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December 1, 2011

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Press Release.
December 1, 2011

Disclosure Petition II - Rockefeller Initiative is now active on the White House website

Washington, DC - On September 22, 2011 Paradigm Research Group (PRG) submitted a petition to the White House sponsored initiative "We the People." Thousands of petitions have been submitted to We the People and approximately 300 of those accumulated the minimum 150 signatures required to be published to the White House website.  A few dozen of the published petitions accumulated the 5000 (eventually raised to 25,000) signatures necessary for a formal response from the Obama Administration.

One of those receiving a formal response was the Disclosure Petition submitted by PRG.  This petition acquired 12,078 signatures, and the White House response on November 4, 2011 generated hundreds of print and television news pieces around the world in many languages.  The White House response can be viewed at https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/searching-et-no-evidence-yet  and includes the following statements:

"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."

"The fact is we have no credible evidence of extraterrestrial presence here on Earth."

 
These statements from the Office of Science and Technology Policy are false and indefensible.   To reinforce this assertion PRG today submitted "Disclosure Petition II - the Rockefeller Initiative" to We the People    It reads as follows:

"We petition the Obama Administration to demand a full congressional investigation of UFO/ET Disclosure efforts by the Clinton OSTP - the Rockefeller Initiative."

In response to the Disclosure Petition, the OSTP stated, "The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race."

If true, what was the OSTP investigating from March 1993 to October 1996 in concert with billionaire and Clinton friend, Laurance Rockefeller?

Those who knew of and have not spoken publicly of this initiative include: Bill Clinton, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Obama transition co-chair John Podesta, Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta, Dr. John Gibbons, Albert Gore and Governor Bill Richardson.

See: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm  and www.presidentialufo.com/bill-clinton

 
The direct link to this petition is:  http://wh.gov/jz0

More information is available at: www.disclosurepetition.info

Should this petition acquire 25,000 signatures by December 31, 2011, a response from the Administration is expected by mid-January 2012.   When Disclosure Petition II has run its course, there will be a third and a fourth and so on.  Given that the evidence that the White House now asserts does not exist is both massive and readily available, considerable pressure will be brought to bear on the Administration's formal policy statement.

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
                Executive Director
                prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                202-215-8344

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

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

 

October 19, 2011

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Press Release
October 19, 2011
The Disclosure Petition
 
Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group's Disclosure Petition on the White House "We the People" initiative website has passed the10,000 signature mark and is now 20th out of 202 petitions submitted.  Signatures from around the world have been registered.  A formal response from the Obama Administration is expected later this year. 

The Disclosure Petition has been featured in articles in the Huffington Post, Daily Mail (UK) and Wall Street Journal.    The wording 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, "With trust in government at all time lows, the Obama administration ran on a platform of openness and transparency.  So far the administration has not been able to deliver on that promise. Disclosure would be a huge step toward regaining the public's trust."

Another referendum on this issue with over 4500 endorsements is ongoing at:  www.worlddisclosureday.org

Relevant Websites:

http://wh.gov/gKC
 www.disclosurepetition.info
 www.worlddisclosureday.org
 www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
WSJ Article: http://tinyurl.com/3darcth

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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September 27, 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

_________________________________________

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

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September 22, 2011

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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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August 22, 2011

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PRG UK Press Release - August 22, 2011
Archived at:   http://tinyurl.com/3oktofa


London, UK - Stephen Bassett, executive director of Paradigm Research Group and a leading advocate for formal acknowledgment by the U.S. government of the truth behind unidentified aerial phenomena, is on an extended visit to the United Kingdom.

Bassett's visit, which began with a presentation at the Leeds Exopolitics Conference on August 7, is for the purposes of doing research on a book due out in early 2012 and to meet with extraterrestrial phenomena researchers and exopolitical activists to discuss the status of the Disclosure movement.

Right now the United Kingdom is the center of a great deal of activity pertaining to the disclosure process.  On August 11 the 8th batch of UFO files since 2006 was released from the MoD to the public domain, and as in the past, generated scores of news articles throughout the British Isles.   Recently, the former Ministry of Defense UFO Project chief, Nick Pope, to his great credit apologized for past disingenuous and demeaning actions by the MoD toward the public's interest in and reports of unidentified aerial phenomena.  Would that David Cameron did the same.   Two UK rock music stars, Robbie Williams and Peter Andre have publicly expressed an interest in the phenomena.  Mr. Bassett is seeking to meet with Mr. Williams and Mr. Andre during his stay.

The United States and the United Kingdom have worked closely together since the 1950's to maintain a truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial reality in the world, now. This embargo was initiated for legitimate national security reasons, but is now a liability to both nations helping to engender distrust in government.  It has created a Lewis Carrollian wonderland of absurdity which has helped to make fools of many.   Recent examples include investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen's ludicrous writings on Roswell in her book Area 51; actress Jodie Foster throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars down the same drain Paul Allen tossed tens of millions to fund SETI, a propaganda science buffer created by NASA to mitigate public demand for answers from government; economist Paul Krugman's ridiculous comments that the threat of a "war with aliens" could rejuvenate the western economies; and a juvenile report out of Pennsylvania State University that aliens might destroy the human race for polluting the Earth.

Were it not for the massive and hard won evidence for an extraterrestrial presence being denied by governments and skirted by the media of record, such incidents would be amusing.    The truth embargo is now an insult to the collective human intelligence and must end.   A new project from Paradigm Research Group, World Disclosure Day, was launched on July 1 to help bring that about.   Over four thousand endorsements of WDD have been submitted with the two leading countries being the United States and the People's Republic of China.  PRG hopes to see more endorsements of World Disclosure Day from the United Kingdom.

Websites

Paradigm Research Group:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
World Disclosure Day:  www.worlddisclosureday.org 
Jacobsen's Roswell Writings:  http://tinyurl.com/5sgpw3p
Krugman's Comments: http://tinyurl.com/3qp2ns2
Foster's SETI Contribution: http://tinyurl.com/3pw7djq
PSU Alien Study: http://tinyurl.com/3ouhzmb

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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July 8, 2011

Press
Release
July 8, 2011

Paradigm
Research
Group

World Disclosure Day - July 8
 www.worlddisclosureday.org
 
Washington, DC - On July 8, 1947 General Roger Ramey held a press event at the 8th Army Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas in which he changed an earlier press release announcing a recovered crashed disk near Roswell, New Mexico to that of a retrieved Rawin weather balloon. This was the informal beginning of the now 64-year truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  

Five years after Roswell in July of 1952 a plethora of sightings took place over Washington, DC creating great concern amongst those responsible for the nation's security.  Subsequently the Central Intelligence Agency commissioned a classified panel to study and assess the phenomenon and the growing public awareness of extraterrestrial craft in the skies over the United States.   The panel first met formally on January 14, 1953 under the direction of Howard Percy Robertson, a physicist, CIA employee and director of the Defense Department Weapons Evaluation Group.

The Robertson Panel's report concluded the extraterrestrial craft were not a direct threat to national security, but the public's growing interest and engagement of the phenomenon was a threat.  Consequently, President Truman's decision to reverse the Roswell crashed disk explanation in 1947 became a highly classified formal government policy in 1953.  Official acknowledgement would be withheld and public awareness of the phenomenon would be suppressed by any and all means.   This policy was very much connected to grave concerns over the developing cold war and nuclear arms race and was certainly legal under the National Security Act of 1947.  For this reason Paradigm Research Group has worked to replace the term "UFO Cover-up" with "Truth Embargo."

Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War it is time for this policy of embargo to end.

Disclosure with a capital "D" is the formal acknowledgement by world governments of the extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and is the primary goal of a growing international truth movement. The purpose of World Disclosure Day is to provide a focal point for people and organizations to come together to assert their right to know extraordinary information being withheld from them by their governments.  World Disclosure Day will also help broaden public awareness of the Disclosure process and those organizations involved in the advocacy work.  The date July 8 was chosen to close the circle back to the Ramey press event in July of 1947.

People and organizations from every nation can register their endorsement of World Disclosure Day at the website. Endorsements from around the world are already pouring in and being archived.    Here is how supporters can help make this international effort a success.

1)  spread the word via email lists, Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts.

2)  create a graphic banner or poster promoting WDD and send it to PRG to be distributed and archived with attribution.

3)  create a video promoting WDD and put in on the Internet.   Provide PRG the link so it can promote the video.

4)  let local TV and radio talk shows know about WDD.

5)  join the WDD Facebook Page and the PRG Facebook Page

6)  grab banners from the WDD website for placement on other websites.

7)  looking ahead to 2012, plan events for July 8 to draw attention to the public's right to know the truth.

8)  help educate your friends, family and colleagues about the mission of the Disclosure advocacy movement.

Note: on the day the first nation comes forward to finally and formally acknowledge the extraterrestrial presence, that day will then become World Disclosure Day historically recognizing the most profound event in human history.

Relevant websites:   World Disclosure Day - www.worlddisclosureday.org    WDD Facebook:  http://tinyurl.com/3sjk3xo
                                       Paradigm Research Group:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org      PRG Facebook:  http://tinyurl.com/47b2xg8
                                      
Contact:  Stephen Bassett, Ex. Director
                  202-215-8344
                  prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org

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

 

July 1, 2011

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Press Release - July 1, 2011


World Disclosure Day - July 8
 www.worlddisclosureday.org
 
Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group has today initiated an international effort to designate July 8 as World Disclosure Day.

Disclosure - the formal acknowledgement by world governments of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - is the primary goal of a growing international truth movement. The purpose of World Disclosure Day is to provide a focal point for people and organizations to come together to assert their right to know extraordinary information being withheld from them by their governments - the truth embargo.  World Disclosure Day will also help broaden public awareness of the Disclosure process and those organizations involved in this advocacy work.

On July 8, 1947 General Roger Ramey held a press event at the 8th Army Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas in which he changed the just released story of a recovered crashed disk near Roswell, New Mexico to that of a retrieved Rawin weather balloon. This was the informal beginning of the now 64-year truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence.  For this reason the date July 8 was chosen to emphasize the need to reverse that now inappropriate policy.

People and organizations from every nation can register their endorsement of World Disclosure Day at the WDD website. Endorsements from around the world are already coming in (the majority of which are international).   In time various relevant events will come to be scheduled on this date.  

Tomorrow (July 2) is World UFO Day, which was initiated in 2001 and has drawn some modest attention over the years.  It is home based at:  www.worldufoday.com

But the advocacy movement is now representative of a new era - exopolitics.  The era of the UFO is over.  It ended no later than 1991.  "UFO" is now an anachronistic contradiction in terms.  [Imagine the India independence movement had focused on UFOs - Unidentified Foreign Occupiers.]   The truth embargo is not about preventing citizens from learning about frisbees, balloons and bird flocks.  It's about withholding acknowledgment of non-human, intelligent beings flying about in Earth's skies and much more.   The scientific study of the phenomena should of course go forward, but should be called extraterrestrial phenomena research - not ufology.  

"UFO" is of the past.  Disclosure is the future, and this is where the emphasis must shift.   A national security policy has to be changed, and that is politics - exopolitics.

Note: on the day the first nation comes forward to finally and formally acknowledge the extraterrestrial presence, that day will then become World Disclosure Day (or Disclosure Day) historically recognizing the most profound event in human history.

Contact:  Stephen Bassett, Ex. Director
                  202-215-8344
                  prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org               

_________________________________________

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

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January 18, 2011

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PRG Press Release - January 18, 2011

Washington, DC - On January 23-25, 2011 over 100 international speakers will present at the 5th Annual Global Competitiveness Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

According to the conference website at www.gcf.org.sa "The Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF), the only event of its kind, is an annual meeting of global business leaders, international political leaders, and selected intellectuals and journalists brought together to create a dialogue with respect to the positive impact organizational and national competitiveness can have on local, regional and global economic and social development. It was founded in 2006 by the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), and is held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the patronage of HM King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques."

Paradigm Research Group notes with considerable interest the inclusion of the following panel: Contact: Learning from Outer Space - Psychological and socio-cultural assumptions and preconceptions constrain us to a large extent, and shape our views of the universe so that we are inclined to find what we are looking for, and fail to see what we are not. Using knowledge gained from research in the fields of Ufology and the search for extraterrestrial life, what might we possibly learn about hindrances to innovation in other areas of inquiry?   See:  www.gcf.org.sa/en/Program/Program/Welcoming--Networking--0800---900112112/

The panelists have not yet been formally announced but will likely include Nick Pope, former head of the UFO desk at the UK Ministry of Defence; Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist and extraterrestrial phenomena researcher; Dr. Jacques Vallee, researcher and venture capitalist; and theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku.

According to PRG executive director Stephen Bassett, "Political leaders and political journalists in the United States might want to ask themselves how it is a subject the United States Government claims has no validity is being addressed under royal patronage at a conference in the capital of the planet's greatest oil exporter. He added, "They might also note Saudi Arabia is a nation which will be hugely impacted by the inevitable end of the now 64-year old UFO/ET truth embargo and likely subsequent introduction of extraterrestrial derived technologies."

"Last September retired Air Force officers testified at the National Press Club to the direct interference with U. S. nuclear facilities by extraterrestrial craft. These men all held high security clearances. The political media, in particular the Washington Post, did not even bother to ask the Department of Defense for comment. One nation after another is proactively releasing thousands of UFO/ET related files. The Vatican and the Royal Society of London are holding conferences addressing the implications of extraterrestrial life. It's time for the U. S. Congress and the political media to grow up and wake up. It's time for the Obama administration to speak to this issue or be left behind."

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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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September 30, 2010

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PRG Press Release - September 30, 2010

Washington, DC -- PRG executive director Stephen Bassett will speak at the Malta International Conference - 2012: A Positive Outcome October 8-10. He will present the latest information regarding the ongoing collapse of the truth embargo on formal acknowledgment of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. This will include the news breaking worldwide of retired Air Force officers testifying to the interaction between extraterrestrial craft and nuclear facilities in the United States and Europe, the growing list of countries breaking ranks with the US led truth embargo by releasing tens of thousands of UFO/ET related documents, the positioning on the UFO/ET issue by the Vatican, the potentially explosive connection between a Clinton era disclosure initiative and leading members of the Democratic Party, and much more.

After the Malta conference, Mr. Bassett will be in London until October 30 and available for interviews.

__________________________________________

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

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September 29, 2010

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September 29, 2010  -   Media Notice

 

Washington, DC - Message for the
political media.  Still don't have
that Pulitzer Prize yet?  There's
still time?   The biggest news
story in history continues to unfold
right before your eyes.

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Read these books.

  

 

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September 28, 2010

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Press Release - September 28, 2010

Washington, DC -  Today at the National Press Club testimony from one researcher and seven former members of the United States Air Force was presented to more than two dozen print and television reporters.   The subject was: the UFO-Nukes Connection.  It was sponsored and organized by researcher Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, and Capt. Robert Salas (USAF retired).

This was the third major witness press conference addressing UFO/ET related issues.   The first was in May of 2001 (Disclosure Project) and the second in November of 2007 (Kean/Fox).    PRG believes this press conference may prove the most important and has the potential to end the truth embargo by triggering a major shift in media coverage.   Why?  It is the direct connection to nuclear facilities and national security.  Such a connection gives an already spring loaded media a clear hook upon which to hang their hat and purse and get to work.

Notably the event was live streamed in full by CNN to the Internet and is available at: www.blip.tv/file/4172861

Considerable video material providing content background can be accessed at the following web pages:

www.youtube.com/results?search_query=capt+robert+salas&aq=f
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robert+hastings+nukes&aq=f
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=malmstrom+ufo&aq=f
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=col+charles+halt&aq=f

"What should happen now," stated PRG executive director Stephen Bassett, who attended the event, "is for members of the political press to direct specific questions regarding this testimony at the press spokespersons for the Department and Defense, U.S. Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency and expect answers from Secretaries Robert Gates, Michael Donley and Leon Panetta."

"At least that is what is supposed to happen if the political media in Washington, DC are not under government- or self-imposed restraints."

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September 13, 2010

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Press Release - September 13, 2010

Washington, DC - PRG today released some more timely questions for consideration by the nation's citizens, congressional members and political media.

Are you upset by this?

Check out this article on the CA gas explosion


If "yes", then you should ask yourself the following questions?

Do you think these?


Run on this?



If your answer is "no", then the following questions need to be posed to President Obama, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy.

1) does the United States Government have in its possession vehicles of extraterrestrial origin?

