UFOIA
Paranormal experts feel alienated by Obama
By: Dave Maass 09/16/2009
Change may be harder to believe in than extraterrestrial life—at least when it comes to releasing classified records, according to UFOlogists in attendance at Angel Fire’s first Paranormal Symposium.
“The only ‘change’ is the change of opinion among UFOlogists who think that we’re going to get something from Obama,” Dee Gragg, who teaches adult education courses on UFOs at New Mexico State University, says.
Gragg presented a lecture on crop circles at the symposium, held Sept. 11-13 in the small village 25 miles outside Taos. The event drew more than 150 attendees to listen to 10 lectures covering everything from monster hunting to “UFOs and Alternative Energy.” While the speakers disagree on theories and explanations, they largely agree that Obama hasn’t made paranormal research and UFO disclosure as high a priority as they had hoped.
“If you lined up the 17 most important things Obama has to do, [UFOs] wouldn’t make the list,” Gragg says. “Look what he’s got on his plate; he’s not about to take on something like this.”
Right now, that plate is heaped over with health insurance reform. But just as the US lags behind the rest of the Western world on universal coverage, paranormal truth-seekers say the US also trails Europe when it comes to the release of UFO records.
In late August, the British National Archives followed the lead of several other nations, including France and Russia, by releasing 4,000 pages of documents related to UFO reports dating back 15 years. Nick Redfern, a British-born author of more than a dozen books on the paranormal, has reviewed many of the British documents and notes that approximately 90 percent are reports of sightings from citizens and requests for information filed by researchers.
The remaining 10 percent, he says, are the most interesting: reports of UFO sightings by military pilots that correspond with unidentifiable blips recorded by radar stations on the ground.
“The [release of] documents is good because it shows that government agencies investigated it,” Redfern tells SFR. “It shows there are credible witnesses. What it doesn’t do is answer the question of what these things are.”
Yet, the US government still keeps its mother lode of secrets on lockdown.
On a recent visit to the Harry S Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo., Gragg says he discovered that a third of the UFO files contained only a pink slip of paper stating the information for that file has yet to be declassified. The security presence at the library, according to Gragg, also indicates the government knows something, but won’t share it.
“Would you believe that there were four or five guards with walkie-talkie radios talking to each other and they were all packing heat?” Gragg says. “I’m saying, what are they going to do, shoot me if I chew gum too loud?”
Dennis Balthaser, who researches the Roswell UFO crash, says he had one Freedom of Information Act request—or FOIA—pending with the US government for more than eight years.
“When I send in a FOIA, many times I get a [letter] back with a generic stamp on it that says those records may have been destroyed in a fire in 1973,” Balthaser says. “That’s well and good, but ‘may have been’ is not an answer.”
Although during the campaign Obama indicated he would push for further transparency, his administration has played coy on UFO issues. For example, UFOlogists point to a July C-Span appearance by Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, in which he dodged a viewer-submitted question about UFOs.
“Look, I have not been briefed on whether or not there are the existence of UFOs,” Gibbs told Ryan from Seattle. “I know that the president is deeply concerned about ensuring we have transparency in government, and the American people have faith in what the government is trying to do.”
Similarly, On Sept. 9, Obama personally told Philadelphia radio host Michael Smerconish that he had indeed seen the presidential “Book of Secrets,” which was the catalyst for adventure in Disney’s second National Treasure film. As far as the information inside, he said to Smerconish, “I would tell you, but I’d have to kill you.”
Guy Malone, who lectured on Christianity and UFOs at the symposium, doubts Obama is in the loop. Like many UFOlogists, he believes such information is classified above even the president’s clearance level.
“I think the Clintons knew a lot more because they were tight with [former Clinton Chief of Staff] John Podesta who was trying to get this UFO stuff disclosed,” Malone says.
Redfern has noted a stricter policy related to public information and UFO records in the last decade, but believes it is more due to the fallout after 9.11 than any particular presidential administration.
“Whether it was the Clinton era, Bush Sr., Reagan, [release policies] weren’t that much different,” Redfern says. “I don’t believe there’s been a clampdown on access to UFO data. I think there’s just been a clampdown on everything.”
Redfern, however, says when the government rejects a UFO-related request, more often than not it isn’t to cover up extraterrestrial contact, but to protect terrestrial defense. For example, governments often don’t want foreign powers understanding their radar and satellite capabilities.
“National security doesn’t always relate necessarily to the sighting,” Redfern says. “Sometimes it’s the way they collect the information.”
But some UFOlogists believe that full release of UFO documentation would not be in the public’s best interest.
“What would be the effect on our population if suddenly we told them UFOs not only are real, but we cannot protect you against them, that they can disintegrate anything that we have?” Gragg says. “Secondly, what would be their reaction when they find out that aliens, particularly the ‘little grays,’ abduct people all the time?”
Gragg says the administration should come up with a plan to prepare the population and gradually release information.
There are also political considerations.
