Category Archives: Consciousness

DMT: The Spirit Molecule FULL DOCUMENTARY

Is DMT the key to consciousness? Is DMT the Spirit Molecule? Is it a language that links all living beings? Dpes DMT stimulate the pineal gland to awaken the soul within the body? Does it explain the near death experience? Does it explain mystical experiences? Is this what the mystics and shamans have been talking aoout for centuries?

Pope Francis Slams Global Financial System As ‘Cult Of Money’

It is so nice to see a Christian leader of our time actually step up and take a stand for the little guy. Moreover he does it from a place of credibility and humility that I have not seen in the Christian world since the loss of Mother Theresa. Too many of them are standing on their pulpits as their mega churches in their very expensive suits dishing out the fare of the day as they peddle their latest book and promise you riches in exchange for your donation.

As spiritual leaders and teachers, our role is to help bring the world together and to see to it that all of us have what we need to be safe and joyous. Pope Francis has seen the horrific affects of greed in the streets of Argentina, a country that collapsed under the weight of the financial tyranny. Having seen it, he comes to the role of pope with a new compassion that I have not seen in a pope in my lifetime. Long live Pope Francis. And may his words affect change.  It is certainly time.

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Pope Francis Releases Dove...see story below

Pope Francis Frees Dove…see pic story below

By Associated Press, New Zealand Herald – May 17,  2013

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10884214

Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the “cult of money” that he says is tyrannising the poor and turning humans into expendable consumer goods.

In his first major speech on the subject, Francis demanded that financial and political leaders reform the global financial system to make it more ethical and concerned for the common good.

He said: “Money has to serve, not to rule!”

It’s a message Francis delivered on many occasions when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, and it’s one that was frequently stressed by retired Pope Benedict XVI.

Francis, who has made clear the poor are his priority, made the comments as he greeted his first group of new ambassadors accredited to the Holy See. – AP

  Share  Tweet  Fullscreen Pope Frees Dove Security personnel hand Pope Francis a cage containing two doves during his weekly general audience in St. Peter Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. As Francis toured the square in his open-topped popemobile at his Wednesday audience with the public, someone at the edge of the crowd thrust a white bird cage at him. Looking puzzled, his security detail took the cage, containing a pair of white doves, and handed it to Francis. Without hesitation, the pope opened the cage door, thrust a hand inside and extracted one dove, and with a flick of his hand, sent the bird flying over the square. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Pope Frees Dove
Security personnel hand Pope Francis a cage containing two doves during his weekly general audience in St. Peter Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. As Francis toured the square in his open-topped popemobile at his Wednesday audience with the public, someone at the edge of the crowd thrust a white bird cage at him. Looking puzzled, his security detail took the cage, containing a pair of white doves, and handed it to Francis. Without hesitation, the pope opened the cage door, thrust a hand inside and extracted one dove, and with a flick of his hand, sent the bird flying over the square. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

 

Top Ten Things People take for Granted

As a subscriber to Mike Dooley’s daily emails called “Notes from the Universe” (www.tut.com). I get these lovely little spiritual reminders in my email box each day. I think this is a great thing for everyone and I recommend it highly. I thought today’s was quite good and decided to share.

The top 10 things people claim to have taken for granted when they were alive:

10. How important they were to so many.
9. How easy life was when they stopped struggling.
8. That all of their prayers and thoughts were heard.
7. That there really were no coincidences.
6. How far ripples of their kindness actually spread.
5. What really was important: happiness, friends, love.
4. That any and all of their dreams could have come true.
3. How good looking and fun they always were.
2. How much guidance they received, whenever they asked for help.
1. That God was alive in everything, including themselves.

As expressed by the recently departed, fresh after their life-review on the big, BIG screen.

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Reincarnation: What a hoot

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Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed in Belize

Some things are just beyond comprehension, though I’m constantly amazed at the depth of the slumber for the sleeping ones. I have to refer back to the biblical passage, “forgive them for they know not what they do.” I can only believe that the people who did this are so unconscious that they really DON’T understand the implications of what they have done. Otherwise the horror is beyond comprehension. I only know that the energy of this decision will weigh on their souls for eternity. For this, justice really is, as they say, a bitch. 

For me, one of my favorite memories EVER was of visiting Altun Ha from the metaphysical cruise that we took back in 2008. We stopped at Tulum and at Altun Ha. I’ve been to several of the pyramidal sites, including Tikal itself, and my favorite, to this day, is probably Altun Ha, the only one in Belize that I’ve visited. It’s an experience I recommend for everyone so if you get a chance, check out the pyramids. The energy will leave you on a high for sure. 

Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed in Belize

Posted by Stephen Cook
Bulldozers were used to extract crushed rock for a road-building project. Photo: APBulldozers were used to extract crushed rock for a road-building project. Photo: AP

Stephen: I’m amazed that in 2013, this was allowed to happen. We know that many of our ancient temples and pyramids around the world contain the truth of our planetary history, could somebody have been trying to destroy something the Mayans may have left for us to know before it was publicly ‘found’?

From Associated Press – May 14, 2013

http://www.smh.com.au/world/mayan-pyramid-bulldozed-in-belize-20130514-2jjb0.html

Belize City: A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project.

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial centre dates back at least 2300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

“It’s a feeling of incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity … they were using this for road fill,” Mr Awe said. “It’s like being punched in the stomach, it’s just so horrendous.”

An obscene example of disrespect for the environment and history

Nohmul sat in the middle of a privately owned sugar cane field, and lacked the even stone sides frequently seen in reconstructed or better-preserved pyramids. But Mr Awe said the builders could not possibly have mistaken the pyramid mound, which is about 30 metres tall, for a natural hill because the ruins were well-known and the landscape there is naturally flat.

“These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It’s just bloody laziness,” Mr Awe said.

Photos from the scene showed backhoes clawing away at the pyramid’s sloping sides, leaving an isolated core of limestone cobbles at the centre, with what appears to be a narrow Mayan chamber dangling above one clawed-out section.

“Just to realise that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tumplines,” said Mr Awe.

“To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can’t these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It’s mind-boggling.”

Belizean police said they are conducting an investigation and criminal charges are possible. The Nohmul complex sits on private land, but Belizean law says that any pre-Hispanic ruins are under government protection.

The Belize community-action group Citizens Organised for Liberty Through Action called the destruction of the archaeological site “an obscene example of disrespect for the environment and history”.

It is not the first time it’s happened in Belize, a country of about 350,000 people that is largely covered in jungle and dotted with hundreds of Mayan ruin sites, though few as large as Nohmul.

March against Monsanto taking place everywhere May 25

by Lance Devon

(NaturalNews) With President Obama’s recent signing of the Monsanto Protection Act, food safety advocates are up in arms. As GMOs fill grocery store shelves at an alarming rate, more people are growing aware of the health risks associated with genetically altered organisms. People are growing tired of this disease-promoting, genetically manipulated food. They are sick of controlling multinational corporations like Monsanto dictating their food supply. That’s why on May 25th 2013, rallies across the world are organizing, from Australia to Germany, from New York to California. A March against Monsanto is expected to take place.

