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Banquet
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Keynote Address

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Lectures
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This is the springboard for the presentation about Corso and how in his final lectures before academic audiences, he was able to present his story, stripped of all the hype and derogatory criticism, in a way that people could understand it.  Corso's story encompassed far more than UFOs, although the Roswell file and his technology transfer program certainly became prominent in the latter part of his life. Corso's story was about being an insider in a government which was so compartmentalized that nobody knew what the other department was doing.   9-11 is a case in point. The FBI actually KNEW that there were foreign individuals on a terror list training for some kind of attack inside the US but had no way to track down the information. Worse, the CIA also knew this but would not disclose its records to the FBI. Thus, a criminal investigation could not proceed because of jurisdictional boundaries between the CIA and the FBI.

Corso talked about this kind of linkage blindness inside government agencies for years and said it was one of the ways the KGB was so successful in penetrating the US intelligence services. Of course, he was able to keep what he knew about the Roswell crash and the debris retrieved a secret. Nobody wanted to talk about it because they were afraid they'd be characterized as, in Corso's own words, "kooks." Hence, the so-called cover-up was perpetuated.

The real story, which is the point of this talk, is more about the implications of what Corso discovered than about the actual bits and pieces of crash debris. It is about  remote viewing and psychokinesis, the methodology of propulsion of the alien craft, and the nature of the alien bodies themselves that were autopsied at Walter Reed.

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers or political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Lecture.

Glimpses of Disclosure: looks at the other side of the cover up. The public's general impression is that of a government which hid away the facts surrounding extraterrestrials and refused to release anything. Those controlling the secret have been painted as evil men who have contempt for the truth and for the people’s right to know.

“Glimpses of Disclosure” will tell a more complicated story. Those who kept the secrets were men of good will who agonized over releasing the truth. Concerned over the impact of complete disclosure, they took a middle position of carefully releasing the story of the U.S. government's role without allowing anyone to obtain a critical mass of information.

Those who controlled the secrets have on a number of occasions purposely released key pieces of the UFO story into the public consciousness through a mixed process of disclosure and disinformation.  Examples include:

• Film shown or promised to key film and documentary producers, which was pulled at the last moment. These offers included film of UFOs and possibly live and dead aliens that was made to Walt Disney in 1955 or 1956.

• The story the notorious Holloman Air Force Base film footage that was a filmed encounter of a meeting between Air Force officials and a landed flying saucer at Holloman Air Force Base. The offers of this film were made to film producer Robert Manager who was "officially" approached by the Pentagon to produce a documentary on UFOs. Also offered the film was writer/producer Linda Moulton Howe for a UFO documentary she was doing in the mid eighties for HBO. Others approached included Jacques Vallee and J. Allen Hynek who were offered the film by General Glen E. Miller, a Reagan appointee who happened to have gotten Reagan his first Hollywood movie contract years earlier.

• Reports of offers made to researchers and documentary film producers of a live alien being held in captivity.

• Documents leaked by U.S. Intelligence officials written off by many as hoaxes, but which clearly tell about key elements of the UFO story confirmed through other sources.

Glimpses of Disclosure will also look at the efforts of various presidents to release elements of the UFO story, or who actually tried to initiate a complete disclosure. The efforts of the Carter and Clinton administrations will be the focus of this section.

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers and any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Workshop.

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers or political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Lecture.

Dolan’s historical analysis will include the origins and development of a secrecy/cover-up posture during the cold war, as well as descriptions of several spectacular military encounters with UFOs. He will also point out why it is unlikely that "true" UFOs in the early years could have been the product of a secret military program.   

PRG strongly advises any Congressional Members and staffers or political journalists coming to the X-Conference to attend this Lecture. 

Of all the researchers who intersected with the process and prospects of governmental public disclosure, none was more intellectually suited and had collected more scientifically valid data than Dr. James E. McDonald, a prominent scientist and professor with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the University of Arizona at Tucson.  He had unprecedented high-level contacts, and during his scientific career introduced numerous groundbreaking projects in meteorology and climatology under ONR contracts and with top scientific organizations.  Between 1958-1971 he worked closely with science-oriented UFO groups nationwide and in several foreign countries.   He gave hundreds of talks on UFOs before top scientific organizations, influencing numerous scientists to take the UFO question seriously and in 1968 was instrumental in bringing about one of only two public Congressional hearing, thus far, on the UFO subject.  He influenced numerous government and military officials to accept the reality of the UFO phenomenon and received multiple, personal sighting reports from them.   His premature death, a suicide, at age  51 stands as a warning to researchers, for McDonald was under surveillance by unknown sources.   The attacks against him included contact with persons "at the highest level" who promised imminent government disclosure, which never came.  McDonald had the right methodology, adequate empirical data, and always presented his facts in strictly scientific terms.  In seeking disclosure, we must follow his lead, for those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

Stanton likes to refer to debunkers as noisy negativists. He has been taking on these debunkers for 47 years and shows no sign of slowing down. He is a legend in the field and possibly the best known researcher in the world.

