Month: December 2012

Top 10 extraterrestrial life stories for 2012 – Year in Review

By Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.

2012 was a watershed year in the expanding public awareness of the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and its political and social implications for earth. NASA landed another rover on Mars with the scientific means to determine if Mars once hosted life. NASA sponsored scientific projects continued to find more exoplanets, some of which reside in the habitable regions of their suns. More than anything else, exoplanet discoveries continue to excite scientists with the possibility that extraterrestrial life exists elsewhere in the universe, and the possibility of contact. Scientists though are divided on whether this would be a good or bad thing since they don’t agree on how extraterrestrials would respond in contact with a resource rich planet such as earth. Then we have news stories based on whistleblowers and even a former Russian President revealing what may be really happening behind the scenes when it comes to government policy on extraterrestrial life. Important news developments in 2012 make it inevitable that the study of extraterrestrial life and its political implications – generally known as exopolitics – will receive even more attention in 2013 and beyond. Here is my list of the top 10 extraterrestrial life stories for 2012 – in descending order to the Top Extraterrestrial Life Story of the Year.

#10.  On August 25, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon died from heart failure. According to NASA insiders and an alleged ham radio transmission intercept, what Armstrong witnessed during his 1969 moon walk changed his life, and led to the eventual abandonment of the manned lunar missions. According to alleged leaked documents, two huge extraterrestrial spacecraft watched the Apollo 11 landing, and observed the Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moon walks. Did Armstrong carry his moon secrets to the grave? Further reading: First man on moon dies along with secrets of what he saw

#9 On May 25, the movie Men In Black (MIB) III was released. In it, an idea is presented in an outrageously comedic way. Extraterrestrial visitors live on our world and are monitored by a secretive governmental agency that hides the truth from the American public. The movie is based on stories circulating since the early 1950’s of mysterious MIB traveling around in dark suits in vintage cars, persuading people to be silent about their experiences concerning UFOs and alien life. Does MIB III use comedy to hide the truth in plain sight? Further Reading: Men in Black III – Hiding the Truth in Plain Sight

#8 November 28. CNN aired a story that according to a declassified report, the Air Force plan involved sending a nuclear missile that would detonate on impact with the lunar surface. The project was titled “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” (aka “Project A-119”) and was planned in 1958. According to the declassified report, the plan was never implemented. According to one senior US Air Force officer, however, not only was an attempt made to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon decades later, but there was an external intervention to destroy the missile. Further reading: Did the US Air Force attempt to nuke the moon?

#7 In April, Professor Paul Springer from the U.S. Air Command and Staff College was authorized by his employers to discuss military plans to respond to an alien invasion. Springer responded to questions by an Australian Television program exploring possible responses to an alien invasion that aired on Easter Sunday. In the segment titled ““U.S. military making plans for an alien invasion,” he discussed the implications of humanity being confronted by an extraterrestrial threat. Springer’s comments confirm for the first time that the Pentagon has drawn up contingency plans for an extraterrestrial invasion. Further Reading: Pentagon plans for Alien invasion exist according to military professor

#6 In April, a team of scientists analyzing data from the 1976 Viking Mission concluded that life on Mars was detected in one of the four experiments conducted by the two robotic landers. Their report, “Complexity Analysis of the Viking Labeled Release Experiments,” released in the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences resurrected a controversy over the results of the Viking Mission’s “Labeled Released experiment” designed by Dr Gilbert Levin. The Viking mission was the only Mars mission so far that was designed by NASA to detect life. Dr Levin was confident that the experiment had detected microbial life on Mars, but his NASA colleagues disagreed and his startling finding was forgotten in the Martian sands of time. This new scientific investigation concluded that Levin was right all along. Further Reading – 1976 life on Mars controversy resurrected in new scientific report.

#5 On October 20, Gordon Duff, the senior editor of the popular Veterans Today website, released a blog featuring an interview recorded on Coast to Coast Radio four days earlier, Duff provided details of a briefing document he personally witnessed in 1982 while working for an unnamed government agency. Duff claims that the document contained references to two treaties with extraterrestrial civilizations. The treaties, according to Duff, were coerced upon the USA and other countries by a hostile extraterrestrial race. Further Reading: Secret US alien treaties exist according to Veterans Today Senior Editor

#4 In September, according to Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, intelligence sources were revealing that hostile extraterrestrials are militarily engaging with world naval forces. In an article, provocatively titled, “UFO War: Chinese and US Navy off San Francisco,” Duff claims that the Chinese navy is lending assistance to the US in battling these hostile forces in what looks like a real life version of the recent movie Battleship. Duff claims that his intelligence sources are Asian, and that US naval forces are stretched thin in the Pacific due to a beefed up naval presence in the Persian Gulf. Duff admits that the story stretches credibility but that his source is usually reliable, thereby raising the possibility that either the story is largely accurate and/or officially sanctioned disinformation. Are we being prepared for an alien false flag invasion? Further Reading:  Is Alien UFO false flag event on the way?