2) if "yes", has the United States Government for decades been studying the energy and propulsion physics of such vehicles?

3) if "yes", when will this technology be available to address the growing challenges facing the planet and the human race?

Contact
Stephen Bassett
prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org
202-215-8344

 

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September 10, 2010

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September 10, 2010  -   Media Notice

 

Washington, DC - Message for the
political media.  Do you happen to
have a Pulitzer Prize yet?  Would
you like one?   The biggest news
story in history is unfolding now
right before your eyes.

Don't think so?

Read these books.

  
 

 

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August 27, 2010

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August 27, 2010  -   Press Release
Exopolitics World Network Cities Initiative

Budapest - Paradigm Researched Group (PRG) today announced the launching of a new project - the Exopolitics World Network Cities Initiative - the goal of which is to help form 1000 exopolitics groups in cities around the world over the next twelve months.  The website is: www.exopoliticsworld.net

The Exopolitics World Network (EWN) is made up of portal web sites, one per country, which provide information about exopolitical developments to that country and build connections between nations as part of a growing international truth movement.

Exopolitics (exopolitical science) is a developing field of study addressing the totality of the historical, social and political implications of extraterrestrial related phenomena. The most important exopolitical issue at present is the Disclosure Movement, an international effort to bring about formal acknowledgment by world governments of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

PRG executive director Stephen Bassett stated, "The reason for launching the Initiative in the international city of Budapest is its location at the center of Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Near East. Draw a line between Madrid and Kiev, Paris and Tehran, London and Ankara, Berlin and Athens, Stockholm and Sarajevo, and Moscow and Rome. Where these lines intersect is a small triangle and there you find Budapest."

The structure for the Cities Initiative is pure grassroots activism. Anyone hosting a regular meeting to discuss and engage exopolitical matters can register their group with the EWN. Simple instructions are found at the EWN web site.

Added Bassett, "the government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial engagement of the planet is falling apart. It is important for people to start talking to each other about this unfolding reality and begin preparing for the post-Disclosure world.

Contact info: 202-215-8344
                       prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org

 

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June 4, 2010

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Press Release - June 4, 2010

Washington, DC - PRG today releases some timely questions for the consideration of the nation's citizens, congressional members and political media.

Are you offended by this?


If "yes", then you should ask yourself the following questions?

Do you think these?


Run on this?



If your answer is "no", then the following questions need to be posed to the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency:

1) does the United States Government have in its possession vehicles of extraterrestrial origin?

2) if "yes", has the United States Government for decades been studying the energy and propulsion physics of such vehicles?

3) if "yes", when will this technology be available to address the growing challenges facing the planet and the human race?

Contact
Stephen Bassett
prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org
202-215-8344

____________________________________________

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

 

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June 1, 2010

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Press Release - June 1, 2010
PRG Australian Speaking Tour

Washington, DC - PRG executive director Stephen Bassett will leave on June 22 for a thirty-five day speaking tour of Australia to include twelve stops in eleven cities.   The principal sponsor of the tour is the Nexus Conference produced by Nexus Magazine, July 24-26.

Advocacy for a political resolution to the UFO/ET issue, which began to coalesce in the United States in the mid 1990's, has now become an international "Disclosure Movement" seeking to end an official embargo of the truth regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  Australia is a major intelligence ally and good friend of the United States.  Since 2006 it has been releasing government held UFO files into the public domain.

Mr. Bassett is a leading advocate for ending this truth embargo.   Paradigm Research Group was founded in 1996 exclusively for this purpose and was the first organization to register with the United States Congress to lobby the question .  PRG's political action committee X-PPAC is the first PAC to address the UFO/ET issue.  In 2002 Bassett became the second person (after Jimmy Carter) to bring the UFO/ET subject into a federal election campaign as a balloted candidate. 

In 2004 PRG produced the first conference centered on the politics surrounding the UFO/ET phenomenon - exopolitics.   The sixth X-Conference was held May 7-9, 2010 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.    In 2008 PRG founded the Exopolitics World Network (EWN) and Exopolitics United States Network (EUSN) to help facilitate the expansion of the disclosure movement.  Exopolitics Australia is a site in the EWN.

PRG's advocacy work has been covered extensively by US and foreign media.

On the tour Mr. Bassett hopes to gain a greater understanding of how Australians view the UFO/ET issue and the disclosure process.   He will brief informal and formal groups on the pending collapse of the truth embargo, possibly in 2010, and seek new support for the ongoing advocacy initiatives.

The tour schedule is as follows:  Perth (June 24-27), Adelaide (June 27-30), Canberra (June 30-July 5), Wollongong (July 5-9), Sydney (July 9-12), Melbourne (July 12-14), Auckland, NZ (July 14-17) (developing), Long Jetty/Newcastle (July 17-19), Byron Bay (July 19-21), Brisbane (July 21-23), Twin Waters (July 23-26), Brisbane (July 26-29).

More information about the tour schedule including contacts can be found at: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Australian_Tour.htm

 Relevant websites

Speaking Tour: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Europe_Tour.htm 
Exopolitics Australia:  www.exopoliticsaustralia.net.au 
Nexus Conference: http://tinyurl.com/2da2pv5
Nexus Magazine: www.nexusmagazine.com
Exopolitics World Network: www.exopoliticsworld.net 
 Exopolitics United States Network: www.exopoliticsunitedstates.net
Paradigm Research Group: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
Media Coverage: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/articles/PRGarticles.html
X-Conference: www.x-conference.com
X-PPAC: www.x-ppac.org

 

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April 28, 2010

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“It’s not just about lights in the sky; it’s about lies on the ground.”

Press Release                        April 28, 2010

X-Conference 2010 - May 7-9, 2010 
PRG Press Conference - May 10, 2010

Washington, DC – The X-Conference is set for Friday evening, May 7, at the National Press Club, Main Ballroom, 13th Floor, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC.  It will continue through Sunday evening and include lectures, special presentations, documentary premiere, awards banquet and cocktail party.  

This is the sixth X-Conference produced by PRG, an advocacy organization dedicated to ending the now 62-year truth embargo imposed by the United States government on the formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.   While there have been numerous press events at the NPC addressing UFO/ET related issues, this will be the first full conference on these subjects to be held there, or for that matter, in Washington, DC proper.  Media passes are available.  The public is welcome. 

Also, the entire conference and press conference will be broadcast worldwide live on the Internet.  Full information and registration for onsite and online attendance is at:  www.x-conference.com

Paradigm Research Group will hold a press conference on Monday morning, May 10 in the NPC’s First Amendment Room from 10 to 11 am.  Important announcements emerging from the X-Conference and other breaking news will be made at that time.  

All members of Congress as well as Congressional and White House staffers have been invited to attend the conference and press conference at the NPC. 

On April 20 at last year’s NPC press conference Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Air Force Major Milton Torres (ret.) called for the Obama administration to end the government imposed truth embargo regarding the extraterrestrial issue.  Dr. Mitchell was following in the footsteps of Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper who once called upon the UN to do same.

Topics will include: government imposed truth embargo; Rockefeller Initiative; UFO/ET connections to the Obama administration; the Cydonia/Martian Codex; Disclosure; RAF Bentwaters case; Eisenhower briefing memo; UFOs and the National Security State; police sightings database; developments in the UK; extraordinary developments in Brazil; UFO/ET connections to Russia and the Soviet Union; and more.    

Television journalist and former CNN news anchor Cheryll Jones will host.  Speakers will include: George Noory of Coast to Coast AM (Special Luncheon Presentation); George Haas and William Saunders (Luncheon Presentation); Stephen Bassett; Richard Dolan; A. J. Gevaerd (Brazil); Gary Heseltine (UK); Linda Moulton Howe with UK Bentwaters witness John Burroughs; George Knapp; Paul Stonehill and Jim Nichols.

Contact:   Stephen Bassett
               Executive Director
               202-215-8344
               prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org

_______________________________________________

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

 

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April 20, 2010

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Press Release - April 20, 2010 - Contact 2010 Conference 

Washington, DC - On Monday EST, April 19 on Coast to Coast AM with George Knapp, PRG executive director, Stephen Bassett, announced PRG will launch a second annual conference on October 22-24 at the National Press Club

The event is Contact 2010 and the website is www.contacttwentyten.com  or  www.thecontactconference.com

Going forward PRG will produce the X-Conference (www.x-conference.com) in early May and the Contact conference in late October each year - both at the National Press Club.  Both events will be live streamed worldwide on the Internet and the Live Stream registration portals for both events are up now at the websites.

Contact 2010 will be the first major conference since 1992 exclusively addressing the most complex and implicative exopolitical issue of all - direct interaction between humans and aliens.  It will be the first event of its kind ever held at the National Press Club or in Washington, DC.

The 1992 event was the Alien Abduction Study Conference co-organized by Dr. John Mack and Dr. David Pritchard on the campus of M.I.T.  Contact 2010 will be dedicated to the memory of Dr. Mack. Some individuals involved in the 1992 conference will also be involved in Contact 2010.

Working with leading researchers PRG will invite 12 contactees notable for their comprehensive recollections and understanding of their personal experience and for their ability to present that information to a public audience under their own name.

PRG will also invite many of the top researchers in the world addressing human-alien interaction to present their work and conclusions.

There will be several press conferences including the final press event on Monday, October 25 at 10 am.   Some of the events will be held at the J. W. Marriott Hotel next to the National Press Building.

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
          Executive Director
          202-215-8344
          prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org

_______________________________________________

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

 

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March 30, 2010

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Press Release - March 30, 2010 - The Day Before Disclosure

Washington, DC – Paradigm Research Group (PRG) announced today the world premiere of a new documentary film, The Day Before Disclosure, will take place at X-Conference 2010 on May 7, at 9 pm at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, DC.    The conference webiste is:  www.x-conference.com

The documentary is produced by New Paradigm Films and Terje Toftenes based in Norway.  It will touch on a range of issues including:  the growing UFO-activity in the US and around the world during the late 1940’s and 50’s; why secrecy and suppression became an official policy; the abduction phenomenon; and the new physics that may explain space travel over vast distances, anti-gravitic propulsion and so called "zero-point energy.”

It will also address the larger perspective and explain the present status of the UFO/ET issue and why we are at a point in human history approaching a major paradigm shift that could be triggered by a Disclosure event regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  This and much more will be featured in one of the first documentaries to address the UFO/ET issues primarily from an exopolitical perspective.   A film website will go up shortly.

This is the sixth X-Conference produced by PRG, an advocacy organization dedicated to ending the now 62-year truth embargo imposed by the United States government on the formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

Topics will include: government imposed truth embargo; Rockefeller Initiative; UFO/ET connections to the Obama administration; the Cydonia/Martian Codex; Disclosure; RAF Bentwaters case; Eisenhower briefing memo; UFOs and the National Security State; police sightings database; developments in the UK; extraordinary developments in Brazil; UFO/ET connections to Russia and the Soviet Union; and more.    

There will be 8 lectures, 2 special luncheon presentations, a Speaker's Cocktail Party and the PRG Awards Banquet.  A press conference will be held on Monday, May 10 at 10 am in the NPC's First Amendment Room for announcements relating to the growing international Disclosure movement.

The National Press Club is two blocks from the Metro Center Station.  There are two dozen hotels close by, and PRG has special booking arrangements with the Harrington and J. W. Marriott hotels.   Information on X-Conference 2010 and past X-Conferences is found at:  www.x-conference.com

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
               Executive Director
               202-215-8344
               prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org

 

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March 22, 2010

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Press Release         March 22, 2010
X-Conference 2010  -   National Press Club  -  May 7-9

“It’s not just about lights in the sky; it’s about lies on the ground.”

Washington, DC – Paradigm Research Group (PRG) announced today X-Conference 2010 will be held on May 7-9 at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, DC, two blocks from the White House, twelve blocks from the Capitol Building and near every major national and international media organization covering the nation’s capital.   Online registration is up at:  www.x-conference.com

 

This is the sixth X-Conference produced by PRG, an advocacy organization dedicated to ending the now 62-year truth embargo imposed by the United States government on the formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

 

While there have been numerous press events at the NPC addressing UFO/ET related issues, this will be the first time a full conference on this subject matter has been held there.  PRG hopes to make the NPC the permanent home for this event which is open to the public.

 

Topics will include: the government imposed truth embargo; the Rockefeller Initiative and the UFO/ET connections to the Obama administration; the Cydonia/Martian Codex; Disclosure; the RAF Bentwaters case; the Eisenhower briefing memo; UFOs and the National Security State; police sightings database and developments in the UK; extraordinary developments in Brazil; UFO/ET connections to Russia and the Soviet Union; and more.    

 

This year there will be eight lectures, two special luncheon presentations, a Speaker's Cocktail Party and the PRG Awards Banquet.  A press conference will be held on Monday, May 10 at 10 am in the NPC's First Amendment Room for announcements relating to the growing international Disclosure movement.

Former CNN news anchor Cheryll Jones will host.  Speakers will include: George Noory of Coast to Coast AM (Special Luncheon Presentation); George Haas and William Saunders (Special Luncheon Presentation); Stephen Bassett; Richard Dolan; A. J. Gevaerd (Brazil); Gary Heseltine (UK);  Linda Moulton Howe; George Knapp; Paul Stonehill and Jim Nichols.

 

The close proximity to the White House, Congress and media (there are scores of news organizations based in the National Press Building) increases the prospect of political staffers and press attending the conference itself over the weekend.  As always, invites will go out to White House and Congressional staff.   Those who attend will be sending a strong message that the U. S. government must and will address openly the extraterrestrial presence issue.

The National Press Club is two blocks from the Metro Center Station.  There are two dozen hotels close by, and PRG has special booking arrangements with the Harrington and J. W. Marriott hotels.

Information on X-Conference 2010 and past X-Conferences is found at:  www.x-conference.com

 

Contact:  Stephen Bassett, Executive Director
                202-215-8344,  prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org
 

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January 8, 2010

Press Release                                                                       January 8, 2010
Fax on Washington                        A Project of Paradigm Research Group

Washington, DC/Bethesda, MD – Paradigm Research Group (PRG) announced today a renewed international effort to convince Barack Obama to end a 62-year truth embargo preventing formal government acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  Also renewed is pressure on the White House press corps to start asking appropriate questions and demand appropriate answers about connections between key members of the Democratic Party – Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, John Podesta, Leon Panetta and Bill Richardson – and the UFO/ET issue.  See: Rockefeller Initiative

Since June 1, 2009 letters, faxes and emails from around the world have been sent to the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) insisting the reporters in the White House press corps begin asking politically related UFO/ET questions and receive appropriate answers.   Samples of this correspondence can be viewed at:  http://tinyurl.com/yb4wvay   and   http://tinyurl.com/62748k 

On the July 24, 2009 C-Span Morning Show White Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about this correspondence which he declined to acknowledge.  Subsequent queries to the WHCA from reporters such as Billy Cox of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune have also been ignored – no response.

In similar fashion thousands of letters, faxes and emails to the President Elect and the President since November 4, 2008 demanding Barack Obama end the  truth embargo and call for congressional hearings on the UFO/ET issue have not been acknowledged by the White House – no response.   Furthermore, the Citizen’s Briefing Book generated during the transition by the Change.gov website was stripped of all UFO/ET related input to the Book prior to submission to the President.   This is not acceptable. PRG executive director Stephen Bassett stated, “France, Denmark, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom and other countries have recently released tens of thousands of UFO/ET related files into the public domain.  The message to the U.S. is clear, ‘If you do not end this truth embargo, one of us will.’”   “Either Russia or China would benefit enormously by acting first on this issue,” added Bassett.

Million Fax on Washington:  www.faxonwashington.org
Rockefeller Initiative:  http://tinyurl.com/2o526u

Contact  PRG:  202-215-8344 and PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org

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September 8, 2009

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Press Release - September 8, 2009
PRG Europe Speaking Tour

Washington, DC - PRG executive director Stephen Bassett will leave on Thursday, September 10 for a forty day speaking tour of Europe to include seventeen stops in ten countries.   The tour begins at the Beyond Knowledge Conference in Liverpool, UK.

Advocacy for a political resolution to the UFO/ET issue, which began to coalesce in the United States in the early 1990's, has now become an international "Disclosure Movement" seeking to end an official embargo of the truth regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  Nowhere is this movement growing faster than in Europe.    