Beyond Top Secret: UFOs and USOs (unidentified submarine objects) remain the most highly classified subject on Earth.  In his fully illustrated presentation, drawing on the latest evidence, the highly respected researcher and best-selling author will outline the involvement of intelligence agencies in North America, South America and Europe in top-secret investigations. He will describe some little-known and disturbing cases reported by military and civilian pilots, army and naval personnel, and discuss contacts with ETs reported by highly credible witnesses, such as a former British deputy chief of Strike Command and Equerry to HM The Queen and Prince Philip, and a former CIA communications specialist, currently a respected Brazilian scientist.

Good will also discuss his meeting at the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office at the Pentagon in 1998, and some of the information provided to him over the years by his contacts in Washington, including revelations via a high-ranking source who worked at the Pentagon with the USAF Air Staff and Joint Staff.

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers and any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Lecture.

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers, and in particular strongly suggests, any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Lecture.

UFO Crash Retrievals - Secrets Kept in the Interest of U. S. National Security  will be presented by Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe, reporter and editor of the science, environment and real X-Files website, www.Earthfiles.com, honored in 2004 with a Standard of Excellence Web Award, and correspondent for Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Dreamland with Whitley Strieber.

"It is the collective view of this investigative body that the aircraft recovered by the Army and Air Force units ... are not of United States manufacture for the following reasons: a) The circular, disc-shaped 'platform' design does not resemble any design currently under development by this command nor of any Navy project.  b) The lack of any external propulsion system, power plant, intake, exhaust either for propeller or jet propulsion, warrants this view."   From document signed by U. S. General Nathan F. Twining, July 10, 1947

This presentation plus video and audio is excerpted from Linda Moulton Howe's extensive research about U. S. government knowledge and cover-up of UFO crash retrievals and reverse engineering of advanced technology, as well as information from the UFO crash/retrieval status reports produced by Leonard H. Stringfield between 1978 and 1994 after his honorable discharge from the U. S. Air Force.

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers and any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Lecture.

The Nexus of Exopolitics and Global Peace  One of the key figures in the private approach to the Clinton administration by Laurance Rockefeller seeking the release of government documents and an end to the truth embargo, former Naval intelligence officer, Dr. Scott Jones, will discuss how humanity is placed in a highly vulnerable position by politics of exclusion and denial of the intimate relationship of all life in the universe.  That is the direct relationship of Exopolitics and global peace and survival.  Up to this point, strategies used to engage the nation-state system on Exopolitical issues have failed.  A new strategy, formulated around the historical precedence of successful use of the think tank in American politics, is recommended.   A short “Issues to be Explored” think piece would be personally briefed to a number of international think tanks.  They would be requested to do pro bono studies on the challenges and opportunities that the Exopolitical enigma presents. This approach is deliberately designed not to engage countries, but private think tanks from a variety of cultures.

The think tank studies would be used as wedges to open a public debate involving, among others, international media, the National Academy of Sciences and their counterparts in other countries, universities, and organized religion.  National governments and the United Nations would not be directly approached, but allowed to enter the dialogue at their own initiative.

This presentation is filled with accounts of trying the old strategies with research and intelligence communities in China and the former Soviet Union.  Much was learned about their interests and activities.  The Chinese suggested a special role that the United States might be destined to fill.  

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers and any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Lecture.

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers and any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Workshop.

The MJ-12 Documents: Where Do They Lead?   Dr. Bob and Ryan Wood have been a father-son team of investigators for ten years, having focused on the topic of authenticating questioned UFO documents and taking the findings to their logical conclusion. The first, and classic, document shown to be a genuine 1954-produced document was the now-famous Manual, Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology: Recovery and Disposal.  This led to a series of apparent leaks from other sources, including some from inside the government today, based on postal information and the original envelopes, carefully preserved.

They will present the present status of this specialized topic, dealing with

• Provenance of  the documents

• Techniques for authentication

• Synthesis of  the main messages

• Research directions indicated

For the first time, the exact originals of the envelopes received will be displayed and analyzed to speculate on the identity of the senders. The various techniques used to authenticate will be shown, and specific examples of famous erroneous evaluations will be noted, including the Truman-Forrestal Majestic authorization letter typewriter font from a 1940 Underwood.  New testimony from a source who saw this letter while in the Navy will be revealed.

