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1ST
ANNUAL LEEDS EXOPOLITICS EXPO
SATURDAY 27TH
JUNE, 2009
LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, UK
For years, Graham Birdsall’s
UFO Magazine held conferences at Leeds Metropolitan University,
bringing some of the top researchers in the
field from around the world. After Graham died
in 2003, Russel Callaghan, Michael Buckley and
Philip Mantle brought out
UFO DATA
Magazine and held annual conferences, with
the 2005 and 2006 events being held at the Leeds
Rhinos rugby club. Since then, no major UFO
conference has had a stage in West Yorkshire’s
largest city.
Until now.
He gave an overview to the exopolitics movement,
both here and abroad, announcing that there was
going to be a big exopolitics conference in
Barcelona in July. Details of this event can be
found at
http://www.exopoliticseurope.com/
He also spoke briefly about the Disclosure Project
and SETI, asking how much evidence is enough and
which evidence is acceptable or the most likely
to be accepted by the scientific community. Are
the so-called implants removed by researchers
such as Dr Roger Leir not acceptable as good
evidence? What about the good, well-documented
cases of UFOs interfering with the world’s
military forces, such as the famous Malmstrom
Incident, when nuclear missiles were rendered
inactive by UFOs in 1967? Or the Rendlesham
Forest Incident of 1980?
What about trace evidence? Unexplained marks left on
the ground, radar traces or even Betty Hill’s
dress, which had some strange, biological
residue found on it after her abduction
experience.
What about the accounts of abductees, contactees or
experiencers, such as Barney and Betty Hill’s
encounter in 1961? Should they all be dismissed?
Can researchers into ‘Free Energy’ push forward our
understanding of how extraterrestrial craft may
operate? David spoke of the work of John Searl,
an English engineer who has developed the Levity
Disc and the Searl Effect Generator (see his
website for more details at
http://www.searlsolution.com)
What about government witnesses and whistleblowers?
Many of these have come forward through the
Disclosure Project. Why are they still not taken
seriously by the world-at-large?
Does the worldwide UFO cover-up prove that something
is going on? Why cover-up something that ‘does
not exist’?
1947 saw the dawn of the modern age of ufology. It
had Kenneth Arnold’s sighting, the Roswell
Incident and the Maury Island Incident. It saw
the birth of the CIA and the implementation of
the US National Security Act. What was so
special about that year?
David called for activists to push for UFO
disclosure and to spread information about the
subject as much as possible. He reminded us of
the plight of Gary McKinnon, who still faces
extradition to the United States and a life-term
in prison for allegedly causing damage to the US
military computer network, an accusation he
strenuously denies. Gary says he was looking for
evidence of UFOs and free energy research.
David closed by mentioning the weaponisation of
space, something that Wernher von Braun warned
about many years ago. Is this technology used to
police the Earth or to defend us from external
attack?
On this sobering note, David introduced the first
speaker,
Andrew Johnson.
Andrew’s topic was Wilbert Brockhouse Smith, a name
that might not be familiar. Smith was an
engineer employed by the Canadian government for
many years, working for the Department of
Transport (DoT) in a research capacity from 1939
until his death in 1962. Smith’s contemporaries
included the likes of Kenneth Arnold, Donald
Keyhoe, Betty and Barney Hill, George Adamski
and Frank Edwards.
Born in 1910, Smith was only 52 years old when bowel
cancer took him in 1962. By that time he held 37
patents. During his time at the DoT, he mainly
researched the Earth’s ionosphere, but his real
calling was investigating UFOs.
A top secret memo, written by Smith and dating from
1952 was found by Nick Balaskas in the archives
of the University of Ottowa. It stated that ‘The
matter [referring to UFOs] is the most highly
classified subject in the United States
Government, rating higher than even the H-bomb’
and that ‘Flying saucers exist’.
A US Defense Department physicist, Robert Sarbacher,
met with Smith in 1950 and gave him the details
of how highly UFOs are classified by the United
States. Sarbacher himself confirmed the meeting
during an interview with Stanton Friedman in
1983.
Smith held many files concerning UFOs and he left
instructions that they were to be hidden in the
event of his death. There were several break-ins
at his home after his death, but if ‘they’ were
after his files, they were not found. The files
eventually passed to Arthur Bray, who held them
for twenty years.
In 1952, Smith received funding to begin Project
Magnet. Officially, this endeavour was to
research the Earth’s magnetic fields, but
Smith’s real ambition was to use their equipment
to find UFOs. A station was set up in Shirley’s
Bay, some 20 miles from Ottowa and the project
ran until 1954.
After years of looking at straight lines on their
recording equipment, suddenly, on August 8th,
1954, they got a hit, a definite gravimetric
variation. Two days later, the project was
closed down. Although Magnet received no more
funding from the Canadian government, Smith was
allowed to use the Shirley’s Bay facilities on
his own time and he did so until his death in
1962.
Project Magnet was finally declassified in 1979 and
its files tell us that there was a 91%
probability that UFOs were real objects and that
there was a 60% chance that they were
extraterrestrial in origin.