How important is real, organic food to you? Do you want to support small farmers and their independence? Do you want to protect the future of the seed and health of your family?

Research – look for ways to speak up and make a difference. Join a march against Monsanto rally on May 25th in your city: http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/march/

Monsanto Protection Act awakening the republic

This new “Monsanto Protection Act” signed on March 26th, 2013, gives executive powers to the USDA that grant permission to companies like Monsanto to sell its genetically modify seed to farmers without any judicial accountability. The provision is written in a way to assure farmers a profitable and safe venture with GMO seed, but in reality, this law is designed to grant GMO producers like Monsanto legal immunity from the health problems their products will cause down the road.

This provision removes the judicial system from the picture, allowing Monsanto to dominate agriculture, selling genetically altered seed to farmers and damaging human genes – all without any real justice.

U.S. Senator and family farmer Jon Tester, spoke out on the Senate floor, “The United States Congress is telling the Agricultural Department that even if a court tells you that you’ve failed to follow the right process and tells you to start over, you must disregard the court’s ruling and allow the crop to be planted anyway. Not only does this ignore the constitutional idea of separation of powers, but it also lets genetically modified crops take hold across this country, even when a judge finds it violates the law,” Tester said.

Tester’s concerns were apparently disregarded. Five days later, Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act into law, ignoring the scientific evidence GMOs have on human health. Now multinational corporations like Monsanto have legal permission to make farmers their serfs, and to use the population as a science experiment with their altered, disease-spreading seed.

Government complying to Monsanto’s demands, despite health risks

Dave Murphy, founder of Food Democracy Now, said, “I think the Monsanto Protection Act, how it was passed and how it was slipped into law is just another example of how this company (Monsanto) operates, how they manipulate our democracy, and how they buy off our elected officials.”

It’s apparent. The industry demands profit. Instead of upholding justice, the government is bought off to pass laws that permit companies like Monsanto to trample the people’s health and environment. For example, scientists indicate that the world’s bee population is collapsing due to the presence of genetically modified seed. Altered food is also linked to serious health conditions such as the development of cancer, tumors, infertility and birth defects.

Read more on the dangers here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/monsanto.html

March against Monsanto

How can people everywhere stop this mad machine from controlling the world’s seed?

  • Is it time to spend an extra dollar, buying only real, organic food?
  • Is it time for a warning label to be required on all products that contain genetically modified food? This would help consumers make more informed decisions.
  • Is it time to pressure the government to repeal the provisions of the Monsanto Protection Act? The provision is temporary and is likely to come back up for a re-authorization vote in September 2013.
  • Is it time to write and inform others about GMOS, making more scientific studies available to people everywhere about the negative health effects of GMOs?
  • Is it time to hold Monsanto executives accountable through bold, direct communication?
  • Is it time to take the action to the streets in peaceful protest, shining a light on Monsanto’s influence over government and their direct contribution to disease in the world?

Sources for this article include

http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/march/

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com

http://www.citywatchla.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040212_March_against_Monsanto_Occupy_GMO.html#ixzz2THZmVPqp

Are you an Empath?

If you are one of those people who can read this article and recognize yourself in virtually every trait, you may seriously want to consider taking courses at IMU. We have tremendous training in intuitive arts (psychic development) and also in the healing arts. If you have these sorts of gifts you’ll be so much happier if you can learn how to use them. And you’ll definitely want to learn how to protect yourself from it’s adverse affects as well, which we offer in our course from Jeffrey Seelman called “The Art of Psychic Protection.” Anyway, give this a read and see if you,too, are an empath. 

30 Traits of an Empath

1. Knowing: Empaths just know stuff, without being told. It’s a knowing that goes way beyond intuition or gut feelings, even though that is how many would describe the knowing. The more attuned they are the stronger this gift becomes.

2. Being in public places can be overwhelming: Places like shopping malls, supermarkets or stadiums where there are lots of people around can fill the empath with turbulently vexed emotions that are coming from others.

3. Feeling others emotions and taking them on as your own: This is a huge one for empaths. To some they will feel emotions off those near by and with others they will feel emotions from those a vast distance away, or both. The more adept empath will know if someone is having bad thoughts about them, even from great distance.

4. Watching violence, cruelty or tragedy on the TV is unbearable: The more attuned an empath becomes the worse it is and may make it so they eventually have to stop watching TV and reading newspapers altogether.

5. You know when someone is not being honest: If a friend or a loved one is telling you lies you know it (although many empaths try not to focus on this because knowing a loved one is lying can be painful). Or if someone is saying one thing but feeling/thinking another, you know.

6. Picking up physical symptoms off another: An empath will almost always develop the ailments off another (colds, eye infections, body aches and pains) especially those they’re closest to, somewhat like sympathy pains.

7. Digestive disorders and lower back problems: The solar plexus chakra is based in the centre of the abdomen and it’s known as the seat of emotions. This is where empaths feel the incoming emotion of another, which can weaken the area and eventually lead to anything from stomach ulcers to IBS (too many other conditions to list here). Lower back problems can develop from being ungrounded (amongst other things) and one, who has no knowledge of them being an empath, will almost always be ungrounded.

8. Always looking out for the underdog: Anyone whose suffering, in emotional pain or being bullied draws an empath’s attention and compassion.

9. Others will want to offload their problems on you, even strangers: An empath can become a dumping ground for everyone else’s issues and problems, which, if they’re not careful can end up as their own.

10. Constant fatigue: Empaths often get drained of energy, either from energy vampires or just taking on too much from others, which even sleep will not cure. Many get diagnosed with ME.

11. Addictive personality: Alcohol, drugs, sex, are to name but a few addictions that empaths turn to, to block out the emotions of others. It is a form of self protection in order to hide from someone or something.

12. Drawn to healing, holistic therapies and all things metaphysical: Although many empaths would love to heal others they can end up turning away from being healers (even though they have a natural ability for it), after they’ve studied and qualified, because they take on too much from the one they are trying to heal. Especially if they are unaware of their empathy. Anything of a supernatural nature is of interest to empaths and they don’t surprise or get shocked easily. Even at the revelation of what many others would consider unthinkable, for example, empaths would have known the world was round when others believed it was flat.

13. Creative: From singing, dancing, acting, drawing or writing an empath will have a strong creative streak and a vivid imagination.

14. Love of nature and animals: Being outdoors in nature is a must for empaths and pets are an essential part of their life.

15. Need for solitude: An empath will go stir-crazy if they don’t get quiet time. This is even obvious in empathic children.

16. Gets bored or distracted easily if not stimulated: Work, school and home life has to be kept interesting for an empath or they switch off from it and end up daydreaming or doodling.

