Author: DGriffin

The Logistics of Landing – FOIA Request Reveals Extraterrestrial Contact Planning

About Time: First Contact Planning Revealed in FOI Request
“As mankind continues to advance and head out into the stars we are undoubtedly going to attract the attention of whatever lifeforms are out there. I’m curious to know what provisions have been put in place for our inevitable encounter.”

A recent F.O.I.A. request may have given us a glimmer of hope that some regional authorities are actually examining one of the truly pressing issues of our current era. Now if I was writing this as one of the many news outlets that  covered the discovery of the request, you’d assume there was a hint of disbelief or sarcasm in that last statement but there isn’t.

Why? – Because assuming life doesn’t exist elsewhere is these days along the lines of assuming we still live on the flat earth.

Put the doubts and the odd snigger [you’re not alone in feeling some discomfort about this issue!]  aside for one moment and let’s consider why the staff at Glasgow’s regional government may well be ahead of everyone else in the  civil authority system.

Firstly, the debate is now more or less done on the issue of life outside our planetary boundary. In the media and with friends meeting at a local bar, you struggle to find anyone holding a firm position that we’re a sole, unique [and thus rather arrogant] species. Secondly, the spread of networked media and youtube has allowed people to see over-whelming evidence of craft making  constant visits, akin to ‘ET anthropological tourism‘, over every region of the earth. Both standard and night vision high definition cameras provide almost real time exposure to the phenomenon – especially via sites like Google, where this area rates second only to you-know-what in search popularity.

So Glasgow Council, having been wise enough to consider the possibility of these visiting intelligences appearing in the next 5 years, far from being kooky – I’d suggest have instead been eminently pragmatic. One could suggest of course it’s a little late, along with the rest of our representative structures who fail to grasp the urgency of such formal preparation. Additionally globally agreed policy in the form of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty suggests that civil structures are aware of and conform to issues of this nature.

Who Speaks for Planet Earth?  Comments on the discussions of a recent committee at the Royal Society

At national and global level the issue of ET contact and what to do about it gets pretty complex to decipher. We have a bizarre quagmire of full-on disinformation, covert agencies obsessed with the whole process and most bog-standard politicians being either oblivious or too afraid for their career prospects to mention it. All this in the face of a recent disclosure that several US Presidents were deeply engaged with the extraterrestrial process, something that’s been discussed for decades outside the lime-light of the dominant media.

This issue refuses to go away of course – and most of us who’ve been watching things for a few years know it’s the biggest issue yet to be formally acknowledged. Part of that process of formal acknowledgement was forced onto the agenda in 2001 by the now multi-million viewed Disclosure Project and a current similar approach is under-way via the PRG’s Citizen Hearing.

In Britain –  the last few years have seen the case of Gary McKinnon reach both front page news regularly and even a WhiteHouse discussion between Obama and the UK Prime Minister. A little more below the radar we’ve also seen meetings held at the Royal Society  and in recent years several large scale global “preparedness” type events.

The tone of the submitted FOIA application itself summed up the significant interest in this area, which also led to the UK MoD having to stage-release its library of UFO files via the National Archives in the last few years:

“As mankind continues to advance and head out into the stars we are undoubtedly going to attract the attention of whatever lifeforms are out there. I’m curious to know what provisions have been put in place for our inevitable encounter.”

US Pilot ordered to shoot down huge UFO over UK: Military groups are repeatedly documented as stating these objects have ‘no defence significance’ ?

Glasgow City Council has released a highly detailed response as to how it would deal with an extra-terrestrial encounter and although the authority does not expect to contend with the issue during “the next five years”, a “warm and peaceful welcome” was said to await any non-hostile aliens.

Responding to a request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act, the council told a curious member of the public that information on the authority’s provisions for an “inevitable encounter” was in fact not held.

But staff actually went to the trouble of reconsidering “the likelihood of the council making contact with aliens”.

In his near 1,000 word response, Dr Kenneth Meechan, the authority’s head of information governance, said that the legal framework regarding making contact with extraterrestrial life forms was “not entirely clear”.

The council considered itself “morally bound” by the principles set out in Outer Space Treaty of 1967. But this agreement was “silent on the question of making contact with extraterrestrials” and so the council would “in the unlikely event that it first detects signals from intelligent extraterrestrial life” seek to comply with protocols issued by the SETI Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics.

The UK government had however not included alien contact in its list of mandatory risks to be assessed under the Civil Contingencies Act and so the council had “not identified this as likely to happen within the next five years”.

Reassessing the likelihood of an encounter in direct response to the FoI request, the council said it continued to be of the view that it was unlikely to be the agency to make the breakthrough for several reasons.

Contact was most likely to be made through radio communication and the council did not own or control any radio telescopes. One of the authority’s secondary schools did however have a “large aerial of unknown providence”. “But if this is capable of acting as a radio telescope, we are not presently using it,” the council insisted.