Andrew told us that in the 1950s and until just
after Smith’s death, the Canadian government
spoke positively about Project Magnet, but
later, for some reason, they began denying even
its existence. Wilbert Smith was very open about his interest in UFOs and met or corresponded with many eyewitnesses and contactees. One of these was Frances Swan.
Mrs Swan was a contactee who lived only a short
distance from Barney and Betty Hill, in Eliot,
Maine. Frances was ‘involved’ with the US
government about ‘satellites’ that had appeared
90,000 feet above Washington DC in 1953/54. She
claimed they were alien spacecraft and that she
was in contact with their leader, Affa, and had
been for several years. This was three years
before the Soviets launched Sputnik I in 1957.
At one point, the FBI investigated Mrs Swan and
a document relating to this can be found at
http://www.presidentialufo.com/swanfbi.htm
In 1959, Smith was conducting a gravity control
experiment in his lab, when he received a
telephone call from a blind telex operator in
Ottowa. The operator said that he had a message
from Affa, stating that the experiment needed to
be shielded. Smith built a brick wall around his
experiment and on the next run, it promptly blew
up.
Smith also had contact with another
extraterrestrial, through an anonymous
intermediary, names Tyla. Tyla described himself
as a ‘garbage collector’. He was responsible for
‘cleaning up’ after nuclear tests and claimed
that UFOs often went in after such blasts to
clean up the area. Smith stated in 1958: “He
gathers up this material, does something to it
on board the craft, what we don't know, but it
renders it reasonably inert. And then once a
year or thereabouts (it takes about a year to
process the material), he dumps it in some
rather secluded spot. In, I think about 1947,
the November or December issue of
Time
magazine had a picture of Tyla's craft dumping
this material out over the American desert.”
One of the aims of Project Magnet was to find out if
energy could be extracted from the Earth’s
magnetic field. This would be a form of free
energy, as the Earth’s magnetic field is
constantly being renewed from within. Smith
developed a ‘magnetic sink’, which could collect
energy from the magnetic field. He claimed the
‘the Boys Topside’ (the aliens) had given his
group the information necessary to construct
this hardware. He also developed the ‘binding
meter’, which was designed to measure the
binding force of materials, the ‘caduceus coil’,
which could absorb specific energies at certain
frequencies with no leakage whatsoever. Smith
described it thus: “The info, which we got from
the boys topside was that we were making tenser
energy, which is a sixth-dimensional radio wave,
and is the type of energy they use extensively
for radio communications, transmission of power
and for pushing and pulling. In fact they use it
for just about everything that we could think
of. We were not able to control this energy; we
could just make it. We are hoping that later on
we will be able to learn how to do it, but at
the present time we are not just smart enough.”
Smith was certain that gravity could be manipulated
by adjusting magnetic fields and he and his team
experimented with this many times.
Wilbert Smith also claimed to have handled pieces of
UFO hardware many times, recovered either from
crashes or military encounters. His son, Jim,
also says he has held at least one piece of UFO
material.
Smith, according to his son, also claimed to have personally
viewed alien bodies, being personally invited by
the US military. The descriptions he gave are
reminiscent of what we call the Greys. He says
that he only saw them for a matter of minutes.
Smith felt that it was pointless debating the
reality of the UFO phenomenon. He
knew
that UFOs were real. What interested him was the
meaning of the UFO enigma.
Towards the end of his life, Smith felt that the key
to understanding UFOs lie in the realm of
metaphysics and he began research towards this.
Unfortunately, he was unable to finish it before
his death in 1962.
Andrew then played an audio clip of Smith’s 1958
address in Ottowa. In this, he affirms his
claims that he has researched the UFO subject,
handled UFO materials and had contact with ETs.
He defended UFO eyewitnesses, saying they should
be believed. He referred to the crash, in 1948,
of Captain Thomas Mantell, whom many believe was
‘shot down’ by a UFO. Smith believes that this
was not the case and that Mantell’s plane was
inadvertently affected by the magnetic fields
around the UFO. He did not believe that Mantell
died because of hostile action.
To close, Andrew told us that Smith believed that
the Earth had been colonised many times by
extraterrestrials and that we were very much
related to them.
Andrew Johnson’s lecture was very interesting and he
made great use of his PowerPoint skills. Wilbert
Smith is one of those less well-known figures in
ufology that deserves more attention,
particularly for his work for the Canadian
government. His website can be found at
http://www.checktheevidence.com
Nick’s lecture was about UFO case files that have
come to light due to the UK’s Freedom of
Information Act, particularly the Milton Torres
Incident, which he would get to at the end.
In December, 2007, the Ministry of defence (MoD)
announced that it was going to release all of
its UFO files to the public. The story was
broken by the
Daily
Telegraph and caused widespread interest.
Nick believed that the MoD’s decision came about
because France had just opened its UFO files via
its space agency, CNES, which dealt with UFO
reports in that country. When that release
happened, the CNES website promptly buckled
under the strain of millions of hits and
crashed.
