An event with possible historical implications regarding disclosure of extraterrestrial life is being held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this week.
The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (CHD) is currently being held in Washington, D.C. Witnesses, including researchers and former military personnel, are testifying for 30 hours over a period of five days (April 30 through May 3) before former members of Congress.
Citizen Hearing on Disclosure organizer Stephen Bassett wants to send a message to both the mainstream media and Congress. “The message to Congress is it’s time to investigate this issue again and it’s time for the media to realize this is the greatest news story of all time. I believe we have a definite, measurable chance of achieving, sometime this year, the President of the United States going before the American people and finally acknowledging that the phenomena we have been experiencing for at least the last 65 years is, in fact, being generated by an extraterrestrial nonhuman intelligence engaging the planet Earth.”
The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure hopes “to accomplish what the Congress has failed to do for forty-five years—seek out the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time.” It has been 45 years since any official Congressional hearing on the topic, and for that reason, the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure group has adopted the motto, “If the Congress won’t do its job, the people will.”
The entire event is being Webcast live in both English and Spanish, and is available by subscription (Subscribe here). Subscribers can access the entire broadcast for only $3.80, which also includes evening lectures by expert witnesses. Additionally, archives will be available sometime later in May.
Witnesses include some of the top researchers in ufology as well as members of associated agencies, politicians, and the military. A few of the more well-known names include: Stephen Bassett (CHD Organizer), Grant Cameron, Richard Dolan, Lt. Col. Richard French (USAF, ret.), Stanton Friedman, Steven M. Greer, M.D., Paul Hellyer (Canada), Linda Moulton Howe, Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr., MD, Denice Marcel, Jesse Marcel, III, Dr. Edgar Mitchell (NASA, Capt. USN ret., former Apollo 14 astronaut), Nick Pope (UK), Lt. Col. Kevin Randle (USAF, ret.), and Don Schmitt.
Committee members include former Senator Mike Gravel (D/Lib-AK), former Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), former Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), former Congresswoman Darlene Hooley (D-OR), former Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), and former Congressman Merrill Cook (R-UT).
Thus far, some of the most compelling testimony offered came from former U.S. Air Force Captains Robert Salas, Bruce Fenstermacher, David Schindele, and Sgt. David Scott, who gave “first-hand accounts of the shutting down of ballistic missiles by unknown craft hovering over nuclear launch sites in the United States.” Following their testimony, a number of committee members called for formal Congressional hearings into these incidents.
In comments made to the Huffington Post, former Senator Mike Gravel commented that he doesn’t “think ET is the best word” to describe unidentified sightings. He does, however, admit that “worldwide, there’s thousands and thousands of sightings. Some of them may be hallucinatory, but under close examination, there are real sightings. There’s something that we don’t know of.”
“Having been opposed and fighting, all of my public career, the military industrial complex and the fact that we have excessive secrecy, just does a disservice to the people when you have the military that feels this stuff has got to be secret and they won’t open their files.”
International spokesperson for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure and former Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell agrees. Mitchell believes the Earth has been and is still being visited by extraterrestrials, and he’s hoping the CHD will end the cover-up surrounding UFOs and ETs.
Based on a statement issued by the White House on November 4, 2011, however, disclosure may not come easily.
“The U.S. Government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.”
Are we alone in the universe, and will these hearings bring us closer to disclosure? Consider this statement from Colonel Joseph J. Bryan III, Founder of the CIA’s Psychological Warfare Staff, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Advisor to NATO, and Board Member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon (NICAP): “Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still officially being withheld.”
For more information on disclosure, please visit http://www.citizenhearing.org/.
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