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Strange History of John Podesta’s Space Alien Obsession

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So every time there's a news article about where Hillary Clinton adviser (and former Bill Clinton chief of staff) John Podesta talks about how President Hillary Clinton would release classified information about UFOs -- as he did again on Thursday -- I'm led to wonder. Is he just taking the joke too far? Has he committed so completely to the bit that now he just sort of answers the questions about space aliens without blinking? Or ... does he think that the government has information about visits from outer space that should be shared more widely?

Philip Bump
www.washingtonpost.com
4-8-16

A little history is in order.

During the 1990s, there was an effort by Laurance Rockefeller (of the Rockefeller Rockefellers) to encourage the United States government to release any classified information it had about extraterrestrials, alien spacecraft and UFOs. The effort, referred to as the Rockefeller Initiative by UFO truthers, included meetings between Rockefeller and senior Clinton administration staff. In August of 1995, the Clintons stayed at Rockefeller's ranch in Wyoming, and Hillary was photographed with him while holding a book titled, "Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life." (A large number of documents pertaining to Rockefeller's advocacy on this issue were released under the Freedom of Information Act several years ago.)

The subject was not an uncommon one for the White House at the time. [...]

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UFO Psychodrama with President Clinton’s Former Associate, Attorney General Webster “Webb” Hubbell

A Webb of confusion

De Void’s UFO psychodrama with President Clinton’s former associate Attorney General Webster “Webb” Hubbell briefly defied rigor mortis last week in yet another round of pointless emails. For latecomers to this adventure of the mind, here’s the cheat sheet first:

Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice, Little Rock mayor, and Rose Law Firm partner with Hillary Clinton in the 1970s, Hubbell joined the Clinton Justice Department in 1993. The erstwhile Razorback offensive tackle resigned in 1994 during a tax fraud investigation, which produced an indictment and a conviction. After pulling time in the clanger, Hubbell in his 1997 autobiography Friends In High Places dropped a weird little teaser about how No. 42 assigned him to gather previously undisclosed information about UFOs and the JFK assassination. Webb wrote he didn’t have any luck, and he let it go at that. But his claims begged for elucidation.

By Billy Cox
De Void
2-26-16

In 2012, with a former CIA agent stating he discovered a smoking-gun cache of Roswell evidence in the Agency’s archives in 1995, De Void contacted Hubbell for a response. What followed was a protracted and bizarre exchange that – fshhzzt! – simply fizzled out like a little party balloon. Still, De Void continued to receive Webb’s email blasts because he’s writing books now, nonfiction this time, thrillers evidently. Earlier this month, I got another one touting the upcoming release of quote “the next Jack Patterson Thriller, A Game of Inches, which comes out in May.”

So what the hell, right?
To Webb Hubbell, 2/17/16, 4:18 p.m.: How about a comment or two on the Hillary/Podesta advocacy for transparency on UFOs?

Two minutes later …

To Billy Cox, 2/17/16, 4:20 p.m.: That’s a good idea. W

WTF?

To Webb Hubbell, 2/17/16, 4:21 p.m.: Seriously, it could help promote your book.

To Billy Cox, 2/17/16, 5:19 p.m.: I’m serious. good idea. W

OK dude. Don’t blow it. Don’t come off all lovesick and craven. Let him sleep on it.

To Webb Hubbell, 2/18/16, 9:13 a.m. Great. Should we do a phoner, or would you prefer a list of email questions?

No reply. But it’s Thursday. Give him the weekend to climb into the attic and lug down all those boxloads of notes.

The weekend comes and goes. Monday comes and goes. Now it’s Tuesday.

To Webb Hubbell, 2/23/16, 10:00 a.m.: Cold feet? I get that. Still – it’s time this country had the long overdue adult conversation. I hope you’ll be a part of it.

To Billy Cox, 2/23/16, 10:13 a.m.: Don’t have cold feet. Its not March yet. W.

Hunh? Doesn’t the weather start to warm up in March? Maybe he’s in the Southern Hemisphere. Either way, screw it, the bobber’s still twitching.

