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Endorsementst
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July 2, 1999
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We the voting citizens of the state of Arizona [and, eventually, of other similarly
empowered states] do hereby direct this state's governor to issue, forthwith in the
customary manner, an OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION, the wording of which shall be:
It is hereby proclaimed that the year 2000 be observed as the year of
UFO awareness. Because of the federal government's failure to be officially forthcoming
about Unidentified Flying Objects, the public remains ill-informed and confused on a
matter of potentially great consequence.
We therefore urge the U.S. Congress to expeditiously convene open,
comprehensive hearings in which governmental personnel (military, civilian-contract, and
agency employees -- active and retired) are permitted to present sworn testimony regarding
their personal knowledge of any UFO-related evidence, to be given under immunity by waiver
of any applicable security oath or agreement of nondisclosure. This proclamation
acknowledges the following facts:
The weight of the cumulative evidence -- e.g., eyewitness,
electronic-detection, photographic, documentary – overwhelmingly supports the
conclusion of a majority of Americans that some of the reported UFOs represent somebody
else's spacecraft;
The federal government's handling of the UFO issue has contributed to
the public cynicism toward and general mistrust of government -- a development injurious
to our republic;
This initial year of the third millennium affords us a renewed
opportunity to explore, assess, and convey every facet of UFO reality.
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