-Caveat Lector- [I'm no longer a real fan of CSETI, however, it *is* the best show [effort] "in town." The following, although a few years late by even their own prior estimates/time-lines, is well worth a scan! --MS] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <undisclosed-recipients: ;> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:10 PM Subject: (First take, Farley) Project Disclosure press event 5/9/01 From: Dick Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> National Affairs Correspondent The American UFO Newsletter Wednesday, May 9, 2001 -- Washington, DC Re: Project Disclosure Press Conference -- First Take To those interested, from whatever perspectives: References: <http://www.press.org> & <http://www.DisclosureProject.org> It is very important you and/or your associates take the time to view the webcast of Greer's press conference this morning. It's archived on National Press Club site, it was announced. I was there. (Actually I asked the last questions, of Dan Sheehan and Steven Greer. Sheehan answered his but Greer "didn't have time." Event over!) The event lasted two and a half hours; I do not know how much of it is archived. It is supposed to remain on the NPC site for six months, but you should watch it soon. I am told the Project Discovery (CSETI & Paradigm Research Group) site has it too. The event was held in the ballroom (13th Floor) of the National Press Club in Washington (14th and F. Streets, NW). While the room is available for rental by anyone, it costs less if rented through a Press Club member. According to the manager of catering for the NPC, the Project Disclosure event was booked by Ms. Sarah MacClendon, a now-90-ish veteran White House reporter who has been a thorn in the sides of many Presidents who sought to keep the American people in the dark about something Sarah believed we needed to know. This is important to consideration of the Project Disclosure event. It was well-connected, well-funded. There were references to Zero-Point Energy, anti-grav and other claims of technical advances some on this list are working on. You'll be happy to know you've already succeeded and that your technologies hold the keys to "stopping global warming" and "ending the energy crisis," among other benefits. Of course, the weaponization of space was a primary focus of the organizers (they're against it). But the real stars were the retired military officers and FAA officials, who are agreeing to testify before a Congressional committee if one can be prodded into holding open hearings on it. One area of advance hype that did not happen were appearances via video tape of former astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper. No mention was made of this and there was no video tape shown. The 21 "in person" witnesses each made a five-minute or less presentation, the majority of which were coherent and persuasive. As I am not given to hyperbole, and whatever one thinks about Greer and his gig, I do have to report that the event itself was professionally run and very well received. There is material now "out there" for intelligent public discussion of UFOs and ET,s and if there are some on this list concerned about efforts to "start up a new religion" for the Technocratic Age, do fasten your seat belts, because here it comes! Now! Greer referred (without attribution) to Arthur Clarke's characterization of this time as "the end of humanity's childhood." I will leave it to you to see the event on the web. What Greer & Company have formed is something I have called in the past a "nontraditional alliance," of former military folks who are decidedly conservative patriots working alongside abject "liberals" like Daniel Sheehan, who did legal work for the New York Times on the Pentagon Papers case and later was involved in the Karen Silkwood case (about Kerr-McGee's nuclear operations for DoE, in Texas, etc.). It is a fascinating mix and again, well worth personal review & analysis by each of you. It had an impressive array of witness (21 present in the flesh), many with solid and public credentials. For the first time, some "official" folks having UFO sightings or knowledge are saying, in front of (a bank of 12-plus TV cameras and "real" press) that they will testify before Congress. This is one initiative the "Majestic-12" gang will find it impossible to ignore, and with Rumsfeld-Bush space policies up for review, it will be along lines of opening up "black budget" projects where Congress will dig. Again, regardless of one's perspective or bias about the "players," today's event is singularly important because it's the best executed such initiative we've ever had. I have my own views, of course, about some of what was said. And no, I am NOT "drinking the Kool-Aid" (none was served). But rather than burn up the Internet with chaff and hearsay, this one is worth you science guys and others on-list tuning in. More later and I certainly will respond to questions and to clarify "hearsay," etc. It is important that this effort not degenerate into simply more disinformation and angry invective, personal attacks and accusations. Kudos to Greer and Steve Bassett for a program well-conducted. As to "what it all means," what other motives or agendas are in play here, that will take months to gauge. Some of the "usual suspects" were present, of course, from the "Retail UFOlogy of Usual Kind" cadres, no doubt to find and amplify the weakest links or wildest tales, to again try and derail the campaign. But it won't work this time around. As Greer noted, today's event is the start of "a process" My sense is THIS disclosure initiative is getting support from official, if not necessarily "political," levels in the government and military, with an eye toward perhaps "cleaning up" bad secrets from the Cold War corroding public confidence. There no doubt are elements of the "Matrix of UFO Beliefs" this particular group is not interested in addressing (at least publicly), such as "mind control" allegations or "angelic/demonic" interpretations of alien abductions, "hybridization" suspicions or the ultimate intentions of the "visiting others." The mood expressed by principles of the organizing entities (sorry, couldn't resist ;-) is decidedly "peaceful surrender" to the "aliens," as Greer's rationale (as he expressed it during the Q. & A. period) is that if "they" wanted to harm us they already would have, given our bad treatment of them over the years. And Greer, Sheehan and others are, of course, of the "belief" that disclosure of what they are certain is at the heart of the UFO "cover-up" will be a planetary unification stimulus, which Greer and obviously his backers clearly favor. But for the present, Steven and his allies are focusing on the "real sightings" of an unexplained kind, letting the retired military and aviation officials "break trail" on it. I'm waiting to gauge the media penetration, "spin" and any counterattacks before I weigh in with analysis or "local color." But I am glad I went in person, and I had an opportunity to interview a number of the witnesses one-on-one, without intervention or spinning by the organizers. Let's see how the fallout and counterattacks by those who do not favor "UFO disclosure" or "space demilitarization" takes shape. Later! If it's real, it has a politics. Once "disclosure" happens, the real debates begin! Regards, Dick Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> National Affairs Correspondent The American UFO Newsletter Washington, DC USA Copyright 2001 by C. Richard Farley, Jr. (Permission granted to reprint or repost this in its entirety, with no editing or interspersed commentary, and not for commercial gain without permission.) 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