On Wednesday, May 9 at 9 a.m. EST, over twenty military,
intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses
came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
to help establish the reality of UFOs, extraterrestrial life forms
and advanced propulsion technologies. Dr. Steven Greer and
The Disclosure Project hosted the event.
Greer said, ?These testimonies establish once and for all that
we are not alone.? Most of the witnesses were ex-military
and all stated they were willing to testify to Congress under
oath.
Those who testified included Master Sergeant Dan Morris,
former U.S. Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office
operative, Dr. Carol Rosin, space missile defense consultant
and Major George A. Filer, formerly of Air Force Intelligence.
Also included was John Callahan, former Division chief of the
Accidents and Investigations Branch of the U.S. Federal
Aviation Authority, who was expected to announce that he
had first-hand experience of extraterrestrial activity. He has
said, ??I saw a UFO chase a Japanese 747 across the sky for
over half an hour on radar. It was faster than anything I
know of in our government.? 24 hours later, his report
mysteriously vanished. He attended a meeting the next day
with the FBI and representatives from President Reagan?s
Scientific Study Team, but according to the CIA, that
meeting ?never took place.?
Ret. Air Force Lt. Col. Charles L. Brown testified that he
analyzed and saw ?two inexplicable objects? two years
ago. ?Such things do exist. Please believe me,? he said.
Graham Bethune, a retired Navy pilot, described seeing a glow
near Iceland that turned into a circle of lights with a dome in
1951.
Retired Air Force Captain Robert Salas said a ?bright, glowing
red object? hovered outside the gate of a nuclear weapons
site in Montana in 1967, when the weapons suddenly went
into a ?no-go? condition.
George Filer, of filersfiles.com., testified about his own
sightings, as well as the fact that hundreds of people send
him detailed UFO sightings from all over the country and the
world every month.
U.S. astronaut Gordon Cooper also testified. He has claimed
that his squadron filmed a landed UFO at his Air Force base
and that the film was ?flown out on a general?s plane to the
Pentagon? and never seen again. Gordon Cooper has talked
about this incident on Dreamland.
Clifford Stone talked about his experiences investigating a
crashed UFO with dead alien bodies aboard. Stone has been
on Coast and was also interviewed by Linda Howe for
Dreamland. Whitley will talk to him on an upcoming Dreamland
show.
Daniel Sheehan testified, a lawyer who once represented The
New York Times with regard to printing the Pentagon Papers.
What was especially impressive was the number of witnesses
that Dr. Greer was able to locate and convince to speak.
Time and time again, these witnesses talked about seeing
evidence of UFOs on military radar. As they got up and
testified, one after the other, the combined testimony
became convincing.
The Washington Post, of course, was not convinced and
immediately printed an article to that effect. The reporter,
Joel Achenbach, cynically said, ?These guys were from the
hardware wing of the movement. They?d seen things in the
sky that they couldn?t explain. Objects. Lights. Radar blips
moving at extraordinary speed.? But he decides not to credit
any of this excellent evidence, instead complaining, ?What
they didn?t see, in almost every case, were any actual aliens.?
He added, ?In the category of what a scientist would
consider evidence, the press conference presented little, if
any. The proceedings featured the Argument from Authority.
The message here was that credible people?people who are
not kooks?believe that UFOs contain aliens.? But he did
admit that, ?These people have good resumes. Maybe that?s
not as impressive as someone coming forward with an actual
alien, but it?s not trivial.?
We couldn?t help thinking that if these had been military men
talking about their personal experiences in Kosovo or
Rawanda or the Middle East, they would be believed implicitly.
It?s only the subject matter that made The Washington Post
squeamish.
To watch the conference,
click
here.
For the Washington Post article,
click here.
For a more straightforward report,
click here.
