(Some) UFO History

It's About Time

70 years. That's how long it's been since intelligence analysts coined the term "ghost rockets" for select reports of aerial phenomena. Some UFO researchers eventually attributed the sightings to extraterrestrial visitation, a remarkably unsupported conclusion. 69 years. That's the amount of time since Kenneth Arnold reported seeing multiple unidentified flying objects while involved in an investigation of what turned out to be an extremely suspicious UFO case.

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69 years is also the time since Project Seal, which had actually been discontinued, was misrepresented to the press as an ongoing top secret operation involving an airborne super weapon on the scale of the atomic bomb. Articles about the Arnold sighting and what would later prove to be the false weapons development story were in at least one instance published on the same newspaper page.

It's also been 69 years since the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating the 509th Operations Group recovered a "flying disc," quickly followed by a second statement advising a "weather balloon" was retrieved. The story went on to - oh, never mind. Let's just say decades of unreliable research and unverified claims were followed by a hair brained mummy story and an unpublished debate.

Allen Dulles

63 years. That's how long since DCI Allen Dulles formally green lighted MKULTRA, a behavior modification project consisting of torture, drugs, hypnosis and involuntary human experimentation. It's been 53 years since the creation of the KUBARK interrogation manual which contained techniques for use on uncooperative detainees. It was 14 years since the Bush administration began using Guantanamo Bay as a prison, and seven years since ex-Bush official Lawrence B. Wilkerson told the AP most detainees were innocent and there was no meaningful attempt to discriminate who was transported to Cuba for interrogation. Two years is how long since the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its 500-page summary of the still classified 6,000-page CIA torture report, and it's been a little over a year since publication of the Hoffman Report, a document calling into serious question the relationship between the CIA and American Psychological Association. It was about a year ago the ACLU filed a lawsuit against two psychologists who developed "enhanced interrogation techniques" for the Agency, and it's been a few days since writer and researcher Joseph Hickman, who served in the 629th Military Intelligence Battalion at Guantanamo Bay, stated in an interview that ideas about operations and techniques used at Gitmo came from the MKULTRA program. For more info see the work of Jeffrey Kaye, the reporting of Jason Leopold, and the Seton Hall Law Center paper, Guantanamo: America's Battle Lab, among other sources.

60 years is the length of time it's been since the FBI launched Counterintelligence Program, or COINTELPRO. It was a brutal effort, later acknowledged by the FBI to be "rightfully criticized," to "expose, disrupt and otherwise neutralize" targeted organizations. About a month is how long it's been since the FBI director questionably chose to formally announce an investigation of a presidential candidate while failing to disclose the Bureau's quite likely investigation of a rival candidate.

David Jacobs

Over half a century. It's now been 53 years since Dr. Benjamin Simon employed hypnosis with Betty and Barney Hill. In spite of all the material now published by qualified experts establishing hypnosis as extremely ineffective as a memory enhancer - and the fact Dr. Simon was reportedly treating trauma, not conducting a UFO investigation - a segment of the UFO community continues to promote hypnosis-induced testimonies as accurate interpretations of objective reality. It's been some 40 years since Leo Sprinkle influenced the genre with his hypnotic regressions, 35 years since Budd Hopkins employed hypnosis to establish himself as a supposed UFO expert, and 20+ years since former MUFON Director of Abduction Research John Carpenter covertly provided Robert Bigelow with data, including recordings of hypnosis sessions, from case files of alleged alien abductees in exchange for cash. It was six years ago the story broke that amateur hypnotist David Jacobs instructed Emma Woods during telephone hypnosis sessions to tell people she suffers from multiple personality disorder, consider wearing a chastity belt - that he could send her - as a strategy for dealing with alleged ET-human hybrids, and mail him her unwashed underpants without thinking about it afterwards. Jacobs rather incredibly described himself as an advocate of scientific methodology.

27 years ago Bill Moore, while delivering his keynote speech at the annual MUFON con, told attendees he collaborated with Richard Doty and additional undisclosed members of the intelligence community to publish disinformation directed at Paul Bennewitz and the collective UFO community.

Vance Davis of the GB6

26 years ago half a dozen NSA intel analysts deserted their posts in West Germany and lit out for Florida to protect the world from the Antichrist. Claiming to be under the direction of aliens and Mother Mary, the group, dubbed the Gulf Breeze Six, was eventually taken into custody - under arguably unusual circumstances - literally down the street from where the annual MUFON con had just wrapped up. The late Philip Coppens reported that when the case was declassified, 1400 of its 1600 pages were withheld.