Mr. Bassett is a leading advocate for ending this truth embargo.   Paradigm Research Group was founded in 1996 exclusively for this purpose and was the first organization to register with the United States Congress to lobby the question.  PRG's political action committee X-PPAC is the first PAC to address the UFO/ET issue.  In 2002 Bassett became the second person (after Jimmy Carter) to bring the UFO/ET subject into a federal election campaign as a balloted candidate. 

In 2004 PRG produced the first conference centered on the politics surrounding the UFO/ET phenomenon - exopolitics.   The sixth X-Conference is scheduled for April 16-18, 2010 near Washington, DC.    In 2008 PRG founded the Exopolitics World Network (EWN) and Exopolitics United States Network (EUSN) to help facilitate the expansion of the disclosure movement.  EWN member Exopolitics United Kingdom is a cosponsor of the Liverpool Beyond Knowledge Conference.

Since November 5, 2008 PRG has been conducting perhaps its most important initiative – the Million Fax on Washington.   Thousands of letters, faxes and emails from within and outside the United States have been and are being directed at the White House calling for Disclosure and at the White House press corps calling for the reporters to step up and start asking the appropriate questions while insisting on appropriate answers.    PRG's advocacy work has been covered extensively by US and foreign media.

On the tour Mr. Bassett hopes to gain a greater understanding of how Europeans view the UFO/ET issue and the disclosure process.   He will brief informal and formal groups on the pending collapse of the truth embargo - possibly in 2009, work to bring new countries into the EWN and seek new support for the ongoing advocacy initiatives.

The tour schedule is as follows:  UK: Liverpool (Sept. 11-14), Bath (Sept. 14-16), Devon (Sept. 16-18), London (Sept. 18-21), Birmingham (Sept. 21), London (Sept. 22-24); Helsinki (Sept. 24-28); Stockholm (Sept. 28-30); Oslo (Sept. 30-Oct. 2); Berlin (Oct. 2-4); Copenhagen (Oct. 4-8); Brussels (Oct. 8-10); Hulst, Amsterdam (Oct. 10-12); Zurich (Oct. 12-14); France: Rennes (Oct. 14-16); Saint-Pierre-en-Port (Oct. 16-18); Paris (Oct. 18-20).

More information about events, websites and contacts can be found at:  http://tinyurl.com/nagqry

Relevant websites:     Speaking Tour:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Europe_Tour.htm
                                         Paradigm Research Group:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
                                         Million Fax on Washington:  www.faxonwashington.org
                                         Media Coverage: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/articles/PRGarticles.html
                                         X-PPAC:  www.x-ppac.org
                                         X-Conference:  www.x-conference.com
                                         Exopolitics World Network:  www.exopoliticsworld.net
                                         Exopolitics United States Network:  www.exopoliticsunitedstates.net
                                          Beyond Knowledge Conference:  www.beyond-knowledge.co.uk

 

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July 13, 2009

Press Release         Paradigm Research Group       July 13, 2009

Open Letter to the White House Press Corps

The above quote is taken from a plaque donated to the National Press Club in 1962 by the Columbia School of Journalism on the occasion of the school’s 50th anniversary.  It says a great deal in a few words and has never been truer than it is today. 

The reporters who sit in the West Wing press briefing room week in and week out have more access to the ruling administration of the United States than all the world’s other reporters combined.  They and their counterparts covering the Departments of State and Defense have an enormous responsibility to protect the public’s vested interests in good governance and right policy.  Failure to stand for the public’s right to know brings down the nation, the people and the press – together. 

Indeed it is all too clear the United States is in decline on multiple fronts, and the media have not done their job.  Nothing demonstrates this more conclusively than the failure of the political press to appropriately engage the explosion into the world in the 1940’s of an unidentified aerial phenomenon.   As years passed and evidence amassed confirming a non-terrestrial, non-human basis for this phenomenon, the White House press corps was mute.   As government witness after witness came forward – military officers, air traffic controllers, policemen, astronauts, pilots, intelligence personnel – the White House press corps was mute.

When other nations issued confirmatory reports such the French COMETA study in 2000, released thousands of classified files into the public domain, cooperated with indigenous UFO research organizations, the U. S. administrations did nothing and the White House press corps was silent.

Then high level political figures such as former Clinton adviser and chief of staff John Podesta called for the release of all UFO documents in government files – twice at the National Press Club – the White House press corps asked nothing.   When former congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of Energy, presidential candidate and Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, wrote that the Air Force explanation for the July 1947 Roswell, NM events was unsatisfactory and all relevant government files relating to those events should be released, the White House press corps asked nothing.

Most unsettling of all, a billionaire friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Laurance Rockefeller, made a three-year effort (1993-1996) to convince President Clinton to release all UFO documents in government files, grant amnesty to government personnel who came forward with information and end the truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.   Thirteen years after the end of that failed initiative no member of the White House press corps has ever posed a single question about that initiative to any of the powerful political figures who knew about it and/or were involved – Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Leon Panetta, Albert Gore, Jr., Bill Richardson, Dr. John Gibbons, and others. 

Right now letters, faxes and emails are pouring into the White House Correspondents’ Association calling on the press corps to rediscover the Fourth Estate’s proper role and challenge the now 62-year misrepresentation of reality by the State.   It is not necessary, though welcomed, for the entire corps to rise up together – only that a few find the courage to place the public’s right to know ahead of their job and their privileged position in that room.   

Respectfully,


Stephen Bassett
Executive Director

 Supporting Material Links

Fax on Washington:  www.faxonwashington.org
Rockefeller Initiative:  www.presidentialufo.com/clinton.htm
                                 www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm
Bill Richardson:  www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/16/MNGAK88OQQ1.DTL
John Podesta:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvtqEkqG1M
Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Opening_Page.html#NPC-Video
Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPR8T1o3Dc
Hillary Clinton Documents:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-11-1-95.htm#1
                                          www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-2-5-96.htm#2

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June 16, 2009

Press Release                                                                                                                   June 6, 2009

Million Fax on Washington - Phase III                       A Project of Paradigm Research Group

Washington, DC/Bethesda, MD - Beginning June 1, letters, faxes and emails from around the world are being sent to the White House Press Corps c/o the White House Correspondents? Association insisting these journalists begin asking appropriate UFO/ET related questions and receive appropriate answers. Below are some of the questions referred to in this correspondence along with supporting links. A full list of suggested questions, along with links to supporting documentation, can be found at:  www.faxonwashington.org 

1.  In light of the Administration's commitment to open, transparent government, what is the President's response to these thousands of requests for formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race?     Letters            Obama & Transparency      Presidential FOIA Memorandum

2.  Will the Administration respond to the repeated call from former Clinton chief of staff and co-chair of Obama's transition team, John Podesta, for the release of all UFO files in government hands into the public domain?  John Podesta/NPC Video   Article    Article    Article    Article      Article   

3.  Has the President been briefed about Laurance Rockefeller's three-year effort to get President Clinton to release all UFO files in government hands into the public domain? 
Rockefeller Initiative       FOIA Confirming Documents   

4.  Has the President discussed the Rockefeller Initiative with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?     Rockefeller Initiative     Clinton/Rockefeller Photos     HillaryClintonUFO.net    Hillary Doc-1     Hillary Doc-2     More FOIA Documents   

5.  Is the Administration aware that President Bill Clinton and then First Lady Hillary Clinton met with Laurance Rockefeller in 1995 at his ranch in Wyoming and discussed the UFO/ET issue and Rockefeller's desire that Clinton be the "Disclosure President?"     Clinton/Rockefeller Photos

6.  Tens of thousands of UFO related flies have recently been released into the public domain by France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil and other countries.   Why hasn't the United States done the same?   France    UK     Denmark     Canada     Brazil    Sweden

7.  What is the Administration's response to Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell's call for the release of all UFO documents in government files and acknowledgement of the extraterrestrial presence?   Follow-up:  Is the Administration aware Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper made the same demands in the 1980's and early 1990's?   Edgar Mitchell/NPC Video       Edgar Mitchell/UK Radio      Gordon Cooper Video

8.  Has President Obama asked for or been given a complete briefing from his military and intelligence chiefs on what the United States government knows about the UFO/ET issue and what evidence is in the government's hands relating to this issue?

9.  Does the United States government have in its possession crashed vehicles of extraterrestrial origin?  If so, has progress been made in understanding the nature of this technology?  And why hasn't this technology been made available for peaceful use at a time of multiple global crises?

10.  Will President Obama support full and open Congressional hearings to take testimony from scores of current and former military and agency employees coming forward with direct testimony to events and evidence pointing toward an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race?       Witnesses (partial list)

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

 

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June 2, 2009

Press Release                               www.faxonwashington.org                                 June 2, 2009

Million Fax on Washington - Phase III                       A Project of Paradigm Research Group
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
 

Washington, DC/Bethesda, MD - PRG announced today a national petitioning process to bring about a political resolution to the UFO/extraterrestrial issue has entered a critical third phase.   Between November 4, 2008 and May 31, 2009 thousands of American citizens sent letters, faxes and emails to the presidential transition headquarters and the White House calling for President Barack Obama to disclose to the American people what the government knows about an extraterrestrial explanation for the UFO phenomenon.

Now the focus of this initiative shifts to the White House Correspondents' Association which represents the White House press corps in its dealings with the administration on coverage-related issues.   In the coming weeks copies of this earlier correspondence to the President, which the White House has yet to comment on, will be forwarded to the WHCA.   Further, the WHCA will be receiving thousands of letters, faxes and emails calling upon the press corps to ask the administration a range of questions regarding the connection between the UFO/extraterrestrial issue and key members of the administration and the Democratic Party as well as other related matters.

For six decades American journalists - reporters, editors, publishers, producers, network and station owners - went along with the most extensive and complex government deception in history.  This deception and disruption effort was born at the dawn of the Cold War, justified by the demands of national security, perpetuated by the deepening East-West division and supported by the very institutions that should have examined and resolved it - academia, the press and the United States Congress.  However, over the past two years the media have started to come around and appropriately cover the "greatest news story of all time." 

 
PRG executive director, Stephen Bassett, stated, "The American people should know about the Rockefeller Initiative (1993-1996) and hear from key members of the Clinton Administration who were fully aware of this effort by Laurance Rockefeller to persuade President Clinton to reveal the truth.  They include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Obama transition co-chair John Podesta, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Vice President Al Gore, Dr. John Gibbons and President Clinton, himself.    Further, the administration should respond to previous requests by Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Dr. Edgar Mitchell to end the "truth embargo" and acknowledge the extraterrestrial presence.

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

 

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May 14, 2009

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PRG Press Release - May 14, 2009
New York Times Article
 
Washington, DC/Bethesda, MD - The advocacy work of PRG has been featured in a May 14, 2009 New York Times article by Anne C. Mulkern of Greenwire, a leading environment and energy on-line publication.  Greenwire is part of Environment &  Energy Publishing (E&E).

"A climate solution that's out of this world" was triggered by the recent lobbying registration with the U. S. House and Senate by PRG executive director, Stephen Bassett, on behalf of the Exopolitics Institute.   Mr. Bassett has been lobbying since 1996 on behalf of a number of organizations regarding issues surrounding extraterrestrial-related phenomena including a government imposed "truth embargo."   The "energy" issue was added to these registrations during the past year.

"What is at issue here is "Disclosure" - the formal acknowledgement by world governments of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race," says Bassett. "Extraterrestrial derived technology, most likely from crashed or shot down vehicles, is the prize in the Disclosure Crackerjack Box.   It could be transformative in dealing with the growing number of crises facing the world's nations and peoples.  This technology is not going to be brought forward for peaceful development until the UFO/ET truth embargo is over.  End the embargo, get the tech."

Ms. Mulkern's piece correctly states the focus of the Disclosure movement is now on the new President of the United States.   This focus is spearheaded by the "Million Fax on Washington" which has directed thousands of letter, faxes and emails to President Elect Obama from November 5, 2008 to January 20, 2009 and to President Obama from January 21 to May 31, 2009.   "The third phase of this petitioning process will be announced worldwide on June 1.   Added Bassett, "The goal of the Million Fax on Washington is nothing less than 'tripping the switch' which makes Disclosure inevitable during 2009 - either by the United States or another first- or second-world nation."

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

Relevant Websites:

New York Times Article: http://tinyurl.com/ojcfwa
PRG:   www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
Million Fax on Washington:   www.faxonwashington.org
Greenwire:  www.eenews.net/gw
Exopolitics Institute:  www.exopoliticsinstitute.org

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

 

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April 29, 2009

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Press Release          European Exopolitics Summit 2009           April 29, 2009

Washington, DC / Bethesda, MD - PRG executive director Stephen Bassett will speak at an international conference scheduled for July 25-26 in Barcelona, Spain.  For full information see:  www.exopoliticseurope.com

The European Exopolitics Summit 2009 will be a milestone in a growing international movement to command formal Disclosure by world governments of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  On this occasion the Disclosure movement's top leaders in Europe and North America will present at the four- star Hotel Fira Palace Barcelona. 

Simultaneous translations by top professional translators will be provided via wireless headsets - a first for events in this genre.

The conference is being produced by Exopolitics Spain (www.exopoliticsspain.es) together with the General Manager of Todohotel and Aircar Factories, Miguel Celades.  Señor Celades is investing in and developing alternative technologies.

"Right now we're in a moment of deep transformation in planetary awareness in which big changes are taken place, and many more are yet to come. Any transformation that's important entails (hard to avoid) a profound crisis; and this crisis is, without a doubt, undermining the foundations of our civilization. Nevertheless, we are faced with an opportunity without precedent to approach a new developmental paradigm. We, an only we, the citizens of this planet, have the responsibility and the opportunity to change the course of history."  Pepon Jover

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

 

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April 27, 2009

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Press Release                               2009 PRG Awards                                April 27, 2009

Bethesda, MD/Washington, DC - Six individuals received PRG Awards at the fifth X-Conference (Exopolitics Expo) held last weekend at the Hilton Gaithersburg, MD.  These awards are given to those who have made significant contributions toward the scientific and political resolution of the UFO/ET question.    Full PRG Award information can be found at:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/PRG_Awards.htm

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social implications of extraterrestrial-related phenomena.  It is produced by PRG in the Washington, DC metro area as part of an ongoing activist effort seeking to end a government imposed truth embargo on the formal acknowledgement by the U. S. government of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure.

The PRG Awards are for Political Courage, Journalistic Courage, Intellectual Courage, Lifetime Achievement (posthumous), Lifetime Achievement (living), and Disclosure.   The 2009 Awards are as follows:

Political Courage: Center for American Progress founder and CEO John D. Podesta for his support of the Disclosure process during an era of extreme partisan politics.  He assisted President Clinton's limited efforts during the first term to respond to the Rockefeller Initiative.  In 2002 and 2003 he called for the release of all UFO related documents in government hands and supported the fledgling Coalition for Freedom of Information.  He has counseled the new administration in favor of open, transparent government and just released a statement in support of Dr. Edgar Mitchell's call for the new president to end the UFO/ET truth embargo.  [Past recipients include:  former Canadian Minister of Defence Paul Hellyer, Phoenix councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood, President Jimmy Carter, and the late New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff.]

Journalistic Courage:  Television journalist George Knapp for two decades of coverage of the UFO/ET issue while anchoring the news desk at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas.   [Past recipients include: Coast to Coast AM host George Noory, Antonio Huneeus (Chile), Sarasota Herald Tribune reporter Billy Cox, Jaime Maussan (Mexico), and White House correspondent Sarah McClendon.]

Intellectual Courage: Exopolitics Institute founder Dr. Michael Salla for his refusal to abandon his work in developing the field of exopolitics in the face of losing his academic career standing (he did), his job (he did), and his work status in the United States (he did). [The past recipient is the author of Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens and founder of the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research, the late Dr. John E. Mack.]

Lifetime Achievement (posthumous): Mercury Astronaut Col. Gordon Cooper for his career as a space pioneer and two decade effort to raise the issue of an extraterrestrial presence with the American people, the media and the United Nations.  [Past recipients include: Laurance S. Rockefeller, Major Donald Keyhoe, Dr. James E. McDonald and Dr. J. Allen Hynek.]

Lifetime Achievement (living): Researcher Colin Andrews for 25 years of research into and writing about perhaps the most provocative phenomenon in the world today - crop circles.  [Past recipients include:  Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Alfred L. Webre, Walter Andrus, Jr., and Stanton J. Friedman.]

