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BridgeTheGap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 08:10 AM
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Former pilots, officials call for UFO study
Source: Reuters

Former pilots, officials call for UFO study
Panel calls on Air Force or NASA to reopen decades-old investigation
Tues., Nov. 13, 2007

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter.

An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials have called on the U.S. government to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security, given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings.

“Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of existing aircraft and helicopters,” they said in a statement released at a news conference Monday.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21777913/?gt1=10547
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 08:58 AM
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1. Dennis also said,
In Washington, the truth is a UFO.
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groovedaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 09:21 AM
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2. You gotta love the guy...check out the Disclosure Project
The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project working to fully disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems. We have over 400 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret.

http://www.disclosureproject.org/

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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 11:29 AM
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5. This is an interesting tidbit from your link:
INSIDERS EXPOSE REASONS FOR SECRECY



Disclosure Project (www.DisclosureProject.org) Director Dr. Steven M. Greer reports that government insiders have revealed the existence of a shadowy, highly classified program related to UFOs.

The reasons for the secrecy are simple: The inertia of highly classified programs, embarrassment over past illegal actions taken to enforce secrecy, and the fact that the energy and propulsion systems behind the mysterious UFO objects have been studied and fully understood. This disclosure would spell the end for oil, gas, coal and other conventional forms of power - and with that, the end of the current oil-based geopolitical order and economy. The truth is our tax dollars have been used to investigate this matter for decades and it is time for a dividend on that investment. The full disclosure of the facts will enable humanity to attain a sustainable civilization without global warming or the need for oil.

Recent calls for a US government investigation into UFOs have not taken into account the fact that such investigations are on-going, highly compartmented and top-secret.

Dr. Greer states: "As early as 1993, when I personally briefed CIA Director James Woolsey on the UFO matter, we knew of on-going, secret projects to which President Clinton and Mr. Woolsey were denied access. The senior counsel for the Senate Appropriations Committee, then headed by Senator Byrd (D-WV) told me directly that upwards of $100 billion per year was going into so-called ‘black’ projects, including UFO programs, but that with a top-secret clearance and a subpoena power, he could not penetrate the veil of secrecy."

Subsequently, working with philanthropist Laurence Rockefeller, Dr. Greer provided in-depth briefing materials for President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who reviewed the matter while staying at the Rockefeller’s JY Ranch. (The briefing materials are at http://www.DisclosureProject.org/access.htm).

Dr. Greer reports that "The Clintons refused further disclosure of the matter. CIA Director Woolsey frankly stated that they could not disclose programs over which they had no control or access. Mr. Woolsey and the Clintons were shaken by the secrecy, and the power behind it."

Since then, The Disclosure Project has uncovered thousands of official US documents and top-secret military and corporate witnesses to programs dealing with UFOs, including project code names and numbers. Such operations are rogue and are beyond the scope of Congressional oversight committees.

For further information or for an interview with Dr. Greer contact: www.DisclosureProject.org.

Note: The two paragraphs referring to Laurence Rockefeller and to Bill and Hillary Clinton had to be removed from this press release when we sent it out through our press release service - PRNewswire.com, because they refused to send out the original press release with those references. It was referred up the chain of command at their organization and censored by them. When you think that we have a free press, think again. This was not even censored by the outlets themselves, but by the entry point to those outlets!


(snip)


I don't have a lot of trouble believing this. I've have four sightings of UFOs over my lifetime but didn't accept the reality of them until the last two simply because I didn't WANT to believe in anything that I viewed as "absurd" as UFOs. My parents and closest friends have also seen them, My mother even saw an unexplainable creature/ person one evening that was walking along the edge of the road in a rural area. It was about eight feet tall but looked to weigh less than 100 pounds. It had impossibly long, thin arms and three flat discs where it's eyes and mouth should have been. She was completely terrified by what she saw because it made no sense, and she certainly wasn't prone to hallucinations. With all we know about "the powers that be" who control society through the control of energy, such a cover up does make a bit of sense. After all, we can make 100 GB video iPods but we can't come up with a truly fuel efficient vehicle? THAT seems improbable to me. Clean, renewable, and even free energy for all would certainly change the balance of power dramatically-so who knows? :shrug:
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doodadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 10:53 AM
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3. An Interstellar Incident
"“Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of existing aircraft and helicopters,” they said in a statement released at a news conference Monday."

I don't think I like the tone of this. Sounds like, blast first, ask questions later. Still in the name of 9/11 for godsakes!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 10:57 AM
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4. Heh... guess all that M$M and DK-hater attacking had a silver lining.
Now lots more so-called "crazy" people are coming out of the woodwork to dispel that BS. :)
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