If first contact was made through a landing on earth the council said on a statistical basis aliens were unlikely to “initially land in Glasgow”. “The council… covers around 0.008 per cent of the world’s population and 0.00003 per cent of the total surface of the earth/ 0.00012 per cent of the land area,” it said.

Nevertheless Meechan did say that Glasgow was a “vibrant and exciting city for visitors and has been awarded any number of accolades by national and international travel guides”.

“We are sure that any (non-hostile) alien visitors would want to include Glasgow in their list of places to visit, and we can assure them of a warm and peaceful welcome.”

Article: David Griffin MSc, UK Exopolitics Initiative – davID@exopolitics.org.uk

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Sources: UK FOIA archive: http://www.foiman.com/archives/751 and http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=22132 

Extradition Refusal of Gary McKinnon by the British Government Establishes Exopolitical Turning Point

David Griffin MSc.  Exopolitics United Kingdom

“My son has now been under arrest for longer than any British citizen ever has. He hasn’t raped anyone, he hasn’t murdered anyone, so can’t understand how this can be happening to him, as no matter how much anyone may choose to exaggerate his crime, the fact is that his crime was tapping on a keyboard in his bedroom in north London in search of information on aliens from outer space…”
Janis Sharp -  hardcore campaigner and mother of Gary.

Gary McKinnon and his family faced over a decade of fear, intimidation and endless legal circles over daring to ask the simple human question of whether we are alone in the universe. Yesterday’s decision by British Home Secretary Theresa May to reject the US Dept of Justice’s request to have Gary deported under a vastly one-sided extradition agreement ended things once and for all, leaving it likely that Gary will face a minor trial in the UK as was initially suggested back in 2002.
Despite some ill-informed journalists suggesting that extradition should have been granted, the facts when stripped down to the fundamental issue we should be focusing on is pretty clear. Gary committed no real crime despite the ludicrous claims of $500,000 damages from hacking and the cries from across the Atlantic calling for him to be housed for 60 years as a common terrorist in a SuperMax Jail. He himself admits he was naive and stupid -  but stupidity in this sense shouldn’t get you a 60 year jail term. If you leave a room known to be full of valuable goods unlocked – you can guarantee the odd person is going to take a look. This is essentially all McKinnon did during in 2001 as he used readily available software to access US networks linked to NASA and the Pentagon. In most cases he needed zero skill -  for some embarrassing reason -  the world’s most might military power had not learned to remove the default login passwords that come with well-known operating systems. Gary himself told me he was no genius at the job – he was still struggling with the UKs dreadfully slow dial-up systems at that time and each network entry was a a painfully slow task.

Another reason why he was unfairly targeted was the fact that each night he sat in his North London room on his search for UFO and exotic energy secrets, he said he saw endless streams of other hacker traffic -  much of it routed from China. Why then would Gary, who left notes to system admins about their lack of security, be so vehemently sought after when the supposed real enemies of the free world had been their long before and in a far more organised manner? This suggests to us once more that the issues of UFOs, ET contact and secret space fleets are ranked way above day to day military secrets – perhaps of the sort the likes of China would be after? Gary both dared to look for this forbidden information and also humiliated the US Government by exposing the utter inadequacies of their network security.

It was both an early interest in the UFO issue and exposure to the infamous 2001 Disclosure Project that gave McKinnon the desire to check out what he’d heard. In one case he managed to locate the same office as key Disclosure Project witness Donna Hare mentioned in her testimony and indeed found distinct directories for NASA type images that had been pre-airbrushed [read – edited] of anomalous objects ready for distribution to more public channels.

Donna Hare and Other Disclosure Project Witnesses from 2001

Additionally in his network travels – it seems McKinnon may have found some of the most startling information the UFO community had come across in years. For some time now -  those in the exopolitical field have concluded that what we’ll call an ‘above-government’ transnational cabal have access to back-engineered anti-gravity ships. We know this from numerous sources – from testimony of retrieved alien technology to the likes of Area 51 / S4 engineer Bill Uhouse who claimed to have worked on a UFO simulator with Edward Teller and a visiting Extraterrestrial the government called “J-Rod”.  This latter case was from over 3 decades ago – so capabilities are no-doubt far advanced in the current era. Gary located information concerning “None Terrestrial Officers” and a logistics type spreadsheet of what were termed “Fleet to Fleet Transfers”. Some years back I went through the details of these with Gary and he confirmed that the ship names on these ‘Fleet to Fleet Transfer’ lists were not the names of any terrestrial, sea-going vessels. Conclude what you will from this.

