The UFO conspiracy is not far-fetched. Despite continuing efforts by the powerful elite to maintain UFO secrecy the solid evidence is now to be found on the internet and elsewhere. It simply awaits the rational scrutiny of a sane Earth population prepared to accept that the mainstream media are not to be trusted. We must do the work for ourselves. So what are we waiting for?

Think multinational, corporate power and monopoly. Consider the ethics of known media moguls. Contemplate the historically documented secrecy employed to conceal the development of the H-Bomb and, for instance, to conceal the 1950's CIA biological weapons experimentation on US prisoners of war (since covered up by the young Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney!) [1] The story behind UFO secrecy is extraordinary, but not incredible. Arthur C. Clarke said any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Perhaps the same could be said for advanced secrecy.

The Disclosure Project's affronting and extensive evidence of the existence of visiting extraterrestrials, the study of ET vehicles and related cover-up reveals a most political and degenerate human conspiracy. The reasons for the continued secrecy are perversely logical. The secrecy machine has been primarily fuelled by obscene greed, not unlike that now being exposed by the wave of corporate scandal publicity in the United States. The acquisition of advanced technology brings advantage over the enemy and guarantees power and money for the elite few.

But how has all this been kept secret when in some parts of the world the sky has been virtually abuzz with extraterrestrial craft?[2] It's been through intimidation, ridicule and exquisite disinformation campaigns - no problem for the appropriately trained Earth human. The extraordinary fact that it has been possible to conceal this world's-greatest secret is also, conveniently down to the material's superficial absurdity. The truth can hide in plain sight. This has been encouraged by the widening gulf between public education and the truth and has been excellent in protecting it from scrutiny. But it's time to stop laughing. People have been thrown out of windows. The sometimes lethal intimidation employed by the keepers of this secret not only has parallels in other clandestine intelligence related operations. It has also led us to a social, economic and environmental crisis which threatens our very survival in the near term. This is why the extraterrestrials themselves, once mostly taking a non-interventionist approach, are now assuming a greater role in the critical enlightenment process.[3]

Before explaining some of the prosaic reasons for the extraterrestrial presence and cover-up there's another major misconception that requires clarification in order to demonstrate the immediate relevance of this topic. Super-luminal travel is a reality. Extraterrestrials apparently do it all the time by bending space-time. Sounds a little crazy? In the last couple of years the scientific journal 'Nature' published results of experiments in open science which prove that the generally held belief that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light is wrong. This August (2002) even popular scientist Paul Davies conceded that "all bets are off " and that this news is likely to please Star Trek fans because of the implications for interstellar travel. Super-luminal travel gets around the problem of requiring lifetimes to travel any worthwhile distance through the galaxy. Disclosure Project witness Dr Hal Puthoff, explains ", ...you usually hear that Einstein said you can't go faster than the speed of light...The options are to change the properties of space itself, so that locally the velocity of light is engineered to be faster than the usual value....it's actually the idea of stretching space - expanding space on one side of the craft, and shrinking space on the other..." [4]

So, what this means is that highly advanced visitors from all over the cosmos can pop in without ado whenever they have a reason to, and we gave them an especially good reason to during the last world war. Our nuclear capabilities and warlike tendencies are very much of concern to them, especially as we appear to be on the verge of interstellar space travel. (Some suggest this has already been achieved.)

The Disclosure Project draws on an extensive body of personal testimony from hundreds of military and government insiders. It also has thousands of government documents to support it's claims. Clearly corroborated are numerous accounts of so-called Foo fighters appearing during the second world war.[5] In the European and Pacific theatres, and in India pilots and crew members began reporting glowing balls flying in formation beside the military aircraft. It was determined that since the glowing balls tagged the Germans as well as the allied forces they were not created by the Germans. Disclosure Project witness, Clifford Stone, a retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant who had been involved in UFO crash retrievals asserts that an Interplanetary Phenomena Research Unit was secretly established in 1943 to study the UFO's. "On February 26th, 1942, commonly called the Battle of Los Angeles, we find that there are some 15 to 20 unidentified craft flying over Los Angeles. We immediately respond by trying to shoot these objects down....In the 1950's, the United States Air Force had an elite unit to investigate UFO's outside of [Project] Bluebook [the U.S.'s official investigation into UFOs]. Even though Bluebook felt that this unit was working with them, they were not." [6] Other witnesses agree with this point, including War Hero Lt. Col. Charles Brown who worked in the Air force Office of Special Investigations on project Grudge (the precursor to Project Bluebook).

