{"id":1156,"date":"2008-12-01T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2008\/12\/01\/uk-daily-mail\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T11:18:33","slug":"uk-daily-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/uk-daily-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"UK DAILY MAIL: UFO enthusiasts urge Obama to release X-Files about alien sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1090611\/UFO-enthusiasts-urge-Obama-release-X-Files-alien-sightings.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/<wbr \/>news\/worldnews\/article-<wbr \/>1090611\/UFO-enthusiasts-urge-<wbr \/>Obama-release-X-Files-alien-<wbr \/>sightings.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>UFO enthusiasts urge Obama to release X-Files about alien sightings<br \/><\/h1>\n<p>\nBy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&amp;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#003580\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/font><\/a><br \/>Last updated at 12:26 PM on 30th November 2008<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nUFO aficionados are urging Barack Obama to release classified documents<br \/>\nabout sightings of alien spacecraft, spurred on by support from within<br \/>\nhis own White House team.<br \/>\nThey have written to the president-elect, pressing him to reveal the contents of America&#39;s X Files.<br \/>\nIn a letter, the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee<br \/>\nasks Mr Obama to &#39;end the six-decade truth embargo regarding an<br \/>\nextraterrestrial presence engaging the human race&#39;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UFO\" height=\"244\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2008\/11\/30\/article-1090611-047BFBA70000044D-517_468x244.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>The Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee is<br \/>\ncalling for an end to the &#39;six-decade truth embargo&#39; about alien<br \/>\nspacecraft<\/p>\n<p>\nThey hope to have garnered 40,000 signatures in support of their campaign by the time Mr Obama is inaugurated in January.<br \/>\nThe enthusiasts are encouraged by public statements from John Podesta,<br \/>\nwho is running the president-elect&#39;s transition team, and Bill<br \/>\nRichardson, the Governor of New Mexico, who is expected to land a<br \/>\ncabinet post.<br \/>\nWhen he was the White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, Mr<br \/>\nPodesta was in charge of a project to declassify 800 million pages of<br \/>\nintelligence documents. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe said in a press conference: &#39;It is time for the government to<br \/>\ndeclassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide<br \/>\nscientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of<br \/>\nthis phenomenon.&#39;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barack Obama\" height=\"308\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2008\/11\/30\/article-1090611-029BC122000005DC-867_233x308.jpg\" width=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UFO enthusiasts want Barack Obama to follow Britain&#39;s example<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nGov Richardson is a fellow UFO enthusiast. He has written a forward to<br \/>\na book on the &#39;Roswell Incident&#39; in New Mexico, where an alien<br \/>\nspacecraft crash is said to have landed in 1947.<br \/>\nCampaigners believe the corpses of humanoid aliens have been locked away by the government. <\/p>\n<p>\nGov Richardson has urged the Pentagon to disclose what really happened, and last year insisted there had been a &#39;cover-up&#39;. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe committee wants the U.S. to follow Britain&#39;s example in making public reported contact with UFOs.<br \/>\nStephen Bassett, Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon<br \/>\nPolitical Action Committee, told the Sunday Telegraph: &#39;The release of<br \/>\ndocuments in Britain and France has put huge pressure on the US. It<br \/>\nmakes the government here look pretty stupid. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#39;I think we are seeing the Democrats moving towards disclosure.&#39; <\/p>\n<p>\nThe group wants military services and intelligence agencies to brief the incoming president about what they know.<br \/>\nThey also urge Mr Obama to open congressional hearings &#39;to take<br \/>\ntestimony from scores of government witnesses who have already come<br \/>\nforward with extraordinary evidence and are prepared to testify under<br \/>\noath.&#39;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}