The MoD, Nick said, believed that a similar release
in the UK would be a good showcase for how the
Ministry was committed to the FOIA. The MoD sent
all of its UFO files to the National Archive
(NA) in London and the press coverage for the
first batch of released files was good for the
NA, Nick felt, but not for the MoD.
Nick explained how the FOIA worked: When it was
brought in, by far the highest number of FOIA
requests were about UFOs, far more than the MoD
expected. All government departments were given
mandatory training about how to deal with FOIA
requests.
The law concerning FOI is somewhat vague and MoD
lawyers sometimes struggle with it. What data
should be left open, what should be redacted,
that sort of stuff. An FOIA request must be
dealt with within 20 working days, but there are
ways to get around this and sometimes requests
are in the system for months without a
satisfactory conclusion i.e. the relevant data
being issued. Because of this the Ministry
received many complaints.
A decision was made to ‘dump’ all of the UFO files
at the NA after they were declassified. This,
they felt, would alleviate the pressure at their
end, since they could use a standard form
directing the inquirer to the Archives.
Declassifying the UFO files was harder than they
expected, though, due to the vast number of them
on record since the 1950s. Apart from over
12,000 sighting reports, there were policy
files, correspondences, Parliamentary files and
media files to be looked at before they could be
sent to the NA. All of these had to be closely
scrutinised so any personal information could be
redacted in accordance with the Data Protection
Act.
On May 14th, 2008, the first batch was
released via the NA. Nick was involved in the
periphery of this first release, in an advisory
role. It was a media sensation in the UK and
abroad. A dedicated website was set up for the
release and, so it did not suffer the same fate
as the French UFO release, backup systems were
brought in. Within two weeks, the site had over
two million hits.
There were some interesting titbits in there,
though, such as a multiple witness sighting from
Waterloo Bridge in London and a sighting by two
women in North London, which was corroborated by
the police. There was also one from a group of
people who ran out of a pub and phoned in a
report of flashing lights in the sky, only to
state that it was near Gatwick!
Another report came via military radar when a UFO
was tracked doing 12 nautical miles in ten
seconds. Specialists examined the equipment and
readings and said it was ‘the real deal’.
Before the FOIA came into effect, officers would
often fob off ‘nutter reports’ to their
subordinates and, more often than not,
disparaging remarks would be entered into the
files. Some of these are still there to see
today and it offers a glimpse of how the
Ministry handled UFO reports i.e. not well.
The May 2008 release resulted in a rise of reported
UFO sightings due to the large-scale media
coverage.
On June 7th of that year, soldiers at
their barracks in Shropshire caught on camera
several orange UFOs. Rather than report this to
their superiors, the soldier in question sent
off his mobile phone clip to
The Sun
newspaper. It promptly made front page news and
the soldier was ‘told off’ by his superior
officers.
On the same night, there was an incident near
Cardiff, South Wales, when a police helicopter
was said to have almost collided with a UFO.
South Wales Police denied the incident, which
was widely reported in the press, but a few
months later, a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
air-miss report confirmed that the incident had
actually happened. Shortly afterwards, there was
a second UFO-helicopter near miss and Nick
believes that there is a genuine flight safety
risk attached to the UFO phenomenon.
To emphasise this, Nick used the Manchester Airport
UFO Incident of January 1995, where an unknown
object passed very close to a Boeing 737 and
caused the first officer to duck as it went by,
and the 1991 Alitalia Incident, when a passenger
jet for the Italian airline almost collided with
a ‘missile-like’ object while on approach to
Heathrow Airport.
How are such reports to be investigated and by whom?
The MoD? The CAA? Nick said that it is sometimes
unclear who should be looking into these
near-miss cases.
The Milton Torres case was released in the second
batch of UFO files from the NA. In 1957, Torres
flew USAF Sabre jets based at RAF Manston in
Kent. On May 20th, 1957, Torres’
squadron was scrambled and ordered to intercept
a UFO that had been detected on radar ‘orbiting
Ipswich’. Torres was in the lead aircraft and he
quickly picked up the object on his airborne
radar. He said that it was a return from
something the size of an aircraft carrier. This
huge object was virtually hovering, or at least
moving very, very slowly.
The UFO was never seen visually and only detected on
radar. Torres was then totally surprised to
receive an order to shoot down the object. He
asked for confirmation and received it. As he
armed the 24 rockets his Sabre carried, the UFO
began to accelerate away. As he prepared to
fire, it shot off at ‘Mach 10’.
Could it have been a top secret aircraft? Nick
thinks not. While secret military technology is
often decades in advance of what we see in
public, Nick cannot accept that in 1957, we had
aircraft the size of aircraft carriers that
could hover and then zip away at high speed.
On returning to base, Torres was debriefed and told
by a man in civilian clothing not to talk about
the incident. It was classified Top Secret. He
was threatened that if he did speak out, he
would lose his wings.