# 3 Back in May, NASA accounted that for the first time, it was able to detect infrared light from a rocky “super-earth” variety of exoplanet. The Spitzer Space Telescope detected infrared light from the exoplanet “55 Cancri e” which has a rocky core and is nearly twice the Earth’s diameter, and eight times its mass. While 55 Cancri e is much too close to its sun – 55 Cancri A – to sustain life as we know it, the detection is a historic first for NASA. The detection of infrared light on the super-earth category of exoplanets, prime candidates for finding extraterrestrial life, makes possible the discovery of alien cities in distant solar systems. Further Reading: Detecting extraterrestrial cities on exoplanets becomes possible

#2 On December 14, Britain’s Director of Public Prosecutation (DPP) announced that Gary McKinnon will not face prosecution in the United Kingdom for hacking into the computer systems of NASA, the Pentagon and other government agencies in search of information on UFOs. McKinnon claimed to have found photographs, film, and other evidence of alien spacecraft secretly held by various U.S. government agencies. While the US extradition order is still valid and could be activated in other countries if McKinnnon travelled abroad, the DPP decision ends McKinnon’s decade long legal nightmare in Britain. McKinnon can now safely reveal anything further that he learned of secret US government knowledge of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Further Reading: UFO hacker will not face UK prosecution

#1 Top Extraterrestrial Life Story of the Year. On December 7, the current Russian Prime Minister and former President, Dmitry Medvedev, made some startling off-air comments to reporters while his microphone was still switched on. He was asked whether the President is given any secret files on extraterrestrials while in office. In his responses, Medvedev not only confided that extraterrestrials are visiting the Earth, but that some are actually living among us. He went even further to say that the Hollywood comedy, Men in Black, has a factual basis to it. Medvedev’s responses were said off-air, without him realizing that his microphone was still recording, they at face value give credence to claims that extraterrestrials are not only visiting our world, but are even living among us. Further Reading: Russian Prime Minister claims extraterrestrials live among us

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End of Mayan calendar – UFO fleets & the CIA

By Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.

Dr J. Allen Hynek was an associate member of the 1953 CIA Convened Robertson Panel.

Four days to the end of the world – or at least the end of the Mayan calender on December 21, 2012 according to researchers decoding several ancient Mayan glyphs. The Australian Prime Minister made her own statement about the end of the Mayan calendar with a spoof video about the upcoming zombie apocalypse. Seriously though, what can we expect for December 21? One thing is certain, December 22 will follow with many End of the World party hangovers. What else? Perhaps we should look to the region of the world where the Mayans lived, and where an interesting phenomenon has been happening for some time – fleets of UFOs have been sighted and recorded. Does the end of the Mayan calendar coincide with the mysterious sightings of UFO fleets around the world, especially in Mexico and Central America where the ancient Maya lived?

The most well documented recent mass UFO sighting was in Guadalajara, Mexico in June, 2004. Hundreds of luminous objects were seen during daylight hours by multiple witnesses and recorded on video. An exhaustive investigation by Mexico’s most eminent UFO researcher, Jaime Maussan, concluded that the UFOs had no terrestrial explanation – they were not balloons, Chinese lanterns, birds or other earthly phenomenon. Maussan had one month earlier investigated official Mexican Air Force infrared camera footage released exclusively to him of a fleet of UFOs encountered that could not be explained by Mexican Air Force investigators.

There have been many more sightings of UFO fleets in Mexico, most recently on December 1, 2012. So are we being visited by other worldly visitors in the lands of the Maya – and it is all being recorded on film? Perhaps, but what about the USA, why aren’t there similar sightings of mass UFOs? It will surprise some to learn that the earliest sightings of fleets of UFOs occurred in the USA. The most famous was the Washington flyovers in the summer of 1952.

Over three successive weekends from July 12 to 27, fleets of UFOs – or “flying saucers” as they were called at the time – flew over Washington DC. There were thousands of live witnesses whose reports quickly led to the US Air Force’s official UFO investigation – Project Bluebook – being overwhelmed. The UFOs were captured on film, on radar, and visually sighted by US Air Force pilots on intercept missions. The fleets of UFOs received much national press attention, and even led to President Truman making a live statement to the public.

The US Air Force made an official statement basically debunking the mass UFO sightings as misidentified meteorites, planets and temperature inversions. The Air Force explanations were widely ridiculed by independent experts, but had the effect of defusing press interest and quietening the general public for the moment. The public backlash over the official response to the Washington DC mass UFO sightings, led to a rethink in the government’s strategy for responding to any future sightings. especially when involving fleets of UFOs. The Central Intelligence Agency, not the US Air Force, would play the lead role in developing and implementing the government’s new strategy.

The CIA convened a panel of scientific experts to look into the UFO phenomenon, and to develop a set of recommendations that could be implemented by different government agencies. The Panel was convened in January 1953, and named after its Chair, Dr Howard Percy Robertson who was an eminent physicist. What we know of the Robertson Panel’s deliberations comes to us from Dr J. Allen Hynek who was an associate member of the Panel. Hynek was shocked to learn that the Robertson Panel was intent on debunking all reports, no matter how credible or strongly supported by independent analysis.