To Webb Hubbell, 2/23/16, 1:26 p.m.: OK, here goes: Was there any context for your assignment to look for UFO records? In other words, were you aware of any longstanding interest by the Clintons in the phenomenon before they got to the White House? Did you ask why President was interested in this subject?

Do you remember exactly when President Clinton initially contacted you about researching UFOs/JFK? Was the assignment a surprise to you, or had you sort of been expecting it? Personally, I might’ve thought someone with military or intelligence credentials would be better positioned to dig for this stuff.

Did you ask for an intelligence briefing on the subject? If so, who did that for you and what were you told? How much time did you devote to your research? Was it just you or did you have staffers helping out? With what agencies or individuals did you consult? Did you check in with John Gibbons at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy? How much did you know about Laurance Rockefeller’s lobbying efforts to bring transparency to this issue? Any interaction with John Podesta on UFOs during this period? When you stated you didn’t find anything, was it because there was nothing there, or was it because you ran into a wall of classification? Were you satisfied with the access you got? When and why did you conclude your search? And how surprised are you today that Podesta and Hillary aren’t afraid to talk about an issue that most politicians wouldn’t touch without strapping themselves into hazmat suits?

Evidently the Clinton library has released more than 7,000 pages of files on the JFK assassination. Were you surprised by anything you discovered on that end?

Again, I’ll be happy to mention your book.

No reply. He’s probably deliriously ecstatic about having his literary endeavors promoted in De Void. I’ll give him a night to steady his nerves. He’ll probably have something waiting for me in my inbox first thing in the morning.

To Webb Hubbell, 2/24/16, 3:05 p.m.: OK, just for the sake of clarity, you were just pulling my chain, right?

The day goes by. Then another day. And another. This is soooo not the way to get De Void to rave about the next Jack Patterson Thriller.

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Alien Hunter’s Guide to the 2016 Election

By Daniel Oberhaus
www.vice.com
1-26-16

Of all the fringe interest groups orbiting the landscape of American politics, there are perhaps none quite as maligned as those committed to uncovering the truth about extraterrestrial life. In recent elections, these UFO advocates have mostly laid low, ignored—if not openly mocked—by politicians seeking higher office. But as the 2016 race gets officially underway, alien hunters are starting to wonder if this election might be different.

The group got some high-profile encouragement last month from none other than Hillary Clinton. In an interview with a small New Hampshire newspaper, the Democratic presidential candidate promised that, if elected, she would share whatever information exists about the government's contact with extraterrestrials.

"I'm going to get to the bottom of it," Clinton told the Conway Daily Sun. "I think we may have been [visited already]. We don't know for sure." [...]

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Mother Jones Bobbled the Ball in its ‘ETs for Hillary’ Piece

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By Billy Cox
De Void
4-8-15

Hillary Clinton’s Nixonesque relationship with her email account as Secretary of State may ultimately force the Dems to scramble for a Plan B to retain the White House, but the longer she stays in the limelight, the better. Last week, Mother Jones became the latest media outfit to go snooping around the perimeters of the Clinton admin’s flirtation with The Great Taboo. And as the 2016 campaign yawns on, who knows, maybe somebody with decent resources and perspective can actually get it right.

Building a rep for watchdog rabble-rousing on its ability to flesh out the sorts of primary sources traditional media tend to ignore, Mother Jones bobbled the ball in its April 5 “ETs for Hillary” piece, but the effort nevertheless inched the controversy justthismuch closer to the mainstream. And that’s about all we can hope for at this point. To his credit, reporter A.J. Vicens made a dutiful query to Team Hillary for insights into what happened 20 years ago, which elicited this throwaway riposte: “Our non-campaign has a strict policy of not commenting on extraterrestrial activity. BUT, the Truth Is Out There”. (Ha! Good ‘un! Never heard that before!) But Vicens was largely content to let outsiders Stephen Bassett and Michael Salla speculate at will. On the other hand, Vicens’ reporting left a lot of unconnected dots hanging around out there. And it’s probably safe to say this was the first time MJ readers ever encountered the so-called Rockefeller Initiative, Bill Clinton’s fidgety former Office of Science and Technology Policy director Jack Gibbons and, more recently, former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta’s Twitter lamentation on his failure to acquire federal UFO files during .