Disclosure:  Former Ministry of Defence Senior Executive Officer Nick Pope for his open engagement of the UFO/ET issue while working for the British government.  [Past recipients include: Dr. Jesse A. Marcel, Jr., Capt. Robert Salas (USAF ret.), the late Monsignor Corrado Balducci, and the late Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso.]

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

 

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April 20, 2009

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Press Release                                                                                                          April 20, 2009

Washington, DC - Today Dr. Edgar Mitchell called upon the new Democratic administration under President Barack Obama to end a six-decade long truth embargo imposed by elements within the United States government and confirm to the American people the reality of an extraterrestrial, non-human intelligence engaging the human race.

Scientist, test pilot, naval officer, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr. Mitchell's extraordinary career has been a constant quest to explore and understand the world in which we live. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University, a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a Doctor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. He has received honorary doctorates in engineering from New Mexico State University, the University of Akron, Carnegie Mellon University and a ScD from Embry-Riddle University. Dr. Mitchell has received many awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and was inducted into the Space Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1998.

Following Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Milton Torres, Major USAF (ret.), related an incident in 1957 while serving in the United Kingdom wherein he was ordered to shoot down a “UFO” which registered on his radar as possibly the size of an “aircraft carrier” and demonstrated extraordinary maneuverability. He was subsequently warned by an intelligence staffer to never speak of the incident to anyone or else lose his flying status. He only spoke out when the report of the incident turned up in a series of UFO file released last year into the public domain by the British government. Dr. Torres called upon the new Democratic administration under President Barack Obama to declassify and release all “UFO” related documents in government files to the American people. In this he mirrored very similar demands previously made by former Clinton advisor and chief of staff, John Podesta, and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

Following Dr. Torres, Nick Pope, a former Senior Executive Officer with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, who directly investigated the UFO issue while working for the MoD, related how media coverage in the UK of the extraterrestrial/UFO issue has exploded over the past twelve months due to the timed release of thousands of documents and sighting reports by the British government into the public domain. He gave a review of the current status of the issue in his country

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

 

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April 13, 2009


  

Press Release                                                                        April 13, 2009

Washington, DC – Following the April 17-19 X-Conference 2009 ( www.x-conference.com ) Paradigm Research Group will hold a press conference in the First Amendment Room at the National Press Club, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC on Monday, April 20, at 10 am.  

At that time Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell will take questions at the NPC for the first time regarding his assertions there is an extraterrestrial basis for the UFO phenomenon and the United States government committed itself to a cover-up or “truth embargo” in the late 1940’s after recovering a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle near Roswell, New Mexico.

Also at that time, Nick Pope, a former Senior Executive Officer with the UK Ministry of Defence, who directly investigated the UFO issue while working for the MoD, will take questions at the NPC for the first time regarding an explosion of sightings, actions by the British government and other events.  Media coverage in the United Kingdom of the extraterrestrial/UFO issue has exploded over the past twelve months due to the timed release of thousands of documents and sighting reports by the British government into the public domain.   These releases have generated hundreds of articles both in the UK and the United Kingdom.  Nick Pope has been at the center of this storm.  

One of those released reports tells of an incident in 1957 in which an American pilot stationed in the United Kingdom was ordered to shoot down a UFO that was registering on radar the size of an aircraft carrier.  That pilot, Major Milton Torres, PhD, USAF (ret.) will describe and take questions about this incident.

Questions will also be taken by Dr. Roger Leir who will have revealed at X-Conference 2009 for the first time startling new evidence supporting the growing number (tens of thousands) of extraterrestrial contact accounts.

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X-Conference 2009 is hosted by television journalist and former CNN news anchor, Cheryll Jones. 

Featured speakers will include:  Radio host George Noory (Special Presentation); Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Nick Pope, Dr. Roger Leir (Special Presentation); Col. John Alexander, PhD (Special Presentation - Debate with Stephen Bassett); Colin Andrews; Art Campbell with Manuel “Bill” Kirklin; Richard Dolan; Graham Hancock; Paola Harris; Jeff Peckman; Michael Salla; PhD; Victor Viggiani; Alfred Webre, JD; and guest activists:  Dr. Joseph Buchman, Dr. Rebecca Hardcastle, Terri Mansfield, Robert Fleishcer (Germany), Angelika Whitecliff, Frederik Uldall (Denmark)

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

 

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April 6, 2009


 

Press Release                                                                                   April 6, 2009

Washington, DC -  X-Conference 2009 will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, Maryland on April 17-19. It is the annual conference produced by Paradigm Research Group to address the politics and implications of the UFO/ET issue - exopolitics.   There is a "disclosure movement" underway which is now international and gaining momentum.  See: www.exopoliticsworld.net .    This movement seeks nothing less than the formal acknowledgement by world governments of the extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

Conference and registration information is found at:  www.x-conference.com .   It is open to the public and there is on-site registration.  Press passes are available.  

X-Conference 2009 is hosted by former CNN news anchor, Cheryll Jones.  Featured speakers this year include:

Dr. Roger Leir - There is no issue more difficult with greater exopolitical implications than the emerging evidence for direct contact between humans and extraterrestrials.   Reports by the tens of thousands of self-described "contactees" (experiencers, abductees) have been piling up in the filing cabinets of researchers around the world.  Many hundreds of these reports have been thoroughly investigated and reported by researchers and therapists.

One component of the emerging evidence relates to reported "implants."   Many of these "implants" have been removed and examined.  No researcher has done more of this work than Dr. Roger Leir, a practicing podiatric surgeon in Southern California.     There has been a major breakthrough in Leir's work that will be revealed for the first time at X-Conference 2009.

Joseph Montaldo has built a grassroots organization, ICAR, the International Community for Alien Research, dealing with the contact phenomenon.  See: www.icar1.com .  This organization is now well established with thousands of members in 11 countries.   ICAR investigators have examined over 5000 cases of reported extraterrestrial contact including abductions.   He is also an Internet radio pioneer with a very substantial presence on the web including a number of programs and hosts.   Montaldo will speak to the larger range of evidence and the profound implications of these reported interactions.

Other speakers include:   Stephen Bassett (Moderator); George Noory (Special Presentation); Edgar Mitchell, PhD; Col. John Alexander, PhD; Nick Pope with Major Milton Torres; Colin Andrews; Art Campbell with Manuel Kirklin; Richard Dolan; Graham Hancock; Paola Harris; Jeff Peckman; Michael Salla; PhD; Victor Viggiani; Alfred Webre, JD.  Guest Activists:  Dr. Joseph Buchman, Dr. Rebecca Hardcastle, Terri Mansfield, Robert Fleishcer (Germany), Angelika Whitecliff, Frederik Uldall (Denmark). 

A documentary by Suzanne Taylor, What on Earth, will have its East Coast premier.   She will present the film along with award winning documentarist, Suzanne Bauman.  See: www.whatonearththemovie.com  

All members of the U. S. Congress have received invitations to send representatives to X-Conference 2009. 
A post-conference press event will be held at the National Press Club, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC on Monday, April 20, at 10 am.   Dr. Roger Leir will announce his findings to the media and take questions at that time.   Other speakers will have announcements and take questions on the most important issue of our time.

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

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April 3, 2009


 

Press Release                                                                                                          April 3, 2009


Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group will hold its fifth X-Conference (Exopolitics Expo) April 17-19 at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD.  This event is an integral part of PRG’s advocacy work aiming to change government policy toward extraterrestrial-related phenomena.   Since 1947 the United States has imposed a "truth embargo" on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.   This engagement has been confirmed by a mountain of evidence compiled by hundreds of researchers over six decades.

Conference and registration information is found at:  www.x-conference.com .   It is open to the public and there is on-site registration.  Press passes are available.    

X-Conference 2009 is hosted by former CNN news anchor, Cheryll Jones.  Featured speakers this year include:

Dr. Edgar Mitchell - this author, explorer, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and one of only 12 humans to set foot off the planet Earth (Apollo 14) triggered an international media storm in July of 2008 when many in a UK radio audience heard for the first time his assertions about what he has learned about an extraterrestrial presence in our skies  (See: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Mitchell_Media_Coverage.htm )   Dr. Mitchell will give his most comprehensive lecture on the intersection of his life with these issues, the response he has received and his thoughts on the disclosure process and the possible new paradigm in a post-disclosure world.

Nick Pope - media coverage in the United Kingdom of the extraterrestrial/UFO issue has exploded over the past twelve months due to the timed release of thousands of documents and sighting reports by the British government into the public domain.   These releases have generated hundreds of articles both in the UK and the United Kingdom.  At the center of this storm is Nick Pope, a former Senior Executive Officer with the UK Ministry of Defence, who directly investigated the UFO issue while working for the MoD and is now a leading researcher and spokesperson.  Nick will address the powerful events unfolding in his country.  

Major Milton Torres:  Nick Pope will be joined by USAF Major (ret.) Dr. Milton Torres who was featured in one of the MoD documents released last year.  Major Torres was ordered to shoot down a UFO while on duty in the UK and is now publicly speaking to that extraordinary event.

Other speakers include:   Stephen Bassett (Moderator); George Noory (Special Presentation); Dr. Roger Leir (Special Presentation); Col. John Alexander, PhD (Special Presentation - Debate with Stephen Bassett); Colin Andrews; Art Campbell with Manuel Kirklin; Richard Dolan; Graham Hancock; Paola Harris; Jeff Peckman; Michael Salla; PhD; Victor Viggiani; Alfred Webre, JD. Guest Activists:  Dr. Joseph Buchman, Dr. Rebecca Hardcastle, Terri Mansfield, Robert Fleishcer (Germany), Angelika Whitecliff, Frederik Uldall (Denmark).

All members of the U. S. Congress have received invitations to send representatives to X-Conference 2009.

A post-conference press event will be held at the National Press Club, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC on Monday, April 20, at 10 am.   Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Nick Pope, Major Milton Torrres and other speakers will have announcements and take questions on the most important issue of our time.


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

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Feb 9, 2009


 

Press Release                           February 9, 2009

X-Conference 2009
April 17-19, Hilton Hotel, Gaithersburg, MD

Washington, DC - The fifth X-Conference (Exopolitics Expo) will he held on April 17-19 at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD.

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social implications of extraterrestrial-related phenomena.  It is produced by PRG in the Washington, DC metro area as part of an ongoing activist effort seeking to end a government imposed truth embargo on the formal acknowledgement by the U. S. government of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure.

Full conference information and registration is on line at:  www.x-conference.com .

Hotel reservations can be made via: 301-977-8900 (booking code: x-conference).

PRG will also hold a press conference at the National Press Club, First Amendment Room, 13th Floor, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC on Monday morning, April 20 at 10 am.   There will be a number of announcements relating to events breaking around the Disclosure process by X-Conference speakers.  These may include:  Nick Pope (developments in the United Kingdom), Stephen Bassett (actions by the Obama administration), Alfred Webre, JD (space weapons ban), Colin Andrews (developments in the United Kingdom), Victor Viggiani (developments in Canada), others TBA.

With formal disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence by the United States or other first world nation drawing near, X-Conference 2009 will be to some extent an exopolitical summit.  Leading figures in the exopolitics Disclosure movement are being invited to speak and a number of guest activists from around the world will also be participating.  It will be the largest ever gathering of such activists.   But X-Conference 2009 will not be monochromatic and will include these special presentations:

George Noory, host of the #1 late night talk show in America, will revisit some of the great segments from past C2C shows, give his thoughts on the extraordinary events taking place, take questions and sign autographs.

Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, returns again this time to give an in depth lecture on the full  spectrum of his experience with the UFO/ET issue, his interactions with the media, his thoughts on the disclosure process and hopes for the post-disclosure world.

Dr. John Alexander (Col. USArmy ret.) and PRG executive director, Stephen Bassett will debate UFO/ET/Disclosure issues.

Graham Hancock, one of the most prolific authors and researchers of the ancient world, examines the exopolitics of the distant past.

Other outstanding speakers include:

  • Colin Andrews - new developments in the United Kingdom
  • Art Campbell - his important research on events in the Eisenhower administration and on the Plains of San Augustin
  • Richard Dolan - the second volume in his extremely important trilogy, UFOs and the National Security State
  • Paola Harris - the exopolitics of Hollywood
  • Joseph Montaldo - contactee, founder of ICAR and builder of an expanding Internet radio presence
  • Jeff Peckman - from the Denver Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission Ballot Initiative to David Letterman and beyond
  • Nick Pope - the man in the center of the United Kingdom UFO/ET/Disclosure firestorm
  • Dr. Michael Salla - one of the most aggressive thinkers and writers in exopolitics today
  • Victor Viggiani - the leader of exopolitical movement in Canada
  • Alfred Webre, JD - the founder of exopolitics, futurist, and leading activist for a space based weapons ban.  [Note: President Obama has indicated he will call for a Space Weapons Ban.]

Guest activists (so far) include:  Dr. Joseph Buchman - former Libertarian Party congressional candidate calling for Disclosure

Dr. Rebecca Hardcastle and Terri Mansfield - along with Dr. Lynne Kitei are building a political movement combining exopolitics, exoconsciousness and peace activism.

More speaker info at:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/X-Conference2009/speakers.htm 

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


 

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January 22, 2009

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PRG Press Release - January 22, 2009
Disclosure and the Citizen's Briefing Book

Washington, DC -  The Citizen's Briefing Book set up at the Presidential Transition website, Change.gov, closed at 6 pm on January 20, 2009 after being open for nine days.  According to Michael Strautmanis, director of public liaison and intergovernmental affairs for the Obama/Biden transition team, "Over 125,000 users submitted over 44,000 ideas and cast over 1.4 million votes. The best rated ideas will be gathered into a Citizen's Briefing Book to be delivered to President Obama after he is sworn in."

Of the 44,000 submissions, 23 submissions were related to ending the government imposed UFO/ET Truth Embargo.  They received a combined total of 177,210 votes with over 3200 comments.   Based upon voting support six of the UFO/ET Disclosure related ideas were in the top 101 out of 44,000+ submitted.

PRG will check closely to determine whether the Disclosure issue is included in the Citizen's Briefing Book given to the new president.

You can view most of the 3200+ comments to the UFO/ET Disclosure submissions at these locations:

Citizen Briefing Book Archive
http://tinyurl.com/apz2o9

Paradigm Research Group Archive
http://tinyurl.com/bt7w8y

Also ending on January 20 was Phase I of the Million Fax on Washington - www.faxonwashington.org.    Thousands of letters, faxes and emails calling for Disclosure were sent to the senatorial office and transition headquarters of the President Elect.   Examples of this correspondence can be viewed at:

www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Million-Fax-Correspondence.htm

The Million Fax on Washington is a project of Paradigm Research Group.  Phase II of this initiative will begin next week.

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

 

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October 17, 2008

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Million Fax on Washington
www.faxonwashington.org

Open Letter to Barack Obama and John McCain

October 17, 2008

 

Dear Senators:

In less than three weeks one of you will be President Elect of the United States.  When you take office on January 20, 2009 you will inherit a nation in crisis.  One notable indicator of this crisis is the unprecedented approval/trust ratings of the executive and legislative branches of government and the political press.   The faith of the American people in the presidency, the congress and the media is so low the social contract itself is at the breaking point.

The public grants candidates and office holders the odd fib, occasional white lie, and exaggerated resume, but will not abide government lying about matters of life and death, war and peace, and the very nature of reality.  Since 1947 there have been numerous breaches of public trust, but none more dangerous or impacting than the decision to withhold from the American people the facts behind an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  

Formal acknowledgement of this extraordinary circumstance was initially withheld for national security reasons.  This is understandable.  

However, the pervasive and uninterrupted occurrences of extraterrestrial-related phenomena worldwide prompted a direct intervention into the citizen efforts to understand what was happening.   Thus was created the most extensive propaganda/disinformation campaign in history often referred to as a cover-up but best described as a truth embargo.   Citizens were threatened and harmed, research/activist organizations infiltrated and dismantled, newspapers and television networks recruited, false stories planted, documents destroyed, presidents denied information and Congress denied oversight.   This is less understandable.

After the Cold War ended in 1991 military and agency employees witness to events and evidence confirming the extraterrestrial presence began coming forward.  Public awareness of the extraterrestrial issue grew and seventeen years later is essentially universal.   Nations such as France, China, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Brazil are releasing relevant classified documents and cooperating with citizen research organizations.   But the United States government’s policy of embargo remains unchanged.   This is unacceptable.

The truth embargo’s end and formal acknowledgment of the extraterrestrial presence are inevitable.  What remains to be determined are when it happens, how much further damage is done to the public’s trust, and which nation will act first. 

