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     Among the unintentional consequences of the White House “We The People” petition drive — currently gauging public interest on everything from marijuana laws to Net neutrality — is an emerging glimpse into the polarization of the UFO dilemma in America. In rebuffing two recent petitions calling for an end to the alleged coverup of “extraterrestrial” interactions with Earthlings, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, at the very minimum, demanded a higher standard of proof from a field of research renowned for its fractiousness.

Though the OSTP’s Phil Larson needed galoshes for the cloudburst of jeers provoked by his recent “no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth” petition response, Leslie Kean rushed to his defense. The author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record, Kean staked the credibility of her 2010 New York Times bestseller on working with, and getting endorsements from, sources with unassailable CVs. On the Record challenged “scientists who should no longer be allowed the luxury of denial,” and urged American establishment science to grow a pair and join the rest of the world in conducting public and transparent research. A study with integrity, she argues, could reap a windfall in expanding our understanding of physics.

In a Huffington Post blog two weeks ago, Kean hammered not Larson’s response, but the “inappropriate and fundamentally flawed content of the [We The People] petitions themselves.” Kean, whose work was turned into a History Channel documentary last summer, took the petition authors to task for using presumptuous language.

“Clearly,” she stated, “we can’t make the leap from the existence of unknown airborne objects, for which we have proof, to claims of extraterrestrial communications, which can’t be proven, if we want to appeal to scientists.” Noting how the term “UFO” was conspicuously omitted from both petitions, she advocated the establishment of a small but formal government office to take a fresh look at the best cases, and report to “a qualified civilian oversight board.”

Lobbyist Steve Bassett, whose “disclosure” petition collected 12,078 signatures, says “UFO is the language of the information embargo,” and is planning to launch another petition challenge on Thursday. “Leslie Kean wants to continue to play their game,” says Bassett. “She’s calling it ‘a new way forward,’ but I say it’s the old way going backward.”

But abandoning the “We The People” option as a lost cause altogether is retired USAF captain Robert Salas, whose petition collected 5,387 endorsements. Spurred by his active-duty experience in 1967 when a number of nuclear missiles went off-line in their silos during alleged UFO surveillance of a Strategic Air Command facility, Salas is piqued by “the simplistic and dismissive statements” from the OSTP. He thinks Kean is barking up the wrong tree.

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Labels: Alien, By Billy Cox, De Void, ET, Extraterrestrial, Leslie Kean, Petition, Phil Larson, PRG, Robert Salas, Stephen Bassett, White House

     Abduction researcher, author and MUFON’s former International Director of Field Investigator Training, Kathleen Marden, and Denise Stoner, Florida MUFON’s Director of Investigations, are collaborating on an abduction experiencer research project.

Our goal is to expand our understanding of the alien abduction phenomenon through the use of two questionnaires.

We, in turn, plan to publish our findings pertaining to little known commonalities among UFO abductees.

The “UFO Abduction Experiencer Survey” lists 45 general multiple choice questions pertaining to experiencers' demographics, abduction memories, psychic phenomena experiences, and physiological responses. Some examples of these questions include the following:

1. Are your abduction memories? Conscious ( ), Through dreams ( ), Through hypnosis ( ) Other ( ) (Please check all that apply.)

2. Are you more or less “sensitive” or intuitive than you were prior to your abduction? More ( ), Less ( ), about the same ( )

3. Have witnesses reported that they observed a UFO near your house, vehicle, tent, etc. prior to or during your abduction? Yes ( ), No ( ) If yes, please explain.

4. Have you awoken with unexplained marks on your body that you suspect are related to an abduction experience? Yes ( ), No ( ) If yes, please describe.

5. Have you ever suffered burns, hair loss, or conjunctivitis following an abduction? Yes ( ), No ( ) If yes, please explain.

6. Following an abduction, did you ever experience malfunctions of electrical equipment such as lights, digital watches, computers, etc? Yes ( ), No ( ) If yes, please explain.