In the 1980s, Torres wrote an account of the
incident and lodged it with his lawyer. He also
sent a copy to the MoD with a letter saying that
he wanted to know what happened that day in
1957.
Researchers are still trying to find Torres’ wingman
and also the ‘civilian’ who threatened the
pilots to secrecy. Another question to be
answered is: Who ordered Torres to fire?
Nick explained that there have been several cases
involving shoot-down orders of UFOs, including
the famous 1976 Tehran Incident and the 1980
Peru Encounter.
A third batch of UFO files has now been released.
Nick closed by saying that he doesn’t believe
that the MoD has some ‘smoking gun’ evidence,
such as a UFO in a hangar somewhere. Many might
smirk, “Well, he
would
say that.”
Nick’s lecture was good and the time passed quickly.
He had no slides to present or anything to show
on the big screen, but he is an engaging speaker
and well worth seeing. His website can be found
at
http://www.nickpope.net
After lunch it was
Ian R Crane’s turn at the podium. Ian’s forte is less ufological and
more conspiratorial. His area of expertise is
the area of the New World Order and its agenda
for the human race.
Ian has given many lectures about the New World
Order (NWO) and his style is humorous and
engaging. He’s a great speaker and I consider
myself a fan, though not necessarily agreeing
with everything he puts out there.
As he often does at his lectures, Ian began with a
video he had put together. It showed us, using
the concept of entertainment and large events,
such as the Olympics, how we can be conditioned
to accept things that we would not normally. How
what we are shown in the media is not always
what it seems. How false flag operations can
have us looking in the wrong direction
According to Ian (and others) NWO Zionists, who have
nothing to do with the Jewish people and don’t
care about them one iota, by the way, feel that
they need to control the people of the world
through fear. We need something to be scared of.
The fear of terrorism. The fear of war. The fear
of an alien invasion. The fear of the Second
Coming of Christ. The fear of Armageddon.
Ian refers to a publication called
The Report
from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and
Desirability for Peace. This was published
in 1967 and there are still questions about
whether or not it is a genuine document. The
document relates that in order to achieve the
desired one world government, a constant state
of war was required. This was not to be a war of
two opposing armies, but a war against the
people, a phoney war to keep the world’s
population terrified. To facilitate this, fake
enemies would be created to keep the
military-industrial complex busy, false
proclamations about the global climate and
levels of pollution would scare us into
consuming less, there would be a world police
force with unlimited powers, the population
would be controlled via the use of drugs added
to our food and water and finally, there would
be the threat of an extraterrestrial invasion.
Ian refers to this assault on the people as
‘bio-spiritual warfare’. The NWO is using all of
its arsenal to keep humanity from advancing. Ian
said that the leaders of the NWO absolutely
believe that they are descendants of the
Anunnaki, a race of extraterrestrials that
colonised Earth hundreds of thousands of years
ago. Whether we believe this is irrelevant.
They
believe it.
Ian gave a potted history of the Anunnaki. The name
has become familiar to many of us through the
works of Zechariah Sitchin. Basically, the story
revolves around the creation of man as a slave
race, the Anunnaki bearing children with them
and the subsequent Flood myths. It is these
children of the coupling between the Anunnaki
and humans, often called the Nephilim, whom the
NWO believe they are descended from.
To keep their slaves from advancing, the NWO use
tools such as debt, constant surveillance, junk
food, microchipping, GM foods, vaccines, the
dumbing down of the media, fear and transgenics
(the splicing of different species). Companies
such as Monsanto are deeply involved, as are
many other trans-national corporations.
St Malachy, a twelfth-century Irish archbishop, had
a vision of the last Popes of the Catholic
Church. The final four, he said, were John Paul
I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and the last Pope,
Peter II. Benedict XVI is the current Pontiff.
St Malachy foretold that during the reign of
Pope Peter II, great tribulations will occur and
Rome will be destroyed.
The recent MPs expenses scandal was a smokescreen,
said Ian, to distract the public from the
European elections. The voter turnout was very
low, because there was little media coverage,
all attention being focussed on a few
politicians fiddling their receipts. Small
change!
Under the Treaty of Lisbon, the UK, along with its
European partners, will cease to exist as we
know it, replaced by a federal superstate under
a single president. Ian believes the first
president of this new regime will be Tony Blair.
As the NWO program unfolds, we will find ourselves
becoming ever more scrutinised by the vast
bureaucratic machine. Before 2015, microchipping
of the population will become compulsory and our
every move will be monitored at all times.
Then there is the ‘2012 Effect’. The year 2012 and
its connection with End Time prophecy is very
well-known, but Ian explained that the 2012 date
only became part of the public consciousness in
1987, when Jose A. Arguelles published his book,
The Mayan
Factor: Path Beyond Technology. In that
book, Arguelles told us that the incredibly
accurate Mayan calendar ended its Long Count on
21st (or 23rd, depending
who you read) December, 2012. Terrence McKenna
also concluded that 2012 was an End Time nexus
using different methods.