After the election you are going to receive many thousands of letters, faxes and emails from citizens of many nations calling for you to 1) demand a full briefing from your military services and intelligence agencies, 2) press for open and comprehensive congressional hearings, 3) formally acknowledge the extraterrestrial presence, and 4) release into the public domain extraterrestrial derived technologies, secretly studied and reverse engineered for six decades, and now essential to overcome the environmental, economic and social challenges of our time.

As President Elect reach out to your party’s allies within the military and intelligence communities.  When you take office conduct the necessary meetings with the cross agency committees managing the extraterrestrial presence issue.  In the spring of 2009, before the truth embargo becomes your embargo, initiate disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence and begin rebuilding the trust of the American people in their government and the standing of your country in the world.

Respectfully,

Stephen Bassett
Executive Director


 

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October 7, 2008

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October 7, 2008
Media Notice
 Re: Million Fax on Washington

Washington, DC - News about the Million Fax on Washington is spreading on the Internet and across Facebook.  PRG executive director Stephen Bassett is available to talk about this initiative.  Contact:  PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org    202-215-8344

The Million Fax on Washington is a project of Paradigm Research Group

 
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October 1, 2008

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October 1, 2008
Press Release
 Re: Million Fax on Washington

Washington, DC - Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, announced today "the most important initiative PRG has launched in its twelve-year history."

The "Million Fax on Washington" will motivate the American people to send, between November 5, 2008 and January 20, 2009, one million letters, faxes and emails to the President Elect calling for the new president to: 1) demand and receive a full briefing by his military services and intelligence agencies regarding the extraterrestrial presence and related phenomena, 2) support convening congressional hearings to take testimony from scores of former military and agency employees regarding extraterrestrial phenomena, and 3) formally acknowledge to the American people the extraterrestrial presence - Disclosure.

Straightforward instructions and additional information are available at the initiative website:  www.faxonwashington.org

This effort will be international in scope and citizens of other countries are also being encouraged to contact the new American president.   The decision by the United States government, formalized in 1952, to embargo the truth regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race has impacted all peoples and nations.

PRG has also created a Facebook Group Page - Million Fax on Washington.  Facebook is the most powerful networking community on the Internet, and PRG expects this community to contribute a significant portion of the letters, faxes and emails to the President Elect.

PRG executive director Stephen Bassett is already scheduled for two dozen media interviews and expects to do 100+ media segments over the next 90 days.

"Formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure - is close at hand and possibly already under consideration by elements within the United States Government.   But it is not a fait accompli.   It could be withheld due to events or loss of political will.   It is critical the American people act now to help close the deal.   There has never been a more profound opportunity for the people in concert to make a difference and change the course of history."

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Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

 

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July 24, 2008

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July 24, 2008
Press Release
 Re: Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Apollo Astronaut Again Confirms an Extraterrestrial Presence Engaging the Human Race

Washington, DC - Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell (PhD MIT) has once again stated clearly that high ranking civilian and military officials have over the years confirmed to him the UFO phenomenon in part is the consequence of a non-human intelligence engaging the planet earth and the human race.  Further, he confirmed an extraterrestrial vehicle crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 placing in the hands of the U. S. government potentially transformative technology.

These reassertions were made on a July 4, 2008 CNN Larry King Live program.   As usual the American media did not find this newsworthy and there was little follow-up coverage.

However, when he repeated and expanded his remarks on a London radio station on July 23 the result was an explosion of international coverage which will almost certainly spill back into the United States.

PRG executive director, Stephen Bassett, stated, "Dr. Mitchell is only the tip of the iceberg.  There are scores of military and civilian agency witnesses ready to testify under oath before a congressional hearing and reveal the most important information in human history to a public that no longer believes anything the U. S. Government has to say on this matter."  

"But to be quite blunt, the very fact that a man of Dr. Mitchell's stature and accomplishments, has repeatedly asserted the reality of an extraterrestrial presence is in and of itself sufficient basis for full hearings, and furthermore, every political and science reporter from every paper of record in this nation should be on the phone to this man today."

"When will American journalism make up its mind whose side it's on - the American people or the agencies of government propaganda."

    Mitchell Articles, Video & Audio:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/main.html

                                                              www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/newsitems2008.html

           Mitchell Biography/Website:  www.edmitchellapollo14.com

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Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

 

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June 24, 2008

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June 24, 2008
Press Release
 Re: Wikipression

Washington, DC – A second instance of censorship has taken place related to matters exopolitical.

First Google deletes or blocks listings from the top of search returns; now after three years an Administrator at Wikipedia has removed the "Exopolitics" article from the online "people's" encyclopedia.   This from a publication with huge articles on Britney Spears, the Incredible Hulk and Mr. Ed (the talking horse).   Efforts to get the article reinstated were rebuffed, and essentially impossible, given the absurd complexity of Wikiprocedures.

Wikipedia is a powerful concept.   Six percent of all web users access it.  It draws upon the collective intellectual resource to create something with huge potential.  Sadly, in order to deal with attendant issues such as inaccuracy, vandalism and malicious intent, operationally it has become an impenetrable, incomprehensible labyrinth populated by obsessive-compulsive geeks who rule over imaginary fiefdoms while hiding behind screen names.

The Administrator/OCG in this instance who deleted the "Exopolitics" article goes by the screen name "Sandstein."  He has no knowledge of exopolitics, its history or the attendant issues and his "decision" was derived from a mock consensus of a few other OCG's who know even less - a rationale based upon the premise that collective ignorance is somehow smarter than individual ignorance - a case of the arrogant leading the blind.

First Google deletes the Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton listings at or near the top of the search returns going into the key Indiana and North Carolina primary elections, which miraculously reappear a few days after the elections are over.   Now Wikipedia has deleted the "Exopolitics" article which had been in place for over three years.  

PRG executive director Stephen Bassett commented, “It is important to understand that given the manner in which Wikipedia operates, it is very vulnerable to direct government interference.  A “consensus” of a few “users” is all that is needed to remove an article which is not to the liking of some element within government.   ‘Administrators’ can be planted and affect content, block users and who knows what else.”  

“In any event, every time censorship of exopolitical issues by non-governmental entities takes place PRG is going to point it out and name names.  Truth embargos remain in place because people and organizations not only believe government propaganda, they step up to help enforce it.” 

“Neither government suppression nor censorship by the likes of Google or Wikipedia will prevent the inculcation of exopolitics into the mainstream or the end to the truth embargo regarding a non-human intelligence engaging the human race."

The press may contact WikiAdministrator “Sandstein” via his Wiki page (and in no other fashion) at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sandstein#Exopolitics

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Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

 

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May 19, 2008

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May 19, 2008
Press Release
 Re: Billy Cox Reportage

 

Washington, DC – PRG has published a new webpage on its site dedicated to the reporting of journalist Billy Cox.   No reporter at any newspaper in any nation has written more competently or comprehensively on the many issues surrounding extraterrestrial-related phenomena.   He received the PRG Courage in Journalism Award in 2005.  See:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/PRG_Awards.htm

A partial linked listing of his relevant articles and blogs is now archived at:

www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Billyl_Cox_Reportage.htm

As the most significant news story in history begins to unfold at an ever increasing pace, Pulitzer Prize possibilities abound.   But any reporter or editor who wants a piece of that action will have to pedal very hard if they want to get out in front of Billy Cox.

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Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

 

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May 14, 2008


 

May 14, 2008
Press Release


Memo

To: Dan Abrams, Wolf Blitzer, Lou Dobbs, Keith Olbermann, Chris  Matthews, Bill O'Reilly, Brit Hume, Tim Russert, Joe Scarborough,  George Stephanopoulos, Chris Wallace and the rest of the political  press corps

 

From: Paradigm Research Group

When are you going to ask Senator Hillary Clinton about the  Rockefeller Initiative?

Rockefeller Initiative
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm
www.presidentialufo.com/clinton.htm


Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Open_Letter_Clinton-Hillary.htm

 

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May 9, 2008

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May 9, 2008
Media Notice
 Re: Google Blocking Update

Shortly after a well known journalist contact of PRG's contacted the Google press office for the second time the Open Letter to Hillary Clinton located at: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Open_Letter_Clinton-Hillary.htm  reemerged on the Google search listings.

It was at the top of the search listing on May 1 for [Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton] when it along with other sites were stripped from the listings.

As of today it can only be reached by using very restrictive search criteria.   What that means is that the hit counter for the page was zeroed out when the block was taken off.  

There are several ways Google can block a page.  One is to simply block the specific address for a page.  That's 100% effective.   Another is to zero out the hit count for that page so it plunges downward in the listings essentially out of sight.   Google can also block the page from appearing under some search terms and not others.

PRG requests that you please visit the source page often over the next few days to drive the hit count for the page up and thereby drive the page higher and higher up the search returns under all search criteria.  This will help to keep Google honest.

That said, this breach of censorship has been fully documented and PRG has no intention of dropping the matter with Google.

PRG very much suspects that this entire episode was to limit any  damage to the Clinton campagin going into last Tuesday's  election.  Which is to say that another reason all the pages in  question have reemerged onto the Goolge listings is the North  Carolina and Indiana primaries are over.  If true, this act of censorship by Google would be even more egregious.

Please visit:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Open_Letter_Clinton-Hillary.htm  early and often.

Thanks,
Stephen Bassett
Executive Director

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May 6, 2008

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May 6, 2008
Press Release
 Re: Google Censorship

Washington, DC - On April 30 PRG published an Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton regarding Laurance Rockefeller's effort from March of 1993 through 1996 to convince her husband to release all government held files pertaining to UFOs and extraterrestrial life.   This letter was published to the websites for PRG, American Chronicle, OpEd News and the National Ledger.  It was also sent out to approximately 5000 television, radio, internet and print media.

The PRG web page is located at:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Open_Letter_Clinton-Hillary.htm

PRG watched carefully as the pages holding this Open Letter moved quickly up the search engine results at Google and Yahoo based on these search criteria:

open letter to Senator Hillary Clinton
open letter to Senator Clinton
open letter to Hillary Clinton      

Within 36 hours the PRG and American Chronicle Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton pages were at or near the top of both the Google and Yahoo search results.

At that time the Google search listings for the Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton published by PRG were stripped (or blocked) from the Google search returns.   Fortunately, this did not take place with the Yahoo search returns.

Efforts by PRG to reach Google to determine why this had happened have been fruitless.

Blocking the Google search engine from listing the web pages which contain the PRG Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton is a pure act of political censorship.

Given Google's behavior as regards its presence in the People's Republic of China - compliance with severe content restrictions - this act of censorship raises deeply serious questions. 

First and foremost it raises the question of what other pages containing political speech not acceptable to Google are being blocked from Google search listings within the United States?

PRG is seeking pro bono legal assistance from 1st Amendment specialist attorneys in order to open a dialogue with Google to resolve this matter.

_______________________________________________________ 

Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

 

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May 5, 2008

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May 5, 2008
Media Notice
 Re: Hillary Clinton and the Rockefeller Initiative

Washington, DC - Fifteen months into the presidential election campaign a question remains for the questioners: when will the political press corps ask Senator Hillary Clinton about the Rockefeller Initiative?

RI Documents referencing Senator Clinton:  http://tinyurl.com/5r6usg,  http://tinyurl.com/5zqogn

Key RI Documents:  http://tinyurl.com/2o526u 

_______________________________________________________ 

Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

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April 29, 2008

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Washington, DC - The following announcements regarding matters arising from and related to X-Conference 2008 were made at the PRG National Press Club press conference on April 21, 2008.   Full video at: http://tinyurl.com/6pgtdn

Joseph Buchman – Candidate, Utah 1st Congressional District

Joseph Geddes Buchman, PhD announced his candidacy to represent Utah’s First Congressional District.  This is notable as he will be the third candidate on the November ballot in a federal election directly speaking to the issues regarding extraterrestrial-related phenomena and a government imposed embargo on full disclosure to the American people.  The first was Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election.  The second was Stephen Bassett in the 2002 congressional election.  Dr. Buchman is running on the Libertarian ticket.        Full press release at:  http://tinyurl.com/6zopjk

Implementation of UNGA Decision 33/426 (1978) Initiative

Four non-governmental organizations have launched a joint initiative to urge the implementation of a historic UN General Assembly Decision concerning extraterrestrial life and UFOs, adopted on December 18, 1978. This year marks the 30th anniversary of UN General Assembly Decision 33/426 that invited: “Member States to take appropriate steps to coordinate on a national level scientific research and investigation into extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects.” The Decision further invited Member States to “inform the Secretary-General of the observations, research and evaluation of such activities.”  Text of the UN Decision 33/426 at: http://tinyurl.com/3rnfhr             Full press release at:  http://tinyurl.com/5ls67d

Peace and Emergency Action Coalition for Earth (P.E.A.C.E. Inc) – Plan C

P.E.A.C.E. Inc. presented a new global research and action program, Plan C, at the X-Conference.   Plan C is designed to prepare the global public for disclosure of and ultimately contact with extraterrestrial civilizations that may have been interacting with Earth from the beginning of humankind.  Additionally, it will influence the strategies of disclosure by countries that have, up to now, denied and disinformed the world about these historic relationships.                                            Full press release at:  http://tinyurl.com/6lp5da

Vanguard Cinema – The Phoenix Lights Documentary

Vanguard Cinema announced the release of an enhanced version of Dr. Lynne Kitei’s documentary, The Phoenix Lights.   Dr. Kitei will be doing media appearances in support of the film including Fox News, NBC’s Dateline and other programs.                                     Full press release at:  http://tinyurl.com/6lykn9

Rob Simone - UFOs IN THE HEADLINES: Real Reporting On a Real Phenomenon

Author Rob Simone announced the release of his new book UFOs in the Headlines: Real Reporting on a Real Phenomenon in which he examines the UFO/ET subject from a journalistic perspective.  With over 200 photographs of actual newspaper clippings, the book gives an overview of the hard-hitting and diverse range of UFO news stories from over 10 countries.                          Full press release at:  http://tinyurl.com/6cuyal

Contact:  Stephen Bassett, Executive Director, 202-215-8344

 

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April 28, 2008

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April 28, 2008
Press Release
 

Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group makes the following announcements regarding matters from and related to X-Conference 2008 at the Gaithersburg Hilton Hotel, April 18-20.

Senator Hillary Clinton

As presented by Canadian researcher Grant Cameron at the X-Conference, presidential candidate Clinton has been aware of the extraterrestrial presence issue at least since 1993 when her husband’s administration was approached by Laurance S. Rockefeller regarding the release of all UFO documents and other related information in government files and making a commitment to tell the public the full facts regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  This effort has come to be called the Rockefeller Initiative, and it lasted for three years.   Confirmation of this effort was obtained by Cameron via the Freedom of Information Act from the files of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.  One of these documents is attached. 

You can review 163 of the key documents at: http://tinyurl.com/2o526u.     A history of the RI can be found at:  www.presidentialufo.com.  Please note specific references to Senator Clinton in documents archived at: http://tinyurl.com/5r6usg and http://tinyurl.com/5zqogn

An “Open Letter to Senator Clinton” from PRG regarding the Rockefeller Initiative and the extraterrestrial-related phenomena issue will be published widely across the Internet on April 30.   

Exopolitics World Network (EWN)

PRG has launched an international network of websites which will chronicle exopolitical developments within their respective countries and network with other similar sites worldwide.  Ten countries are on board with two pending.  Webmasters in 20 other countries are being sought to create new sites.   See:  www.exopoliticsworld.net

PRG Awards

The following individuals received awards at the X-Conference Awards Banquet: Intellectual Courage – Dr. John Mack; Political Courage – the Honorable Paul Hellyer; Courage in Journalism – George Noory; Lifetime Achievement (Posthumous) – Laurance S. Rockefeller; Lifetime Achievement (Living) – Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell; Disclosure – Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr.   See:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/PRG_Awards.htm

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The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena – exopolitics.   It is produced by PRG as part of an ongoing advocacy effort seeking to end the government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.   The ending of this truth embargo would be the Disclosure event.

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

 

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April 8, 2008


 

April 8, 2008
Press Release
 

Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group announced today the program is set for the fourth X-Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD, April 18-20.   Full conference information and registration at:  www.x-conference.com.

