Since the end of the Second
\nWorld War, the US military industrial complex has secretly sponsored at
\ngreat public cost the R&D of new technologies for energy
\ngeneration, air and outer space flight, futuristic weaponry and other
\nmostly military ends, which have not been made available for the common
\ngood. Yet today\u2019s environmental and economic emergencies dictate that
\nthe accumulated know-how be used for the benefit of mankind in its
\npeaceful applications.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n[ [There] exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its
\nown Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its
\nown ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances,
\nand free from the law itself. \u2014 Senator Daniel K Inouye <\/p>\n
In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition
\nof unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military
\nIndustrial Complex.. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
\npower exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this
\ncombination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should
\ntake nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can
\ncompel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery
\nof defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and
\nliberty may prosper together
\n\u2014 President Eisenhower \u2013 January 1961<\/p>\n
The above address by two-term Republican US President and five-
\nstar Army General Dwight Eisenhower was issued as a prescient warning
\nwhen he left office in 1961. Many have wondered why such a
\nconservative, pro-military president would issue such a warning. We now
\nknow why. The Disclosure Project, an NGO based in the United States,
\nhas identified several hundred military, intelligence and corporate
\nwitnesses to illegal and extra-constitutional projects that have
\nsuppressed information and prevented public access to technologies
\nwhich could provide a definitive replacement for oil, coal, nuclear
\npower and other conventional energy sources. <\/p>\n
These technologies have been both acquired and developed by military
\nand industrial interests in the US, UK and other countries that have
\nrepeatedly lied to or withheld this information from legally
\nconstituted authorities and the public. This information has the
\npotential to completely transform the current state of the world in the
\nareas of technology, energy production, propulsion, the environment and
\ngeopolitical issues related to oil and energy supplies. In short, a
\nsustainable, non-polluting and affluent civilisation could be created
\nby the wise application of these technologies, and many of the most
\npressing crises facing the world community could have been avoided if
\nit had not been for the deliberate suppression of such technological
\nknowledge. <\/p>\n
While \u201cnational security concerns\u201d have been invoked as reasons for
\nsuch secrecy, in reality the policy is driven by the resolve to
\nmaintain the current \u201cstatus quo\u201d based on the pre-eminence of oil and
\nfossil fuels and related special interests. By the time President
\nEisenhower left, a transformation had occurred in the structure of
\nWestern military, intelligence and corporate programmes. The urgent
\npressures of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War with the Soviets
\nhad created an atmosphere of extreme secrecy, dwarfing the secret
\ninfrastructure surrounding the Manhattan Project that built the atomic
\nbomb during the Second World War.<\/p>\n
The fate of the free world was at stake, and no expense was spared
\nto create the means to advance technologies within the dark womb of
\nsecrecy. A culture evolved that required such secrecy for national
\nsurvival and the \u201cneed-to-know-only\u201d requirements of such programmes
\nwere further reinforced by the well-known espionage scandals of that
\nera, including that of the Rosenbergs. However, such a culture of
\ngenerally regarded justifiable secrecy also created opportunities for
\nabuse within the military, intelligence, corporate and laboratory
\ncomplex. Classified programmes, appropriately structured to require a
\ngenuine need-to-know situation in order for one to have access to them,
\nbecame increasingly \u201ccompartmented\u201d, restricted and shadowy. <\/p>\n
Mechanisms for funding became Byzantine and obscure; programme
\nstructures were hidden with cover stories, \u201cstore front\u201d operations and
\nbecame virtually impenetrable; and the people within such programmes
\nfound themselves at once increasingly isolated and strangely empowered.
\nIt was in this womb, awash with billions of dollars of so-called \u201cblack
\nbudget\u201d funding, that extreme (and many would maintain essential)
\nsecrecy gave birth to the monster of rogue, illegal and powerful
\n\u201cunacknowledged special access projects\u201d (USAPs) dealing with a number
\nof unusual phenomena and technologies. <\/p>\n
In the world of USAPs, compart-mentalisation is so great, the need
\nto know so restricted and the information so important, that meaningful
\nsupervision by the constitutionally required authorities in the US, UK
\nand other countries became simply impossible. Here, \u201cunacknowledged\u201d
\nmeans that nobody is ever told about the project unless he absolutely
\nneeds to know and is directly required to be involved in operations.
