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November  8, 2011


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Press Release
November 8, 2011

White House Response to the Disclosure Petition


Washington, DC - Sixty-four years after flying disks became a worldwide phenomenon, a formal position on this phenomenon has been issued in print by the executive branch of the United States government for the first time.   On Friday, November 4 the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) responded to two petitions submitted to the We the People section of the White House website.  One of these, the Disclosure Petition, was submitted by Paradigm Research Group.   The White House response gave the administration's assessment of the assertion by a growing number of researchers and activists that flying disks and other related phenomena confirm an extraterrestrial, non-human intelligence engaging the human race.  See:  https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/searching-et-no-evidence-yet    and   www.disclosurepetition.info

OSTP researcher Phil Larson wrote, "The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth."  Unfortunately for the OSTP and the Obama administration, that assertion is false.  Furthermore, given that approximately 50% of the American people are now convinced of an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about the phenomenon, it is an embarrassment.

There are only four possible explanations for this statement from the OSTP:

1)  It is a political lie.  Whatever the executive branch personnel may know about extraterrestrial evidence, the administration cannot acknowledge any such awareness in order to protect the President's political prospects in the next election.

2)  It is a national security lie.   The administration cannot acknowledge any such awareness of the evidence as a matter of national security.  Which is to say the people cannot handle such truths.

3)  It demonstrates the present executive branch of the United States government, including a substantial collection of military, science and intelligence advisors, is completely unaware of the massive evidence for an extraterrestrial presence that has been accumulated over six decades by an extraordinary citizen science/truth movement.   Which is to say the administration is both ignorant and incompetent.

4)  The statement is correct and the aforementioned accumulation of evidence is just a sixty year, worldwide misunderstanding.

There are no other possible explanations, and in due course administration officials will have to defend their formal statement on one of these bases.

Paradigm Research Group invites the political media to give the evidentiary matrix behind the extraterrestrial reality a modest examination and consider challenging the Obama administration's position on what is easily the most important issue in the world today.   Such an examination might include:

1)  Reviewing quotes by persons of high rank and station over many decades.  See: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/QuotesPage.html
 
2)  Reviewing a database of thousands of sightings by pilots in flight.   This database is managed by NARCAP.  See:    www.narcap.org

3)  Reviewing the following books:  UFOs and the National Security State - Vols. 1 and 2 (Dolan), UFOs and Nukes (Hastings), Witness to Roswell (Carey/Schmitt),
UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record (Kean), Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up (Hansen), Above Top Secret (Good), Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens (Mack), Top Secret/Majic (Friedman).

4)  Reviewing the following documentaries:  Out of the Blue (Fox/Coleman)     UFOs: 50 Years of Denial (Fox)    The Day Before Disclosure (Toftenes)

5)  Reviewing the public statements of two astronaut legends:  Col. Gordon Cooper and Dr. Edgar Mitchell.   See:  www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gordon+cooper&aq=f   and  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Mitchell_Media_Coverage.htm

6)  Reviewing the government witness testimonies amassed by the Disclosure Project.   See:  www.disclosureproject.org/access/

The above represent but a small fraction of the evidence the White House now formally claims is either not credible or does not exist, and there is one more area of enquiry the political media might engage - one with an ironic aspect.

From early 1993 to late 1996 billionaire Laurance Rockefeller engaged the Clinton administration through the Office of Science and Technology Policy to convince President Clinton to release all files regarding the UFO/ET issue and end the truth embargo.  Why is this relevant to the current administration?   Those persons who at the time were either directly involved with or knew about what has come to be called the "Rockefeller Initiative" include:  Bill Clinton (advisor to the President), Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State), John Podesta (Obama transition co-chair), Webster Hubbell, Leon Panetta (CIA Director/Secretary of Defense), Dr. John Gibbons - involved; Albert Gore, Bill Richardson (Governor of New Mexico) - knew.

None of these high level officials have ever spoken publicly about the Rockefeller Initiative or been asked a single question about the Initiative in public by the political media.  Perhaps it is time for that to change.   See: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm   and   www.presidentialufo.com/bill-clinton/105-extraterrestrial-politics-part-1-rockefeller-initiative-to-the-clinton-white-house   and   www.presidentialufo.com/bill-clinton/107-extraterrestrial-politics-part-3-rockefeller-continues-his-effort-to-get-ufo-disclosure

PRG executive director Stephen Bassett will soon submit more extensive op-ed commentary on the OSTP position statement to the appropriate newspapers for consideration.