17. Finds it impossible to do things they don’t enjoy: As above. Feels like they are living a lie by doing so. To force an empath to do something they dislike through guilt or labelling them as idle will only serve in making them unhappy. It’s for this reason many empaths get labelled as being lazy.

18. Strives for the truth: This becomes more prevalent when an empath discovers his/her gifts and birthright. Anything untruthful feels plain wrong.

19. Always looking for the answers and knowledge: To have unanswered questions can be frustrating for an empath and they will endeavour to find an explanation. If they have a knowing about something they will look for confirmation. The downside to this is an information overload.

20. Likes adventure, freedom and travel: Empaths are free spirits.

21. Abhors clutter: It makes an empath feel weighed down and blocks the flow of energy.

22. Loves to daydream: An empath can stare into space for hours, in a world of their own and blissfully happy.

23. Finds routine, rules or control, imprisoning: Anything that takes away their freedom is debilitating to an empath even poisoning.

24. Prone to carry weight without necessarily overeating: The excess weight is a form of protection to stop the negative incoming energies having as much impact.

25. Excellent listener: An empath won’t talk about themselves much unless it’s to someone they really trust. They love to learn and know about others and genuinely care.

26. Intolerance to narcissism: Although kind and often very tolerant of others, empaths do not like to be around overly egotistical people, who put themselves first and refuse to consider another’s feelings or points of view other than their own.

27. The ability to feel the days of the week: An empath will get the ‘Friday Feeling’ if they work Fridays or not. They pick up on how the collective are feeling. The first couple of days of a long, bank holiday weekend (Easter for example) can feel, to them, like the world is smiling, calm and relaxed. Sunday evenings, Mondays and Tuesdays, of a working week, have a very heavy feeling.

28. Will not choose to buy antiques, vintage or second-hand: Anything that’s been pre-owned carries the energy of the previous owner. An empath will even prefer to have a brand new car or house (if they are in the financial situation to do so) with no residual energy.

29. Sense the energy of food: Many empaths don’t like to eat meat or poultry because they can feel the vibrations of the animal (especially if the animal suffered), even if they like the taste.

30. Can appear moody, shy, aloof, disconnected: Depending on how an empath is feeling will depend on what face they show to the world. They can be prone to mood swings and if they’ve taken on too much negative will appear quiet and unsociable, even miserable. An empath detests having to pretend to be happy when they’re sad, this only adds to their load (makes working in the service industry, when it’s service with a smile, very challenging) and can make them feel like scuttling under a stone.

If you can say yes to most or all of the above then you are most definitely an empath

Empaths are having a particularly difficult time at the present time, picking up on all the negative emotions that are being emantated into the world from the populace.

 

Inelia Benz: Free Energy

Many people think that because nothing horrific happened (or even obvious) with the end of the long-count Mayan Calendar that nothing happened at all. But I don’t buy it. As someone who has been part of the consciousness movement for some time now, I know that the shifts are rarely obvious. They are like an “ah ha” moment when you hear something different or you understand it differently and as a result, your whole life changes. 

I think the shift is like that. It’s a grand ah-ha moment that has essentially changed everything. 

So then you have to ask, what IS happening that will create a whole new world free of the layers and layers of enslavement that virtually all humans endure? (And I have to say that I think that even the “global controllers” are enslaved only in a different way.) 

And the more I watch it, the more I think the answer to this is Free Energy. 

IMU instructor Bruce Vinikas was the first one to really introduce the idea to me, at least in my recent memory. He has become a huge proponent of the work of world-renowned and controversial physicist Nassim Haramein who claims that he has actually submitted a free-energy device for patent. 

Others have also made the same claim at one time or another. In fact, the internet is rife (ironic term in this sentence for anyone who understands its full implications) with people who have “solved the problem” of free energy. If it is true, we can guess that they will be killed or otherwise mitigated as that seems to be the modus operendi of those who have so much to lose. 

And recently, with the release of the Sirius movie by Steven Greer and the testimony at the UFO hearings in DC last week, it has become increasingly clear to me that this is not only possible but it is in the works. 

When we stop to think about the implications of free energy on the planet, it dwarfs everything else. 

At this point in history, we don’t even know how to run our bodies on the energy that is around us. We need to feed it food to keep it going. But we have all heard of the enlightened ones who could go for long periods of time without food or water, living only on breath and sunshine. I even know of a man here in our own community who lives almost exclusively without food. He taught at my center one time and stayed with me for several days. It was an enlightening experience. 

So I know it can be done. And as a healer, I also can see and feel the energy field that surrounds the body. As a person who has studied hermetics, I also know that what can be done on a micro level is also true on the macro level. 

But all in all I think the shift in consciousness has happened and we will see free energy in our lifetime. 

By Inelia Benz – May 8, 2013

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Everything runs on Energy

Something that escapes most people is that all the processes in and around us are powered by various forms of Energy.

Most of the Energy we use today on our planet is Solar energy. This solar energy has been captured by the plants in the past and converted over a very long period of time in coal or oil, that we are burning today to power our homes, our cars and our factories.

Our own bodies also take up energy in the form of food. This energy is used to grow and repair the body and a lot if it is used up by our brain. To grow this food, to package it, to transport it and store it in places where you can buy it, you also require Energy.

The idea is that everything on the planet right now is an Energy game. How this energy is produced (extracted), how it is exchanged and how it is converted in forms that are useful to the Human Species.

Introducing Free Energy

Ever since we have discovered fire, humans have been on a fast track to harness more and more energy for their use. More energy always meant a higher standard of living. Slavery was made obsolete by more energy. Women’s status has improved as soon as more energy was available. Large families stopped making sense, when child labor stopped making sense, and that was due to more energy being available. Life in the US is so much better than other parts of the world, because there is more energy available for each person living there. And we are just scratching the surface of what is possible.

At some point along this line, what I will call the Global Controllers had a realization: as soon as any human on the planet has access to abundant, unlimited clean energy their “power over others” games would be over. They would have to leave and play their games elsewhere. At that time, a campaign was started to suppress, by ridicule, the idea of Free Abundant Energy. It has been declared “proven to be impossible” as it “violates the laws of physics”. Even so, some scientists (starting most likely with Nikola Tesla) have been able to tap into various forms of Energy that are not powered by fossil fuels or radioactive material. This Energy source has sometimes been called “Zero Point Energy”.

The proof of this is beyond this writing, but anyone reading is invited to look this up, and read about it. For a few days just ignore the “laws of physics” and pretend this is actually possible. Have a look a it. If it were possible, how would it work? What would change in our world?

We the creators

The greatest victory of the Global Controllers is that they have made Abundance and Free Energy unimaginable. We are all familiar with “You can’t have something for nothing…”, “You gotta work for a living.”, “There is no such thing a free lunch”. And so on.