Then there’s the popular notion that the solar
system will align with the centre of the galaxy
(or ‘the Dark Rift’, a band of dust that
dissects the Milky Way, during the winter
solstice of 2012.
Ian also noted that remote viewers cannot see
anything beyond 11:11am on December 21st,
2012.
On Tuesday 30th June, 2009, the BBC will
be screening a documentary about the conspiracy
theories surrounding the 7/7 London bombings of
2005. By the time you read this, it will have
aired already. Ian stated that he was certain
this would be nothing more than a hit-piece to
ridicule the Truth Movement and that he refused
to participate when contacted by the Beeb.
Ian firmly believes that attacks such as 9/11, 7/7,
the Bali bombing and the Madrid bombing were
false flag attacks perpetrated not by terrorist
groups, but by our own security services under
orders from the NWO. I absolutely agree with
this and there is a lot of evidence available to
see all over the internet that more or less
proves this.
What can we do to stop this assault by the New World
Order? We can spread the word. We can let ‘them’
know that we know what’s going on. If the NWO
knows that we will not stand for all these fake
events, they will fail in their agenda.
As usual, Ian’s lecture was fascinating and
illuminating (forgive the pun) and I recommend
everybody to catch one of his DVDs or watch his
talks on Edge Media TV (if you have Sky!). Ian’s
website can be found at
http://www.ianrcrane.co.uk
American researcher,
Richard Dolan, was up next. His lecture was entitled ‘Exopolitics
and UFO Disclosure’.
Eventually, he wrote
UFOs and the National Security State in 2000. The book covered the
years 1941 to 1973. He was exhausted upon
completing it, but found that he had to continue
his research. This summer, he will release
volume two, which will cover the years
1973-1991.
While volume one was more US-centric, his new book
will have a more global outlook. Richard’s
website says: “In this new volume, I treat the
full range of issues presented by the UFO
phenomenon during the 1970s, 1980s, and through
the end of the Cold War in 1991. I analyze the
phenomenon itself, the response by U.S. and
global military authorities, and the evolving
efforts of researchers to understand what it all
meant. Behind it all, I observe the backdrop of
a world in technological, economic, and
political transformation.”
Richard has an odd way of looking at the subject of
UFO Disclosure. He says: “Disclosure is
impossible, but also inevitable.” He goes on to
list some of the problems for Disclosure:
Richard listed some of the key UFO documents that
have come to light over the years, including the
Twining Memo, the Oak Ridge Memo, the Hanford
AEC document, the Malmstrom AFB Memo and the
famous Halt Memo.
There have been many confrontations between the
world’s military and UFOs over the years. There
were nine examples in the 1970s, such as the
Tehran Incident of 1976, a UFO crash in Bolivia
in 1978 and shots fired at a UFO over the
Baikonur Space Centre in the USSR also in 1978.
Cases from the 1980s included the Peruvian Air Force
opening fire on a UFO in 1980, the legendary
Rendlesham Forest Incident, also from 1980, the
Zimbabwean Air Force encounter of 1985 and a
case from 1986 when Brazilian jets chased a UFO
for 25 minutes.
Up to 1990, there were over 40 cases of Soviet jets
encountering UFOs. How do we know about them?
Well, when totalitarian regimes collapse, people
start talking. Colonel Boris Sokolov stated that
there were thousands of UFO cases from the USSR
in the 1980s and that after the fall of the
Soviet Union, Russian jet fighters continued to
intercept UFOs in the 1990s.
In 2002, fifty years to the day since the famous
1952 flap, Washington DC again found itself
invaded by UFOs. F16 fighter jets were scrambled
numerous times, but failed to intercept the
objects detected on radar. Government employee,
Renny Rogers saw a bright blue light being
chased by fighter jets over his Maryland home.
To this day no FOIA documents have been released
about the 2002 DC event.
In 2008, the Texas town of Stephenville temporarily
became one of the most famous places on Earth
after UFOs were witnessed by numerous people.
Some were seen to head across the sky in the
direction of George W Bush’s Crawford Ranch,
pursued by military jets.
The many confirmed military encounters beg the
question: “Why are we chasing them?”
Richard said we should always be suspicious of any
government announcement that might seem positive
regarding UFOs and extraterrestrials. There is
always some hidden agenda and that usually has
nothing at all to do with the UFO subject.
The next segment was titles ‘The Structure of
Secrecy: Crash retrievals and Money’.
In 1947, the Truman era, the Cold War was just
kicking off. The president came to the
conclusion that the UFO ‘problem’ had to be kept
secret, that any crashed discs had to be kept
out of the public eye and that there would be no
sharing of extraterrestrial technology with the
outside world. Was this the reason behind the
formation of Majestic-12?
Another dilemma was about whether or not to keep the
secret forever or place it under periodical
review.
A decision was made to ‘go private’. This meant
bringing in private corporations with high
security clearances. The Military-Industrial
Complex as we know it today. Since 1947,
corporations and government have become
inextricably linked. Terms such as Private
Government and Shadow Government are bandied
about. Secret programs sprang up under the
umbrella of ‘The Black Budget’. Were these being
developed from alien technology?