PRG press releases archived at:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Press_Releases/Press_release_index.html

Contact:   Stephen Bassett
                 202-215-8344
                 PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                 www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
 

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Paradigm Research Group
4938 Hampden Lane, #161, Bethesda, MD 20814
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org 202-215-8344
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

      

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November  7, 2011

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November 7.2011
White House Denies that Evidence on ET Presence Exists
Rejects Disclosure Group's Petition
 
CBC's CONNECT with MARK KELLEY
 
Dear Mark
You may be aware that the UFO/ET issue has been presented to the White House through the We the People petition process. Over 12,000 people signed the petition. The White House was committed to respond to any petition that had over 5000 signators. They have responded and have rejected any recognition of evidence.
 
This response - from a low level staff member in the Department of Science and Technology - has been deemed unacceptable by Stephen G. Bassett Executive Director of the Paradigm Research Group in Washington DC. Many in the Disclosure movement feel the determination by the White House is not only unacceptable - it represents a complete disregard for the evidence which clearly resides not only in declassified files but in the testimony of dozens of former military personnel on this matter including Capt Robert Salas who has been on your program.
 
We also know that Congressman Peter King is in possession of seven notarized affidavits from US Air Force ICBM launch officials indicating missiles have been shut-down by craft of unknown origin. This was reported by ZlandCommunications at: http://zlandcommunications.blogspot.com/2011/03/homeland-security-committee-chair.html .
 
Although Congressman King's office has acknowledged to us he is in receipt of these affidavits - to date we at ZlandCommunications are unaware that the Congressman has yet chosen to provide this national security information to the White House or to the House Committee on National Security of which Congressman King is the Chair. Yet another indication that despite the overwhelming evidence - political officials will do whatever is necessary to keep this matter from the public.
 
Last Fall you did an interview with me concerning the NASA discovery of the possibility of life in inhospitable environments and what this may mean to the Exopolitical movement towards government disclosure. Today the White House petition and the response is being covered by MSNBC. It has also been covered  by Laura Meckler of the Wall Street Journal. Coverage of this nature is unprecedented by the WSJ.
 
For this reason and compounded by the complete lack of objectivity by the Dept of Science and Technology in Washington, I and many others feel CONNECT with Mark Kelley would be the ideal Canadian media outlet to address what we feel is an unacceptable and dismissive response by the White House to the immense data they have chosen to over-look. Not only have they chosen to over-look it, they have chosen to stifle and put to an end any public dialogue that military people and other private citizens have been advocating for the last two decades. The abject denial and silence by upper-level officials is becoming obvious each time significant advances are made to achieve clarity on this matter.
 
I would therefore recommend that you consider having Stephen G. Bassett on your program so he can clarify the nature and intention of the petition and what he and others will be doing to sustain the dialogue about the reality of the UFO/ET presence now engaging the planet. As Mr. Bassett will no doubt agree - this matter has reached a stage in the democratic process where it is being openly thwarted at every turn. Stephen is the leading advocate as well as a knowledgeable and articulate spokesperson for the Disclosure movement in Washington and recognized internationally as such. Stephen and I have discussed this matter often and we agree that further action is necessary.
 
He can be reached at: PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
or at: 202-215-8344
http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/index-2.html
 
By way of background- This is not the first time the White House has managed to diffuse the issue - as you will notice in PRG's exposure of the ROCKEFELLER INITIATIVE during the Clinton administration; an open attempt by philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller to have President Clinton release UFO files.
http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm
 
Also see: Laurance S. Rockefeller's letter to President William Clinton: http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-8-23-95.htm#2
This volley of letters (some 53) was a powerful indication that this issue has been discussed by White House officials - including the President, but efforts to submerge the matter continue to be standard practice - with no recourse or appeal.
 
If you feel it appropriate, I am also available to be part of the interview from a Canadian perspective - however Mr. Bassett's expertise will be invaluable and permit a very comprehensive and politically astute assessment as to why the White House may have reacted this way and the where the Disclosure process needs to go in order to have this globally critical issue moved from behind the wall of secrecy and into the public domain where it rightly belongs.
 
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at:
905.278.1238 (R)
416.801.8056 (C)
E-mail: zland@sympatico.ca
 
Sincere Regards
Victor Viggiani
News Director
The ZlandCommunications News Network

 

October 26, 2011

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Media Alert

Wall Street Journal exposes Government Extraterrestrial Wall of Secrecy

The X-Factor revealing the truth about UFOs

Toronto October 26, 2001
[ZNN]  Wall Street may be occupied but the prestigious Wall Street Journal is indeed "occupied" by matters of the Extraterrestrial kind.

The Wall Street Journal, America's esteemed and largest selling newspaper by circulation, has made a daring editorial decision to cover the We the People Petition to the White House to acknowledge an ET presence now engaging the planet.