\nEven if a senior official inquires, the answer is \u201cno such project
\nexists.\u201d Moreover, the milieu of the \u201crevolving door\u201d world of
\nmilitary, intelligence and corporate programmes created corporate and
\nfinancial influences that ran counter to genuine \u201cnational security\u201d
\ninterests or any legitimate public interest. Especially in the United
\nStates, the multi-billion dollar expenditures on military technologies,
\nresearch and development programmes and outsourced services and
\noperations allowed for a comingling of public finances and private
\ninterests. This, combined with the extreme compartmentalisation of
\nprogrammes, allowed for serious abuses of the public trust to take
\nplace. Ultimately, such programmes \u2014 networked carefully with other
\nprogrammes and corporate research \u2014 became so restrictive that legal
\nauthorities were routinely and as a matter of course left out of the
\nloop. Ultimately, those left out of the loop would become members of
\nCongress and even the US president. Indeed, when President Eisenhower
\nleft office, operations had become so complex and out of control, that
\nhe was convinced he was being shut out of vital developments and
\noperations. In the years since, matters have decayed exponentially to
\nthe point that we estimate today some $100 billion per year go into
\nunacknowledged programmes escaping the substantial knowledge of the US
\npresident and US Congress. <\/p>\n
USAP AND ADVANCED ENERGY AND PROPULSION SYSTEMS The \u201ccrown jewels\u201d
\nof such USAPs are those connected to very advanced energy and
\npropulsion systems. In the 1940s and 1950s, a concerted effort was made
\nto investigate a number of phenomena related to emerging sciences,
\nincluding those associated with electromagnetism and
\nelectro-gravitic\/magneto-gravitic technologies for their promising
\npotential in creating energy and propulsion systems valuable to urgent
\ndefence projects. During that era, particular interest was paid to what
\nthe public call UFOs (unidentified flying objects). It is important to
\nnote that the term UFO was only coined after covert programmes
\ndiscovered that such objects were neither unidentified nor \u201cflew\u201d in
\nany conventional sense of the word. Indeed, the majority of the
\ninformation and culture associated with UFOs is disinformation designed
\nto deflect serious scientific, media or mainstream governmental
\ninquiry. <\/p>\n
People have been systematically deceived for half a century. UFOs
\nwell-documented aerial phenomena, some of which are extra-terrestrial
\nvehicles whereas others are advanced covert government aircraft using
\nenergy and propulsion technologies that could transform life on earth.
\nIt should be noted that the man-made devices are the result of
\nillegally classified research and development (and acquisition) of
\ntechnologies as well as the study of retrieved extraterrestrial
\nvehicles. Once technological breakthroughs were made, the secrecy
\nassociated with these projects became extraordinary. <\/p>\n
Indeed, the clandestinity surrounding these advanced energy and
\npropulsion devices far exceeded the secrecy that shrouded the
\ndevelopment of the hydrogen bomb. From a November 21, 1950
\n(authenticated) top secret Canadian document: <\/p>\n
I [the author] made discreet enquiries through the Canadian Embassy
\nstaff in Washington who were able to obtain for me the following
\ninformation: a. The matter is the most highly classified subject in the
\nUnited States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. b. Flying
\nsaucers exist. c. Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated
\neffort is being made by a small group headed by Dr Vannevar Bush. d.
\nThe entire matter is considered by the United States authorities to be
\nof tremendous significance. <\/p>\n
Putting aside the aura of silliness that surrounds the subject in
\npop culture, the media and the tabloids, over 2000 pages of documents
\nreleased to the Disclosure Project by the US, UK, Spanish and other
\ngovernments clearly establish the importance of the matter at the time.
