Time Change Chronicle
General
Trends Impacting the Paradigm Clock
The following are developments which cannot be assigned specific time changes, but clearly affected the Paradigm Clock and the overall time values assigned to other specific events. |
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Toward midnight > < Away from midnight |
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1990 on |
The extraordinary, exponential expansion of the World Wide Web. | > |
1980 on |
Rise of the "politics of nothing" in which endless debate over inconsequential or intractable issues becomes commonplace. | < |
1980 on |
Expansion of talk radio and other layers of media outlets. | > |
1980 on |
Growing commercialization of news organizations along with large corporate ownership. | < |
1969 on |
Policy of the largest national organization, MUFON, to maintain a generally non-assertive, non-confrontational, non-political posture. | < |
1947 on |
The unavailability of funding commensurate with the issue’s importance. | < |
1947 on |
Multi-decade campaign by elements of the federal government of misinformation, disinformation, obfuscation, misrepresentation, denial, and deceit. | < |
1945 on |
Creation of a vast secret empire within the government with excessive levels of classification surrounding people, documents and programs. | < |
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| 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 sec | 11:59:00 |
| 10/20/05 |
The Institute for Cooperation (ICIS) 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 Hon. 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.” |
> 5 sec | 11:58:50 |
| 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 sec | 11:58:45 |
| 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. |
> 10 sec | 11:58:40 |
| 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. |
> 5 sec | 11:58:30 |
| 11/2/04 | President George W. Bush is reelected. | < 30 sec | 11:58:25 |
| 9/27/04 | Dr. John E. Mack is killed in London in an automobile accident. Details. | < 5 sec | 11:58:55 |
| 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 sec | 11:59:00 |
| 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. |
> 10 sec | 11:58:55 |
| 3/8/04 | The Paradigm Clock is reset | 11:58:45 | |
| 3/2/04 |
John Kerry essentially locks up the Democrat Party nominee, thus creating the prospect of two alumni of the Yale University based secret society, Skull and Bones, facing each other on the November presidential ballot. Recent books by Alexandra Robbins, Kris Milligan and Steven Sora begin receiving national attention. While the top-tier political media predictably treat this as a joke, this notable circumstance, coupled with the actions of President Bush listed below, places the issue of government and cabalistic secrecy as a societal detriment more prominently on the nation's radar. |
> 5 sec | 11:58:45 |
| November - January 2004 |
A political firestorm develops over the quality, source and veracity of U.S. intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The matter of government propaganda and possible misrepresentation of facts to the America people regarding major issues is elevated to a degree not seen since Iran Contra in the mid 1980's. Secrecy reformers and reform organizations such as Steven Aftergood and the Federation of American Scientists begin receiving greater attention. |
> 5 sec | 11:58:40 |
| December 2003 |
For the first time an orbiter circled the planet Mars (the Mars Express) which was not under United States control (European Space Agency). [The only other non-US attempts - six Soviet and one Japanese - all failed.] Consequently, barring secret side agreements, the matter of Martian exoarcheology is now not solely in the control of NASA, JPL and the U.S. government. |
> 10 sec | 11:58:35 |
| October
2003 10/28/03 10/21/03 |
October 2003 Numerous newspaper articles covering the opening of the Center for American Progress mention millions of dollars of financial backing from George Soros, thus placing the billionaire financier just one degree of separation from the issues of extraterrestrial phenomena and disclosure. 10/28/03 Just seven days after the Sci Fi Channel/CFI second NPC press conference, a new liberal think tank headed by John Podesta, Center for American Progress, opens it doors. 10/21/03 The Sci Fi Channel and the Coalition for Freedom of Information hold a second press conference at the National Press Club announcing their intentions to file law suits to pressure the Department of Defense and National Aeronautics and Space Administration over documents pertaining to the 1965 Kecksburg, PA events. |
