at it. I couldn’t see the colors because it was dusk, but it was a good clear summer night. “The sky was very clear, and around the bottom of it were ordinary looking electric light bulbs blinking off and on alternatively like on a billboard. On top of it was a red light; the thing that I noticed was that there was no noise. I could hear that freeway down below with all the cars going, so I realized it’s not a helicopter – then it must be a balloon. “It was so close to the rooftop it couldn’t be a balloon. All the rational things I went through - not a helicopter - not a balloon. It’s too close to the roof and it’s manoeuvring around too much to be a balloon. So I just watched it and it was there about 5 or 10 minutes and then it went off down the east river.” May Pang recalled her version of what had occurred,

“I remember I was just getting dressed when John started shouting for me to come out onto the terrace. I yelled that I would be right there but he kept screaming for me to join him that instant. As I walked out onto the terrace my eyes caught this large circular object coming towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone and on top was a large brilliant red light. It was not pulsating like any of the big aircraft that we would see landing at Newark Air Port. “When it came closer we could make out a row of circular white lights that ran around the entire rim of the craft. These were also flashing off and on. There was so many of these lights that it was dazzling…it was about the size of a Lear jet and it was so close if we had something to throw we could have hit it very easily.

reporting a UFO. The New York Daily News told Gruen they had five calls related to a UFO. Lennon would go on to write a song called “No One Told me” in which he said “There’s UFOs over New York, and I ain’t too surprised.” It was not released by Yoko Ono till 1983 and was the last 10 ten hit in the UK by Lennon. The second Lennon UFO encounter occurred later in the same Dakota apartment in 1975, while Yoko was expecting Sean, John’s only child with Yoko. The account comes from a story told by Israeli psychic Uri Geller who lived one block away from Lennon in New York City. The two had become friends in the 1970s and would meet secretly once a week in the coffee shop of the Sherry Netherland Hotel. He was in bed with Yoko Ono when he was suddenly woken up by a bright light coming under the door to the apartment like there was a fire in the hallway. Realizing that this may be an emergency situation he tried to wake up Yoko but was unable to do so.

“During the time that it was directly overhead I could hear no noise. We often had helicopters around but this was as silent as the night 17 stories above street level. Finally the object passed from view. The According to Geller this was the object returned and the light story as told by Lennon; was so bright coming from the craft that no additional detail “You ain’t f___in’ gonna becould be seen. We took a coulieve this. About six months ple of pictures but they turned ago, I was asleep in my bed, out over exposed. All night long with Yoko, at home, in the DaJohn kept repeating, ‘I can’t kota Building. And suddenly, I believe it. I can’t believe it. I’ve wasn’t asleep. Because there finally seen a flying saucer.’” was this blazing light round the door. It was shining through John called up Finally Bob Gruen, the cracks and the keyhole, like his long-time friend and photogsomeone was out there with rapher who took the film John searchlights, or the apartment captured but the pictures did not was on fire. turn out. Gruen phoned the police for John and was told his call was “That was what I thought — the third one from the east side intruders, or fire. I leapt out of www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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bed, and Yoko wasn’t awake at all, she was lying there like a stone, and I pulled open the door. There were these four people out there.” ‘“Fans?” I asked him’ said Geller. “Well they didn’t want my f—in’ autograph. They were, like, little. Bug-like. Big bug eyes and little bug mouths and they were scuttling at me like roaches.” ‘He broke off and stared at me.’ “I’ve told this to two other people, right? One was Yoko, and she believes me. She says she doesn’t understand it, but she knows I wouldn’t lie to her. I told one other person, and she didn’t believe me. “She laughed it off, and then she said I must have been high. Well, I’ve been high, I mean right out of it, a lot of times, and I never saw anything on acid that was as weird as those f—-in’ bugs, man.

back. I mean, they didn’t touch me. It was like they just willed me. Pushed me with willpower and telepathy.” ‘And then what?’ “I don’t know. Something happened. Don’t ask me what. Either I’ve forgotten, blocked it out, or they won’t let me remember. But after a while they weren’t there and I was just lying on the bed, next to Yoko, only I was on the covers. “And she woke up and looked at me and asked what was wrong. I couldn’t tell her at first. But I had this thing in my hands. They gave it to me.” ‘What was it?’. Lennon dug into his jeans pocket; “I’ve been carrying it round ever since, wanting to ask somebody the same question. You have it. Maybe you’ll know.”

tures are mentioned, there was a blank period that John could not remember and John was not able to wake Yoko. This type of “turning off” of a partner to an abduction is often reported. The abduction possibility is also supported by the co-author of the book about the Rendlesham Forest case “Left at East Gate” Larry Warren who wrote that he talked to May Pang. In the conversation he had with her she indicated that John had told her that he believed that he had indeed been abducted in Liverpool as a small boy. Larry wrote; “In fact he told me that more than once he suspected he had been “abducted” as a child back in Liverpool! “And he felt that experience was responsible for making him feel different from other people for the rest of his life. “Abducted” I said. “You mean by aliens?” May Pang answered. “Yes, but John didn’t go into detail about it”

‘I took the metal, egg-like object and turned it over in the dim light. “I was straight that night. I It seemed solid and smooth, and I wasn’t dreaming and I wasn’t could make out no markings. I’ve From a reliable source: the Beatles tripping. There were these never seen anything like it.’ were interested in UFOs, but at creatures, like people but not like people, in my apartment.” ‘“Keep it.” John told me. “It’s too the time, talking about UFOs was weird for me. If it’s my ticket to debunked and degraded. Due to ‘What did they do to you?’ Lennon another planet, I don’t want to go the “giggle factor,” few editors there.”’ swore again. would mention UFOs. Also, the Beatles were experimenting with “How do you know they did Uri Geller holds the small egg LSD and other drugs, and for them object that he claims was given to speak of off-world entities did anything to me, man?” by Beatles member John Lennon. not help anyone. ‘Because they must have come for Lennon’s stories is that is was a reason.’ given to him by aliens in one of his During the 1977-79 world-wide two major UFO encounters. UFO flap, the Beatles broke up and “You’re right. They did somegossip about their personal lives thing. But I don’t know what it The bug encounter strongly were “managed.” If John Lennon was. I tried to throw them out, suggests some sort of abduc- were alive today, he would have but, when I took a step towards tion or contactee experience. attended the Citizen’s Hearing in them, they kind of pushed me This is because alien type crea- Washington DC last year. www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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“Like a UFO you came to me, and blew away life’s misery...” - Out of the Blue, from the album Mind Games...

had just ordered up some pizza and since it was such a warm evening, we decided to step out on the terrace. There were no windows directly facing us from across “There’s UFO’s over New York, the street, so John just stepped and I ain’t too surprised...” outside with nothing on in order - Nobody Told Me, from the al- to catch a cool breeze that was bum Milk and Honey coming in right off the East River. I remember I was just inside the “Though we’ll never know for bedroom getting dressed when sure, we hope the aliens on- John started shouting for me to board the craft that buzzed come out onto the terrace. John Lennon’s 53rd Street Penthouse apartment weren’t shy. I yelled back that I would be right For, according to the late Beat- there, but he kept screaming for le’s ex-girlfriend, the famed me to join him that instant. As mod rocker was standing on I walked out onto the terrace, the balcony in his birthday suit my eye caught this large, circular enjoying the view when his qui- object coming towards us. It was et evening at home was inter- shaped like a flattened cone, and rupted by the likes of a vehicle on top was a large, brilliant red from another world. May Pang light, not pulsating as on any of is one of the warmest people the aircraft we’d see heading for you’d ever want to meet. She’s a landing at Newark Airport. May quick to smile and bring you says she and John stood there into her confidence. mesmerized, unable to believe what they were in the process of “For unlike many others in the observing. rock and roll business who can sometimes take themselves When it came in a little closer, we too seriously, May is happy could make out a row or circle of to share her remembrances white lights that ran around the about one of the greatest leg- entire rim of the craft - these were ends of our time. John was al- also flashing on and off. There were ways fascinated with the un- so many of these lights that it was usual, May explained, handing dazzling to the mind. Spellbound, me his once-treasured copy of the couple watched the UFO move the I Ching that she still has on directly over the building next to her library shelf. He was always where they resided. It was, I would caught up in his fate his desti- estimate, about the size of a Lear ny. He was it seems - trying to jet and it was so close that if we understand his greatness and had something to throw at it, we the impact he had on millions probably would have hit it quite growing up in a very confused, easily. almost lost generation” — May Pang. During the time that it was almost directly overhead, May says that May Pang was more than willing she didn’t hear any noise. We to give me the scoop on John’s Big often had helicopters flying above Apple UFO encounter because - as us, but this was as silent as the it turned out - she was right there night, seventeen stories up above at his side during the incident. We street level. Finally the object www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

passed from view, leaving John and May feeling that the excitement was over for the evening. But as it turned out, the UFO returned and they managed to set up a telescope and view it that way. The light was so brilliant coming from the craft, May recalls, that no additional details could be seen. We did take a couple of pictures but they turned up overexposed. Immediately John and May telephoned the Daily News, and were told that at least 7 other reports had been received. We even called the police - that’s how excited we were -and they told us to keep calm, that others had seen it too. According to May, all night long, John kept saying I couldn’t believe it! I can’t believe it...I’ve seen a flying saucer! As confirmation of his sighting, John wrote down what he saw and used it as part of the cover art on his Walls and Bridges album. John had always had an interest in UFOs, May Pang points out. He even used to subscribe to a British UFO Magazine, the Flying Saucer Review. But after seeing what we saw that night, he became even more fanatical, bringing up the subject all the time.” He swore that it was true, and in an interview taped sometime last year, May Pang detailed the experience. She said she saw it, too. A man descended unto us astride a flaming pie and spake these words unto us, saying “From this day on you are the Beatles with an A” Thus is did come to pass thus. Tongue-in-cheek remark cited by Times (London) November 5, 1999 By Grant Cameron April 2014

Porn, Scorn and Evolutionary Apex Points by David Griffin

Porn, Scorn and Evolutionary Apex Points

The Shifting Nature of Counter-Intelligence Approaches to the UFO Field by David Griffin “‘Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers and neutralize them…’ ‘and neutralize them…’ Wake Up!” Lyrics from “Wake Up” by Rage Against The Machine — quoting a March 1968 FBI memo

On a personal level, there were many ‘elephant in the room’ components to the issue of UFOs and contact that made me reluctantly dip back into the literature circa 2005 and try and work out was going on once more. Aside from 23,000 year old cave paintings of aliens and their apparent craft – a more modern jaw-dropper was finding out that, in the post-war era, the UFO issue was rated ‘higher than the hydrogen-bomb’ with regards to it’s secrecy and national security status. Here, we once more find ourselves in Alice in Wonderland territory with regards to the issue of visiting intelligences. Why would official structures claim this subject was nothing more than illusory – officially declare the intelligence status of nuclear weapons as LESS important than the supposedly fictitious flying saucer stuff? The same contradiction becomes obvious when dealing with the individuals who contribute to the field in any way. The aim was to make authors irrelevant, professional pilots or military made to fear career suicide and those even closer to the phenomena as kooks or low-IQ morons.

intent in the confused aftermath of WW2 has now become un-workable. More importantly, the passing decades have resulted in some seeing the whole vast approach as having far from benign agendas by growing numbers on all sides. Couple this with the recent boom in information communications technology and cheaper gadgets for unmediated contact with aspects of the ET issue and you can’t avoid an apex point looming on the horizon. The signal for this moment may well have been the recently publicised charges against contactee Stan Romanek. In February of this year, Romanek was charged with possession of child porn – based on a warrant that had been around for almost a year previous. Whilst the local Colorado police’s [newly created] internet crimes unit visited the property to collect the evidence – bizarrely the original tip-off seems to have come from the US’s Department of Homeland Security. Whilst only the Romanek family truly know the legitimacy of these charges, it’s the latter element that gives us a pretty substantial clue as to whether a wider goal is at play. Although DHS appear to have been granted an ever wider annual role in American domestic security since 9/11 – the idea that their remit now involves passing on tips regarding child images from the net seems to stretch credulity a little. There are other points that make this whole thing suspect – including the fact the event was expected .