Kathleen Marden requests that abductees/experiencers participate in her “Abduction Experiencer E.T. Technology Survey” to increase our knowledge of E.T. technology. She has discovered unique, unpublicized information observed by several abductees, but needs to add to her data base. The “Abduction Experiencer E.T. Technology Survey” lists 16 multiple choice and fill-in questions. Some examples of these questions include the following:

1. Were you transported through a solid object such as a wall, window, roof, etc?) Yes ( ), No ( )

2. What bodily sensations did you experience when you were transported from your location to the craft? Please explain.

3. Did you feel that you were transported outside Earth’s atmosphere? Yes ( ), No ( ). If yes, what do you recall of that experience and was a transport device used?

4. Were you given knowledge of the craft’s propulsion or operational system? Yes ( ), No ( ). If yes, please explain what you were told.

5. Have you ever undergone a procedure on the craft that was unrelated to reproduction? If so, please describe.

Please visit Kathleen’s website at www.kathleen-marden.com or contact her via email at Kmarden@aol.com for copies of both surveys.

Completed surveys can be mailed back to her at:


or scanned and sent via email.

Participants’ identities will remain anonymous. If you wish to be personally contacted regarding the results of this survey, you need only include your email address.

Denise Stoner and I want to thank-you in advance for facilitating our research efforts and increasing our knowledge about alien abduction.

Labels: Abduction, Alien, By Kathleen Marden, Denise Stoner, ET, MUFON, Survey

     A SPOOKY sighting was reported in the skies over Boston on Saturday.

A shopper reported ‘a large white elongated oval shaped’ object at about 1.30pm to the website UK UFO Sightings.

The report, from Lorraine Heron, suggested the object was going north on the A16 and moved slowly left over the fields. . . .

Labels: 2011, Birmingham, November, Sighting, UK

     The Book of Odds, an online reference site, indicates that men are more likely than women to report witnessing UFOs.

And for decades, presenters at UFO conferences have been predominantly male -- until now. The first annual Women's UFO Symposium is gearing up to offer a new perspective and restore balance to the growing world of gatherings where people present their ideas and experiences in UFOlogy.

"Women are not on the forefront of many UFO conferences. It's kind of an old boys club," said symposium organizer Paola Harris.

"There are so many wonderful researchers out there that have literally dedicated their lives to a cause, and they deserve to balance the energy," she told The Huffington Post.

The conference will take place May 19-20, 2012 (men are welcome to attend), in Glen Rose, Texas, near the site of a well-publicized group of UFO sightings in the town of Stephenville in 2008, when hundreds of people reported different types of UFOs, triangular and disc-shaped. Some of the eyewitness accounts described unidentified craft larger than a football field.

Labels: 2012, Conference, Symposium, Women

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     CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA's Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life.

It will take 8 1/2 months for Curiosity to reach Mars following a journey of 354 million miles.

An unmanned Atlas V rocket hoisted the rover, officially known as Mars Science Laboratory, into a cloudy late morning sky. A Mars frenzy gripped the launch site, with more than 13,000 guests jamming the space center for NASA's first launch to Earth's next-door neighbor in four years, and the first send-off of a Martian rover in eight years. . . .

Labels: Curiosity, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA, Rover, Video

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     ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Mutual UFO Network has been busier than usual this year. So far in New Mexico, the group has received reports of 40 different UFO sightings, seven of them in the past month.

"By and large, most cases are explainable," said Dr. Donald Burleson, MUFON's New Mexico director. "Sometimes we conclude that it was a conventional aircraft or balloon or meteor.

"It's that small percentage of cases that really keep us all interested."

Labels: New Mexico, Sightings, UFO

     AUBURN - "Local hunter bags UFO!"

It sounds like a headline you would read on a supermarket tabloid. But in this case, it's true!

A man from Auburn recently had a close encounter with an Unidentified Flying Object.

Like many other UFO stories, he was alone in the wilderness, with no one else to witness the encounter. But in this case, the hunter had a camera.

In fact, so did the UFO! . . .

Labels: 2011, Hunter, JP Aerospace, Lovelock, Nevada, November, Robert Pitzer, UFO, Video