July 9, 2019 — If you have not watched the History Channel series Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation,” you should. As regards its political implications ………..

July 4, 2019 — The SETI concept (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) first emerges simultaneous with the launch of NASA via the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. Over the next six decades SETI programs would be financed with millions of dollars of tax payer funds. When Congress grew weary of this………

June 1, 2019 – The Intercept is a respected independent investigative journalist organization. It was launched in February 2014 as the first project of First Look Media, a news organization created and funded by billionaire and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. It has published many powerful articles challenging……

April 29, 2019 – Given today is the 6th anniversary of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure held at the National Press Club, April 29 – May 3, 2013, it is a good time to revisit this event and what followed……

January 9, 2019 — This brief commentary is not meant to be a review of the new theatrical series launched on January 8, 2019 by History Channel built around the life of Dr J. Allen Hynek. Rather it addresses a point that is of particular importance for those individuals drawn to this series who have little or no idea …….

November 3, 2018 — Washington, DC — Disclosure is an event, the formal acknowledgement by heads of state of nations of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. The Truth Embargo is the refusal of governments, particularly the United States,, to make such an acknowledgement….

August 15, 2018 — Below is a comprehensive list of New York Times articles addressing the extraterrestrial presence issue from the years 2008 to 2018 plus some articles from 1947 to 2007……….

July 4, 2018 — During my visit to Barcelona in June I had the great pleasure to meet a fine artist. In the living area of his huge three story studio in central Barcelona this modest and humble man told me a story of contact unlike any I had heard…..

June 12, 2018 — There has been another development in the unfolding initiative of the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. Dr. Hal Puthoff rarely speaks publicly about his work on a range of exotic projects……

March 21, 2018 — As was to be expected there has been a great deal of attention given to the efforts of one Tom DeLonge to engage the ET/Disclosure issues. The To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science (probably should have stopped at “Stars”) project is a collaboration between Mr. DeLonge and some…..

March 28, 2018 — On March 24 the important documentary UFOs and Nukes directed by Robert Hastings washttps://www.disclose.tv/ufo-nukes-307914 shown at the UFO Symposium as part of the Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF). A panel with Dr. Robert  Jacobs and…..

March 13, 2018 — After spending seven months in London I find myself chasing down soon to go away, worthy films at various sexvigintuplexes the size of aircraft carriers. Thus, I finally got to see The Post on a big screen in LA before it went to wherever movies go when their run is over.  Lady Bird…..

December 18, 2017 — For the first time the U.S military has released gun camera footage from a military plane intercepting a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), It was not a trivial interception. It occurred during events involving the U.S.S. Nimitz Carrier Strike Force in November of 2004. There have been a…

September 27, 2017 — In May of 2017 PRG executive director Stephen Bassett gave an extensive interview in Moscow to Ren TV, one of the most watched networks in Russia with 500 stations and a viewer base of 120 million. The interview was…

May 29, 2017 — Stephen Bassett, executive director of PRG International, spent the week of May 3 to May 10 in Moscow taking meetings and giving an interview regarding the extraterrestrial presence issue, the politics of Disclosure and the truth embargo. During the interview, which will be broadcast in Russian in August…

January 30, 2017 — Two days before the inauguration of the new president on January 18, 2017 the CIA announced it had uploaded to the Web 13 million pages of previously declassified documents only accessible on computer terminals at the National Archives. These files included many “UFO” references as well…

November 13, 2016 — This is the final compilation of Podesta file emails released by Wikileaks. These emails are important as they clearly show the Clinton campaign team was taking the ET issue seriously and some…

Augusst 29, 2016 — George Stephanopoulos has had a distinguished twenty-year career with the prestigious news division of the ABC network. During his first two years with ABC News he was a political analyst and correspondent for This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts..