In an article I wrote for UFODigest in 2008 called “Hacking Away at the Truth…” I made a couple of points seldom linked to the McKinnon case. In some severe winters around the time he was active, Britain had seen a large number of deaths of the elderly due to soaring fuel costs -  leaving the poor with choices between eating and heating. Gary had made the link few people actually think of when they assume the UFO issue can be reduced to spotting endless lights in the sky – ie: if we are being visited by other intelligences or indeed we have our own advanced vehicle fleet, then systems exist to end the reliance on fossil fuels. This too is an area the small group of internet and media proponents of McKinnon’s [and many other Brits who found themselves with extradition orders based on flimsy evidence in the post 9/11 hysteria] move to the USA to face charges managed to skim over. At what point do these peoples’ uncaring consciences  begin to see the wider picture – many of us have spent years highlighting – as being greater than breaking laws that should in themselves be questioned due to the archaic or power biased secrets they undoubtedly exist to protect? 

The second component of this case’s history we can perhaps only now truly speak openly given Theresa May’s decision is seen as final is that of the relationship between the McKinnon campaign and the activist side of the [mostly British] UFO community who, with mostly positive intentions, aimed to both promote the findings of the likes of Gary and the Disclosure Project witnesses using the media attention his case began to attract but also simultaneously failed to realise that the legal team and family had to change tactic to avoid doing the very thing the US military were dreading: ie: creating a change in the way the media began to report the wider issues of Disclosure.

Some of the longer-term contributors to the UK Exopolitics network had both watched the case carefully since the then High Tech national Crime Squad arrived at Gary’s house to arrest him on insistence of the Americans in 2002 and thus also seen his family’s and legal teams desire to distance themselves from this aspect one it looked like the US were going to doggedly pursue the situation from around 2005 onwards. Initially it was the UFO community who formed the back-bone of highlighting the plight of Gary along with dedicated members of his close family such as his mum Janis. A clash of approaches became evident during some demos held in London because some were insistent that the legal case also include the “right to know” and full-on disclosure of Gary’s aims as we’ve discussed above.  A watershed moment took place where over a series of a year or so – the UFO community were politely encouraged to keep quiet whilst a new approach of claiming Gary did his deeds due to some form of mental imbalance. At this point – it seemed that this was the one remaining avenue that could prevent extradition -  and in Gary’s mum’s situation, who can question her decision to push this aspect and shut down any others?

Even within the last month or so I was contacted by someone who had filed papers to our legal system with the dual aim of both keeping Gary in England [due to an ongoing court procedure] but also to attempt to get the UFO related findings brought out in court for the public record. Now I’m sure this was done with altruistic intention but given this was now 2012 -  those serving the papers had failed to pay attention to the tactic which had been adopted in place of the Disclosure issue by the family and legal team for the preceding years. In other words the more intimate individuals in the campaign had realised that despite the exopolitics community having raised the initial media interest in Gary’s plight [including trips to the House of Commons by myself], this association would end up making Gary’s pathway to the USA easier than if this side of things was made a minor issue on a PR and legal level.

Thus we began to see a more practical approach put forward -  complete with high-level medical reports -  this was that Gary has a degree of Aspergers Syndrome -  a condition that could well include sitting for days on end staring at a computer screen with little regard for others and himself, as was the case given his drive to find the UFOlogical nuggets he sought, as well as failing to link the outcome of his hacking activity legally. Some journalists remarked that Gary was actually fairly “lucid” in interviews just prior to this new approach “if a little nerdy and withdrawn” – but skepticism aside, it’s a case of doing whatever is required to prevent a deeply unfair US justice system kicking in his door one morning and taking him away.

Even when this new tactic was in full flow by the family -  some ‘activist’ members of the wider UFO field continued to complain that the information he found should be made a primary aspect of any court proceedings -  whether in the US or the UK. Whilst this may have been the chance many were waiting for to finally make the case that the US military and other trans-national covert structures had been hiding new technologies from the populous for years – these people failed to put themselves in the position of Gary and his family who were aware he’d be made an example of in the USA and would rather see him free than a martyr for the Disclosure issue.

I’d love to run a quantum reality computer program and see what the result would have been if Gary’s Asperger’s condition had not been used at the forefront of his defence leaving the UFO and exotic energy issue as the main element of the case. However I have my doubts about the outcome we’ve seen this week -  it could easily have riled those in the US and made it far easier for the UK government -  who have proved themselves as weak ‘whipping boys” of the American imperialist agenda -  to throw McKinnon to the wind and make him a none issue as far as causing diplomatic strife -  given the UK/US’s “special relationship”.

The McKinnon Hacker Case is the first Exopolitical Issue to Reach an International WhiteHouse Discussion between Britain and the US.

