A.D. After Disclosure

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:

Exopolitics: Report from Leeds 2011

Any naiveté, ignorance, or ambition in this article is entirely the fault and responsibility of the Cover-Up. The void that has been left by 60+ years of denial, ridicule, disinformation and containment, is being coloured in from the groundswell up, and I outright deny any and all culpability for the artistic licence I may take in my thought-processes.

‘Who appointed you God?’ asked John Loengard of the head of Majestic 12. ‘Ike. [Eisenhower]’ came the reply, in the Dark Skies pilot. All too likely. Perhaps. At least, it seems only too logical, despite no one telling Col. John B. Alexander about it.

Right now, the UFO community at large is having somewhat of a crisis of confidence, and at the Exopolitics Leeds Conference which I attended at the beginning of August, I think I bore witness to that. The organisers, including Anthony Beckett, received standing ovations at the end of the weekend for their efforts, and they well deserved them, certainly, three years into this convention, if but for nothing else than getting so many divergent authors and activists together under one roof. And this is where contention, division, and even outright hostility enters in. Fear and Loathing on the Disclosure campaign trail. Though don’t get me wrong, there was much that was good, but - to butcher Dante - I must also tell of the bad.

At Leeds this August, I was speaking to Natasha Acimovic, who along with David Griffin head up Exopolitics UK, and I would say are fairly close to the cutting edge of ufology. A sort of modern day Jim and Coral Lorenzen. We talked about how exopolitics gives the opportunity for diversity of opinion, of research, of figures on the scene, now and in the future. Cataloguing lights in the sky, while important, was the old days, now we are engaged across the spectrum, from the political to the personal. Certainly, the field of ufology has always been shifting. I mean, if WW2 veteran Donald Keyhoe, who founded NICAP were around today he’d probably slit his wrists or have a heart-attack. But we live in a very different world than the 1960’s. Wildly different, and getting more radical, more novel with every passing day.

Jack Witek, is a sometimes actor, full time dilettante in ufology, and generally reasonable chap. He Needs to Know, and feels you do to. He lives by the sea in Plymouth, England, with his insufferable alien-hybrid cat, Adramelech, or Adra for short. You can catch him in one of the city’s many fine drinking establishments sipping German beer with his head buried in the latest UFO book, trying to look inconspicuous yet mysterious. 

The ancient Chinese, in their wisdom, cursed us in triplicate

1. May you live in interesting times. 
2. May you come to the attention of those in authority (sometimes rendered May the government be aware of you).
3. May you find what you are looking for.

Exopolitcs is logical result on the first, which leads inexorably to the second, which brings with it the danger of the third. Despite the media (in deference to Nick Pope, yes, that is a generalisation) brushing it aside, putting it down, hushing it up, hurrying it along and laughing it into the Middle Ages and its parade of bumpkin superstitions and prejudices, there is a core of sightings, of encounters, of government projects, of a 60 year paper trail, leading us ever further to the startling conclusion that we are not at the top of the food chain.

As for the second, I think Richard Dolan, and others, have amply demonstrated, this lead to a select few at the top the human pyramid to take it upon themselves to be custodians of this reality. This has led to a collective blind spot that cannot engage with this paradigm, and so here we are trying to rehabilitate the situation. God help us.

Now, thirdly. While I understand it isn’t necessarily sexy and might not make you friends to agree with Mr Pope on certain issues, I think he makes a very valid point, as he did to Sun newspaper reporters covering the conference this year, about marrying ourselves to certain political causes, like 9/11, however worthy those causes may or not be. We have to pick our battles, and we run the risk of over-reach, and of the hubris of thinking we have the answers to this mystery when in fact we do not. Not to a satisfactory degree, anyway. We have leads, we have data, we have models, we have evidence. We can prove - not as much as some of us would like.

However, on a side note, after reading Witness to Roswell by Schmitt and Carey, the former of which Bryce Zabel is writing a film script about called Majic Men, well, if the evidence and witnesses amassed in that volume were to be presented in a fair court of law, I think they’d have a hard time denying that something very important happened that night in 1947.

But that was the past! This is the present! Focus on the real life and death issues today! Ok, I’ll do my best. To reference Sherlock Holmes, nonetheless, there is the Scarlet Thread that runs through all of this, the reality of the UAPs/UFOs in and of themselves, and the behind-closed-doors reality of political and military interest, conspiracy or not.

Disclosure: It's All About the Threat Level

For those of you familiar with the UFO issue and the people involved in it, the name Doctor Carol Rosin is well known as the lady that worked with Werner Von Braun at Fairchild Industries from 1974 to 1977.

In his final days, she says he told her the reasons we would use to continue to develop missile defense systems and to put them into space. In the 70s, of course, we were using the Cold War -- the fear of a nuclear attack by the Russians -- to build all kinds of missiles. He told her that when the Russians were no longer a valid threat, they would use the terrorist threat and the threat of rogue third world nations such as North Korea. The last card he said they would use would be the threat of alien invasion.