In the early 1950's another witness, Sergeant Leonard Pretko, while serving in Hawaii, saw nine silver discs randomly moving over the entrance of Pearl Harbour,[7] The disks were also seen by about 250 other people watching a movie in an outdoor theatre. There are many examples like these and documentation to support them. To a Whitehouse Press Conference in 1950 none other than President Truman is recorded as saying, "I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth."[8] There are numerous corroborated accounts of ET activity around nuclear facilities and a number of witnesses talk of knowledge or involvement in the Roswell incident. Adding credence to these accounts is the fact that the Roswell crash occurred near the only military facility in the US, probably in the world, holding nuclear warheads. Dan Morris, a retired Air Force career Master Sergeant who had a 'cosmic' top secret clearance explains, "Who was stationed at Roswell? The only nuclear bomb squadron in the world". [9] There is a March 22 1950 memo from the Director of FBI (obtained through the CIA and Freedom of Information Act) which states that not just one, but three flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. [10]

In a top secret Canadian Department of Transport document, created in 1950, the level of not only sightings of UFOs but research based on retrieved ET vehicles is revealed. "We believe that we are on the track of something which may well prove to be the introduction to a new technology. The existence of a different technology is borne out by the investigations which are being carried on at the present time in relation to flying saucers....The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb." [11]

Disturbingly, another document written a little later by the director of the CIA, revealed an intention to utilise the "problems associated with UFO's" for psychological warfare. (This gives us a hint of some of the difficulties that exist now in getting to the truth of the matter.) "I suggest that we discuss at an early board meeting the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena for psychological warfare purposes." [12]

And with all this began the lust for power and desire for secrecy associated with the acquisition of these extraterrestrial technologies. There had already been extreme secrecy measures put in place while it was decided whether there really was a threat from extraterrestrials, and whether the people should be told that they exist. And they were continued after such fears had subsided. This environment of secrecy was ripe for exploiting. And so also began deliberate and elaborate campaigns to ridicule and discredit anyone claiming that UFO's existed. In 1975 Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first Director of the CIA, had this to say. "Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFO's. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense...I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects".[13]

Numerous Disclosure Project witnesses testify about the intimidation they suffered as a result of knowing too much. (And there was, and is much to know that goes well beyond the existence of visiting extraterrestrials and their craft.) Dan Morris even talks of his participation in programs to persuade witnesses to UFO events to change their minds. "I would go interview people who claimed they had seen something and try to convince them they hadn't seen something, or that they were hallucinating. Well, if that didn't work, another team would come in and give all the threats - threaten them and their family, and so on and so forth - they would be in charge of discrediting them: making them look foolish,...Now, if that didn't work, then there was another team that put an end to that problem, one way or another." [14]

It was in the 50s and 60s that the level of secrecy became so great that Conservative President Eisenhower lost control of the subject. When he warned in his final speech to the nation in 1961, about the 'acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex' [15] it was because he had already felt the UFO topic slip from his control. According to a witness who was close to the President, Eisenhower felt that the control of this topic was 'not going to be in the best hands'. Whose hands is it in? The Disclosure Project describes black- budget funded, rogue, military, trans-national, corporate entities that grew out of the once reasonable steps taken to protect national security during the Cold War. But in the past decade these entities have completely escaped legal, congressional and presidential oversight. They are now a hideous, literally terrifying power unto themselves.