\nSpace here does not allow inclusion of even a sampling of these
\ndocuments but they may be viewed, in part, on our website and reviewed
\nin the book Disclosure by this author. <\/p>\n
Today, this subject usually elicits laughter, embarrassment and
\ndismissal. This is certainly understandable since at least 99 per cent
\nof everything said, written, filmed or otherwise placed in the public
\ndomain on the subject is outright deception. But in the corridors of
\npower \u2014 and especially in the corridors of covert programmes \u2014 the
\nmatter is of utmost importance. This is because at the core of this
\nenigma lies a body of science that eliminates in one generation the
\nneed for oil, fossil fuels and the related pollution and establishes a
\ntruly sustainable world civilisation exempt from poverty as we know it.
\nThe relentless ridicule associated with the UFO subject matter is
\ndeliberate and staged: It hides a profound body of knowledge dwarfing
\nthe changes that have transpired from the industrial revolution until
\ntoday by several orders of magnitude. <\/p>\n
In a letter to Congress, first CIA Director Admiral Roscoe
\nHillenkoetter had this to say: It is time for the truth to be brought
\nout \u2026 Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly
\nconcerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule,
\nmany citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are
\nnonsense \u2026 I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers
\nfrom secrecy about unidentified flying objects… We have identified
\nnearly 500 military, corporate, intelligence and laboratory witnesses
\nto events and programmes connected to these matters. <\/p>\n
The body of evidence is overwhelming and definitive. In May 2001, we
\nheld a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC at
\nwhich more than 20 such witnesses provided testimony and documents
\nregarding their direct, first-hand involvement in the subject. It was
\nthe most-watched webcast in history, and ultimately over a million
\npeople viewed the event over the Internet. <\/p>\n
The event was reported by CNN, CNN International, major networks
\nlike the BBC, the Voice of America, Pravda, the Chinese News Agency,
\nTelemundo, The Washington Times and other media around the world. Tens
\nof thousands of people wrote to the president and members of Congress
\nasking for an investigation of the subject and a general
\ndeclassification of information. <\/p>\n
And then September 11 happened. In view of the US Patriot Act and
\nother developments, including the Iraq war, the US Congress has elected
\nnot to pursue the matter. But the international community, which is
\ngreatly harmed by the continued imposition of this secrecy, is the
\nprimary victim and should be the prime mover in getting these matters
\ninvestigated. <\/p>\n
EXPERT WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY Sufficient evidence, documents,
\nphysical proof and testimonies exist to definitively make the case for
\nthe reality of the issue as well as its illegal handling. Beginning in
\n1992, we met with senior government officials in the US, UK, the United
\nNations and other agencies and discovered a remarkable degree of
\ninterest in resolving this problem and obtaining a general disclosure
\nof the facts. The officials ranged from members of the US Senate
\nIntelligence Committee to the first acting CIA director under President
\nClinton, including very senior admirals and generals at the Pentagon
\nand in the British General Staff. There is widespread agreement that
\nthe subject has enormous implications for the future of humanity and
\nthat the secrecy has become inexcusable. What has been lacking is the
\nwill to take meaningful action on the issue. While interest and moral
\nsupport for disclosure are high, fear is even greater. <\/p>\n
Consider what some of these top secret \u201cwhistle-blower\u201d witnesses
\nhave said about this secrecy and the fear it engenders: Brigadier
\nGeneral Stephen Lovekin: Army National Guard Reserves. As a young army
\nofficer he worked with President Eisenhower in the last years of his
\npresidency. But what happened was that Eisenhower got sold out. Without
\nhim knowing it, he lost control of what was going on with the entire
\nUFO situation. In his last address to the nation, I think he was
\ntelling us that the military industrial complex would stick (sic) you
\nin the back if you were not totally vigilant. And, I think that he felt
\nlike he had not been vigilant. I think he felt like he trusted too many
\npeople. And Eisenhower was a trusting man. And I think that he realised
\nthat all of a sudden this matter is going into the control of
\ncorporations that could very well act to the detriment of this country.