In a historic video clip, Hynek reveals how a detailed 1000 hour analysis by the US Navy’s photographic interpretation laboratory of a Navy officer’s film of what appeared to be a fleet of UFOs appearing near Tremonton, Utah was ignored. After viewing the “Tremonton case” film several times, the Panel concluded that the multiple objects were a flock of birds, when the Navy analysis had excluded this possibility, and concluded instead that the objects were, according to Hynek, “self-luminous unidentified objects.” The Tremonton case film footage was important since the objects in the video look strikingly similar to more recent reports of fleets of UFOs filmed flying in Guadalajara, Mexico and other locations during daylight hours. Most importantly, the Tremonton UFO case occurred on July 2, 1952, less than two weeks before the Washington DC UFO flyovers began – suggesting a very likely connection between two cases of fleets of UFOs being sighted and recorded in different parts of the USA.

With regard to the Robertson Panel, Hynek concluded: “I came away from the meeting and the room with the distinct feeling however that the panel had deliberately moved to debunk the whole subject, and not to give it the serious scientific attention which it deserved.”

The Robertson Panel recommended an ‘educational program’ to remove the “threat” posed by enemy nations exploiting the public’s belief in flying saucers. This “educational program” is described at length in the Panel’s Report:

The Panel’s concept of a broad educational program integrating efforts of all concerned agencies was that it should have two major aims: training and “debunking.” …The “debunking” aim would result in reduction in public interest in “flying saucers” which today evokes a strong psychological reaction. This education could be accomplished by mass media such as television, motion pictures, and popular articles [emphasis added].… Such a program should tend to reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.

Hynek’s frank admission confirms suspicions that the Robertson Panel and its conclusions, called the “Durant Report”, were biased, and part of a CIA orchestrated plan to persuade the American public to dismiss the UFO phenomenon for national security reasons. Fleets of UFOs that flew over US cities would henceforth be debunked as misidentified birds, planets and other natural phenomenon.

As we approach the end of the Mayan calendar, the surge in recent reports of fleets of UFOs in areas inhabited by the ancient Maya, does naturally lead to the question of whether this is what the Maya had foreseen. While considering this possibility, it is worth remembering that one of the earliest known reports of a fleet of UFOs had been confirmed to be authentic by a US Navy investigation, before being debunked by the CIA’s Robertson Panel. The world wide reach of the CIA makes it the lead organization in debunking reports of fleets of UFOs being witnessed around the planet, and the possibility that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin. There is much documented evidence that the Earth has been visited by fleets of UFOs, and such sightings have increased as we approach the end of the Mayan calendar. Perhaps December 21, 2012 will lead to an acceleration of UFO fleet sightings, that may well signify an the end of the world, as we know it!

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Further Reading

Tears are not enough…

 Tears are not enough…

T h e   C h i l d r e n

 –  D e c e m b e r  1 4,  2 0 1 2  –

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Daniel Barden, 7

Olivia Engel, 6

Josephine Gay, 7

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Daniel Barden, 7

Olivia Engel, 6

Josephine Gay, 7

Dylan Hockley, 6

Madeleine Hsu, 6

Catherine Hubbard, 6

Jesse Lewis, 6

James Mattioli, 6

Grace McDonnell, 7

Jack Pinto, 6

Noah Pozner, 6

Caroline Previdi, 6

Jessica Rekos, 6

Avielle Richman, 6

Benjamin Wheeler, 6

Allison Wyatt, 6

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

T h o s e   L o s t

But Not Forgotten

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Tears are not enough…

 Tears are not enough…

T h e   C h i l d r e n

 –  D e c e m b e r  1 4,  2 0 1 2  –

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Daniel Barden, 7

Olivia Engel, 6

Josephine Gay, 7

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Daniel Barden, 7

Olivia Engel, 6

Josephine Gay, 7

Dylan Hockley, 6

Madeleine Hsu, 6

Catherine Hubbard, 6

Jesse Lewis, 6

James Mattioli, 6

Grace McDonnell, 7

Jack Pinto, 6

Noah Pozner, 6

Caroline Previdi, 6

Jessica Rekos, 6

Avielle Richman, 6

Benjamin Wheeler, 6

Allison Wyatt, 6

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

T h o s e   L o s t

But Not Forgotten

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UFO hacker will not face UK prosecution

Gary McKinnon outside UK Court House

Britain’s Director of Public Prosecutation (DPP) announced today that Gary McKinnon will not face prosecution in the United Kingdom for hacking into the computer systems of NASA, the Pentagon and other government agencies in search of information on UFOs. Keir Starmer QC (DPP) decided that the chances of a succesful prosecution “are not high.” McKinnon claimed to have found photographs, film, and other evidence of alien spacecraft secretly held by various U.S. government agencies. Starmer’s decision follows an earlier decision by British Home Secretary Theresa Mayin October 2012 to block the US extradition efforts. While the US extradition order is still valid and could be activated in other countries if McKinnnon travelled abroad, Starmer’s decision ends McKinnon’s decade long legal nightmare in Britain. McKinnon can now safely reveal anything further that he learned of secret US government knowledge of UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

In his statement Starmer said:

The potential difficulties in bringing a case in England and Wales now should not be underestimated, not least the passage of time, the logistics of transferring sensitive evidence prepared for a court in the US to London for trial, the participation of US government witnesses in the trial and the need fully to comply with the duties of disclosure imposed on the CPS. The prospects of a conviction against Mr McKinnon which reflects the full extent of his alleged criminality are not high.

