GROUP WANTS NEXT PRESIDENT TO DISCLOSE 'TRUTH' ABOUT UFOs
We don't need to tell you that the next
president of the United States is going to have a lot to do. He has to
fix the economy, the environment and Wall Street - WIRED
BY DAVE DEMERJIAN
The group, which says it is dedicated to ending the "government imposed Truth Embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race," is launching a pressure campaign it hopes will force the government to fess up. Its Million fax on Washington campaign is just that: an initiative to bury the next president in faxes and mail, all of it demanding that the U.S. government reveal the truth about its alleged knowledge of UFO activity.
Stephen Bassett
In an interview with Wired.com, Paradigm founder Stephen Bassett says that President Carter, who reported seeing a UFO in 1969, signed off on two studies after taking office but that they were kept under wraps for national security reasons. Bassett says reports of extraterrestrial sighting have been on the upswing since the end of the Cold War, creating pressure on the government to "disclose."
"Witnesses are coming forward," Bassett says, "and 50 percent of the U.S. public believes that this is real."
Adding to the pressure is recent moves from other nations. "You have the UK declassifying reports of extra-terrestrial sightings," Bassett says, "and members of the Mexican Air Force videotaping what they think are UFOs." He says China is also conducting UFO research, but that France is most likely to disclose unilaterally. "They are a proud, independent people," he explains. "And they're very sensitive to their legacy. This is an area where they can take the lead."
The late Dr. John Mack
Extra-terrestrial work is nothing new for Bassett, who in the 1990s studied at the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research in Cambridge, MA (laugh if you want, but the it was founded by Dr. John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School). In 1996 Bassett founded the PRG with the goal of "using all means possible to confront the United States."
In 1999 he got political by founding the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC), the first PAC in history to target the politics of UFO/ET phenomena. PRG's work has included supporting political candidates, lobbying for Congressional hearings on extraterrestrials, and hosting the annual X-Conference, an event designed to share collective knowledge about the government's involvement with extraterrestrial phenomena.
He says disclosure offers the incoming president an ideal chance to win over a tired, mistrustful public. "You're coming off eight years of an administration known for its secrecy," he says. "Disclosure is a way to break with the past and start fresh." He calls Barak Obama "an innocent on the issue" but says McCain will have more to explain for. "He's been in Washington for a long time. With all his military contacts, you have to wonder if he already knows."
Bassett seems confident that his fax campaign will be a success, and is counting on viral marketing to help spread the word (his Facebook group has only 76 members, but it's early...). For Bassett, the big question is not whether or not disclosure will happen, but what will follow. "It is going to be fascinating to watch the tug of war between the people and the government once this gets out," he says. "The people will want to know everything, but some of the information will be held for national security reasons."
Bassett says that the disclosure situation will be the most profound event in human history. "With all due respect to the Christ event," it took a long time for that information to be disseminated. "With this, the impact will be instant."
Source: Wired
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BY DAVE DEMERJIAN
The group, which says it is dedicated to ending the "government imposed Truth Embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race," is launching a pressure campaign it hopes will force the government to fess up. Its Million fax on Washington campaign is just that: an initiative to bury the next president in faxes and mail, all of it demanding that the U.S. government reveal the truth about its alleged knowledge of UFO activity.
Stephen Bassett
In an interview with Wired.com, Paradigm founder Stephen Bassett says that President Carter, who reported seeing a UFO in 1969, signed off on two studies after taking office but that they were kept under wraps for national security reasons. Bassett says reports of extraterrestrial sighting have been on the upswing since the end of the Cold War, creating pressure on the government to "disclose."
"Witnesses are coming forward," Bassett says, "and 50 percent of the U.S. public believes that this is real."
Adding to the pressure is recent moves from other nations. "You have the UK declassifying reports of extra-terrestrial sightings," Bassett says, "and members of the Mexican Air Force videotaping what they think are UFOs." He says China is also conducting UFO research, but that France is most likely to disclose unilaterally. "They are a proud, independent people," he explains. "And they're very sensitive to their legacy. This is an area where they can take the lead."
The late Dr. John Mack
Extra-terrestrial work is nothing new for Bassett, who in the 1990s studied at the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research in Cambridge, MA (laugh if you want, but the it was founded by Dr. John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School). In 1996 Bassett founded the PRG with the goal of "using all means possible to confront the United States."
In 1999 he got political by founding the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC), the first PAC in history to target the politics of UFO/ET phenomena. PRG's work has included supporting political candidates, lobbying for Congressional hearings on extraterrestrials, and hosting the annual X-Conference, an event designed to share collective knowledge about the government's involvement with extraterrestrial phenomena.
He says disclosure offers the incoming president an ideal chance to win over a tired, mistrustful public. "You're coming off eight years of an administration known for its secrecy," he says. "Disclosure is a way to break with the past and start fresh." He calls Barak Obama "an innocent on the issue" but says McCain will have more to explain for. "He's been in Washington for a long time. With all his military contacts, you have to wonder if he already knows."
Bassett seems confident that his fax campaign will be a success, and is counting on viral marketing to help spread the word (his Facebook group has only 76 members, but it's early...). For Bassett, the big question is not whether or not disclosure will happen, but what will follow. "It is going to be fascinating to watch the tug of war between the people and the government once this gets out," he says. "The people will want to know everything, but some of the information will be held for national security reasons."
Bassett says that the disclosure situation will be the most profound event in human history. "With all due respect to the Christ event," it took a long time for that information to be disseminated. "With this, the impact will be instant."
Source: Wired
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