20 years is how long we've been tolerating fantastic stories of Skinwalker Ranch since an article ran in the Eugene Register-Guard. The article stated property owner Robert Bigelow declined an interview, while CIA consultant and non-lethal weapons expert John Alexander told the newspaper details of how or why research was being conducted would not be provided. Former ranch owner Terry Sherman said Bigelow had him sign a nondisclosure agreement. It was five years ago James Carrion wrote he and an accompanying scientist were denied access to the ranch, and Bigelow, during dealings with MUFON, moved funds on behalf of an undisclosed financial sponsor, the identity of which was revealed only to John Schuessler, but not to the rest of the MUFON board of directors.

It's been over three years since UFO disclosure activist Steve Bassett stated, "The goal of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure is the end of the truth embargo in 2013," and two years since he announced a "concentrated three-month effort" which, if followed by Congressional hearings, would make it "quite likely the truth embargo will collapse." It's been six months since Bassett declared, "We are going to get disclosure this year," adding that he was 85 percent sure Obama would make an announcement before leaving office.

Atacama humanoid, featured in Stephen Greer film

Two years ago Stephen Greer, who considers himself the father of the disclosure movement, released a crowdfunded film that would once and for all blow the lid off UFO secrecy. A year ago he initiated crowdfunding for a film that would once and for all blow the lid off UFO secrecy.

Last week Gene Steinberg, a podcaster who's perpetually spinning one suspicious story or other about why everyone should send him their money, wrote his e-list that he's falling behind on rent for a residence he urged them to send him cash to obtain in the first place about two months ago.

You were right if you chose less than a week on the over/under on how long it would take the new International Association of UAP Researchers (IAUAPR) to stumble into public relations problems. Just a few days after issuing a release about its intentions to up ufology's game via such activities as accepting and reviewing research papers, the group's organizer became entangled in social media flame-throwing about proper protocol for conducting professional research.

Right now - as Van Halen put it - Tom DeLonge is promoting work which includes an upcoming film framing the U.S. intelligence community as heroic for its cover-up of alleged aliens. He says he has high level sources in his disclosure camp. Good thing, 'cause we're obviously an extremely discriminating bunch about where we get our information.

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“'Chasing UFOs' is Deader’n Hell, but Fox ... Announced a $100,000 Reward for Anyone Who Could Produce Proof of an Alien Spacecraft"

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By Billy Cox De Void 3-19-13

      Given his track record for producing straight-up UFO documentaries without all the hysterics (“Out of the Blue,” 2002, “I Know What I Saw,” 2009), filmmaker James Fox’s stumble into a National Geographic Channel “reality” show action-hero caricature last year came from — let’s just get it over with — out of the blue. Not even Fox, who was affixed to a face-camera designed to register every twitch of shock’n’awe in the event of a sighting and presumably knew what was coming, could take it. “The show was terrible. I only watched it two times,” he says “and never turned it on again.”

Perhaps not surprisingly, despite its merciless lapses in logic and common sense, or perhaps because of them, “Chasing UFOs” actually drew decent ratings last summer, maybe even enough to justify a second season. But “I couldn’t have come back even if I’d wanted to. Nobody wanted to work with me,” says Fox, who publicly razzed the producers even before the series finished its run. “We burned so many witnesses, about analyses we never did, things we promised and weren’t allowed to deliver — I can give you examples from every single witness from every single show.”

Well, a year later, “Chasing UFOs” is deader’n hell, but Fox has evidently fallen onto a trampoline. Last month, he announced a $100,000 reward for anyone who could produce proof of an alien spacecraft. That evidence, he told listeners at the 22nd International UFO Congress in Arizona, “can be in the form of a photograph, video or film footage or debris from an alleged crash site,” but “it must be able to withstand scientific scrutiny by our chosen panel.”

No panelists were named, and naturally, critics were quick to pounce. As one Skeptical website noted, “Let’s be clear, ACTUAL proof of UFOs are worth way more than 100K. So, this is sort of a gimmicky thing.”

No doubt. The bounty is part of the buildup to a new documentary, in pre-production, and Fox concedes that $100K ain’t what it used to be. “Frankly,” he said from his home outside San Francisco, “I’d like to put at least a million dollars out there, which would require raising even more funds.”

