Dr. Michael Salla: Further Secret UN Meetings on UFOs/Extraterrestrial Life are Occurring According to credible Military Whistleblower

          Further Secret UN Meetings on UFOs/Extraterrestrial Life are Occurring
          According to credible Military Whistleblower

       

According to a credible military-diplomatic source, the UN has held
          four secret meetings discussing UFOs and extraterrestrial life in addition
          to the meeting(s) claimed to have occurred on February 12(& 13-14).
          Further details of the UN UFO discussions were announced in an update
          released by veteran UFO researcher Robert Morningstar, and Clay
          and Shawn Pickering on June 1 after their meeting with the anonymous
          military diplomatic source on May 19. Their source initially released
          information about secret UN discussion on UFOs and extraterrestrial
          life on February
          12. Source A, as he has subsequently been known, claims to have
          been authorized to disclose the information by a secret UFO working
          group comprising several U.S Navy admirals. Though the working group
          was not officially part of the U.S. Department of the Navy, it apparently
          was intent on promoting U.S. Navy interests vis-à-vis management
          and control of information on extraterrestrial life. The most recent
          UN meeting on UFOs/extraterrestrial life was claimed to have occurred
          on May 19. It allegedly focused on the issue of the media’s ridiculing
          of the UFO/ET phenomenon as an impediment to disclosure.

       

Attempts to confirm Source A’s claims have not progressed beyond arranging
          several meetings with UFO researchers who were able to interview him
          and to physically examine his credentials. Source A’s credentials as
          a senior military officer have been confirmed by a number of researchers
          including Robert Morningstar and Robert VanDerClock who have concluded
          Source A is very credible. Indeed VanDerClock
          views Source A as among the top three whistleblower sources to have
          publicly emerged along with Lt Col. Philip Corso (former U.S. Army)
          & former NASA engineer Clark McClelland to disclose information
          about extraterrestrial life. Source A has also met and shown his credentials
          to another two prominent UFO researchers, neither of which has yet come
          forward to make public statements about Source A’s credibility. In conclusion,
          Source A’s claim that he is a serving military officer currently assigned
          as a military liaison to the U.S. State Department has been confirmed
          based on what has been disclosed by researchers so far.

       

Despite Source A’s willingness to meet with researchers and have his
          credentials examined to establish his credibility, there has been relatively
          little information released by Source A that is specific enough in nature
          to be confirmed by investigators who have been analyzing his disclosures.
          Consequently, the secret UN UFO meetings have not become an issue for
          the mainstream media. This suggests that while Source A is credible
          and his claims of secret UN UFO discussions is plausible, there has
          not yet been verification. While verification is still required for
          Source A’s initial claims, his reliability on what may have transpired
          at the four additional meetings disclosed to researchers on May 19 needs
          to be examined. This can be done by comparing his recent statements
          on the additional four meetings with the claims of another primary source
          on UN UFO meetings; examining circumstantial evidence relevant to the
          claims of secret UN UFO discussions; and analysis of the plausibility
          of Source A’s recent statements.

       

The testimony of a second primary source, Gilles Lorant of France,
          concerning follow up meetings on February 13 & 14 became mired in
          controversy after it emerged that there were discrepancies in his stated
          credentials. This led to accusations of fraud and forced
          his resignation from a prominent French UFO organization. Despite
          the credentials controversy, Lorant’s testimony was specific enough
          to allow investigators to pursue opportunities to confirm his testimony.
          In particular, Lorant claimed that the UK’s Permanent Representative
          to the UN, Sir John Sawers, and the Papal Nuncio to the UN, Archbishop
          Celestino Migliore attended meetings where UFO sightings were discussed.
          Significantly, Lorant claims that the 30 countries represented at the
          meetings agreed that an international policy of "openness"
          would be implemented towards reports of UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
          There has been circumstantial support for Lorant’s testimony insofar
          as an official British governmental
          response to a Freedom of Information request confirmed that Sir
          John Sawers had participated in confidential bilateral meetings at the
          UN during February 13-14. Also, a recent
          interview of the Vatican’s chief astronomer, Gabriel Funes, on the
          possibility of extraterrestrial life signaled an official change in
          Vatican policy on extraterrestrial life. This lends further circumstantial
          support to Lorant’s testimony that the February 13 & 14 discussions
          on UFOs/extraterrestrial life had resulted in a consensus over a new
          policy of ‘openness’ towards extraterrestrial life, and that the Vatican
          had participated.