July 1, 2016 — What is extraordinary about this list of UFO/ET related statements is that with one exception all were made by members of the Clinton political team dating back to the Rockefeller Initiative (1993-1996). The exception is President Obama, who was most likely brought on…

May 18, 2016 — As the Disclosure event draws closer, here are some things you can expect to see: 1) Hoaxing. There is a trickster component to human DNA. We love to hoax, do stunts, play pranks. It’s what we do. UFO/ET hoaxing will increase – perhaps dramatically. Over the decades hoaxing around the ET/UFO issues…

March 2, 2016 — Apollo 14 astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, first spoke out on the ET issue in 1997. In this regard he was following in the footsteps of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper. Dr. Mitchell had been deeply affected by meetings he had taken at the Pentagon. Significantly he had grown…

February 4, 2016 — In April of 2005 PRG held its second X-Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, Maryland. There was an awards ceremony at the Saturday evening banquet at which time PRG gave a postumus Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. James McDonald. Accepting the award was his widow Betsy McDonald….

December 21, 2015 — There is only one outcome to the congressional/political initiative currently underway that would constitute success – Disclosure. By that measure the truth advocacy movement has not yet achieved its goal. So we press on. There has been progress. Here is what has been….

June 19, 2014 — Not surprisingly, the question most ask of me is “when will Disclosure happen?”.  There have been windows of opportunity, which I have pointed out and attempted to capitalize on. Some people have predicted the actual date – always a mistake. No one knows when Disclosure…

January 20, 2014 Generoso Pope, Jr. (1927-1988) was a highly intelligent man whostudied at the Horace Mann School and graduated from MIT at 19. He was the son of an Italian-American newspaper magnate and took over the management of his father’s newspapers in 1948. In mid-1950 – three years after the events at Roswell, NM…

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December 5, 2013 — At the very center of the extraterrestrial engagement of the human race are the “contactees” – citizens having direct contact with extraterrestrials.*  Their numbers may prove to be astoundingly large. They have had to deal with their experience with no support whatsoever from their government, and until…

October 29, 2013 — In the past I have steadfastly avoided straying too far from the core issues of the ET truth embargo and government abuse of secrecy.  I am going to make an exception with this commentary.   At the end of this non-partisan essay you will find out why. The recent debacle in Washington, DC…

October 3, 2013 – In July of 1996 I registered as a lobbyist with the House and Senate in order to engage their members regarding the extraterrestrial issue and the truth embargo. The Disclosure advocacy movement was nascent (the term was not even….

June 15, 2007 — Washington, DC – In case you hadn’t noticed there is a presidential campaign underway. It started rather early for two reasons: 1) the current president has fallen so low in popularity and esteem the Republican candidates had to begin campaigning early to create distance…

October 21, 2006 — Bethesda, MD USA – In Alexandria, Virginia there is a place called Gravelly Point Park. It’s not much of a park, but quite the place. It is known throughout the region because it sits a mere 1000 feet from the north end of runway 1/19 at Reagan National Airport. Bicyclists pull off the Mount Vernon Trail and…

July 6, 2005 — Activism and advocacy take many forms such as the raised fist, marching feet, candlelight vigil, silent witness (the good); the dynamite belt, assassin’s gun (the bad); a burning flag, bucket of blood, flaming cross (the ugly). But behind all of these symbolic forms, and…

February 11, 2005 – Laughlin, NV – Peter Jennings, the last anchor standing, instructed his company, PJ Productions, in 2004 to create a documentary (really news special) on what he would call UFOs and I would call extraterrestrial-related phenomena. Actually, the original focus was…

December 24, 2004 — Hello, 2005, the 58th year of the extraterrestrial-related phenomena truth embargo. I was born in December of 1946.  By then the cover-up, as some prefer to call it, was already underway.  While July of 1947 serves nicely…

October 18, 2004 — It would not be appropriate to say I was a friend of John Mack. Acquaintance perhaps – we had met and spoken on a few occasions. It would be a considerable hubris to say a common interest in extraterrestrial-related phenomena made us colleagues. John Mack was a giant of the 20th Century…

September 9, 2004 — Washington, DC – Recently a colleague who is producing a conference referred to me in a release draft as an “exopolitical activist” – an appropriate and catchy moniker. I asked that it read “political activist.” There are two important reasons for this correction. The first has to do with the concept of…