McKinnon first hacked into NASA’s Johnson Space Center and said:

… he found a high definition picture of a large cigar shaped object over the northern hemisphere. He said that he was so shocked by the picture that he didn’t think to immediately save it. He also said that the file size was so large that is was difficult to view it on his computer. Eventually his connection was lost, and so was the picture.

When McKinnon later hacked into classified files of U.S. Space Command (incorporated into Strategic Command on October 1, 2002 soon after McKinnon was caught), he discovered a number of naval terms such as “fleet-to-fleet transfers” concerning non-terrestrial officers. He said:

I found a list of officers’ names … under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’. It doesn’t mean little green men. What I think it means is not Earth-based. I found a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers’, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t US Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet.

McKinnon’s startling discovery cast light on what had been earlier revealed by no less than a former President of the United States: Ronald Reagan. In President Reagan’s Diary, the entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1985 (page 334) reads:

Lunch with 5 top space scientist. It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.

Reagan’s comment was revealing since the recently retired Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people and only five were built for space flight. Even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to place and maintain 300 astronauts in orbit. Was Reagan revealing the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit? Apparently so, according to dozens of military and corporate whistleblowers. Hidden within one of the nine unified combatant commands of the U.S. military, as McKinnon later discovered, appeared to be a highly classified fleet of aircraft carrier sized ships that operate in outer space.

Now that McKinnon no longer faces the threat of extradition and will not be prosecuted by British authorities, he may be able to reveal more about what he learned from sensitive U.S. military and government computer files about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

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Further Reading:

Russian Prime Minister claims extraterrestrials live among us

By Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.

Russian Prime Minister claims that Men In Black movies depict a real life secret organization that monitors extraterrestrials living among us

On Friday, December 7, the current Russian Prime Minister and former President, Dmitry Medvedev, made some startling off-air comments to reporters while his microphone was still switched on. He was asked whether the President is given any secret files on extraterrestrials while in office. In his responses, Medvedev not only confided that extraterrestrials are visiting the Earth, but that some are actually living among us. He went even further to say that the Hollywood comedy, Men in Black, depicting a secret government agency monitoring extraterrestrials on Earth, has a factual basis to it. While the comments appear to be playful responses to a reporter’s off-beat question, they raise questions over exactly how much truth was being revealed by Medvedev. Given that Medvedev’s responses were said off-air, without him realizing that his microphone was still recording, they at face value give credence to claims that extraterrestrials are not only visiting our world, but are even living among us.

After completing an on-air interview with five television reporters, Prime Minister Medvedev continued to respond to reporters and made some off-air comments without realizing that the microphone was still on. His off-air comments were more frank about his real feelings on recent political developments in Russia where authorities were reigning in civil liberties. He was then asked by one reporter if “the president is handed secret files on aliens when he receives the briefcase needed to activate Russia’s nuclear arsenal,” Medvedev responded:

Along with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the president of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet… Along with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country… More detailed information on this topic you can get from a well-known movie called Men In Black… I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic,

Medvedev’s comments are not the first time a prominent Russian official has spoken out about extraterrestrial life while giving television interviews. In an extraordinary television interview aired in May 2010, the Governor of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov who was also President of the World Chess Federation, claimed that in 1997 he was taken from his penthouse apartment on board an extraterrestrial vehicle. Ilyumzhinov claimed that the extraterrestrials he met were humanoid and gave him a tour of their ship, and even took him to another world.

There has long been claims that not only have extraterrestrials been visiting our world, but have actually lived among us. A well documented case in Italy called Amicizia (Friendship) revealed that more than 100 individuals, including senior public officials, had met with a group of extraterrestrials with bases in the Italian peninsula and the Adriatic Sea over a 22 year period from 1956 to 1978. Significantly, these extraterrestrials were secretly monitored by NATO authorities who did not interfere with private citizens meeting with and providing supplies to the extraterrestrials. The Friendship case, if genuine, suggests that something like the official agency created to monitor extraterrestrials on earth depicted in the Men In Black movies, is based in fact. Certainly, Prime Minister Medvedev appears to think that such a “secret special service” exists.

While it can be claimed that Medvedev was giving a playful response to an off-beat reporter question, the full context of his off-air remarks suggest he was being candid on a range of topics, including extraterrestrial life. Plausible deniability certainly comes to mind when trying to analyze Medvedev’s frank off-air comments. This raises the intriguing possibility that Medvedev’s comments were orchestrated with prior approval to reveal facts to the Russian public that authorities are not yet able to officially announce to the world – extraterrestrials live among us.

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Further Reading

Time to re-visit a classic – UFOs on the Record – a Political Act

By Victor Viggiani M.Ed.
News Director -The ZlandCommunications News Network

Leslie Kean’s UFOs – Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.

Author and journalist Leslie Kean may have written a blockbuster on what pilots and generals know about UFOs; but has the mainstream press over-looked this powerful piece of journalism that could change American politics and even alter history itself?

Quite often works on the UFO issue like Ms. Kean’s, rise to prominence then disappear. Those familiar with the UFO issue have witnessed this time and again. After reading a professional piece of journalism like that produced by Leslie Kean most would agree that this work must never suffer that fate – not only because of its factual content and accuracy but for the political fire-storm it could ignite if taken seriously by her peers in the mainstream media.

