{"id":1470,"date":"2007-07-18T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2007\/07\/18\/washington-post-2\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T15:50:09","slug":"washington-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/washington-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON POST: At Roswell Festival, Doubt Is an Alien Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Roswell Festival, Doubt Is an Alien Concept<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 8, 2007; A01
<\/span><\/p>\n

ROSWELL,
\nN.M., July 7 — Attention, all aliens. Come on down. Because,
\nseriously, this is your crowd. About 50,000 of your closest admirers
\nare expected this weekend for the Roswell UFO<\/a>
\nFestival, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the nearby crash landing
\nof a flying saucer — and, naturally, the ensuing government coverup.<\/p>\n

A weather balloon?<\/em> Please. We are not fools.<\/p>\n

At
\nleast that’s the thinking here. Not up on the latest ufology? The
\ndebate today is all about "disclosure," meaning not if, but when. When
\nis the government finally going to open its top-secret files to reveal
\nits voluminous data on the sightings, abductions and close encounters
\ndating back to at least July 5, 1947. "The anomalies." Here in the
\ndesert Southwest. And probably Mars.<\/p>\n

"The secret world will fall.
\nWe want the truth embargo to end," said Stephen Bassett, the founder of
\nX-PPAC, the first political action committee established to target the
\npolitics of UFO\/ET phenomena. Bassett spoke at the festival’s
\nconference, which, along with the Alien Chase fun run, costume parades
\nand carnival rides (Orbiter, Splash Down), have filled every motel room
\nin Roswell<\/a>, once the home of the world’s only atomic warfare unit and the Enola Gay B-29 bomber.<\/p>\n

On
\nFriday night, Bassett told listeners of George Noory’s "Coast to Coast
\nAM" radio show, which beamed live from the convention center to 500
\nstations, that: "I believe the Democrats are planning disclosures in
\nthe first months of the next administration."<\/p>\n

The Democrats<\/a>? Naturally.<\/p>\n

Several ufologists agreed that "the best ET ticket" would be Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/a> of New York<\/a> (or maybe Al Gore<\/a>?) and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a>
\n(D), who have probably already have been briefed on the truth. "But
\nthey don’t want to say so now," Bassett said. Interestingly, Richardson
\nis quoted at the UFO Museum and Research Center ("The Truth is Here!")
\nas stating: "I don’t think the U.S. government has fully disclosed
\neverything they know."<\/p>\n

Indeed. If only citizens could get access
\nto the data. Because the people here want to know about the shadow
\nguests, crop circles, shape shifters, crash retrievals, men in black,
\ncattle mutilations, probes and, of course, the antimatter perpetual
\nenergy machines that have been kept under wraps in those deep-black
\nspecial limited access programs run by an international cabal of
\nmilitary-industrial-intelligence-media interests.<\/p>\n

Why won’t they tell all? "Because they don’t want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs," said Richard M. Dolan, author<\/em>
\nof "UFOs and the National Security State," and another of the two dozen
\nspeakers this weekend. Dolan is not certain that it is an antimatter
\nmachine. Could be anti-gravity. But they’re working on something<\/em>, perhaps by "reverse engineering" based upon debris — mechanical or biological — vacuumed up at the crash sites.<\/p>\n

"The topic is now being taken very seriously," Noory said. He said if the CIA<\/a>
\ncould release 693 pages of the "family jewels," the worst deeds by the
\nnation’s spies, then the UFO research community asks why not the files
\n(probably kept underground) about the extraterrestrials. "We’ve been
\nvisited from the very beginning of time," Noory said. "Maybe we’ve been
\nseeded. Maybe we’ve been changed. I don’t know. But somebody does."<\/p>\n

That
\nsomebody might be Roger Leir, author of "The Aliens and the Scalpel,"
\nabout his research on the abductees who have been implanted or probed.
\nHis latest case, which he shared with UFO enthusiasts at the festival,
\ninvolves "a gentleman in his 60s" who awoke recently to see "a drop of
\nblood on his knee." CAT scans, X-rays and interviews, said Leir,
\nrevealed a 60 percent certainty that the man had been snatched by the
\nETs. The foreign object in his knee appeared to be a one-inch-long rod
\nas thick as a pencil. More testing, naturally, is required. "We try to
\ndo this as scientifically as possible," he said. His pet theory? Mass
\ngenetic manipulation. But it is only a theory — so far<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Other
\nlectures at the festival include "Body Snatchers in the Desert," "Were
\nEarly Contactees Ritual Magicians?" and "UFOs and the Occult: Reptilian
\nOverlords, Abductions, Mind Control and the New World Order."<\/p>\n

Reptilian
\noverlords aside, the aliens have been pretty good for little Roswell,
\npopulation 45,000, which in recent years has embraced the 1947 flying
\nsaucer crash as a boomlet for tourism dollars. "We’re told the motels
\nare absolutely packed," said Roswell assistant city manager Bob
\nThomson. Is he a believer? "There’s a lot of excitement this year," he
\nsaid diplomatically.<\/p>\n

Downtown, the street lamps of Roswell sport
\nlights depicting almond-eyed ETs. The local liquor store’s sign offers
\n"aliens, beer, wine." Perhaps not in that order. At the Wool Bowl,
\nthousands came out to hear the Alan Parsons Project play. At the
\nconvention center, a company is offering tours of the crash site, which
\nis on a ranch west of town. They’re selling alien cat scratches,
\nglow-in-the-dark soap and Area 51 coffee mugs.<\/p>\n

The crowds at the festival appear relatively sane. Many are from New Mexico<\/a>,
\nand they say they are here for the fun carnival atmosphere in tidy,
\nlaid-back Roswell. Some of the out-of-towners, the real enthusiasts,
\ncan be a little intense. They’re like trekkies at a "Star Trek"
\nconvention, except that they pepper their conversations with the
\nphrase: "And that can be authenticated."<\/p>\n

Guy Malone is one of the
\nofficial organizers of the weekend event. "There are a lot of views
\nexpressed here, and I share them all," he said. "Angels, fairies,
\ndemons, succubuses, ETs and aliens. They might all be the same
\nphenomena."<\/p>\n

Please, continue. "Hundreds of years ago," Malone
\nexplained, sporting black alien-style sunglasses, "it was elves and
\nfairies taking you to a cave and poking you with wands or having weird
\nsex in the woods." And today? "We call them aliens."<\/p>\n

Why does the
\npublic not know all this? "The single largest number one roadblock to
\ndisclosure is the mainstream media," Dolan said. For example, he said,
\nlast year there was a UFO sighting in Chicago<\/a>. Did you know that?<\/em><\/p>\n

"A flying saucer-like object hovered low over O’Hare International Airport<\/a>
\nfor several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such
\nintense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines<\/a> employees who observed the phenomenon," according to a report in the Chicago Tribune<\/a>. Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>
\nblamed "a weather phenomenon," but really, what else could they say?
\nThe problem, said Dolan, is not that the major media avoid such stories
\ncompletely, "but they don’t follow up."<\/p>\n

The U.S. government, of
\ncourse, has issued its share of reports debunking UFOs. Here in
\nRoswell, those reports are generally seen as desperate attempts to
\nwhitewash the truth.<\/p>\n

Yet there is hope for the Roswell set.
\nApparently from the French, who have declassified some of their UFO
\nfiles. The British and Brazilians have or will soon open their cases
\nfor scrutiny. But the treasure trove belongs to the U.S. government,
\nand strangely, disclosure has not yet become an issue on the
\npresidential campaign.<\/p>\n

The question is why.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

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