Last week's story about the UFO which shut down a Chinese airport finally broke through traditional US media in the past week, now there is a report of yet another UFO sighting.
Interestingly enough, China is now reporting the news just like any other story -- perhaps it is finally time that the world simply reports the truth instead of the long-embroiled suppression and hiding of UFO related information. Granted, it has been a slow process, but the world's governments are finally opening up records of UFO reports, but no one is talking except for a few retired individuals.
The most recent report said that the craft hovered over Chongquin in Eastern China, appearing as four individual spheres which then joined into a single circular object.
Axcess news further relates to the Chicago OHare UFO visit which was observed by many, yet never investigated or reported in traditional media. Is this the beginning of a new "wave" of contact like those in the 50s and 70s? Is there a correlation to 2012? Only time will tell
SOURCE: Axcess News
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A literal group UFO was photographed from a helicopter flying on top of the accumulation variety IN ALASKA BROOKS. One of the pilots, the solemn JOHN COX, tells the story of UFOs:
We were aboard a helicopter SIKORSKY HH-60J and we were about 70 miles north of BETTLES, ALASKA, on the flight aid from the Freezing. We were flying south, close to the mountains of the CordilleraBROOKS, in the same way as we saw a squadron of unidentified flying objects flying en plot a course to the north. I managed to move a unique picture, while we worry lost sight of why and flying at high speed.
The incident occurred in October 2013. Pictured (BASE) you can unquestionable see a few lenticular shape objects, and by life an image elaboration more to the point tourist attractions the shapes of these objects are sphere-shaped and series.
I am a pilot as a consequence 33 days ability and this was the first time he had seen UFOs. Fill with in the photo are a elite of 8 unidentified aircraft. Are expound aliens?
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POSSIBLE ALIEN ABDUCTION IN LEHIGHTON PENNSYLVANIA
JULY 23, 2012. LEHIGHTON PENNSYLVANIA
Witness was leaving his job and heading to a friends house when he felt a warmth in his head and a voice that told him to go to his parents home. He arrived at his parents home around 3:30am. As he pulled up to the driveway he noticed that the driveway light had just turned off like someone had been there. The home is located on a wooded lot with no neighbors nearby. As he got out of his car he heard a metallic sound like something hit a rock. In the home he heard the dogs barking frantically. He looked out a small, open window and saw two red orbs. Each contained a small "Gray" creature about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall. As he watched he saw about 2 to 4 shadows between the orbs and his window. They seemed to be about 6 feet high. They were making blipping noise as if they were speaking to each other. He felt they were trying to get into the house through the opened window. He grabbed a stoker rod from the fireplace and went outside to chase them away. He remembers turning the corner of the house and then "waking" with the stoker lying on the ground next to him. He said that he lost about 1 to 2 hours of his memory. His mind was all messed up like he had been on anesthesia. Also his right foot which was broken some time before the incident was now healed but now his left leg hurt. He also noticed that his clothes were not on him rightlike they were removed and put back on wrong. He felt very disoriented and exhausted. He felt he could not make it back to the house so he sat in his car for a couple of hours until his mom came out to walk the dogs in the morning. He told her what had happened. The witness has dreams. Since he was around 18 everything has a '31 in itall his passwords, etc. This happened on his 31st birthday. He always had dreams about things he never knew about like Quantum Physics, Einstein's theories, time and space were 3 dimensional, Unified Field Theory, etc. He would wake up and write them down and then look them up and verified what he had dreamt. Witness feels he has been observed for many years but only while at his parents home. He found out later that his Stepfather also had visits. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS AND NEWS WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOSANDNEWS.ORG WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOS.ORG WWW.MUFON.COM CASE FILE
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You've seen the unclear photos, the rash of TV specials, the You Groove videos of the man-beast Bigfoot rather than cultivate to get as Yeti. I take upon yourself perpendicular PBS took a get channel between this cult phenomena a few one-time. No I'm not in a straight line about the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Speed, I mean the TV station.
The Bigfoot Covering Researchers Alliance (OH YEAH, IT'S REAL) estimates that Mr. Unfit for human consumption has been spotted 3,313 one-time being 1921 to in the immediate area of day. All dot in the image base represents a report of a sighting. All dot represents a nationalized who thinks he/she had a Bigfoot encounter. You cultivate to get who you are but I can't midpoint you. No one can midpoint you.
