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From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:40:02 -0800 |
See first press release at:
http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/apr/d02-001.shtml
See this page for info on McClendon's background:
http://observer.soc.american.edu/403kz.htm
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From: ParadigmRG@aol.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:34:44 EDT
Subject: Pressure Building for Congressional Hearings on UFOs
202-483-3791 McClendon News Service, Inc. Fax: 202-328-1818
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July 1, 1998
Pressure Building for Congressional Hearings on UFOs
From: Sarah McClendon
White House Correspondent
Washington, D.C.óPressure is building up for Congress to give attention to
the controversy over unidentified flying objects. With scientists from
Stanford, MIT, Cornell, Princeton and elsewhere studying UFO evidence, the
controversy is now being brought out into the open and heavy secrecy
surrounding the subject is being lifted. Seminars on UFO evidence are being
held periodically throughout the country with laymen discussing the evidence
without fear of being ridiculed.
When about 30 members of Congress or their staff heard a briefing on UFOs in
April of 1997, Rep. Dan Burton, R., Ind. chairman of the Government Reform and
Oversight Committee, displayed some interest in the matter. His committee has
received a number of letters on the subject, according to staff member Matthew
Ebert. ìThese letters are treated seriously,î he said. Ebert thinks there
is a possibility congressional hearings will be held.
At a May 11 hearing on human rights documents pertaining to Guatemala and
Honduras held by the House subcommittee on Government Management, Information
and Technology, its chairman Rep. Steve Horn, R. CA, asked how the government
classifies UFO documents. The two witnesses, Lee Strickland, chief of the
Information Review Group of the Central Intelligence Agency and Steven
Garfinkle, director of the Security and Oversight Group of the National
Archives, both said they thought UFO documents should be considered as public
information.
There may be economic benefits from this emerging information. Dr. Steven
Greer, an emergency room physician, who for eight years has briefed and been
briefed by government and U.N. officials on the subject of unidentified
objects in U.S. airspace, is convinced that the materials and technology of
UFOs carry enormous benefits. For example, he says their energy creating
apparatus does not use internal combustion.
Greer asserts the financial and environmental cost of exploiting oil and gas
to service 6 billion people worldwide can be dramatically reduced. Large
scale energy production derived from UFO technology would reverse
environmental damage and save hundreds of billions of dollars annually in
direct costs.
Dr. Greer is the International Director of the Center for the Study of
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and leads a working team of around 200 composed
of CSETI members and associates, government employee witnesses, consultants
and government contacts. Their hope is to get congress to hold hearings and
take testimony from witnesses. He has explained his conclusions to a number
of congressional members.
A national petition utilizing the internet and calling for congressional
hearings was launched last year by another group, Stargate International out
of Tucson, Arizona. It has accumulated 20,000+ names to be presented to
congress. A million signatures are sought.
Greer is aware that many employees of the government keep secret facts which
they have obtained about UFOs. He feels it is unconstitutional for government
to bottle up information on this importance. He would like to see UFOís
openly discussed and covered widely in the press.
For some years the belief has been widespread there is in the public domain a
presidential executive order forbidding government employees from talking
about UFOs. Dr. Greer is not aware of any such an executive order but
indicated concern that secret executive orders have been issued and not
disclosed to Congress or the public. Such secret orders would make it
difficult for people to learn more about UFOs. From the White House it was
learned that a check of executive orders going back to the early eighteen
thirties shows none has been issued on this subject. Surprising is the
growing number of citizens showing an interest in finding out more about UFOs.
Seminars are being held around the country every week with as many as five and
six hundred in attendance.
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