In the last decade or so, the previous tactics that may have had a degree of success in keeping the issue out of mainstream culture began to become ineffective. For one, attempting to supress an evolutionary process is never going to be a battle you can win – even with all the resources you could desire at your fingertips. You start to get the idea that there may be something inherent in some of us to This article isn’t aiming to make a judgement on Stan’s twist everything into a cosmic, mythical battle. So a ‘guilt’ – rather we should view what has happened to policy that may have started with a degree of noble him in a far larger historical context where a variety of www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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tools are employed against those involved in the wider UFO community. After all, if the issue was rated as a disinformation priority – there’s not so much of a conceptual leap to be made to assume a range of options are on the table to deal with individuals. It is worth looking at why Romanek may have been subjected to this particular approach though – given that that particular tactic is very effective – often whether the party accused is guilty or not. Previously, it was only seen used as a last resort amongst politicians, financiers, for example, who were deemed to have profoundly gone against their peers’ collective goals or used as blackmail stock. Those who have looked into the tireless work of ex-senator John De Camp into paedophile networks, that supposedly reached into the Whitehouse, will no doubt have come across the regularly discussed idea of secretly filming certain individuals whilst [innocently or otherwise] having a 5 year old bounce merrily on their lap. This scenario, if as widespread as De Camp’s witnesses’ claim it was, could be one reason we see those in public positions flip-flop so easily over policy choices. They soon realise that whether the charges or images are fabricated matters not – ‘kiddie fiddling’ will terminate your career faster than the obnoxious boss of The Apprentice TV show. Since the 1950s ‘space brother’ era – researchers and experiencers of extraterrestrial phenomena have faced a variety of coercive responses from the various state power groups. Whilst the ‘front end’ civil structures know little or nothing in regards to UFO activity, modern history has shown it to be profoundly important to what

has emerged as ‘above-government’ structures. These semi-official groups appear to span various levels of the military that have links to grey or black USAPs [Unacknowledged Special Access Projects] yet often merge with the corporate world where less oversight is demanded. The term ‘neutralize’ is often assumed to mean ‘kill’ in intelligence parlance however it actually refers to applying the most effective method to stop a perceived threat. This approach is evident over the years with everything from attempts to discredit, or say inducing paranoia, all the way to eradicating a person’s finances and identity or murder. We can find many very real world examples of this approach which would shift the hardest sceptic into admitting that the UFO issue probably isn’t the light-weight issue they’d been taught to believe it was.

an increasingly well-known experiencer, it suggests a quantum shift has taken place in how the whole issue of impending contact with ETs is being perceived – by all players involved.

Looking at above-government, counter-Intel approaches to the evolution of the UFO issue – we can see that their tactics are context based or rather a response to how the issue is integrating at that point in time. So, despite the adopted recommendations of, for one, the Robertson Panel – the issue of alien contact is now a wholesale part of our global culture. The positions that these intelligence groups could have adopted in the 1950s and 60s no longer work in a media connected world that has had several decades to peer through the deliberate disinformation, and conclude that it isn’t about whether ET visitation is ‘true’ or ‘false’, or whether their Within the wider framework of intentions are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ - it’s counter-intelligence against the about the right to decipher ourcontact/UFO issue, the spectrum selves and how to deal with this of responses serves as a dual highly strange, yet engaging issue. purpose. First it aims to deal with the actual direct focus of the Deep down we all know it’s not perceived ‘risk’ – i.e.: somehow going away. Some of us even recstops the individual from con- ognise the fact that it’s part of our tinuing along their chosen course. evolution from cave-dweller to Secondly it acts as a firm [although space-farer. A small step further not always obvious to outsid- on, people begin to see what a ers] symbol or warning to those tragic waste of time and funds this thinking they may act along similar embargo on ET truth has resulted lines. In fact, this ‘message’ com- in – we could have been building ponent is, in today’s more complex saucers and exploring the cosmos reality, now as important as the in the last 50 years. direct neutralization aspect. We’ve seen this weird death approach in As post-war counter intelligence other areas – such as the Marconi knowledge matured [learned science staff in the mid-1980s, and mostly from the British’s approach even this year with lots of sudden from their empire experience] – it deaths in very specific areas of the seemed that tactics used in war situation could be more or less financial sector. transferred to domestic situations. If the attack on Romanek is a fab- On the surface these included the rication in order to finish him as political dissidents of the 1960s – www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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but less obvious was the transfer of these skills to an ever more taxing issue of visiting beings. The fact these entities made a repeated issue of our irresponsible use of nuclear testing as a paranoid Cold War was firing up unfortunately seemed to by default tag them, as ‘Commies’. These reds in saucers were in touch with their counterpart earth dwelling humans and this situation constituted a threat. Obviously the understanding developed as various branches of the military industrial complex began taking in the huge ramifications of earth not being the centre of the cosmos. As part of this – the basic intelligence approaches of neutralization were discrediting, blackmail, threats to loved ones and ultimately the final solution – death. Until recently – such a good job had been done from the late 60s onwards that neutralizing a contactee was simple. In fact the years of making the issue laughable meant very little had to be done because if an individual complained of harassment – no one dared to come to their aid for fear of soon also being tarred with the same brush. The community almost created its own cover for nefarious activity to be carried out.

to investigate and carry out and has a less predictable outcome.

take a lifetime to demonstrate or indeed it’s after their deaths we finally click as to their narraTerence McKenna talked about tives’ importance. This evidence the DNA like spiral of history and included filming craft that were that this spire, when matched to a monitoring him, having efficient mathematical time-wave, resulted alien health care [with medical in an ever faster tightening of staffs’ response recorded] and events circa 2012. He claimed having mathematical equations that we would see ever quickening passed onto him that points us battles between expressions towards solving light speed travel of novelty and the repressive conundrums and much more. responses attempting to counter this. The state’s covert apparatus The point is the awareness of appears to be struggling to keep people regarding the UFO issue up with how and when to respond has developed to the point where to the contact issue. This doesn’t the old-school tactics don’t work. mean however they are any less The last highly suspicious death effective – in fact, in desperate, of a bonefide whistle-blower on confusing times – a lot more this issue, Phil Schneider, attractdamage can be done that in turn ed little interest yet it was a pretty feeds back into the whole cycle. obvious murder. Circumstances have shifted to such a degree that attempting this option with many current researchers or experiencers would back-fire severely. So we see counter intelligence tactics previously reserved for high-ranking politicians now being used as an attempt to stop someone’s contribution to the area of contact. Romanek Arrested 2014

When detractors of this area think there is no evidence – they With this in mind, Romanek rarely look into just what vast becomes the representation of the amounts there are and the type post 2012 final struggle between of evidence/experience that is this issue being handled fairly currently discussed by those who and acknowledged by our politi- take the time to look. Romanek’s Into the current era and that just cal, academic and scientific strata case arrived so fast that it looks doesn’t work as well. The fact that or engaging in an ever more des- like they struggled to keep up. He the term “UFO” is second most perate PR war that all sides more was soon publishing books and searched term on the internet tells or less acknowledge is not going filling UFO conferences. He had you all. It’s no longer enough to to be ‘won’. When you look into footage of a small grey ET peeping assume a maligned group identity Stan’s case [and as with so much in though his window. The media will support your disinformation this sphere, you need a good 6-12 interest this created was partially activity – no-one buys the idea months’ work before assuming used for a Denver vote on ET Disthat ALL people into ET contact or you know either way] you realise closure. UFOs are lunatics, we’re way past his experience was an accelerated that now. Thus the individual has one compared to most encounters It’s often only at these events that to be targeted without the group that go public. Without going into you find out the more detailed identity helping complete the detail – he has done, in under a sides to ET linked experiences. process. This is far more complex decade, what many experiencers In addition to confirming the www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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the whole 2012 notion has had, and continues to exert, influence over us as a species on the verge of interstellar flight. Combined with the way networked media propels even the weirdest ideas to waiting audiences, it could well be that Romanek’s experience hooked in to what McKenna called ‘the hyperdimensional object at the end of time’ and propelled itself forward faster than anything seen before. For these reasons and probably many more we are, I’m sure, unaware of [including the possibility he did what they claimed] – he was given the child porn approach. It works well, as we’ve discussed, but the problem from a counter intelligence point of view is that if someone can Alleged Hybrid ET at one of Romanek’s clear their name and prove it was Conferences. a set-up then the next use of this For several reasons, Romanek may and any similar tactics is treated have been targeted with this “al- with caution. ternative” discrediting approach instead of other more drastic and Imaging this as a fabricated set of charges for a moment – despite overt neutralizing schemes: what we may assume at first • Due to growing awareness glance, both sides of the equation and interest in regards to his are impacted by the process. To situation [scientists, military be effective – the ‘Romanek as a etc] – killing him would make deviant’ label has to firmly stick a bigger splash and counter re- to achieve the outcome of neusponse than desirable. tralizing the UFO/contact issue. Similarly if the tactic fails – it may • He had already had several point to the fact that our ‘cultural attempts on his life and severe confidence’ in the ET issue is now beatings. Some he claims were so firmly part of our shared expe‘intervened’ on by the ‘group rience that very few disinformaupstairs’, preventing death in tional tactics are wholly reliable. some cases. This in turn sends a message back to those making decisions in these • If true, the evidence his above government sectors. case presented implied that the usual negative PR attacks And a final quick word to the wouldn’t counter the situation. cowards within the UFO community who are gleefully using these It could also be suggested that recent events to claim ‘I always this contact case could be seen as knew he was a charlatan’. This part of a new era of UFOlogy and seems to be rotating around a contact. Even if the world didn’t YouTube video interview Romanek shift into hyperspace overnight – did where he can be seen to be equation he was given, Romanek also broke another taboo as far as the Intel world may be concerned… In fact it’s a taboo amongst many UFO researchers; he discussed the fact that hybrid children were visiting his house and had captured one on film during an event.