In fairness, Vicens also attempted unsuccessfully to contact Podesta and Gibbons for comment. What he might’ve discovered had he dug a little deeper is that those in a position to know something either never respond at all or speak only in controlled venues. For instance, trying to get former Clinton Associate Attorney General Webb Hubbell to elaborate on his futile efforts to retrieve UFO material for his boss is practically an exercise in mysticism.

Actually, there is one name in this slippery mix the Mother Jones audience might remember — Chase Brandon. Brandon’s name surfaced in the magazine’s pages in 1998, during an expose on the mysterious death of one of The Agency’s former covert operatives, Monte Overacre, in Guatemala. Lesser known is how, also during the Nineties, while Hubbell conducted his snipe hunt for UFO data, Brandon actually located Roswell documents buried in The Agency’s Historical Intelligence Collection archives. Or at least he said he did, during a national radio interview in 2012. Although a PIO at Langley countered by saying historians couldn’t find the stuff, not even Brandon’s former boss, now-retired CIA Director Robert Gates, would contradict his claims. But Brandon hasn’t uttered a peep on the matter ever since. Critics said he probably fabricated the Roswell story three years ago to boost sales of his new novel.

Anyhow, between now and 2016, where do we look for more clues about what happened during the Clinton years on the UFO front? Fittingly, in this era of the big-media journalism implosion, the edge goes to entertainment, and specifically, Jimmy Kimmel. As a late-night comic, Kimmel is free to ask whatever he wants without having to feel self-conscious or to clear his curiosity with squirrely editors. Last year, he put Bill Clinton in the UFO chair, and last month it was President Obama’s turn. And Kimmel he pointed out to No. 44, “Now you know there are a lot of people who are gonna examine your facial expressions here, every twitch, everything ...”

And of course, that’s exactly what happened. The body-language analyses on both presidents were conducted by Ben Hansen, former lead investigator for SyFy Channel’s “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files” series. And both assessments are worth watching because they’re, well, let’s just say it, entertaining. After spending 36 minutes profiling Clinton’s performance and another 40 minutes on Obama’s kinesiology, Hansen makes a cogent case that both chief executives exhibited signs of stress during the outwardly jocular and light-hearted confab.

Certified in forensic interviewing techniques, having invested countless hours with the Utah County sex crimes task force interviewing victims and perpetrators, the former FBI agent said the Clinton/Obama nonverbal tells were relatively easy to spot, and that the high-def picture quality of Obama’s altered breathing rate provided a real windfall in detail.

What makes those brief Q&A’s especially noteworthy, he adds, is the likelihood that both men were given advance notice of Kimmel’s agenda. “I think it’d be a great liability for a president to say, sure I’ll agree to anything you want to talk about,” says Hansen. “So the idea that there was probably a forewarning about the subject matter makes it even more interesting. Neither was under oath or giving a deposition, but both showed fairly significant shifts in their demeanor when the UFO questions came up.”

There’s not much else to be done with this latest chapter of Reading The Tea Leaves. So far, no feedback on his conclusions from the Obama-Clinton-Kimmel camps. Hansen says he spent at least 80 hours producing and editing the Clinton/Obama exchanges, and “it’s fun but it doesn’t pay the bills.” Frankly, he adds, “I hope Kimmel doesn’t interview any more presidents (about UFOs) for awhile.” But what if he booked Hillary and threw The Great Taboo at her? “That,” Hansen says, “would be awesome.”

And that, as they say, would be entertainment.

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Roswell, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Kimmel

By Kevin Randle
A Different Perspective
4-3-14

Jimmy Kimmel had Bill Clinton on his show, and said that had he, Kimmel, been elected as president, almost before he had finished the oath of office, he would have run to the White House to look at all the classified files on UFOs.