 

Special Appearance
by George Noory
host of Coast to Coast AM
#1 Late Night Talk
Show in America

 

Hosted by
Cheryll Jones
television journalist and former
CNN News Anchor

 
  • Special Presentation: George Noory
  • Keynotes:  Dr. Edgar Mitchell (main), Paul Hellyer (short), George Noory (short)
  • Speakers: Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr. (Roswell); Dr. Tom Valone (UFO derived technology); Dr. John Alexander (Aviary); Dr. Bruce Maccabee (Aviary); Dr. C. B. "Scott' Jones (Aviary); Angelia Joiner (Stephenville, TX sightings); Robert Emenegger (The Nixon years); Stephen Bassett (Exopolitics); Grant Cameron (U.S. Presidents and UFOS); Richard Dolan (UFOs and the National Security State); Victor Viggiani/Mike Bird (Canadian exopolitics); Rob Simone (Media coverage); and Terry Hansen (Media cover-up).    Host: Cheryll Jones
  • Special Guests: Joseph Buchman (Utah 1st Congressional District candidate), Connie Fogal (Leader of the Canadian Action Party), more TBA
  • Artists: Mark Brabant, D. J. Bachman, Sonny Hale, Mark Medford, Betty Plummer and Melissa Reed
  • Documentaries:  Touched (Laurel Chiten), Odyssey (Joyce Libutti), The Phoenix Lights (Dr. Lynne Kitei), Staya Erusa (Uri Geller, et al.)
  • Press Conference:  National Press Club, Lisagor Room, Monday, 10 am, April 21.

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena – exopolitics.   It is produced by PRG as part of an ongoing advocacy effort seeking to end the government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.   The ending of this truth embargo would be the Disclosure event.     Press passes available.

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

 

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April 3, 2008

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April 3, 2008
Press Release
 Re: X-Conference 2008 Documentaries

Washington, DC - PRG's upcoming X-Conference scheduled for April 18-20 at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD will feature four exceptional documentaries which have been nominated for or won numerous awards.   Full conference information is available at:  www.x-conference.com.

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena – exopolitics.   It is produced by PRG as part of an ongoing advocacy effort seeking to end the government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure.

Three of these documentaries deal with the two most significant and challenging exopolitical issues which government must address sooner or later: 1) the continuing intrusion into the nation's airspace by craft of unknown origin for which the government offers no appropriate explanation, and 2) tens of thousands of detailed reports from citizens who claim direct interaction with non-human entities, assumed to be extraterrestrial, both welcome and unwelcome.  The number of citizens in this circumstance is not known, but has been estimated to be large.

Relating to the first issue is the documentary The Phoenix Lights which recounts the historic and still unexplained Arizona mass sighting of 1997 with riveting new data and personal interviews in an updated version of the internationally acclaimed and award winning film.   The documentary is a collaborative effort between Lynne D. Kitei, M.D. (executive producer/director, author & a key witness) and Steve Lantz (producer, director of photography, editor & composer).   It is based on the bestselling book, The Phoenix Lights...A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone, in which 30 credible eyewitnesses, children, scientists, military, pilots and experts give compelling testimony to the reality of these mysterious global visitations.

Two documentaries address the second issue.   Springing from the work of Dr. John Mack Touched is the personal exploration by Laurel Chiten into the lives and minds of alleged abductees, or experiencers, around the world, and of her path through skepticism, fear, insomnia, fascination, confusion that led to many questions.  What happens when the unexplained intrudes into our lives, and how do lives and relationships respond when credulity is strained to a breaking point?  This is the leading question she set out to explore. This is a film about the human experience — about longing for connection and fear of separation.

Odyssey chronicles the intense personal journey of Santa Fean Joyce Libutti, an "ordinary" wife and mother whose profound and startling encounters with benevolent alien beings have transformed her life and motivated her to risk telling her story -- and theirs -- to the world.

The fourth documentary, Staya Erusa, is a challenging tour around the outer perimeter of human understanding.  It is a road map to the territory outside the box of consensus thinking where the leaders of nations will have to go if they wish to understand the basis for the new realities that lie on the other side of Disclosure.

The list of speakers and keynoters includes:  Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo Astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences); Paul Hellyer (former Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada); George Noory (host of Coast to Coast AM); Drs. John Alexander, Bruce Maccabee and C. B. Scott Jones (members of the legendary Aviary), Dr. Thomas Valone (founder of Integrity Research Institute); Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr. (the most important living Roswell witness); Angelia Joiner (lead reporter of the Stephenville, Texas sightings); researcher Grant Cameron; political activists Stephen Bassett, Victor Viggiani and Mike Bird; historian Richard Dolan; and authors Robert Emenegger, Rob Simone and Terry Hansen.   Stephen Bassett and former CNN News anchor Cheryll Jones will co-host the event.

Media passes are available for reporters and documentarists.  Two media rooms have been reserved.

There will be a post-event press conference on Monday, April 21 at 10 am in the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC.  Stephen Bassett along with other conference speakers will make a number of announcements.  It is open to the public.  

The Phoenix Lights - www.thephoenixlights.net
Touched - www.blinddogfilms.com
Odyssey - http://joycelibutti.com
Staya Erusa - www.stayaerusa.org

_______________________________________________________ 

Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

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March 31, 2008

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March 31, 2008
Press Release
 Re: X-Conference 2008

Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group announced today the program and speaker lineup has been set for the fourth X-Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD outside of Washington, DC on April 18-20.    Complete information and registration forms can be found at www.x-conference.com.

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena – exopolitics.   It is produced by PRG as part of an ongoing advocacy effort seeking to end the government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.   The ending of this truth embargo would be the Disclosure event.

The list of speakers and keynoters includes:  Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo Astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences); Paul Hellyer (former Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada); George Noory (host of Coast to Coast AM); Drs. John Alexander, Bruce Maccabee and C. B. Scott Jones (members of the legendary Aviary), Dr. Thomas Valone (founder of Integrity Research Institute); Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr. (the most important living Roswell witness); Angelia Joiner (lead reporter of the Stephenville, Texas sightings); researcher Grant Cameron; political activists Stephen Bassett, Victor Viggiani and Mike Bird; historian Richard Dolan; and authors Robert Emenegger, Rob Simone and Terry Hansen.   Stephen Bassett and former CNN News anchor Cheryll Jones will co-host the event.

George Noory, host of the #1 late night talk show in America, Coast to Coast AM, will make a rare appearance in the Washington, DC area and spend two hours talking and signing autographs with his many fans.  This is a special fund raising event for Paradigm Research Group.

Featured documentaries include: Touched (Laurel Chiten), Odyssey (Joyce Libutti), The Phoenix Lights (Lynne Kitei, MD) and Staya Erusa (Harry Beckers, Ronald Jan Heijn and Uri Geller.).  Chiten, Libutti and Kitei will present their films.

The Saturday banquet will include keynotes by Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Paul Hellyer and George Noory followed by the PRG Awards for: Disclosure, Political Courage, Courage in Journalism, Intellectual Courage (new) and Lifetime Achievement.

All of this year’s principal presidential candidates and members of Congress have been sent invitations to attend or send a representative to speak to the issues.  

Media passes are available for reporters and documentarists.  Two media rooms have been reserved.

There will be a post-event press conference on Monday, April 21 at 10 am in the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC.  Stephen Bassett along with other conference speakers will make a number of announcements.  It is open to the public.  

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Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

 

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January 14, 2007

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January 14, 2008
Press Release
 Re: Need for follow-up coverage of the UFO/ET issue in the presidential campaigns

Washington, DC - Recent events have made it clear it is time for the political reporters, editors, moderators and talk show hosts to penetrate the ridicule curtain and ask serious questions of and demand appropriate answers from the presidential candidates regarding the UFO issue and the government's 60-year non-denial, denial (truth embargo) of an extraterrestrial explanation.

Another major document release by the Ministry of Defence is pending in the United Kingdom,  a mass sighting similar to the 1997 Phoenix lights events has taken place in San Diego, Dennis Kucinich has acknowledged a significant sighting which has been confirmed and written up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.   Other candidates have been queried, including VP hopeful, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson,  Follow-up and investigative journalism is called for. 

If you are a political journalist, spend thirty minutes at each of these two websites and you will learn why.

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PRG Main Website
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/main.html

The Presidents UFO Website
www.presidentialufo.com

Think the press has done its job?  Read The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up by Terry Hansen.   See: www.themissingtimes.com

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Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

 

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January 4, 2007

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January 4, 2008
Media Notice
 Re:  ABC News Debate Double Header Saturday and the Extraterrestrial Presence Issue  

Washington, DC - Tomorrow night, January 5 at 7–11 pm EST, ABC News will hold back-to-back debates ahead of the New Hampshire primaries.   News anchor Charles Gibson will moderate what may be an unprecedented double header debate at the same venue.   Which political party debates first will be determined by a coin toss.

Once again more than a dozen candidates will stand before the American people seeking to be the leader of the most influential nation in the world.   And once more there will be an opportunity to ask them not silly, but serious questions about their views on the most profound issue confronting all people and all nations – the presence of intelligent, non-humans engaging the human race and the 60-year truth embargo imposed on formal acknowledgement of this fact by elements within the government they wish to head.

The door was opened by the dean of Washington television journalists, Tim Russert, at the October 30 Democrat debate in Philadelphia with the now famous question to Dennis Kucinich.  This led to questions to Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and scores of news articles.  [See: http://tinyurl.com/227963 ]

Kucinich, who is quite knowledgeable on the subject and has been briefed extensively on the UFO/ET evidence by colleagues of PRG, essentially dodged the subject.   It is up to the working journalists to keep the issue in play and insist on comprehensive answers from these candidates.

PRG executive director, Stephen Bassett, stated, “It is understandable but not acceptable that these candidates are scared silent after 60 years of institutional propaganda and disinformation regarding the extraterrestrial presence.  However, it is neither understandable nor acceptable that top-tier news organizations refuse to challenge these aspiring presidents to state clearly their views on a matter 50% of the American people have stated in poll after poll they consider valid.

Does ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX and the top-tier print media think the presence of extraterrestrial beings engaging the human race is not a matter of national security?    Is it their conclusion that the tens of thousands of detailed reports accumulating in the files of researchers around the world of contact, often coercive, between humans and these beings is not a serious societal concern?

ABC News has received reams of material on the UFO/ET issues from PRG and other organizations for the past 20 years.   Meetings with producers have been held.   ABC News attended the May 9, 2001 and November 12, 2007 press conferences at the National Press Club in which dozens of government witnesses of high rank and station presented extraordinary and compelling testimony.  [See: http://tinyurl.com/2nmhk5 ]

On January 2 the Wall Street Journal, to its great credit, gave the Kucinich question serious, front page exposure.   [See:  http://tinyurl.com/2cv9gn ]   Can Charles Gibson in a debate just three days later simply ignore such a confirmation that the issue is finally in play and candidates need to be challenged?   

Can there be anything but consensus that if there is an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race (and be assured there is), any candidate who refused to speak to that issue is not fit to lead?

And finally, when will the esteemed moderators of these debates ask Senator Hillary Clinton about the Rockefeller Initiative?  [See: http://tinyurl.com/2o526u ]

Contact:    Stephen Bassett
                      Executive Director 
                      Paradigm Research Group/X-PPAC 
                     PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
                      202-215-8344

 

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November 29, 2007

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November 29, 2007
Media Notice
 Re: CNN's David Bohrman and the YouTube Debates
       Has Mr. Bohrman insulted the intelligence of 120 million Americans?

Washington, DC - The YouTube Presidential Debate question referred to by CNN Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief David Bohrman in the Wired Magazine article below is the X-PPAC question submitted for the July 23 Democratic and November 12 Republican YouTube debates.   This question, which Mr. Bohrman mischaracterized, can be viewed at:   www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d1fw3MPvIA

Mr. Bohrman's comment is disturbing on many levels and X-PPAC Executive Director, Stephen Bassett, is seeking a personal meeting with Mr. Bohrman to discuss the matter.   Mr. Bassett has appeared on CNN regarding the UFO/ET issue and the concomitant government imposed truth embargo as have many of his colleagues.  CNN has begun to provide more appropriate coverage of this extremely important issue, and it is possible Mr. Bohrman is simply not informed on the matter.

He may not be aware that 50% of the American people polled by CNN, his own network, respond they believe there is an extraterrestrial explanation behind the UFO phenomenon and over 80% believe their government is not telling them the truth about this issue.  He may not be aware of the scores of high level government and agency witnesses coming forward in many forums with testimony to events and evidence that collectively confirm the extraterrestrial explanation.  He may not be aware of the recent actions by France, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil and other countries to open their files and reengage the issue.

Given CNN's prominence as a news organization and its role in the ongoing presidential election, it is important that Mr. Bohrman be aware of these developments.  Mr. Bassett, who like Mr. Bohrman, is based in Washington, DC, hopes to meet with the CNN Senior Vice President as soon as possible and talk about why the matter of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race is more important to the American people and the nation than whether or not Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is a cyborg.

Contact:  Stephen Bassett, Executive Director
                Paradigm Research Group
                X-PPAC
                202-215-8344

Contact:  David Bohrman 
                CNN
                Senior Vice President / Washington Bureau Chief
                820 First Street, NE 
                Washington, DC 20002 
                202-898-7900 
                david.bohrman@cnn.com (may not be current)
 
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November, 27, 2007
CNN-YouTube Debate Producer Doubts the Wisdom of the Crowd
By Sarah Lai Stirland
Wired Magazine

 www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/11/cnn_debate

As Republican presidential contenders brace for Wednesday's CNN-YouTube debate, the executive in charge of the event is unapologetic about his decision to put mainstream journalists in charge of deciding which user-contributed YouTube videos the candidates will actually face on the air.

For all the talk about online voter empowerment, the web is still too immature a medium to set an agenda for a national debate, says CNN senior vice president David Bohrman.

"If you would have taken the most-viewed questions last time, the top question would have been whether Arnold Schwarzenegger was a cyborg sent to save the planet Earth," says Bohrman, the debate's executive producer. "The second-most-viewed video question was: Will you convene a national meeting on UFOs?"

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November 26, 2007

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Press Release
November 26, 2007

Re: 1993-1996 Rockefeller Initiative to end the government imposed UFO/ET truth embargo

PRG publishes to the Internet documents from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) during the Clinton administration confirming the Rockefeller Initiative

Washington, DC – Today Paradigm Research Group placed on the Internet documents from the executive Office of Science and Technology Policy obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Canadian researcher, Grant Cameron.   These documents confirm the effort by billionaire Laurance Rockefeller to persuade President Bill Clinton to begin releasing to the public government held information pertaining to the UFO phenomenon and extraterrestrial life and to provide amnesty to government employees wishing to come forward and testify regarding relevant events and evidence.   These documents are located at:   http://tinyurl.com/2o526u

Rockefeller’s move to effect “disclosure” lasted from March 1993 through 1996.   Researchers aware of this effort commonly refer to it as the “Rockefeller Initiative.”   While the Initiative itself was not successful, it did lead to engagement of the UFO/ET issue by Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, Congressman Steven Schiff, John Podesta, Governor Bill Richardson and others right up until the present time.

The nearly four-year initiative included 1) strategy meetings of researchers held at Rockefeller’s JY Ranch in Colorado; 2) meetings between Rockefeller and President Clinton and Hillary Clinton at the JY Ranch; 3) the commissioning of numerous reports and white papers, including an extensive study titled “Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence” by Don Berliner and Antonio Huneeus; 4) document requests and searches within the Clinton administration; 5) an important symposium, “When Cosmic Cultures Meet”; 6) considerable correspondence between public and private entities, and much more.

Many more Initiative documents are in the hands of other agencies, private citizens and the Clinton Presidential Library.   Researcher Grant Cameron early on filed extensive FOIA requests to obtain relevant documents from the Clinton Library, targeting Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and others.  It is these requests which have recently been referred to on CNN and in several newspaper articles.

While the recent questions posed to presidential candidates during debates and campaign stops is encouraging, it is and must be just the beginning of extensive queries to all candidates regarding their knowledge of and intentions toward what is easily the most important issue of this or any other time in history.   Furthermore, PRG can state with high confidence the answers so far being given to these questions are evasive and mendacious.  

It is imperative that all journalists covering the 2008 election campaign review the Rockefeller Initiative documents.   Then PRG suggests reviewing the Media, Quotes and Video archives portaled at:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/main.html.   The most important news story in history awaits.