The trail to the Cape Girardeau crash site will be followed and updated, together with an assessment of how this secret played in the parts of intelligence communities that had access to the UFO secrets.

Of even greater interest to many are what do these documents say about whether we have technically been successful at reverse engineering UFO technology and what would be the process for dealing with this evidence.  Some of the early documents have major clues to routine technology today, such as integrated circuits and fiber optics.  Proving the relationship to UFOs is a significant challenge. 

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers and any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Lecture..

Workshops
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The government, he said, was not frightened by UFOs -- they'd been around for too long -- but it was frightened by the implications of the powers that the ETs had, powers which human beings shared. Corso talked about this in some of his reports on the alien headgear, but Hoover was specific in that what the myths surrounding the Philadelphia were about spoke directly to an ability that the Navy believed the aliens possessed: psychokinesis and teleportation.

Video footage of Corso rarely seen is part of the program.

The story of Col. Philip J. Corso is not over.  It has only just begun.

Paul Davids was executive producer and co-writer of the Showtime film ROSWELL (starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dwight Yoakan and Martin Sheen and Golden Globe nominated as Best TV Motion Picture of 1994).  His interest in the UFO field was propelled by a daylight UFO sighting in 1987 in close proximity, with his two children.  The experience opened his mind about a subject he knew little about until 1987, and it led to his conviction that excessive official secrecy on this issue is a negative and mistaken national policy.  The sighting directly led to his becoming a producer of UFO-themed movies, TV shows and documentaries, as well as a writer in the field (FLYING SAUCERS OVER HOLLYWOOD for AlienZoo, etc.) and lecturer. 

Paul Davids' father, the late Georgetown University professor Dr. Jules Davids, was a principal contributor, or "ghostwriter," of JFK's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage.  Paul Davids will reveal the story, the documents -- and how his father's contribution was "covered up" during the 1960 Presidential campaign so as not to derail JFK's election.  The whole point of the book PROFILES IN COURAGE is that it is in fact very rare that a Senator will take an unpopular position, against his personal interests and contrary to the wishes of his constituency, for what he perceives as the larger good of the nation.  On the UFO issue, there have been precious few examples of courage in the Senate or Congress or anywhere else -- including the media, among journalists, military men and astronauts.  Using his father's essay for JFK on political courage as a point of departure, Paul Davids will set forth his view of "Profiles in UFO Courage" -- those in the media (film, journalism, TV), politics and astronautics who took personal risks to try to pull back veil of secrecy hiding the facts of UFO reality.  Paul Davids also had repeated correspondence with one of his father's former students, President Bill Clinton, which he will share, as he sought to provide information to the President on the Roswell incident.

The workshop will bring to life Paul Davids' "Profiles in UFO Courage" to show how a rare group publicly known personalities -- dedicated, outspoken, brave and courageous people from Washington to Hollywood -- have pushed the envelope to work toward raising public awareness on the UFO issue.

In addition, Dolan will delve into the history of Area 51 and assess the state of our knowledge of what is actually going on there. This includes assessing the critical issue of whether or not the "deep black" world has developed its own "flying saucers."   He will explain why UFO secrecy continues to this day and emphasize why this topic is one of grave concern for all of humanity.

PRG strongly advises any Congressional Members and staffers or political journalists coming to the X-Conference to attend this Workshop. 

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers and any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Workshop.

Beyond Top Secret: Extraordinary Cases of Extraterrestrial Contact   Timothy Good’s workshop presentation will include some extraordinary cases, such as the encounters reported by a witness in Italy in 1993 who took a series of remarkable color Polaroid photographs of an unusual creature. Officers from the US Embassy in Rome attempted to steal the Polaroids and the witness was eventually arrested by the Italian military police. Good will also describe some of his investigations during seven visits to Puerto Rico in the 1990s, including an animal mutilation apparently monitored by US federal agents, the shooting by a police officer of an alien creature at point-blank range, the teleportation of a British Airways captain while flying a light aircraft, and the disappearance of an aircraft and its young pilots after reporting a UFO.

Trips to alien bases in the Andes and the Pacific Ocean reported by a South American witness will be discussed in depth. Invited to Washington by the CIA, the witness was interrogated for several days at a “safe house.”  Finally, Good will reveal astounding new information about alien bases on Earth - including alleged locations - as provided to him via a high-ranking source  who served in the USAF Air Staff and Joint Staff at the Pentagon.