Clinton said that he had “sort of” done that, though it came out it took him about four years to make the run. Then he talked about Area 51 and said that he had someone look at all the records for Area 51 to find out if there was an “alien hidden down there.” He acknowledged that a lot of our stealth technology was developed there and though he didn’t say it that would make it a place that should be shrouded in mystery. He did say that there were no aliens there.

And I have to agree with this. I have said for a long time that I believed the next generation of military aircraft would be developed there, but other than a few very weak claims that lack real evidence, there is probably nothing alien there. This, of course, puts me at odds with many of my colleagues in the UFO field, but I just don’t think the evidence supports the idea of aliens at Area 51. The development of military aircraft makes the high-level secrecy plausible.

Then Clinton said, “When the Roswell thing came up, I knew we’d get zillions of letters, so I had all the papers reviewed. Everything.”

Kimmel asked: If you saw there were aliens there would you tell us?

Clinton answered: Yeah.

Kimmel: You would?

Clinton: I think, look. What do we know? We know now we live in an ever-expanding universe. We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there. And the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than twenty planets have been identified outside our solar system that seem to be far enough away from the sun and dense enough that they might be able to support some form of life so it makes it increasingly less likely we are alone.

Kimmel: Oh, you’re trying to give me a hint there are aliens.

Clinton: No, I’m trying to tell you I don’t know but if we were visited someday, I wouldn’t be surprised. I just hope it’s not like Independence Day.

The conversation then degenerates into some jokes about Independence Day and Clinton’s thought that such an invasion would create a new spirit of cooperation around the world to repel the invaders… probably like shown in Independence Day.

But what I noticed is that Clinton didn’t really answer the question about Roswell. He moved onto other things and had Kimmel been hosting a more news oriented program, the lack of follow up would be inexcusable. But Kimmel’s show is entertainment and he seemed to run where the laughs were… not that I blame him.

So Clinton didn’t really talk about Roswell and what might have been found there. Yes, I know that he answered a similar question when he was president, saying that that he hadn’t been told if there were aliens at Roswell… and I also know that had he said anything other than the jokes he made or the rather mundane, trite, and useless speculation about other planets in other solar systems, he probably would never had heard the end of it.

And while he didn’t really answer the question about Roswell, he did say, when Kimmel asked, that he wasn’t hinting there were aliens. He was just suggesting he wouldn’t be surprised if we were visited someday… which is, of course, the general feeling by millions if not billions of people.

What did we pull from this interview? Not much. If you believe in the alien crash at Roswell, you can look at how he really said nothing about it. If you believe there has been no alien visitation, you can look at his response to Kimmel’s question about the hint of alien visitation.

Or, in other worlds, a little something for everyone… just a politician keeping everyone happy with these statements.

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"The Paper Trail on the Clinton Administration’s UFO Intrigues, Dates Back to ... First Term "

John who?

By Billy Cox
De Void
4-4-14

Wonder what Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta had to say about his old boss’s performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday night? It wasn’t exactly “Meet The Press,” but jeez, #42 still knows how to shimmy around potholes and leave his guys in a lurch.

In case you missed it, Kimmel asked Clinton if he had tried to get his hands on classified UFO files, which brought a huge obligatory laugh from the studio audience. “Sort of,” Clinton replied, which elicited even more bellylaffs. “I think it was at the beginning of my second term,” he went on. Then came another vintage performance in which he shifted the conversation to the “Independence Day” sci-fi flick, Area 51 — “There were no aliens down there” (more laughter) — and the inevitability of discovering ET life in the “ever-expanding universe.” Bottom line: I was on top of things and there’s nothing there.

De Void hates to keep kicking a dead horse, but god almighty, isn’t there anyone in this country besides comedians who can bring themselves to discuss The Great Taboo with a former chief executive? Or, even better, confront him with the facts?