“If you look at what happened to Dennis Kucinich, when it came out during the presidential debates that Shirley MacLaine put in her book that he saw a UFO at her house, he tanked,” Malone says. “You get thrown in the gutter very quickly if you discuss UFOs in a political sense.”
Malone is confident that, if released, the facts would support his theory that aliens are actually fallen angels who are trying to lure Christians into joining cults like Heaven’s Gate, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997 in the hopes of catching a lift on comet Hale-Bopp.
However, he also believes information will emerge that proves the Roswell crash was a government experiment involving Nazis, technology developed by Nikola Tesla, mongoloid children and radiation-poisoning survivors.
“I think all the records should be disclosed so that people have access to all the information they need to make an informed, intelligence decision,” Malone says.
Comments (5)
Thanks for the links hammster!
Presidents are powerless and have no information regarding Aliens.
Here is proof:
President Clinton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7X8HK...
President Carter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrJeBC...
President Reagan
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
President Bush/VP Cheney: UFO's are Classified
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ01hc...
President Truman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VWOkk...
President JFK and his deep, dark, hidden plea for help regarding Aliens. Listen carefully and think about how the existence of Aliens has been covered up and people killed when trying to disclose the truth. In fact, JFK was assassinated just days after delivering this speech. It was rumored he was going to disclose the truth about Aliens. Then he was killed.
I think Gragg meant that Obama doesn't put it in his top 17 issues, though Gragg would personally like to see it way up there.
Quote: “If you lined up the 17 most important things Obama has to do, [UFOs] wouldn’t make the list,” Gragg says. “Look what he’s got on his plate; he’s not about to take on something like this.”
Rebuttle: Aliens visiting Earth is the single most significant event in the history of all Earth, besides it's creation.
Health Care Reform? HA! Aliens would revolutionize Health Care, probably have the cure for cancer and many other diseases, and could advance Health Care by thousands if not millions of years.
Global Warming? Do you think Aliens use fossil fuels and stopped by the Exxon gas station by Alpha Centauri on their way to Earth?
Global Financial Crisis? The Aliens would have had to figure out the whole money thing by now.
Afghan War? Aliens fly in completely stealth and can vaporize a target or disable technology that is underground. I think they can swoop down on some bad guys and make them disappear without too much problem, or vaporize a poppy field.
I do believe Obama is left out of the loop entirely on the truth regarding Aliens. In fact, since Kennedy, most Presidents have been out of the loop except for Bush Sr, ex-Director of the C I Agency.
Anybody that thinks the truth doesn't hit the top 17 priorities has absolutely no clue what they are talking about. Aliens on Earth are the single most important discovery of human history.
If you would like a humorous (but supposedly real-world) run-down on Presidential UFOlogy here it is (15,457 words if you want the full monty ask for it to be emailed):
The Extraterrestrial Presence in the 2008 Presidential Race
How will UFO/ET disclosure fare in an Obama administration?
by Richard Dean Jacob
The book by Jim Marrs Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us writes: "There are those who still prefer to ignore the phenomena hoping it will simply go away and stop intruding on their comfortable worldview. Others are deeply fascinated by what the reality of UFOs portend. Meanwhile UFO researchers, organizations, and conventions continue to grow throughout the world."
The Washington Post's political journalist Dana Milbank recently covered the X-Conference held near Washington, D.C. in September -- an event dedicated to exposing the cover-up of the extraterrestrial presence and ending the UFO truth embargo. In regard to the event he wrote that "Federal law limits the participation of resident aliens in the political process. But it is silent on the role of extraterrestrial aliens. This loophole has not been lost on the life forms who arrived on these shores aboard flying saucers with little more than the antennae on their backs. After years of suffering without suffrage, these beings are now seeking to play a role in the 2008 presidential campaign."
For the U.S. 2008 presidential election something new and otherworldly is obviously aloof.
But, it should be noted, former presidents having UFO sightings and even secret meetings with extraterrestrial characters is not such new hat.
In fact, it's said, that the thirty-fourth U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower was on the receiving end of a briefing report on UFOs drafted by the secret group MJ-12 which was a study team on the subject formed by president Truman before him after the legendary 1947 Roswell crash. And that's not all. President Eisenhower, it's said, even had a behind-closed-doors get-together with a group of aliens from who knows where at Edwards Airforce Base. (For anyone in doubt of these things use the internet. It's my one-stop source). So it goes that Ike told them that us common earthlings just weren't ready for full disclosure and that if all were told global panic would occur and the collapse of social and governmental institutions would surely ensue. Makes sense to me.
The next president I Googled for good measure was John F. Kennedy. Here I caught that he reported a UFO sighting off Cape Cod near their family compound at Hyannisport, Massachusetts. Author Jim Marrs wrote that a steward on Air Force One once asked the president what he thought of UFOs. This story goes that JFK said he couldn't say anything because his "hands were tied." Other unsubstantiated rumors alledge that he was set to reveal large segments on the extraterrestrial presence before his assasination.