Showing posts with label Exopolitics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exopolitics. Show all posts
Monday, June 23, 2014
Former Marine Talks Secret Mars Colony, Battles with Martians & the Earth Defense Force | VIDEO
The retired officer, known only as Captain Kaye, also claims to have served in a secret 'space fleet' run by a multinational organisation called the Earth Defense Force
A former US Marine has claimed he spent 17 years of his career on MARS.
The ex-naval infantryman, who uses the pseudonym Captain Kaye, says he was posted to the Red Planet to protect five human colonies from indigenous Martian life forms.
He claims he then spent nearly three years serving in a secret 'space fleet' run by a multinational organisation called the Earth Defense Force, which recruits military personnel from countries including the US, Russia and China.
UFO / Alien Landing Pad to be Dedicated in Hawaii
By Nancy Cook Lauer
West Hawaii Today
6-21-14
If all goes as planned, E.T. may soon be calling Puna home.
A UFO landing pad and star visitor sanctuary is set to be dedicated Friday on land accreted by the 1983 lava flow fronting Uncle Robert’s Kawa Bar in Kalapana.
The 4 p.m. cleansing, purifying and dedication of an 80-foot diameter landing pad naturally formed by the lava on 500 new acres kicks off a three-day Native Hawaiian sustainability conference. The conference, which is being separately organized from the star visitor event, includes Hawaiian music and sessions on sustainability from a range of Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian speakers.
The Hawaii Star Visitor Sanctuary will be the second piece of land officially dedicated for the purpose of inviting extraterrestrial visitors to land and to promote peaceful relations with them, according to information provided by the Exopolitics Institute News Service.
The first landing pad was dedicated in 1967 in the city of St Paul in the Canadian province of Alberta, the news service said in a May 31 article.
“It’s potentially controversial,” acknowledged Garry Hoffeld, Big Island coordinator for the reinstated Kingdom of Hawaii and assistant to Hawaiian Nobel Robert Keliihoomalu, owner of Uncle Robert’s. “It’s potentially funny to some people, potentially stupid to some people.”
“We’re not crazy; we’re open-minded,” Hoffeld added. . . .
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Stephen Bassett’s UFOs and Nukes Press Release: Journalists Beware!
Exopolitics guru Stephen Bassett has just issued a press release trumpeting a petition he recently created in which he urges the Obama administration to investigate and make public information about UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites, as revealed by seven U.S. Air Force veterans at my September 27, 2010 press conference in Washington D.C. which CNN streamed live:
Over the past four decades, I have interviewed more than 130 ex-U.S. military personnel who have reported ongoing UFO activity at ICBM sites, nuclear weapons depots, and nuclear detonation test ranges. The seven individuals who participated in the press conference—co-sponsored by former USAF Captain Robert Salas—have provided affidavits relating to their still-classified experiences. Those, as well as several declassified documents reporting UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites since the late 1940s, may be read here:
In his March 28, 2012 press release, Bassett provides his contact information for journalists who might wish to interview him about the petition. Unfortunately, Bassett simply is not a reliable source of information on the nuclear weapons-related UFO incidents. Indeed, many researchers question his basic credibility as a spokesman on the topic of UFOs in general. I am among that group, however, I will confine my remarks here to addressing the factual errors and imprecise language found in the release.
SB: Washington, DC -- A petition calling attention to extraordinary testimony from former ranking members of the United States Air Force has been posted on the White House website.
RH comments: “Ranking members, Mr. Bassett? This inaccurate statement demonstrates your reportorial incompetence and/or your tendency to hype the facts. While the USAF officers to whom you refer include a retired colonel and lieutenant colonel, as well as former captains and a former enlisted man, none of these individuals can accurately be called a “ranking member” of the U.S. Air Force.
These persons’ testimony is of course tremendously important but to misrepresent, intentionally or not, their previous standing in the U.S. Air Force hierarchy only complicates the issue by providing ammunition to UFO debunkers who will seize any and every opportunity to discredit their statements based only on secondary, inaccurate commentary about them by persons such as yourself. (At least you didn’t call them all “generals” as one incompetent reporter did.)
SB: “The petition reads as follows: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO ask Defense Secretary Panetta to respond to mounting evidence for nuclear weapons tampering by extraterrestrial craft.”