\n This frustration, from what I can remember, went on for months. He
\nrealised that he was losing control of the UFO subject. As far as I can
\nremember, that was the expression that was used, \u201cIt is not going to be
\nin the best hands.\u201d That was a real concern. And so it has turned out
\nto be … \u201cIt had been discussed with me on numerous occasions what
\ncould happen to me militarily if I discussed this. I would say that the
\ngovernment has done as good a job enforcing secrecy through the
\ninstallation of abject fear as they have done with anything within the
\nmemory of modern man.\u201d One older officer discussed with me what
\npossibly could happen if there was a revelation. He was talking about
\nbeing erased and I said, \u201cMan, what do you mean erased?\u201d And, he said,
\n\u201cYes, you will be erased \u2014 disappear.\u201d And I said, \u201cHow do you know all
\nthis?\u201d And he said, \u201cI know.\u201d Those threats have been made and carried
\nout. Those threats started way back in 1947. The Army [and the] Air
\nForce was given absolute control over how to handle this. This being
\nthe biggest security situation that this country has ever dealt with
\nand there have been some erasures \u2026 I don\u2019t care what kind of a
\nperson you are. I don\u2019t care how strong or courageous you are. It would
\nbe a very fearful situation because from what Matt [this older officer]
\nsaid, \u201cThey will go after not only you. They will go after your
\nfamily.\u201d Those were his words. And, so I can only say that the reason
\nthat they have managed to keep it under wraps for so long is through
\nfear. They are very selective about how they pull someone out to make
\nan example of. And I know that that has been done. <\/p>\n
Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt : US Marine Corps, present at a
\nretrieval of a UFO in South America \u201cYou weren\u2019t supposed to be there.\u201d
\n\u201cYou are not supposed to see this.\u201d \u201cYou are going to be dangerous if
\nwe let you go.\u201d I thought that they were going to kill me, really \u2026
\nLethal, deadly force has been used. For those of you who don\u2019t know, I
\nknow marine snipers and I have heard other guys talk about it and I\u2019ve
\nheard that these guys go on the streets and they stalk people and they
\nkill them. I know that the Army Airborne snipers do the same thing.
\nThey use Delta Force to go grab these people and silence them by
\nkilling them. <\/p>\n
Larry Warren: US Air Force, Security Officer, present during the
\nlanding of a UFO at Bentwaters Air Force Base in the UK We were gone
\nover with a Geiger counter and there was one return on one of the guys,
\nand something was taken out of his pocket. (He had picked up an item
\nfrom the retrieved craft.) This guy was removed very quickly. And, I
\nwill swear on my life, I never saw him again. He was removed. This
\nhappened to a lot of people. It led to a suicide that the Air Force is
\nresponsible for. This is a real person with a real name … <\/p>\n
Master Sergeant Dan Morris : US Air Force, NRO (National
\nReconnaissance Office) Operative I became part of a group that would
\ninvestigate, gather the information, and in the beginning it was still
\nunder the Blue Book, Snowbird and different covert programmes. I would
\ngo interview people who claimed they had seen something and try to
\nconvince them they hadn\u2019t seen something or that they were
\nhallucinating. Well, if that didn\u2019t work, another team would come in
\nand give all the threats. And threaten them and their family and so on
\nand so forth. And they would be in charge of discrediting them, making
\nthem look foolish and so on and so forth. Now if that didn\u2019t work, then
\nthere was another team that put an end to that problem, one way or
\nanother. <\/p>\n
Professor Robert Jacobs: US Air Force, who filmed a UFO intercepting
\nan early ICBM test After an article [came out about the incident] \u2026 I
\nstarted being harassed at work. I started getting odd telephone calls
\nthat would come during the day. At night, at my house I would get
\ntelephone calls \u2014 all night long sometimes \u2014 3.00 in the morning, 4.00
\nin the morning, midnight, 10.00. People would call and start screaming
\nat me. \u201cYou are going down (unprintable expletive)! You are going down!
\nAnd that\u2019s all they would say.\u201d And they\u2019d keep screaming that until I
\nfinally hung up the phone. One night somebody blew up my mailbox by
\nputting a big load of skyrockets in it. The mailbox went up in flames.