Senator Barry Goldwater once said: “This has gotten
so highly classified [the secret projects or
Black Budget]... it is just impossible to get
anything on it.”
Apollo 14 astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, said: “We are
looking at likely reverse-engineered technology
in the hands of humans that are not under
government control or any type of high-level
control.”
How was all of this secret research paid for? Funds
for the Black Budget come from covertly
directing public money and supplementing that
with private funds. But from where?
The CIA has tendrils reaching out all across America
and the world. It plucks the best and brightest
from top universities and dumps them into the
‘black’ world. People like Dr Donald Menzel, who
was publicly very sceptical about UFOs, but
privately accepted that there was something to
the phenomenon, had a high rank in the National
Security Agency (NSA).
Such far-reaching influence meant that UFO news
stories could be choked-off at the national
level, with most reports barely even making
local news
Bill Sweetman, a well-known writer for
Jane’s
Defence Weekly (JDW),
estimated that there were about 150 Special
Access Programs (goon-speak for Black Budget
projects) running in 1997. These projects have
no democratic oversight, completely independent
systems (they are not bound by national laws),
they are run almost exclusively by private
contractors and their source of funding is
unknown.
Catherine Austin Fitts was head of the United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development
during the administration of George HW Bush. She
estimated that 85% of the US budget was ‘unauditable’.
That means that there is no way to determine
what money was spent where and where those funds
came from. She also stated that $3.3 trillion
(that’s $3,300,000,000,000!) disappeared from
the budget between 1998 and 2001. Remember
Donald Rumsfeld speaking on September 10th,
2001, saying that the Pentagon could not account
for $2.2 trillion in funding??? Bonkers numbers!
James Goodall of
JDW claimed that there were at least eight black projects running
out of Groom Lake (Area 51 to the rest of us),
including a ‘silent triangle’. His sources state
that there are “things out there that are
literally out of this world.”
One such reverse-engineered craft is known as the
‘Alien Reproduction Vehicle’. It is
approximately 15 feet wide, 9-10 feet thick and
can travel between 15 and 500 miles per hour. It
can execute a right-angled turn at 140 mph and
may be able to ‘shape-shift’ to some degree. It
was sighted over Nellis AFB in November, 1994.
Richard is convinced that this is a man-made
vehicle, not extra-terrestrial.
Such talk of Black Projects inevitably leads us to
the question: Is there a secret space program
and, if so, why?
There are many reports of anomalies on the Moon,
Mars and even in Earth orbit or further out in
space. Are these extraterrestrial or advanced
bases or craft from Earth? Are we engaged in
some form of intercourse with extraterrestrials
within our own solar system?
Gary McKinnon, spoke of finding mention of
‘Non-terrestrial Officers’ and ‘Fleet-to-fleet
transfers’ in his search for UFO evidence in the
US computer files. Jeff Challender, who sadly
died in 2007 after a long illness, found
evidence of UFOs and other anomalies in space in
transmissions from NASA and other space
agencies. He posted them on his website
http://www.projectprove.com
Disclosure will
have
to let us know about the revolutionary
technologies and radical programs that have come
into being in secrecy. Until then, all we have
are questions.
Richard wondered if the covert world had evolved
into a ‘breakaway civilisation’, a portion of
humanity that has access to incredible
technological resources yet chooses not to share
that with its fellow, less-advanced kin. What
would be the implications of artefacts elsewhere
in our solar system? Why
should
they share their technology with the rest of the
world?
What are the aliens like?
Richard explained that according to reports, they
appear to be highly telepathic. They have the
ability to manipulate space/time. They seem to
have no emotions. Are they truly alien or from
here? Are they truthful or do they deceive?
There appear to be more than one species, each
with their own agenda. Why are they abducting
humans? Are they creating hybrids, a transgenic
species (remember Ian Crane’s lecture earlier?)?
How would we deal with such advanced beings? Why are
they interested in us? Are
we
advancing too rapidly? If we advance too
quickly, can we survive?
Are we the ‘greatest show in the quadrant’? Are we
worrisome? Do they want to control us? Will they
want to help us manage our society so that we
can survive?
Do some ETs look exactly like us and are already
living here? What if other species war with each
other? Should we ‘take sides’? What if they
created us?
How would such a huge lie be undone? What would be
the cultural, financial and religious
consequences? Would we finally achieve ‘free
energy’? Would the human power structure be
capable of surviving? Would it be the end of our
civilisation as we know it?
How prepared are we? Ultimately, we will have to
live with ourselves. We will have to deal with
Disclosure somehow. Change will come and we will
have to cope. Disclosure is impossible
and inevitable.
Richard gave a fascinating lecture that raised more
questions than it answered. We
know
UFOs exist. We
know
the military encounter these things with
alarming regularity. It’s what happens when the
rest of the world catches up with what
we
already understand that is the big problem.
Those of us interested in the UFO enigma are
ready. Is everybody else?
