Encounters: The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed!/Encounters - The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed (1995).iso/misc1/misc095.txt

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Highlights from Chicago's UFO Public Awareness Program
by S. Patricia Welsh  mail: [e-mail])

A twoday presentation, featuring UFO researchers Stanton Friedman and
Bob Dean, was held in Chicago on August 18 & 19, 1994 in celebration
of National UFO Information Week.  The event was organized by local
members of Operation Right To Know (ORTK) and Mutual UFO Network
(MUFON): Mary Kerfoot, Mike Lewandowski, Mark Perk, and Sue White.
Acknowledging that Chicago is a conservative, business like city, the
event organizers decided against more radical presentations: such as
last year's march on the White House.

   It was estimated that 1,000 people visited the 5 hour outdoor rally at
the Kluczynski Federal Building on Thursday afternoon.  Despite a
tornado watch, 390 people attended the Friday evening lectures at the
Field Museum.  The primary goal for the event was to reach out to a
broad spectrum of society with quality information about the UFO
phenomenon.  The theme of the lecture slide shows, photo boards, and
hand out literature was Government Cover up (rather than abductions,
crop circles, cattle mutilations, etc.).  The purpose of the event was
to inform the public that the UFO phenomenon is not just the stuff of
tabloid journalism, but also a legitimate area of study: as validated
by the high quality research and literature available on the subject.
Bob Dean noted that there are approximately 400 billion galaxies
similar to ours, each with approximately 300 400 billion stars, and
that NASA has speculated that 1,000,000 planets may be able to sustain
(intelligent) life.  What follows are highlights from the Friday
evening lecture slide shows (this information has been elaborated on
in previous lectures/videos by the speakers whose addresses are
provided later).

   Stanton Friedman , Nuclear Physicist Although providing meaty info
about Stanton Friedman, Bob Dean, and the activities of other
prominent UFO researchers in the first part of their "Project Open
Book Series" (April 1994), Omni magazine now seems to be stressing a
"debunking" point of view in its presentation of UFO information.
Boasting a panel of 14 skeptics to sift through the UFO "evidence"
supplied to Omni by its readers, its stated intention is: "finding
real world explanations for the UFO phenomenon...if we do not work
hard to find an explanation an ordinary explantion for each and every
case we look into, then our work has not been done" (Nov. '94, p.46).
Dismissing UFOs as our culture's latest mythology (!), Omni is taking
the position that UFO researchers tend to be "misguided enthusiasts,
psychopaths, and frauds" (Nov. '94, p.46).  This is part of a
disturbing trend I am seeing in many of the magazines which have
previously been a source of current, reliable information.

Stanton Friedman presented a lecture entitled Flying Saucers Real!
Although Friedman's oratory makes me dub him "The Rush Limbaugh of
Ufology", Bob Dean commended Friedman as being "one of the best" (
accurate ) researchers in the study of UFOs.  I arrived at the
lectures late, just as Friedman was blasting UFO debunkers like Carl
Sagan and Phil Klass as being "nasty, noisy negativists."  Friedman
says that their creed is: "You can't trust eyewitness testimony," and
that their public UFO information program is based on the 3 Basic
Rules For Debunkers:

    (1) Don't bother me with the facts my mind's already made up;
    (2) If you can't attack the data, then attack the people
        presenting them (it's a lot easier); and
    (3) What the public doesn't know: don't tell them.

   To help illustrate the concept of government cover up/suppressed
information, Friedman showed photocopies of formerly classified
documents the government provided him in response to his Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests.  Every word on these legal size pages
was deliberately blacked (except one page which showed 8 random
words).  These slides were quite a sight!  As further insult, the
government took months, sometimes years, to fill Friedman's FOIA
requests; the official turnaround time is 10 days.

   Friedman says he was a skeptic until he looked at the data, 36 years
ago.  "It's ok to stop being an Apologist Ufologist," he said, citing
studies which show that the greater one's level of education, the more
likely one is to believe in flying saucers.  Friedman pointed out that
10 Ph.D. theses have been written about UFOs.

   Friedman listed 4 "problems" which conspire to keep UFO information
relegated to the sensationalism of tabloid journalism if not
suppressed entirely:

    (1) Ignorance: the public's lack of awareness of the relevant
        data;
    (2) The "laughter curtain" (one's fear of ridicule): Friedman
        says that sightings are common but reports are not;

    (3) EGO: Friedman says that the "big shots" (i.e., journalists
        and astronomers) believe that extraterrestrial
        biological entities (EBEs) cannot exist because , if
        they did, then the EBEs would certainly have sought
        out these authorities to talk to;
    (4) Backwards Science: what has been observed cannot exist
        because we can't explain it according to our present
        technological models/vocabulary.