All the above are bits and pieces of what I call “The Scarcity Program” that is deeply embedded into our subconscious minds.

I don’t want us to fall into the “victim/aggressor” paradigm. I acknowledge that the Global Controllers act as a parasite but their actions are made possible by our collective agreement to “not even imagine abundance”.

So while I acknowledge the suppression and the vested interests to keep us addicted to fossil fuel, I choose to act as a creator and focus on abundance instead. Let’s choose to make the Global Controllers obsolete. If they have no one to control, they have no choice but to either join the party on our terms or pack and leave.

Free Energy, Sentience, Love, Joy and Abundance are linked together. And I will not be surprised if one day we will discover that in essence they are the same thing.

There may be many, many ways to raise our awareness and make manifest Heaven on Earth, but as far as I know, none of them will work faster and help more Humans (and other lifeforms on the planet) as bringing Free Energy out in the open.

There is a bit of a catch 22 here: Free Energy will make it so much easier to raise our awareness and yet it seems that we need to raise our awareness of Free Energy technologies first and how they would change the world, before we are able to manifest it into our reality.

An abundant, Free Energy based world

So let’s pretend for a moment that we have Free Energy now. Suspend your beliefs that it is not possible.

Each and every one of us has access to unlimited clean Energy and devices to convert that energy to various useful forms for us: electric, thermal and mechanic.

How would our lives change, now that you will not have to work for a living? What would you do if money or survival will no longer be an issue.

Free Energy would make profit obsolete. And once profit is out of the equation, then quality will take its place. Now every product we make, we make it out of joy, out of a desire to express our creativity, to be of service to us and our fellow humans and non-human life. We no longer work for money and we no longer work in jobs we don’t like. Just imagine how would that feel?

With abundant, clean energy the war for resources will stop making sense. Taking it from others so I can have it will no longer be required. Mining the Earth for oil will no longer be required. Free sharing of technology and information will come naturally once you no longer have a “profit margin” to maintain, or a competitor to wipe out. I can easily imagine a joyful coming together to eliminate poverty and hunger from all over the planet. With Free Energy that can be done in mater of days. Just think of the human potential unleashed, of all that creativity waiting to express it self in safe, abundant environment.

Virtually every aspect of our lives would be impacted and greatly improved with the advent of unlimited clean Energy. The way we think about family, relationships, sex, marriage, work, creativity, boundaries, nations, language, health, learning, traveling, food production, relationship with nature and the Planet. Everything would change.

The most important change however, would be within. In an abundant society, you would have to become a “response-able” Creator. There will be no one left to blame, no one to complain about. You will no longer be able to act as a victim (or aggressor for that matter). You will have full freedom and with that comes full responsibility for your life. We will truly be “self determined grown-ups”.

And this, is just the beginning of the journey.

You can find Ilie here: http://softconsultant.ro/

Citizen Hearing On Disclosure Day 2: England Has Close Encounter, UFOs Tamper With Nuclear Sites

The Huffington Post offers great coverage of the Citizen’s Hearing on Disclosure. 

Posted: 04/30/2013 10:40 am EDT  |  Updated: 04/30/2013 6:39 pm EDT

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As day two begins at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure (CHD) in Washington, D.C., the focus on the subject of UFOs turns to the famous multi-witness encounter that took place in 1980 at the dual air base RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters in England.

In addition to the England case, today’s testimony will feature military personnel describing cases where UFOs reportedly tampered with nuclear missiles.

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While not an official government hearing on UFOs, the CHD is a five-day congressional-style presentation that brings 40 international researchers and military and scientific witnesses who are testifying before six former members of Congress.

On day one, discussions included the history of global UFO sightings and alleged UFO crashes, like the famous 1947 incident near Roswell, N.M.

There was also testimony of how several previous American presidents showed great interest in UFOs and, in some cases, unsuccessfully attempted to get information about specific UFO issues.

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Paul Hellyer is widely known and credited for his work to unify the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2005, he made headlines by announcing that “UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead.” That statement made him the first cabinet-ranked individual in the G8 group of nations to say that UFOs were unequivocably real.

“Since then, I’ve learned a lot from many sources, including a number of the fantastic witnesses that we have heard these last [five] days.”

Among the things Hellyer says he has learned and believes is a particular document that concluded at least four species had been visiting Earth for thousands of years: “This is my own view at this stage, as well. … They are different species and, consequently, may have different agendas. I don’t think we can say that they all have the same agenda any more than we can say that the United States, China and Russia have the same agenda. Our real interests may be similar, but as of now, our perceived interests are still quite far apart.”

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“My interest is in about 95 to 98 percent of full disclosure — I know of one or two things that I’m not sure should be in the public domain, at least yet. They will be someday, I’m sure. But just as children survive the idea of the tooth fairy and Santa Claus when they become adult, I think the taxpaying citizens are quite capable of accepting the new and broader reality that we live in a cosmos teeming with life of various sorts.

“The fact that some other civilizations are more advanced than we are may be humbling. But that could be a necessary step in our survival.”

Several of the former members of Congress who presided over the 5-day hearing suggested they would be interested in reuniting to try and take the UFO-ET disclosure issue to the United Nations.

Time will tell…

The technology panel (being sworn in below), consisted of (from left) Dr. Roger Leir, physics engineer Thomas Valone, Dr. Steven Greer and aeronautical engineer Robert Wood.

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During this session, Leir, a podiatrist, described the numerous surgeries he’s performed with a medical team in which they removed unusual small objects from people who claimed to have experienced alien abduction.

“In my 50 years of podiatric surgical practice, I have removed literally hundreds of objects from the human foot, including paper, glass, metal and stones.

“All of the individuals involved in my study all presented no noted portal of entry for any of the objects that were removed. There was no visible scar formation and no interruption of the integrity of the skin, even when examination was performed with a magnifying loop. All the individuals in the study presented positive X-rays or CT Scans showing metallic or lesser dense foreign objects.

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“In addition, by use of a radio wave frequency detector, we were able to detect that certain radio frequencies in the FM band, were being emitted from the object. All the surgeries we performed were documented with eyewitnesses, video and still photography.

“We find that, in all pathological reports, there is NO inflammatory reaction, there is no rejection reaction. There is nothing that we have found in material science that will produce absolutely no inflammatory reaction in the human body.”

CHD organizer Stephen Bassett announced to the ex-congressional panel that a 15-minute video was about to be shown of a 77-year-old man man, in very bad health, who wanted to take the opportunity to reveal a story of what happened to him while he worked for the CIA under Pres. Dwight Eisenhower in 1958.

Bassett: “In a sense, this video represents the many individuals out there who could not come before a committee like this, who want to talk, but it’s difficult. The vast majority of individuals who have interacted with this issue while working for the government, going back to the 40s, took the information that they had to their grave and did not talk if they were told not to talk.