Earth – unique in our solar system and perhaps for light years around – is a center of operations for several species. Some are here for purposes of exploitation, such as hybridization. This has led to a conflict of interest, at both a terrestrial and extraterrestrial level.

At the center of the extraterrestrial truth embargo lies the fundamental relationship between the American people and their government - the social contract. Is the truth embargo now endangering that relationship? Come hear the opinion of a man who has spoken with members of Congress, the Department of Defense and a host of other entities in Washington over the past 11 years. This workshop offers an opportunity to ask questions of one of the most controversial figures in America today - a successful physician who committed his life's work to challenging his government's decisions regarding the most controversial event in human history - the engagement of the human race by extraterrestrial beings.

Italy, Col. Corso and the Vatican: Part II   How did Colonel Corso’s revelations and the Italian publication of The Day after Roswell change the field of Ufology in Italy?  How did his presence in two conferences affect the media coverage of the phenomena?  How does the  Italian press handle sightings, witness testimony and the publicity around Monsignor Corrado Balducci’s acceptance of the possibility of extraterrestrial life?

Paola Harris’ book Connecting the Dots  contains a great deal of inside personal testimony from notable figures in the UFO Field. She will explain the amazing synchronicity that enabled her to cover these stories and obtain the respect of these key figures.  She was one of very few people close to both Colonel Philip Corso and Monsignor Balducci.

In 1997, after the Roswell 50^th year Reunion, International Journalist researcher Paola Harris and the editorial staff from Futuro magazine brought Colonel Philip Corso back to Rome where he had served as head of Intelligence (CIG) from 1944-1947. In 1998, Corso was the keynote speaker at the International Conference in the independent Republic of San Marino and signed a document along with other international researchers calling for full disclosure of the facts surrounding extraterrestrial-related phenomenon.  This document was sent to the United Nations and it was the first of its kind coming from any country.  Paola wrote the Italian preface to the Colonel’s book Il Giorno dopo Roswell and will discuss a  second book published in Italy called The Dawning of a New Age ( L’Alba di Una Nuova Era).

"I have basically exhausted every resource that I have ever tried to use from about 1940 to now. I have found no reference, even in government research, for bismuth/magnesium layers. This material didn't just make itself. It had to come from somewhere. ...And nobody's told anyone about this material!"   Travis Taylor, Physicist working for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Redstone Army Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama

In her presentation Linda will have a physical sample of the unidentified layered metal for the workshop audience to see and touch, plus video and audio excerpted from her 9-year effort  to find a source in government, military or civilian sector anywhere in the world with knowledge about layering 1-4 microns of pure bismuth with 100-200 microns of nearly pure magnesium.

And whenever this research was being conducted, it repeatedly intersected with extraterrestrial related phenomena.   This fact combined with consistent reports of the telepathic capability of extraterrestrial beings from contact events worldwide makes such an hypothesis worth serious consideration.

Was U.S. government-developed human technology known as "remote viewing" used to penetrate the alien agenda?  How accurate can it be?  Have any of the military-trained remote viewers seen UFOs, and what do they know of their intentions? Jim Marrs, who first wrote of "remote viewing" in 1993 when it was still a Top Secret program and before dozens of participants in this research began to come forward, will give an overview of its history and future potential.

MJ-12 Document Authentication Workshop  This workshop will provide a clear description of the processes used to initiate the authentication of questioned UFO documents. It will include establishing provenance, physical factors such as dating techniques, identifying typewriters, matching printed type fonts, and comparison of handwritten evidence. The usual hunt for anachronisms that would belie authenticity will be exemplified, and examples of etymological issues (word sources and usage) will be provided.  The mother of all authentication processes – the comparison with known authentic documents – will be exemplified using several examples.

Not content to rest on their achievements to date, Dr. Bob and Ryan Wood will be willing to discuss documents that seem to have problems that they cannot totally explain. Foremost among these are apparently identical marginalia written back in the forties, where skeptics have claimed that identicalness implies the obvious use of a modern copy machine. These workshop leaders will look beyond the obvious here and postulate alternative explanations. 

Specifically, several examples of similar language between some questioned documents and some genuine documents will be discussed in detail from the point of view of supporting fakery on the one hand, or the common use of “boilerplate” on the other. 

As a fitting climax to this topic, a relatively recent Majestic document, shredded and subsequently reconstructed, will be evaluated from the points of view discussed in the workshop.  If it were authentic, it would be front page news.

PRG suggests that any Congressional Members and staffers and any political journalists at the X-Conference attend this Workshop.