> 10 sec | 11:58:25 |
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9/17/03 9/16/03 11/1/01 |
9/17/03 President George W. Bush issues an order under Executive Order 12958 of April 17, 1995, as amended extending "Top Secret" classification authority to the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. 9/16/03 President George W. Bush issues Presidential Determination No. 2003-39, which continues to "exempt the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any Federal, State, interstate or local provision respecting control and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would require the disclosure of classified information concerning the operating location to any unauthorized person." 11/01/01 President George W. Bush issues Executive Order 13233 significantly altering the Presidential Records Act and placing the disposition of Ronald Reagan's Presidential papers and George H. W. Bush's Vice Presidential papers under his control |
< 15 sec | 11:58:15 |
| 11/13/02 | The Paradigm Clock is reset | 11:58:30 | |
| November 2002 |
The main advertising campaign begins for a massive production, Taken, from Steven Spielberg. | > 10 sec | 11:58:30 |
| 11/5/02 | The Republican Party gains control of the House and Senate in the mid-term election. | > 5 sec | 11:58:20 |
| 11/5/02 | A milestone is reached, when independent candidate, Stephen Bassett, becomes the first person to appear on a November ballot in a federal election, while speaking directly to the reality of an extraterrestrial presence. | > 5 sec | 11:58:15 |
| 10/22/02 | John Podesta, former key advisor and White House Chief of Staff during the Clinton Administration, presents at the SCI FI press conference as a principal in the retained public relations firm, PodestaMattoon. | > 5 sec | 11:58:10 |
| 10/22/02 | The SCI FI Channel, owned by multi-billion dollar, multi-national Vivendi Universal, launches a set of disclosure advocacy initiatives. | > 10 sec | 11:58:05 |
| October to Present |
A national and international effort to motivate Iraq to disarm or undergo a regime change is conducted. | < 15 sec | 11:57:55 |
| 10/1/02 | The Data Quality Act takes effect. | > 5 sec | 11:58.10 |
| 10/30/01 to 10/31/02 |
A year of images from the Mars 2001 Odyssey orbiter Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) plus new images from the Mars Global Surveyor are intensely scrutinized. The anomalies controversy remains alive. | > 5 sec | 11:58:05 |
| 1/16/02 | The Paradigm Clock is reset | 11:58:00 | |
| Sept/Dec 2001 |
The United States undergoes a significant transformation which extends to domestic and foreign posture as well as public demeanor. | > 1 min | 11:58:00 |
| 9/11/01 | The United States is attacked by terrorist squads working on behalf of foreign organizations. | < 2 min | 11:57:00 |
| 5/17/01 | The Paradigm Clock is reset | 11:59:00 | |
| 5/10/01 to 5/17/01 |
The media coverage of the Disclosure Project press coverage is extensive and international. Further, the webcast of the press conference [archived at the Disclosure Project website] receives several hundred thousand log-ins. Other news entities indicate further coverage is pending. | > 10 sec | 11:59:00 |
| 5/9/01 | The Disclosure Project [www.disclosureproject.org] holds a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC where the testimony of 75 witnesses, mostly former military and government agency employees, to UFO/ET evidence and events was presented to the national and international press. | > 15 sec | 11:58:50 |
| 5/5/01 | Yale educated astronomer Thomas Van Flandern presents a compendium of evidence for artificial structures on Mars at a press conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. It is webcast worldwide and archived at www.connectlive.com/events/metaresearch by Connect Live. The PowerPoint presentation itself can be found at: www.metaresearch.org | > 5 sec | 11:58:35 |