“This gentleman has received numerous threats from his government not to talk, but he wanted this testimony to be presented and we agreed. He has only been interviewed by two researchers who are here today, Linda Moulton Howe and Richard Dolan.”

It’s a foregone conclusion that the CIA doesn’t routinely acknowledge the identities of those who work for the agency, so we can’t confirm who this man is…we can only present portions of his testimony, as he spoke with UFO historian Richard Dolan (seen at left in the picture below). “X” — as we’ll call him here — recounted how he worked for the CIA on a special project involving the Air Force’s Project Blue Book study of UFOs (which ran for about 20 years before ending in 1969).

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X: “Project Blue Book was partially a fraud. But the cases that we got didn’t come from the Pentagon or CIA headquarters. My boss filled me in on Project Blue Book and what they had found so far, as far as greys and aliens and the Roswell incident.”

Dolan: “How did you feel when this got dumped on you?”

X: “Well, I was just kind of overwhelmed with all of this. My boss said we were going to be part of the Eisenhower push to find out about these aliens. We went to the Oval Office. President Eisenhower was there, and Nixon.”

At this point, X goes on to talk about how Eisenhower was upset when he learned that there was activity going on at a base in Nevada (that would later be renamed as Area 51) that the government allegedly had no jurisdiction over. Eisenhower sent X and his boss to the base to find out what was going on there.

X described what they saw when they arrived.

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X: “There were different garage door openings and inside they had different saucer crafts. The first one was the Roswell craft — it was kind of crashed up, but apparently every alien had died except for a couple. Later on we viewed the autopsy film and then the colonel said, ‘What we’ve got in here is we’re interviewing a grey alien.’”

Dolan: “How did you feel at that moment?”

X: “I thought, boy, we had no idea we were gonna see the real thing. All we saw was film. My boss was able to go in and have a partial interview. This one looked a little bit Oriental. It didn’t look human as far as the skin tone. It’s brain was a little bit bigger, very, very small nose and the ears were just like holes and the mouth was very small.”

X and his superior went back to Washington to meet with Eisenhower and Nixon again.

X: “Also, Hoover was there. We told them about the alien and the whole situation and he was just totally shocked. He appeared for the first time to be worried. Eisenhower said, ‘We’ve got to keep this thing completely secret.’”

 

 

Cong. Kilpatrick (pictured below) appeared very moved by the testimony of the private, commercial and military pilots as well as previous panel witnesses during the week.

“[All this week], I’ve heard some of the most intelligent, scientific and universal knowledge on the topic that I didn’t know I was going to witness. Yesterday, we heard from 12 different countries who have hundreds of years of scientific intelligent information on this subject.

“It behooves us, as human beings, in what is known as the greatest country in the world, to participate in that discussion. To not act like something exists and then to further act like it’s a joke, we do a disservice to our ancestors, to God and to the people of the world.

“I want the world and the universe to continue. And if there is something out there — and I’m not a scientist — there’s a whole lot we don’t know. I think it’s ignorant of any people not to seek out what we need to know to continue the universe.

“I was convinced before this morning’s panel that there probably is something out there, and I’m willing to work the rest of my life to see that, if it is, how we can enhance the universe to see that we all have a better quality of life.”

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On the fifth and final day of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure in Washington, D.C., a group of pilots — private, commercial and military — and former FAA official John Callahan testified about a number of UFO encounters experienced by pilots, and how, in many cases, information about these incidents were deliberately kept from the public.

 

Gravel says it only takes one country to make a stand and to get the United Nations to open the door again to possibly creating a new agency to look into UFOs.

“Another hearing like this one, or whether it’s in the Congress, probably won’t advance our goals all that much. But there’s no reason why, with the various countries represented here — with the various scholars and military officers — that we wouldn’t try to, within our own communities, to get them to endorse a very simple, straightforward resolution, calling upon the [U.N.] General Assembly.

“All we would need is one country, but I think that we have several countries from South America, and certainly, this group here might have enough influence to get their government to go on record, and to field a resolution creating an agency of the United Nations…specifically with the goal to organize a global conference — not a hearing — of the scholars and scientists that would come together and fund it — both from public and private sources — so that, within a couple of years, we could convene a conference that would command the attention of the world.

“I have no doubt that we could field that kind of a resolution and get it adopted. We can elevate it right to where it really belongs because it’s a global issue — We could elevate it right to the General Assembly of the United Nations.”

While these congressional-style hearings are going on in Washington, there’s an ongoing influx of stories coming out in the media by writers who claim that this is just an exercise in futility among UFO buffs looking for instant publicity, and that the participants — witness panels and the committee of former members of Congress — are involved in nothing but a farce and an easy payday.

The New York Daily News today highlights a statement by U.S. Rep. Peter King of New York, in which he outright ridicules one of the military witnesses at the D.C. hearings, Ret. Air Force Capt. Robert Salas (pictured below).

Salas has a credible background as a weapons controller and launch officer of intercontinental ballistic missiles and has previously spoken about a 1967 incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana when signals went off indicating an intrusion at the missile site, followed by missiles “going into an unlaunchable, or no-go, mode,” all during the appearance of a UFO over the base.

Salas says he sent documents about this case to King, the former House Homeland Security Chairman and believes King is ignoring him. According to the Daily News, when King was asked about Salas’ claim, here’s how he responded: “I have no idea what the guy is talking about. We are always getting crazy stuff in the mail by people whose brain has been taken over by aliens or something.”

Really, Mr. King? As a representative of the people, is that the proper way to refer to one of many respected military men entrusted with the safety of our country — to just shrug him off by referring to the evidence he sent you as “crazy stuff” and to further ridicule him by basically saying his brain was “taken over by aliens”?

It’s high time that elected officials think twice before making pronouncements about things like UFOs, simply because they either have a personal bias against the subject OR they’ve been told to inflict that kind of attitude on the public.

Either way, a big reason why these people have come together in Washington this week is to try and open a serious look into a subject that doesn’t deserve the kind of ridicule that people like King throw around.

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Chinese scientist Sun Shili is a retired foreign ministry official and president of the World Chinese UFO Federation.

“Our federation serves as a communication platform for the global Chinese on all aspects of UFOs, including those in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and abroad. Chinese people consider ourselves as the descendants of dragons, which are from outer space in the Chinese culture.

“We call our land as the land of deities or gods and we seek the harmony between people and heaven. [All of these things] are very relevant with the hearing that is taking place today.”

Shili told the CHD committee that he was a government diplomat and university professor, but since the 1970s, he started looking into UFOs and the mysteries of the universe.

“Everyone on this planet is looking for our roots in the universe. We have the right to know and discover. Any attempt to cover-up is unacceptable. Also statistics of the China UFO groups [of which there are about 50,000 members] show that, out of 1.3 billion people, we have close to tens of millions of people who are UFO enthusiasts.”