RH comments: Okay, Mr. Bassett, that’s my own opinion as well, although I would have said, “…tampering by those presumably aboard extraterrestrial craft.” As I write in my 2008 book UFOs and Nukes:
I understand that my nuanced summation of the available evidence will go over the heads of those who view the UFO phenomenon in black-and-white terms but given that I am, as you say, the principle researcher on the UFO-Nukes Connection, my criticism of your imprecise commentary on my findings is valid and noteworthy.
SB: Since 1992 government witnesses of high rank have been coming forward with evidence regarding incidents in which extraordinary craft of unknown origin have tampered with nuclear weapons facilities around the world.
RH comments: 1992? Oh really, Mr. Bassett? Actually, my first ex-USAF sources—including a couple of retired colonels—agreed to be interviewed in the early 1970s. In 1981, when I first embarked on the college lecture circuit, those persons’ testimony became a matter of public record.
SB: …One of the incidents addressed took place at a Malmstrom Air Force Base nuclear missile launch complex in March of 1967. Former ICBM launch officer Salas testified to missiles being shut down in silo after a craft of unknown origin hovered directly over the complex. Other testimony dealt with the 1986 RAF Bentwaters base incident in the United Kingdom.
RH comments: Actually, the events at RAF Bentwaters occurred in December 1980, not in 1986. But considering the other inaccuracies found in your press release, I suppose I am belaboring the point.
My co-sponsor at the UFOs and Nukes press conference, former USAF Captain Bob Salas, has written an article about Bassett’s dubious contributions to the UFO debate titled “The Idiocy of the Disclosure Movement” in which he said:
(I will note here that another incompetent commentator on the UFO-Nukes Connection, Expolitics big-wig Dr. Michael Salla, has already muddied the waters by endorsing a hoax perpetrated by notorious con-artist Bill Knell, relating to veteran newsman Walter Cronkite’s supposed witnessing of a nukes-related UFO incident. After I publicly took him to task, Salla eventually recanted his endorsement of the hoax but then wrote a scathing article saying that I and other longtime ufologists were unfairly criticizing the Exopolitics movement—I guess because, unlike the Exos, we require credible, vetted sources and, as often as possible—given the high-level classification assigned to national security-related UFO events—verifiable documentation that supports our sources’ statements, before we publish our findings.)
In any case, Mr. Bassett, I agree in principle that ongoing efforts should be made by U.S. citizens to push for our government’s disclosure of the UFO reality and, in particular, the incidents involving nuclear weapons. As I say in my book:
Linking well-documented UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites with the nonsense routinely offered up the Exopolitics crowd—such as the supposedly-verified knowledge of who our Visitors are, what their game plan is, how they would interact with humans if only their reality were to be acknowledged by the government, etc.—only serves to degrade the integrity of the important nukes-related evidence found in declassified documents and ex-military witness testimony. This is the key reason I am writing such a highly-critical article, to warn people, especially journalists, to steer clear of Stephen Bassett when it comes to the topic of the UFO-Nukes Connection.
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When I telephoned Bob Salas earlier today, prior to writing this, he told me that he was concerned that Bassett was trying to make himself the “point of contact” for any journalists who wished to learn more about the revelations divulged at our press conference or in our two books, UFOs and Nukes and Faded Giant.
We both agreed that this would be a very worrisome development, given Bassett’s non-involvement with the research, his apparent inability to accurately report the facts we have gathered, and the great likelihood that he would try to entwine our well-documented material with his mostly-bogus Exopolitical notions and claims.
Of course, no matter what I or anyone else says, there will always be some number of people who will gobble up the Exopolitics party-line without a giving a second thought to whether the occasionally valid but mostly unfounded “facts” offered by the group really have merit or actually provide any genuine insights into the coming paradigm-shift that will ensue once Disclosure occurs.