\nAnd that night at 1:00 in the morning the phone rang. I picked it up
\nand somebody said, \u201cskyrockets in your box at night, oh what a
\nbeautiful sight!\u201d And things like that have happened on and off since
\n1982 \u2026 I believe this nutty fringe around UFOs is part of a concerted
\neffort to keep serious study of it down. Anytime anybody tries to study
\nthis subject seriously, we are subject to ridicule. I\u2019m a full
\nprofessor at a relatively major university. And I\u2019m certain that my
\ncolleagues at the university laugh at me and hoot and holler behind my
\nback when they hear that I have an interest in studying unidentified
\nflying objects \u2014 and that\u2019s just one of the things that we have to live
\nwith \u2026 What happened to the film is an interesting story in itself as
\nMajor Mansmann related to me and other people. Sometime after I had
\ngone, the guys in civilian clothes \u2014 I thought it was the CIA but he
\nsaid no, it wasn\u2019t the CIA, it was somebody else \u2014 took the film and
\nthey spooled off the part that had the UFO on it and they took a pair
\nof scissors and cut it off. They put that on a separate reel. They put
\nit in their briefcase. They handed Major Mansmann back the rest of the
\nfilm and said here, \u201cI don\u2019t need to remind you, Major, of the severity
\nof a security breach; we\u2019ll consider this incident closed.\u201d And they
\nwalked off with the film. Major Mansmann never saw it again. <\/p>\n
Merle Shane McDow: US Navy Atlantic Command These two gentlemen
\nbegan to question me about this event. They were being pretty rough
\nabout it, to be honest with you. I remember literally putting my hands
\nup and saying, \u201cWait a minute fellows. I am on your side. Just a
\nminute.\u201d Because they were not really nice. They were very intimidating
\nand made it quite clear to the point that nothing that was seen, heard,
\nor witnessed, that transpired was to leave this building. You are not
\nto say a word about it to your co-workers. And off base, you just
\nforget everything that you may have seen or heard concerning this. It
\ndidn\u2019t happen … <\/p>\n
Major George A Filer, III: US Air Force (Retd.) At times I used to
\ncarry nuclear weapons. In other words, I was mentally fit to carry
\nnuclear weapons, but I\u2019m not mentally fit if I see a UFO. This
\ncriticism and this ridicule have done more to keep the story coming out
\nthan almost anything else. <\/p>\n
John Callahan: FAA Head of Accidents and Investigations \u2026 When they
\ngot done, they actually swore all these other guys in there that this
\nnever took place. We never had this meeting. And this was never
\nrecorded \u2026 This was one of the guys from the CIA. Okay? That they
\nwere never there and this never happened. At the time I said, well I
\ndon\u2019t know why you are saying this. I mean, there was something there
\nand if it\u2019s not the stealth bomber, then you know, it\u2019s a UFO. And if
\nit\u2019s a UFO, why wouldn\u2019t you want the people to know? Oh, they got all
\nexcited over that. You don\u2019t even want to say those words. He said this
\nis the first time they ever had 30 minutes of radar data on a UFO. And
\nthey are all itching to get their hands onto the data and to find out
\nwhat it is and what really goes on. He says if they come out and told
\nthe American public that they ran into a UFO out there, it would cause
\npanic across the country. So therefore, you can\u2019t talk about it. And
\nthey are going to take all this data \u2026 \u2026 <\/p>\n
When the CIA told us that this never happened and we never had this
\nmeeting, I believe it was because they didn\u2019t want the public to know
\nthat this was going on. Normally we would put out some type of a news
\nrelease that such and such happened … <\/p>\n
In short, so ruthless and unrelenting has been the secrecy
\nassociated with these issues that no institution or leader to date has
\nbeen willing to take the matter on. Indeed, after we met with CIA
\nDirector James Woolsey in December 1993 and recommended that President
\nClinton take direct executive action to end the secrecy and facilitate
\na disclosure, we saw first hand how great the fear was. A friend of the
\npresident visited us after this meeting and informed us that it was
\nfelt that the president would \u201cend up like [President] John Kennedy if