So we find ourselves at a rather monumental moment this week. The UK, under Tony Blair, sheepishly followed the US lead into numerous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and more recently the outrageous destruction of Libya – but on a situation the US had sought its own way over for a decade -  the British have essentially told the US to go find something more worthy of a 60 year sentence.  As an additional insult to the US -  the UK will now re-examine the wholly biased UK-USA extradition agreement and hopefully make a stand against this unjust system in the coming months. Gary should now face a more realistic punishment of what we call ‘community service’ in the UK -  ie: he’ll pick up litter in a local park for a few days instead of facing Guantanamo style imprisonment in a country he has no desire to set foot in.I’m hoping that once the immediate media hype of the case has died down – Gary will re-develop his interest in new energy systems and we can maybe find out his thoughts on the trial he and his family have endured for the simple “crime” of wanting to know if we really do posses UFO technology and what the prospects are for providing free energy systems for our average citizens that eradicate the monopoly of our fossil fuel based corporations who make money whilst our elderly die from choosing heat or food in the depths of a harsh British winter.

Times are changing – remember this case reached a discussion filmed live at the Whitehouse. More importantly -  Gary’s case has made many people aware that the UFO issue is about far more than just examining ‘lights in the sky’ -  as I posted on the front page of the UK Exopolitics site back in 2006 – and left it there right up to this moment -  Gary’s case exemplifies exactly what exopolitics is about: the truth embargo on the UFO/ET issue destroys lives… Gary may just have managed to not become one of its many victims, that are no longer with us, because they had a desire to release the truth to the point where they paid with their life.

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David Griffin lives in the UK Midlands, is a member of the Exopolitics Institute and established the first network site outside of the US continent in 2006.

Resources:

Exopolitics UK media and document archive on case: http://bit.ly/hAcker

Gary McKinnon and ExoOrdinary Rendition [Radio drama -  BBC]

Hacking Away at Truth and the Failings of the Disclosure Community – UFODigest 2008

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First Release of Fully Translated Russian Antarctic Documentary

By David Griffin, M.Sc.

For the first time, the legendary 2006 Russian documentary ‘Third Reich – Operation UFO’ in its entirety, fully translated into English and available for free viewing. Many thanks to Irina Du Toit for the translation and the saucer people for the subtitles.

The film explores the historical mysteries and rumours of a Nazi secret base in Antarctica, the 1947 flying saucer attack on Admiral Byrd’s ill-fated ‘Operation Highjump’ expedition and the occult origins of Third Reich anti-gravity engines, flying discs and ancient Atlantean technologies viewed through the lens of perhaps the three most mysterious twentieth century German organisations of all: the ‘Thule Society, ‘Vril Society’ and the ‘Ahnenerbe’

One of the core themes of the film is the alleged existence of ‘Base 211’, the legendary underground Nazi base in the Antarctica. Drawing upon the pre-war Nazi interest in Antarctica and the creation of ‘New Swabia’; the testimony of German U-Boat submarine commanders and the alleged disappearance of thousands of Nazi scientists and engineers at the end of the war, personnel that cannot be accounted for by the Vatican and Odessa ‘rat lines’ or American ‘Operation Paperclip’ activities. In addition, the film analyses the actual geo-physical possibilities of an underground base in Antarctica.

The other core theme is the alleged existence of a Nazi flying saucer program and the many evidential strands that this area generates. From the supposed channeling of extraterrestrial engineering schematics by members of the German occult group ‘Thule Society’ in the early part of the twentieth century to the ‘implosion engine’ of Viktor Schauberger and its possible appropriation by the Third Reich.

Bringing us to the the latter part of the twentieth century the documentary illustrates the many sightings of unknown crafts around the Antartic region and the theoretical basis for polar wormholes as entrance and exit points for visiting extraterrestrial spaceships and the possible involvement of HAARP, as well as asking why nearly all American Antarctic bases seem to be populated by agents of the National Security Agency and CIA.

Like the study of any phenomena and/or events that exist at the edges of consensus reality, occupy imaginal realms and are subject to historical revisionism; the interface of myth and reality is a shifting mosaic of fact, speculation, disinformation and fantasy, or to use the phrase of head CIA counter-intelligence spook, James Jesus Angleton, we have entered a “wilderness of mirrors”.

Certainly there are elements in the documentary that give cause for concern such as the alleged “Special Bureau 13”, the Nazi secret flying saucer research group and its similarity to the top secret government agency in the early eighties role playing game “Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic ” (though equally the RPG title could be an insider homage to this secret Nazi organisation). Likewise, there is the lack of information on the existence of the US Navy destroyer ‘Murdoch’ in the testimony recounted by pilot ‘John Sireson’ in his description of the flying saucer attack on Admiral Byrd’s fleet (testimony taken from an interview by the late pioneering American researcher Leonard Stringfield).