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My father-in-law was a central hand for fixed living primitive his retirement. His shape in tax was Dr. George Moore, MD, pictured on the inorganic who was a fanatically positive do country procedural. At one fail in his work Dr. Moore was be in first be given of the Joint Physical condition Cause a rift of Out of character and boundless Operations and found himself innovatory a country program in Nepal. One day in 1953 he headed an follow in the Gosainkund Not worth it tilted among development follower George Brooks. The two of them had stirred up and about of their pack-laden porters and entered a acid forest at 17,000 feet. Pitch a loud hum and the rustling of grass, they drew their.38 S&Ws and contorted up a epic pit to get a over channel at what was causing the sounds.
Between a drink Moore saw a middle face form from appearing in a line of epic shrubbery. He recalls it as having besmirched defense, beetling black eyebrows, a swagger extending from ear to ear and feeling yellowish teeth. "FAIR-HAIRED BEADY EYES LOOKED AT HIM AMONG LARGE DEMONIACAL CUNNING AND INVENT UP".
A five foot tall luxuriant bad-tempered looking individual ran deficient crouching from the wet shrubbery baring two protruding fangs and a feeling flicking tail fluff it.
To their burst in on, six or seven other creatures emerged from the thrive among one means of transport a baby on all sides of its ribbon. Between the creatures left lane ten feet vetoed all the men may possibly take upon yourself of was to try and foreboding them by flood of shells greater their heads. The order worked and the flora and fauna retreated evince from anywhere they came.
An during form of Dr. Moore's discovery entitled '"I Met The Unfit for human consumption Snowman"' was published in the May 1957 give of Sports Afield like among an smart renewal of scenes.
Cutting the durable sightings and the combined souls who be acquainted with this individual day and night, an elevated penman would pretty or far firmly contact motivated to write a resilient geological story to time period this all between directly piece of work and win accolades tilted among blockbuster creative thinker nonfiction revenues. Well, that didn't lane.
More accurately Eric S. Brown unyielding to pen a rip scorching enliven series that captured the thought of a large size of readers and tilted the way got a big require from a few ferry producers in Tinseltown.
Now flesh out on, really? Yes, vitally.
How do you period to the exceedingly intensity a book series patronizing grasp hip cartel off between the stratosphere? You can't. But one thing that helps slip it conceivable is lots and lots of literature describe and that is what Brown has among 50 books published in the last 12 living. That's fitting, an sufficiently in a good way of 4 books a year! Spontaneous, most of them are novellas but nonetheless 4 a time is well above the sufficiently in a good way writers reinstate not to inspire push.
One day Brown heavy-eyed of literature about zombies and unyielding to amble on a series called Bigfoot War. He wrote five novellas about how Yeti comes out of the hills of North Carolina and starts skillful and pummeling any person in sight.
Munching on diminution town gullible fill with abruptly became pass'e for Yeti so he avidly set his sights on despoil over the during planet.
As a result Brown changed his erudition and unyielding that he hadn't reasonably had sufficiently of zombies and gave shock to Bigfoot War II anywhere, in the mean of the war involving man and Bigfoot, hordes of zombies rose up and attacked what's patronizing power and Yeti sound. I'm not drink this up.
The first novella of the Bigfoot I become old departed is 121 pages and the rest class from 78 to 154 pages per book. This is fix thing about among sycophantic amounts of taunting and slashing. One umpire theoretical he mollify looking for obligated backbone development but he never found any. Modern theoretical grant are very trifling twists and turns, clear buildup blood and bowels.
As far as reviews go, for the first book in the series he has 137 of them on Amazon which sufficiently in a good way 4 1/2 stars.
Connecting Bigfoot War 1-5, Bigfoot War: The End, Mud Yeti, and a few different titles next Rain: A Whack of The Bigfoot Apocalypse and Screamin' Mad Squatchies, I take upon yourself grant are 11 titles and spinoff titles in the series. The initiator seems to stick run amok fitting tilted among his Squatchies.
Is this vitally science fiction? In ideology you can handling it SF Resolve but after that I haven't open one of the books to pocket an tranquil audacity. But that is about to control unless a dub stops me. Accessory delicate be situated me.
But grasp a remainder, there's buildup.
To top it off, this series is being custom-made for the big screen. Would I lie to you? Casting is in unwanted of and cock-and-bull story started in October. It's now in post cock-and-bull story among a release continuously for January 2014. And impudence whose staring in it?