The second panel consisting of international experts is offering testimony about UFOs. The individuals (being sworn-in in the image below) are (from left to right) Antonio Huneeus (Chile-U.S.), Nick Pope (U.K.), Grant Cameron (Canada), Sun Shili (People’s Republic Of China) and Roberto Pinotti (Italy).

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The committee of former members of Congress appeared to be moved and highly interested to hear the testimony of the first international panel of the day, especially the riveting close encounter aerial “dogfight” described by Peruvian fighter pilot, Col. Oscar Santa-Maria.

Cong. Darlene Hooley (Dem/Oregon) closed the morning session with praise for the panel:

“I want to thank our panel for being here today. This has been really interesting and your openness and what’s happening in each of your countries has been a real eye-opener for the rest of us.”

Possibly the most intriguing testimony offered today so far came from a former 25-year Peruvian air force fighter pilot. Col. Oscar Santa-Maria (pictured below). In 1980, he was ordered to takeoff and shoot down a sphere-shaped UFO that was in restricted airspace near an air base. The encounter lasted more than 20 minutes.

“These were 22 minutes where we went up and down, it went around, and it was trying to avoid me while I was pursuing it and I was trying to fire. When I first fired, these were bursts of 30 millimeter shells — a single one can destroy a truck. And I shot 64, a barrage of fire, and nothing happened at all, and that’s what was so surprising.

“The possibility of NOT hitting my target was practically impossible. I’ve won awards for marksmanship, and that’s why they sent me up there to chase this thing. The possibility of my missing it was zero.”

The object Santa-Maria was chasing was about 30 feet in diameter with a dome on top, no visible engine, wings or windows. He told the committee he tried to figure out how to better attack the unknown craft.

“I tried different positions. When it went up, it had supersonic speed. When I moved to the side of the UFO at 1.3 Mach, it stopped, and then, in a matter of seconds, it achieved 1.2 Mach without any engines! This is something that nobody, no craft can do, to just go from zero to 1.2 Mach, vertically, to reach my same position — it was able to anticipate my moves and then follow me.

“Once I landed, I met with intelligence officers, and we looked at all catalogues to see what possible spy object this might have been, but there was nothing similar to what I had observed, and we were unaware of any type of technology [like this] on Earth that existed.”

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In the first panel session of the day, former Brazilian chemistry teacher A.J. Gevaerd spoke on the many UFO cases in Brazil, specifically in the area of the Amazon. He described a committee in 1977 created by the Brazilian air force to investigate the cases. The committee was known as Operation Saucer. Gevaerd presented the committee with a 440-page report called “UFOs In The Amazon” (see below)

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Today’s testimony is being presented by several officials and military personnel from different countries, including Brazil, Uruguay, Peru and Argentina.

Some technical glitches in the audio translation of several individuals made it difficult to understand what they were actually saying. Hopefully that will be fixed and not be a problem for the rest of the day.

Day 4 of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure will offer international testimony of the UFO subject. Committee member Sen. Mike Gravel (seen below) thinks that will be significant:

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“I think that the best effort we have for bringing visibility to the people of the world of this issue … we could go to the United Nations. Now, I don’t think we’d have a prayer in the Security Council, because it’s controlled by us and that just wouldn’t happen.

“But what would happen in the General Assembly if we were to introduce a resolution? I’ll bet you it would pass. They would fund some part of it — the rest of the funding could come from private sources, and we would have the most awe-inspiring world event on this subject within a couple or three years.”

French told the committee about an incident he witnessed in the late 1960s in Alamogordo, N.M., to complete his annual refresher course in an altitude chamber, which tested the effects of high altitude on humans.

“While there, I learned of an accident a few miles away in the direction of White Sands [missile range]. A short time later, I witnessed the takeoff of a prototype fighter aircraft that I neither recognized or knew what it was.

“The aircraft took off at a very high rate of speed and fired a rocket, five inches in diameter and about six feet long, about the same size as some of the modern air-to-air aerial rockets.

“Afterward [I was told] there was an unknown number of humanoids, either killed or injured. The parts of the casualties were taken to base operations at Holloman Air Force Base [in New Mexico]. The only parts of the craft that I was allowed to see had markings that appeared to be Arabic or some language I didn’t understand.

“Later I learned the parts and the casualties were transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base [in Ohio] and turned over to the Foreign Technology Division.”

This is not the first time that French has come forward to reveal intriguing UFO-related information.

Last year, he told The Huffington Post exclusively that there wasn’t just one UFO that crashed near Roswell, N.M. in 1947 — there were two!

Several people make up the panel offering testimony about the events surrounding the 1947 crash of an alleged UFO outside the town of Roswell, N.M.

The panel consists of (from left in the image below) Denice Marcell, Jesse Marcel III, Col./Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., Ret. USAR Lt. Col. Kevin Randle, former nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman and researcher/author Donald Schmitt.

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Marcel Jr. has a distinguished career as both a Navy and National Guard officer as well as being a military flight surgeon. He told the Washington CHD committee about the night in 1947 (while he was 11 years old) when his father Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer from the Roswell Army Air Field, came home with debris of whatever the object was that crashed on a nearby ranch:

“I was awakened by my dad who was returning from an assignment to collect debris of unknown origin from a ranch out of Roswell. Knowing that he had seen something very special, he wanted my mother and myself to look at this also and said, ‘You’ll never see this again.’

“He brought us into the kitchen where there was this strange debris on the kitchen floor that he had pre-positioned. He said, ‘Look at this — I think this is what you call a flying saucer or remains thereof.’

“The debris consisted of three components: there was a very tough metallic foil; there was black plastic debris, like a broken phonograph record; but the strangest thing I saw was an I-beam in the wreckage. There were symbols written along the inside surface of it. They were of a purplish-violet hue, semi-reflective of light.”

Marcel Jr. went on to recount how his father was subsequently ordered to fly the material to Gen. Roger Ramey’s office in Fort Worth, Texas.

“When my dad got home, he sat my mother and myself down and said, ‘You will never talk about this — this is a non-event.’ I never discussed this with my friends or anybody else until Stanton Friedman interviewed my dad in 1978.”

 

 

The second panel of the day, comprised of (from left in image below) Grant Cameron, Stanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe and Robert Wood present testimony on a series of documents, known as “Majestic,” that reportedly reveal the story of presidential and military authorization and cover-up of UFOs and possible alien occupants.

Wood, retired from a 43-year career at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Corp., has spent more than 30 years investigating UFOs, including years of research to authenticate the Majestic Documents:

“The identification of one aspect of a questioned document as being anomalous often results in a skeptic accepting none of the rest of the document, even though it might be filled with accurate information. It seems to be accepted in the intelligence community that faked documents usually — if not often — contain much valid information to help get it accepted as genuine throughout.