The fact is (sorry, it’s dead horse-kicking time again), the paper trail on the Clinton administration’s UFO intrigues dates back to the very first quarter of his first term — March 1993 — when UFO-hunting fat-cat philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller began making overtures to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Rocky prepared a briefing paper for the prez, “Lifting Secrecy on Information About Extraterrestrial Intelligence as Part of the Current Classification Review,” which apparently reached Hillary Clinton’s staff in 1995.

“I had all the Roswell papers reviewed — everything,” Clinton told Kimmel. Well, no, that first-term initiative was triggered by Rep. Steven Schiff (R-NM) in response to constituents’ lingering suspicions about what happened in Roswell in 1947. Acting on Schiff’s request, the General Accounting Office reported in 1995 that the military had destroyed all outgoing messages and administrative records from Roswell Army Air Field from 1947 through 1949. To his credit, Clinton made his curiosity public in Belfast — same year, 1995 — after having dispatched associate AG Webster Hubbell on a UFO fishing expedition even earlier in his first term. Twenty years later, Hubbell still gets all hinky and weird about what he did or didn’t find out.

Then, of course, in 2012, there was the Chase Brandon kerfuffle. That’s when the veteran CIA officer went national about how, in mid 1990s, around the same time Hubbell was scrounging for documents, he found a stash of smoking-gun Roswell material in the Agency’s Historical Intelligence Collection archives. "I took the box down, lifted the lid up, rummaged around inside it, put the box back on the shelf,” Brandon told the Huffington Post, “and said, 'My god, it really happened!'" He didn't report it up the ladder, and not even his boss, retired CIA chief Robert Gates, attempted to question Brandon’s veracity.

All of which brings us back to John Podesta, who has famously and repeatedly called for the declassification of UFO data. As recently as last May, after listening to eyewitness testimony at the Citizen Hearing for Disclosure in Washington, Podesta told the New York Times, “They were interesting, credible people who had observed aerial phenomena that were unexplained and worthy of additional follow-up. Going back and looking at and declassifying whatever government documents exist is a smart thing to do.”

Clinton's Jimmy Kimmel laughtrax session this week made Podesta look like a conspiracy zealot who can't give it up. Now, as senior counselor to the Obama White House, Podesta has a choice to make. He could, for starters, get Hubbell, Chase, and any number of players in the same room and figure out where it went off the rails 20 years ago. Or, like his old boss, he could just walk away. Because it's easier. Same as it ever was.
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Clinton Echoes President Ronald Reagan’s 'Alien Invasion Speech'

By Frank Warren
The UFO Chronicles
© 4-4-14

During football’s preseason last year I made a prediction that the Seattle Seahawks would not only make it to the Super Bowl, but they’d win it! Throughout the season I would remind my wife of that prophecy, and told her, remember—“you heard it here first!” She laughed . . . right up until the 49er’s game that is, then she thought I might be on to something and of course the rest is history.

Thursday morning I made another prediction—no sixth sense required and that was that the video interview of former President Bill Clinton by late night talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel (via the formers’ appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Wednesday night [4-2-14]) would soon go viral.

Why you ask? Although Bill Clinton is no stranger to the UFO topic, he hit all the UFO cylinders Wednesday night, traversing through “secret UFO files”, “Area 51,” “Roswell,” “aliens,” and something that rang familiar to me which was an (or the) alien invasion scenario.

On September 21, 1987 then President Ronald Wilson Reagan addressed the Forty-second Session of the United Nations General Assembly and in part stated:

“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world.”

Like Clinton, this was not the first time he talked aliens and specifically an “alien invasion.”

Curiously, in a very similar narrative, Clinton relayed to Kimmel:

“If we were visited some day, I wouldn't be surprised; I just hope that eh . . . it's not like Independence Day. That it's uh . . . you know uh, a conflict. It may be the only way to unite this incredibly divided world of ours. They're out there we better . . .. Think of how all the differences among people on earth would seem small if we felt threatened by a space invader, that's the whole theory of Independence Day; everybody gets together and makes nice . . ..”

