UFO Disclosure’ Happening Again This Year

[ PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS ROBERT SHEAFFER Sheaffer’s “Psychic Vibrations” column has appeared in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER for forty years. His new book, Bad UFOs, is available through his blog, BadUFOs.com. His website is www.debunker.com.

‘UFO Disclosure’ Happening Again This Year

lot of UFO excitement has been don’t try to tell that to Podesta or other Naturally PRG does not and cannot stirred up this election year, UFO true believers; they won’t listen. guarantee a Disclosure event this year. However, in repeated inter- Amainly due to Hillary Clinton’s Steven Bassett is the executive di- views PRG has tried to convey just statements that if elected, she will rector of the Paradigm Research Group how close is that outcome and what release all of the government’s UFO- (PRG) based in suburban Washington, is driving the process . . . PRG never related documents (unless they DC. His organization regularly holds says ETs have met with world lead- compromise national security). Also, press conferences to tout its supposed ers. That has not been proven. PRG usually says it is possible and would her campaign manager, John Podesta, “UFO evidence,” such as that Citizens’ not be surprising and add it would be is a well-known, active UFO proponent Hearing on UFO Disclosure in 2013 a difficult post-Disclosure admission. (see this column, May/June 2016) and (http://goo.gl/LHUCRW). Bassett is (http://goo.gl/QdPoI3) the only registered “alien disclosure” Only those of us with long memories lobbyist in the United States. Interest- will recall the same “UFO disclosure” ingly, all other lobbyists in Washington excitement building during the election seem to be laboring on behalf of groups of 1976. Democratic candidate Jimmy The conspiracy believers that can be shown to exist. Carter had previously reported sighting doubled down on their Interviewed by the Daily Express at a UFO—Venus, I found upon investi- belief that great UFO its offices in London, Bassett told them: gation (see http://goo.gl/ZQphaz)— [UFO disclosure] will be a reality and he had casually promised to release secrets lie buried this year and across the front pages all the UFO files if elected. (Carter of newspapers across the world. The apparently did not realize that the Air somewhere in the most significant news story that has Force’s Project Blue Book UFO files government archives. ever been broken. …We are going to get disclosure this year. I am not sure had been released on microfilm a short who will win the election, but I think time earlier by President Ford.) When Obama will be the disclosure presi- Carter won the election but didn’t dent. He will be looking at a Nobel “disclose” anything about UFOs, the Prize for making an announcement conspiracy believers doubled down on like that. I am 85 percent sure Obama has even filed a Freedom of Information will make the announcement before their belief that great UFO secrets lie request concerning an alleged UFO he leaves office and within days your buried somewhere in the government crash in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, in Prime Minister David Cameron will archives—perhaps buried too deeply for follow. even the president to unearth! 1965. That “mystery” was solved long In light of this, it is time for a stroll ago: what was seen in Kecksburg (and However, almost as soon as the Ex- down memory lane to revisit a few ear- many other towns) was in fact the press piece came out on May 20, 2016, lier confident predictions of “UFO dis- well-documented Great Lakes Fireball Bassett was backtracking on that confi- closure.” A-10 jets like those whose flight with their bright formation lights on caused the first sighting. of December 9, 1965 (http://www. dent prediction. He wrote on his web- debunker.com/Kecksburg.html). But site: • “It is my analysis that the ending of the