“The conclusion I’ve come to is incredibly wild: that those in charge have been successful in keeping secret the greatest story of mankind while covertly spending staggering sums to create hidden underground resources and reverse-engineer the technology. Until we can quantify the alien threat, how can we know whether these actions are good or bad? Let us hope, maybe with the help of one race of good aliens, that God will maybe do the right thing…I think the American people deserve [the truth] — we’ve paid for it.”

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Researcher Linda Moulton Howe discussed her many years investigating strange animal mutilations that have been linked to UFO sightings.

“The first global media report about this phenomena was in September of 1967 when a female horse named Lady was found dead on a ranch in southern Colorado. The horse’s entire skull and long neck had been stripped of flesh and every organ in the chest of that horse had been surgically excised, according to a medical doctor. There was no blood anywhere — not in the animal, not around the animal and nowhere nearby.”

NOTE: Astute reader (and HuffPost blogger) Alejandro Rojas pointed out that this entry was originally titled as Day 2. It has been corrected so as not to confuse anyone!

6:05 PM – 04/30/2013

Lectures To End Second Day

Winding up the second day of the CHD will be evening lectures from former nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, Canadian researcher Grant Cameron and UFO historian Richard Dolan.

Wednesday’s plate includes UFO documents and the legendary 1947 UFO crash at Roswell, NM.

Cong. Roscoe Bartlett gets a little testy about the press coverage so far about this week’s Citizen Hearing On Disclosure:

“I’ve been looking at some of the press clippings from yesterday’s session and the government has been quite successful in relegating this issue to the lunatic fringe. I’m going to comment on only one article. It says ‘The mock Congress hearing on aliens is heavy on real-life Mulders and not Scullys. In the “X-Files,” Agent Mulder believes in all things: little green men, Roswell, men-in-black, whatever, and Agent Dana Scully believes in science.

“‘Scully forces Mulder to find hard evidence that there’s a massive conspiracy to cover-up aliens’ existence. The trouble with this week’s alien panel (we’re an alien panel now) at the National Press Club is that any of the participating members of Congress who might naturally be a Scully have been incentived to suspend their disbelief. Because the Citizen Hearing foundation is paying them $20,000 plus expenses to listen to the testimony.’”

“That’s just insulting, that we can be bought for $20,000 — that’s ridiculous! It goes on to say that …’former member Roscoe Bartlett, in an opening statement, Bartlett said he hadn’t fulfilled his duty in office by failing to hold hearings on extraterresrtrials…’ I NEVER SAID THAT! … I never said that I believed in extraterrestrials. I believe that there are sightings out there that cannot be easily explained away.”

“‘Compounding the problem of eyebrow-raising testimony is that several of these politicians have reputations for being a little wacky.’”

The afternoon session focuses on the numerous cases of UFOs seen in the vicinity of American nuclear missile sites. One of the witnesses, retired Air Force Capt. Bruce Fenstermacher described seeing a cigar-shaped UFO above a Wyoming nuclear base in 1976.

UFO historian Richard Dolan talked about how the Freedom of Information Act has yielded important documents related to military encounters with UFOs.

 

 

Cong. Roscoe Bartlett engaged Sgt. James Penniston (see images below) re. the UFO he approached on the ground during the 1980 multiple witness encounter in England’s Rendlesham Forest:

Bartlett: “You were there when the craft took off?” Penniston: “Yes, sir.” Bartlett: “Was there any sound?”Penniston: “The craft generated more lighting and that concerned me. I wasn’t sure if it was going to explode, so I took a somewhat defensive position. It rose off the ground, went to tree level, momentary hovered, then took off in the blink of an eye. The things that it didn’t do was stuf that it should’ve done. I was hoping for air displacement — all aircraft do that. I was hoping for aircraft sound — all aircraft do that.”

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As day two of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure unfolds, the committee of former members of Congress are listening to the testimony of eyewitnesses to the famous 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident in England that involved many military personnel.

Later in the day, the committee will hear testimony of more military eyewitnesses to UFO activity over American nuclear missile sites.

4:51 PM – 04/29/2013

End Of The First Day

Many points of view from committee members and witnesses were offered on this first day of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure.

With four days of testimony still to come, it would be interesting to see if any type of skepticism will rear its head and to see how the folks involved handle or approach a skeptical point of view about UFOs and a possible ET presence on Earth.

Check back on Tuesday to see…

4:14 PM – 04/29/2013

A Tale Of Two Steve’s

Dr. Steven Greer: “Everything about what extraterrestrials show of themselves would look like magic to us…if you’re dealing with civilizations that have actually arrived here from somewhere else, they’re probably doing it faster than the speed of light…possibly at the speed of thought…consciousness and mind are the real final frontier – not space. We are not alone in the universe and we need to have a peaceful interplanetary, interstellar initiative. We need to figure out how we’re going to advance.”

Political Activist Stephen Bassett talked about how the media hasn’t properly reported important UFO news. “If some very tough reporters can get out there and ask the right questions, it’s going to get really interesting.”

The following image shows Greer (L) and Bassett (R)

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3:40 PM – 04/29/2013

Clinton Administration UFO Interest

Grant Cameron’s testimony on Clinton administration unsuccessful attempt to find out UFO information…

Linda Moulton Howe on reported UFO abductions and the possible manipulation of the human mind. She tells a story about a military person who told her he was on a team that, in 1978, was assigned to investigate a town that was allegedly flooded by extraterrestrials.

Researcher Grant Cameron discusses 1,000 documents he received via the Freedom of Information Act about how Rockefeller tried to get the Clinton administration to look into UFOs, especially the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, N.M., and how President Clinton issued a challenge, saying if there was a UFO at Roswell, he was never told about it.

Cameron talks about how Bill and Hillary Clinton met with Rockefeller at his ranch to discuss UFOs.

“There are key documents from 1995 that point out how Hillary and her staff helped draft a UFO disclosure letter that would be sent to the president.”

Dr. Steven Greer began the afternoon session describing how he went from being an emergency room doctor to a leading advocate for UFO-ET disclosure. Greer is also executive producer of a new documentary, “Sirius,” which focuses on his claims of alleged existing technologies that might change the world.

“Sirius” is also about the unveiling of DNA analysis of a 6-inch-tall humanoiddiscovered 10 years ago in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Dubbed Ata, there is ongoing controversy as to its origin and what, exactly the DNA reveals, according to a new report by Greer.

Cong. Bartlett: “Whether there are UFOs or extraterrestrials is not the issue — it’s a constitutional issue more than anything else. In his final public speech as he left office, Eisenhower warned the public against the military industrial complex, but his original speech called it the military industrial congressional complex, but he took out the world congressional. I think Congress owes the American people a hearing on this subject. There may be nothing to UFOs, but you have the right to petition the government about it.”

Cong. Kilpatrick: ”I don’t know if the answer is to have another congressional hearing. I agree that coming together to acknowledge this problem is urgent. Will the Air Force ever come to this point, and what can this issue do to help all of us.”