\nhe did what we suggested.\u201d Of course, we initially burst into laughter,
\nuntil we were stopped and informed that such concerns were real. We
\nwere stunned. Until then, we had relegated such concerns to the dustbin
\nof conspiracy theories. But it appears that the fear and ruthless
\ncontrol exercised by these projects around the world has effectively
\nkept the matter off the public radar screen. <\/p>\n
In our view, the propagation of such fear as a tool for control is a
\ngenuine form of international terrorism. Its effects are devastating:
\nit has neutralised democratic processes and institutions, engendered
\nparalysing fear, hijacked the future of humanity, impoverished billions
\nof people and decimated the earthly environment in the span of one
\nhuman lifetime. Indeed, the harmful effects of such rogue secrecy
\nexceed by orders of magnitude the consequences of any terrorist
\norganisation operating today. <\/p>\n
Subsequent meetings with members of Congress and other high
\nofficials resulted in enormous concern \u2014 even consternation \u2014 but no
\naction. We repeatedly heard that many in senior positions were
\nconcerned with such unsanctioned secrecy, but these officials would
\nsimply pass the buck to others, saying \u201cWhy don\u2019t you meet with so and
\nso on another committee and get him to hold a hearing?\u201d <\/p>\n
Other witnesses have described these operations thus: Dr Paul Czysz:
\nMcDonnell Douglas Career Engineer The black budget world is like trying
\nto describe Casper the friendly ghost. You might see a cartoon of him
\nbut you don\u2019t know how big he is, you don\u2019t know where his funding
\ncomes from, you don\u2019t know how many there are because of the
\ncompartmentalisation and the oath that people have to take. I know
\npeople today that worked on one of the things that I worked on, and if
\nyou asked them about it \u2014 even if it is being discussed on the Internet
\n\u2014 they would say \u201cNo, I have no idea what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d
\nThey\u2019re in their seventies now, but they still would absolutely never
\nadmit that they even know what you\u2019re talking about. You have no idea,
\nbut it\u2019s probably larger than you think. <\/p>\n
John Maynard: DIA Official Of corporations involved in this matter,
\nAtlantic Research Corporation is one of the big ones. So it\u2019s not very
\noften heard about. It\u2019s an insider beltway bandit, if you want to call
\nit that, very low profile, mostly has all of its work done within
\nIntelligence. TRW, Johnson Controls, Honeywell; All of them at some
\npoint or another became involved with the intelligence field. Certain
\nworks, activities were contracted out to them. Atlantic Research was
\none of them \u2014 way back. These are entities that were created out of
\npeople in the Pentagon to become a \u201cbeltway bandit\u201d \u2014 received
\nprojects, grants, and monies to do certain projects that were so highly
\nclassified and compartmentalised that, you know, only about four people
\nwould know what was going on. So it was that tightly controlled. <\/p>\n
Edgar Mitchell : Astronaut Whatever activity is going on, to the
\nextent that it is a clandestine group, a quasi-government group, a
\nquasi-private group, it is without any type, as far as I can tell, of
\nhigh-level government oversight. And that is a great concern. <\/p>\n
<\/snip><\/p>\nSergeant Clifford Stone : US Army \u2026. They
\nimmediately come out and say, \u201cOh, we can\u2019t keep secrets, we can\u2019t keep
\nsecrets.\u201d Well, the truth is, yes, we can. The National Reconnaisance
\nOffice remained secret for many, many years. The mere existence of the
\nNSA remained secret. The development of the atomic weapon remained
\nsecret until once you exploded one you eventually had to tell some
\npeople what was going on. \u2026. I had classified documents the Air Force
\nacknowledged. When I got members of Congress to help me open up more
\nfiles, they were immediately destroyed and I can prove this. When
\nCongress did their review of the way we protect documents, and the way
\nwe go ahead and implement our secrecy programmes, they found that you
\nhad special access programmes within special access programmes \u2014 that
\nit was essentially impossible to keep control of them all by Congress.