   Friedman thinks that UFOs originate in solar systems "in our local
neighborhood" (within 54 light years of Earth), and says he isn't
going to be bothered worrying about theories which claim that UFOs
originate in galaxies farther away.  His answer to the question "If
UFOs/EBEs are present, then why haven't they given us their secrets?"
is: "Our major activity is tribal warfare.  WHY would they WANT to
give us their secrets?"  Friedman believes that the public release of
UFO information, validated as "legitimate" by our authorities, will
move mankind beyond its divisive nationalisms and into an "Earthling"
orientation.  This, he says, is the best hope for our planet.  You can
contact Stanton Friedman at: 79 Pembroke Crescent, Fredricton, New
Brunswick E3B 2V1, Canada; [phone].

   Bob Dean , Retired Command Sergeant Major with SHAPE/NATO Mark Perk
introduced Bob Dean as the kind of man he wishes he'd had as a
grandfather.  Dean's lecture was entitled "Greatest Story Never Told
or, "the single most important issue in the history of the human race:
We are not alone and we have never been alone" from the beginning of
time.

   Quite a Reality challenging claim!  Dean stated that most of his
life had been spent as a professional soldier (i.e., in Special
Operations), which was the source of his access to highly classified
documents.  During his lecture, Dean frequently drank from his water
glass, joking that his mouth always gets dry when he violates his
National Security Oath.  In 1963, he was assigned to and served almost
5 years in Paris at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in
Europe (SHAPE the military arm of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization [NATO]), where he had the highest level possible security
clearance: Cosmic Top Secret.

   Before Dean's arrival at SHAPE, an event occurred in February 1961
which "almost triggered a shooting match" between the USA and Russia
(before each side realized that it was witnessing an unmatchable
technology).  Enormous numbers of circular objects flew in formation
over central Europe: flying from the Soviet zone, over the Warsaw Pact
sector, over France, Germany, the English Channel, and finally
disappearing over the Norwegian Sea.  The event was not singular,
however: such occurrences happened repeatedly during the late 1950s
and early 1960s.

   As a response to the February 1961 event, and because he was unable
to get information from either London or Washington DC about these
objects, Air Marshall Pike at SHAPE decided to conduct a 3 year, in
house study of the situation.  This Assessment would change Dean's
life forever.  (Dean is currently writing a book based on the notes he
drafted from the SHAPE document.)

   According to Dean's notes, the SHAPE Assessment told that several
extraterrestrial civilizations (which have technology hundreds, if not
thousands, of years ahead of our own) have been conducting a
massive/intensive study of the planet Earth and the entire human race.
The EBEs' program is still unfolding, and it has been going on,
possibly, for thousands of years.  The SHAPE Assessment indicated
that, while there did not appear to be a major military threat going
on, were the EBEs malevolent/hostile: there is/was absolutely nothing
we could do to protect ourselves.

   Dean said that the official numbers vary, but that at least 4
separate extraterrestrial civilizations are known to be involved in
this massive survey of Earth and its inhabitants (some researchers
believe that the number of alien species is over 12; others believe
that the number may be as high as 100 separate groups).  One of these
species looks exactly like we do.

   This realization unnerved some of the SHAPE generals, because such
a group of aliens could, if they desired, dress in Earthling clothes
and sit next to us in a restaurant/on an airplane we'd never know;
they could even walk down the corridors of SHAPE Headquarters, the
Pentagon, or the White House undetected.  Now other military agencies
(et.al.) are conducting their own on going studies which have been
given the highest level of classification: above Cosmic Top Secret.

   Dean stated that it was during the paranoia of the Cold War, 50
years ago, when military people decided that "the public could not
handle the truth" and, thus, settled on their policy to withhold their
UFO information from the public. It angers Dean that the Legislative
and Executive Branches of government, as well as the State Department,
were never among the "authorities" involved in this decision making
process.  Likening the UFO phenomenon to an ever changing
kaleidoscope, Dean stated that there is no single (scientific)
discipline to inform the public of what is happening.  Based on 30
years of study in the following fields: history/philosophy/
literature/mythology/theology/geology/anthropology/art/music/a few of
the hard sciences Dean developed a synthesis of what's happening in
the universe.