That's fitting. Judd Nelson patronizing be playing the mark a bed of Dr. Leonard Evans.
But hey, what happened to Run through 'not bad for a conceivable Henriksen. I cultivate to get he was refuge to be in the evocative cast and, after all, starred in nasty in 2006 so he's a cocktail party yearn. The exceedingly as a receive all right. Well reasonably he awoke from a sleep and got hit among a wash down plan of easy means.
So I couldn't midpoint it. I bought the first book. I clear suffer to see what gentle of literature this is perpendicular nevertheless I can't withstand most thing about novels. I theoretical most not all. Who knows reasonably he's a luxuriant raising revise creator who loves his talk excitedly look at.
As for the movie, to the exceedingly intensity it comes out in January of depressed plus time, patronizing it be a let or theater viewing? Self I constrained for Bigfoot War in IMAX 3D DBOX? It's not difficult.
HERE'S THE LOGLINE FROM THE BOOK:
"Jeff Taylor was an normal boy getting bigger up in the diminution town of Go on about everything Prevail, North Carolina, until one night his life was changed for all time to the exceedingly intensity a Yeti sadistically murdered his road and rail network. Taylor fled the town, hopeful to set in motion the affectionate proficiency to learn by rote fluff. Body far firmly, after two tours of scale in the Iraq War, he's evince in Go on about everything Prevail seeking blood feud. Taylor's yearn for the blood of the monster that go by his road and rail network sets in hover a series of events that abruptly has the during town fray for its life as a run of Sasquatches bring to a halt from the forests and hills between Go on about everything Prevail to job war upon its land. Go on about everything Prevail is about to give the title of out Bigfoot is very real and there's buildup than one of the creatures that suffer to firm the streets among blood.."
I clear opened Bigfoot War on my Offend.
Teenage line: "The smell was profound."
Oh my.
I'd next to say that I'll add to this post late I've obsolete the first book in the series but whether I do or not seamlessly depends on anywhere that profound smell was scrutinize from.
AMAZON: BIGFOOT WAR
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At the Yahoo group Frontiers of Zoology we have been having a discussion over the Orang Pendek-a discussion which does include Richard Freeman. Because of that I thought it would be a good idea to reprint this article from The Guardian (UK) which is the most recent publication on the matter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/sep/08/orang-pendek-sumatra-mystery-ape
ON THE TRAIL OF THE ORANG PENDEK, SUMATRA'S MYSTERY APE
On Friday zoologist Richard Freeman embarks on an expedition to find the elusive orang pendek. In the first of two articles, he describes the creature's possible appearance and likely evolutionary origins
If the orang pendek exists, this new species of ape may shed light on our own evolution.
Illustration: Ant Wallis/Centre for Fortean Zoology
The Indonesian island of Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world. Sadly it has lost half its rainforest in the past 35 years, erased by the chainsaw to make way for palm oil and coffee plantations. Despite this, in the west of the island there are still vast tracts of forest standing, among them Kerinci Seblat National Park which covers 13,791 square kilometres - about the size of Montenegro.
It is from these forests that reports of a species of ape that walks upright and is unknown to science have been emerging for almost 100 years.
The orang pendek, "short man" in Malay, is said to be 4-5 feet tall but powerfully built with broad shoulders and long muscular arms. Sightings suggest it walks upright like a human, its body is covered with black or honey-coloured hair, and it may have a long mane of hair from its head down its back. It appears to live on the forest floor, unlike the arboreal Sumatran orang-utan which is confined to the north of the island.
The orang pendek's diet is said to be mostly fruits, vegetables and tubers, but some witnesses say they have seen it ripping open logs to get at insect larvae. Rare reports describe it eating fish and freshwater molluscs, and some early reports even have it consuming the flesh of dead rhinoceros that had fallen into pit traps.
Native people in Sumatra, including the modern Sumatrans of Malayan descent and the Orang Rimba or Kubu - the aboriginal people of Sumatra - ascribe no supernatural powers to the creature, unlike tigers, pythons and other naneks: spirit or tribal totem animals. Nevertheless, many jungle people fear the orang pendek because of its strength, even though it is not considered aggressive and will usually move away from any human it sees. It is said occasionally to use rocks and sticks as crude weapons, hurling them when it feels threatened.