Of course Clinton wasn’t sitting in a formal newsroom, with a sober news anchor asking serious questions. As one might surmise—for those that haven’t seen the video, the discourse was light-hearted and had quips threaded throughout. That said, Clinton did make point of fact statements re his actions pertaining to UFOs during his tenure at the White House and talk of the revelations are rippling through the mainstream media & social media alike. UFO enthusiasts are giddy and self-proclaimed skeptics are taking aim.

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Former President Bill Clinton Discusses Secret UFO Files, Roswell & Area 51 on Jimmy Kimmel

By Jimmy Kimmel Live
YouTube
4-3-14

Jimmy grills President Clinton about UFOs, and they talk about the much needed change an alien invasion would bring to our country.

Jimmy Kimmel Live - The third part of Jimmy's interview with President Bill Clinton . . ..

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By Dan Good
abcnews.go.com
4-3-14

Bill Clinton is intrigued by space aliens.

The former United States president appeared on Wednesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” He ended up discussing, among other things, extraterrestrial life.

Clinton admitted that soon after becoming president, he had his aides research Area 51, the Nevada military facility, “to make sure there was no alien down there.” He was also interested in Roswell, N.M., the site of a reputed UFO sighting in 1947, which was celebrating its 50th anniversary during Clinton’s presidency.

“I had all the Roswell papers reviewed – everything,” he told Kimmel.

“If you saw that there were aliens there, would you tell us?” Kimmel asked.

“Yeah,” Clinton said, nodding.

Given the size of the universe, and the continued discovery of new planets, Clinton believes we’re not alone. . . .

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AREA 51: U-2s, UFOs and Operation Blue Book – Recent Declassified CIA Documents

U-2's, UFOs, and Operation Blue Book – Developing The U2 (1992)

By Frank Warren
The UFO Chronicles
8-17-13

News of recent de-classified CIA documents obtained via FOIA by the National Security Archives has gone viral, both in social media and with mainstream news venues.

The common thesis of the MSM reports is that the documents, or more accurately a lengthy report entitled The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 has revealed something “new” i.e., official confirmation of the biggest OPEN secret in the world—the existence of the Top Secret Area 51; at the same time the MSM is highlighting the omission of UFOs, aliens etc., being mentioned in said report, thus pooh-poohing any possibility of such claims. Both proclamations are demonstrably false (see below).

Unofficially, the knowledge of the existence of Area 51 has been known for decades and has been the focus of mainstream media attention in the past and not just in passing I might add; for example, the training for the rescue of our American brethren held hostage in Iran back in the ‘70’s was practiced at Area 51 and later revealed by the MSM.

Then, President Jimmy Carter (by default) would have his name melded with Area 51 along with the unfortunate failure of the rescue mission; the latter of course would far over shadow the fact that the training took place at the (so-called) secret location.

Almost 15 years later, President Bill Clinton would sign a Presidential Determination, exempting “the Air Force’s operating location near Groom Lake, [Area 51] Nevada from any Federal, State, interstate or local provision respecting control and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal . . ..” This action was precipitated by a lawsuit of then current and or former civilian employees (or widows) who worked at Area 51 and were exposed to very harmful toxic fumes in performance of their duties, which later caused major health issues and in some instances—death!

The common consensus is President Clinton gets credit for the “official” confirmation re the existence of Top Secret Area 51 (September 29, 1995). Moreover, Clinton, during a speech at Hong Kong in ’05 stated:

". . . there was also a site in Nevada where people were convinced that the government had buried a UFO and perhaps an alien deep underground because we wouldn't allow anybody to go there. And uhm… I can say now, 'cause it's now been released into the public domain.... This place in Nevada was really serious, that there was an alien artifact there. So I actually sent somebody there to figure it out."

In the final analysis the media’s attention to this latest episode is much ado about nothing, and only exemplifies their common desire to latch on to a known, attention-grabbing subject, but without giving it the due diligence that is normally a perquisite to investigative reporting.

The following is in chapter 2 of the a fore mentioned report (albeit in error re Project Blue Book).

Credit: National Security Archive / www.nsarchive.org