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throwing a few desktop items around with a flick of his hand, just out of camera shot. What’s interesting is that few people were focusing on such a banal piece of “evidence” before the porn charges were officially made, but, within days, a whole section of UFO types decide that this must mean his whole case is fraudulent! By some warp in logic it seems to be that if Stan ends up guilty then “naturally” his case is pure hoax. However, you can bet most won’t similarly follow that logic in reverse to the point where, if he’s proved innocent, Stan’s case suddenly becomes ‘real’. If that’s the best that can be found – it’s no wonder the UFO community is often sadly lacking in integrity and decent research angles. Groupthink like this in my mind actually mirrors the way our detractors want us to act – because ultimately it reflects on our belief in the phenomenon itself. Whatever happens with Mr Romanek – I really hope that we are now not in a new era where anything is on the menu to try and stop this issue from continuing to evolve. I just get the feeling that this situation is being observed as a test situation – to see how the tactic works and more importantly how the UFO community respond to it. At this point it’s not too encouraging. Where are all the leaders of the field risking their necks by publically agreeing that this stinks of a set-up? If you know the true importance of this issue and know your Exopolitical history – you should also be able to spot a test scenario when you see it, given Romanek’s background. Our response will dictate future approaches by these above govt systems. Sitting tight because you may get tainted by the smell 41

of the case itself doesn’t help things in the longer term.

And it is breaking out. Right here, right now.

Steve Bassett describes the failure Hear Steve Bassett discussing to acknowledge the ET issue like threats to UFO researchers in a a malignant lump within global 2014 interview: http://xcit.onl/tqi culture - the longer it is left, the by David Griffin more the shit will hit the fan in a May 2014 variety of ways when it breaks out.

About the author David Griffin was born in the Midlands and currently lives in West Yorkshire in the UK. He studied for a ‘Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution’ degree at Bradford University.

emphasis on Human Computer Interaction, but also a variety of areas including NHS support for people with chronic addictions and public policy research with the Joseph Rowntree foundation.

He has worked in virtual learning and learning innovation after obtaining an MSc in Interactive Media and Education, with

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the sciences, psychology and so on.’ His research brought him into the field of Exopolitics and he founded UK Exopolitics Initiative in 2006. He lectures on Exopolitics and Disclosure at conferences in the UK and around the world.

Book Review: ‘Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident’

Book Review: ‘Encounter in Rendlesham Forest’ ‘The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident’ by Nick Pope, John Burroughs and Jim Penniston

Reviewed by Paul Potter I’d be interested to hear book, stands for Unpalatable Facts Omitted. what Larry Warren has to say One of the recurring themes throughout this book about this book... runs along the line of Penniston seeming to believe If you have read “Left at East Gate” you will know it he has been the only person to ever undergo such a does wander off the main event a bit, but primarily, its close-encounter, opining the seriousness for himself delineation of the initial three nights of Rendlesham of this life-changing experience, which, I have to say, Forest around Christmas 1980 is credibly detailed might prove to be a mute point for anyone who has — and in my mind technically and scientifically experienced more harrowing situations than those understandable — especially with respect to the presented here. I can say with certainty that any time dilation effects and object diminution effects reader that has themself experienced UFOs or aliens one-to-one, will shake their head and say, “you had experienced by many of its witnesses. it easy, mate!” With such evidence you can conjecture that the UFO there was in a diminuted state when it sat in What is interesting in this book is that Penniston the forest clearing while it organised its own repair: states that over eighty Air Force personnel witnessed For the ‘walking through treacle’ observations made the first-night ship’s takeoff. So where are all those by Warren, and his mention of time-delay in shadow other memories of these events? movements noticed around the ship, correlates well with that ship being under the influence This book then mentions that on the third night, of electromagnetic conditioning, and, that such many multiple-UFO sightings were monitored by at electromagnetic conditioning extended through the least fifty-to-sixty personnel plus those on duty to secure the area, (which compares well to the 200 surrounding air via the energy field of that ship. or so reported in Left at East Gate by Larry Warren): Thus the mystery begins to unravel and make However, we learn nothing from all those other sense. But now, in this book of Pope, Penniston, witnesses either! and Burroughs, its authors suggest we’d be better off dismissing Warren’s Left at East Gate version of All this book does is give historical commentaries, from Penniston and Burroughs, or from previously Rendlesham as nothing but a fantasy story! published comments (such as from Col. Halt). But, Ok then, is this book’s account a better, more accurate as can be educed from the details presented in this telling of the Rendlesham event ? Well, sadly, no, its book, Penniston and Burroughs were not, and are not. It appears more to be a stale and sterile non- still not, in full possession of the WHOLE story of technical and non-scientific version of Rendlesham Rendlesham. that the British MOD would most likely wax lyrical And that’s what I have such a big problem with about about over a morning coffee break. this book penned by Nick Pope — it has a ‘this story Yes, it gives a skeletal taster of the first night, and it is ours alone to give’ attitude of containment - but even includes Col. Halt’s story of the third night - as it is so patently obvious there are blank sections extrapolated from his audio tapes. But you still get the in that story: For instance; in the first night UFO(s) impression there are many high-value layers to this account, we have Penniston’s recollection of touching event - and that this book rolls out only the basement the landed ship — with Burroughs being zonked bargain layer. I fear the term U-F-O, throughout this unconscious by a beam sent down by another ship www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

Book Review: ‘Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident’

that must have been hovering directly above him. Then, for the second night’s UFO(s) there is a very brief mention that there was indeed a second UFO, or set of UFOs, on the 26 December, and that these UFOs were reported to have been propagating different electromagnetic effects, both in the forest, and directly around the vehicle of the security personnel on duty that night — but these reports are not by either Penniston or Burroughs. Relative to the THIRD night, the UFO(s) are described in this book only fleetingly, and yet again we are told that Burroughs has been zonked unconscious the moment he arrives at the scene, so, again, he later remembers nothing of what happened. And... so where... is Penniston on the third night ? Strangely enough, there is a complete absence of any commentary for both the 3rd night, and for the 2nd night, from Penniston: This book mentions Penniston was at the base for the night of 26 December, but no mention is made of his direct involvement, or any of his reports (if he offered any) for the 26th or for the third night (the 27th). Surely, this is highly inconvenient considering he was Staff Sergeant for the base. This void is, however, filled by much pedantic chatter by Nick Pope, so much so that its easy for the reader to drift away from its emptiness, and to then forget all about it. But the void is there, and in that void lies the very problem that fails the telling of this book’s story... One wonders, though, if this may be no bad thing... in this void there may be found a possible solution

to the now-broiling PennistonBurroughs versus Larry Warren altercation, regarding who has the most credible rendition for those three nights of events... Because, if their minds were shut down by the temporal UFO beams that encircled them during those events, now we can assume that neither Burroughs nor Penniston are capable of remembering anything that happened during those events. This leaves the door open to other interpretations. Now, I know from abduction case histories that while one person might undergo experiences involving alien activity, another who might be standing just two feet away will be standing there motionless and totally oblivious to what the other abductee will be getting involved in; (for example, in the Andreasson Affair account of Betty Luca’s family in suspended animation, while Betty communicates with a group of Greys in the same room).

a more comprehensive picture of what happened. And thankfully, in the dying throws of this book, Burroughs and Penniston might possibly redeem themselves by their timely submission, in chapter 19, saying this book does NOT mark the final and definitive end to this Rendlesham story ! There is yet more to come, apparently. I’d say much more is needed too, particularly more of the scientific and technical aspects of these electromagnetic ships.

They might model their technical contribution on the Condign Report if they wish (which sadly seems to profess quite a negative and sceptical assessment regarding off-world engineering, and only a basic grasp of text-book radar/ electromagnetic theory - which is saved somewhat by data supplied by the Russian and Chinese in-depth research programs; but, again, the technical nous running through this document is very Perhaps on the third night’s dated - and quite honestly, rather event(s) at Rendlesham, Penniston, pathetic, when one considers the like Burroughs, got zonked out — advanced sciences so evident in meaning that whatever happened UFO propulsion dynamics): But on that third night, even whether first they should consider who they Larry Warren’s account took place are going to supply such technical or not, then neither Burroughs nor information to; to military eyes Penniston were conscious enough (and they will never see the result to confirm or deny what happened of their contributions again), or around them. They both may not to the academia of advanced be able to prove they weren’t aerospace (where they will, at incapacitated by the UFO activity least, know their contributions at the times in question. So then, are eagerly awaited, and will be by Nick Pope’s Ockham’s razor directed toward deep space travel maxim, Larry Warren’s account programs for the future). as published in Left at East Gate, Finally, what I found more could still hold its credibility ! distasteful than anything else And there lies the next challenge in this book was its ‘we know it for Jim Penniston and John all’ flavouring, together with its Burroughs — to up their versions offensive and its lazily generalised of what took place — on ALL dollops of ‘UFO researchers and all THREE NIGHTS — so as to paint believers in aliens are numpties’ www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

Book Review: ‘Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident’

derogatory. I have to say, I’ve noticed this before in my own correspondence with Burroughs and Penniston; I have been surprised at how selfprotecting and defensive both these men were whenever I asked them simple questions or put forward my observations to them. Burroughs blew a gasket when I brought up the subject of ‘aliens,’ he vehemently denying all association with such. With Penniston I got know-it-all sarcasm after I’d shown him tentative renditions of the ship he stood next to and touched.

Apparently, extraterrestrial is a taboo word in the BurroughsPenniston camp — much like it would be in MOD quarters, I suppose. Which is strange, given that some alien groups are known to dwell on earth, either underground or under our seas; AND that extra-terrestrial literally means off-world — and so wouldn’t that be the most appropriate way to describe human travellers from the future?

But that’s what you get throughout this book, a naivety and sublime ignorance about wellestablished alien and UFO related phenomena, and a dissentience toward UFO reports and toward More ironically, the authors of this experts in their fields that book don’t know the difference aren’t directly associated to this between electromagnetic particular 1980 event. Yes, many radiation and atomic radiation ufologists who call themselves (which is one of Pope’s pet subjects ‘experts’ ARE numpties — but not herein). And further, Penniston, in all researchers are! this book, seems only comfortable when he believes the inhabitants Addendum: Just a quick addendum of the Rendlesham ship were not regarding Penniston’s binary code aliens at all, but humans from the information. Alien coded messages future. work on several levels, much in the same vein as how ancient

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Egyptians encoded hieroglyphs to offer different levels of exoteric and esoteric meanings. The Hy Brasil entry, as I tried to explain once before to Penniston (but he blanked me on it), opens a whole passageway of doors into a new subject — if you know your Irish ancient history and the way the Irish encoded their secret wisdom into their writings throughout the middle ages. Encoding to keep important information away from half-wits has been going on for tens of thousands of years on this planet, and this encoding is known to the ‘aliens’ who communicate with us. Also, I’d like to indicate that the game-changing fact that Penniston has previous, on these binary messages, from his childhood, was completely glossed over by Pope - whom I’d like to now officially classify as an ‘enthusiastic amateur’ when it comes to the subject of human psychology! By Paul Potter May 2014

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Open Letters: An exopolitical walk down memory lane by Stephen Bassett Los Angeles, CA, May 25, 2014 The U.S. government’s policy of truth embargo regarding the extraterrestrial presence was formulated between 1947 and 1952 when it was aggressively set in motion with the cooperation of its WWII allies including the United Kingdom. For the next four decades ending the truth embargo was out of the question so long as the Cold War was underway.