| 2/25/01 | Arthur C. Clarke meets with astronaut Buzz Aldrin in Sri Lanka with Andrew Chaikin, editor of Space.com’s Space Illustrated Magazine, listening in. He states, “I'm fairly convinced that we have discovered life on Mars. There are some incredible photographs from [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory], which to me are pretty convincing proof of the existence of large forms of life on Mars! Have a look at them. I don't see any other interpretation." [www.space.com/peopleinterviews/clarke_believe_010227.html] | > 5 sec | 11:58:30 |
| 1/20/01 | George W. Bush becomes the 43rd President of the United States. | > 15 sec | 11:58:25 |
| 7/12/00 | The Paradigm Clock is reset | 11:58:10 | |
| 7/6/00 | On Coast to Coast AM with Mike Siegel, noted legal/social activist, Daniel Sheehan, and former Stanford Research Institute futurist, Alfred Webre, come forward with important personal testimony. | > 5 sec | 11:58:10 |
| 6/25/00 | MSNBC airs a substantive one-hour news documentary on the UFO/ET issue. | > 5 sec | 11:58:05 |
| 6/23/00 | Internet entrepreneur, Joseph Firmage, who has publicly stated his belief in a extraterrestrial presence, launches an integrated media network, Project Voyager, with Ann Druyan, widow of the late Dr. Carl Sagan. Firmage also states that his venture capital firm, Intend Change, has amassed $225 million. | > 5 sec | 11:58:00 |
| 6/22/00 | NASA holds a press conference to announce photographic evidence pointing toward active subterranean water on Mars. | > 5 sec | 11:57:55 |
| June 00 | Lt. Col. Philip Corso comes under intense attack by researchers when FBI files on him are released to and then partially published by Larry Bryant. These files contain much negative material written up by FBI agents over a span of several decades. | < 5 sec | 11:57:50 |
| 5/23/00 | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) releases 27,000 new Mars photos onto the Internet which immediately come under close scrutiny by a host of Mars researchers. The archive covers one Mars year, 687 Earth days, beginning in September 1997 and extending through August 1999. | > 5 sec | 11:57:55 |
| 5/21/00 | Leslie Kean, an accomplished freelance journalist, publishes in the Boston Globe an extended piece on the UFO/ET issue, focusing on the COMETA report soon to be published in the U.S. in English. The Globe is one the top ten dailies in America. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (May 29), Memphis Commercial Appeal, Irish Independent (June 27), and VSD Magazine (July) follow up with versions of the story. | > 7 sec | 11:57:50 |
| Spring 2000 |
Heather Ann Harder includes the extraterrestrial phenomena issue in her Democratic primary campaign for President. Receives substantial votes in New Hampshire and Texas. | > 3 sec | 11:57:43 |
| 4/26/00 | Art Bell steps down as host of Coast to Coast AM and is replaced by Mike Siegel. Siegel and Premiere Radio Networks make it clear the program will remain devoted to the program's past subject matter, including, of course, the UFO/ET/Disclosure issues. Siegel, who has a Ph.D. and a law degree, demonstrates keen interest in the politics of disclosure. | > 5 sec | 11:57:40 |
| 4/5/00 | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) release new photographs of the Cydonia region of Mars which had been held back in violation of an agreement to publish such photos quickly. | > 5 sec | 11:57:35 |
| 3/11/00 | A Canadian cable television technician reveals he has taped thousands of hours of direct NASA Shuttle mission videos. Martyn Stubbs comes forward with some anomalous imagery and thousands of hours of more tape to examine. | > 5 sec | 11:57:30 |
| 3/10/00 | Touchstone Pictures releases Brian DePalma's provocative movie, Mission to Mars, and introduces the Cydonia/Face controversy to millions of Americans. | > 5 sec | 11:57:25 |
| Nov 99 | Dr. John Mack publishes Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters his long awaited follow-up to Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens. | > 5 sec | 11:57:20 |
| 7/21/99 | The Paradigm Clock is reset | 11:57:15 | |
| 7/21/99 | X-PPAC, the first political action committee in history targeting the politics of UFO/ET phenomena and the government cover-up is announced on Art Bell's Coast to Coast late night talk show. | > 10 sec | 11:57:15 |
| 7/16/99 | In France a study conducted by COMETA, former high ranking members of the French government, indicates high likelihood for the ET hypothesis. | > 10 sec | 11:57:05 |
