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Thursday, April 22, 2004
Marrs Attacks Official 'Secrecy' on Aliens
Hundreds of people from the United States and around the world converged on Gaithersburg last weekend for the first conference dedicated to the government's alleged suppression of data about UFOs and extraterrestrials.
The "X-Conference: the 1st Annual Exopolitics Expo" at the Gaithersburg Hilton was organized by activist and former political candidate Stephen Bassett, who finished a distant last in the 2002 election for Maryland's 8th Congressional District.
His goal for this convention was the same as for his 2002 campaign. He wants to "reform, revise and open up" the U.S. political system.
"This is not a UFO conference; it is not about lights in the sky," Bassett said. "It is about lies on the ground."
Bassett says there are "tens of thousands" who believe in a cover up. A 2002 poll conducted by the research consulting firm Roper ASW revealed "that 72 percent of Americans believe the government is not telling the public everything it knows about UFO activity, and 68 percent think the government knows more about extraterrestrial life than it is letting on."
Participants came to the meeting from Massachusetts, California, Montana, Florida, and many places in between. Others came from the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other foreign countries. In all, over 700 people participated in the convention. They listened to dozens of speakers, including the renowned author Jim Marrs, author of "Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy," the book on which Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" was largely based.
Marrs has also published numerous books more directly relevant to the conference's central theme, including "Rule by Secrecy" and "Alien Agenda." He spent his Sunday lecture covering materialsome apparently based on factthat included not only the first supposed UFO sightings, of which the government was alleged to be aware, but also numerous other alleged government conspiracies regarding Communism, World War II, secret societies and the Bush family.
According to Marrs, while John F. Kennedy was still a congressman, he was informed about alien sightings at Roswell AFB in New Mexico. As president, Kennedy visited Area 51, a military base in Nevada, to gain further information about the Roswell incidents, but was told by local Air Force officials that nothing had happened, Marrs claimed.
The convention even drew international media attention; a camera crew from Swiss National Television was among the nearly 60 members of the media in attendance.
Bassett got on the 2002 election ballot as an independent candidate by receiving over 5,000 signatures from county residents. And although he only received one percent of the vote finishing third behind winner Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D) and incumbent former Rep. Connie Morella (R) he became the first candidate on a federal election ballot to campaign on a platform based on the alleged presence of extraterrestrials and UFOs.
With his political aspirations behind him, Bassett spent the past seven months planning the event, the largest conference of any kind regarding extraterrestrials and UFOs on the East Coast.
Basset made it clear that he plans to continue raising awareness about the topic to which he has dedicated his career. Bassett is executive director of two extraterrestrial-centered organizations. The Paradigm Research Group, the Bethesda-based company he founded in 1996, is a research company focusing on teaching about the extraterrestrial and UFO phenomena. The Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC), also founded by Basset, is the first political action committee in history to directly target the politics of this issue.
His ongoing project is to raise money to fund a Citizen Hearing, a mock-congressional hearing, to discuss the extraterrestrial phenomena and the alleged government cover-up. The government refuses to hold meetings about UFOs and extraterrestrials, Bassett said. But he hopes to have at least five former congressmen participate.
"If the U.S. government won't hold a hearing, we'll hold one for them," Bassett said.
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Monday, April 19, 2004
Investigators seek clues in UFO sightings
ROCHESTER -- Bev Carpenter's hands painted pictures in the warm blue sky, the sound of birds punctuated by her testimony of the only thing investigators found missing: The UFO she saw the night of April 8.
Roger Sugden, assistant director of Mutual UFO Network Indiana, and MUFON state section director Stewart Hill, went to Carpenter's rural home Friday to look into reports by at least seven people in three counties of sightings of something they can't explain.
MUFON, headquartered in Littleton, Colo., is an international scientific organization of people who are seriously interested in studying and researching unidentified flying objects and was founded in 1969.
Sugden and Hill went to Carpenter's property for a physical look for two reasons:
"The type of structure that was reported was rare," Sugden, who lives in Fort Wayne, said. All of the witnesses have described a disc-shaped object with lights.
"And to have multiple witnesses (also is rare)," Hill added.
The pair conducted interviews with Carpenter and Robbie Crull, among others. Crull lives only about a half-mile from Carpenter, on County Road 400 North. When Carpenter went on a Rochester radio station last week to talk about her experience April 8, several callers said they had seen the object in the air, as well.
The incident happened around 10 p.m. on April 8. Carpenter saw it to the south of her home about 400 yards away. Crull said it looked as if it were "in my yard," and a third witness in Miami County, Gene Winters, told The Tribune earlier this week that whatever it was hovered only 35 to 50 feet above the pond in his back yard located mid-way between Mexico and Denver.
A couple of other Fulton County residents and two additional Marshall County witnesses also were to be interviewed by Sugden and Hill Friday afternoon.
Sugden, who served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam, and who currently owns an aerial photography business in Fort Wayne, was enthusiastic about the investigation, but far from excitable. Hill, a retired Bayer Corp. employee who lives in Elkhart, was calm as the pair looked for any possible explanation of what the object could be.
Standing outside her home, Carpenter extended her arm and pointed off to the south to show the investigators where she and her 13-year-old granddaughter first saw two sets of three lights about 400 yards from the house as they came home around 10 p.m. April 8.
