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Download Academic & Civilian Ufological Community's Response The International Academic & Civilian UFOlogical Community’s Response to the Pentagon, US Government, & UAP Task Force (UAPTF) A Multi-Metropolitan International Press Conference August 21st, 2021 Organized by Yann Vadnais1 & Ananda Bosman2 PARIS 7 PM MONTREAL 1 PM VANCOUVER 10 AM Other cities… … … … AUSTRALIA BELGIUM BRASIL CANADA FRANCE GERMANY NETHERLANDS ITALY LA RÉUNION NORWAY RUSSIA SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES 1 Garpan.ca organizer of the “2nd Academic Conference on Canadian UFOlogy,” October 27-28, 2018 2 Anandabosman.com, organizer of “JFK & the Alien Presence” Press Conference, Copenhagen, January 1991 1 Synopsis Following the announcement December 2020, via the Congressional NDAA Bill, that the Government of the United States of America has ordered the Pentagon to reveal their classified UFO files through all branches of government, military, and intelligence, over the next 180 days (June 2021) — so too has the International Academic and Civilian UFOlogical Community chosen to gather and express itself on the matter of UFOs/UAPs, and to independently evaluate the contents of the Pentagon/DoD release, along with related relevant research and observations, to voice an independent opinion, for critical review. There are at least three groups of UFOlogy, with many sub-groups. Each one having a different spectrum of research as well as different sets of theories and hypotheses: 1. One studies the possibility of extraterrestrial life, genetic and cultural interventions on Earth, that may include communication protocols, contact experiences, and reverse engineering of technologies, following the Extraterrestrial Hypotheses (ETH) 2. Another, which is represented by civilian investigators and scientific researchers in UFOlogy, studies the anthropological experience behind the millions of known cases, and is also confronted by the highly interesting, yet unresolved, unknown phenomenon effecting the consciousness of the witnesses, the environmental context and the spatiotemporal field of information. Some of The International Academic & Civilian UFOlogical Community’s 2 Response to the Pentagon, US Government, & UAP Task Force (UAPTF) August 21st, 2021 Version of July 4th, 2021 2 this second group, may be inclined towards the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis 3 , Interdimensional Hypothesis4, or Superintelligence Hypothesis5 3. A third one is a strictly military UFOlogy that postulates that foreign nations may covertly possess unacknowledged unconventional technologies that may be used for future wargame scenarios, and that have exotic technology that exhibits the behavior of many UFOs. Naturally a combination of factors always remains open for consideration, as evidence accrues. As the subject of UFOs is ever growing in cultural popularity (and too often reduced and characterized as “alien visitors” and sci-fi-like “alien space-craft”), on the other hand, the U.S. Department of Defense’s disclosure of UAP intelligence could become an 3 The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science-and-technology/technology/aviation-general/ufo has gone a long way since researcher John Keel introduced the term, in the negative. It may also include time travelers from our future, parallel universes, the Shadow Biosphere of recent modern physics, time packets and bubbles on planet earth, break away civilizations from Earth, that have remained covert, under the ocean, or in solar system colonies, and any stackable relative, akin. 4 ITH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional_hypothesis 5 The Superintelligence Hypothesis, is outlined in these two ExopoliticsTV presentations (Vancouver): Superintelligence Part I: The Ontology of the UFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjED_8_RgIE Superintelligence part II: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KOa8hBUoeSs&feature=youtu.be And on UFOMeetup Vancouver : ”The Ontology of the UFO & the Superintelligence Behind the UFO Contact Experience”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvGshxDIIyQ The Superintelligence Hypothesis is also explored in our book: “All Is God”: https://www.amazon.com/All-God-Ananda-Bosman- ebook/dp/B082P58BBF/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=All+Is+God&qid=1625279612&sr=8-2 The International Academic & Civilian UFOlogical Community’s 3 Response to the Pentagon, US Government, & UAP Task Force (UAPTF) August 21st, 2021 Version of July 4th, 2021 3 important consideration for the mass public reception of the overall phenomena associated to UFOs in general. Consequently the International Academic and Civilian UFOlogical Community has a duty to voice its research findings, relay its stances, research criteria, and research data of this enigmatic phenomenon, in