| June 99 | Clark C. McClelland, an aerospace engineer and former NASA employee, goes public with personal testimony regarding NASA/UFO related events during his tenure. He is a significant addition to a growing list of government employees willing to come forward with such testimony. | > 5 sec | 11:56:55 |
| 6/7/99 | The National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS) releases results of a new Roper Poll on public awareness of the UFO/ET reality. | > 5 sec | 11:56:50 |
| 4/3/99 | The MUFON Board of Directors votes to formally support the UFO State Ballot Initiative. | > 5 sec |
11:56:45 |
| 11/25/98 | Entrepreneur Joseph Firmage announces the publishing of his internet book The Truth and begins a complex process of engagement with the issue and the media. | > 8 sec |
11:56:40 |
| Spring 1998 |
Francis Emma Barwood includes the extraterrestrial phenomena issue in her Republican primary campaign for Arizona Secretary of State. | > 2 sec | 11:56:32 |
| 7/25/98 | The Paradigm Clock is reset | 11:56:30 | |
| 7/16/98 | Col. Philip Corso, author of The Day After Roswell, dies of a heart attack in Florida. | < 10 sec | 11:56:30 |
| 6/29/98 | The Society for Scientific Exploration publishes its analysis of major UFO incidents and calls for new investigation. | > 10 sec | 11:56:40 |
| May/June 1998 |
In spite of pressure from the public and activist organizations, no further Cydonia photos are to be taken until the spring of 1999 by the Mars Global Surveyor. | < 15 sec | 11:56:30 |
| 6/1/98 | Col. Philip Corso, author of The Day After Roswell, signs an affidavit in support of the CAUS FOIA lawsuit. | > 5 sec |
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| May 1998 | The major media fail to thoroughly cover the three MGS photos, dismissing the artificiality hypothesis based upon the very first, low resolution image of the "Face." | < 20 sec | |
4/30/98 |
The Paradigm Clock is published to the World Wide Web | ||
4/6/98 |
Rephotographing of the Cydonia region on Mars by NASA begins and three decades after the Viking mission, three new photographs of Cydonia are published to the internet by NASA and JPL. | > 10 sec | |
7/1/98 |
Sarah McClendon, White House Correspondent to eleven Presidents, publishes, "Lid Coming Off Government Cover-up of UFOs" and "Pressure is Building for Congressional Hearings on UFOs." | > 10 sec | |
1/7/98 |
Dr. Tom Van Flandern presents his findings on the Mars "Face" to the American Astronomical Society. | > 10 sec | |
1/5/98 |
Dr. Steven Greer of CSETI states publicly on the Art Bell Radio Talk Show he briefed sitting CIA Director James Woolsey for 3 hours on the UFO evidence. | > 10 sec | |
1997 |
Cable Television: Discovery, Learning, Arts and Entertainment and History Channels begin airing and re-airing a stream of documentaries on extraterrestrial related phenomena. | > 30 sec | |
1997 |
The movie, Contact, opens. | > 10 sec | |
1997 |
Alien Autopsy film is heavily debunked and does not advance. | < 10 sec | |
8/6/97 |
Mexico City video is taken of near saucer. Witnesses are eventually found. | > 10 sec | |
July 1997 |
Major conference and media event is held in Roswell, NM. 17 nations send 200 journalists to cover the event. | > 1 min | |
April 1997 |
CSETI holds a press and Congressional briefing at the Shorham Hotel in Washington, DC. | > 20 sec | |
3/13/97 |
UFO sighting over Phoenix and the state of Arizona. | > 30 sec | |
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1996 |
The Rockefeller initiative ends. | < 30 sec | |
1996 |
Airing of the NOVA video on alien abduction on national television. | < 10 sec | |
1996 |
The Project Watchfire/UFO Forum website is launched by Microsoft Network. | > 5 sec | |
1996 |
Alien autopsy film is aired for the first time on national television. | > 10 sec | |
Aug 1995 |
Harvard’s investigation of Dr. Mack closes without censure. | > 10 sec | |
1994 |
Publication of Phillip Corso’s The Day After Roswell. | > 25 sec | |
1994 |
Harvard’s "Special Faculty Committee" assesses Dr. John Mack’s work. | < 10 sec | |
1994 |
Publication of Dr. John Mack’s Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens. | > 10 sec | |
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1993 |
The Rockefeller initiative to persuade President Clinton to release UFO/ET related documents begins. |
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| 11/03/92 | George H. W. Bush and the Republican Party lose the presidency to William Clinton. | < 25 sec | 11:53:25 |
