A.D. After Disclosure

The Debate We'd Like to See

Naturally, at this time and place in the B.C. world (Before Confirmation) that will some day give way to the A.D. (After Disclosure) world, UFOs aren't going to be a significant part of any of 2012's presidential debates.

This is too bad. Just imagine for a moment that the topic of what these unidentified flying objects really are and what they mean was as meaningful to candidates as ethanol subsidies was in Iowa. The candidates would still act and talk like themselves, but they'd be talking about life in the Universe and whether or not it has come here and what we should or should not do about it. Wouldn't that just be astonishing to watch?

Thus Spake Clooney

For every Dan Ackroyd-style celebrity who has done his homework on this issue and is prepared to speak clearly about UFOs, there are a probably a dozen George Clooneys -- celebrities who haven't read a book and think it's just another chance to score with a cheap joke at the expense of the seriousness of the real issue. In late 2011, in Esquire Magazine, Clooney said: 

I keep thinking: Now that every single human being on Earth has a camera phone, where are all those UFO pictures? Remember you used to see those pictures. Some guy just happened to have a Polaroid when the UFOs appeared? Either it was all bullshit, or my theory is that the Martians have decided, "Don't go down there, man. All those f***ers have cameras now."

Oddly, that's all Clooney really had to say, but it got endless publicity. Maybe the Hollywood celeb machine should just start asking all the stars about it.

Read Clooney's entire interview here: http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/meaning-of-life-2012/george-clooney-quotes-0112-3#ixzz1ijki6CTu

Introducing… HIDDEN AGENDA, the Petition Edition

Sometimes you have to have a sense of humor. In that vein, we introduce "HIDDEN AGENDA" -- a new comic strip set in the world of Ufology, written by Bryce Zabel and illustrated by Dennis Rano. This particular cartoon, "Petition Edition", is the first in a series.

If you click the cartoon, you'll be able to see it in 800 pixel size the way it's intended to be viewed.

You may recognize some of the people in these cartoons. That, of course, is purely a coincidence. :-)

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Memo to White House: Fix Your Website!

From the day The Need-to-Know Petition was posted on the White House "We the People" website, the technical roadblocks placed in front of would-be signers have been chronic and significant.

• 404 messages. Browser incompatibility. Not getting the confirming emails. Getting locked out even after signing. Under maintenance screens. Sign in boxes hidden.

You name the dysfunction. Someone who has been trying to sign The Need-to-Know Petition has experienced it. It has cost the Petition many thousands of signatures already and it has not been fixed. Or even acknowledged, other than there ever-present "undergoing maintenance" screen. Instead of promoting the content of the Petition, precious time is wasted trying to figure out what is wrong with the site and how to respond to it.

While the options get explored, Petition supporters should still try to sign the Petition, despite the hassles that continue to plague it. If you can't sign, then send the White House a technical complaint through their site and tell them how lame it is to try an experiment in democracy and then be unable to get a decent webmaster to run it.

If you've had trouble registering and signing and have actually overcome the problem, please post your comments here explaining to others what you did and how you did it. 

And, if anyone who works for the White House reads this, please know what a miserable experience has been created by what looks to be technical incompetence. You should immediately resource up to fix this problem and then give every petition that has been trying to get signatures during this appalling meltdown a new 30-day lease on life with a working site. If you don't do it, shame on you.

Petition Politics & Must-See UFOlogy

We take the issue of Disclosure very seriously.

We do, however, have an open and experimental point-of-view when it comes to engaging readers, viewers, supporters and skeptics.

We have to communicate on all the levels.

The Need-to-Know Petition, by itself, is about raising the issue to the national stage where it belongs. 

Just like the "Sign the Petition" posters that have spread across the Internet, these editorial cartoons should be part of that mix. By using humor and the creative possibilties of the digital universe and operating under the concept of fair use for political expression as has been embraced by the courts, we offer our fun-house of Disclosure Comix to make you smile and think. Along the way, you need to also act and, yes, Sign the Petition.

The timing of THE NEED-TO-KNOW PETITION could be fortuitous. If we clear the 25,000 hurdle by December 30, 2011, the Obama Administration promises a response. That will come smack in the middle of the Republican primary season. 

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That last White House response (to Steve Bassett's original petition) came from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and was inept and lame. So we can expect them to try it again. How would you like to be a fly-on-the-wall for that Oval Office conversation?

Now let's imagine that we kick start things starting now. We get those 25,000 signatures, and more. And that we do it well before the deadline. Wouldn't that be a news story?

Then, no matter what the official response on the official White House website is, the media will ask the presidential candidates about their positions on the content of the petition itself.  

In the blowback from the Petition's success, reporters may see it as a curveball to throw in debates and/or news conferences. 

What will those men and woman who want to run the country say?  What will President Obama say if he is asked about the content of this petition in a national debate in prime time of October 2012?  How would the media react then?