Disclosure prospects waned, the Disclosure advocacy movement advanced.

Paradigm Research Group was formed in July of 1996 and by mid-2000 was positioned to have an impact on the truth advocacy process. Early that year the COMETA Report out of France was beginning to get international exposure. There were signs later The door to Disclosure begins to proven correct that other nations open in 1992 and could well have were beginning to lose patience taken place during the first term with the U.S. led truth embargo. of President Bill Clinton. However, The door was opening wider. the military/intelligence complex in cooperation with right wing It was also in 2000 that PRG began sympathizers, in particular Richard publishing a series of open letters Mellon Scaife, unleashed the to American politicians. Not surhounds of hell on the Clinton ad- prisingly PRG was not getting any ministration successfully reducing invites to, or correspondence the President’s political capital from, the White House. Political and limiting his options. For the aspirants to the office of the presremainder of the decade, while ident were equally uncommunica___________________

tive. So PRG widely published open letters to raise the matter of Disclosure and the truth embargo to those seeking to run the country. These open letters are posted here in reverse chronological order. The last letter to President Barack Obama will be published sometime in June of this year. These letters were a small part of the effort to educate and alert political leaders to the Disclosure issue. These leaders are quite aware of the truth advocacy movement. They simply don’t have the courage to speak to it. [Note: PRG has never received a response from any political leader or relevant staff person to any of this correspondence. No matter. Soon they will have to respond to the American people.]

Open Letter to the President Unelect November 20, 2000 Washington, DC – Mr. President Unelect, the election ended in a tie – you lost. Al, after one hundred million votes, the difference was well within the margin of error of an election process which had long gone to seed. In case you hadn’t noticed, the nation has been going through an apathetic period of wealth and indulgence. Billon dollar bombers, $60,000 second cars, 19 year old dot.com millionaires – no problem.

Fix an antiquated, 19th Century voting system – why bother? Ah, sweet karma, after years of neglect the system jumped up and bit the nation in the ass. An election so bizarre, so close, so convoluted, no Hollywood hack would attempt to write it, because no Hollywood suit would believe it. Round styluses trying to push out rectangular sections from IBM punch cards; police going through long voter lines and checking ID’s of suspect voters

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(read people of color with bad wardrobes) and pulling convicted felons when they find them (better that 10,000 not vote than one felon slip one in); in the wealthy districts (like Bethesda, MD) short lines, lots of booths and croissants, while in the densely populated, poorer districts, long lines with voters turned away at deadlines (illegally); and an outcome likely to be determined by fewer votes than the lawyers hired to figure it out.

Taking a rounded piece of wood, hitting a baseball thrown from 60 feet at 90 miles per hour, getting rid of the wood and out of the box and running 90 feet to the bag is so damn difficult, it was considered only fair that making it to first base at the same time as the ball – you’re safe.

George Bush was the batter. Out of the seething hatred of the conservatives toward Clinton for his failure to serve in Vietnam, sexual indiscretions and alleged financial What genius neglected to notice impropriety came perhaps the that in heavy turnouts the punched worst possible candidate in the chads build up under the ballots country to service that hatred. and make it more and more diffi- Governor Bush is a nice fellow cult to punch a new chad out, and who avoided Vietnam by virtue thousands of ballots are tossed? of elitist preference into the Air And, gee, after decades of accept- National Guard. He is a recovering ing absentee ballots, someone just substance abuser and good ole noticed that military mail doesn’t playboy, and businessman who always get postmarked? has been baled out by his family connections more times than the It’s worth noting here that a vote savings and loan industry (which reform movement exists. It is was almost the ruin of his brother also worth noting this movement Neil). His state record is even operates with slogans like, “return worse than Clinton’s – not an easy to the 19th Century,” “it’s good assignment. His intellect, verbal enough for India,” “do it like the skills, education, and reading Third World.” You see, in the U.S. background are not competitive public trust in government, all with Dan Quayle. government, is so low any technological upgrade is suspect. Visions You were the sitting Vice Presiare offered of hackers fixing elec- dent for eight years of unprecetions wholesale with electrons dented national prosperity. You taking the place of dead Chica- had 99.9% name recognition, a goans. In other words, for this heavy resume, plenty of funding, reform movement, the systems a parental political legacy and an being used in Florida are too exemplary family life. You were advanced! Worse, they worry the on the cutting edge of major election fiasco will be used to sell issues including the environment computer, Internet voting to the and nuclear disarmament. You public and all will be lost. should have made Texas Bar-B-Q of George and sent him back to But, Al, none of this is your fault. Austin on a plate with pickle and The margin of error in American side of coleslaw. You didn’t. elections is a disgrace, but this one was so close, it didn’t matter. There are so, so many parties to blame for this. President Clinton In baseball ties go to the runner. comes to mind. He was not the www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

most dysfunctional person to achieve the presidency, just the most since CNN. Presidents are celebrities now and are picked apart accordingly. There is a tabloid parallel universe ready to suck into it anyone who dares to open a wormhole with the wrong mistake. Clinton could have blown up South America and gotten better press. And don’t forget Ralph Nader. He sought the Holy Grail of 5% matching funds. He elected George Bush and sent countless liberals to marriage counseling. But you would still have won were it not for a third person. And here the irony is so thick you can stand on it. You were inches from the White House, when thanks to a butterfly ballot, Pat Buchanan got the last precious votes you needed to pass through security. Pat had waited his whole life to commit just one putsch and pulled it off when he stormed to control of the Reform Party, only to have that legacy subsumed by the politics in, of all places, Palm Beach County. But why pick nits, or for that matter, pick chads? Ultimately one person must take the blame for this fiasco – Albert Gore. You wanted to be the first president of the 21st Century, but ran a 20th Century campaign. You went before the richest nation in history and tried to buy votes with the usual offers of tax cuts, drug rebates, medical benefits, etc. – vote me and get more stuff. No matter your opponent did the same. He made no pretension of being a 21st Century man, you did. You stuck to a script of which the public has long hinted it wanted to change. Voters are sick of the spin doctors - the Dick Morrises, 47

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Mary Matalins, James Carvilles, and Ed Rollinses. They want them all to become talk show hosts. The public wants candidates who mean what they say, say what they mean and don’t run from the tough, controversial issues. They keep reaching out to such candidates only to have the party establishments drive them from the field. You could have taken on those issues, could have chosen to debate the third party candidates (with or without George), but you took a pass.

idents and ex-vice presidents. See if you can convince these fine men to step forward and speak out on those issues above and break the deadlocks that help create the gridlocks. Clinton and Carter will still be around. Both of them had their head handed to them when they dared to consider UFO/ET policy. The next four years are going to be rough, not a time for former executives to keep to their polite silence, dare they offend the party and its fevered aspirants. The country is going to need every ex in the game. Be the leader of the emeriti. Do it for the people and not the votes.

Ted Kopel’s Nightline holds a week-long series on the inevitability of an anthrax attack on an American city; trust in government is at all time lows; Sixty Minutes Respectfully, does two programs on a major scandal with the NSA’s Echelon spy satellites; millions of Americans indicate in national polls they believe in an extraterrestrial presence and a massive government coverStephen Bassett up; America refuses to sign the landmine treaty; men Executive Director are lining up at suicide recruitment booths in Asia, Paradigm Research Group Africa and the Middle East so they can kill American citizens; a black budgeted, massive second govern____________ ment is out of control with new abuses coming to light every year – none of this you dared to discuss Preface to an Open Letter to George Bush for fear you lose some votes. January 1, 2001 Your campaign speeches were filled with “I” and “me” and “mine.” The election became a race for a On the basis of its timing alone, the recent presidenjob and not about ideas and policy. So what if the tial election may turn out to be the most important media likes it that way because it makes it easier to in the history of the nation, or for that matter, the cover? You weren’t running for editor. planet. America has been consistently blessed with aspirants to leadership who genuinely wish a better The trite displays, the balloons and confetti, the usual world for all. It would not be a stretch to say, that photo ops, the inevitable insulting of the national in- had every American election been won by the chief, telligence – old paradigm, old shtick. You could have losing opponent, the nation would most likely be in risen above it – you didn’t. the same position it is today. There is a powerful, collective wisdom to the expressed will of the American people. They loved Bill Clinton for his policies, but were offended by his person. For that reason they feel the Democrats must sit in the corner for at least four years to atone for the sin of indiscretion. Had they not wanted it so, you would have won in a landslide.

Beginning two years ago, heaven and earth was moved to achieve the election of a most unlikely candidate to the presidency. Major power brokers lined up early and raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Other candidates, some with extraordinary life histories and accomplishments, were brushed aside. Every chit was called in, every string was pulled. The religious right, still bitter, ambitious and contempDon’t make the mistake of trying to thwart that tuous of a centrist platform, held its tongue. The wisdom by draconian assertion of your legal desire to most famous military leaders of recent times stood sit as President of the United States. Let it go. Concede shoulder to shoulder on stage. the election and join the growing number of ex-preswww.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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And when the final outcome was forced to pass through an unprecedented denouement, every stratagem was applied, regardless of the deferred cost. It is not nice to fool with Mother Nature, and it is political suicide, if your are a Republican, to galvanize the Democratic base. That has been effected in spectacular fashion. The mid-term election in 2002 will likely be a Republican bloodbath with the Democratic Party taking clear control of the House and Senate. [Note: due in no small measure to the extraordinary events of September 11, 2001 and the aftermath, this did not happen until 2004.]

Washington, DC – Mr. President, you were elected by one of the narrowest popular vote margins in the history of the nation. After hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign expenditures, the Senate is now in the remarkable status of a 50/50 party split and the Republican majority in the House has been reduced. So by merest virtue of the vice presidential tiebreaker the country has chosen unified government for only the fourth time since 1969.

To all of this, the ultimate question remains unanswered - Why? The American people, and by extension the world’s people, will soon find out. Sometimes a new president makes history and sometimes history happens to him (there have been no hers) in dramatic fashion. It is in the latter instance when the holder of the office is tested beyond precedent. This could be such a time. If so, thanks to the modern, multi-tiered media structure, and in particular, the ascendance of the internet toward global ubiquity, every action of every aspect of the new administration will be followed more closely by more people than ever before. There will be no lack of input from those on the outside looking Of equal importance, you campaigned from the getgo in, and no better time to start then now. as a “uniter” not a “divider.” You said you would end the bickering and gridlock. This is a laudatory goal which the American public has expressed a clear Open Letter to George for desire. Your timing is excellent as there is an unprecBush edented need for bipartisanship in Washington.