The Constitution of the United States allows Leslie Kean to state her case – but it doesn’t necessarily grant her the influence held by some who are far more powerful. This is precisely why it is essential that the media re-visit her work – to take the conversation to the people.

Ms. Kean is far too professional to publicly criticize her colleagues in the relentlessly punishing world of the press and big media for ignoring the serious national security issues raised in her work as well as her open invitation to government to participate in meaningful, public discussion and investigation of the UFO matter.

At least a dozen of her colleagues should have rushed into a White House Press Conference – book in hand – presenting it as more powerful than the likes of the Pentagon Papers or the initial news of a bungled burglary at the Watergate building. “President Obama – have you read this?”

The intention of this piece is to rectify this situation by challenging those in the media who are on the cusp of making a dramatic move to propel this issue to the front burner of North American newspapers and investigative news programs. These people do exist.

National Security, Governance and CIA Media Mendacity
Consider this. Be it a Congressional crisis, a Senate scandal, election tampering, an act of terrorism or a US financial collapse, it is expected that the media will grab the issue by the throat and throttle answers from the mouths of elected officials. It is the opinion of many in the UFO research community the evidence and national security implications unearthed by Ms. Kean and many other researchers about UFOs and government secrecy is, by comparison more grave than anyone can imagine.

The shocking and indisputable nature of the evidence provided by Kean goes far beyond filibusters and fiscal cliffs. The evidence gives rise to questions that are not only fundamental to constitutional law, politics, jurisprudence and national security but ultimately raises a substantive question about governance: Who actually runs the United States of America?

Kean’s testimony and whistle-blowers are still poised to precipitate a frightening political train wreck in Washington DC. Sometimes there are certain things that even the most influential cannot keep out of the news.

UFOs – on the Record as it has come to be known internationally, made the New York Times Best Seller List – a circumstance that has undoubtedly not gone unnoticed by the White House and other military and intelligence agencies in the USA because of the book’s decidedly provocative examination of UFOs and related national security issues. The evidence provided by Ms. Kean and Air Force officials has fractured the United States Air Force contention that, “No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security.” In addition to being dated, this statement and large portions of USAF Fact Sheet are inaccurate as well as evasive. The facts presented by Ms. Kean, Air Force witnesses and other government officials clearly demonstrate that the USAF’s attempt to ignore the evidence is both transparent and deceptive.

The elite status and sense of achievement garnered by any author who makes the New York Times Best Seller List is considerable. This kind of recognition is not easy to come by for most authors. In Kean’s situation, the book uncovers what high ranking American and international government and military officials say their governments already know about UFOs and threats to national security. They make it clear their UFO encounters and government complicity remain behind a well orchestrated wall of secrecy; never to be publicly acknowledged.

This adds up to a cover-up the mainstream media refuses to deal with because, if the same set of standards of ignorance and media complicity were applied today to a cover-up or potential national security threat, David Petraeus would still be Director of the CIA, Nixon would have completed his term in office in the 1970’s, and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would be covering sports for the Miami Tribune. This all begs the question: Where is the press today on Kean’s national security revelations? (In essence; they’re in back rooms taking orders from the NSA, CIA or NRO not to report any of this – but that’s another story for another day. See Pulitzer Prize Winner Carl Bernstein’s CIA and the Media)

In any case, Leslie Kean certainly must have enjoyed the quiet panic among American government officials caused by her new book as they watched her spectacular and incriminating best seller entitled UFOs – Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record chug its way up the New York Times Best Seller List to number 29.

Government officials remain quite pleased the press decided not to ratchet up the level of political pressure this book could have easily caused. They may still be a little edgy about its possible resurrection and what the collateral damage might be within an economically staggering Obama administration if the mainstream press engages this issue head-on.

There is no way of knowing how, or if pressure may have been exerted on the ownership of the New York Times to stifle the rise of Ms. Kean’s book up their own best seller list – denying it the possibility of reaching a top 10 or even number one ranking.

If the NY Times connection to the CIA is as cosy as we are lead to believe by an interesting series of e-mails between CIA spokeswomen Maria Harf and the NY Times national security and intelligence reporter, Mark Mazzetti, then Carl Bernstein’s assertion about the co-operation between the CIA and the New York Times adds impetus to the train wreck Ms. Kean’s would have caused in Washington DC had her book risen to the number one position or even the top ten on the NY Times Best Seller List.

Given that manipulation of – pressure on – or “advice” to the literary geniuses at the NY Times is not something beyond the tactics of the CIA in its relationship with all media, then it may not be that much of a stretch to postulate that Ms. Kean’s best seller may have risen farther up the NY Times Best Seller List, higher than reported – eliminating any real possibility that it would cause grief for the Obama administration; pressuring someone in the White House to comment on a book about UFOs and government secrecy that had risen to number one in the nation.

Wait it gets better.

The CIA’s policy has always been to minimize public interest in UFOs and the secrecy surrounding their presence. In an August 1st memo entitled “Flying Saucers” found in the CIA archives, clear statements are made concerning how news about UFOs was to be treated. The memo unambiguously states:

“Notwithstanding… so long as a series of reports remains unexplained (interplanetary aspects and alien origins not excluded) caution requires that intelligence continue on the subject.”