   He's concluded that the human race is a hybrid race which had been
seeded on this planet; mankind has been continually genetically
manipulated over hundreds of thousands of years (consult: the Sutras
of Divine Buddha, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran, and the Bible for
evidence of "the single golden thread which links us all together").
That genetic manipulation is still going on.


   Among the fascinating slides Dean presented (many of them acquired
through his military contacts), was a sequence of slides showing a
dark ring in the sky camouflaging itself with vapor/plasma and forming
a lenticular cloud.  Many witnesses have told Dean of watching such a
cloud leave the sky at a high rate of speed.  Dean says that
"literally earth shaking" worldwide events have been forcing the
release of UFO information to the public.  This UFO public awareness
program will speed up in the next 2 years.  Look for Showtime's made
cable movie, Roswell, to be released to the general theaters/all over
the world by mid next year.  More importantly, watch for TNT's UFO
special on October 1st; Larry King will be the host of this 2 hour
broadcast from the infamous Site 51/Groom Lake/Nellis Air Force Base.
Dean greets this greater openness about UFO information as great news,
stating that there are "other old codgers like me, all over the
country" who will decide to come forward to publicly share their
knowledge about UFOs before they die.  However, they require 2 things:

    (1) that Congress give them congressional immunity for
        violating their security oaths; and
    (2) that either the Senate or the House of Representatives
        conduct an open hearing televised on CSPAN.

   "The information out there": not only that withheld by the
government as "classified," but also that available in universities
and on public library shelves.  "I challenge you to inform
yourselves!"

  Bob Dean invites your correspondence: 2732 S. Gwain Place,Tucson AZ
85713.


   UFO Organizations Operation Right To Know (ORTK) is a small
organization (200 members worldwide) who have taken UFO issues into
the political arena.  This group advocates an end to UFO secrecy and
have demonstrated at key locations, including the White House, the
Pentagon, the United Nations, and the British Parliament.  They
encourage citizens to write their congressmen to support the efforts
of Representative Schiff in his initiation of the General Accounting
Office's (GAO's) investigation of the Roswell, New Mexico UFO cover
up.  ORTK can be contacted at: P.O. Box 3173, Gaithersburg, MD 20885.


   Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is a grassroots organization (5,000 members
worldwide) which holds local meetings in most states.  MUFON is
dedicated to the research and investigation of the UFO phenomenon and,
like ORTK, urges citizens to demand that their congressmen end UFO
secrecy.  MUFON can be contacted at: 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, TX
78155.

   Author's Addendum I If you are intrigued by the EBE information,
you may wish to read the witty, but deeply meaningful book: E.T. 101:
The Cosmic Instruction Manual An Emergency Remedial Edition , which is
available from its publisher: Intergalactic Council Publications, P.O.
Box 2066, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147.

Additionally, E.T. 101 , and an interesting booklet about symptoms (
I'm OK: I'm Just Transmuting ), are available from: ULC, Inc., P.O.
Box 959 #0432, Kihei HI 96752; [phone].


   UFO discussion groups are accessible on the Internet at the
following usenet addresses:

    (1) alt.paranet.ufo;
    (2) alt.alien.visitors;
    (3) alt.paranet.abduct;
    (4) alt.tv.x files.

   Addendum II My brother, Ken, sent me a bottle of wine and matching
coffee mug for my birthday.  This was not just a fine tasting wine*,
but something to satisfy my interest in UFOs!  The label and mug are
illustrated with a cigar shaped UFO sending a red ray over a French
vineyard.  The text reads: In 1954, the village council of Chateauneuf
Pape was quite perturbed and apprehensive that flying saucers or
"flying cigars" might do damage to their vineyards, were they to land
therein.  So, right thinking men all, they passed an ordinance
prohibiting the landing of flying saucers or flying cigars in their
vineyards.  (This ordinance has worked well in discouraging such
landings.)  The ordinance further states that any flying saucers or
flying cigars that did land were to be taken immediately to the pound.
The label further states: No woofer this wine, we feel rather that it
is quite a stellar accomplishment.  The composition of our Flying
Cigar is based on the traditional encepagement of Chateauneuf Pape.
It contains 72% Grenache, 25% Syrah, and 3% Mourvedre.  The wine
possesses a rich, soft velvety mouthfeel, true to type, with a
powerful, haunting bouquet of raspberry, pepper, anise, and earth.* Le
Cigare Volant ( The Flying Cigar ) wine, is produced and bottled by
Bonny Doon Vineyard, P.O. Box 8376, Santa Cruz, CA 95061; (408) 425
3625.  Besides selling coffee mugs and bottles of wine, they sell t
shirts, sweatshirts, and magnets.