order to coordinate the coherent integration of the results into scientific discourses, and related transdisciplinary fields of heuristic exploration, in advancing our comprehension, in innovating this field of research, now in central focus of the world stage, as an independent voice of free information on the UFO/UAP phenomenon. Media contact & registration: [email protected] Deadline to send the pre-recorded presentations: August 12th, 2021 The International Academic & Civilian UFOlogical Community’s 4 Response to the Pentagon, US Government, & UAP Task Force (UAPTF) August 21st, 2021 Version of July 4th, 2021 4 Participants (In black: confirmed; in green: invited, but not yet confirmed) International Dialogues with the Ananda Bosman Cosmos — Superintelligence Australia -- Paul Dean Belgium COBEPS __________ Canada Canadian UFO Survey Chris Rutkowski UFO*BC Dr Richard T. Shag Harbour Society Chris Styles GARPAN Yann Vadnais Exopolitics.com Alfred Lambremont ExopoliticsTV Webre Zlandcommunications Victor Viggiani France SCEAU ___________ GETI José Bouillon Flying Saucer France Jean Librero LDLN Jean-Louis Lagneau Germany Exopolitik.de Robert Flescher Netherlands UAP Reporting Philippe Ailleris Italy CUN _____________ The International Academic & Civilian UFOlogical Community’s 5 Response to the Pentagon, US Government, & UAP Task Force (UAPTF) August 21st, 2021 Version of July 4th, 2021 5 CISU Edouardo Russo La Réunion -- Dr Manuel Wiroth Norway Hessdalen Project Dr Erling Strand University of Trondheim Dr Stein Eric Johensen Russia -- ____________ Vicente Ballester Spain FOTOCAT Project Olmos Sweden Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) Clas Svahn Switzerland -- Fabrice Bonvin United Kingdom BUFORA ____________ -- Francis Milburn United States Sign Historical Group Jan Aldrich MUFON _____________ Stardrive.org Dr Jack Sarfetti To the Stars… Academy of Arts and Sciences ____________ NARCAP Richard Haines -- Bruce Maccabee Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) ____________ The International Academic & Civilian UFOlogical Community’s 6 Response to the Pentagon, US Government, & UAP Task Force (UAPTF) August 21st, 2021 Version of July 4th, 2021 6 -- ____________ -- ____________ Media Partners Canada ____________ _____________ Exopolitics.com Alfred Lambremont Webre Zlandcommunications Victor Viggiani Zone Parallèle (96.9 Carole Lauzé et Steve Zuniga FM)6 France BTLV7 Bob Bellanca & co. LDLN8 (magazine) Jean-Louis Lagneau United States Ars Technica … … … Other science blogs and sites 6 https://969fm.ca/emissions/zone-parallele 7 https://www.btlv.fr/ 8 http://www.ldlnufologie.com/ The International Academic & Civilian UFOlogical Community’s 7 Response to the Pentagon, US Government, & UAP Task Force (UAPTF) August 21st, 2021 Version of July 4th, 2021 7 Participation Each participant pre-records a four-six minutes video, and redacts a transcript of his discourse. (To be submitted before August 12th) * Note that if there is any delay in the announcement by the US Military or the US Government, this event will be postponed to Autumn 2021. The participants need to have enough time to receive and research the data that will be available, and to formulate a well thought out speech. We will officially announce the venue of our event (or postpone) on July 1st. The day of the event, a multi-metropolitan Press Conference will be held LIVE from: 1) MONTREAL, CANADA (in French and English); 2) VANCOUVER, CANADA (in English); At the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, V6Z 2W3; 3) PARIS, FRANCE (in French); On the BTLV9 channel, followed by a special show animated by Bob Bellanca; 4) ________, _BRASIL_______ (in …); 9 https://www.btlv.fr/ The International Academic & Civilian UFOlogical Community’s 8 Response to the Pentagon, US Government, & UAP Task Force (UAPTF) August 21st, 2021 Version of July 4th, 2021 8 At the… 5) _________, _______ (in … ). Each metropolitan Press Conference will start with the montage of the presentations (90 min). A document including all the written declarations of the participants will be available to the journalists and to the public. Each metropolitan Press Conference will then proceed to answer the journalists present at their location, in their own language. After thirty minutes, the organizers in Montreal will visit the other metropolitan Press Conferences to allow international journalists to interact with the participants in other countries. The participants, who won’t be able to be at one of the Press Conferences, will be able to answer journalists from their home (by Zoom). The distribution and coordination of the main online event will be handled by Steve Zuniga (Technical Director of the GARPAN), who will be at our office in Quebec City, broadcasting via two high-speed connections. One week after the event, a montage with extracts
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