January 1, 2001 “Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.” Ezekial, 1-4 “And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.” George W. Bush (inaugural address)

That need? The executive and legislative branches of the United States government must delay no longer the direct engagement of the 50-year suppression of the truth surrounding the presence of extraterrestrials in our world, now. The long term implications to the nation of social security integrity, prescription drug benefits and gun policy may be of importance – the resolution of the UFO/ET cover-up and the reform of the military industrial complex is of a monumental importance only a fully bipartisan effort can address. It is notable that during your campaign a gentleman by the name of Charles Huffer asked if you would as president get out the truth concerning UFOs. You answered that you would do so. It is worth mentioning there are tens of millions of American citizens

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eager to see you keep that promise.

You selected a former Secretary of Defense as the new Secretary of Defense for the first time in history. As you consider your course of action toward this You selected a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of issue, permit the expression of some particular Staff as Secretary of State for the first time in history. concerns. Major new spending, massive new war technologies and aggressive new postures appear to be in There is ample evidence the last two Democratic the offing. And embedded in this process is the milpresidents, Carter and Clinton, were personally in- itarization of space, which has been advancing with terested in the UFO/ET question. The Clinton interest scant comment by the Congress and meager awarewas partially fueled by a substantial and directed ini- ness amongst the public. tiative funded by renown philanthropist and conservationist – Laurance S. Rockefeller.

Vice President Richard Cheney

Secretary of State Colin Powell

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

In the five decades following the end of WWII, the nation turned itself upside down. A reasonable interpretation of the Constitution, Declaration of IndeBoth presidents made investigatorial overtures, pendence and other founding documents show the but were rebuffed with extreme prejudice by their United States was to be a country in which the govagency heads. Further, there is a developing sense ernment would operate in the open on behalf of a the military leadership in the nation has a “favorite” private citizenry. party – the Republican Party. During the campaign you stood on the dais with retired generals Colin The opposite is now the status quo. The government Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf. From the begin- is immersed in a cult of secrecy - drowning in classining of the Clinton administration the contempt fied documents, programs and personnel. It operates of the military for the sitting president was severe underground facilities; controls vast, classified enough to require disciplinary action. Within the military/intelligence reservations; stonewalls every UFO/ET research community there is growing con- investigative or accusatory assault on its actions by sensus some presidents are permitted full briefings journalists, veterans, congressional members; hides on the UFO/ET question and others are not, and this its illegal activities behind the National Security Act policy has for some time been split along party lines. whenever it wishes; conducts illegal experiments on civilian and military persons; subverts ConstituIn the eleven years since the symbolic end to the Cold tionally protected research and investigations by War (dismantlement of the Berlin Wall), the United private citizens; conducts illegal surveillance of ever States has executed several successful displays increasing sophistication, both home and abroad, in of overwhelming military power, dramatically support of an ever increasing list of “crimes” headed expanded its economic influenced and extended its by a failed “war on drugs” criminalizing millions; and strategic alliances. Inexplicably, this has not resulted builds a national identifier out of the Social Security in optimism for future peace and stability. Rather, registration number and uses that ID to create credit, the incoming administration, the armed services medical, employment, and personal activity profiles and the intelligence agencies have fostered a fore- of every citizen within an electronic framework boding sense of an incipient, paranoia driven mili- riddled with holes and abuse. tarism. During your campaign there were repeated references to dissatisfaction with the nation’s role In contrast, the “private” citizen’s life has been in “peacekeeping” vis-à-vis a renewed emphasis on splayed open like an autopsied corpse, the “public” “warmaking.” You selected a former Secretary of citizen’s life placed under a microscope to be mined Defense as Vice President for the first time in history. by pundits and stand-up comedians for new material President Jimmy Carter

President Bill Clinton

Laurance Rockefeller

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in the service of ridicule. These are ominous trends which the UFO/ET research/activist community knows to be connected. Returning to the core issue: while there is obviously a firmament of questions that could be raised regarding the extraterrestrial presence, there are three primary political decisions to make:

If you truly wish to unite the country and begin a new era of cooperation, you must engage an issue of transcendent importance. That issue is at hand. Respectfully,

Stephen Bassett Executive Director Paradigm Research Group

1) whether to hold a disclosure event or continue the cover-up, 2) how comprehensive and truthful the initial information disclosed will be, and 3) whether to create a military, hostile posture toward the extraterrestrials acknowledged in this disclosure event. For the past ten years a growing political movement has targeted the politics of UFOs/disclosure. All levels of the media have received extensive materials on the subject. Former members of the U. S. military, former astronauts and many other government employees have been speaking privately and publicly in unambiguous terms regarding the extraterrestrial presence and a government cover-up.

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Open Letter to the Candidates July 25, 2004 Washington, DC – The next President of the United States will take office during the 57th year of the public’s awareness of a government imposed truth embargo on the fact of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the planet earth and the human race. This awareness began with the withdrawal of the “retrieved saucer” explanation by General Roger Ramey and the substitution of a “weather balloon” to account for the events in early July 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico. Later that year the superstructure for this embargo was created with the passage of the National Security Act and the assembling of a management team titled Majestic-12 Group.

Significant political events targeting the UFO/ET cover-up are being scheduled for the first year of your administration. A growing portfolio of documentaries will highlight the facts. Investigative journalists are now targeting the political realities and articles are working their way toward the top media outlets. This truth embargo has left a massive hole in the worlOther nations such as France and Mexico are moving dview of every living human being. It has created two to assert there hegemony in this matter. parallel realities – one with an accepted extraterrestrial hypothesis and one without. It has broken the Pressure on the U.S. government to end the cover-up social contract, compromised the mission of NASA, is only going to increase during your administraeroded trust in government, withheld life and envition. Yet, there will be advisers who will encourage ronmental enhancing technology and warped the reyou to disregard this growing movement and play lationship between two branches of government (exthe cover-up game out until such time as certain ecutive and legislative) and the military/intelligence non-elected military/intelligence personnel give community. you the green light to proceed – if ever. You will be tempted to take this advice. Don’t. The extraordinary requirement to service this embargo while simultaneously prosecuting the Cold Each day the UFO/ET cover-up continues and each War, a 45-year ideological conflict unlike anything new revelation of abuse of power by this or that the world had ever seen, resulted in the creation of a government agency further erodes the fundamental “Secret Empire” – the intelligence components of the trust the American people hold in their government military/industrial complex. It is an empire because – and benchmarks for trust in government are at all it is vast in size and power and no part of it is elected. time lows. It is composed of fiefdoms run by career managers www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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who are replaced internally when they retire or die. While agency directors are publicly appointed by presidents, the directors of corporate intelligence operations are not public and operate in a hybrid world of government classification and corporate proprietary self-interest.

9/11. This issue, like many others, is off limits, and the willingness of the American people to accept limited debate and exposition is now a threat to the nation.

But there is hope, because millions of Americans have become aware and informed of the actions and implications of the Secret Empire through their The public interest oversight of this complex - larger interest in extraterrestrial-related phenomena. They (on the basis of its “known” budget) than the total are increasingly networked and now form a substanmilitary spending of every nation on earth except tial voting block. They are educated, well read, cyber the United States ($420 billion in 2002) - lies with savvy and many have military backgrounds. They the House and Senate Select Committees on Intel- are starting to put pressure on candidates to take a ligence. But as the Secret Empire has grown, both position on the most controversial and implicative the effectiveness and public trust in members of issue in the world today. Congress and Congress as a functioning institution have diminished. Committee members are quick to On their behalf the following open memos to three say they “have things under control,” but each year of these four candidates are posted - Bush and Kerry fewer Americans believe them or for that matter care because either could win and Kucinich because his worldview already embraces the possibility of an or pay attention. extraterrestrial presence. Nader is left out because Organized citizen efforts toward “secrecy reform,” he can’t win, has no interest in extraterrestrial-relatwhile well meaning, have been minimal with little ed phenomena and has rebuffed every approach to or no funding. Attempts by the Executive Branch inform him on the subject. to reform, restructure or limit the Secret Empire have been, inadequate, misdirected or disdainfully Dear President Bush: rebuffed. Ironically, the sheer size of this complex The day you stepped into the White House as the has contributed to numerous failures to “take care 43rd President of the United States you stood on of business.” While the Secret Empire has success- the threshold of perhaps the greatest legacy offered fully tended its own agendas, kept its own secrets, any head of state in history. Ten years after the end managed public opinion and conducted domestic of the Cold War you could be the leader who ended campaigns of surveillance, subversion, misinforma- the truth embargo and informed the nation and the tion and propaganda, it has often failed in matters world of the extraterrestrial presence engaging this of its primary function to protect and defend the planet. You could be the “disclosure president.” United States. When you have millions of people with multi-levels of clearance to assign and track, Millions of people around the world then watched hundreds of millions of documents to classify, thou- closely to see if you would deliver on your promise to sands of overt and covert projects to manage, vast Charles Huffer during an exchange at a 2000 campaign underground facilities to build and maintain, equally stop in Arkansas. CNN recorded the moment: vast above ground facilities to secure, it would seem that foreign enemies of the state “slip through the Huffer: Half the public believes that they are real. cracks.” These instances have been well documented Would you finally tell us what the hell is going on? and don’t need to be addressed here. The response to each intelligence blunder is the same – demands Bush: Sure, I will. for more money, more secrecy and more power – size begetting failures begetting greater size. Huffer: (Gesturing toward Cheney) This man knows. He was Secretary of Defense. There are four men still campaigning for the presidency who are high profile, “mainstream” candiBush: And was a great one. dates. Two have a chance to win, and two are trying to either make a statement or influence the election. Later Huffer encountered you off-camera in the hall. None are likely to say anything, nothing, about the You recognized Huffer and unsolicited said: Secret Empire or take any position on real secrecy reform beyond, “mistakes were made pre- and postBush: It will be the first thing he (pointing to www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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this truth embargo becomes your concern, and the legacy of the “disclosure presidency” yours to claim Huffer: Will, will you really? – or reject. Do not accept a “need to know” explanation from the DoD, NSA or CIA for their refusal to give Bush: Yes Sir. you the information you need to make a disclosure decision. Each day of your term that passes without Truly, it has been a difficult three and a half years – a you stepping forward and ending this 5-decade tough time for the nation and your administration. charade, that legacy will slowly fade away and you History has called upon you in other ways with other and your political party will begin to “own” the coverchallenges. up. A new year, a new president, a new world. Cheney) will do. He’ll get right on it.

But the disclosure legacy was and still is yours to claim in part because your father was held in the highest regard by the military and intelligence communities – the exact opposite circumstance from the intervening Clinton administration. The election this November is now problematic. If you do not take up the disclosure mantle, it may be lost to you and your party forever. The truth embargo cannot last four more years. More ranking military and agency employee will come forward. The media complicity will end. History calls, Mr. President. Answer the call.