French: “Something’s got to be done.”

Sheehan: “The altering of consciousness about UFOs will have to come through religious institutions.”

Dolan: “If there’s an energy paradigm solution to UFOs, that’s worth everything we can do to get it all out in the open.”

Sen. Gravel: “Could all of you draft a new U.N.-type proposal by the end of this week that can help us become globalists vs. nationalists?”

A Day at the Disclosure Hearings: A game changer?

by Deborah Lindsey

UFO Disclosure Hearings

I have to say that I really didn’t know what to expect when I plopped my butt in the car for the three-hour drive to spend the day at the Citizen’s Disclosure Hearings in DC. The event was both promising and, well, ODD in that I had never heard of anyone doing anything like this before. And you know how it is when you encounter something BRAND NEW, you kind of have to wrap your mind around it.

So thankfully IMU Dean of Ufology Kelly Weary was very encouraging because it was the impetus I needed to take a day away from the computer to head out into the real world of Ufology. And man, am I glad I did!

So to the best of my understanding, here is what this thing was.

This man named Stephen Bassett was the brains and brawn behind the whole thing. He’s one of these very zealous activists who really believes that disclosure is a game changer. He’s devoted to the nth degree. I heard that he spent his inheritance on an unsuccessful run for congress (wow) and since then he has lived bare bones, outside of the matrix that most people swim in, to advance the cause. I have to say that I find this level of devotion admirable, though it screams of bit of the martyr. But at the same time, man it is just really impressive.

So after years of trying to change the system from the inside out, he decided to look at the problem of disclosure from a different angle. And we all know what happens when you do that! Magic!  After years of trying to get Congress to hold a hearing on the issue of UFO’s, something which hasn’t happened since the 1940′s, he decided to do it himself! It’s really quite brilliant, don’t you think?

In some ways this is like IMU. For years, I tried to find a college who already did this. It just seemed so obvious to me, so NECESSARY, and when it became clear that no one else was going to do it, (REALLY do it instead of the sort of short-hand versions that are out there) I stepped up and put one foot in front of the other until IMU was born.

So here was Stephen Bassett sort of doing the same thing. Instead of waiting on someone in Congress to put on the hearing, he did it himself.

Brilliant.

So then the walls and the barriers started to show up, as you know they will.

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Grant Cameron and Rebecca Hardcastle Wright at the UFO Disclosure Citizen’s Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club, April/May 2013.

But he did it. He pulled it off.

That alone is herculean.

So he looked for a location and he chose the Washington Press Club. It doesn’t get any better than that. And I gotta tell you, the event was first class all the way.

Then he had to put together a congressional panel. Well, that’s no easy feat since everyone knows that even saying you believe in UFOs is a career killer for a politician. Look at the career of someone like Dennis Kucinich. He was outed for a sighting he had many years before. And despite the fact that other credible witnesses corroborated the evidence, he was immediately labeled a kook. To this day, you almost never see a write up on him that doesn’t mention the UFO sighting. It has made him a laughingstock and everyone knows it. Worse, it has mitigated the career of a sincerely good man who is open-minded and sincerely working to help the people. So others look at that and they know not to go near the issue of UFOs with a ten foot pole.

So finding a credible panel to hear and question the testimony was no small feat.  Ultimately he compiled a panel of people who are retired from the congress. They were credible and really did a great job. You could see that they took the job seriously and were certainly not advancing any particular agenda.

Over the course of the week, from what others were saying, they underwent a huge transition. The power and credibility of the testimonials was convincing even to the most hardened skeptic. I have to admit that Bassett did an amazing job of choosing his witnesses. Wow. They were impressive and everyone could see it was the real deal.

Even for me, who is already a “believer” (which is a silly term when you’ve moved beyond believer into “duh, of course”), the evidence was mind-blowing. IMU professor Richard Dolan was particularly impressive as was soon-to-be IMU professor Grant Cameron. I’ll be posting a second article from the Huffington Post that includes information on the actual hearings themselves.

So for five days, these ex-congressmen and congresswomen who were brave enough to come forth and participate, heard testimony from experts. The experts presented their information (about 10 minutes a piece) and then they were questioned by the panel.

The goal here, as far as I could tell, was to essentially force through the idea of disclosure. At least that’s how it looks to me. If the government won’t do it, then the people will. It was a great idea.

But it didn’t really take into account the fact that UFOs are also a career-killer for journalists. Very few journalists have the courage and conviction to stand up and address the issue from an actual straight-forward and credible approach. And so most of the journalists who covered it did it from the veil of ridicule, as they always do. To me, it’s the sign of the ultimate coward, but when money is on the line, when reputation is on the line, careers are on the line, etc, people are easily frightened. Add to this the fact that the mainstream media is owned  by a very few people, as was pointedly noted by IMU instructor Richard Dolan, and it becomes obvious why the hearings, by and large, didn’t receive the quality of coverage that they deserved.

While I was only there for one day, I was utterly amazed at the quality of the testimony. I was particularly impressed by Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer. Man was this guy the bomb! lol. Before I knew who he was IMU professor Rebecca Hardcastle Wright (who I had the opportunity to meet for the first time and who is an absolute DELIGHT) introduced us in the hallway prior to his testimony. There was something about this man that instead of shaking his hand I went in for the hug! lol. Yes, I hugged him. I think it surprised him but to me it was an indication of how much this man just exudes goodness. He’s 90 years old and has an air of dignity and confidence mixed with humility that you rarely see anywhere. He stands tall and straight, probably 6 foot 2 or 3 and is dignified in his motions.  And in the midst of the kindness, you there was this…power. But like I said, it’s a different kind of  power—it was the kind of power that exuded goodness. I don’t remember coming across that combination before in my life.

So then he got up and he testified and he was just a mind-blower. He said things that just left my jaw on the floor! I couldn’t believe that someone who had been in his position would stand up there in this capacity and say the truth. It was more than I ever expected. If you get a chance to watch the hearings (which are available to stream online for under $5!), make sure you watch Hellyer’s testimony. It was mind-blowing.

So all in all, we have to ask the question of whether or not this was the game-changer that Bassett was going for. I guess only time will tell. I know that for anyone who is sitting on the fence, who is willing to actually listen to the testimony, they won’t be on the fence for long. And I guess for every person who sees just how credible and how IMPORTANT this issue is, we are closer and closer to hitting critical mass. As for whether or not it will get the attention of congress or other political or journalistic leaders, I doubt it. And I really don’t think that any of the people hired to hear the testimony will do anything with it. There simply wasn’t an obvious impetus for that. In many ways they felt like poor players who had strut and fret their hour upon the stage but then would likely be heard from no more. Actors of a sort in a very life-like play. But I do think that the ripple effects will show themselves for many years to come. And that makes it worthwhile for sure.

All in all I give Bassett a big thumbs up and I highly recommend taking the time to listen to the archives of the testimony.