We have seen the Russian threat pass and the terrorist threat is probably now in some degree of retreat. The people are much more aware of what is going on around them now than they were twenty years ago. The internet has had a big part in this awareness. The problem now is how to distingush the truth from all the lies.  There is much distrust in our government now. Conspiracy theory is everywhere. 

Bill May is a retired auto mechanic, motorcycle enthusiast and musician who has been interested in UFOs since childhood. After a stint in the Navy, he moved to Nevada and has consistently run into people who are knowledgeable about Area 51 and government cover-up issues. These days he lives in Oklahoma where he continues to ponder how all the pieces fit together.

With the recent death of Osama Bin Ladin, President Obama is looking much better to many people. His ratings are starting to improve and the GM bailout has turned out to have been a good move with GM now showing record profits. President Obama has been briefed on all this by the work of Dr. Stephen Greer and the lobbying efforts of Steve Bassett. He has not yet responded to that information but he would have to be living under a rock not to have knowledge of their work. When you have an astronaut such as Dr. Edgar Mitchell going on CNN and saying that ET's are real and we have made contact, I am sure any president would start asking questions.

The Joke's Still on Them...

Well, so much for Obama as the "Disclosure President." Don't hold your breath.

Last night at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, the President of the United States was having a lot of fun at Donald Trump's well-deserved expense. Yet when he cast the "birther" controversy as a nutty conspiracy theory, he also placed it in the company of whether we faked the moon landing, where are Biggie and Tupac, and what really happened at Roswell. Each played as big laugh lines.

These people ought to know better, of course, but they don't. 

You can watch for yourself in this video, it's about ten minutes in:

So, there you have it. Another example that our nation's politicians do not understand the essential reality of the UFO/ET situation and neither do the reporters who hold those elite positions. To them, it's truly just a laughing matter.

“Now, I know that he’s taken some flak lately but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald. And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"
~ President Barack Obama, White House Correspondent's Dinner, April 2011 

 This would be funny in itself except that, as we know, it's not a laughing matter. Sigh...

A Breakaway Civilization: What It Is, and What It Means for Us

A Special Analysis By Richard M. Dolan, April 2011

Our Classified World 

Since the time of Pericles, defenders of human freedom have promoted the virtues of open debate within society, and for the full freedom of citizens to investigate their government and world. Whether in a household, a classroom, or a nation, a free flow of critically examined and openly discussed ideas gives us our best chance for intellectual growth and personal achievement.

The legendary physicist, Robert J. Oppenheimer, put the matter succinctly. “There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry,” wrote the man who led the Manhattan Project. “There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.” 

Oppenheimer, a man of conscience and intellect who straddled the worlds of free inquiry and national security, was in a good position to understand the deep meaning of his words. 

And yet, despite the wonders of the Web, our world is not one in which free inquiry is the rule. It is a world in which our reality is polished and tinted on a daily basis by global power interests, and in which much of what really goes on is classified. 

Consider. The Library of Congress adds roughly 60 million pages to its holdings each year, a huge cache of information for the public. However, also each year, the U.S. Government classifies nearly ten times that amount – an estimated 560 million pages of documents. For scholars engaged in political, historical, scientific, or any other archival work, the grim reality is that most of their government’s activities are secret. 

What’s especially galling is that the nature of modern scientific and academic work enable such secrecy to thrive. This belies what they are supposed to do, at least according to the proponents of an open society. 

Let's Go "Live" to the White House...

First off, welcome and hello to all our readers who are checking us out due to Richard Dolan's appearance tonight on Coast-to-Coast with George Noory. We're glad to have you, and hope you'll bookmark us and come back again and again and join the discussion here about UFO/ET Disclosure.

We all know that big "D" Disclosure -- when it finally comes -- may or may not originate from the Oval Office of the U.S. president. It may come from China, Russia, Brazil, France or it may not even come from an official source at all. Still, it can be fun to imagine it...

In the A.D. After Disclosure book, there is a "vignette" between each chapter, and between chapters 1 and 2, there is a transcript of a possible presidential news conference. This YouTube is a dramatic reading of that document. It's just for fun, but it does make you think.

Special thanks to George Knapp, whose introduction to Rich and Bryce on the October 24, 2010 appearance is used as the lead-in to our "what if" news conference.

And, by the way, in the sidebar to the right of this post, you'll seen a vertical bar of our YouTube videos, all of them themed around the discussion of UFO Disclosure. We hope you'll check them out, too.

Right now, of course, Rich Dolan is appearing on Coast-to-Coast, so please listen to Rich and come back and play this later.

We also have a Facebook page for those of you who want to join the discussion.

OZUFO Summit: What Has Changed?

This weekend I attended my first UFO conference. It was also a first for the conference organizers in Lawrence, Kansas. Dubbed OZUFO Summit, it promised to be a high-level event by inviting some of the big names from UFO research and investigation.