Richard’s website can be found at
http://keyholepublishing.com and he promised that volume
two of
UFOs and the National Security State would
be out within 30 days of the lecture.
The final speaker of the event was perhaps the most
controversial.
Lloyd Pye
has been studying the Starchild Skull for ten
years and has yet to discover its deepest
secrets. He calls it ‘the most important thing
in the world that nobody knows about’
She found an old mine tunnel and went inside. About
fifty feet in, she found a human skeleton lying
beside a mound of earth. Being raised in a
desert region, she was used to finding bones out
in the arid landscape, so she was not shocked by
discovering this old grave.
She noticed that more bones were sticking out of the
mound of earth. It was a misshapen hand, being
firmly held by the skeleton lying beside the
mound. She was sure that whatever was buried was
put there by the skeleton on top of the dirt.
Being in a desert region and protected by the tunnel
from the elements, the dirt still seemed fresh
and she dug it away carefully. She saw a small
skeleton with apparent deformities. The skull
was large and the limbs small. She planned to
take both skeletons back to the USA and donate
them to a museum, but she had misgivings.
Bundling them up, she hid them among the exposed
roots of a nearby tree, so that she could
retrieve them later, when she had decided what
to do.
That night there was a torrential rain storm and it
was three days before she could return to the
tree and recover the bones. Unfortunately, the
tree had been in a gulley and rainwater had
washed them away.
She searched frantically for them,
finding both skulls and some other fragments.
All the bones had been damaged.
She returned to the United States, taking the
remaining bones with her, keeping them as
souvenirs of her Mexican holiday.
In the early 1990s, she found that she was dying of
an illness and she asked some friends if they
would take care of her skulls. Some years after
her death, the skulls came into the possession
of Ray and Melanie Young in 1998. Melanie was a
neonatal nurse and immediately noticed something
was odd about the smaller of the skulls. It was
considerably lighter than the other and the
‘deformity’ was oddly symmetrical. She knew
instantly that it was both special and unusual.
They contacted Lloyd because of his experience with
‘hominids’ such as Bigfoot. He suggested that
they get the skulls tested.
Bizarrely, they found that most experts did not want
anything to do with the skull, with many simply
dismissing it as ‘deformed’.
The bone is half as thick as a normal human cranium.
The eye sockets are very shallow, meaning that
the eyes would have protruded markedly. They
were also much lower than is normal. As for the
‘deformity’, it was discovered that the
Starchild (SC) skull was actually
more
symmetrical than a normal human skull!
The SC has no inion (the knot at the back of your
head which is part of the occipital bone and is
found in every ape skull), only a dent. The back of the human skull (which
was female) showed signs of being
cradle-boarded. This is common in cultures where
mothers must return to work shortly after the
birth of a child. They wrap up the baby and
strap it to a board that can be worn by the
mother. So the baby’s head doesn’t flop about,
it is tied securely to the board, resulting in
the soft, undeveloped cranium developing a
flattened area at the back. The SC skull was
not
cradle-boarded.
It has been suggested that the SC skull shows signs
of hydrocephaly, where fluid builds up in the
young skull, forcing the head into a bulbous
shape. The SC skull shows no similarities to
this condition, the cranial sutures being
well-healed and not showing evidence of
widening.
The SC skull’s Basilar Part is missing, suggesting
it was well under the age of 20 at death but
this is still in dispute; it has tighter check
muscles; its neck was 50% thinner than a typical
human and was perfectly situated to balance the
skull; it had no sinuses; its inner ear was much
larger than normal.
The female skull was measured to have a capacity of
about 1200cc, which is roughly normal for its
date and origin: about 900 years old in Mexico.
A modern human skull has a capacity of about
1400cc.
The SC has a capacity of 1600cc.
Brain specialists examined the skull and said that
the SC’s brain should have slid out, having no
real cerebellum to support it, yet it appears to
have not been the case. Lloyd mused that perhaps
the SC was telepathic, owing to the lack of
sinuses and an apparently very small or missing
tongue.
Dental x-rays initially suggested that this was the
skull of a child and it was dubbed the Starchild.
Lloyd said that this was the biggest mistake
they made, as they now believe that the SC was a
mature adult at death. The female lying beside
it was confidently aged to 35-45 at death.
CAT scans confirmed that there was no premature
closing of the cranial sutures and that the SC
was apparently healthy at the time of death (if
that makes sense). The inner ear was twice as
large as a normal human’s and Lloyd suggests
that this may help balance the large head on its
skinny neck.
Under an electron microscope, the SC skull was found
to be more similar to tooth enamel than bone.
This made it very hard, despite its light weight
and lack of thickness.
With a few exceptions, Lloyd found himself running
into a scientific brick wall. He was often told
that ‘nature can do anything’ and ushered out.
He decided that the only way to get science to
take notice was to get a good DNA analysis
At the end of 1999, Lloyd looked for a lab that
would test the SC skull’s DNA. Due to the skull
being 900 years old, any DNA extracted would be
classed as ‘ancient DNA’ and more stringent
protocols were required due to possible
contamination. AT the time, only six labs on the
planet existed that could handle ancient DNA and
none of them would cooperate.