Regardless, Mr. Bassett, if any members of the media actually contact you in response to your latest press release, please remember to tell them 1) you had nothing to do with UFOs and Nukes press conference, 2) your release’s summation of the event and the research underlying it is factually-flawed, 3) your attempts to ingratiate yourself with me prior to the event were quickly rebuffed and 4) I think your approach to promoting UFO Disclosure is lacking in credibility and, therefore, counterproductive. As I once told you in an email, I consider you to be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Over the past four decades, I have interviewed more than 130 ex-U.S. military personnel who have reported ongoing UFO activity at ICBM sites, nuclear weapons depots, and nuclear detonation test ranges. The seven individuals who participated in the press conference—co-sponsored by former USAF Captain Robert Salas—have provided affidavits relating to their still-classified experiences. Those, as well as several declassified documents reporting UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites since the late 1940s, may be read here:
In his March 28, 2012 press release, Bassett provides his contact information for journalists who might wish to interview him about the petition. Unfortunately, Bassett simply is not a reliable source of information on the nuclear weapons-related UFO incidents. Indeed, many researchers question his basic credibility as a spokesman on the topic of UFOs in general. I am among that group, however, I will confine my remarks here to addressing the factual errors and imprecise language found in the release.
SB: Washington, DC -- A petition calling attention to extraordinary testimony from former ranking members of the United States Air Force has been posted on the White House website.
RH comments: “Ranking members, Mr. Bassett? This inaccurate statement demonstrates your reportorial incompetence and/or your tendency to hype the facts. While the USAF officers to whom you refer include a retired colonel and lieutenant colonel, as well as former captains and a former enlisted man, none of these individuals can accurately be called a “ranking member” of the U.S. Air Force.
These persons’ testimony is of course tremendously important but to misrepresent, intentionally or not, their previous standing in the U.S. Air Force hierarchy only complicates the issue by providing ammunition to UFO debunkers who will seize any and every opportunity to discredit their statements based only on secondary, inaccurate commentary about them by persons such as yourself. (At least you didn’t call them all “generals” as one incompetent reporter did.)
SB: “The petition reads as follows: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO ask Defense Secretary Panetta to respond to mounting evidence for nuclear weapons tampering by extraterrestrial craft.”
RH comments: Okay, Mr. Bassett, that’s my own opinion as well, although I would have said, “…tampering by those presumably aboard extraterrestrial craft.” As I write in my 2008 book UFOs and Nukes:
“After researching the UFO ‘phenomenon’ for 39 years, I must conclude that the technology involved is so advanced that a human origin for it can be automatically ruled out in almost every bona fide sighting case. The radar data alone substantiate the presence of unknown craft in our atmosphere whose capabilities are vastly beyond our own aircraft and which defy known aerodynamic principles.However, Mr. Bassett, I am careful to say in my book, “While overwhelming empirical evidence is not yet available, at least in the public domain, to confirm an extraterrestrial origin for UFOs, it can at least be said that some as-yet unexplained mystery has been thrown in the faces of those who planned, and still plan, to use these terrifying weapons.”
Therefore, the available facts suggest to me that extraterrestrial visitation, by one or more races of beings, is occurring. I further contend that such visitation accounts for all of the nuclear weapons-related incidents presented in this book, as well as the secrecy surrounding those events. In my view, the essential message being conveyed by our visitors is this: As long as nuclear weapons exist, they remain a potential threat to the future of humankind and to the planet itself. Get rid of them!”
I understand that my nuanced summation of the available evidence will go over the heads of those who view the UFO phenomenon in black-and-white terms but given that I am, as you say, the principle researcher on the UFO-Nukes Connection, my criticism of your imprecise commentary on my findings is valid and noteworthy.
SB: Since 1992 government witnesses of high rank have been coming forward with evidence regarding incidents in which extraordinary craft of unknown origin have tampered with nuclear weapons facilities around the world.
RH comments: 1992? Oh really, Mr. Bassett? Actually, my first ex-USAF sources—including a couple of retired colonels—agreed to be interviewed in the early 1970s. In 1981, when I first embarked on the college lecture circuit, those persons’ testimony became a matter of public record.
SB: …One of the incidents addressed took place at a Malmstrom Air Force Base nuclear missile launch complex in March of 1967. Former ICBM launch officer Salas testified to missiles being shut down in silo after a craft of unknown origin hovered directly over the complex. Other testimony dealt with the 1986 RAF Bentwaters base incident in the United Kingdom.
RH comments: Actually, the events at RAF Bentwaters occurred in December 1980, not in 1986. But considering the other inaccuracies found in your press release, I suppose I am belaboring the point.
