Cape Musings

Officials call for UFO Probe

When I saw this headline yesterday  Former pilots, officials call for UFO probe,  I was pretty amazed.  (see article at the botton of this post).

I'm one of those crazy people, I suppose, that absolutely whole-heartedly believes that there must be life on other planets.  It's a big universe, folks.  And if that life has been around, oh say, another two hundred years longer than we have, it is very possible that they have the technology to visit other planets. Why not?  Imagine showing your personal computer to a cave man.  Intelligent life evolves and one of the fruits of evolution is technology.  

And I'm smart enough to know that we humans aren't as smart as we think we are.  We're still unlocking the secrets of the immune system, still putting pedophiles in jail, making bombs and using gasoline.   In universal terms, we're in kindergarten.   Nothing amuses me more than to hear someone say with the utmost of confidence that we must be the only life in the universe.   Kindergarten kids don't know anything for sure, do they?  My grandmother still marvels that she has indoor plumbing and electricity. 

Beyond the obvious, there are just too many competent people coming to the fore who say they have seen a UFO including Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, high ranking officials in all the armed forces, politicians and scores of others, including people that I personally know and respect.  And many, many people have stepped forward to admit that they were involved in projects and incidents which the government has covered up.  In fact, some of these people voluntarily attended a press conference several years ago to discuss their roles in the cover up.  Their names?

• Merle Shane McDow: US Navy Atlantic Command
• Lt. Col. Charles Brown: US Air Force (Ret.)
• Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt: US Marine Corps
• Maj. George A. Filer, III: US Air Force (Ret.)
• Nick Pope: British Ministry of Defense Official
• Larry Warren: US Air Force, Security Officer
• Sgt. Clifford Stone: US Army
• Master Sgt. Dan Morris: US Air Force, NRO Operative
• A.H.: Boeing Aerospace Employee
• Officer Alan Godfrey: British Police
• Sgt. Karl Wolf: US Air Force
• Ms. Donna Hare: NASA Employee
• Mr. John Maynard: DIA Official
• Dr. Robert Wood: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Engineer
  

This is not a complete list of those men and women who were brave enough to come forward that day. The media virtually ignored this event, although their live testimony is accessible on the Internet.   You have to give these Boeing Aerospace engineers and Master Sergeants credit for saying anything in this climate of humiliation that exists when anyone even mentions the word UFO. 

A majority of Americans believe that life exists on other planets and that the government is trying to cover something up.  I think what they're trying to say is this:  It's a lot easier to believe that there is life on other planets than it is to believe our government always tells us the truth. 

The $64,000 question is why--if there are intelligent races swooping down to check us out--then why don't they do something that will definitively categorize them as real, something as simple as hanging out over the White House? 

My answer to that is why would they?  Would you want to come and make friends with a planet where wars are being fought all over the globe, where life-destroying bombs are hunkered down in silos beneath the earth, where humans are still---century after century--arguing over which god is the right god?   If their technology is so advanced that they've conquered intergalactic travel, they've obviously learned to get along with one another because they didn't blow themselves up.  There has been peace on their planet long enough for their technology to evolve.  

There is truly nothing more dangerous than a planet that is advanced enough to destroy itself but still unenlightened enough to be destroying one another.  Technology in the hands of those who haven't learned to respect the gift of life is a dangerous thing indeed.  There's no disputing that our technology has outpaced our spiritual evolution.  If that doesn't answer the $64,000 question, then all you need do is look around at the state of our earth to understand why another race of people might not want to be our friends.  At least not yet. 

We must be an interesting planet to study, what with all our problems and pains.  Imagine looking down and watching thousands of people in a football stadium in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, hungry and ragged.  Imagine peering into a prison, a mental hospital, or a war zone and taking in the enormous suffering that is contained on our planet.  Observation might seem the best thing for the moment.  Observation over contact. 

Often enough, reports of UFO's trickle through the press, but it's rarely the mainstream press reporting.  You have to dig through the endless stream of negativity, Hollywood gossip, and political meandering to find the sound reporting on the UFO phenomenon. 

If anyone has come to the fore to expose this issue, it is Dr. Steven Greer, emergency room doctor turned UFO rabble rouser.  He is the one who called the press conference in our nation's capitol with dozens of competent and high ranking eye witnesses in tow to share their stories with the press----the conference that none of the mainstream press attended.  In the past few years, countries like England, France, Brazil and Ireland have opened up their UFO files.  In 2005, Brazil even initiated their own government committee to study the UFO issue.

Our country's closest equivalent is Dr. Greer, but he is often ridiculed and shut out of the press.  Greer sent out a press release today in light of the above referenced article published yesterday.  If you open up your mind, you may find some of his points compelling.  If you'd like to watch the eye witness testimony from those high ranking government officials yourself, visit http://www.disclosureproject.org/.   Here is the press release Greer has dispatched:

INSIDERS EXPOSE REASONS FOR UFO SECRECY

Disclosure Project Director Dr. Steven M. Greer reports that government insiders have revealed the existence of a shadowy, highly classified program related to UFOs.

The reasons for the secrecy are simple:  The inertia of highly classified programs, embarrassment over past illegal actions taken to enforce secrecy, and the fact that the energy and propulsion systems behind the mysterious UFO objects have been studied and fully understood. This disclosure would spell the end for oil, gas, coal and other conventional forms of power - and with that, the end of the current oil-based geopolitical order and economy. The truth is our tax dollars have been used to investigate this matter for decades and it is time for a dividend on that investment. The full disclosure of the facts will enable humanity to attain a sustainable civilization without global warming or the need for oil.

Recent calls for a US government investigation into UFOs have not taken into account the fact that such investigations are on-going, highly compartmented and top-secret.

Dr. Greer states, "As early as 1993, when I personally briefed CIA Director James Woolsey on the UFO matter, we knew of on-going, secret projects to which President Clinton and Mr. Woolsey were denied access.  The senior counsel for the Senate Appropriations Committee, then headed by Senator Byrd (D-WV) told me directly that upwards of $100 billion per year was going into so-called 'black' projects, including UFO programs, but that with a top-secret clearance and a subpoena power, he could not penetrate the veil of secrecy."

Subsequently, working with philanthropist Laurence Rockefeller, Dr. Greer provided in-depth briefing materials for President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who reviewed the matter while staying at the Rockefeller's JY Ranch. (The briefing materials are at www.DisclosureProject.org).

Dr. Greer reports that "The Clinton's refused further disclosure of the matter. CIA Director Woolsey frankly stated that they could not disclose programs over which they had no control or access.  Mr. Woolsey and the Clintons were shaken by the secrecy, and the power behind it."

Since then, The Disclosure Project has uncovered thousands of official US documents and top-secret military and corporate witnesses to programs dealing with UFOs, including project code names and numbers.  Such operations are rogue and are beyond the scope of Congressional oversight committees.  

Note: The two paragraphs referring to Laurence Rockefeller and to Bill and Hillary Clinton had to be removed from this press release when we sent it out through our press release service - PRNewswire.com, because they refused to send out the original press release with those references.  It was referred up  the chain of command at their organization and censored by them. When you think that we have a free press, think again. This was not even censored by the outlets themselves, but by the entry point to those outlets!

And here is the article making headlines yesterday:

Former pilots, officials call for UFO probe

Tue Nov 13, 9:57 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter.

An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings.

"Especially after the attacks of 9/11, it is no longer satisfactory to ignore radar returns ... which cannot be associated with performances of existing aircraft and helicopters," they said in a statement released at a news conference.  ... Reuters