Documentaries
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Given the X-Conference's political/governmental focus, documentaries have been selected to provide some phenomenology for attendees with interest in these areas.  Beyond disclosure awaits explanations for some extraordinary events and phenomena - not to mention the historical record.

Qualified Testimony
Mercury 7 Astronaut Gordon Cooper recalls a UFO landing at Edwards Air Force Base. Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell discloses his knowledge of the covert effort to keep the subject matter top secret. Military personnel testify to having witnessed UFOs disable nuclear missiles both in their silos and during test flights. Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter give accounts about their involvement with the UFO phenomenon.

International Scope

• England: Former chief of defense staff, Admiral Lord Hill Norton, and former UFO investigator for the Ministry of Defense, Nick Pope, analyze a UFO landing at a U.S. Air Force Base in Bentwaters, England.

• Russia: Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich is among a number of military officials with the Russian Space Program who speak freely about personal sightings and Russia’s new openness regarding UFOs.
• France: The recently released COMETA Report written by top French scientists and military personnel is the strongest pro-UFO document ever released to the public.
• United States: From the reported crash in Roswell, New Mexico, to the recent mass sighting of multiple UFOs in Phoenix, Arizona the producers interview numerous eyewitnesses and follow a paper trail to shed light on what really happened.

Scientific Perspective
Astrophysicists and NASA Propulsion Experts present the latest theories on the possibility of interstellar travel and the consensus that we are not alone in the universe.

In its pursuit of facts, footage and personal encounters with UFOs, Out of the Blue presents solid evidence allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions regarding the validity of the UFO phenomenon.     Website  

Executive Producer: Robert Nichol.  Presenting the story of the greatest revelatory phenomenon of our time.   A 90 minute TV Special on Crop Circles which shows the circles themselves for all to see and presents the top crop circle researchers.  Investigating the over-all assumption of hoaxing, balls of light, sacred site connection, media and people’s reaction to the phenomena, and outlining the basic understandings arrived at so far. Images of the major crop circles, interviews with top researchers and a narrative line dealing with the mysterious aspects of the phenomena.

Many are now coming to believe these mysterious symbols appearing all over the planet (10,000 since 1980), are a communiqué to humankind allowing a greater human consciousness to emerge. That is, they are here to offer humanity at this time, an opportunity for an expanded consciousness and an understanding of how the world works in the larger context of the inter-galactic community.

Why has it largely been ignored?  Science and media have not given the phenomena it due consideration. Now is the time for a careful re-consideration based on the information and insights gained by the many researchers in the field.   A provocative and visually stunning documentary bound to win large a audience.    Website   

A film by Laurel Chiten.  Her statement:  A few years ago, Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, a leading researcher in the alien encounter phenomenon, approached me after seeing my recent film The Jew in the Lotus. He wanted me to consider making a movie about encounters with these alien life forms. I told him no. I knew next to nothing about alien abduction, had no interest and thought it was all rather foolish. Then, he invited me to meet some of the people who claim to have had these experiences. They seemed rather normal and spoke about their feelings of connection and longing for these uninvited intruders to return. I had stumbled into a world filled by people who had been touched by something ... and had their lives blown apart because of it. I was mesmerized. I feel that I was abducted by John Mack.

This started my journey into the lives and minds of alleged abductees around the world, and into my own personal journey through skepticism, fear, insomnia, fascination, confusion and led to many questions.

These “experiencers,” as many of them call themselves, bring with them reports of missing time, bodily probing, sperm extraction, impregnation, a strange project to create a hybrid/alien-human race and apocalyptic warnings. According to various studies, the number of people world wide reporting alien abductions reaches into the hundreds of thousands. As there is no conclusive physical proof, the debate as to whether these stories are true or not could go on forever. Instead, I became more interested in the people — those who have had their lives both torn apart and transformed by this experience.

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 I set out to explore. This is a film about the human experience — about longing for connection and fear of separation.

When a person is confronted by something that is so powerful, so indescribably outside the realm of everyday life, it forces a reexamination of everything previously taken for granted. The experience redefines every relationship: with one's self, family, and reality itself.

Following the lead of those like Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell the audience will witness an archetypal “Hero's Journey.” For the subjects of our film, this experience has resulted in a kind of Holy Grail search for truth. Beneath the sensational aspects of alien abduction, these are real people looking for answers. Touched will follow a human quest to solve a mystery — perhaps only to find that the answer is the quest itself.

I now call myself agnostic. I am not convinced that these people have been visited by “aliens,” but I do believe that something profound has happened to them.  And maybe, just maybe, everything they have described is, in fact, completely true.    Website