Robert Salas’ Input
My co-sponsor at the UFOs and Nukes press conference, former USAF Captain Bob Salas, has written an article about Bassett’s dubious contributions to the UFO debate titled “The Idiocy of the Disclosure Movement” in which he said:
“Stephen Bassett’s (or Steven Greer’s depending on which one is talking) Disclosure Project has been ineffectually trying to penetrate [the] door of secrecy since 2001. They have presumably tried to achieve disclosure by enticing speakers (myself among them) to tell as many stories, theories, philosophies, reports, and conjectures as possible during these conferences. I say presumably because these pointless exercises have been so ineffective in gaining serious public attention that one might conclude they were intentionally designed to keep disclosure from happening.Salas has many other relevant comments and his brief, well-argued article should not be passed-by, at least by anyone seriously interested in the important issues involved with the inevitable announcement of the UFO reality by world governments.
They seem to have achieved one probable objective of those who would maintain the secrecy, i.e., ‘to keep the public confused and unsure about the subject.’ The hallmark of these Exopolitics Conferences is generally unsupported statements and conjecture—lots of conjecture.
The mainstream media has not gotten on the bandwagon because there is little substance to talk about...The Exopolitics groupies are simply hurling whatever they can get their hands on in every direction.”
(I will note here that another incompetent commentator on the UFO-Nukes Connection, Expolitics big-wig Dr. Michael Salla, has already muddied the waters by endorsing a hoax perpetrated by notorious con-artist Bill Knell, relating to veteran newsman Walter Cronkite’s supposed witnessing of a nukes-related UFO incident. After I publicly took him to task, Salla eventually recanted his endorsement of the hoax but then wrote a scathing article saying that I and other longtime ufologists were unfairly criticizing the Exopolitics movement—I guess because, unlike the Exos, we require credible, vetted sources and, as often as possible—given the high-level classification assigned to national security-related UFO events—verifiable documentation that supports our sources’ statements, before we publish our findings.)
In any case, Mr. Bassett, I agree in principle that ongoing efforts should be made by U.S. citizens to push for our government’s disclosure of the UFO reality and, in particular, the incidents involving nuclear weapons. As I say in my book:
For me, one of the most important UFO-related issues has always been political and philosophical in nature. Our country’s government has been proclaimed to be ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people.’ If this is indeed the case—and democratic principles do in fact guide our national policies—then a relative handful of people at the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, and the other intelligence agencies, must not be permitted to retain full and unchallenged discretionary power in a matter so momentous as the reality of UFOs. While the official disclosure about our visitors’ existence and presence here must be handled with great care and consideration, it is nevertheless advisable and ultimately unavoidable. The basic question is whether a secret as important as alien visitation should continue to be hidden from the American people, and the rest of humanity, decade after decade.Of course, implicit in my position is the fundamental premise that those who are publicly petitioning our government representatives and/or shouting from the rooftops, so to speak, by posting information about the cover-up on the Internet, be competent, informed spokespersons for the Disclosure cause.
As I see it, the ongoing UFO intervention in U.S. strategic affairs is now a tale that needs to be told, in unflinching terms, to our legislative assemblies, if possible, but from the rooftops if necessary. All bold endeavors bear both planned-for and unintended consequences. The inevitable admission by U.S. government officials that our nuclear weapons have long been monitored, and at times compromised, by those of unknown origin and objectives, is not without its perils. But the facts will—and should—become known, sooner or later, by one means or another, in a society such as ours. And that’s a good thing. After all, isn’t that how a democracy is supposed to operate?”
Linking well-documented UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites with the nonsense routinely offered up the Exopolitics crowd—such as the supposedly-verified knowledge of who our Visitors are, what their game plan is, how they would interact with humans if only their reality were to be acknowledged by the government, etc.—only serves to degrade the integrity of the important nukes-related evidence found in declassified documents and ex-military witness testimony. This is the key reason I am writing such a highly-critical article, to warn people, especially journalists, to steer clear of Stephen Bassett when it comes to the topic of the UFO-Nukes Connection.
We both agreed that this would be a very worrisome development, given Bassett’s non-involvement with the research, his apparent inability to accurately report the facts we have gathered, and the great likelihood that he would try to entwine our well-documented material with his mostly-bogus Exopolitical notions and claims. Of course, no matter what I or anyone else says, there will always be some number of people who will gobble up the Exopolitics party-line without a giving a second thought to whether the occasionally valid but mostly unfounded “facts” offered by the group really have merit or actually provide any genuine insights into the coming paradigm-shift that will ensue once Disclosure occurs.