You can have a ticket to that show. 

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Even though both Sarah Palin and Herman Cain are out of primary season for now, such is the transformative power of bringing UFO Disclosure forward into the public marketplace of ideas that nothing is impossible to imagine. Well, possibly, these last two may be hard to imagine, but they were hard to resist. :-)

We hope the use of editorial cartoons increases the dialogue and moves the ball down the field.

It's just another tool to engage those who haven't been exposed to this material talking about it in a serious way. It forces the people who do know something to consider that there are others out there who are going to start demanding the truth in different ways. The managers of this secret, whatever it turns out to be, will begin to get the first inkling that the game of deception that has been played for seven decades is starting to reach an end.

That's a serious analysis of the stakes here. Please Sign the Petition at http://wh.gov/jeK before December 30th.

These images were created in support of this Petition campaign by our friends over at Movie Smackdown. We encourage you to visit their site when you have a chance.

Meantime, you can click on any of these images to see them in FULL-SIZE. And, yes, you may download them, copy them and send them all over the planet and we hope you will. These images are protected as "Fair Use" because they are clearly political speech.

Yes, things could get interesting. But first we need those signatures...

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We Need to Step It Up Now!

As Disclosure advocates we may have a dream, but first we have to earn it.

People say it's too hard to get 25,000 signatures on the White House "We the People" site in a single month. The number should be lower or the time should be longer. The site is erratic, they say, and our signature totals are being suppressed, others chime in.

Well, yes, but so what?

If we can't get 25,000 signatures in 30 days -- despite serious obstacles to organizing -- then we aren't really much of a social movement, are we? OWS protestors are getting pepper-sprayed but we can't be bothered to sign an Internet petition? 

So, one week in to The Need-to-Know Petition, we know what has to be done. We have to kick it up. We have to kick it way up. We need over 1000 new signatures every day starting now.

If you're reading this, you need to actually get 25 friends to sign, too. And it has to go a level beyond sending it to 25 people on Facebook but actually following through to see  that they actually do sign. Good intentions won't count.

There is nothing subjective about what victory is. 25,000 legit signatures from anywhere on Earth at http://wh.gov/jeK by midnight on December 30 (we started November 30). That is hard, cold, objective reality.

FINAL STATUS

UPDATE: 12/30/11

The Need-to-Know Petition has been closed and will not receive an official response from the White House because it did not receive the required 25,000 signatures in 30 days. 

1,911 signatures were all that were gathered.

The White House "We the People" site was plagued with technical problems and issues from the very first day. They were never resolved. It clearly affected many, many thousands of potential signers.

To those who still managed to sign in, despite this West Wing technocalypse, we salute your skill and tenacity and thank you for your support.

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12 Real Documents That Treat UFOs Very Seriously

 
Ask people what they think about UFOs, and you’re sure to get opinions ranging through all extremes and nuances. Some are so embarrassed by the topic that they simply refuse to consider any evidence whatsoever, like the Pope refusing to look through Galileo’s telescope. Others claim not only to be certain that aliens are here, but to have exact, insider knowledge of what it’s all about. Between these extremes are endless variations.

It’s the same with how we approach the subject. Some people read UFO books for fun, like a mystery novel or scary story. Others are more interested in scientific evidence, such as analysis of photographs, videos, or material samples. Still others prefer more hypothetical roads, like theories about the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe, or how an advanced propulsion system might work. There are a host of specialized studies, too, ranging from abductions, to crop circles, to animal mutilations, and more. Or, you may focus on the believers and witnesses themselves by studying UFOs as an element of popular culture, or from a psycho-social perspective.

Another approach is historical. There are, after all, government UFO documents that anyone can read. What do they say? Can these documents tell us whether the government or military have ever been interested in this phenomenon? If so, why?

Granted, this approach might not be of the same value as subjecting a piece of flying saucer to laboratory tests. But it would certainly be important if the government had documents showing that UFOs are truly something extraordinary, and even possibly alien. Especially after telling the public the opposite for years. Since belief in UFOs is a near-professional suicide in most respected circles, what would it mean if we discovered that, within the classified world, people have taken it seriously for years?

It just so happens that they have. They do.

For many years, it was hard to obtain declassified government documents about UFOs. During the 1950s and 1960s, a few documents wended their way to the rest of the world, but this was rare. Then, in 1974, the U.S. government amended the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The result was a veritable golden age of document releases that lasted roughly until a 1982 Executive Order from President Reagan. While UFO documents continue to be released, a repeat of the Great Flood of the seventies appears unlikely.

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Rich Dolan Explains Why This Is The Moment

A statement from The Need-to-Know Petition co-author Richard Dolan:

If you would like to sign The Need-to-Know Petition, all you have to do is click on this link below. Thank you. Tell your friends. Try to get 25 signatures that you are personally responsible for. That kind of commitment will put us over the top.