The memo continues:

“It is strongly urged… that no indication of CIA interest or concern…reach the press or the public… of the soundness of ‘unpublished facts’ in the hands of the US Government.”

Given the white-wash treatment of UFOs in two CIA sponsored UFO enquiries; the Robertson Panel and the Durant Report, it can be suggested quite effortlessly that Ms. Kean’s status as a top ten best selling author was tampered with in some manner.

In the context of these alarming connections, even a first-year journalism student would be prone to ask: In whose interest is it to keep politically sensitive revelations about UFOs under wraps and how might the White House react if Ms. Kean’s book were to get a second-wind?

Political Potential
To answer those questions we must ask: Why is Kean’s book so powerful in its political potential? It seems to boldly instigate a conversation about an issue the American government says is non-existent, yet contradicts itself by perversely spending tax payers’ money; funding a cover-up of something that is non-existent. What makes Kean’s best seller a political bombshell that blows this contradiction out of the water?

Well, first off – Kean’s book is relentless; replete with harrowing UFO events that will perplex and bewilder the average reader. It chronicles exceptionally disturbing incidents of ‘close-up’ military, commercial and civilian pilot UFO near- misses, close encounters, near-combat and visual sightings of actual bizarre craft of unknown origin… all told directly in first-hand accounts by the highly credible whistle-blowers themselves. Whistle-blowers cite – chapter and verse – how military and aviation officials imposed strict secrecy and even threats of job loss upon pilots who wished to go public.

In one 1982 incident, Portuguese military pilot Captain Julio Miguel Guerra encountered a UFO for well over 15 minutes as a semi-globe shaped metallic craft paced, then began to circle his aircraft multiple times at immense speed in a large, sideways elliptical orbit between five and ten thousand feet. Each orbit was completed in mere seconds. The orbiting UFO encounter lasted so long that he was able to contact another aircraft being flown by two other pilot colleagues.

Upon arriving at Guerra’s co-ordinates, the two other pilots, stunned by what they were seeing, clearly witnessed the event from outside the UFOs orbit as it circled Captain Guerra’s aircraft which remained inside the UFO’s orbital track. All three pilots to this day remain deeply affected by this life-altering encounter with the unknown.

This gripping incident is just one of the many compelling multiple expert eye-witness testimonies submitted as evidence in what amounts to a comprehensive and controversial indictment of lies, denial and indifference in the public and secretive management of the UFO issue – a rare political act within the world of non-fiction and investigative journalism.

Secondly, a book like this, one that provides case-in-point levels of incrimination, could in fact mean that thousands if not millions of Americans and people around the world will come to recognize – with little or no doubt – substantial evidence exists, that UFOs are real and that the government has covered it up for over sixty years. One can only conclude that Ms. Kean’s compilation of evidence points out how the brilliant tactical minds of United States Air Force specialists and their government counter-parts continue to wallow in blatant public denial – while behind the scenes they remain keenly aware of the UFO reality.

This is a bold political act.

A book like this also raises the political and practical possibilities of more government and military witnesses coming forward. If the last twelve years of former military, corporate and government witnesses coming forward by the hundreds is any indication – then catalysts such as Kean’s UFOs on the Record, in concert with greater media coverage, will accelerate the process of other, even  more highly placed government and military officials to reveal either their part in the cover-up or participation in a UFO related event. This too is a political act.

These same people not only served their country bravely but served as political hostages. They tell of being held in check by threats, direct orders, ridicule and a system of shadowy-governance no one can quite put their finger on but that assuredly exists, much in the same veiled manner as do UFOs. The irony of that situation is almost as intoxicating as it is perplexing.

One man did refuse to be held hostage. Former United States Governor of Arizona, Fife Symington, a pilot himself, witnessed first-hand, the massive craft involved in the Phoenix Lights in March of 1997. Kean devotes an entire chapter to Symington’s own personal witness account. Symington states, “… we want the United States government to cease perpetuating the myth that all UFOs can be explained away… Instead, our country needs to re-open the official investigation it shut down in 1970.”

New Cracks in an Aging Cover-up
Secondly, as more cracks appear in the stale and worn American UFO cover-up, the political pressure placed on the American government to fully engage and acknowledge the UFO matter is becoming extraordinary – not simply based on the high quality of evidence in Ms. Kean’s book, but by the carefully crafted political support given to Kean first, by the likes of Fife Symington and then… by the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress John Podesta. These developments demonstrate the cover-up is unwell – sick and festering from inside.

  • Consider these fundamental cracks in the American government’s UFO cover-up:
  • Podesta, co-chair of the Barack Obama White House Transition Team in late 2009, wrote the dramatic foreword to Ms. Kean’s book on UFOs.
  • It is not trivial that Podesta, as President Clinton’s White House chief of staff was instrumental in declassifying 800 million secret documents.
  • If this were not enough political backing, John Podesta, at a 2002 press conference held at the revered Washington Press Club stated unequivocally, “I think it’s time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs. It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there. We ought to do it because it’s right, we ought to do it because the American people, quite frankly, can handle the truth and we ought to do it because it’s the law.”
  • One of the most auspicious cracks in the cover-up is the cadre of former USAF ICBM missile launch commanders who have provided signed and witnessed affidavits attesting not only to facts surrounding unauthorized incursion of UFOs over American nuclear facilities and subsequent missile shut-downs en mass, but that in virtually every case, officers we told by their superiors never to publicly divulge their experiences.
  • Internationally, governments and the military in countries like Brazil are now in co-operation with civilian UFO organizations – virtual cohorts in the open admission that the  UFO phenomenon is real and worthy of study and investigation. This trend is more likely to expand rather than diminish – where will this leave the US after other G20 countries acknowledge this matter in the same manner?