In light of a precedent setting on-line article by WSJ journalist Laura Meckler, there appears to be an unambiguous move by the ownership of the WSJ [News Corporation] to expose what the government may be withholding about the matter of extraterrestrials. Her article may represent the first real attempt in contemporary mainstream journalism to expose the US government's wall of secrecy around the UFO/ET issue and reveal the powerful political and national security implications of the UFO/ET issue.

Meckler wrote: "When the White House promised to answer citizen petitions on the most pressing problems of the day, it may not have had extraterrestrial life in mind."

In Meckler's interview with Stephen G. Bassett, sponsor of the ET petition, Bassett said: "The fact is that there is an extraterrestrial presence. I know this because I'm familiar with the research and a couple of hundred government witnesses have come forward in the last couple of years. Acknowledging this E.T. presence is about open government."

Yet many still ask:

  • Might the government be asking for trouble by allowing this petition to move into the White House and perhaps onto the desk of the President of the United States?
  • Will this bold effort by the WSJ be thwarted by a political "end-run" to eliminate any public discourse about government secrecy surrounding an extraterrestrial presence that might underscore the serious political and national security implications of America's inability to control what is occurring in the airspace said to be dominated by their Air Force?
  • And - why has a US Congressman decided not to reveal national security information in his possession about ICBMs being compromised by craft of unknown origin over American nuclear installations?
This precarious set of escalating questions presents a Pandora's Box to the White House and the many intel-agencies that manage the truth embargo - one they will not want to open.

Meckler has also established that White House petition officials are bound by the terms of petition guidelines to consider those that reach 5,000 signatures. The ET petition has more than qualified. To date the ET petition has accumulated over 11,572 signatures and ranks 20th in over-all petitions.

Meckler Questions White House Officials

In the article, Meckler wrote: "Asked which official or agency would tackle the E.T. question, Mr. Phillips [director of digital strategy at the White House] said it would be decided at a meeting the next day. Asked after the meeting who drew the assignment, a spokesman said they wouldn't be commenting until the official response is ready. What about that truth embargo? "You're going to have to wait," Mr. Phillips said.  Political psycho-babble or clear intention to move a long a continuum of truth.

A spokesperson for an international UFO Disclosure group told ZlandCommunications, "In secret vaults, scores of government documents have been uncovered by a world-wide network of researchers leaving no doubt whatsoever - the UFO/ET matter has been discussed at the highest levels of governance for over 60 years - not only in the USA but in other major G20 countries. It is clear that America's largest selling newspaper has opened a serious fissure in the government's wall of secrecy; one that the government cannot renege upon. The Wall Street Journal just might be the X-Factor - tipping the fluid balance in mainstream media towards an open challenge to the US government to come clean on this issue. Obama says he advocates for 'open government'. If his previous track record in openness is to be taken into consideration - get set for more and elaborate forms of prevarication. Let's see if his words are where his mouth is. The next several weeks will tell if the Wall Street Journal's volley towards the White House is a severe wound to the secrecy machinery or a mere chink in the secrecy armour."

Who is Next?

In the USA, local CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates and larger mainstream news organizations like Fox News, CNN and the History Channel are picking up on UFO sighting reports. Does this graduated and escalating form of coverage reveal a trend in wider and more intense exposure of the UFO/ET issue?

Now that the Wall Street Journal has stepped forward - it remains to be seen which other mainstream news outlet might be next to press the White House for answers to sensitive political and national security questions behind the intense governmental secrecy concerning UFOs. Or, will government find a way to bury the massive on-line and print circulation coverage by the Wall Street Journal of the ET matter and purge this politically explosive yet burgeoning petition from the democratic process?

One can only surmise that if the venerated Wall Street Journal has taken on the political implications of the UFO/ET issue, can American television's most prestigious and popular investigative news program, 60 Minutes on CBS be next to take up the gauntlet?

Congressman in Possession of UFO/ET Affidavits

One place to start for 60 Minutes would be the office of Republican Congressman Peter King. As reported in March 2011 by ZlandCommunications, Congressman Peter King, Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, already has in his possession sufficient national security information about the UFO/ET issue to put the White House Petition over the 25,000 mark. Seven notarized documents by former ranking military officers concerning unauthorized incursions over nuclear installations and missile shut-downs by craft of unknown origin were sent to the Congressman in December 2010 by ZlandCommunications.

These craft - according to affidavits by base launch commanders - were responsible for disabling dozens of ICBMs.

ZlandCommunications is unaware if Congressman King or any of his constituents have signed the White House ET petition or if King has made any attempt to bring these documents to the attention of the President, Congress or the Homeland Security Committee which he chairs.

On December 17, 2010 King's legislative assistant Michele Ingwersen told ZlandCommunications, "We have received your faxes and will show them to Congressman King. Thank you." For complete details on this matter, its release to the press, or to contact Congressman King see: ZNN Press Release Peter King.