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

 

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November 15, 2007

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 PRG Press Release - 11/15/07

         

 Hillary Clinton and the Rockefeller Initiative

Washington, DC -  Today's Washington Post has an article by Libby Copeland which mentions the work of Canadian researcher Grant Cameron in the context of requests to obtain documents from the Clinton presidential library relating to the UFO phenomenon.  

The context for these Freedom of Information Act requests is the initiative by Laurance Rockefeller from March of 1993 through 1995 to persuade the new president to release all government documents pertaining to UFO phenomena to the public and effectively end a long standing truth embargo. 

A comprehensive review of this initiative and other related developments during the Clinton administration can be found at:  www.presidentialufo.com/clinton.htm

Rockefeller initially approached the executive Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) headed by Dr. John Gibbons.  As the initiative unfolded Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and key Clinton adviser, John Podesta, watched from the Oval Office but did not get directly involved.

Furthermore, President and Mrs. Clinton had private visits with Laurance Rockefeller at his ranch near Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1994 and 1995.  It is reasonably assumed they discussed the Initiative at this time.

We know this because of 900 pages of documents obtained by Grant Cameron from the OSTP via the Freedom of Information Act and from news articles relating to the Clintons' private meetings with Rockefeller.

PRG will soon publish to the internet the relevant news articles and OSTP documents confirming the Rockefeller Initiative.

In light of recent questions posed to candidates Kucinich and Richardson regarding UFO phenomena, it is appropriate that candidate Clinton be asked about her views regarding the Rockefeller Initiative.

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
                 Executive Director
                 Paradigm Research Group
                 202-215-8344

 

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October 19, 2007

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October 19, 2007
Press Release
Re: Fastwalkers Documentary Delivered to Congress

Washington, DC – For nearly ten years Paradigm Research Group and its political action committee X-PPAC have been alerting all members of Congress to a growing body of evidence confirming 1) a non-human, extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and 2) a truth embargo imposed as a matter of government policy on acknowledgement of this evidence.

This evidence has been collected by thousands of researchers throughout the world for six decades and now fills nearly 10,000 published books, papers, reports and documentaries.  More importantly, since 1991 scores of government employees (military, intelligence, contractors, civilian agencies) have come forward with firsthand testimony which collectively confirms this extraterrestrial presence.

Despite the mounting evidence and witness emergence the Congress has refused to publicly readdress this issue.  The last relevant public hearings, both limited and without follow-up, were held in 1966 and 1968.  Scores of documentaries now reside in the viewing libraries of the History, Discovery, Learning, A&E, Travel and other cable networks.  They contain substantive information and are repeatedly televised.   The appropriate agencies and congressional committees have ignored them.  Consequently, various NGO’s including PRG have distributed materials directly to Congress.

This week PRG and X-PPAC provided to all members of the House and Senate a well produced, high definition documentary titled Fastwalkers: They are Here.  It introduces the basic issues and many of the researchers and activists along with some of the more important sighting events.   All members were invited to review this film and follow up with additional resources.

This documentary was produced by Robert D. Miles and Bruce Jessop and directed by Anthony Miles.   The distribution to Congress was made possible by support from Elliott and Sharon Maynard and the Arcos Cielos Research Center.

Fastwalker is a code word created by NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) to classify unidentified flying objects which approach the Earth from space and enter the atmosphere.  It has been reported that NORAD tracks an average of 500 Fastwalkers each year.

If Congress (current approval rating in the teens) is to regain the respect and trust of the American people, it must reject the government generated propaganda and disinformation on this subject matter and take on the most important issue of our time by convening open and comprehensive hearings to take testimony from firsthand government and agency witnesses.  

Relevant Websites:

Fastwalkers:  www.fastwalkers.com
Arcos Cielos Research Center:  www.arcoscielos.com
PRG:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org   (PRG)
X-PPAC:  www.x-ppac.org

Contact: Stephen Bassett, Executive Director   202-215-8344

 

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October 2, 2007

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October 2, 2007
Press Release
Re: John Podesta, Governor Bill Richardson and Exopolitics

Washington, DC – There is an extraordinary anomaly embedded in the ongoing political campaign cycle well on its way to being the longest and most expensive in American history.  It centers on two key figures in the Democratic Party – John Podesta and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

John Podesta was a key adviser and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, husband of the leading Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton.  Podesta then became the founder and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a left of center think tank funded by George Soros and others to counter the influence of the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.  He operates at the center of the intellectual matrix forming policy for the anticipated Democratic administration and expanded Democratic House and Senate in 2009.              www.americanprogress.com  

In October of 2002 and 2003 at the National Press Club Podesta gave opening statements at two press conferences scheduled by the Coalition for Freedom of Information which contained these remarks:

"I think it's time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs......We ought to do it because….the American people quite frankly can handle the truth, and we ought to do it because it's the law."           http://tinyurl.com/39b73x

 

"It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this (UFO) phenomenon."

Governor Richardson also served in the Clinton administration after spending 14 years in the House of Representatives.  He served one year as Ambassador to the United Nations and two years as Secretary of Energy.   He then became a successful governor and participated in numerous foreign missions.  In a foreword to “The Roswell Dig Diaries” published in 2006 by Pocket Books Governor Richardson wrote: 

“……….the mystery surrounding this crash (at Roswell) has never been adequately explained - not by independent investigators, and not by the U.S. government."

 

“It would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows. With full disclosure and our best scientific investigation, we should be able to find out what happened on that fateful day in July of 1947. The American people can handle the truth no matter how bizarre or mundane, and contrary to what you see in the movies."    http://tinyurl.com/39h4ma

The aforementioned anomaly has two parts:  1) why haven’t the top-tier political media and presidential debate moderators challenged these men on their statements which directly contradict government policy regarding what is easily the most implicative issue of our time, and 2) given that partisan politics is as vicious as the pundits can recall and every opportunity to bring down an opponent, within or without one’s party, is taken with relish, John Podesta and Bill Richardson are completely untouched regarding their provocative statements relating to Roswell and ET/UFO phenomena.

Senator George Allen’s political career was ended by a single careless word.  Senators John McCain and Max Cleland were viciously attacked without basis in fact on the most personal level.  But a high level Democratic political operative and presidential candidate have directly challenged the government’s formal policy that UFO’s are a non-issue and extraterrestrials do not exist, and remain untouched by their political enemies and the press.  What is going on here?

Contact: Stephen Bassett, Executive Director   202-215-8344

 

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September 19, 2007

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September 19, 2007
Press Release                                                                                    
Re:  X-Conference 2007, Hilton Hotel, Gaithersburg, MD, September 14-16

Washington, DC - X-Conference 2007, the third produced by Paradigm Research Group, completed its program on Sunday, September 16 at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD outside of Washington, DC.    The conference was written up in the Washington Post at: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/17/AR2007091701780.html

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial phenomena.  It is part of an ongoing activist effort seeking to end a government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. 

Topics included the government imposed truth embargo, the French COMETA report and the French CNES records release, UK documents release, new Roswell witnesses, the Jimmy Carter ET studies, the coming second volume of UFOs and the National Security State by Richard Dolan, the Rockefeller Initiative toward the Clinton administration to end the ET truth embargo, the recently announced Walter Haut Affidavit, the Black Budget, the 1967 Malmstrom Air Force Base incident, the past and future of exopolitics and more.

PRG Awards were presented to:  Major Donald Keyhoe (lifetime achievement – posthumous), Alfred L. Webre (lifetime achievement), Frances Emma Barwood (political courage), Antonio Huneeus (courage in journalism), Captain Robert Salas (USAF ret.) (Disclosure Award).

The full international list of speakers and panelists included:  Stephen Bassett (Panel Moderator, Keynote Speaker); Gildas Bourdais (France); Thomas Carey; Paul Davids; Richard Dolan; Richard Farley; Steven M. Greer, MD; Paola Harris (Italy); Antonio Huneeus (Chile); Paul Kimball (Canada); Bruce Maccabee, PhD; Jaime Maussan (Mexico); Robert Miles; Nick Pope (United Kingdom); Capt. Robert Salas (USAF ret.);  Michael Salla, PhD (Australia); Donald Schmitt; Daniel Sheehan, JD; Rob Simone; Alfred L. Webre, JD. (Canada).

Full information can be found at the conference website:   www.x-conference.com

PRG Website:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org 

Contact:  Stephen Bassett, Executive Director
                 202-215-8344

 

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September 10, 2007

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September 10, 2007
Press Release                                                                                    
Re:  X-Conference 2007, Hilton Hotel, Gaithersburg, MD, September 14-16

Washington, DC - X-Conference 2007, the third produced by Paradigm Research Group, will begin at 9:45 am on Friday, September 14 at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD outside of Washington, DC.  The press are welcome and media passes are available.

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena.  It is part of an ongoing activist effort seeking to end a government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. 

Topics will include the government imposed truth embargo,  Mexico video and new events, French COMETA report and CNES records release, Roswell witnesses, Jimmy Carter ET studies, UFOs and the National Security State, Rockefeller Initiative, Walter Haut Affidavit, Black Budget, 1967 Malmstrom SAC Base Incident, United Nations involvement and the politics of disclosure and much more.

The international list of speakers and panelists includes:  Stephen Bassett (Co-Host, Panel Moderator, Keynote Speaker); former CNN News anchor Cheryll Jones (Co-Host); Gildas Bourdais (France); Thomas Carey; Paul Davids; Richard Dolan; Richard Farley; Steven M. Greer, MD; Paola Harris (Italy); Antonio Huneeus (Chile); Paul Kimball (Canada); Bruce Maccabee, PhD; Jaime Maussan (Mexico); Robert Miles; Nick Pope (United Kingdom); Capt. Robert Salas (USAF ret.);  Michael Salla, PhD (Australia); Donald Schmitt; Daniel Sheehan, JD; Rob Simone; Alfred L. Webre, JD. (Canada).

Full information can be found at the conference website:   www.x-conference.com

PRG also indicated today a post-event press conference has been scheduled for Monday, September 17 at 10 am in the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC.  Conference speakers will make a number of announcements about ongoing and pending developments.   It is open to the public.  

Websites:  X-Conference 2007: www.x-conference.com
                    Paradigm Research Group:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
                Executive Director
                202-215-8344

 

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August 13, 2007

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August 13, 2007
Press Release                                                                                    
Re:  X-Conference 2007, Hilton Hotel, Gaithersburg, MD, September 14-16

Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group announced today the final speaker lineup for X-Conference 2007 to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD outside of Washington, DC on September 14-16.    

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena.  It is produced by PRG as part of an ongoing activist effort seeking to end a government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. 

The international list of speakers and panelists includes:  Stephen Bassett (Co-Host, Panel Moderator, Keynote Speaker); former CNN News anchor Cheryll Jones (Co-Host); Gildas Bourdais (France); Thomas Carey; Paul Davids; Richard Dolan; Richard Farley; Steven M. Greer, MD; Paola Harris (Italy); Antonio Huneeus (Chile); Paul Kimball (Canada); Bruce Maccabee, PhD; Jaime Maussan (Mexico); Nick Pope (United Kingdom); Capt. Robert Salas (USAF ret.);  Michael Salla, PhD (Australia); Donald Schmitt; Daniel Sheehan, JD; Rob Simone; Alfred L. Webre, JD.(Canada).     Speaker bios and registration information can be found at the conference website: www.x-conference.com .

PRG Executive Director, Stephen Bassett, who will deliver the Keynote at the Saturday evening banquet, stated, "X-Conferences 2007 and 2008 were scheduled during the heart of the ongoing political campaigns for a reason.   All of the principal presidential candidates will soon receive invitations to attend or send a representative to speak to this issue.   The failure of the political leadership in this country to respond to the growing public awareness of an extraterrestrial presence is a national disgrace."

Bassett further stated, "There is a basic message these candidates need to hear.    It doesn't matter whether you want to be the first woman president, the first black president, the first Hispanic president, the first Mormon president or the first Jewish president.   If you do not have the foresight and courage to step before a microphone and address this extraordinarily implicative issue, you are not fit to lead this nation.   America right now desperately needs selfless, transparent, truthful governance - not more mendacity, secrecy and self-serving issue avoidance."

All members of the U.S. Congress, the approval rating of which recently fell to a historic low of 14%, will also be invited to take advantage of this convenient opportunity to learn about an issue for which they are being denied access and oversight by the military and civilian intelligence agencies.

PRG also indicated today a post-event press conference has been scheduled for Monday, September 17 at 10 am in the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC.   Stephen Bassett along with other conference speakers will make a number of announcements.  It will be open to the public.  

Websites:
X-Conference 2007:   www.x-conference.com
Paradigm Research Group:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
                  Executive Director
                  202-215-8344

 

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July 20, 2007

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July 20, 2007
Press Release                                                                                    
Re:  Exopolitics: The ET Ticket

PRG/X-PPAC
Paradigm Research Group
Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee


Washington, DC - An article written by PRG and X-PPAC Executive Director, Stephen Bassett, has received national attention. "Exopolitics: The ET Ticket" proposed the most advantageous pairing from either party as regards the prospects for Disclosure - the formal acknowledgement by the United States Government of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

His choice, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, were discussed on the July 6 Fox News morning show and mentioned in a front page article by William Booth in the Sunday, July 8 Washington Post.

Hillary Clinton and top Democratic political operative, John Podesta, were on duty in the White House during a three year effort by Laurance Rockefeller to convince then President Bill Clinton to end the UFO/ET truth embargo. Podesta would later call for the release of government documents relating to ET events and evidence, because "the American people quite frankly can handle the truth, and ...... because it's the law."

Richardson recently wrote regarding the 1947 Roswell event, "the mystery surrounding this crash has never been adequately explained - not by independent investigators, and not by the U.S. government." "It would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows. With full disclosure and our best scientific investigation, we should be able to find out what happened on that fateful day in July of 1947. The American people can handle the truth no matter how bizarre or mundane, and contrary to what you see in the movies."

PRG has been contacted by several reporters who are considering asking ET/Disclosure questions of the candidates in upcoming political campaign debates. Suggested questions are being posted at the PRG website.

This issue and much more will be on the program at PRG's upcoming X-Conference 2007 - the Insiders I, September 14-16 at the Hilton Gaithersburg Hotel near Washington, DC.

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X-Conference 2007:   www.x-conference.com
The ET Ticket:   www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=31499
Fox News Interview:   www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpDJqb7DRMc
Post Article:   www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701234.html
Candidate Questions:   www.x-ppac.org/Get_out_the_questions.html

Contact: Stephen Bassett
Executive Director
202-215-8344

 

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May 24, 2007

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May 24, 2007
Press Release                                                                                    
Re:  X-Conferences 2007 & 2008

Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group has announced it will again bring to the Washington, DC area a powerful group of speakers and panelists to focus on the social, political and media aspects of 60 years of denial of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - exopolitics.  

X-Conference 2007 will be held September 14-16, 2007 and X-Conference 2008 will be held April 18-20, 2008 - both at the 3-star Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD.

The X-Conference speakers and panelists collectively hold enough knowledge of extraterrestrial-related phenomena and governmental involvement with this phenomenon to end the state imposed truth embargo tomorrow.  All it would take is for the political leaders and the political media to pay attention.  

With that in mind PRG has scheduled both upcoming events in the middle of what will likely be the longest and most expensive presidential campaign in American history.  All candidates for the Democratic and Republican nomination, as well as candidates from established third parties, will be invited to attend and offered an opportunity to speak to an issue about which 85% of Americans believe their government is lying - the facts behind extraterrestrial-related phenomena.

Further, all sitting members of Congress will be extended an invitation to attend or send a staff representative so they might become informed about an issue which 50% of the American people believe to be real - extraterrestrial origins for some unidentified objects seen, photographed, filmed and tracked on radar in the skies over every nation on Earth.

The Washington political media will be heavily lobbied to turn out in numbers similar to their attendance at the May 9, 2001 Disclosure Project press conference at the National Press Club - 100 reporters and 17 camera crews from a dozen nations.   [See: www.disclosureproject.org]

Paradigm Research Group will also hold a press conference on the Monday following both X-Conferences wherein the speakers will present developments in their research, announce new books and speak, along with PRG Executive Director Stephen Bassett, to breaking developments and government status as regards the Disclosure process.

X-Conference info at:   www.x-conference.com
PRG info at:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

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

 

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April 4, 2007

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April 4, 2007
Press Release                                                                                    
Re:  Disclosure Developments

Washington, DC - Almost one year ago on April 24, 2006 the Paradigm Clock, which tracks proximity to a formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race, was reset to 11:59:45 - 15 seconds to midnight.   Such an acknowledgement is referred to as Disclosure and would mark the end of a 60 year truth embargo imposed by federal authorities.  The explanation for resetting the time included this statement:

Based upon an analysis of multiple circumstances within and outside the nation, PRG has concluded that America is now facing an unprecedented crisis which has opened a window to disclosure wider than at any previous time.