These kinds of political and military supporters are not easily convinced unless they are convinced themselves. Sometimes the political fall-out and risk for them isn’t worth it. Obviously Podesta, Symington and USAF officers feel very passionately about this matter. We all know what happens when passion meets politics… sometimes the heads that roll aren’t the ones you expect.

What many analysts of Kean’s work have overlooked is that such support by high profile figures has an infectious transition or cross-pollination effect on other political and media heavyweights. A well-timed resurrection of the book’s ideals by the same media that ignored it will clearly threaten the current silence in the White House, at the United States Air Force, the CIA and in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Each of these agencies are explicit in their stand that no ‘credible evidence’ about UFOs exists; a bald-faced lie if there ever was one. Soon however, the position of’no evidence’will be viewed as absurd and irrational if not comedic. The mantra – “the cover-up is over” will move disclosure into its final stages.

This mantra, if heard by an open-minded media mogul, a rogue reporter or a renegade Congressman, could be the mild nudge needed to create the kind of political tempest that just might make the administration too dizzy to engage in any meaningful damage control; especially once the next avalanche of other UFO evidence already amassed by the many hundreds of other keen UFO researchers hits the streets in the wake of the resurrection of Ms. Kean’s book.

In addition to ostensibly falling victim to the ‘Fall of the Roman Empire Syndrome’ in its inept handling of its own economy, foreign policy and social agenda, the United States of America will become the laughing stock of the G20 once countries like France, Brazil, the UK, Canada, Norway, Uruguay and Denmark formally acknowledge the UFO reality in either in a joint statement or through a cascade of individual announcements.

It is obvious Kean and her adept management of inside political forces has brought the UFO reality to the fore-front of public awareness as no other book has done before. The matter of UFOs has taken on a public shape and persona that remains authentic, and not surprisingly, is still sustainable as backed-up by proof and individuals with a history of substantive governance status.

The jury – according to Ms. Kean and her UFO whistle-blowers – is still out that UFOs might be Extraterrestrial. What is certain however, is that Ms. Kean has indeed proven – with out any question; governments know all about UFOs – and they’re not talking. This could affect the US government’s policy of total silence on this matter now that incriminating information like this has stood its ground and the test of time; ultimately becoming part of the public record.

Assailing the Wall of Secrecy
ZlandCommunications – a Canadian UFO disclosure news service takes the following positions on the government secrecy and media complicity in the UFO matter:

  • Mainstream media’s priorities are skewed towards a repugnant banality that anaesthetizes the public.  The possibility that craft of unknown origin are flitting around in our skies with impunity – as told by insiders like pilots, generals and other government officials – is now indisputable news. This could eventually become a public relations nightmare for the American government. It could represent the beginning of the end for the government truth embargo surrounding the UFO matter – the biggest story of the 20th and 21st century.
  • The hand-picked group of experts; upper echelon pilots, generals and government officials called upon by Ms. Kean have established  beyond any doubt that government, Air Force and other military agencies have known for decades about UFOs and have applied extreme pressure to keep this information from the public.
  • This astutely assembled group of government, military and corporate personnel have come forward at great personal risk to themselves and their families to expose factual information to the people of the planet, who by and large remain ignorant of factual UFO information. It is now time for our finest journalists to experience the same moral and ethical imperative. We would support any call from her former colleagues at the Boston Globe and other journalists to revitalize her work so that the press can do its job… to inform and enlighten the public on matters of government secrecy.
  • Clearly, governments and the airline industry have for too long – duped the public – consistently enforcing a tight-lipped ‘no-tell’ policy to keep any of the major sightings and testimony – out of the news and away from the public. This is a clear violation of air safety regulations that put passengers and crews in danger. Ms. Kean remains resolute in her conviction this secrecy must end.  Ms. Kean seems to be going about it in the right way and we support her courage in doing so.

Hope and Caution
It appears Leslie Kean and her witnesses have decided to no longer accept the standard government response ‘No comment…’ or silence. Ms. Kean’s whistle-blower testimony train has been firmly affixed on the ‘iron rails’ provided by the New York Times Best Seller List. Perhaps being readied for re-departure to Obamaland, we will hear “…all aboard!” by some brave colleagues of Ms. Kean who just might have a person like Ben Bradley standing behind them in the White House Press Gallery.

Essentially what Ms. Kean has done – perhaps without necessarily intending to – is implicitly say to the American people, “We don’t need the government to tell us UFOs are real – the facts are self-evident and we are going to talk about it…” Press – take the dais!

By persuading any and all journalists in the mainstream press to re-visit Ms. Kean’s book, to do their homework and have the courage to promote her research – the political and national security issues she raises – not to mention the truth – will cause the media-meltdown of the century; perhaps even re-write history as some researchers have already suggested. No excuse, no lie, no spin, no lounge-lizard smooth talk by any politician will be able to withstand Ms. Kean’s authenticity and the barrage of facts she calls upon to galvanize the authenticity of the UFO matter.