Dear Senator Kerry: The television talking heads that analyze your campaign repeatedly refer to the need for you to “define” yourself to the electorate and “separate” yourself from George W. Bush during an era when a significant segment of the public sees little difference between the two principal political parties while referring to “republicrats.” Should you choose to take this good advice, you might begin by repudiating your membership in the absurd and dangerous secret society, Skull and Bones, rather than laugh off or refuse to answer questions from the press regarding this cabalistic organization, which exists for no other reason than to network power among selected elite. The American people no longer find this funny or irrelevant.

Dear Congressman Kucinich: Six high profile Democratic Party candidates in the 2004 presidential campaign have fallen away, but you continue because you believe you have something to say to the American people and to your party convention. Your supporters and staff have worked very hard to give you this opportunity – to have an impact. You are clearly a man apart. There is no one else in the United States Congress like you – no one who thinks further outside the box. Consequently, you have brought many innovative ideas and positions on issues into the campaign. Of particular note are your views regarding war, peace, non-proliferation and weapons in space. These are issues of great importance, which, if not resolved soon, may yet lead to worldwide calamity. And this raises a troubling question. How is it remotely possible for the governments of the world to reach decisions about war, peace, non-proliferation, the weaponization of space and a host of other related matters, when the truth of an extraterrestrial presence is being kept completely out of the public discourse?

Congressman Kucinich, you can make history. Step forward and speak to this matter. Lift the curtain of More importantly, while it is inconceivable, given the ridicule. Finish what candidate Jimmy Carter could restricted and scripted nature of the modern election not finish in 1976. Be the first presidential candicampaign, you would speak to or seriously answer date with a spot at the party convention to place the questions about extraterrestrial-related phenomena, most important issue in the world before the nation. there is something you should know. Millions of people around the planet will stand and applaud true political courage. The truth embargo (or cover-up) preventing a formal acknowledgement of the extraterrestrial presence Respectfully, (disclosure) is unraveling due to the emergence of military and agency witnesses since the end of the Cold War. Should you take office on January 21, 2005, www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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Open Letter to Albert Gore, Jr. January 29, 2007 Dear Mr. Gore: On February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood you will stand before a worldwide audience to accept a well deserved Academy Award for “Best Documentary.” This moment will be a hallmark in a most remarkable political story. A man comes within a few votes of being President of the United States, puts aside the enormous personal disappointment, shuns a comfortable retirement, subsumes his ego and takes on the grueling work of raising public awareness toward a critical issue “one PowerPoint presentation at a time.” An Inconvenient Truth about the dangers of global warming has broken through a ridicule curtain of misinformation and propaganda preventing the nations and peoples of the world from properly engaging a challenging reality. It has remade you a leader to which millions have turned for guidance and solutions which you provided in your documentary. And therein lies the problem. The solutions you propose are not commensurate with either the timeframe or the severity of the consequences you predict. Those frightened by these consequences are frustrated as they consider the degree of cooperation demanded by nations and institutions to address this emergency before it is too late. They consider the present state of world affairs and lose hope for a positive outcome. Many of the solutions you present are based upon existing and projected technological innovation. What if there were technology capable of dramatically advancing and accelerating the solution process, and this technology was being withheld as a government policy? Would it not be unethical to allow that to continue?

of extraterrestrial origin. It is sequestered in government research facilities where it remains today hostage to a six decade “truth embargo” imposed by the U. S. government on the facts surrounding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the planet Earth and the human race. It is reserved for weaponry, not for global warming response. I believe you already know this via contacts made during years of study of national security, arms control and nuclear proliferation issues while in the Senate and from your service as an active and powerful vice president. If you are not aware of the validity behind this “other inconvenient truth,” ask your good friends Bill and Hillary Clinton or President Clinton’s senior policy advisor, John Podesta. They watched from the Oval Office while billionaire Laurance Rockefeller worked through the Office of Science and Technology Policy for three years to persuade the Clinton administration to end the truth embargo – the Rockefeller Initiative. John Podesta would later call for the release of all government documents relevant to the extraterrestrial issue during two press conferences at the National Press Club in October of 2002 and 2003. Or you could ask Jimmy Carter who approved two studies of extraterrestrial phenomena during the first months of his presidency before both were shut down by the Department of Defense and members of his own administration. This is not a political issue so much as it is a moral issue. When you stand at the podium in the Kodak Theater, let the people know there was something missing from your film. Tell your audience there are powerful solutions, extraterrestrial in origin, to which they have a right to know about and to access. The auditorium will explode with a response that will astound you – a response that will expand to billions of people who must know the truth about the world in which they live in order to fix it. It will not be convenient or without risk, but it is the right thing to do. Respectfully,

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non-fear-based components.

With all due respect for global warming’s potency as a change agent, that and nothing else comes close to October 15, 2007 the formal disclosure of the presence of non-human, intelligent beings for getting the human race’s attenDear Mr. Gore: tion. It will and properly should be the most profound On January 29 of this year PRG published an open event in human history. If you wish for the human letter to you in anticipation of your winning the “Best race to see itself as a singular species shepherd to its Documentary” Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth at the one and only home planet, helping to end the truth 79th Annual Academy Awards. That letter made two embargo will significantly improve that prospect. essential points: 1) your political career and areas of specialty as a senator and vice president were But, as stated above, there is a significant bonus to such you are aware of and/or have been briefed on this strategy. Behind the truth embargo is sequessome or all of the facts surrounding an extraterres- tered extraterrestrial technology which, if brought trial presence engaging the human race for at least into the public arena, could completely alter the the past sixty years, and 2) propulsion and energy tipping point equations presently scaring many out technologies associated with extraterrestrial vehicles of their wits. In fact, there is no issue impacting the obtained by the United States military and under de- human condition that this technology could not mavelopment for decades must be brought out from terially affect for the better. behind the government imposed truth embargo and placed in the service of addressing the dire warnings Jimmy Carter knows this, Bill Clinton knows this, you have raised concerning the near- and long-term George H. W. Bush know this – they will not publicly effects of global warming. speak to it. Will you speak for them? Nine months have passed. You did not respond to Respectfully, this open letter, and none of the presidential candidates who wish to lead the most powerful nation in the world have dared in forum after forum to the address the extraterrestrial/truth embargo issues. Stephen Bassett Nevertheless, you have had quite a year culminating Executive Director with your being awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Paradigm Research Group In between you picked up an Emmy. In your post-Nobel Prize announcement remarks you repeatedly referred to the “consciousness raising” aspect of the global warming challenge. Your point is valid, but it is worth noting the motivation behind this potential increase in global consciousness would be fear-based in much the same way the threat of international terrorism alters human behavior. The environmental movement began in similar fashion, arising out of the dire and also controversial warnings from Rachel Carson in her landmark book, Silent Spring. But even Carson would have been impressed with the behavioral changes your message calls for. The multiplicity of solutions to the global warming crisis you offer will require an unprecedented modification in collective worldview never before seen in human affairs within any time frame, let alone the one or two decades suggested. In short, you need all the help you can get - help that includes powerful,

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Open letter to the Honorable Hillary Clinton United States Senate Washington, DC April 30, 2008 Dear Senator Clinton: In March 1993 billionaire Laurance Rockefeller initiated an extraordinary approach to your husband’s administration via the Office of Science and Technology Policy headed by Dr. John Gibbons. A memorandum from Mr. Rockefeller’s attorney Henry Diamond dated March 29, 1993 conveyed a request to meet with Gibbons “to discuss the potential availability of

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government information about unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial life.” Rockefeller, a friend and supporter of you and your husband, wanted to meet with the President and inform him “there is a belief in many quarters that the government has long held classified information regarding UFOs which has not been released and that the failure to do so has brought about unnecessary suspicion and distrust,” and that “Many believe that the release of such information on a basis consistent with national security would be a significant gesture which would increase confidence in government.”

In 2004 Governor Bill Richardson, UN Ambassador and Secretary of Energy during your husband’s administration, made a similar request for documents pertaining to the events in Roswell, New Mexico during July of 1947. These facts are known from news articles, public records and, most importantly, from nearly 1000 pages of correspondence and documents obtained by researcher Grant Cameron from the Office of Science and Technology Policy via the Freedom of Information Act. Additional relevant documents are expected to be released soon from the Clinton Presidential Library.

Senator, it is your ambition to reach a significant Thus began a three-year effort by a notable American milestone in American history by becoming the first to convince your husband to essentially be the “Dis- President of the United States who happens to be a closure President” and end a then 46-year truth woman, or put another way, the 49th female head of embargo on providing the full facts to the American state. While this would be an admirable legacy, what people regarding an extraterrestrial presence the American people need is less legacy and more engaging the human race. This effort, which included truth. The people have lost patience with “in loco meetings, reports, briefings, a book, draft letters to parentis” government that treats them like children the President and more, came to be known as the and candidates with long lists of issues they can’t discuss because it is not convenient to their campaign Rockefeller Initiative. or the people “can’t handle the truth.”

Laurance Rockefeller

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Because you have been introduced to these matters within the context of the White House, because you aspire to the highest office in the nation, you have an extraordinary opportunity and primary obligation to address what is easily the most profound issue of our time – an issue with major national security and policy implications.

You were aware of this initiative from the beginning Respectfully, as was a key advisor to the President, John Podesta. You and your husband met with Rockefeller at his Wyoming ranch in August of 1995. Your husband tasked a close friend, Associate Attorney General Stephen Bassett Webster Hubbell, to look into the UFO issue at the Executive Director Department of Justice and elsewhere. He tasked John Paradigm Research Group Podesta, his eventual Chief of Staff, to reform and accelerate the document declassification process. You were kept informed of the ongoing initiative and References: helped draft a letter from Rockefeller to the Pres- Key OSTP documents relevant to the Rockefeller ident. It is notable that John Podesta, the founder Initiative: http://xcit.onl/ve8 and now CEO of the Center for American Progress, in OSTP documents referring to the then First Lady: 2002 and 2003 called for the release to the public of http://xcit.onl/bj5 and http://xcit.onl/93u all UFO and related documents in government files. Rockefeller Initiative narrative: http://xcit.onl/ges www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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Open Letter to Senators Barack Obama and John McCain October 17, 2008 Dear Senators: In less than three weeks one of you will be President Elect of the United States. When you take office on January 20, 2009 you will inherit a nation in crisis. One notable indicator of this crisis is the unprecedented approval/trust ratings of the executive and legislative branches of government and the political press. The faith of the American people in the presidency, the congress and the media is so low the social contract itself is at the breaking point.

universal. Nations such as France, China, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Brazil are releasing relevant classified documents and cooperating with citizen research organizations. But the United States government’s policy of embargo remains unchanged. This is unacceptable. The truth embargo’s end and formal acknowledgment of the extraterrestrial presence are inevitable. What remains to be determined are when it happens, how much further damage is done to the public’s trust, and which nation will act first.