A Canadian friend told Lloyd that he had a friend
who was opening a new forensics lab at the
University of British Columbia and he might be
able to test the skull for him. Sure enough the
university agreed and Lloyd sent off the skull.
That is where the trouble started.
For a proper analysis, 1000 picograms of DNA needs
to be extracted, yet the lab reached the
conclusion that the SC skull was human with only
200 picograms. Lloyd said that they also
contaminated their results. Amazingly (and he
admitted this), he agreed to a second set of
tests at the same laboratory. This time, one of
the Sc’s teeth would be used as the sample.
Again, they concluded that the skull was human
from only a 200 picogram sample of DNA.
Lloyd was devastated. In 2002, he was bankrupt and
done with the whole affair.
Then up stepped Belinda McKenzie. She funded more
research and new DNA tests could be
commissioned. By this time there were 24 labs
that could handle ancient DNA. It was also now
possible to extract both nuclear (passed on by
both parents) and mitochondrial (passed on only
by the mother) DNA strands.
Lloyd veered off at this point to discuss the
abduction phenomenon. He referred to the many
cases where women have been abducted,
impregnated and returned. Later, they would be
abducted again and the foetuses removed. During
later abductions, they would often be introduced
to human-alien hybrid children and be told that
this was their child. Many of the witness
drawings and sculptures match the SC skull quite
well. He also spoke briefly about the so-called ‘Conehead’ skulls. Science tells us that these skulls, found all over the world, are caused by the practice of skull binding. The skull is wrapped in tight bandages at a young age and the soft bones grow into a cone shape.
That’s all well and good and might sound reasonable,
but the average capacity of these conehead
skulls is twice that of ours, in the region of
2800-3000cc! Binding a skull does not make its
capacity larger. Lloyd believes that these
skulls should be DNA tested also.
He also mentioned Whitley Strieber’s
Communion,
perhaps the best-known abduction book ever
published. Apparently the famous image of the
Grey on the cover is not really like what
Strieber described. It is too long and Lloyd
feels that what Strieber saw may have looked
more like the Starchild.
The popular History Channel series,
UFO
Hunters, looked into the SC skull for an
episode. They commissioned a sculptor (who
normally makes aliens for TV and movies) to
recreate what the Starchild would look like if
it was alive today. Lloyd suggested that the
result looked more like Lee Harvey Oswald than a
human-alien hybrid
Back to the DNA analysis. The lab that agreed to the
test both the SC skull and the human female
skull found that the Starchild skull was very
hard to cut. They also had problems dissolving
the bone in the rocker. Human bone will dissolve
in the fluid within about a week. The SC skull
sample took months to dissolve.
A cross-section of the Sc skull showed unknown
fibres running throughout its structure. It is
still a mystery as to what these are and their
function. They are clearly not bacterial or
fungal in nature. The fibres are also extremely
resistant to cutting. There is also much more
collagen in the SC skull than is normal.
Strange, red specks could be seen in the bone
and, again, their purpose or origin is a
mystery.
When the DNA test results came back, Lloyd was
surprised to find that the female was
not
the Starchild’s mother! The mitochondrial DNA
showed that the female was from haplogroup A,
while the mtDNA from the Starchild belonged to
haplogroup C. The SC had a human mother, but it
was not the woman that died with him (the SC
skull is thought to be male, I believe).
A company called 454 Life Sciences has developed a
technology that would be able to extract the
entire genome of the Starchild. The company is
due to begin testing the system this year
(2009). To get the Sc skull tested at 454 Life
Sciences, Lloyd and his team need to raise
$250,000. That might seem like a lot of money,
but it could be money well-spent if we discover
the true origins of the Starchild Skull.
I found Lloyd’s lecture to be excellent and
completely fascinating. In fact I thoroughly
enjoyed all of the speakers at the Expo. I hope
Lloyd, Belinda and the Youngs find the funding
to get the skull properly and definitively
tested. Maybe once and for all, we can find out
the origin of this remarkable, and perhaps
tragic, little person. Lloyd's website can be found at http://www.starchildproject.com
With Lloyd Pye finished, that drew the 1st
Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo to a close. My
brother and I had a brilliant day and
congratulations must go to David and Anthony and
everybody behind the scenes for putting on a
great event.
There were some minor niggles, with speakers having
to be given ‘the hurry-up’ from time-to-time, as
each one had just over an hour to cram in as
much information as they could, but for the most
part, everything went smoothly. I’m not sure if
the air-conditioning affected other things in
the hall because early on, they switch on the
A/C, but later it was stifling in there. Maybe
that’s something that can be addressed at the 2nd
Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo. Fingers crossed!
Steve Johnson – June 2009 |
Unfortunately, the lab was unable to recover any
nuclear DNA, so the identity of the father
remains a mystery for now. Lloyd thinks that the
inability to recover nuclear DNA
might possibly suggest that the father of the Starchild is not
human.