June 1, 2001 — Discovery is the end process of the scientific method. In an ideal world it would not be political. Three generations of Americans have passed through and now coexist in the greatest age of discovery in history. The sum of human knowledge doubles in but a few years…

February 15, 2001 — Washington, DC – In the years after the war Joseph Heller wrote what not a few literary pundits consider the greatest American novel of the 20th Century. It’s not easy to write the greatest American novel of the 20th Century. Some believe its claim to this title is because it was very, very funny. It was…

January 1, 2001 — Washington, DC – Activism is not a profession one aspires to at a young age. “And what do you want to be when you grow up, child?”  “I want to march on Washington, nana?” No. Much later you come to it obliquely after losing…

November 1, 2000 — Washington, DC – It is the question most often asked.  “How will it happen?” A more important question is, “How should it happen?”   Both deserve an answer. Putting optimism aside for a moment, our first recipe serves up an order of “will.” It will be bi-partisan. The predominant party affiliation of career…

October 10, 2000 — Washington, DC – Before going further, it would be best if any impressionable small children left the room and sharp objects were placed out of reach – just to be on the safe side. It’s going to get ugly. When you were a kid, if you’re over 50, it…

August 17, 2000 — Washington, DC – In a June 14 Alien Zoo column the question was asked, “What does the ‘politics of UFOs’ mean?” The answer:  making the case to the general public why their personal vital interests and their nation’s vital interests are served by a comprehensive and truthful disclosure of the facts known to their…

August 16, 2000 — Washington, DC – It is a strange phrase – other worldly, ambiguous.    It’s also a standing joke which goes like this: the lobbyist/activist is lurking at some soirée or another in Georgetown or Bethesda or the Capitol. Amiable chatting is taking place, harmless banter…

August 8, 2000 — Washington, DC – There is something you carry around with you twenty-four and seven that is absolutely essential to your well being, even operating while you sleep, infiltrating your dreams. It is your world view. No aspect of ones personal reality is more taken for granted. You move through your life with a shadow…

July 26, 2000 — Washington, DC – The average person in the street has but the faintest clue as to how far cosmologists and astrophysicists have gone in attempting to understand the universe. Oh, they note the occasional science article in their daily paper, the one about this black hole, that quasar, a superstring here, a quark…

July 17, 2000 — Washington, DC – You, the person reading this right now, yeah, you, guess what? You’re not supposed to be here. That’s right, you shouldn’t be alive. You should be dead or at least not born. Want to know why? A group of men you most certainly never met, and in some cases never heard of, got together at the…

June 27, 2000 — Washington, DC – Look hard at the long, strange trip the human race has taken up from the caves at Olduvai Gorge. Savagery and animalism, conquest and war, subjugation and slavery, exploitation and injustice, brutality and pain – all there in plain view. Twisting and coursing…

June 7, 2000 — Washington, DC – The Aztecs believed their great god, Quetzalcoatl, would one day return from the east across the sea as a white-skinned man. In the year 1517 a comet appeared in the skies over Mexico. The…

May 29, 2000 — Washington, DC –  In 1945 as WWII ended and the Cold War began – world human population was 2.3 billion. It had taken several million years to achieve that level. The Cold War symbolically…

May 23, 2000 — Washington, DC – The human race is a walking, breathing irony. It’s biosphere home is a low-entropy island amidst a sea of chaos (high entropy) – a tiny pocket of order that owes its existence to the energy it draws out from the vast, less ordered cosmos over incomprehensible periods of time. Gaia jumps out at you like a…

May 17, 2000 — Let’s get one thing straight right up front. The politics of UFOs, how the presence of extraterrestrial beings in our world …

London Exit Interview. January 31, 2018 interview done just before returning to Los Angeles .

Bassett Moscow interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow Interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow Interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow interview – 5/3/17.

Bassett Moscow interview – 5/3/17.

A film interview series by Phil Hardy produced in London, May 20, 2017.

A film interview series by Phil Hardy produced in London. April 22, 2017

A film interview series by Phil Hardy produced in London, April 22, 2017.

A film interview series by Phil Hardy produced in London, April 22, 2017.