After the election you are going to receive many thousands of letters, faxes and emails from citizens of many nations calling for you to 1) demand a full briefing from your military services and intelligence agencies, 2) press for open and comprehensive congressional hearings, 3) formally acknowledge the extraterrestrial presence, and 4) release into the public domain extraterrestrial derived technoloThe public grants candidates and office holders the gies, secretly studied and reverse engineered for six odd fib, occasional white lie, and exaggerated resume, decades, and now essential to overcome the environbut will not abide government lying about matters of mental, economic and social challenges of our time. life and death, war and peace, and the very nature of reality. Since 1947 there have been numerous As President Elect reach out to your party’s allies breaches of public trust, but none more dangerous within the military and intelligence communities. or impacting than the decision to withhold from the When you take office conduct the necessary meetings American people the facts behind an extraterrestrial with the cross agency committees managing the expresence engaging the human race. traterrestrial presence issue. In the spring of 2009, before the truth embargo becomes your embargo, Formal acknowledgement of this extraordinary cir- initiate disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence and cumstance was initially withheld for national security begin rebuilding the trust of the American people in reasons. This is understandable. their government and the standing of your country in the world. However, the pervasive and uninterrupted occurrences of extraterrestrial-related phenomena world- Respectfully, wide prompted a direct intervention into the citizen efforts to understand what was happening. Thus was created the most extensive propaganda/disinformation campaign in history often referred to as a cover-up but best described as a truth embargo. Stephen Bassett Citizens were threatened and harmed, research/ Executive Director activist organizations infiltrated and dismantled, Paradigm Research Group newspapers and television networks recruited, false stories planted, documents destroyed, presidents ____________ denied information and Congress denied oversight. This is less understandable.

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If you are in need of counsel to assist in you in these matters, you have but to turn to your transition co-chair, John Podesta. His efforts to end the truth embargo and release all relevant government documents date back to at least 1993 and the Rockefeller Initiative. PRG believes he is fully aware of the exYour staff is now aware that letters, faxes and emails traterrestrial presence and is committed to creating are arriving at your former Senate office and the more open, transparent governance. In this he is in Washington, DC transition headquarters. In general sync with the chief financial backer of his Center for this correspondence will ask of you the following: American Progress think tank, George Soros. On October 17, 2008 PRG published an open letter to the candidates calling for them to make preparations to end the six-decade truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. This letter reiterates that request.

1) demand a full briefing from your military services and intelligence agencies regarding what they know and what they are doing about extraterrestrial related phenomena. If you are told you do not have the proper clearance for this information, replace that person with someone who has read the Constitution.

Reach out to your party’s allies within the military services and intelligence agencies. When you take office conduct the necessary meetings with the cross agency committees managing the extraterrestrial presence issue. In the spring of 2009, before the truth embargo becomes your embargo, initiate the most profound event in human history and begin rebuilding the trust of the American people in their 2) press for open and comprehensive congres- government and the standing of your country in the sional hearings to take testimony from scores of gov- world. ernment witnesses who have already come forward with extraordinary evidence and are prepared to Respectfully, testify under oath. 3) formally acknowledge the extraterrestrial presence and finally end the truth embargo after 61 years. 4) make available for open development technologies which have been secretly studied and reverse engineered for decades with unlimited black budget funding. These technologies are derived from extraterrestrial vehicles and are now essential to overcome the environmental, economic and societal challenges of our time. PRG is well aware of your intention to launch a high technology “New Deal” code named “New Apollo Project” to restore America’s economy. This massive program to subsidize green technology development, create jobs, expand the manufacturing base and reverse the trade imbalance will be likely accompanied by legislation prohibiting overseas hiring and offshore manufacturing. All well and good, but it will not be enough. The challenges are too great and the response to these challenges too long delayed. It is essential the paradigm breaking technologies hidden in unacknowledged special access programs and sequestered behind the extraterrestrial truth embargo be included.

Stephen Bassett Executive Director Paradigm Research Group References: Rockefeller Initiative: http://xcit.onl/ve8 and http://xcit.onl/ges New York Times: http://xcit.onl/7co Coalition for Freedom of Information: www.freedomofinfo.org ____________

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some or all of the facts surrounding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race for at least the past sixty years, and 2) propulsion and energy technologies associated with extraterrestrial vehicles obtained by the United States military and under development for decades must be brought out from behind the government imposed truth embargo and placed in the service of addressing the dire warnings you have raised concerning the near- and long-term effects of global warming.

tered extraterrestrial technology which, if brought into the public arena, could completely alter the tipping point equations presently scaring many out of their wits. In fact, there is no issue impacting the human condition that this technology could not materially affect for the better. Jimmy Carter knows this, Bill Clinton knows this, George H. W. Bush know this – they will not publicly speak to it. Will you speak for them?

Nine months have passed. You did not respond to Respectfully, this open letter, and none of the presidential candidates who wish to lead the most powerful nation in the world have dared in forum after forum to the address the extraterrestrial/truth embargo issues. Stephen Bassett Nevertheless, you have had quite a year culminating Executive Director with your being awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Paradigm Research Group In between you picked up an Emmy. In your post-Nobel Prize announcement remarks you repeatedly referred to the “consciousness raising” aspect of the global warming challenge. Your point is valid, but it is worth noting the motivation behind this potential increase in global consciousness would be fear-based in much the same way the threat of international terrorism alters human behavior. The environmental movement began in similar fashion, arising out of the dire and also controversial warnings from Rachel Carson in her landmark book, Silent Spring. But even Carson would have been impressed with the behavioral changes your message calls for. The multiplicity of solutions to the global warming crisis you offer will require an unprecedented modification in collective worldview never before seen in human affairs within any time frame, let alone the one or two decades suggested. In short, you need all the help you can get - help that includes powerful, non-fear-based components. With all due respect for global warming’s potency as a change agent, that and nothing else comes close to the formal disclosure of the presence of non-human, intelligent beings for getting the human race’s attention. It will and properly should be the most profound event in human history. If you wish for the human race to see itself as a singular species shepherd to its one and only home planet, helping to end the truth embargo will significantly improve that prospect. But, as stated above, there is a significant bonus to this strategy. Behind the truth embargo is seques-

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Open Letter to President Barack Obama June, 2014 Dear Mr. President: The last congressional hearing dealing with extraterrestrial phenomena here now and not somewhere “out there” was before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics on July 29, 1968 – a half-day event with three witnesses. This month Paradigm Research Group (PRG) launched the most comprehensive effort ever to obtain comprehensive congressional hearings for scores of military/agency/political witnesses ready to testify under oath to events and evidence confirming an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race – now. Your White House is well aware of this issue as thousands of emails, letters and tweets have been received by your staff regarding the phenomena. And, of course, you would have been briefed on the matter by former Clinton White House advisor and chief of staff and your presidential transition co-chairman and current advisor, John Podesta. On October 22, 2002 and October 23, 2003 Mr. Podesta called for the release of all UFO documents in government files because the “people have a right to know” and “it’s the law.”

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Furthermore, on October 4, 2011 your Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a policy statement written by Dr. Phil Larson under the supervision of Dr. John Holdren with your approval. That statement is important for this paragraph: “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.” — https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/searchinget-no-evidence-yet

These three assertions by your administration are notable for three reasons: 1) all three are false, 2) all three are indefensibly false, and 3) they are part of the only written policy statement ever issued on the extraterrestrial issue by the White House.

least begin the discussion to find common ground for a Disclosure announcement. Possible candidate? See above. 3. PRG’s Congressional Hearing Initiative is spearheaded by the video record of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure held at the National Press Club from April 29 to May 3, 2013. Forty-two witnesses from ten countries testified for thirty hours over five days to six former members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate. Forty of those witnesses, along with many others, are ready to testify now before the appropriate congressional committees. DVD sets of the entire Citizen Hearing on Disclosure have been sent to every member of Congress and to the appropriate White House staff. Please request your staff review this video record. Also, please consider having members of your staff meet with a representative of PRG to discuss the Congressional Hearing Initiative and how that effort could help the White House solve the Disclosure problem.

The Congressional Hearing Initiative now underway is not designed to embarrass the White House. All that is being asked is that members of Congress, in Thank you. the same manner as their former colleagues, sit and listen to the testimony of military/agency/political After eighteen years of pursuing a political resolution witnesses of rank and station regarding extraterto the truth embargo placed on the extraterrestrial restrial related phenomena and asked appropriate reality by the United States government with the co- questions. PRG believes such hearings will generate operation of its WWII allies, PRG can offer these im- a massive media response that will create a platform portant recommendations for your administration as upon which the White House can stand. of June, 2014: The head of state that makes the first announcement 1. The truth embargo is collapsing. If the United confirming the extraterrestrial presence engaging States does not formally disclose the extraterres- the human race will achieve an historical and polititrial presence soon, another head of state will do cal legacy of extraordinary importance for his or her so. The two most likely candidates are President country, party and administration. Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping. Should that be the case the geopolitical consequences At this time only you can achieve that legacy for your for the United States would be profoundly nega- country and its citizens. tive. Please consider this outcome as you decide whether to be or not to be the Disclosure Presi- Respectfully, dent. 2. PRG well understands the difficult problem you face to be the Disclosure President. Without the cooperation of the military/intelligence complex and the cross agency committees which manage the extraterrestrial issue you are almost powerless to act of your own accord. It is essential you designate a key advisor to meet privately with representatives of these committees to at www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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About the author

Stephen Bassett is a political activist and a leading advocate for ending the 67 year government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

Stephen has spoken to audiences around the world about the implications of formal Disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence and has given over 1200 radio and television interviews.

His advocacy work has been extensively covered by national and international media. Paradigm Research Group will soon begin a Congressional Hearing InitiaHe is the executive director tive seeking the first hearings on Capitol Hill regardof the Paradigm Research ing the ET issue since 1968. Group (PRG) which recently produce a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Citizen Hearing on Disclosureâ&#x20AC;? at the www.paradigmresearchgroup.org National Press Club in Washington, DC.

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“Is there anybody out there?” by Anthony Beckett “Of course it is possible that UFO’s really do contain aliens, as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up. I couldn’t possibly comment!” - Professor Stephen Hawking, at the White House Millennium Council, 2000

Intelligence in Science Within the paradigm of our western culture, if something cannot be demonstrated and tested by repeatable scientific experimentation, then that something is probably not a real phenomenon. Much of what is termed supernatural for example simply means that it falls outside of the paradigms ability to test it. For the phenomenon we call intelligence, the scientific community does not have a clear definition of what the phenomenon actually is. Whether we are looking at natural intelligence or artificial intelligence – the question of what intelligence is cannot be defined beyond a set of rules more akin to economics – where an organism attempts to allow itself to survive.