Regardless, Mr. Bassett, if any members of the media actually contact you in response to your latest press release, please remember to tell them 1) you had nothing to do with UFOs and Nukes press conference, 2) your release’s summation of the event and the research underlying it is factually-flawed, 3) your attempts to ingratiate yourself with me prior to the event were quickly rebuffed and 4) I think your approach to promoting UFO Disclosure is lacking in credibility and, therefore, counterproductive. As I once told you in an email, I consider you to be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Join the Boycott to Protest the CIA Coverup of President Obama's Trips to Mars
You just couldn't make this up:
For the past few years I have been reporting from time to time on the absurd claims of a group of UFOlogists calling their study Exopolitics, "political implications of the extra-terrestrial presence." Alfred Lambremont Webre claims to have been the founder of Exopolitics, although in reality Michael Salla can probably claim that dubious honor. Webre has the website exopolitics.com, while Salla has exopolitics.org .
Lately Webre's claims have gotten so bizarre (the war between the Andromeda Council and the Reptilians, Americans being teleported to a secret base on Mars to meet with aliens) that even others in exopolitics became alarmed, and began distancing themselves from him. (This recalls the old joke about the tenor who was so stupid that even the other tenors noticed it.) As Salla recently wrote, "Webre is a marginal and controversial figure in the network of exopolitics researchers and activists that has formed around the world. Webre's writing and behavior is seen as too bizarre and controversial for most credible exopolitics researchers to use." Nonetheless, Webre's far-out articles on the Examiner were being read by as many as 400,000 people each month. Until recently, that is, when Examiner.com gave him the boot. . . .
For the past few years I have been reporting from time to time on the absurd claims of a group of UFOlogists calling their study Exopolitics, "political implications of the extra-terrestrial presence." Alfred Lambremont Webre claims to have been the founder of Exopolitics, although in reality Michael Salla can probably claim that dubious honor. Webre has the website exopolitics.com, while Salla has exopolitics.org .
Lately Webre's claims have gotten so bizarre (the war between the Andromeda Council and the Reptilians, Americans being teleported to a secret base on Mars to meet with aliens) that even others in exopolitics became alarmed, and began distancing themselves from him. (This recalls the old joke about the tenor who was so stupid that even the other tenors noticed it.) As Salla recently wrote, "Webre is a marginal and controversial figure in the network of exopolitics researchers and activists that has formed around the world. Webre's writing and behavior is seen as too bizarre and controversial for most credible exopolitics researchers to use." Nonetheless, Webre's far-out articles on the Examiner were being read by as many as 400,000 people each month. Until recently, that is, when Examiner.com gave him the boot. . . .
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
UFO NEWS | Do Aliens Get a Fair Deal in the Media? Leeds to Host Exopolitics Conference
Exopolitics are coming to Leeds next month. (August)
Experts from around the globe will be gathering to discuss extraterrestrials and the media.
For Leeds is playing host to a series of lectures and films on the question of visitation by extra-terrestrials, asking how the issues would be handled by the media, by government and by the military.
And the politics of disclosure of such an event is known as exopolitics.
The 3rd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo, a three-day conference held at the University of Leeds on Friday, August 5, to Sunday, August 7, will feature speakers including a former CNN correspondent and now Hollywood producer, a former NASA consultant, several TV broadcasters and UK journalists. . . .
Experts from around the globe will be gathering to discuss extraterrestrials and the media.
For Leeds is playing host to a series of lectures and films on the question of visitation by extra-terrestrials, asking how the issues would be handled by the media, by government and by the military.
And the politics of disclosure of such an event is known as exopolitics.
The 3rd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo, a three-day conference held at the University of Leeds on Friday, August 5, to Sunday, August 7, will feature speakers including a former CNN correspondent and now Hollywood producer, a former NASA consultant, several TV broadcasters and UK journalists. . . .
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Full Disclosure: I Quit
By Billy Cox
De Void
1-26-10
De Void
1-26-10
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It’s hard to know how to respond to the oracular screed spattered onto the Internet Saturday by Exopolitician Alfred Webre. Imagine being cited by name as “smoking gun” evidence that the White House press corps is systematically filtering out UFO questions that could reach administration officials. Especially when nobody reads De Void anyway. I mean, how cool is that?Cliff Notes: In late 2008, lobbyist Stephen Bassett urged visitors to his Paradigm Research Group Web site to join his “Million Fax On Washington” campaign requesting the White House Correspondents Association to ask the new regime about UFO transparency. Curious about how many phone calls, e-mails, faxes, etc., the stenographers club had received, De Void dropped a couple of voice messages and e-mails on the Association last year. Nobody called back. Which kinda sucked, but De Void eats rejection for breakfast.
