Contact International UFO Research Time for Disclosure

OPINION FROM EDITOR OF "AWARENESS". NOV 2007

TIME FOR "DISCLOSURE"!

This year, 2007, marks the 60th anniversary of "ROSWELL" and the Kenneth Arnold sightings of "FLYING SAUCERS". It is also around 15 years that Dr Steven Greer's "DISCLOSURE" project has been running. In the early 1990s Greer's passionate promotion of ending government secrecy on UFOs in the United States led to associated protest groups forming in other countries including Britain. An organised rally on October 10th 1995 in central London was the high point of the British group under the direction of John Holman of Ripon, Yorkshire. After this "disclosure" activity diminished considerably on British soil, but Greer still continues to be active in the States.

After 1995 it is certainly true that British secrecy has lessened to such a degree that UFO reports to the Ministry of Defence are released to public knowledge almost immediately. For instance the 2006 listing of 97 reports was made available to the press and public by August 2007. Most national newspapers commented on these and the Sunday Mirror went as far as printing out the full list. (See news section) Probing investigators such as Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts have also obtained important information of covert government studies into UFOs which has recently been made easier to extract through the "Freedom of Information" Act. Remember no files were previously released by the government until 30 years had elapsed - so on this basis only cases from 1977 should now be available eliminating the "Rendlesham" incidents of 1980 from scrutiny.

Even after all this information has been released in the UK there is still absolutely no indication that the MOD has structured UFOs or alien bodies hidden away in a secret bunker deep in the countryside. Meanwhile Steven Greer still promotes the reality of "black" projects in the USA wherein alien technology is being harnessed to power vehicles etc which if brought into public knowledge would revolutionise the world order and probably cause the collapse of the oil market. He writes about this eloquently in Nexus Vol14 No 5, pp 55-8, Aug-Sept 2007.

At one time it was believed that each new US President was passed the secret about the alien presence in his homelands, but Greer now states: "From direct witness testimony we now know that Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter and Clinton were frustrated in their attempts to penetrate such projects. This is also true of senior congressional leaders and investigators, foreign leaders and UN leadership."

---.- "The facile explanation of fear, panic and shock and the like do not suffice to justify a level of secrecy so deep that even the President and his CIA director could be denied access to the information."

In other words Greer suggests that the most powerful man on Earth is denied access to covert activities in his own backyard which would amount to a massive breach of national security - yet Dr Greer knows all about it - or does he? It is now more than 6 years since the "9/11" attacks which resulted in the "Patriot Act" in America - a massive clampdown on any activity which might seem to be connected with terrorism - even UFO meetings, New Age assemblies etc were penetrated by the FBI and members questioned. But the so-called "black" projects have apparently escaped attention.

One imagines Dr Greer would have been closely interrogated as to his sources of information and where contacts are by now, under the "Patriot Act", but there is no indication that this has happened. His videos parade a wide selection of army, navy and air force veterans who make convincing arguments for the existence of "black" projects, but never seem to have had direct involvement themselves - yet know someone who does!

It appears to me that Greer has gone from "government secrecy" to "beyond government secrecy" - a convenient tool to continue making the most outlandish claims without ever producing a location, artifact or person directly working on the "black" project. Lets have full "disclosure" please, Steven, and convince me otherwise!

Whether Steven Greer's "aliens" are of the same group that were purportedly whisked away from Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947 is not known. In the latter case we are fairly certain that a crash of some sort took place in the desert there, and debris was recovered and removed to a US air base. It always bugs me that scant regard was paid to the Roswell event from 1947-79, a gap of 32 years, until a series of investigators and authors somehow managed to develop the concept of an "alien crash landing" which captured the imagination of the public, who back in 1947 were still recovering from the trauma of World War 11 and might have missed the significance. Few private UFO investigators existed in 1947. Against this I always maintain that real evidence in any major mystery should be obtained within ONE MONTH of the event before it is tainted by rumour and chinese whispers, and in the last 10 years made even worse by indiscriminate use of the Internet.

I recently made a tour of the World War I battlefields in France and Belgium. Everyone knows that the carnage in this war was absolutely horrific. At the location of the Battle of the Somme, around 60,000 British and Commonwealth troops fell on the first day, July 1st, 1916, of which the death toll approached 20,000. This is known as the worst day in the history of the British army - the losses far exceed the total for all wars accumulated since 1945 in just a few hours! Could this extreme event have possibly happened? There were around a million witnesses on all sides - British, French and German at the front line - and probably 10 times as many distressed friends and relatives back in the home countries. Countless thousands of dead lie in cemeteries randomly placed in the French countryside, their headstones all dated "July 1st 1916". Even a film of the battle was shown to packed audiences in early cinemas back in Britain. Fortunately this film would have been silent! The chances that it could have been a propaganda stunt are almost zero - the dreadful events of the day occurred with 100% certainty.

At the time in 1916, the eager audiences to the Somme film probably were brain washed into believing a glorious victory was taking place over the Germans and had no idea of the size of the casualties until years later. Back to Roswell, presumably only readers to the local papers were aware that a spaceship of unearthly origin had crash landed in their territory, and again it was years later before the significance of this was brought out by a new generation of investigators. Asking the same question - could this extreme event have possibly happened? In July 1947 there were no witnesses to the crash bar one local rancher who found strange wreckage in the desert. A few dozen military personnel would then be involved in removing the debris and anything else. If remains of alien significance were present and artifacts are still preserved at a secret base - again maybe a hundred top security guards and scientists are privy to the fact. Apart from the initial reports and testimony of 60 years ago there is virtually no evidence except anecdotal that an event involving aliens took place - compare to the Somme, 90 years ago - but "keep the faith" as they say!

Geoff Ambler

Editor of Awareness Magazine