Operation UFO: Bases in the Antarctic

For the more dedicated –  several years of recent research by UK based David Griffin, authentic Kiwi experiencer Alec Newald and Nexus Magazine editor Duncan Roads may similarly  locate off-shoot theories as to why a certain ET race was working from pre WW1 era on a small island in the Falklands – right up to its invasion by UK forces in 1982. From here we enter the mind-bending realms of A.I.  or  ‘sentient nano’ substances [AKA the ‘black goo’ – that’s a long story re the creation  of that term/meme!], geopolitical covert wars and bizarre deaths at a British firm called Marconi in the immediate years after the war with Argentina. For more on the latter, vast evidence files – search google material or specific keyword video searches related to  conference talks by Griffin and Newald on youtube or formal Nexus DVD. Otherwise, an early (ie:  3-way research process,  still in informal draft phase) radio interview with US  station “A Global Focus” can be found archived here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K9AMf0Vhqs

The initial context and disclosure of the black goo - or sentient nano substance.
The initial context and disclosure of the black goo – or sentient nano substance.

Equally, the testimony of Admiral Byrd that flying saucers attacked the ‘Operation Highjump’ fleet is of historical record as is his testimony to Congress of enemies that have the ability to fly “pole to pole”. Likewise, the creation of ‘New Swabia’ is as much a historical fact as the ‘impossible’ existence of the ‘Piri Reis’ map.

What sets this documentary apart from most others of its kind is the inclusion of high ranking Russian scientists and military personnel and their testimony should not be discounted.

As the great American anti-fascist researcher Dave Emory says of many elements of deep politics: “its food for thought and grounds for further research”.

Exopolitics UK and ‘The Saucer People’ are looking for other non-English UFO/alien related videos to help translate and subtitle, we have dozens of Russian documentaries waiting to be translated into English. If you speak Russian and are interested in translating any of this material please get in touch.

Likewise, if your country of origin has produced any UFO/alien documentaries and are interested in creating English translations to be subtitled please contact us.

It took a lot of hard work to make the translation of this documentary into English and create the subtitles and we would like to dedicate our work to the late American researcher Wendelle Stevens who is quoted in the film, In our opinion, Wendelle, who died in 2011 was one of the few genuine professional researchers in the UFO community and is sadly missed.

http://bit.ly/CTs-Russian-Antarctic-Doc-Exo-UK

http://contact-times.net

http://www.exopolitics.org.uk

Authentic ET Craft Demonstrations To Increase Between 2012-2015: UFO Witness & Contact Document Released

By David Griffin, M.Sc.

In the wider ‘alternative’ knowledge community -  the channeling of apparently distinct, sentient entities by individuals that enter a slight trance-like state is often associated with attention seeking hoaxers or plainly deluded kooks. However – this non-local form of communication and contact has a few individuals who undoubtedly appear to have the ability to access novel information which often includes significant changes in personality and in some respects elicits a noticeably increased ability to conceptualise more complex spaces.

Phoenix Lights - Channeling Change
Author of new UFO Witness and Contact Document Predicted Phoenix Lights Eventt

One famous channeler from recent decades in J Z knight who channels Ramtha and is generally accepted to be authentic but currently the growing attendances at events staged by Daryyl Anka and his ET other Bashar attest to this phenomena gaining more acceptance as a valid method of communication. Having watched Anka’s ability to flawlessly enter the mindset of this being improve over the years [obtain sessions from the late 90s and compare them to his vast array of current video public meetings to see what I mean] it’s obvious that whilst this is an ability that is for a selected few, it’s also one that builds in efficiency in some sort of feedback loop between channeler and non-local entity. Some would suggest that this practice is like anything you continued to perfect -  ie: some form of deluded ego-trip. However -  I challenge anyone skeptical of this previously fringe field to provide the light-speed intelligence and off-world humour of Bashar given double the years Daryyl Anka has been displaying this engaging talent.

Bashar is a cosmic prankster, Neuro-Linguistics master, galactic historian and a lot more all rolled into a few hours of intense sessions and Q&A follow-ups. It should also be noted that Daryyl Anka has been hooked up to E.E.G. devices and has demonstrated that different areas of the brain actually
light-up as the being is introduced into his relaxed ‘sleep’ state. In addition – Bashar claims that the large triangular craft sightings seen in the UK and Belgium in the 1990s as well as the hugely witnessed Phoenix Lights case of 1997 were all demonstrations of the ET presence and are in fact his civilisations ships. He even accurately predicted a second showing in the Phoenix region ahead of time in one channeling session.

Daryyl/Bashar spoke in 2006 at the Hawaii Exopolitics and World Transformation event and introduced the idea of a “Contact Act” – highlighting the point that the more we as a terrestrial species reflected our desire for contact with his and other races in our lives and public institutions, the more extraterrestrial groups were able to bring forward their own agenda of contact also. This is the basic premise of the First Directive – made popular by Star Trek etc – that developing cultures cannot be overtly influenced by higher groups of similar beings. Bashar also made the rare reference to a recently written book on the Disclosure issue authored by Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel – After Disclosure.

Six years on – it is claimed that more overt communication is about to take place with dates even being suggested for two main stages of increased ‘open’ contact. As a precursor to this a new document has been released in a recent session by the Bashar Organisation. The document can be downloaded here in its original form and it is encouraged to distribute this to any persons in political, civilian or military structures worldwide.