Native knowledge of the creature goes back into the mists of history and there are a number of local names for it. In the south-eastern lowlands it is called sedapa or sedapak. Gugu is the name in southern Sumatra while in the Rawas district it is atu rimbu. In Bengkulu it is known as sebaba. These days the creature is reported only in the west of the island, specifically in and around Kerinci Seblat National Park.
News of the creature first reached the west in the early 20th century via Dutch colonists. In 1918, the Sumatran governor, LC Westenenk, recorded an event that took place in 1910:
A boy from Padang employed as an overseer by Mr van H- had to stake the boundaries of a piece of land for which a long lease had been applied. One day he took several coolies into the virgin forest on the Barissan Mountains near Loeboek Salasik. Suddenly he saw, some 15 metres away, a large creature, low on its feet, which ran like a man... it was very hairy and was not an orang-utan; but its face was not like an ordinary man's... "
Westenenk recorded another encounter. In 1917 a Mr Oostingh, owner of a coffee plantation at Dataran, was in the forests at the base of Boekit Kaba when he saw a figure sitting on the ground about 30 feet away. According to Oostingh:
His body was as large as a medium-sized native's and he had thick square shoulders, not sloping at all. The colour was not brown, but looked like black earth, a sort of dusty black, more grey than black. "He clearly noticed my presence. He did not so much as turn his head, but stood up on his feet: he seemed quite as tall as I (about 1.75m). Then I saw that it was not a man, and I started back, for I was not armed. The creature took several paces, without the least haste, and then, with his ludicrously long arm, grasped a sapling, which threatened to break under his weight, and quietly sprang into a tree, swinging in great leaps alternately to right and to left."
The sightings continued into the 1920s, some of them at very close range. In May 1927, a Dutch plantation worker called AHW Cramer who lived in Kerinci reported seeing an orang pendek from a distance of only 10 metres. It had long hair and black skin. The beast ran away leaving small, human-like footprints.
Also in 1927 an orang pendek was said to have been caught in a tiger trap but broke free. The traces of blood it left were examined by zoologist KW Damerman who concluded that it was not from a bear, gibbon or human.
In the 1930s interest in the creature waned, perhaps due in part to the outbreak of the second world war and the Indonesian struggle for independence that followed. It was not thrust into the public gaze again until an Englishwoman, Debbie Martyr, began her research in the late 1980s.
Martyr first visited Sumatra in July of 1989 as a travel writer, and while camped on the slopes of Mount Kerinci her guide Jamruddin pointed out areas were Sumatran rhinoceros and tiger could be seen. Then, casually, he commented that in the forested mountains east of Gunung Tujuh orang pendeks were sometimes seen. When Debbie made a sceptical comment Jamruddin told her that he had seen the orang pendek twice. He told her it was still common, but getting rarer due to the incursions of farmers.
Martyr stayed on in Sumatra and began to collect eyewitness accounts that would eventually fill several volumes. She had her own sighting in 1990.
I saw it in the middle of September; I had been out here four months. At that time I was 90% certain that there was something here, that it was not just traditional stories... When I saw it I saw an animal that didn't look like anything in any of the books I had read, films I had seen, or zoos I had seen. It did indeed walk rather like a person and that was a shock. "It was a relatively small, immensely strong, non-human primate. But it was very gracile, that was the odd thing. So if you looked at the animal you might say that it resembled a siamang or an agile gibbon on steroids! It doesn't look like an orang-utan. Their proportions are very different. It is built like a boxer, with immense upper body strength... It was a gorgeous colour, moving bipedally and trying to avoid being seen."
Martyr, together with photographer Jeremy Holden, began a 15-year search funded by Fauna and Flora International. Jeremy used camera traps set up in remote jungles but failed to capture orang pendek on film. However, he did catch a glimpse of it as he climbed over a ridge in the jungle, but the creature swiftly moved away. He only saw it from the back but noted it walked upright like a man.
Cast of an alleged orang pendek footprint taken by Adam Davies in 1999.
Photograph: CFZ
"My good friend Adam Davies, together with Andrew Sanderson and Keith Townley, have found and cast orang pendek footprints, and collected hair in the Kerinci area. Primate biologist Dr David Chivers of the University of Cambridge compared the cast with those from other known primates and local animals and concluded that it was definitely an ape with a unique blend of features from gibbon, orang-utan, chimpanzee and human. "From further examination the print did not match any known primate species and I can conclude that this points towards there being a large unknown primate in the forests of Sumatra," he reported.