Then. Saturday night. Webre (Bassett’s cohort and author of an “Exopolitics” manual explaining how Earthlings can change their ways to join the galactic federation) lurches into his latest conspiracy binge, using the “White House Press Association’s” non-replies to “Billy Cox of the St. Petersburg Tribune” and the “Sarasota Times” to prove the fix is in.
OK. This is pedantic, I know. But I have just one employer. The Herald-Tribune. It’s in Sarasota. And it’s not the “White House Press Association” — as Webre reported seven times Saturday night. It’s the White House Correspondents Association. No biggie. We all make misteaks.
But the man who has accused New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson of being “an employee of a secret CIA extraterrestrial liaison program,” and President Obama of being “a lifelong U.S. intelligence asset,” got most everything else right.
I have indeed, as Webre alleges, shown my “lack of bona fides as a disclosure reporter” for ignoring “secret U.S. government teleportation and time travel programs,” and NASA rover photos showing “the surface of Mars is a fragile post collapse ecology teeming with species of humanoid and animal life,” as well as “U.S. bases on Mars, interacting with a known Martian human civilization living underground.”
Dude? Seriously? All I wanna know are things like why the military refuses to release its radar data for colossal UFO events like Stephenville, Tex., in 2008. And why, in this post-9/11 universe, the media plays dead when F-16s chase a bogey without a transponder as it beelines for George W. Bush’s ranch.
So, Alfred: I hereby relinquish my disclosure credentials to “a wave of genuine whistleblowers, a popular groundswell, and transformational, ethical journalists who understand and conceptually own the importance of the evidence” you’ve gathered. The “Million Fax On Washington” story is all yours now. Go get ‘em, tiger. I’m done.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Open Request for Information about the Videos of the Pyramid-shaped UFO over the Kremlin
By Robert Hastings
www.ufohastings.com
1-11-10
www.ufohastings.com
1-11-10
UFO-Nukes Connection researcher Robert Hastings is requesting information about the two cell phone videos which have recently surfaced on YouTube, showing what appears to be a pyramid-shaped UFO hovering over the Kremlin, the Russian seat of government in Moscow. At Hastings' request, video analysis expert Jim Dilattoso has agreed to analyze the two videos, if uncompressed files can be obtained. This is an open request for such files, which should be sent to Dilattoso at toso@cox.net.While the nature of the hovering object remains as yet unproved, in Hastings' opinion, he believes that the incident should be investigated further. To that end, he is seeking the following information:
1) The exact date and duration of the sighting. Contradictory information has been posted online; most reports say that the UFO appeared on December 9, 2009, and was present for "hours" but one report says that it hovered "for minutes at a time."
2) The total number of videos and still photos of the UFO in existence, as best as can be determined. Thus far, only two cell phone videos of the object have surfaced, one taken in daylight, the other at night:
3) The identity of the person or persons who posted the two videos online, together with their contact information.
4) Any related information about police reports, online discussion among persons claiming to be witnesses, follow-up reports in the Russian media, etc.
At present, there are far more questions than facts about this case, and many valid criticisms by skeptics must be addressed:
- For example, in a city as large as Moscow, why have only two videos of the UFO surfaced?
- Why do the identities of the persons who posted the videos remain unknown?
- If the UFO hovered for hours, as claimed, why did the Russian military not scramble jet fighters to intercept it?
Information about the videos in question, witness testimony, and other relevant information, may be sent to Hastings at hastings444@att.net. He is also seeking the assistance of Russian-speaking individuals who have contacts in Moscow, who might assist in this investigation by making inquiries to the local media, the police, and the government.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Fractures in the Movement
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By Billy Cox
De Void
8-5-09
De Void
8-5-09
It’s tempting to say the UFO “disclosure movement” is at a crossroads when one of its most credible witnesses publicly rebukes a forum that once elevated him onto a national stage. But the truth is, belief systems only change — and very slowly at that — when confronted with incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. Standards of evidence being what they are in this loopy field, that isn’t likely to happen anytime soon.Still, when Robert Salas posted his “Idiocy of the Disclosure Movement” essay last week, , followed by a stinging riposte to a critic on Sunday , the retired Air Force captain was clearly hoping to burn more bridges than the ones he walked.