The expressed goal of the conference was to bring together "variously experienced world-class authors, investigators, researchers, and speakers" to share a "sincere and urgent call for complete UFO Disclosure of the UFO-ET Reality." 

For those interested in UFOs, the names were noteworthy. Physicist and researcher Stanton Friedman and dogged investigator Donald Schmitt both spoke about their parallel investigations into Roswell — the Watergate of UFO cover-ups. Jesse Marcel, Jr. recounted the historic event from his childhood when his father (Jesse Marcel, Sr.) showed his family debris from the Roswell crash. And former airmen, Capt. Robert Salas and Col. Charles Halt, discussed their separate experiences while in the Air Force.

On the other hand, there were those whose connection to the UFO phenomenon was more personal. Kim Carlsberg discussed her abductions and how she had been used as part of an extraterrestrial cross-breeding program. Rosemary Ellen Guiley drew parallels between alien abduction stories and the folklore of the djinn (a.k.a. genies). And Butch Witkowski shared the results of his investigations into cattle — and human — mutilations.

With all these different voices to discuss the UFO phenomenon, one thing was notably missing: a consensus. When one thinks of a summit, one imagines high-ranking officials coming together to reach an accord. While the goal of government disclosure was the predominant theme of the conference, it did not seem to be shared by all. 

Lessons From Egypt: The Inevitability of Sudden Change

The world has turned upside down. What seemed unthinkable a mere month ago has now become a major political force throughout the world. 

Hosni Mubarak, the autocratic head of Egypt, a man who had ruled his country for thirty years under a “State of Emergency,” who had suspended the Egyptian constitution, who had suspended the most basic human rights, who ran an irredeemably corrupt regime, who enriched himself and his family to the tune of more than $70 billion from the backs of the Egyptian people, has fled the country. 

It took just two weeks of massive public demonstrations to get rid of him. 

The events in Egypt – and before them, Tunisia – are electrifying for many reasons. In the first place, there hasn’t been a real popular uprising in the Arab world against their perennially autocratic rulers in most people’s living memory. There have been Islamicist movements, yes, and there have been many government-sponsored public demonstrations regarding the plight of the Palestinian people. Yet, for year after year, generation upon generation, Arab people continued to suffer at the hands of their own governments. 

A populist venting of the people hasn’t occurred since Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arabism of the 1950s and 1960s. And even those protests pale in force and depth of feeling to those of today. 

For what we are seeing now is something Nasser never encouraged: a true democratic spirit, a true voice of the people. Not an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist populism, but a genuine populism that has identified the corruption and evil of one’s own government, and which seeks to remove the tumor. 

Across the Arab world, people are euphoric. Everything is up for grabs. Right now, demonstrations are occurring in Algeria, Yemen, and Jordan. Look for them to expand in Palestine and Syria. 

{voices} Stanton Friedman | Global Competitiveness Forum

Stanton Friedman spoke at the Global Competitiveness Forum held between January 23-25,2011, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The following is his informal, first-person account. 

Although I have given over 700 lectures in all 50 states, nine Canadian Provinces and 16 other countries, (Saudi Arabia was number 17), this was one that ranks very high. I have had much larger audiences (about 2000 several times versus under 1000 in Riyadh, though from about 30 countries), but hardly any so well arranged and with such an incredible group of attendees. There were a huge number of top executives from companies such as IBM, Volkswagen, Google, etc. -- kind of a top line of movers and shakers. There were a number of well known politicians including Tony Blair, former prime minister of the UK, Jean Chretien, former prime minister of Canada, and Bill Clinton, former president of the United States. Clinton gave an outstanding presentation including some recent scientific developments such as the earthlike planet discovered recently around a not too distant star.

The most common questions I had received are why would  SAGIA, the Saudi Arabian General Investment Agency,  have a panel session entitled “Contact: Learning from Outer Space," and why would the Kingdom, which is so loaded with oil, worry about  Global Competitiveness anyway? Almost nobody including me had heard of the GCF before, though this was the fifth one held in Riyadh. Incidentally, the initial panel title was a more blatant, “Innovation and UFOs.”

Stanton Friedman is a nuclear physicist who started writing about UFOs in the 1960s and has stubbornly refused to quit, making him the veteran researcher actively working in the field of Unidentified Flying Objects today. Inducted into the Roswell Hall of Fame in 2010, Stan is the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident. His dogged investigation has, for many, legitimized a collection of Top Secret documents that had been leaked about the shadowy Majestic-12 group formed by Harry Truman. He has written five books in the ufology topic.

Once I had established that there really was a legitimate SAGIA, I responded enthusiastically to my invitation. It didn’t hurt that non-panelists or speakers were being charged at least $4000 to attend, and that the long flights would be business class, and the hotel was a 4 star.

In my time, I stressed that my mantra had for many years been that technological progress comes from doing things differently and that the future was not an extrapolation of the past. Surely examining the technology of visiting alien spacecraft ought to provide some new ideas about propulsion, aerodynamics,perhaps mental telepathy, etc.