UFO WITNESS DECLARATION

FACT: From 1982 to 1985, large triangular and boomerang-shaped UFOs were
reported over the Hudson Valley by over 7,000 credible witnesses, including
police and officials at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

FACT: In 1989 and 1990, large triangular and rectangular unidentified flying
objects, one the size of an aircraft carrier, were reported over Belgium by over
2,000 witnesses, including police and military personnel.

FACT: In 1997, multiple sightings of a mile long boomerang-shaped UFO were
reported over the state of Arizona by over 10,000 witnesses, including police,
military personnel and Republican Governor Fife Symington.

We make no claims as to the nature or origin of these UFOs. However, those
who have taken the time and effort to conduct serious, in-depth investigations
into these reports know that these sightings are of real, physical crafts and are
indisputable FACTS. Thousands of such sightings of physical crafts of unknown
origin have been reported throughout the world for decades by credible
witnesses, yet most who report such sightings are treated with ridicule, disbelief,
scorn and even threats.

In light of the facts, we who have witnessed such unexplained crafts no
longer accept this cynical mindset as realistic or credible.

Those of us who are witnesses to the UFO phenomenon know they exist for a
fact. This is not an issue of speculation for such witnesses. However, we do not
insist that non-witnesses must believe such objects exist, only that witnesses be
treated with respect and that we deserve the same fairness and courtesy
afforded to any individual or group who honestly expresses their point of view
without fear of ridicule, punishment or persecution.

Recent polls clearly demonstrate that more than 50% of Americans believe that
UFOs are a real phenomenon that deserves legitimate recognition and serious
study by open-minded, qualified scientists, rather than being summarily
dismissed as misperceptions, fantasies, hoaxes or hallucinations by cynical,
unqualified debunkers. Over 36 million Americans have seen a UFO.

To put this statistic in political terms, these witnesses are also voters.

Therefore, we urge all who agree with the spirit of this declaration to send copies
of this letter to their representatives, public officials, the media, the police, the
military, airline officials, NASA and all candidates running for any public office to
assure them that our votes will go only to those who acknowledge the UFO
phenomenon as real and deserving of serious scientific investigation and who
publicly endorse fairness and respect toward any witness who reports a UFO.

Bashar’s recent presentation on the UFO Witness Declaration is available from the organisation’s website.

UK Daytime TV Show Demonstrates Why Formats Are Shifting Perspective

The UKs most popular daytime TV program decided to allocate a whole 10 minutes for an issue which needs several hours to even scratch the surface of -  The ET Contact and UFO issue. Despite the time constraints -  something more was demonstrated – insofar as the invited ‘rational’ academic failed to make any significant headway in attracting interest for his views.

Present for the session were UK contactee and speaker at the 2011 Leeds Exopolitics UK conference Brigitte Barclay. Police detective Gary Heseltine and Professor from Goldsmith’s College in the “Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit” – Chris French.

In recent years there’s been a notable shift in the format of both mainstream treatment of the issue and also the more specialised documentary style programs such as UFO-Hunters made for the History Channel.

Direct Link to Video

The latter series, along with its follow-up series Ancient Aliens, was one of the History Channel’s highest rated series viewing wise and simultaneously ended the TV formula of  featuring a mandatory “Rent-A-Skeptic” – often utilised at the end of a discussion to trivialise and debunk the evidence found as well as the experience of those directly interfacing with the wide array of UFOlogical phenomena involved.

The daytime TV show, which can be seen in the video above, is part of the slower media forms to react to this shift -  hence the use of Chris French – one of a handful of British skeptics that are  wheeled-out to counter what by now is an over-whelming set of evidence and testimony for the reality of intelligent life interacting with this planet. However -  even when a program features such an old modality, it seems to now do more damage to the skeptics and debunkers case than ever. UK personalities such as MoD national Archives commentator and ‘Folklore’ academic Dr David Clarke, Professor Chris French or British author and regular debunker Andy Roberts [who once claimed a serving police officer hallucinated a double-decker bus]  now appear increasingly desperate in justifying their rather mundane position. To a more aware, internet savvy culture, it really seems as if the regular skeptics are caught in some strange time-loop where their mantras of “it was venus!” and  “little green men” makes them look somewhat ignorant and perhaps even foolish.

As Yorkshire police sightings database operator Gary Heseltine amply demonstrated, even in a 10 minute slot it’s not hard to challenge the skeptical line -  especially when it’s an inflexible approach as we find so often with the TV skeptics. Additionally, as can now be seen by regular news coverage of the issue, the majority of the population have a growing interest in this area even if they’re not fully sure what’s going on. My prediction is that we’ll continue to see the trend expanding where rational discussions of this issue can take place without the need for the classic, hired debunking line. There’s a difference between useful skeptical enquiry in this topic and debunking via ridicule and/or for the sake of pushing people away from a necessary field of enquiry.