In 1967, Salas witnessed an extraordinary, UFO-triggered shutdown of nuclear-armed missiles inside a Minuteman silo over Montana . His courage in speaking up — and his efforts to get the feds to come clean — made him the kind of guy you’d love to get in front of a congressional committee. Or, failing that, to book as a speaker to lend gravitas to whatever sort of UFO agenda you happen to be peddling.
Last week, Salas broke in a big way from a loose affiliation of disclosure advocates known as Exopolitics. You won’t find that word in the dictionary, but at least part of it has something to do with circumventing the high-level information blackout and disabusing Earthlings of their militaristic nationalism through individual citizen diplomacy initiatives, which can be accomplished at seminars led by experienced Exopoliticians, often for modest fees. The conceit, it almost goes without saying, is that Exopoliticians have unique insights into what UFOs are all about.
These “pointless exercises have been so ineffective in gaining serious public attention,” Salas wrote, “that one might conclude they were intentionally designed to keep disclosure from happening.” He added that “whenever claims are made or ‘witness’ reports without credible substantiation are presented, damage is done to the credibility of the phenomenon as a whole.”
To wit: In September 2007, Washington Post political columnist Dana Milbank attended the Paradigm Research Group’s UFO conference at the National Press Club, where he might well have reported on Salas’ amazing story, or interviewed former British Ministry of Defence agent Nick Pope, who monitored UFO reports for the UK in the Nineties. Instead, Milbank went for the laff trax by focusing on Exopolitician Alfred Webre, who insisted “The truth amnesty disclosure project is reportedly recommended by the participating extraterrestrials themselves.” He presented no convincing evidence for any of that.
Two months later, same venue, a group called the Coalition for Freedom of Information hosted an impressive gathering of pilots, civilian and military, along with a multinational cast of former government officials. All united behind a petition to get the U.S. to renew a public investigation into the phenomenon.
According to at least two people in attendance, Milbank was there, too. He didn’t reply to De Void’s e-mail for confirmation, but this much is definitely true: the guy didn’t file a story. Probably because there wasn’t an Exopolitician in the bunch.
When Salas first went public with his accounting a decade ago, he thought the details of the incident had been declassified. They hadn’t. His queries prompted the USAF to release a few previously concealed and watered down versions of the incident. But it never specificly freed him from the security oath Salas says he was ordered to sign on the spot in 1967.
“The best thing that could happen is if I get arrested for violating national security,” Salas says from his home in Ojai, Calif. “I want them to come after me, because they would have to acknowledge the phenomenon is real. Then guys like you would have a story.”
Or maybe not. If Salas were getting cuffed in the same room where someone was holding a press conference about how their love-child alien hybrid got snatched by sperm donors from Zeta Reticuli, we’ve got a pretty good idea about which lead Dana Milbank would follow.
The irony, of course, is that Salas and the Exopoliticians share a fundamental bond: The notion that the feds aren’t being straight up with what they know about UFOs. “Excessive government secrecy really bugs me,” Salas says. “If, for instance, they know we’re being visited by whatever they are, with certain technological capabilities, I don’t want a few people making decisions about what the rest of us should and shouldn’t know.”
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Robert Salas: "Exopolitics, By Its Current Methods is Doing More Harm Than Good . . ."
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By Robert L. Salas
8-2-09
8-2-09
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Dr. Salla seems to be saying that we should take in and analyze all input from every source in order to fully understand both the scientific and social aspects of the phenomenon. First, I don’t know how that is possible and I don’t understand what he means by ‘flexible social scientific techniques.’ Does he mean accepting questionable witness testimony or documentation and using it to conjecture about a possible event? That seems to be what he has done with his Exopolitics Journal Article (July 1, 2009) - Kennedy’s Deadly Confrontation with the CIA & MJ-12. In this ‘research article’ he links Kennedy’s death with his fight with the CIA over UFO information. I do not claim that this is false or true but I reject the approach to drawing such a conclusion or implying such a conclusion through these ‘flexible social scientific techniques.’ This is the kind of output from Exopolitics that I find objectionable because it creates fodder for those who would denigrate the UFO phenomenon.
