Paradigm Clock - Letter to the President & Congress

(Soon to be updated.)
To the
President and Congress of the United States
on the
Matter of the Extraterrestrial Presence

Mr. President, Honorable Members of the House and Senate:

The individuals identified below call your attention to the following: after 50 years the policy of government secrecy and misrepresentation regarding the presence of extraterrestrial life forms in our world is collapsing. This collapse is occurring due to the following factors:

1.	the expanding mass of evidence for the validity of the extraterrestrial hypothesis being accumulated by thousands of researchers and research organizations throughout the world. This evidence takes the form of extensive personal testimony, thousands of legitimate photographs, hundreds of hours of videotape, thousands of archived pilot reports, taped radar events, scientific analysis of physical traces, government documents and historical research.
2.	a stream of active and former government employees coming forward publicly or privately with personal accounts of direct experience with extraterrestrial related phenomena. This growing witness pool well exceeds 100 men and women, many of high rank and station, who are available to testify within the formal context of a Congressional committee hearing. Some have spoken publicly and will step forward immediately. Others will testify, but have requested waiver of non-disclosure agreements, subpoena or both.
3.	deepening public distrust due to the non-responsive posture by the government of the United State towards the issue in general. A CNN/Time poll released June 15, 1997 showed that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life forms. The corrosive posture creating this distrust takes the following forms:

While a number of recent events have prompted this public statement, one in particular is of grave concern. In a letter dated 13 November, 1997, Rear Admiral Paul G. Gaffney, II, Chief of Naval Research, notified John Carlin, Archivist of the United States, that "The historical record of our nation’s scientific and technological heritage has suffered a serious and irreparable loss." This letter went on to summarize the improper disposal of 4200 Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) notebooks and 600 cubic feet of correspondence and technical memoranda dating from the 1930’s to the 1980’s. These records covered a range of technological research, and in the Admiral’s words, "constitute the core of NRL’s corporate memory.." Subsequent inquiries by individuals listed below determined two very disturbing points: 1) classified material in the hands of government agencies and military branches can be destroyed without being declassified and made available for public review and 2) the disposal event occurs by an act of omission, an agency’s non-response to a standard notification by the National Archives, and not an act of commission, an agency notification to the National Archives to proceed.

As the government posture of non-disclosure continues to collapse we are very concerned a "scorched earth" policy may be conducted by elements of some agencies. There is great risk that documents of enormous historical importance relating to past events and evidence of our initial responses to the extraterrestrial presence in our world will be lost forever. This destruction of records would take place purely as a matter of personal convenience to some parties. It would be a tragedy and is not acceptable.

Whatever the rationale in the past for the posture of non-disclosure by agencies of the government, it is time for a radical and public reassessment. The individuals below, who represent the views of millions around the world, call for the following:

1.	the President of the United States and/or ranking members of the appropriate committees of Congress will call for the convening of an open Congressional hearing in 1998 wherein government, military, civilian contract and agency employees (active and retired) are permitted to give testimony regarding their personal knowledge of extraterrestrial related events and evidence, this testimony to be given under immunity by waiver of any applicable security oath or agreement of non-disclosure.
2.	either by Presidential directive or act of Congress, a moratorium be immediately placed on the destruction of any and all records pertaining to all agencies of the government involved in intelligence, research and development and space exploration, all branches of the military and any other entities which might logically hold historical documentation bearing upon evidence, events and government actions in regard to extraterrestrial related phenomena.
3.	agencies of the government will stand down from acts of intimidation of researchers or potential witnesses, misinformation, disinformation and comply with legal document requests.
4.	We fully understand the seriousness of this issue as well as the difficult position the government is now in regarding public disclosure. To emphasize this point, we unanimously extend support to the granting of full pardon by Presidential directive or act of Congress to all government employees involved in any extralegal actions, other than acts of violence causing harm to persons, prior to December 31, 2000 in service to the government’s posture on extraterrestrial phenomena.

	aØ	failure to formally respond to published (1997, Pocket Books) statements by Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso in The Day After Roswell. Col. Corso is a retired, highly decorated, 21-year Army officer. He served on Gen. MacArthur’s Korean staff and President Eisenhower’s National Security Council, headed the Army’s Department of Research and Development Foreign Technology Desk and served Senators James Eastland and Strom Thurmond regarding matters of national security. Col. Corso divulged his involvement in, among other things, the commercial transfer of technologies derived from the crashed extraterrestrial craft near Roswell, New Mexico and the government cover-up of this event since 1947.
	bØ	inadequate, poorly supported and illogical public reports made by the U. S. Air Force attempting to account for accumulating testimonies by witnesses and witness relatives regarding the extraterrestrial nature of the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico event.
	cØ	failure to properly address anomalous events occurring within the public airspace - a prime example being the occurrence of lights over Phoenix, Arizona on March 13, 1997 and the subsequent, well documented and inadequate responses of the military and political office holders.
	dØ	refusal by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to properly address anomalous artifacts present in Viking mission photos 35A72 and 70A13, Lunar Orbiter 3 photo 84M, videos from Shuttle missions STS 48, 80 and other evidence brought to the NASA’s attention by independent researchers after rigorous analysis.
	eØ	inadequate response to formal and informal inquiries by elected and appointed officials. Examples include the treatment of formal requests by Representative Steven Schiff of New Mexico for information about the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico crash event, the treatment of formal requests by City Councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood for a thorough investigation of the Phoenix, Arizona sightings of March 13, 1997 and the inadequate response to the informal inquiries of former Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell and others.
	fØ	inability or unwillingness to explain the destruction of documents such as the 1947 records of phone communications in and out of Roswell Army Air Base.
	gØ	invocation of the national security rationale in extremis in refusing to address workman’s compensation claims relating to the "Area 51" research facility.

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(Soon to be updated.) To the President and Congress of the United States on the Matter of the Extraterrestrial Presence

(Soon to be updated.)
To the
President and Congress of the United States
on the
Matter of the Extraterrestrial Presence