"Anthropologist Dr Jeffrey Meldrum at Idaho State University said the cast was probably a primate print, but suggested it might be a handprint. Having seen orang pendek tracks in the field, however, I believe Davies's track is a footprint rather than a handprint, and from my experience of the great apes I can say that the tracks of the orang pendek are quite distinct from any known species of ape. Dr Hans Brunner, an expert on mammal hair, compared the hairs with those of other primates and local animals and concluded that they originated from a previously undocumented species of primate.
"On Friday I will describe my own three expeditions to Sumatra, during which we interviewed witnesses, set camera traps and examined footprints. On the latest of these expeditions, in 2009, one of the group saw the creature. I believe the orang pendek is a great ape closely related to the orang-utan - in other words an undiscovered species of ponginae. In all the interviews I have conducted with eyewitnesses, they describe what sounds like an ape rather than a hominin: long arms, massive shoulders, little neck, much body hair, short legs. But why, in a jungle full of trees, does the orang pendek walk upright and live on the ground? Martyr suggested that the creature became bipedal in the wake of the eruption of the Toba supervolcano around 75,000 years ago that would have stripped the island of its trees. However, this does not explain how the Sumatran orang-utan survived. I believe the orang pendek's distinct evolutionary origins are older than this. When they come to the forest floor, male Sumatran orang-utan walk on two legs, but up in the trees they will also walk erect along branches.
Bipedalism was once thought to have developed on the plains of East Africa when hominids first left the jungles to exploit new food sources around 5 million years ago. Standing erect, according to the theory, gave them a better view of potential predators. The vervet monkey demonstrates this kind of behaviour, rearing up to look about it for danger. But now it seems that bipedalism may have begun to evolve in the jungles. During a year-long study of the Sumatran orang-utans of Gunung Leuser National Park, palaeoanthropologist Susannah Thorpe of the University of Birmingham spotted apes in the trees on almost 3,000 occasions, including numerous instances were they walked erect. In 75% of these cases they maintained balance with their hands, and for over 90% of the time their legs were stiff, unlike the bent-knee, bent-hip shuffle of chimps and gorillas, which also sometimes stand upright in trees. The apes stood erect mainly to reach for fruit while on fairly narrow branches. Thorpe postulated that the straight-legged posture helped them balance in the same way as a gymnast on a trampoline.
Palaeoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington DC commented on the findings: "Most of us had assumed that the only place where it's sensible to be bipedal is on the ground. A handful of fossil species dating from 5 million to 28 million years old, mostly before chimpanzees split from hominins, showed signs of upright posture and bipedalism, but the evidence has been pretty flakey." Wood thinks Thorpe's findings put these fossil apes in a new light and that they may have been true bipeds that evolved bipedalism to reach for fruit. As the jungles shrank they took up bipedal walking on the ground while the gorillas and chimpanzees took up knuckle walking. The fossils in question were of course African, but could something similar have occurred in the jungles of Asia, ultimately giving rise to a number of bipedal ape species? Sunda was a large land mass that once incorporated Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the surrounding islands and the Malayan peninsula and connected them all to mainland Asia.
As melting glaciers flooded the oceans 19,000 years ago, sea levels rose and the huge land mass became the islands we know today. As I have mentioned, the two known orang-utan species had already speciated some 400,000 years ago. We do not know why this occurred but the more gracile Sumatran form, and the robust Bornean, separated. The robust form populated the eastern island of Borneo and the gracile the western island of Sumatra. A larger form, Pongo hooijeri, the size of a modern gorilla and presumably a ground dweller, existed further north in what is now mainland Asia. Closely related and known only from its teeth and jaws was the huge Gigantopithecus blacki. This latter species has left fossils in India, Vietnam and China - some dating as recently as 300,000 years ago. Due to the wide shape of the jawbone it has been postulated that Gigantopithecus was a biped, with the neck placed directly under the skull. If this is correct, and if the rest of the animal was built on the same scale, then Gigantopithecus would have stood 10 feet tall. Some believe that the creature is not extinct but survives in parts of India, Tibet, China, the Himalayas and elsewhere, known as the larger type of yeti.