I admit I had to look up the word existential in order to try and understand what he meant by his accusation of ‘existential hysteria.’ The American Heritage Dictionary (1982 edition) defines existentialism as: “A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one’s acts.” While I would not necessarily associate myself with the first part of this definition, I do accept the concept that we have freedom of choice and are responsible for the consequences of our acts. I am normally not hysterical about that but I suppose I could be driven to hysteria under the right circumstances.
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When I wrote my recent article criticizing Exopolitics I did not do it in a moment of poor judgment. Soon after the 2007 Exopolitics Conference, I contacted Dr. Salla by phone and in writing to express my disappointment with the Exopolitics movement and to emphasize that I no longer wanted to be associated with his group. I essentially gave him the same reasons then as I have done here.In those two years, I have not changed my opinion that Exopolitics, by its current methods is doing more harm than good in the effort toward disclosure. I thought about it a long time before deciding that a public critique of Exopolitics was in order.
I am certainly not insisting on ‘strict scientific filtering mechanisms for witnesses and sources.’ No one has any control over what people will say or what they will present as evidence. What I do ask is that each of us be responsible for what we present as fact, fiction or other when we make public statements about the phenomenon.
In taking personal responsibility for improving the viability of the study of this phenomenon, we are all ‘Ufological gatekeepers.’
Nowhere in my dictionary did I find a definition for Exopolitics. I did find a definition for Exobiology. It states, “1. A branch of biology that deals with the search for and study of extraterrestrial living organisms.” Dr. Salla; unless you have access to an ET life form, what gives you the credentials to elaborate on the political implications of dealing with such life forms? Certainly, as many have done before you, you can speculate about what political implications disclosure would have on the world.
If you are talking about human politics surrounding the phenomenon, then you are dealing with assumptions and speculations. Is that what you mean by a nuanced approach to the truth of ETH? Walk into any bar in the world and you will hear that kind of ‘nuanced approach’ to the truth.
Monday, August 03, 2009
Hysteria Drives UFO Gatekeepers Debunking Exopolitics Pioneers
By Dr. Michael Salla
Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner
8-1-09
Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner
8-1-09
A new breed of UFOlogist has emerged as critics of the burgeoning exopolitics movement. It’s no surprise that in the lead up and success of the world’s first Exopolitics Summit in Barcelona, Spain, that UFOlogists would increasingly perceive exopolitics as an existential threat. The existential threat, according to UFOlogists acting as gatekeepers for “legitimate UFO research,” is that exopoliticians mix reliable with unreliable UFO sources in their analyses. Indeed, this mixing of reliable and unreliable sources leads to a special form of hysteria among gatekeepers of legitimate UFO research. Existential hysteria leads to UFOlogical gatekeepers claiming in all seriousness that exopolitics has become the main obstacle to genuine UFO disclosure. The reality is that after six decades of earnest activity, UFOlogy has failed to take humanity to the promised land of genuine government disclosure of UFOs, and a new set of pioneers have stepped in to light the way. These exopolitical pioneers believe that a nuanced consideration of ALL evidentiary sources and related political processes will expose the truth behind the extraterrestrial hypothesis – that some UFOs are interplanetary in origin. . . .. . . Special mention should be made of modern UFO gatekeepers who are most vocal in perpetuating the existential hysteria over the exopolitics discipline. Special note should go to Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes, who excels in hysterical overreaction when it comes to the use of sources he declares unreliable. David Biedny and Gene Steinberg, hosts of Paracast Radio have consistently shown an astounding lack of intellectual honesty in declaring which sources or witnesses they find reliable or not. For example, they had image expert Jim Dilettoso appear as guest who promptly revealed that 40 of the earliest Billy Meier photos were real, and that models were then created for hoaxed photos for comparative purposes. Totally ignoring this very important information, Biedny and Steinberg go on to declare that the Billy Meier photos are fraudulent based on their analysis of later hoaxed photos. Finally, small mention should also be made of retired Air Force Captain Robert Salas who in a moment of poor judgment deigned to join the existential hysteria created by Hastings, Biedny and Steinberg, and penned an article attacking exopolitics pioneers who had the temerity to support his work while also supporting those he deems unreliable. . . .
