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?

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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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.

What You Need to Know about "The Need-to-Know Petition"

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WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as Reported by Citizens, Police, Astronauts, Pilots and the Military.

Searching for microbes on Mars and radio signals from space is not enough. We must explain Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAP, right here on Earth.

For six decades worldwide, credible witnesses (including Presidents Carter and Reagan) have consistently described objects with flight capabilities beyond our technology. UAP are often verified by radar and even seen at nuclear sites by military officers. 

Given the national security implications, the United States should conduct an independent investigation. This inquiry must transparently review the key unsolved UAP reports with access to classified documents. It must have the power to call witnesses and grant immunity.

The findings should be publicly presented.

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Commit now to getting signatures from 25 of your friends.

Success will make the response to this petition a news story.That will cause presidential candidates to be asked about it, including Obama.Now isn't that worth the time it takes to figure out the White House website? 

People say it's too hard to get 25,000 signatures. The number should be lower or the time should be longer, that kind of thing. Yet if we can't get 25,000 signatures in 30 days, 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 spend five minutes figuring out how to sign a petition on a website? Please don't let that be the reality. 

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The Non-Response Response from The White House

I would love to have been a fly on the wall when personnel of the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the Executive Office of the President at the New Executive Office Building in Washington , D.C., discussed how to respond to a petition about disclosing data on UFOs. I suspect that nobody brought up the enormous amount of information available indicating that not only are aliens visiting, but the US and other government have been withholding information for many decades. The response certainly indicates intentional lying and misrepresentation or total ignorance.

The petition, prepared and submitted by Steve Bassett’s Paradigm Research Group, went like this:

“We, the undersigned strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon."

I, for one, was not one of more than 5000 persons signing the petition. My reason was straight forward. Having worked under security for 14 years and having researched the flying saucer phenomenon (certainly most UFOs are NOT alien flying saucers) for 53 years , I believe there is a very strong national security side to the question. I cannot see releasing technical data that could be of use to other countries also researching the phenomena and wanting to duplicate the extraordinary flying capabilities of the flying saucers… for military purposes

The response was issued by research assistant Phil Larson. He stated “The US government has no evidence that:

• [1] any life exists outside our planet or
• [2] that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition
• [3] there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.” No indication is provided as to just what sources, if any, were evaluated. Furthermore, a real red herring was provided “There are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth”.. He then discusses SETI, The Kepler Spacecraft, the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, soon to be launched to Mars. None of these have anything to do with the extraterrestrial presence here, the petition’s topic!! Why mention them?

Larson generously concedes that "the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life”. Odds cannot be determined when there is no data. He also foolishly states that ”the odds of making contact with any of them.. especially any intelligent ones- are extremely small given the distances involved”. To which distances is he referring, billions of light years to very distant galaxies?? Or 39.3 light years to Zeta Reticuli? Where is any data to support these totally baseless claims? Does he have travel schedules for civilizations outside Earth? Surely the astronomical community knows nothing about interstellar travel. More about evidence below, but let us first look at [3].

False Assertions from The White House about ET

Sixty-four years after flying disks became a worldwide phenomenon, a formal position on this phenomenon has been issued in print by the executive branch of the United States government for the first time.   On Friday, November 4 the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) responded to two petitions submitted to the We the People section of the White House website.  One of these, the Disclosure Petition, was submitted by Paradigm Research Group.   The White House response gave the administration's assessment of the assertion by a growing number of researchers and activists that flying disks and other related phenomena confirm an extraterrestrial, non-human intelligence engaging the human race. 

See:  https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/searching-et-no-evidence-yet and www.disclosurepetition.info.

OSTP researcher Phil Larson wrote, "The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth."  Unfortunately for the OSTP and the Obama administration, that assertion is false.  Furthermore, given that approximately 50% of the American people are now convinced of an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about the phenomenon, it is an embarrassment.

There are only four possible explanations for this statement from the OSTP:

The Power of Song in UFO Disclosure

In this post, you'll find a real Battle-of-the-Bands except that all three sets of musicians are winners and so are we. You see, all three of them have recorded a version of "Need-to-Know: The UFO Disclosure Song." We bring them to you now as YouTube videos that have been created to support the petition advocating UFO Disclosure that is up and thriving -- as we speak -- on the White House website.

As of now, the petition has already crossed the threshold of 5,000 signatures that guarantees a White House response to the issue. It's happening because the White House opened up a new section on their website called "We the People," which allows citizens to post a petition about a matter they want the White House to address. If the petition obtains 5,000 signatures within a month, the White House reviews the issue and make an official response. 

Political activist Stephen Bassett of the Paradigm Research Group posted the petition on September 22, and five days later breached the 5000 signature mark. His petition reads:

We, the undersigned, strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon.

Does this mean the battle is won and over? Hardly. In fact, given the fact that new signatures can be added until October 22, now seems the time to really floor it and try to get a record number of signatures.

To that end, I've been working with several musicians on the song that was released last year, "Need-to-Know: The UFO Disclosure Song" to adapt it for a YouTube video promoting the petition and signatures.

Here's the original version of the song, composed and performed by Los Angeles Cherish Alexander (we first worked together on The Crow: Stairway to Heaven) with song producer Damian Valentine.

Performed by Cherish Alexander

The battle for UFO disclosure has been a political movement without a song for too long. To bring people together and create change, we believe we need a musical anthem that gives voice to our feelings.

It seems to be doing just that. The song has been covered now by multiple people on the Internet, most recently Bangor, Maine musician James Friedman (son of famed UFOlogist Stanton Friedman). Here's his version, set roughly to the same video components:

Performed by James Friedman

Regardless of which version you prefer, we agree with the passion behind the performances. Like the song says, we're ready to be told and, yes, we do need-to-know. 

But wait, there's more! A third version of "Need-to-Know" has been recorded by Cj and Jen from the Somnium Theater YouTube Channel. 

Performed by Cj and Jen

We're very pleased, of course, that the song seems to be attracting people who want to express its powerful message in their own way. Thanks to Cherish Alexander and Damian Valentine for giving it life in the first place; and to James Friedman and Cj and Jen for shooting new life into it with their own interpretations.

If you would like to purchase an MP3 of the original version of Need-to-Know: The UFO Disclosure Song, it is available from iTunes for $.99.