16 Volume 40 Issue 5 | Skeptical Inquirer official government’s UFO cover-up Kean’s interview establishes that UFO capital of the state. Tiny Dulce, in began August 7, 1996. . . . We may Mellon has been a UFO believer since northern New Mexico just south of the expect further announcements related childhood: Colorado line, offers more extraordi- to UFOs and extraterrestrial life, I was about seven years old when I nary claims than Roswell: underground after the November 5 election.”— saw an old-fashioned amateur movie alien bases, lots of UFO sightings, mys- UFOlogist Dr. Richard Boylan taken by a friend of our school terious black helicopters, cattle mutila- • “Before the year is out, the Govern- principal. It showed a huge, golden tions, even Bigfoot. Plus, the alleged ment perhaps the President—is ex- disc-shaped object serenely moving Aztec flying saucer crash of 1948 is not through sunny, blue skies, passing pected to make what are described as through cumulous clouds in a man- too far away. In Dulce, the headquar- ‘unsettling disclosures’ about UFOs.” ner that would be very hard to fake. ters of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, you —U.S. News & World Report, April I have no idea what became of the can now buy alien-themed T-shirts and 18, 1977 movie, but it filled me with wonder even a “Sasquatch burger.” Tribal coun- • “We predict that by 1975 the gov- and awe. cil President Ty Vicenti urges visitors ernment will release definite proof to “talk to the many tribal members that extraterrestrials are watching who have firsthand contact with UFO us.”—Ralph and Judy Blum, in Be- sightings and stories” (http://goo.gl/ yond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs VRsQrM). (1974) Move over, Roswell— A “Dulce Base UFO Conference” • “The time is getting near when the was held at the Wildhorse Casino and U.S. Air Force will have to end there’s another Hotel in Dulce May 14–15, 2016. its longstanding tactic of conceal- New Mexico town UFO lecturers, including several Na- ment.”—Nationally syndicated col- vying to be the UFO tive Americans, regaled the audience umnist Roscoe Drummond, 1974 with tales of grey aliens and such. A • “FLYING SAUCERS—THE capital of the state. guided tour was offered of the rugged REAL STORY: U.S. BUILT Archuleta Mesa, using four-wheel drive FIRST ONE IN 1942. Jet-propelled vehicles. Directly below there is where disks can outfly other planes. . . . By the military base with the grey aliens choosing which [jet] nozzles to turn supposedly exists. According to con- on or off and the angle of tilt, the pilot spiracy writer John Thomas Didymus, could make the saucer rise or descend “The base, with multiple levels embed- vertically, hover, or fly straight ahead, A little investigation reveals that in ded deep underground, is the largest or make sharp turns . . . a big advance 2002, when Mellon was Deputy As- single Reptilian and Grey alien base in in the science of flying. . . . No offi- sistant Secretary of Defense for Intel- the world where alien technology re- cial announcements are being made ligence, he was “interested in pursuing verse-engineering projects are ongoing” yet, but about the only big secret left the use of paranormal phenomena for (see http://goo.gl/VzgvIR; he doesn’t is ‘who makes them.’ Evidence points threat scenario development and poten- tell us where the smaller alien bases are to Navy experiments.”—U.S. News & tially in a tip-off role for future terrorist located). So far as is known, nobody has World Report, April 7, 1950 actions” (http://goo.gl/RJFyO9). ever located the entrance to this sup- Unfortunately for “UFO disclosure” posedly massive underground complex. Now there is a new player in the advocates, what Mellon had to say to On March 28, 2009, the show government UFO game. He is Chris Kean on that subject was this: UFO Hunters on the History Channel Mellon, of whom UFO author Leslie did an episode concerning the alleged Kean wrote in the Huffington Post on I highly doubt DoD or any other government agency is concealing Dulce base and about alleged human/ May 9, 2016: UFO information. I participated in animal hybrid experiments supposedly For the first time, he has agreed to a comprehensive review of DoD’s occurring there. Then the show was speak publicly about his experiences black programs and spent over a suddenly canceled, even though it had within government as they relate to decade conducting oversight of the (reportedly) been enjoying good ratings. national foreign intelligence program, UFOs. . . . It is unusual for a man of In an interview with the famed mystery- Chris’s stature to speak openly about an almost totally separate world of UFOs, which gives his statements secrets. I visited Area 51 and other monger Whitley Strieber, Bill Birnes, great weight. His positions during military, intelligence and research the star of UFO Hunters, suggested the Clinton and Bush administra- facilities. During all those years, I that the series was canceled because tions involved high clearances; in never detected the faintest hint of the Dulce episode had “gone too far,” fact, there are few people who have government interest or involvement and the big businesses sponsoring in UFOs. enjoyed such deep and wide-ranging the History Channel wanted to keep access to compartmented programs * * * in both the Defense Department the lid on what is allegedly occurring (DoD) and the intelligence commu- Move over, Roswell—there’s another deep underground there (http://goo. ■ nity. (http://goo.gl/Tq0bS7) New Mexico town vying to be the gl/5hgw1m).

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