\nAnd, I\u2019m telling you right now; it is essentially impossible to keep
\ncontrol of them all. When it comes to UFOs, the same criteria [sic]
\napplies. Therefore, only a small nucleus within the intelligence
\ncommunity, numbering less than a hundred \u2014 no, I\u2019d suggest less than 50
\n\u2014 control all that information. It is not subject to congressional
\nreview or oversight at all. <\/p>\n
Dr Robert Wood: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Engineer As you may
\nknow, when you get cleared for one of these classified programmes you
\nwear your special badge and you know you can talk to anybody who\u2019s in
\nthe room with a lot of candour and it feels like that\u2019s one\u2019s
\npsychological group \u2014 there\u2019s a lot of camaraderie that builds up. And
\nyou had access to special libraries. So one of the things that we could
\ndo is go up to the library that the Air Force ran and sort of paw
\nthrough top secret material. Since I was interested in UFOs, when I had
\nsome usual business to take care of, I\u2019d also look in their library to
\nsee what they had on UFOs. And for about a year I was getting quite a
\nfew hits on the subject about various reports. Then all of a sudden,
\nthe whole subject material vanished. The entire classification for the
\nsubject just vanished. The librarian in our group that I was working
\nwith said he\u2019d been in that vault for twenty years and knew exactly how
\nthings were normally done. He said, \u201cThis is remarkable!\u201d He said,
\n\u201cI\u2019ve never seen that before, you just don\u2019t have a whole subject
\nvanish out from under you.\u201d He said, \u201cI think there is something there
\nthat you hit on …\u201d <\/p>\n
In the meantime, there was one other thing that came about as a
\nresult of my association with Jim McDonald (a well-known UFO scientific
\ninvestigator). I liked the guy; he was really an energetic physicist
\nand wouldn\u2019t let any grass grow under his feet. When he got a case he
\nwould dig his teeth into it and present an overwhelmingly convincing
\nstory to professional societies. He would talk to the American
\nInstitute of Aeronautics and the American Physical Society, and I
\nhappened to be members of both. So whenever he was in town I would pick
\nhim up, escort him, made sure he felt welcome. So once when I was
\ntravelling through Tucson, where he lived, I stopped \u2014 I had a two-hour
\nlayover to catch an airplane \u2014 and he came out to the airport to have a
\nbeer with me. I said, \u201cWhat\u2019s new, Jim?\u201d He said, \u201cI think I\u2019ve got
\nit.\u201d I said, \u201cWhat do you think you got?\u201d He said, \u201cI think I got the
\nanswer.\u201d I said, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d He said, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you yet. I have
\ngot to be sure.\u201d It was six weeks after that that he tried to shoot
\nhimself. A couple months after that he finally died. Knowing what I
\nthink I now suspect about the skills of our counter intelligence
\npeople, I think we had the capacity to convince him to do it himself. I
\nthink that\u2019s what happened … <\/p>\n
Clearly in order to have effective control of this subject, you have
\nto control it at all levels and the most obvious level is the media. So
\nyou have to look at all the kinds of media there are, the movies, the
\nmagazines, and of course in the early days that\u2019s all it is, newspapers
\nand movies and magazines. Now we have the Internet and video and all
\nthose other sorts of things. But as the technology has blossomed in
\nthese other avenues, the people worrying about this control have also
\njust moved into those avenues right along with them. So every time a
\nnew avenue comes up they have a new counterpoint. <\/p>\n
The reader should note that we have gathered nearly 500 such
\ncredentialled witnesses from every agency and branch of the military,
\nas well as select corporations involved in the secrecy. The group
\nmaintaining this secrecy, at least at a policy level, numbers some
\n200\u2013300 individuals from a number of countries and represents a
\npowerful array of interests including those connected to financial,
\ntechnological, security, religious, media, political and scientific
\nareas. <\/p>\n
In 1993, contacts in this group stated to us that about a third of
\nthose involved were in favour of ending the secrecy and a broad
\ndisclosure of the facts; as of today we estimate over 40 per cent hold
\nthis opinion. Those who think that such a group could not get away
\nindefinitely with such secrecy are right. We have obtained sufficient
\nactionable intelligence, sources and documents to make the case. We
\nhave names, programme code numbers, the locations of operations and
\ncorporate programmes and related vital intelligence. But to whom will
\nthis information be disclosed and to what end? Since the secrecy
\nrelated to these technologies and operations is rogue, unconstitutional
\nand harmful, any legitimate governmental or international body could
\nhold a hearing at which witnesses and evidence could be presented.