“The statements of science must invoke only natural things and processes.” — Rule of Methodological Naturalism, National Academy of Science, Donald Kennedy et al., 1998 From this perspective the concept of seeking out the signs of intelligence in scientific data can only be an arduous if not impossible task.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence In a culture that relies of the philosophical reasoning of science to tell us what is real, how are we to identify whether a signal is the result of extraterrestrial intelligence and not some natural phenomenon?

Geoff Marcy is an astronomer at the University An additional problem in searching for the signs of of California at Berkeley. He is looking through intelligence is that the method of philosophical rea- the vast amount of data returned from the Kepler soning used in science is deemed incompatible with Space Observatory to look for signs of an advanced deciding if a phenomenon is intelligently caused: www.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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extraterrestrial civilization. While NASA’s Kepler mission itself is concerned with looking for evidence of exoplanets, Marcy is searching through the data in the hope of finding large objects radiating energy in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It was British theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson who first considered that “within a few thousand years of its entering the stage of industrial development, any intelligent species should be found occupying an artificial biosphere which completely surrounds its parent star”. This hypothetical artificial structure is known as a Dyson Sphere. Variants of this idea include a mega structure in the form of an orbiting solar-powered array of satellites meant to completely encompass a star, capturing most, if not all, of its energy output. The question one has to ask is, what happens if Marcy finds an object fulfilling that criterion? At what point will he be free to publish his findings, if he believes he has found evidence of a Type II Extraterrestrial Civilisation?

Pioneering Radio Astronomy In 1899 Nikola Tesla built his Magnifying Transmitter in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This device was designed to conduct experiments in the wireless transmission of electrical power and telecommunications. That same year he began hearing signals from it that he eventually came to believe emanated from an intelligent civilisation on the planet Mars: “Twenty-two years ago, while experimenting in Colorado

with a wireless power plant, I obtained extra-ordinary experimental evidence of the existence of life on Mars. I had perfected a wireless receiver of extra-ordinary sensitiveness, far beyond anything known, and I caught signals which I interpreted as meaning 1--2--3-4. I believe the Martians used numbers for communication because numbers are universal.” – Nikola Telsa, 1922

able extra-terrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. It is an often citied equation that he first came up with while at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in the US in 1961.

It has been argued that Tesla may have mistaken the origin of the signals as being from Mars when it is likely that he was listening to singlet, doublet and triplet signals from periodic HF radiation that is known be emitted by Jupiter.

R*: The average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy

The Rise of SETI The origin of the SETI program goes back to the work of radio astronomer Frank Drake at the Green Bank observatory in West Virginia in 1951. His “Project Ozma” was the first systematic attempt to detect artificial radio signals from nearby stars.

The Drake Equation: N = R* x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L N: The number of civilizations in our galaxy that communication might be possible

fp: The fraction of stars with planets ne: The average number of planets that can possibly support life (per star with planets) fl: The fraction that can go on to support life fi: The fraction that can go on to support intelligent life fc: The fraction of civilizations that develop technology detectable from space

Drake used the 21-cm spectral line of hydrogen which he considered to be the best natural frequency L: The length of time a civilizato with which intelligent species tion goes on to release detectmay try to communicate with and able signs into space he listened to two nearby, Sun-like stars epsilon Eridani and tau Ceti The value of N is highly uncerfor six hours a day using an 85ft tain given that our civilisation is radio telescope at Green Bank. not in a position of know most of the variables with any degree of “Ozma”, incidentally, was a refaccuracy. Until recently the only erence to the character Princess variable that could be estimated Ozma in L. Frank Baum’s the series with any degree of confidence of books about the Land of Oz, was R (rate of star formation in the appearing in all the books except Milky Way) which is thought to be the first – The Wonderful Wizard in the order of one star per year. of Oz. Drake is most well-known for formulating a mathematical equation to estimate the number of detectwww.exopoliticsmagazine.com

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ne (avg. no. planets per star that could support life). As of October 13th, 2013, 998 exoplanets have been discovered in 759 planetary systems including 169 multiple planetary systems.

It was this Ohio State University SETI program that became well known when, on August 15, 1977, a project volunteer witnessed a

According to Drake, the average of people’s “best estimates” suggested that there are about 10,000 technically advanced civilisations spread across our galaxy. This concept gave rise to the SETI startlingly strong signal received program. by the telescope. Volunteer, Jerry Ehman quickly circled the indication on a printout and writing The Wow Signal During the 1960’s, spurred on the phrase “Wow!” in the margin. by Drakes work, Soviet scien- The signal did not repeat and has tists began using unidirectional never been detected since.

England, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her colleagues discovered an anomalous radio transmission: “We did not really believe that we had picked up signals from another civilization, but obviously the idea had crossed our minds and we had no proof that it was an entirely natural radio emission.” “It is an interesting problem — if one thinks one may have detected life elsewhere in the universe, how does one announce the results responsibly?” — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

antennae to listen to a large region of sky rather than narrow regions used by the western astronomers.

Could the “Wow” signal have been The signal became known as a radio signal from an artificial, ex- Signal LGM-1, (“little green men”) and the hypothesis was only abantra-terrestrial source? doned once a second pulsating In the early 1970’s NASA’s Ames Research Center began looking at Attempting to resolve this question source was discovered in a differthe technology required to imple- using only the tool of science ent part of the sky. ment an SETI search and by the alone leaves us forever looking late-1970’s programs had been to eliminate “natural” mecha- When all else fails… established at both NASA’s Ames nisms as being the source of this A year later in 1968 astronomer Research Center in Mountain signal. Science cannot answer this Thomas Gold proposed an alternative hypothesis for the source View, California and the Jet Propul- question alone. of LGM-1 which became known as sion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Anyone can attempt answer the a pulsar: California. question using other tools in the “A neutron star emits two opIn a 1955 issue of Scientific philosophical toolbox. However, if a scientist attempts this they posed beams of synchrotron American, astronomer John Kraus radiation confined to a narrow described a concept to scan the would leave them open to making a mistake; so on the whole they cone about the star’s magnetic cosmos for natural radio signals simply do not attempt to make axis. We then perceive pulses using a flat-plane radio telescope as the beams swing by us if we equipped with a parabolic reflec- statements like this through fear of personal and professional rehappen to be in the cone that tor. Two years later his concept they sweep out.” had been approved for construc- percussions. tion by Ohio State University. The radio telescope built in Delaware, Ohio was called Big Ear and it later began the world’s first continuous SETI program.

Signal LGM-1

However, at a conference on with ExtraA decade before the “Wow” signal, Communication at the Mullard Radio Astrono- terrestrial Intelligence (CETI) in my Observatory in Cambridge, the Soviet Union, the well-known

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astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that certain radio emissions may be potential intelligently caused signals: “The very serious current energy problems both in quasar and in gravity wave physics can be ameliorated if we imagine these energy sources beamed in our direction. But preferential beaming in our direction makes little sense unless there is a message in these channels. A similar remark might apply to pulsars. “There are a large number of other incompletely understood phenomena, from Jovian decameter bursts to the high time-resolution structure of X-ray emission which might just conceivably be due to ETI.

Erring on the side of caution The 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler wrote in his novel Somnium:

have been eliminated. However, exhausting all natural causes is a logical impossibility.

From this perspective science is “When things are in order, if not able to infer that either Stonethe cause of the orderliness henge or the Great Pyramids of cannot be deduced from the Giza were intelligently caused. It motion of the elements or from can only continually attempt to the composition of matter, eliminate new natural causes as it is quite possibly a cause being responsible for the configpossessing a mind. If you direct uration of the stones within the your mind to the towns on the structure. moon, I shall prove to you that Regarding Geoff Marcy’s search I see them. for “Dyson Spheres”; how does he “In the spotted parts of the eliminate all the possible natural moon the perfectly round causes that could account for a shape of the hollows, and large astronomical object in space their arrangement or a certain found to be radiating perhaps only equality of the distances in the infrared range of the elecbetween them, are artificial tromagnetic spectrum? and produced by some architectural mind. For that scooping out into the form of a circle cannot be accomplished by any motion of the elements.”

Whether the potential extraterrestrial artefacts under investigation are radio signals, physical objects “Perhaps, in the light of Doctor or even alien spacecraft – a sciMarx’s presentation, we must entist would essentially need to ask if the fine structure of some fluctuating X-ray sources Kepler however was in error ignore the rules and the methodis due to pulsed X-ray lasers when he suggested that circles, ology of science in order to make for interstellar spaceflight. as seen on the moon, cannot be statements about it. Otherwise But Shklovsky’s principle of created by natural means. Both they “couldn’t possibly comment”. assuming such sources natural meteor impacts and electrical dis“There are more things in until proven otherwise, of charge arcing can produce circular heaven and earth, Horatio, course, holds. Extraterrestrial patterns. than are dreamt up in your intelligence is the explanation philosophy” — Shakespeare, of last resort, when all else Eliminating All Natural Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 fails.”

Causes

– Dr. Carl Sagan

The scientific method does not allow inference to intelligent causes until all natural causes

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Speaker Profile: Richard Dolan

phenomenon from 1941 to the present. Included are the records of more than fifty military bases relating to violations of sensitive airspace by unknown objects, demonstrating that the US military has taken the topic of UFOs seriPrior to his interest in anomalous ously indeed. The second volume phenomena, Dolan studied US covering the period of 1973-1991 Cold War strategy, Soviet history, and the end of the cold war was and international diplomacy. His published in 2009. interest in the UFO phenomenon began when he discovered Richard is a regular guest on that the very same government Coast-to-Coast AM radio, has offices that he had studied in his also appeared on many television postgraduate study had a close specials for The History Channel, interest in the UFO phenomenon. SyFy, BBC, and elsewhere. Since What began as a personal study 2012, Richard has hosted “The for Richard grew into a 500-page Richard Dolan Show,” airing book, UFOs and the National on KGRA Radio every Saturday Security State: Chronology of a evening, from 8-11 pm EST. Cover-up - 1941-1973, publisher In his books, articles, and many in 2000. interviews, Richard has analyzed Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar the destruction of our political Mitchell called the book “mon- liberties as a result of the UFO umental,” while Dr. Hal Puthoff, cover-up, the possible nature Director of the Institute for of the non-humans themselves, Advanced Studies at Austin, what their presence means for declared it to be “a must-read for our civilization, why he believes serious students in the field.” the cover-up will end within our lifetime, and what is likely to The is the first volume of a his- happen after that. torical narrative of the national security dimensions of the UFO www.richarddolanpress.com MA in History from the University of Rochester and a BA in History from Alfred University. He earned a Certificate in Political Theory from Oxford University and was a Rhodes Scholar finalist.

Richard Dolan is among the

world’s leading researchers and historians of the UFO subject. He is the author of two volumes of history, UFOs and the National Security State volumes one and two, as well as an analysis of the future, A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact and more recent he published UFOs for the 21st Century Mind in 2014. Richard Dolan spoke at our very first event in 2009 and he has since become a regular guest of Exopolitics Great Britain. He will be speaking again on Sunday September 28th 2014 at our 6th Annual British Exopolitics Expo. Richard was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1962 and holds an

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