Finally, a cautionary but essential political question must be posed: Are there powers so influential, so far behind the scenes – a shadow government – so dominant, so cloistered they cannot be seen or heard? Yet from beneath a cowl of secrecy they can, with a wink or a nod, rip the pages from any book they do not sanction… including the Constitution of the United States.

This may be Ms. Kean’s next battle.

UFOs – Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean

Web site: http://ufosontherecord.com/

For news on the UFO/ET Disclosure issue visit: The ZlandCommunications NewsNetwork

 

Did the US Air Force attempt to nuke the moon?

By Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.

Did the USAF attempt to nuke the moon?

It’s official – the US Air Force had a plan to nuke the moon. According to a declassified report obtained by CNN in a story that aired on November 28, the Air Force plan involved sending a nuclear missile that would detonate on impact with the lunar surface. The aim was apparently to respond to Soviet success in launching Sputnik I, and showing that the US had a capacity to send rockets to, and eventually from the moon. The project was titled “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” (aka “Project A-119”) and was planned in 1958. According to the declassified report, the plan was never implemented, and was abandoned one year later due to concerns over the effect of nuclear radiation on the moon, and a public backlash. According to one senior US Air Force officer, however, not only was an attempt made to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon decades later, but there was an external intervention to destroy the missile.

CNN was able to track down and interview the physicist who led Project A-119. Leonard Reiffel told CNN:

People were worried very much by (first human in space Soviet cosmonaut Yuri) Gagarin and Sputnik and the very great accomplishments of the Soviet Union in those days, and in comparison, the United States was feared to be looking puny. So this was a concept to sort of reassure people that the United States could maintain a mutually-assured deterrence, and therefore avoid any huge conflagration on the Earth,”

“The basic plan,” according to Reiffel, “was for an intercontinental ballistic missile to be launched from an undisclosed location, travel some 240,000 miles to the moon, and detonate on impact.” Information from the impact, according to Report, would yield information “concerning the capability of nuclear weapons for space warfare.” Reiffel explained:

The thinking … was that if the Soviets hit the United States with nuclear weapons first and wiped out the U.S. ability to strike back, the U.S. could launch warheads from the moon.

Reiffel claims that Project A-119 was quickly abandoned because:

We didn’t want to clutter up the natural radioactivities of the moon with additional bits of radioactivity from the Earth,.. Project planners also weren’t sure of the reliability of the weapons, and feared the public backlash in the U.S. would be significant.

So if Reiffel and the 1959 report is accurate, then the plan to nuke the moon was never attempted. Or was it? According to a retired USAF Colonel, not only was an attempt made to nuke the moon, but there was UFO intervention to destroy the missile soon after its launch.

Colonel Ross Dedrickson explained his background in nuclear weapons security in an interview with Dr Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project:

I was a staff officer for the military liaison committee between the chairman of the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission] and the Secretary of Defense…. During that period of time [early 1950s] one of my functions was to accompany a security team which visited all of the nuclear facilities to check on the security of weapons…. I was assigned to the Unified Command under Admiral Felt during the ‘60s. I was the officer in charge of the Alternate command post involved with nuclear weapons operation planning. During that period of time, I maintained contacts with NORAD, with the SAC operations, and was involved with operational plans for the use of nuclear weapons.

Colonel Dedrickson then explained:

I finally retired from the Air Force and joined the Boeing Company where I was assigned to the Minute Man program where I was responsible for the accounting of all the nuclear fleet, the Minute Man One, Two, and Three. And during that period of time, I also learned about incidents involving nuclear weapons. And among these incidents were those where a couple of nuclear weapons that were sent into space were destroyed …

Dedrickson claims that one of these nuclear weapons fired into space was aimed at the moon:

It was my understanding that in either the very end of the ‘70s or the early ‘80s that we attempted to put a nuclear weapon on the Moon and explode it for scientific measurements and other things…

Who was it that destroyed the nuclear missile aimed at the moon, and interfered with other nuclear weapons tests by the USA? According to Dedrickson, the missiles were destroyed by UFOs that he believed were manned by an extraterrestrial intelligence. Dedrickson’s remarkable claims are backed by other retired USAF officials that state that US and Soviet nuclear missiles were regularly interfered with by UFOs since the dawn of the nuclear era.

In conclusion, we know that the USAF did officially conceive a plan in 1958 to launch and detonate a nuclear missile on the moon. Apparently, “Project A-119” was abandoned one year later. If Colonel Dedrickson is accurate, however, then Project A-119 was either resurrected decades later or a new project was conceived with a similar goal. The timing of the later project, in the late 1970s/early 1980s, suggests the nuclear missile attempt may have been related to circumstances surrounding the end of the Apollo lunar missions. According to some whistleblowers the USA was not “allowed” to return to the moon by an extraterrestrial intelligence based on the moon. It appears that there was indeed an attempt to send a nuclear missile to the moon by the USAF, and that it was destroyed by some external agency – UFOs and/or extraterrestrial intelligence – closely monitoring nuclear weapons testing on Earth, outer space and the moon.

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