       

A content analysis of the update released by Morningstar & the
          Pickerings shows several areas where Source A’s testimony raises questions
          over inconsistencies with earlier revelations by him, with Gilles Lorant’s
          testimony, and objective analysis of the decades old secrecy policy.
          First, Source A reveals that the meeting on May 19 was focused on the
          lack of media objectivity concerning reports of UFOs and extraterrestrial
          life. According to Morningstar and the Pickerings: "This theme
          of this particular meeting was centered on the media’s ridiculing of
          the UFO/ET phenomenon and the impediment that this presents as an obstacle
          to moving disclosure forward." The "ridicule factor"
          would be a strange choice of official discussions since it appears to
          shift the onus of responsibility for a UFO cover-up to a mass media
          disposed to ridicule. This position ignores the public policy origins
          of the ridicule factor in the mass media. For example, in 1953 the
          CIA sponsored the Robertson Panel which issued recommendations to
          ridicule UFO reports as a matter of public policy. So the lack of media
          coverage of reports of UFOs/extraterrestrial life is not due to the
          prejudices of reporters disposing them to ridicule, but the legacy of
          an official public policy orchestrated by the CIA and other intelligence
          agencies since the 1950s.

       

Investigations into media silence by researchers such as Terry
          Hansen confirms that the problem lies in those in control of the
          media where UFO investigations are stifled by senior executives and
          media owners. So in reality the media problem is not so much ridicule
          due to the prejudices of the mass media, but a result of a policy secretly
          facilitated by media elites where ridicule is used as a means of suppressing
          UFO investigations. Consequently, it may be asked why a secret UN meeting
          on May 19 would devote itself to discussing media prejudices that lead
          to ridicule of UFO reports, without pointing out the public policy in
          place that established the ridicule factor in the first place. A meeting
          of public policy and military professionals at the UN would surely address
          the underlying information processes at work, a systematic public policy
          program of deception, rather than an epiphenomenon such as media prejudices
          of UFO reports. This does bring into question Source A’s reliability
          in revealing the real topics discussed during the May 19 meeting.

       

Second, when asked who attended the meetings, the response by Source
          A was "all the usual suspects." Further questions resulted
          in short responses confirming that China and Russia were represented
          among the 30 participants, but curiously not the Vatican. This is strange
          given Source A’s initial releases pointed to the problem religion would
          play in upcoming disclosures of extraterrestrial life. Why would confidential
          discussions continue at the UN concerning UFOs and the media, without
          the sole UN member state that specializes in religious affairs, the
          Vatican? Furthermore, there is a discrepancy with Lorant’s testimony
          wherein he claimed that the Vatican was represented at the February
          13 & 14 meetings by Archbishop Migliore. Furthermore, the recent
          policy change by the Vatican on extraterrestrial life adds circumstantial
          support for the Vatican’s participation in any subsequent secret UN
          meetings as alleged by Source A.

       

Finally, Source A avoids giving his own statements of what he has experienced,
          and/or has been instructed to disclose, and primarily relies on intermediaries
          to relay information. This adds an unnecessary filter in accurately
          interpreting his information on substantive issues such as the content
          of the meetings and those authorizing his disclosures. What emerges
          is confusion over whether his views are accurately being relayed, and
          who precisely is authorizing the disclosures. While the Pickerings and
          Morningstar have gone to a great efforts to faithfully represents Source
          A’s views, there have been a number of times where this has not been
          satisfactory and corrections have been required. This could easily be
          avoided by Source A testifying in his own words and having this forwarded
          in ways that don’t compromise his anonymity.

       

Overall, while Source is credible as a serving military officer currently
          assigned as a liaison to the State Department, this does not make his
          claims reliable. Given the difficulty of verifying Source A’s claims,
          more emphasis needs to be placed on examining the internal consistency
          of his views and how they match with ongoing global events that signal
          the kind of policy shifts that might emerge from coordinated UN discussions
          on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Consequently, while Source A’s testimony
          is helpful insofar as it reveals more secret meetings are underway at
          the UN, the reliability of what he claims to have been discussed at
          the meetings can be questioned. Source A’s lack of specificity over
          people who attended and efforts to direct attention away to epiphenomena
          such as media prejudice suggest he is introducing red herrings in his
          revelations. I conclude that there likely have been further meetings
          at the UN discussing UFOs and extraterrestrial life as Source A claims,
          but the actual topics addressed and list of participants may differ
          considerably from what Source A has revealed so far.