In reality, whether it’s the type of testimony from someone like Brigitte who’s experienced an event first hand, a collection of statistics such as the PRUFOS database or national security episodes such as nuclear missile bases being temporarily rendered ineffective by hovering craft – only one of these situations has to be “real” for the skeptical line to collapse.

Note: – Popular TV shows as we’re all aware can often be re-viewed on the channels associated website. It appears that just this section in the video above was removed from the ITV “replay” website -  you can essentially watch the whole show [and poor me just has to make sure this was the case] but it pretends that the UFO discussion section never took place.

When they lose,  they edit.

This recent article from the Editor of The Columbia Tribune adds a similar theme to the shift that we can see taking place -  the decline of the ‘giggle factor’. It’s worth pointing out that we could add an additional 1000 quotes from well respected historical personalities…

UFO ‘non-gigglers’ are in good company

Editor, the Tribune: During some 40 years of study and discussion of the UFO phenomenon, I have encountered numerous academicians, politicians, social activists, journalists and others who have seriously ridiculed any mention of the serious investigation of the problem. Such ridicule was frequently demonstrated by what UFO researchers call the “giggle factor,” including self-satisfying smirks, rolled eyes and occasional outright belly-laughs. On the other hand, non-gigglers, and their views on the matter, include:

  • “Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control. … It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is.” — Adm. Roscoe Hillenkotter, former director of the CIA
  • “The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that site. We all know that UFOs are real.” — astronaut Edgar Mitchell
  • “Of course it is possible that UFOs really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is covering it up.” — Professor Stephen Hawking
  • “The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present, or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.” — physicist Harold Putoff
  • “It is quite strange that while our best modern physics and astrophysics theories thus predict that we should be experiencing extraterrestrial visitation, any possible evidence of such in the form of a subset of UFO reports is ignored or ridiculed.” — astrophysicist Bernard Haisch

Article: David Griffin -  david[AT]exopolitics.org.uk
Source: http://www.exopolitics.org.uk/news/2012-omega-point/uk-tv-demonstrates-decline-of-mandatory-skeptics/

Knowledge of ET Life is Maturing at Warp Speed says paradigm activist

Steve Bassett at National Press Club

When venturing into the uncertain mine field of the extraterrestrial issue, an often side-lined or forgotten fact remains at the core of it: that we the people still outnumber the prevailing elite.  If the call to arms from the Exopolitical perspective demands that the people must be impelled to political action, then Stephen Bassett is a living testament to this.  He reminded us of the necessity for action when his usual, energetic style of dialogue filled the airwaves during his recent interview on the esteemed Coast to Coast am, on Monday 25th July 2011.  Bassett has, arguably, come to represent this particular form of Exopolitical activism.  His popularity with the people likely stems, in part, from his modus operandi to enlist them as recruits in the hero’s journey; a quest that evokes a powerful metaphor, traversing gender, religion, culture and time.  It speaks to the human condition and engages the psyche on a profound level.   As co-creators, Bassett speaks directly to the people and invites them to weave the tapestry of change.   The most recent opportunity to do so has arrived in the form of World Disclosure Day.  This, he tells George Noory, is a chance for the people, alongside sympathetic organisations, to register their support in an attempt to speed up the process of extraterrestrial disclosure by the governments.

At the beginning of the interview, Noory remarks upon the recent discord amongst some in the MUFON camp to enlist Story Musgrave, a retired NASA astronaut, as the keynote speaker for the upcoming MUFON 2011 Symposium.   The resistance is due to Musgrave’s assertion that, although he believes that life in the universe exists, he does not believe that the Earth has been visited by extra-terrestrial intelligences.  Bassett’s position on this is clear: that people arrive at the reality of the extraterrestrial presence via their own, personal mechanisms.  Alongside this, Bassett maintains that the issue of what astronauts may or may not be permitted to speak about is essentially unknown.   This inclusive approach is one that the sceptics usually fail to adopt when addressing the UFO community, and perhaps Bassett’s perspective reflects a move towards a more mature understanding of the phenomenon, born out of Bassett’s own personal journey of having to navigate the sometimes uncomfortable and difficult terrain of validating the UFO in consensus reality.  From this perspective, Bassett finds room to accommodate the difficulties that any civilian agency, such as NASA, would surely encounter if suddenly confronted with the proof of advanced extraterrestrial existence; a discovery that would inevitably result in its deferral to the U.S Department of Defense.  A clause in the Space Act, it appears, has pre-determined this scenario.  As Bassett informs Noory, NASA is ‘stuck between a rock and a hard place’.  There is hope, however, as Bassett implies.  The scale of probability for the existence of intelligent life seems set to tip in our favour.