We should not underestimate the frightening contribution the corporatisation of these military projects has made to taking the issue out of public control. The corporate sector, by law, enjoys the privilege of great secrecy regarding it's projects. It also is responsible for most of the production of military supplies, and it is also prepared to exploit any new technological gain to full advantage. This is a deadly range of powers, combined with the already compartmentalised, unacknowledged special access projects of the military and government - projects that the president is denied access to. But the good news is we can expose these operations by supporting en mass a call for congressional hearings in the US and elsewhere [16] because there are hundreds more people - aeronautical engineers, pilots, radar operators, intelligence personnel and others ready to testify about their first-hand experience with UFO secrecy and with these rogue ET intelligence, back-engineering projects.

The Disclosure Project's over 500 military, government and intelligence witnesses have not only provided testimony and documentary evidence that extraterrestrials and their vehicles exist, that they have been visiting us at least for decades and that there has been an extensive, decades long cover-up of this information. They reveal that, as well as some extraterrestrial vehicles crashing, some have been targeted and shot down. Yet Director Dr. Steven Greer says that none of the witnesses believe that there is any evidence of these extraterrestrials being hostile. Rather, they are concerned about our use of nuclear weapons and don't approve of us putting them in space. Perhaps the most urgent and least palatable conclusion reached by the Disclosure Project is that hoaxed ET events have been staged, (the brain child of trans-national, corporatised military projects) and they continue, with the goal of cranking up fear of the increasingly undeniable, real extraterrestrials, justifying the further weaponisation of space. [17] Don’t be deceived by a hoaxed extraterrestrial threat from space.

Those who benefit from fossil fuel usage and the current balance of political power at the expense of the rest of us don't wish to give up those benefits. And the changes to society as a result of these technological advances would be profound. The first world would be forced to share the table with the third world countries who would no longer be dependent for their power on the west.

Now that I understand some of the political context of the so-called UFO story I find that it no longer sounds far-fetched, and the urgency of disclosure is clear. The evidence presented indicates that most recent UFO activity occurred after we developed the first nuclear weapons and began to go into space. And the cover-up can be explained largely by a very human (at least Earth human) lust to selfishly acquire the associated technology and all the power that that implies. Simple. Well, actually, there are other points to consider, like the threat to religious institutions, and the difficulty with accepting that our understanding of the nature of reality is profoundly limited. Also limited is our understanding of advanced extraterrestrial ethics. Suffice to say that although there is, by necessity, increasing extraterrestrial intervention in the process of our enlightenment, the timing and nature of disclosure is really down to the Earth human.

by Vivienne Legg

October 2002

References

[1] The Secret War: Bio-Weapons and the CIA by Egmont R Kock & Michael Wech, Film production - copyright WDR 2002

[2] US Department of Defense report of Belgium sightings in Appendix 1. (Document A1.16) Disclosure Project Briefing Document, Steven M. Greer, M.D., Director and Theodore C. Loder III Ph.D. http://www.disclosureproject.org

[3] http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/2002/uk02dl.html http://cropcircleconnector.com

[4] 'Disclosure - Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History' Steven M. Greer M.D. 2001 p.524

[5] Pilot Leet's letter to Major Keyhoe Appendix 1 (Document A1.3) Disclosure Project Briefing Document, Steven M. Greer, M.D., Director and Theodore C. Loder III Ph.D

[6] 'Disclosure - Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History' Steven M. Greer M.D. 2001 p.325, 326

[7] 'Disclosure - Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History' Steven M. Greer M.D. 2001, p.480

[8] Trueman, Harry: White House press conference, April 4, 1950

[9] 'Disclosure - Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History' Steven M. Greer M.D. 2001 p.362

[10] 'Disclosure - Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History' Steven M. Greer M.D. 2001 p.465

[11] 'Disclosure - Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History' Steven M. Greer M.D. 2001 p.271

[12] 'Disclosure - Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History' Steven M. Greer M.D. 2001 p.68

[13] Hillenkoetter, Roscoe: ‘Aliens from Space’, Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, 1975.

[14] 'Disclosure - Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History' Steven M. Greer M.D. 2001 p.362

[15] Eisenhower, Dwight: Last speech as President, January 1961

[16] The Disclosure Project http://www.disclosureproject.org

[17] Cosmic Deception: Let the Citizen Beware, Steven M. Greer MD Director, The Disclosure Project, June 2002 http://www.disclosureproject.org/cosmicdeception.htm