Sugden's eyes followed Carpenter's finger as it traced a path in the clear blue sky.
"I tell you, Roger, it was humongous," Carpenter said.
Sugden assured her he has with him many pieces of equipment with which to take many types of measurements.
Crull, a former employee with the Fulton County Sheriff's Department and also a former private investigator, said she and her son "didn't have time to be scared" when they saw what they think was the same object Carpenter saw in the night sky.
Sugden and Hill tramped around the underbrush a bit longer, and WSBT-TV news reporter Ray Roth focused his camera on Sugden, asking him pertinent questions about his activities.
Suddenly, the audio on Roth's camera went haywire, producing a "buzzing" not only in Roth's ear but as background to the interview. The camera had worked just fine up at the house.
"This is kind of crazy," Roth said, fiddling with the buttons, checking to see if something he had done had made the equipment behave in a peculiar manner.
Sugden produced an inexpensive tape recorder with a never-before-used tape, turned it on, spoke several sentences, and stopped the tape. He then replayed it. Sure enough, that same buzz could be heard in the background.
When the group began walking back toward the house, Roth again checked his camera. The audio was again clear.
Sugden tried the same experiment with the tape recorder. It, too, was clear.
"If we (the witnesses) had all seen it in the same place, that would have been one thing," Crull said, still mulling it over in her head. "But there's a half-mile difference between Bev's place and mine, and then there's the people in Miami and Marshall counties, too. It's really weird."
"I keep going back to the fact that when the lights (on the UFO) went out, it was still there," Crull said. "Maybe it's still there ... Maybe they are there more often than we realize."
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UFO seen whizzing over Winnipeg
Three air traffic controllers at Winnipeg International Airport were among the witnesses who reported seeing an unidentified flying object streak thorough the sky on March 28 about 9:45 p.m.
Chris Rutkowski, a Winnipeg UFO researcher, Rutkowski interviewed the three air traffic controllers who saw the object.
"It sounded a little like an airplane ... but they were absolutely positive (it wasn't)," he said, adding the object did not appear on the airport's radar.
One eyewitness, who asked to remain anonymous, said the object looked like a bright red point of light travelling low in the southwestern sky.
It seemed to be flying at more than 400 kilometres per hour from west to east, he added.
"It was kind of angling away," he said.
He watched the object for 30 seconds, until it imploded into a smaller white light then disappeared.
Another witness, who also asked not to be named, said he had no idea what the object was.
"I've seen a lot of things and we can't find an explanation for this," he said.
Rutkowski said there were nine reports of UFOs that were similar in description from across Canada that same night.
"So in this case, now we have very qualified multiple observers," he said.
There are about 700 documented UFO sightings each year in Canada, he said.
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Sunday, April 18, 2004
God, the universe and YOU
The Book of Genesis describes how God created man in his own image, made the stars and set them in "the firmament of the sky" to cast light on the Earth.
Humankind's exclusively cozy relationship with God is a hallmark of religions practiced by billions of people.
But what happens should one day science discover that life is not unique to Earth?
University of Arizona astronomer Christopher Impey beat out applicants at 200 other universities for a three-year $275,000 Templeton Foundation grant to host a dialogue in Tucson about how life elsewhere would challenge human spirituality on the third planet from the sun.
The lecture series, "Astrobiology and the Sacred: Implications of Life Beyond Earth," will include up to five keynote lectures by "Nobel-Prize-level" speakers and up to 10 other speakers.
No dates have been set, and Impey is working to secure lecturers.
The topic is intellectually fertile because scientific discovery and religious doctrine have clashed over subjects like evolution, a sun-centered solar system and the origins of the cosmos, Impey said.
"The discovery of life on a planet other than Earth will confront us dramatically because we will have to come to grips with the fact that we are not special," Impey said.
He predicts that within five to 10 years, proof of microbial life existing or having existed on other worlds will be discovered.
Extraterrestrial microbes would prove life is not exclusively earthbound. But the prospect of discovering complex or intelligent life in the heavens, although more remote, is loaded with ramifications humanity might find troubling, Impey said.
Christianity has unnecessarily tussled with science, said Roger Barrier, chief pastor at Casas Adobes Baptist Church.
"What I found fascinating is that the discovery of science seems to challenge a lot of believers," Barrier said. "When science doesn't fit the Bible, it blows the faith away."
Such a reaction is unnecessary, said Barrier, who himself believes "there's life all over the universe."
While religious leaders may have little trouble adapting to a universe where humankind is not alone, they may be called upon for some heavy-duty spiritual guidance to convince the rank and file, said Barrier.
He once thought of science as a threat to his faith but has come to see science as a way to describe how God works.
Impey, a sworn agnostic with a photo in his office of himself meeting the pope, said "science and reason can co-exist."
But he warns the shock to human consciousness would likely depend on what kind of life is discovered, Impey said.
Human beings are a relatively new species and are brand new to technology. Intelligent life would almost certainly be more advanced than Homo sapiens, Impey said.
"The things we have declared different we have declared lesser," Impey said. "It's extremely unlikely that if we were to discover a civilization or entity that was not from this planet, that they would not be far beyond where we are technologically."
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