June 1992 |
Abduction Study Conference is held at MIT. | > 10 sec | |
| November 1991 |
The Soviet Union dismantles into separate republics. The Cold War is officially over. | > 80 sec | 11:53:40 |
07/11/91 |
Perhaps the largest and most sustained UFO sighting flap in modern history begins in Mexico City with disk sightings during a solar eclipse. | > 10 sec | |
11/30/89 |
Linda Cortile (Napolitano) is abducted through the window of her New York apartment. The event is witnessed by several people from the Brooklyn Bridge. | > 5 sec | |
1987 |
Publication of Whitley Strieber’s Communion. | > 5 sec | |
1987 |
Publication of Richard Hoagland’s Monuments of Mars: City on the Edge of Forever. | > 5 sec | |
Dec 1984 |
Majestic-12 documents are delivered to Jaime Shandera. | > 10 sec | |
1982 |
The film E.T. opens. | > 10 sec | |
1980 |
Strange Harvest is aired for the first time on national television. | > 5 sec | |
Dec 1980 |
Bentwaters/Woodbridge RAF Bases encounter in Rendlesham Forest. | > 10 sec | |
1979 |
Vince DiPietro rediscovers the Mars "Face" originally noted by Toby Owen in 1976 in a Viking Orbiter 1 photograph. | > 10 sec | |
1977 |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens | > 10 sec | |
1977 |
Crop circles come to the attention of the general public. | > 15 sec | |
8/26/76 |
The abduction of Jack and Jim Weiner, Chuck Rak and Charlie Foltz takes place in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine. | > 5 sec | |
11/05/75 |
Travis Walton is abducted in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in northeastern Arizona while doing logging work. Six fellow loggers witness the event. | > 10 sec | |
1974 |
CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) is founded. | > 15 sec | |
July 1974 |
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) becomes law. | > 15 sec | |
1973 |
NICAP, possibly from being heavily infiltrated by the CIA, is dissolved. | < 20 sec | |
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6/13/71 |
Atmospheric physicist Dr. James E. McDonald commits suicide. Details. | < 10 sec | 11:50:20 |
1969 |
Dr. J. Allen Hynek publicly changes his position on UFOs by 180°. | > 30 sec | |
Dec 1969 |
U. S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book is closed down. | < 90 sec | |
May 1969 |
MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) is founded. | > 30 sec | |
7/29/68 |
House Committee on Science & Astronautics holds symposium on UFOs. | < 30 sec | |
1966 |
Betty and Barney Hill case is published in Look Magazine. | > 20 sec | |
4/5/66 |
House Committee on Armed Services holds hearing on UFO evidence. | < 30 sec | |
March 1966 |
Ann Arbor, MI sighting leads to Dr. J. Allen Hynek famous "Swamp Gas" explanation. | > 20 sec | |
1960 |
Brookings Report entitled "Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs" is delivered to NASA. | < 2 min | |
1956 |
NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) founded. | > 10 sec | |
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Jan 1953 |
The CIA convenes the Robertson Panel and the era of official debunking begins. | < 20 sec | 11:53:10 |
1952 |
UFO sighting over the city of Washington, DC. | > 40 sec | |
1952 |
The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) is founded. | > 10 sec | |
Mid 1950s |
The Space Brothers - revelations by George Adamski and others. | < 60 sec | |
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5/11/50 |
Paul Trent takes two pictures of a metallic disk over his farm in McMinnville, Oregon. | >20 sec | 11:53:00 |
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1948 |
The first government study of the UFO phenomenon, the Air Force's Project Sign, submits its "Estimate of the Situation" which endorses the extraterrestrial hypothesis, and the report is rejected by General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. | < 20 sec | 11:52:40 |
July 1947 |
The Paradigm Clock initial setting is pegged to the press announcement of a crashed "saucer" outside Roswell, New Mexico and matches the initial setting of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock. |
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6/24/47 |
Modern era of extraterrestrial-related phenomena begins with the sightings of "saucers" by Kenneth Arnold - neutral time set. |
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