To obtain copies of notarized affidavits by former military personnel, please use the contact information below.

Summary

It stands to reason that, because the White House has launched an open-government process, officials are obligated to follow their own procedures unless they find another Machiavellian way to side-step the Extraterrestrial question - just as they've done for the last 64 years.

Will power and secrecy continue to reign over truth or will the crumbs of democracy that remain in the American system of government carry the day?

Read the entire article and watch an interview of Laura Meckler by Simon Constable and Wendy Barnes on the Wall Street Journal News Hub at:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204774604576629070254619868.html

To view and sign the ET Petition go to: We the People

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September 26, 2011


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Press Release
September 27, 2011
The Disclosure Petition

Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group's Disclosure Petition on the White House website has achieved the necessary 5000 signatures for consideration by and response from the Obama administration.  Signatures from around the world have been registered.  The wording of this petition is as follows:

"We, the undersigned, strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon."

The Disclosure Petition is located at:  http://wh.gov/gKC 

Since 1992 hundreds of military and government agency witnesses have come forward with testimony confirming this extraterrestrial presence. Opinion polls now indicate more than 50% of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon.

According to PRG executive director Stephen Bassett, "There is an international effort underway to generate as many signatures as possible behind the petition.  This is a golden opportunity for the citizens of nations to affirm they DO have a right to know and CAN handle the truth."

Another referendum on this issue with over 4000 endorsements is ongoing at:  www.worlddisclosureday.org

Relevant Websites:

http://wh.gov/gKC
www.disclosurepetition.info
www.worlddisclosureday.org
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
                202-215-8344
                PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org

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Paradigm Research Group
4938 Hampden Lane, #161, Bethesda, MD 20814
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org 202-215-8344
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

      

4938 Hampden Lane, #161, Bethesda, MD 20814 t PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org t 202-215-8344

 

September 26, 2011

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Press Release


President Barrack Obama urged to formally acknowledge UFO/ET issue

Toronto - Sept 26, 2011
[ZNN] - The formal acknowledgement of the UFO/ET issue is about to reach directly into offices of the White House.

A White House initiative called We the People gives American citizens the opportunity to petition the President on matters of national concern.

Last night Stephen G. Bassett Executive Director of the Paradigm Research Group announced on The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett the inauguration of the Disclosure Petition designed by Bassett to have people, from all over the USA and from within the international community, affirm their conviction that extraterrestrial civilizations are engaging the human race.

Bassett and his supporters remain convinced the Extraterrestrial issue needs to be on the President's desk and formally acknowledged by him.

The petition states:
"We the undersigned, strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon."

Five thousand signatories are needed to advance the petition for consideration by White House officials. To date, that many and more signatures have already been achieved since the petition's posting - virtually in a matter of hours.

But according to Bassett, 5,000 signatories are not nearly enough. Bassett wants more; thousands if not millions more individuals need to sign the petition in order to create a critical mass of public opinion that will constitute this issue as one of global and historical significance - one that can no longer be dismissed, ignored or ridiculed.

He stated on The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett last night; "We want this disclosure petition to go viral because opinion polls indicate 50% of Americans believe there is an ET presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon."

If Bassett is right - any way the math is done - will translate into millions of people world-wide acknowledging the time is right to open the books on the UFO/ET matter.

Bassett also urged journalists to get on board by exposing this issue and profiling the Disclosure Petition in the mainstream press. According to Bassett this could create a media frenzy like none ever experienced by the press. "Getting big media and the entire social media involved is key." Bassett stated.

The petition process is also open to anyone in the international community.

To sign the petition click on: WE THE PEOPLE

See details at: https://sites.google.com/site/zlandcommunications/home

Contact Mr. Bassett at: PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
 

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Press Release
September 22, 2011
The Disclosure Petition


Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group has submitted a Disclosure Petition to the We the People Petition Project on the White House website which went active today.   The wording of this petition is as follows:

"We, the undersigned, strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon."

The Disclosure Petition is located at:  http://wh.gov/gKC 

Hundreds of military and government agency witnesses have come forward with testimony confirming this extraterrestrial presence. Opinion polls now indicate more than 50% of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon.

According to PRG executive director Stephen Bassett, "The government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race, while understandable during the Cold War and nuclear threat, is no longer an acceptable policy and is doing great damage to the American social contract."

Relevant Websites:

     www.disclosurepetition.info
     http://wh.gov/gKC
     www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
                202-215-8344
                PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org

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Paradigm Research Group
4938 Hampden Lane, #161, Bethesda, MD 20814
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org 202-215-8344
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

      

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