Announced it at the beginning of the current broadcast... should be on in a few minutes... posting here so any interested won't miss...

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

Answers

That was better than the Fox coverage, they controlled their sarcasm.... basically made it sound credible, and even went as far as to inquire with the Senate Science committe to see if they were going to have hearings, but the response was "none scheduled at this time"

Some good pictures, comments about FAA and CIA docs to support the claims, and again, mentioned several times that these folks were military, gov, and FAA types...

Will be interesting to see how this plays later tonight in prime time and see what sort of turnout they have tomorrow for their invitation to the congressional members for that presentation...

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

FOX News

Men in Suits See Aliens as Part of Solution, Not Problem

WASHINGTON — A group of 21 former military and government officials told a packed house at the National Press Club stories worthy of a whole episode of the The X Files Wednesday.

These men in suits spoke of high-speed saucers, crashed ships, alien bodies and conspiracies of silence. The eyewitnesses came forward at the behest of the Disclosure Project, a non-profit research group dedicated, as head Steven Greer says, to "working to fully disclose the facts about UFO's, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems."

Since December, Greer has deposed more than 100 witnesses and logged over 120 hours of tape in his search for proof that aliens are, or have been, among us. He brought with him four hours of video tape and a parade of former Air Force, Army, and Navy officers and air traffic controllers who swore up and down they had seen things.

Prepared for the public humiliation often cast upon people who claim to have seen aliens, they related stories of lights on the horizon and objects in the sky that would sit idly for a few minutes before taking off at speeds unattainable by human aircraft.

"We went down from 30,000 feet to 1,000 feet where the UFO was hovering and went into a steep dive and actually exceeded the red line of the aircraft, so it's kind of dangerous chasing UFOs," said retired Air Force intelligence officer George Filer. "Any case, I was able to get the UFO on the aircraft radar at about 40 miles, and you could see a light out in the distance. And as we closed, we kept on picking up this radar return."

Sgt. Clifford Stone, a retired U.S. Army officer said, "We've told the American people that there's no such thing as UFOs...I've been involved where we have recovered these objects. We know them to be of extra-terrestrials.

"I was involved in situations where we actually did recoveries of crashed saucers, for a lack of a better term, and debris thereof," Stone said. "There were bodies that were involved with some of these crashes, also some were alive. While we were doing all this, we were telling the American public there was nothing to it."

Nearly all of the men's experiences happened while they were working for the military during the 1960's and '70's. They told of standing orders they uniformly received -- report their experiences to NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, never write anything down, and pretend it hadn't happened.

Greer said the group wants Congress to hold hearings on the prevalence of UFOs.

"We can prove through the testimony and documents that we will be presenting that this subject has been hidden from members of Congress and at least two administrations that we are aware of, two presidential administrations," he said.

But Air Force spokeswoman Gloria Cales said the stories Greer is trotting out are not true. In Operation Blue Book, the Air Force studied 12,618 reported UFO sightings between 1947-1969 and found plausible explanations for all but 701 of them. And of those 701, she insists, there is no evidence that they were extra-terrestrial in nature.

Greer said that since the aliens aren't hostile, there's no harm in recognizing the evidence, unless, of course, it means scrapping plans "to weaponize space," something aliens apparently oppose.

Greer said there's another reason to be up front about the phenomenon.

"Technologies connected to UFOs and extra-terrestrial vehicles, if declassified and used for peaceful energy generation and propulsion, would solve the looming energy crisis definitively, would end global warming, would correct the environmental challenges that the earth is facing," he said.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

Nothing on CBS evening news (Blather.)

Which two presidential administrations didn't know (and by inference which ones did)?

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

Listening to the disclosure tapes now, fascinating... Fox covered it again, made a comment that someone at the pentagon mentioned several of the folks today may have been in violation of their security oaths... curiouser and curiouser....

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

From ABCNEWS.go.com Link

UFOs, Aliens and Secrets

Former Government Employees Say It’s Time to Reveal Evidence

May 9 — They're out there — and the government knows.

That's according to a group of about 20 former government workers, many of them military and security officials, who stepped forward today to say they had witnessed evidence of aliens and unidentified flying objects and called for congressional hearings about such sightings. "These testimonies establish once and for all that we are not alone," said Steven Greer, director of the Disclosure Project, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to disclosing alleged alien sightings.

Greer, who organized the program at the National Press Club in Washington, argued that the United States and other governments have known about UFOs for at least 50 years and have been keeping the information secret.

Greer said there were some 400 witnesses who claim to have firsthand experience with UFO sightings or alien evidence, and are willing to testify before Congress.

Among them is Daniel Sheehan, a well-known Washington lawyer who today acted as counsel for members of Greer's group.

Sheehan told reporters that during the Carter administration he found out about government-held UFO information that then-CIA Director George Bush, father of the current president, would not release.

Sheehan said he was then led into the National Archives where he was shown photographs of captured UFOs, complete with what appeared to be alien writing symbols, but he was only allowed to take notes on a yellow legal pad. He traced the photos onto the cardboard back of his pad, he said.

Military Denies UFOs

The U.S. government repeatedly has denied having any evidence of alien species, though it investigated the possibility for decades.

The Air Force was responsible for investigating alleged sightings for the military. From 1947 to 1969, the service's Project Blue Book at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, investigated 12,618 reported sightings. It said it found explanations for all but 701, such as swamp gas, airplane lights, weather balloons and other natural phenomena.

Sightings for which explanations couldn't be determined were categorized as sketchy reports that couldn't be pinned down.

In 1997, the Air Force announced it was formally closing its nearly 50-year investigation into the alleged alien sighting at Roswell, N.M. It denied that there was evidence of a UFO at Roswell and that the military covered it up.

"Information obtained through exhaustive records searches and interviews indicated the material recovered near Roswell was consistent with a balloon device of the type used in a then- classified project," said a Pentagon statement. "No records indicated, or even hinted at, the recovery of 'alien' bodies or extraterrestrial materials."

Alien Energy?

In another statement today, Donna Hare, a former NASA contract employee, said that Apollo astronauts saw an alien craft when they landed on the moon, but were told not to reveal it. Hare's source was a man who had been quarantined with the astronauts.

Former Air Force Maj. George Filer III told reporters that when he was at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, an alien craft came down, and an alien got out and was shot by a military policeman.

"Our security police went out there and found him at the end of the runway dead, Filer said.

"They asked me to brief the general staff," he said, but was later told not to.He said he would tell the story in front of Congress.

Greer said extraterrestrials could provide a new, plentiful source of energy that would provide the world's energy needs.

Information from alien encounters, said Greer, could also have significant impact on the global environment and the quest for world peace.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

Finally finished watching the whole thing disclosure broadcast... fascinating stuff....

The theme seemed to be, "call us out, we've got the goods.."

Hope somebody in power takes them up on it :)

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001