An acceptance of the likelihood of intelligent species showing up in our reality has perhaps become a little easier for the mainstream to digest since the recent estimates by the Kepler scientists of some fifty billion planets in the Milky Way Galaxy.  Five hundred million of these reside in the Goldilocks Zone, an area that supports the existence of Earth like planets.  The possibility of intelligent life beyond the Geostationary Earth Orbit is ‘maturing at warp speed’.  That being said, Bassett’s approach of initiating an inclusive strategy in the fight for disclosure is evident in his statement that a ‘bridging into the larger world’ must be attempted.  Of course, any such effort is commendable, but this endeavour has not always proven to be a successful one in the past, for the old guard faction of Ufology at least.  It did, in fact, create a paradox.   In their race to convince the sceptics and mainstream society of the reality of unknown, intelligent species visiting the Earth, a reductive paradigm was established to select evidence on the basis of its’ credibility gage.   Ufologists were expected to strictly adhere to the parameters of authoritative, scientific discourse.   Strands were selected while others were discarded, despite the risk of consigning aspects of the phenomenon – frequently those that revealed a high level of strangeness – to the rubbish heap.   These self-imposed restrictions left the sceptics unimpressed, as those in the UFO community were still denounced as little more than believers.  Bassett, however, demonstrates an awareness of this.   Although not explicitly stated, he highlights a subtle distinction in his shrewd observation that Edgar Mitchell is not a ‘believer’, in the sense of how this term is usually employed, but rather he is ‘convinced’ of the reality of UFOs.  Edgar Mitchell of course, being able to add space exploration to his CV, is certainly more qualified than the sceptics to assert this.  Arguably though, the rise of quantum theory in popular culture has illuminated the path of the hero’s journey and has perhaps helped us to move more confidently towards an expanded awareness of our reality, enabling us to break out of such a chrysalis.  Certainly, we are living in different times now, as the experiencer phenomenon is now an accepted paradigm in mainstream Ufology.

Bassett remarks that a part of his role is to look for ‘disclosure indicators’.  A couple of main ones have already occurred; the suspension of SETI and the US Space Shuttle program.   These programs, Bassett maintains, are unsupportable and would warrant the additional criticism of governments in a world after Disclosure.   Additionally, Bassett astutely discerns that the next ‘big’ topic in the disclosure process is the rise of the contactee.   He cites public figures that have already stepped forward into the public arena and predicts that more will follow suit.  Of course, the impact of this would be significant in terms of bringing the issue to mainstream attention.   Alongside this process, however, it is essential to remember that extensive and dynamic work should also be carried out for the purpose of deepening our understanding of what is occurring in the contactee narrative.  For this work, detailed experiencer accounts already exist, but we have barely scratched the surface of understanding the implications and the purpose of inter-dimensional and (or) extraterrestrial visitation.

As the interview draws to a close, Noory seeks to understand the driving force behind Bassett’s pursuit of disclosure.  His recognisable brand of humour takes hold as he remarks that ‘an obsessive compulsive personality with an inability to hold down a regular job’, when faced with a ‘compelling’ issue, has determined his journey in life.   Humour aside, his determination to make a difference is evident throughout.  It is this resolve to put the disclosure issue centre stage that enables him to acknowledge the work being done by others.   Of notable mention is David Griffin’s, the founder of Exopolitics United Kingdom, contribution to the Exopolitical initiative in the UK, and Kim Carlsberg significant book, The Art of Close Encounters, is also discussed.  The prolific blogger and activist, Ed Komarek, is cited during the interview, and Anthony Beckett’s organising of the Leeds Exopolitics conferences in the UK receives a mention.  In addition, the immense contribution to the field of Ufology by Stanton Friedman and Linda Moulton Howe is highlighted.

One thing is clear.   By the time the listener arrives at the end of the Coast to Coast journey, they are left with a sense of the potential to make a difference.  Stephen Bassett’s Exopolitical activism seems set to continue, and a little thing such as the current state of non-Disclosure is unlikely to deter him from his journey.

In a further interview carried out in the run up to the UK Exopolitics Event in Leeds, Bassett expanded on how the contactee or ‘experiencer’ phenomenon would become increasingly important in the exopolitical field in the future. This is a notable shift when many researchers prefer to prioritise elements such as FOIA File Release and ‘reliable’ witness statements such as those documented by pilots and downplay ‘citizen’ type witness or experiencer data due to its ‘kooky’ image. The hour long discussion can be streamed or downloaded here: http://bit.ly/sbassET

For a detailed and alternative reading of the contactee narrative then please refer to the recent edition of the Exopolitics Journal: http://exopoliticsjournal.com/. Stephen Bassett will be speaking at the 2011 Leeds Exopolitics conference.  His talk is entitled ‘Disclosure: Who, What, Why, When, Where and How’.  To register you support for World Disclosure Day please visit:http://www.worlddisclosureday.org/

By Natasha Acimovic

Submitted by David Griffin - http://exopoliticsunitedkingdom.org

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