One of the circumstances referred to was and remains an unprecedented breach between the military and intelligence communities and the Executive Branch.  As a consequence of this breach PRG believed that should a disclosure effort emerge from within the military/intelligence sector and the Executive moved to block, it is more likely that blocking move would be rebuffed.   On the other hand an increasingly isolated Executive facing a cascade of allegations and investigations and lacking support from the military/intelligence sector might see Disclosure as a means to "change the subject" on a global scale.  Thus a window for Disclosure was created, and one year later that window remains open.   Furthermore, over the past 36 months the following have taken place:

March 2007 - Former Arizona governor, Fife Symington, revealed in an interview with journalist and investigative director for the Coalition for Freedom of Information, Leslie Kean, he had seen a massive black triangular craft fly overhead early in the evening of March 13, 1997 - the first Phoenix Lights event.  Symington told CNN, “The lights were really brilliant. And it was just fascinating. I mean, it was enormous. It just felt otherworldly. You know, in your gut, you could just tell it was otherworldly.”

March 2007 - The French national space agency, CNES, placed 1600 previously classified UFO sighting reports into the public domain on the Internet.

November 2006 - A significant sighting took place at O'Hare Airport in Chicago and received worldwide attention and media coverage.

September 2005 - Former Apollo astronaut, Dr. Brian O'Leary, wrote in a foreword to Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge, "These revelations underscore a long, sordid history of governmental and media secrecy and the acquisition of technologies such as microelectronics, anti-gravity propulsion and zero-point, or "free" energy, from our visitors.  This massive cover-up has been going on for almost six decades since the UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, an event which was certainly not caused by balloons, as alleged by the U.S. Air force.  Such myths are only accepted by the ignorant or the powerful and their subjects."

September 2005 - Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson and deputy prime minister under Pierre Trudeau, publicly stated, "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."    

May 2005 - The Brazilian Air Force (FAB), almost certainly with the approval of  Minister of Defense and Vice President, José Alencar, entered into an agreement with civilian researchers to release information and jointly investigate UFO incidents

July 2004 - Governor of New Mexico and current presidential candidate, Bill Richardson, wrote in the foreword to The Roswell Dig Diaries, "It would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows.  With full disclosure and our best scientific investigation, we should be able to find out what happened on that fateful day in July of 1947.  The American people can handle the truth no matter how bizarre or mundane, and contrary to what you see in the movies."

July 2004 - Producer, director, writer and actor Dan Aykroyd became the first A-list celebrity to allow his or her name and image to be used to support extraterrestrial-related phenomena research.  He endorsed and agreed to be a spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).

May 2004 - The Department of  Defense of Mexico, with the approval of Mexican Secretary of Defense, General Clemente Vega Garcia (and almost certainly Mexican President Vicente Fox), held an international press conference at the Hotel Sevilla Palace in Mexico City.    The Department of Defense released air surveillance evidence of an unusual sighting to a civilian research team and confirmed a joint investigative effort. 

2004-2007 - The United Kingdom conducted a series of releases of documents pertaining to classified UFO sighting reports and UK government studies.

The U.S. Congress, news media and the American people must prepare for the possibility that an event of sufficient magnitude to trigger formal Disclosure could take place at any time.   Such an event could come from any number of directions and take place in any of a dozen countries.   The 60-year truth embargo is collapsing.

Related Websites

Paradigm Clock Time Change Chronicle:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/timechangechronicle.html
Fife Symington:  www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17761943/
French Sightings Report Release:  http://tinyurl.com/2nsjuu
O'Hare Sighting:  http://tinyurl.com/ywg4t2
Paul Hellyer:  http://tinyurl.com/2xsx4
Mexico: http://tinyurl.com/yq68bw

Contact:  Stephen Bassett, Executive Director
               Paradigm Research Group  (202) 215-8344

 

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February 24, 2007

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February 24, 2007
Press Release                                                                                    
Re: Exopolitics Media Director Victor Viggiani provides Al Gore a disclosure package

 
 
Toronto, Ontario Canada - The new "Fastwalkers" documentary, PRG's "Open Letter to Albert Gore, Jr." and Exopolitics Toronto came together on Wednesday, February 21, when former Vice President Al Gore arrived in Toronto to present "An Inconvenient Truth" at the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall before a capacity audience of 1500.
 
Prior to the presentation Victor Viggiani, Director of Media Relations for Exopolitics Toronto, attempted to relay a special package of disclosure information to Mr. Gore, but was unsuccessful due to tight security restrictions as Gore arrived at U of T's Convocation Hall.
 
However, following the sold-out presentation's Q&A period, as Gore left the stage for a reception, Viggiani made his way with the Gore entourage backstage where he was greeted by the evening's host, Mr. David Peterson, Chancellor of the University of Toronto and former Premier of the province of Ontario.
 
At this time Viggiani requested that Mr. Peterson provide Mr. Gore the disclosure package, which Chancellor Peterson accepted with the assurance that Gore would receive it.
 
The package contained a DVD of the new documentary, "Fastwalkers", Canadian government documents, an Open Letter to Albert Gore, Jr. from Paradigm Research Group Executive Director Stephen  Bassett, the Disclosure Project's two hour witness testimony DVD and comprehensive briefing documents, and a document containing statements by renowned political and security agency figures such as former CIA Director Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, J. Edger Hoover former FBI Director, Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Harry S. Truman indicating their need for the UFO issue to be fully examined by Congress and the media.
 
Exopolitics Toronto, the Canadian Exopolitics Initiative, Paradigm Research Group and the Disclosure Project call on Albert Gore, Jr. and his staff to review, analyze and act upon this important information which, among many things, supports the sequestered existence of technology derived from extraterrestrial vehicles which could dramatically impact a global warming response.
 
Read an account of the event by Anthony Reinhart in the Toronto Globe and Mail - Feb 22, 2007
 
"Fastwalkers" Canadian Premier - March 7, 2007, 7:00 pm. at De La Salle College Theatre, 131 Farnham Road Toronto - Canada.  All members of the Press are cordially invited to the screening. RSVP for preferred seating and audio/video location.
 
Open Letter to Albert Gore, Jr.
 
Contact - Victor Viggiani, Director of Media Relations
Exopolitics Toronto - (905) 278 5628
 
Contact - Stephen Bassett, Executive Director
Paradigm Research Group  (202) 215-8344

 

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December 29, 2006

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December 29, 2006
Press Release                                                                                    
Re:  New PRG Website Features

Washington, DC – Paradigm Research Group, a national advocate for ending a government imposed truth embargo of the facts surrounding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race, has added substantial new features to its website, www.paradigmresearchgroup.org .    First published to the Web in 1997, the PRG website is particularly aimed toward reporters, editors, government officials and political leaders who want to quickly assess the scope and depth of the issues behind extraterrestrial-related phenomena and the politics of embargo and disclosure.

Video Links Archive

www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/video-audioarchive.htm

PRG reviewed thousands of video clips and has archived links to the most relevant.  Clips are filed under:  Phenomenology, Researchers/Activists, Witness Testimony and Exopolitics. 

Media Coverage Archive
 www.paradigmclock.com/newsitems2006.html

A partial archive of print media coverage dealing with extraterrestrial-related phenomena and exopolitics.  This archive is limited to reportage in the mainstream media only - newspapers and websites, no tabloids or paranormal press.   The archive is representative of English language coverage since 1947.    In most instances links are to the full article at the source.  Some links are to previews of archived articles and require purchase for the full text.  The balance is linked to text copies.  It is a sampling.  The total mainstream coverage, all countries, since 1947 can only be guessed, but likely extends to many tens of thousands of articles.   This is far and away the largest archive of its kind on the internet.

Quotes Archive
www.paradigmclock.com/QuotesPage.html 

Assembled from multiple sources, this is a powerful compilation of selected written and spoken quotes from persons of rank and accomplishment.  The near term goal is to expand this section to 100 listings.  Quotes were selected on the basis of an unambiguous relationship to the issue of an extraterrestrial presence and the history of the government posture and actions regarding this presence.

Contact:      Paradigm Research Group

                     Stephen Bassett, Executive Director                          

         202-215-8344

         PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org

                     www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

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December 8, 2006

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Press Release
December 8, 2006
Re: Premier of New Documentary - Fastwalkers

Washington, DC – Fastwalkers, a feature length documentary addressing the government truth embargo of the facts surrounding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race will have its American premier in the home town of producer/writer, Robert D. Miles, Show Low, Arizona, on December 13. (The Canadian premier is scheduled for March 7, 2007 in Toronto.)   Fastwalkers was filmed, edited and mastered in High-Definition.

Much of the documentary was filmed at X-Conference 2005 produced by Paradigm Research Group.  PRG Executive Director Stephen Bassett, one of two dozen researchers and activists interviewed for the film, will attend the premier and take audience questions along with Robert Miles.

“Fastwalker” is a code word created by the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) to classify unidentified flying objects (UFOs) which enter the Earth’s atmosphere, are not meteors and are tracked by the NORAD facility at Cheyenne Mountain.

Through interviews and historical footage Fastwalkers provides an inside perspective on the extraordinary testimony emerging from scores of military, intelligence and agency witnesses which supports the basic findings of researchers investigating the UFO phenomenon since the 1950’s – it is extraterrestrial in origin.

For additional information, media kit, digital photos, Media Player and QuickTime trailers and interview clips please contact Robert Miles.

Web Links

Fastwalkers:  www.fastwalkers.com
Paradigm Research Group:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
X-Conference:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

Contact:    Paradigm Research Group

                    Stephen Bassett, Executive Director
                    202-215-8344
                    PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org

                    Fastwalkers
                    Robert D. Miles, Producer
                    928-537-2083
                    rdm@safespaceproject.com

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April 24, 2006

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April 24, 2006 
Press Release                                                                 

Contact:  Stephen Bassett
202-215-8344

Washington, DC -  The Paradigm Clock, created and published by PRG in 1998 to track the proximity to a formal announcement by the United States Government confirming an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race, has been reset to 11:59:45 - 15 seconds to midnight.   Such an announcement is formally referred to as Disclosure and would mark the end of a 59 year truth embargo imposed by federal authorities.  Midnight on the Paradigm Clock is Disclosure.  

According to PRG Executive Director, Stephen Bassett, "Due to extraordinary circumstances primarily pertaining but not limited to the United States, a window of opportunity has opened for a Disclosure event to take place.  This window should last through the November election and may remain open or possibly close depending upon the outcome of the election."   He further added, "I believe this to be the best opportunity to get past this very difficult transition in human history since the truth embargo was initially imposed in 1947."

The previous setting for the Paradigm Clock was 11;58:45 on March 8, 2004.   A partial listing of factors contributing to the new time change (in both directions) is provided below.  A more detailed explanation of these factors can be found at:  www.paradigmclock.com/chronicleexplanations.html
2006   Crisis in America.  

2006   After several false starts Air America Radio begins to make headway as a counter balance to conservative radio, approaching 100 markets.  This is facilitated by  access to some stations owned by syndicate giant Clear Channel Communications, chastened in the aftermath of the Michael Powell fiasco at the Federal Communications Commission - the failed attempt to expand conglomeration of media via new regulations.  The effort brought an intense scrutiny of Clear Channel Communications and its business practices.  The dominant theme on Air America programs becomes the consequences of government lying.  Abuse of power and excess secrecy are also featured.

10/20/05   The Institute for Cooperation in Space requests Canadian Senator Colin Kenny, Senator, Chair of The Senate Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, “schedule public hearings on the Canadian Exopolitics Initiative, so that witnesses such as the Honorable Paul Hellyer, and Canadian-connected high level military-intelligence, NORAD-connected, scientific, and governmental witnesses facilitated by the  Disclosure Project and by the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium can present compelling evidence, testimony, and Public Policy recommendations.”  

9/25/05    In a speech at University of Toronto's Convocation Hall, Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau, publicly states, "UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."   Hellyer further states, "The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unprecedented.  The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop."  

5/20/05   Brazil Releases Classified Data - Recognizes UFO Research - The Brazilian Air Force (FAB), almost certainly with the approval of  Minister of Defense and Vice President,  José Alencar, enters into an agreement with civilian researchers to release information and jointly investigate UFO incidents     

4/22/05 &  4/17/04 X-Conference.  The first two conferences devoted specifically to the political implications of extraterrestrial-related phenomena and disclosure are held just outside of Washington, DC.  X-Conferences 2004 and 2005 attract considerable media attention, new government witnesses and launch numerous projects and documentaries.  At the 2005 conference former Vatican official, Monsignor Corrado Balducci, speaks in the United States for the first time regarding the truth of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.  

11/2/04   President George W. Bush is reelected.

9/27/04   Dr. John E. Mack is killed in London in an automobile accident.

July 2004 Producer, director, writer and actor Dan Aykroyd becomes the first A-list celebrity to allow his or her name and image to be used to support extraterrestrial-related phenomena research.  He publicly endorses the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).  

5/11/04    Mexico's DoD Releases Video to UFO Research Team - The Department of Defense of Mexico, with the approval of Mexican Secretary of Defense, General Clemente Vega Garcia (and almost certainly Mexican President Vicente Fox), holds an international press conference at the Hotel Sevilla Palace in Mexico City.  The Department of Defense releases air surveillance evidence of an unusual sighting to a civilian research team headed by researcher and journalist, Jaime Maussan and confirms a joint investigative effort.   
     
Relevant Web Pages
Paradigm Research Group:  www.paradigmclock.com
Dr. John Mack:  http://johnemackinstitute.org/center/center_news.asp?id=227
X-Conference:  www.paradigmclock.com/X-Conference/X-Conference.htm
Paul Hellyer: www.exopoliticstoronto.com
Institute for Cooperation in Space:  www.peaceinspace.com
Mexico:  www.rense.com/general52/mexv.htm
Brazil:  www.rense.com/general65/braz.htm
Air America:  www.airamericaradio.com
 

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September 22, 2005

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Press Release - September 22, 2005
International Exopolitics Lecture Tour


 Washington, DC - On Sunday, September 25 at a symposium to be held at the University of Toronto Convocation Hall, PRG Executive Director Stephen Bassett will begin a national and international lecture tour under the umbrella theme:  The Exopolitics of Disclosure: Why the Truth Embargo Regarding an Extraterrestrial Presence Engaging the Human Race Must End Now.   The next stop will be the Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD.   Bassett will then go to Rende, Italy to speak at the University of Calabria and return to the US to speak in Santa Clara, CA.

The lectures will either be produced by PRG or by sponsored invitation.   The goal is to stand on the soil of every nation and call for the United States Government to end the embargo preventing people of all nations from knowing the truth about their world.  This tour will continue until Disclosure has been achieved.  [Disclosure is the formal acknowledgment by governments of an extraterrestrial presence.]

Mr. Bassett's presentation will derive from ten years as a Washington based political activist and leading advocate for Disclosure and open Congressional hearings.  It will also draw from two important books: UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1947-1973 by Richard Dolan and Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up by Terry Hansen.   These books are essential reading for any member of the government or political press who have been mislead by 58 years of government disinformation on this issue.

The Toronto Symposium will break new ground.  It will mark the first time in history that any defense minister or secretary of defense of any first world nation (and possibly any nation) will state publicly that he or she is convinced the UFO phenomenon is extraterrestrial in origin.

Also speaking will be the aforementioned historian, Richard Dolan, who will lead off with a summary of the national security measures taken in the US to address and suppress understanding of extraterrestrial-related phenomena.  Canadian researcher, Stanton Friedman, will expand on this based upon his 40 years of research.  Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Paul Hellyer, will speak.   Stephen Bassett, will close with the keynote presentation.

While the top echelon media organizations in the United States (ABC, NBC, CBS News, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, etc.) have supported the US Government imposed truth embargo, either freely or under threat, the Canadian press is not so influenced.  Consequently, there has been considerable coverage of this event and Hellyer's pending remarks by the major newspapers in Canada.

If Canada were to break ranks with the United States on the matter of the extraterrestrial presence, the truth embargo would collapse.

All upcoming lectures will be announced at: www.paradigmclock.com/speaking&eventschedule.html

Contact PRG: 202-215-8344 or PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org