But the bigger story is how Fox rebounded from the “Chasing UFOs” debacle and partnered with an investor cobbling together a $5 million budget for the film. It’s called “701,” a project so obvious it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before. The title refers to the number of UFO cases that Project Blue Book — the Air Force study that desperately wanted to bail on its 22-year research — couldn’t explain when it shuttered the windows in 1969. Using the USAF’s own data, Fox hopes to revive a policy-level debate that officially ended more than 43 years ago.

Fox declines to name the “701” rainmaker, but he’s collaborating on the project with Hollywood screenwriter Tracy Torme, with the goal of getting the film onto the big screen. And there’s this nod Fox gave to another big idea while pitching the $100,000 UFO reward last month:

The “Citizen Hearing on Disclosure” is being staged over a five-day span in late April and May at the National Press Club in Washington by Steve Bassett. Like Fox, Bassett has managed to climb out of a self-inflicted hole, turning a $36,000 loss from his 2010 X-Conference into an unnamed $1.1 million sponsorship to float the latest gig. If you don’t know about Bassett, that’s another riff altogether. What’s supposed to distinguish Bassett’s Citizen Hearing from other National Press Club UFO testimonials is a panel of former congressional representatives who’ll listen to the eyewitnesses and conduct the five-day proceedings the same way they did it on Capitol Hill. So far, at last check, no erstwhile public servants are on the roster. And there are few surprises on the witness list.

“I haven’t seen anything in there that’s groundbreaking or that I haven’t heard before,” said Fox. “But I admire (Bassett’s) efforts, regardless of how you might feel about him. I admire his tenacity; if it could lead to congressional hearings, hey, more power to him.”

If only F. Scott “There are no second acts in American lives” Fitzgerald had lived in the 21st century …

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UFO Hunter for Clinton: 'X-Conference'

By Whitney Blair Wyckoff
4-21-08

      For a number Americans the economy is a major issue for this upcoming presidential election. But many of those attending the X-Conference held in suburban Washington, D.C., over the weekend are concerned with a different kind of green.

The X-Conference is a weekend-long symposium on exopolitics--or governmental, political or social issues relating to aliens and UFOs. Various heavyweights in the UFO community came to the event to speak about their work and to discuss a conspiracy to cover up encounters with the third kind.

"There is no more important research going on in the world," said Steve Bassett, executive producer of the event, at the conference on Sunday morning. Most of the 120 or so audience members nodded in agreement.

Grant Cameron, a lecturing UFO researcher, said that UFOs have long been an issue with presidential candidates. But he said that he no longer thinks that presidents have all the facts when it comes to extra terrestrial visits.

"There's a government inside a government," that controls this information, Cameron said.

Take former President Jimmy Carter, he said. Cameron said that Carter admitted to seeing a UFO and promised to disclose any information the government had about UFOs during his presidency. But Carter never did, Cameron said.

Rom Simone, another lecturer, said it was because Carter was an outsider, shut out of the industrial-military complex. "This is what Eisenhower warned about in his last speech," Simone said.

For this election, Cameron thought that Dennis Kucinich was the mostly likely candidate to provide full disclosure on UFOs. After all, Kucinich also admitted to seeing an unidentified flying object during one of the presidential debates. But since Kucinich dropped out of the race, Cameron endorsed another candidate.

Carmeron ended up endorsing Hillary Clinton on his Web site "Hillary is sympathetic to the issue," said Cameron, a Canadian who also works as a building facility manager at the University of Manitoba to pay the bills.

Cameron added that both Hillary and former president Bill Clinton met with UFO enthusiast Laurance Rockefeller to talk about extra terrestrials. And Cameron said that he has acquired documents through Freedom of Information Act requests that show that the former president investigated UFOs.

But Cameron stressed that it is up to the UFO community to keep pushing the issue.

"Everybody is waiting for a Messiah, everyone is waiting for someone to come and make it all better," Cameron said. "Disclosure is our game. It's up to us to do the work and push the issue."

While some at the conference were skeptics about UFOs until they witnessed a sighting, Terri Mansfield said that she had believed in life outside of Earth ever since she was a little girl.

"I used to look up at the sky and wonder where I came from," she said.

Eleven years ago, Mansfield witnessed a light formation over Phoenix that some said was a UFO. The event got much press coverage. Mansfield is featured in a documentary called The Phoenix Lights.

Even though Cameron has devoted his life to studying UFOs, he said he has no problem with cynics. In fact, Cameron's 25-year-old son has no interest in UFOs, he said.

"Everybody has a right to believe what they want to believe," he said. "In the end it will eventually work out."

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