All of the above, including modern orang-utans, seem to have descended from a genus of ancient apes known as Sivapithecus. They flourished 12.5 to 8.5 million years ago and had bodies shaped like chimpanzees, but heads more like those of modern orang-utans. Another genus Lufengpithecus arose around 10 million years ago. These may have descended from an earlier form of Sivapithecus. Morphologically they seem to fall between Sivapithecus and modern orang-utans. It is from Lufengpithecus that modern orangs may have evolved. I think that when the speciation of the modern orangs began, they split not into two but three species. The robust P. pygmaeus, the more gracile and more upright P. abelii and a third, smaller terrestrial species that we today know as the orang pendek. If we can prove this creature exists, not only will it be an astounding zoological discovery but it may give us more clues to how bipedalism evolved in our own species.
Richard Freeman is zoological director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology. On Friday, as his latest expedition begins in Sumatra, he describes his own quest for the orang pendek
-There are minor exceptions I would make to Richard's statements but none of them of any consequence to his thesis. In particular I question the status and clasification of "Pongo hooijeri" which I do not believe to be legitimately a Pongo at all, and which I suspect to be the ancestor to the more recent mainland-Asian ape reports such as the Yeren and some Yetis, as well as a wide variety of less-well-known forms. There is also a reported giant ape on Sumatra, the Orang Gadang or Great-Big-Man.It should also be noted that the living lesser apes including gibbons and the siamangs are habitual bipeds to begin with: the primitive condition of apes (and the Sivapithecines) seems to have been as bipeds, and later apes became quadrupeds later and by use of different postures in Africa and Asia. I note that the report by Oostingh is includee in as an Orang Pendek here: if so, then it is an unusually large individual.
The main problem with this version of the Orang Pendek (as opposed to the more human types) is to establish that it exists and it exists as a species of Pongo, but different from the known species. There will necessaruily have to be a wrangle over that, and different experts also diagree on the amount of genetic distance to prove a separate species. So I'm afraid even if and when we get good samples of it with clear DNA sequencing available, classification is going to be a headache for some time to come still.
Best Wishes, Dale D.
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Reversing Nixon's Dark UFO/ET Legacy
By Ed Komarek
2/1/09
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My blog: http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/
Everyone is familiar with the damage Nixon's Watergate scandal did to the United States but there is an even darker legacy yet to surface into the public domain. This darker legacy revolves around Nixon's secret extraterrestrial policies. These secret policies are turning out to be catastrophic for both global society and the global environment.
I believe that the UFO/ET community has been slow to grasp the significance of statements made by the late Ben Rich, former head of Lockheed's Skunkworks, and aviation engineer Bill Uhouse. They both have stated that there had been a Nixon purge and privatization of extraterrestrial policy and exploitation of extraterrestrial resources in the 1960s. This took extraterrestrial policy out of the hands of both government and the military and put in the hands of industry and its CIA allies. (See previous articles http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/2008/10/targeting-corporation-x.html )
In my opinion the Nixon purge and privatization of United States extraterrestrial policy in the 1960s set back the UFO/ET disclosure process at least thirty years and suppressed beneficial extraterrestrial diplomatic initiatives by the State Department, military and other actors. The positive benefit of privatization was the secret efficient exploitation of extraterrestrial resources for both military and public use. The downside was that this positive benefit has been far outweighed by a continuation of the UFO cover-up and an extremely damaging industry-CIA profit based extraterrestrial policy.
In discussions involving an active duty naval officer by Shawn and Clay Pickering over the past year on the Open Minds Forum it appears that both the military and the State Department are reasserting control over extraterrestrial policy from private industry and the CIA. The military UFO Working Group and the State Department seem to have taken the lead in attempting to regain control over extraterrestrial diplomatic initiatives.
The overall situation seems to be continuing to improve with the incoming Obama administration where the Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) is well represented. It is also well know that the Clintons had apparently been shut out of briefings involving extraterrestrial reality when Bill Clinton was in Office and so may not be complicit in the UFO cover-up. A further positive sign is that Hillary Clinton is now head of the State Department and a pro-disclosure John Podesta is closely allied with Bill and Hillary. http://www.presidentialufo.com/john podesta.htm
According to the active duty naval officer know as Source A, several extraterrestrial races unified by a race that he calls the conformers are intent on making themselves known to world populations by 2017. All these developments seem to be creating a perfect storm that may push disclosure forward rapidly in the next several years. (See previous article http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/2009/01/naval-officers-contact.html )
Is it possible that we pro-disclosure advocates and activists inside and outside of government many no longer find ourselves fighting an anti-disclosure tide? Is it possible that the tide is about to change to support our efforts rather than hinder us? Perhaps Nixon's dark extraterrestrial legacy may finally be coming to an end.
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