\nLegal and national security experts associated with the Disclosure
\nProject have determined that, since the secrecy is unregulated and
\noutside the bounds of the law, the leaders of such projects have no
\nlegitimate right to enforce such secrecy. This means those persons
\nholding secrets are no longer constitutionally bound by any past or
\ncurrent secrecy oaths. This assessment has been shared with senior
\ngovernmental officials and to date no entity or official has challenged
\nthis position. Significantly, during the preparation and in the
\naftermath of the above-mentioned National Press Club event, none of the
\nwhistle-blowers or staff of the Disclosure Project have been threatened
\nor silenced in any way. We have been able to make a definitive case for
\nthe evidence as also for the illegal nature of the secrecy. Hence, no
\nlegal entity can insist on silence. <\/p>\n
A CALL FOR REVELATION\n<\/p>\n
Aside from these legal arguments, there is a compelling moral and
\nethical reason to end the secrecy. First, humanity is suffering
\nneedlessly due to the continued withholding of vital scientific and
\ntechnological knowledge acquired through these programmes. These
\ntechnologies allow for the extraction of useful energy from the
\nso-called quantum vacuum state. This means that every village in Africa
\nor India could have an off-the-grid energy source that extracts energy
\nfrom the space around the device, with no need for the burning of fuels
\nor transmission lines from central utilities. Such \u201cfree energy\u201d
\ngenerators would utterly transform the current, seemingly hopeless
\nworld situation as regards poverty, pollution, economic stagnation and
\nthe like. Second, the world stands to gain from new critical
\ntechnology. The implications of replacing fossil fuels and nuclear
\npower with these new, advanced energy and propulsion systems cannot be
\noverstated: every aspect of life on earth will be affected and a truly
\nsustainable, technologically advanced civilisation can be built. The
\ndeveloping world can bypass the stage of industrial pollution and
\nexpensive centralised utilities and go directly to point-of-use power
\ngeneration. As abundance grows exponentially, educational opportunities
\nwill increase. <\/p>\n
Global warming will cease and pollution generally will be brought
\nunder control. Desalinating sea water will become inexpensive and help
\nprevent desertification and resource depletion. And we will have no
\nmore oil wars. Third, disclosure of these secret programmes is not
\nwithout its potentially negative consequences. It may be argued that
\nsuch a new technology could have destabilising military applications.
\nThis is no doubt true \u2014 every new technology can be harnessed for war.
\nBut this brings up an important point: are we, as a civilisation,
\nprepared to see humanity commit planeticide \u2014 the killing of an entire
\nplanet \u2014 just so we can avoid the respon-sibility of creating a
\npeaceful world? The state of the world will not be significantly
\nimproved by tinkering around the edges of oil, coal, solar or wind
\npower, and we are facing a cruel future of environmental decay,
\nimpoverished exploding populations, global instability and war. This,
\nwhile a comprehensive solution to these problems sits in a black box.
\nHence, it is time for these technologies to be properly and carefully
\ndisclosed and applied. The International Court of Justice and other
\ninternational agencies must take a leadership role in investigating and
\ndisclosing the facts, and facilitating the release of these new energy
\nand propulsion systems. The Disclosure Project stands ready to provide
\nfull information and briefings to governmental leaders, institutions
\nand agencies. The international community must investigate these issues
\n\u2014 and stop looking the other way. Illegal secrecy, withholding
\nsolutions to our most pressing concerns, is one of the greatest moral
\nand political crises of our time, if not the greatest one. The time has
\ncome that this publicly funded but \u201chijacked\u201d research be made
\navailable for the benefit of all of humanity. That six billion humans
\ncontinue to live in a manner that cannibalises our home planet while
\nsolutions are deliberately and with malice withheld cannot be allowed.
\nNo matter how great the financial or other interests may be in propping
\nup the dying oil economy, we cannot let our oil addiction drag the
\nentire body of humanity down with it. Instead, with courage and care,
\nlet us disclose the truth, and allow these wondrous new sciences to
\nprovide humanity with the means to live peacefully and in abundance on
\nearth. This is no utopian dream. We already have the means to create
\nsuch a world. Now we must find the will.<\/p>\n
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