Citizen Hearing On Disclosure Live And Daily Updates From Huffington Post

Follow the Live Blog Updates at... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rss/liveblog/liveblog-1745.xml 4:23 PM - TodayCong. Bartlett Reads Article That Calls Former Members Of Congress An 'Alien Panel' Cong. Roscoe Bartlett gets a little testy about the press coverage so far about this week's Citizen Hearing On Disclosure:"I've been looking at some of the press clippings from yesterday's session and the government has been quite successful in relegating this issue to the lunatic fringe. I'm going to comment on only one article. It says 'The mock Congress hearing on aliens is heavy on real-life Mulders and not Scullys. In the "X-Files," Agent Mulder believes in all things: little green men, Roswell, men-in-black, whatever, and Agent Dana Scully believes in science."'Scully forces Mulder to find hard evidence that there's a massive conspiracy to cover-up aliens' existence. The trouble with this week's alien panel (we're an alien panel now) at the National Press Club is that any of the participating members of Congress who might naturally be a Scully have been incentived to suspend their disbelief. Because the Citizen Hearing foundation is paying them 20,000 plus expenses to listen to the testimony.'""That's just insulting, that we can be bought for 20,000 -- that's ridiculous! It goes on to say that...'former member Roscoe Bartlett, in an opening statement, Bartlett said he hadn't fulfilled his duty in office by failing to hold hearings on extraterresrtrials...' I NEVER SAID THAT!... I never said that I believed in extraterrestrials. I believe that there are sightings out there that cannot be easily explained away.""'Compounding the problem of eyebrow-raising testimony is that several of these politicians have reputations for being a little wacky.'" 2:46 PM - TodayUFOs Over Nuke Missile Sites On Tap For CHD SessionThe afternoon session focuses on the numerous cases of UFOs seen in the vicinity of American nuclear missile sites. One of the witnesses, retired Air Force Capt. Bruce Fenstermacher described seeing a cigar-shaped UFO above a Wyoming nuclear base in 1976.UFO historian Richard Dolan talked about how the Freedom of Information Act has yielded important documents related to military encounters with UFOs. 11:52 AM - TodayTestimony Of James Penniston's Close Encounter With A UFO Taking OffCong. Roscoe Bartlett engaged Sgt. James Penniston (see images below) re. the UFO he approached on the ground during the 1980 multiple witness encounter in England's Rendlesham Forest: Bartlett: "You were there when the craft took off?" Penniston: "Yes, sir." Bartlett: "Was there any sound?" Penniston: "The craft generated more lighting and that concerned me. I wasn't sure if it was going to explode, so I took a somewhat defensive position. It rose off the ground, went to tree level, momentary hovered, then took off in the blink of an eye. The things that it didn't do was stuf that it should've done. I was hoping for air displacement -- all aircraft do that. I was hoping for aircraft sound -- all aircraft do that."10:46 AM - TodayCHD Day 2: Examining England Military Encounters And UFOs Over Nuclear Missile SitesAs day two of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure unfolds, the committee of former members of Congress are listening to the testimony of eyewitnesses to the famous 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident in England that involved many military personnel.Later in the day, the committee will hear testimony of more military eyewitnesses to UFO activity over American nuclear missile sites. 4:51 PM - 04/29/2013End Of The First DayMany points of view from committee members and witnesses were offered on this first day of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure.With four days of testimony still to come, it would be interesting to see if any type of skepticism will rear its head and to see how the folks involved handle or approach a skeptical point of view about UFOs and a possible ET presence on Earth.Check back on Tuesday to see... 4:14 PM - 04/29/2013A Tale Of Two Steve'sDr. Steven Greer: "Everything about what extraterrestrials show of themselves would look like magic to us...if you're dealing with civilizations that have actually arrived here from somewhere else, they're probably doing it faster than the speed of light...possibly at the speed of thought...consciousness and mind are the real final frontier - not space. We are not alone in the universe and we need to have a peaceful interplanetary, interstellar initiative. We need to figure out how we're going to advance."Political Activist Stephen Bassett talked about how the media hasn't properly reported important UFO news. "If some very tough reporters can get out there and ask the right questions, it's going to get really interesting."The following image shows Greer (L) and Bassett (R) 3:40 PM - 04/29/2013Clinton Administration UFO InterestGrant Cameron's testimony on Clinton administration unsuccessful attempt to find out UFO information...Linda Moulton Howe on reported UFO abductions and the possible manipulation of the human mind. She tells a story about a military person who told her he was on a team that, in 1978, was assigned to investigate a town that was allegedly flooded by extraterrestrials. 2:24 PM - 04/29/2013Documents About Philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller And UFOsResearcher Grant Cameron discusses 1,000 documents he received via the Freedom of Information Act about how Rockefeller tried to get the Clinton administration to look into UFOs, especially the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, N.M., and how President Clinton issued a challenge, saying if there was a UFO at Roswell, he was never told about it.Cameron talks about how Bill and Hillary Clinton met with Rockefeller at his ranch to discuss UFOs. "There are key documents from 1995 that point out how Hillary and her staff helped draft a UFO disclosure letter that would be sent to the president." 2:10 PM - 04/29/2013UFO History Panel Kicks Off With "Sirius" Documentary Exec. Prod. Steven GreerDr. Steven Greer began the afternoon session describing how he went from being an emergency room doctor to a leading advocate for UFO-ET disclosure. Greer is also executive producer of a new documentary, "Sirius," which focuses on his claims of alleged existing technologies that might change the world."Sirius" is also about the unveiling of DNA analysis of a 6-inch-tall humanoid discovered 10 years ago in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Dubbed Ata, there is ongoing controversy as to its origin and what, exactly the DNA reveals, according to a new report by Greer. 12:57 PM - 04/29/2013Bartlett Says Congress Owed American Public A Hearing On UFOsCong. Bartlett: "Whether there are UFOs or extraterrestrials is not the issue -- it's a constitutional issue more than anything else. In his final public speech as he left office, Eisenhower warned the public against the military industrial complex, but his original speech called it the military industrial congressional complex, but he took out the world congressional. I think Congress owes the American people a hearing on this subject. There may be nothing to UFOs, but you have the right to petition the government about it."12:45 PM - 04/29/2013Committee Members Look For Answers To Take Hearing Beyond This WeekCong. Kilpatrick: "I don't know if the answer is to have another congressional hearing. I agree that coming together to acknowledge this problem is urgent. Will the Air Force ever come to this point, and what can this issue do to help all of us." French: "Something's got to be done."Sheehan: "The altering of consciousness about UFOs will have to come through religious institutions."Dolan: "If there's an energy paradigm solution to UFOs, that's worth everything we can do to get it all out in the open."Sen. Gravel: "Could all of you draft a new U.N.-type proposal by the end of this week that can help us become globalists vs. nationalists?" 12:07 PM - 04/29/2013Back & Forth Between UFO Committee & PanelCong. Roscoe Bartlett: "It's arrogant and presumptuous of us to believe we're the only really intelligent species in the universe."French: "My primary job early on for Project Blue Book was to debunk UFOs as far as the public was concerned...I was one of those guys who said it was swamp gas! We need an organization to contact these 'people' from another place and say hello to them instead of trying to shoot their tails off."Sheehan: "It's a world view issue...a view that must be addressed by everyone, once we acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence." Huneeus: "This is the next frontier, and we've already been conditioned by the media, but young people are very accepting of the idea that we're being visited."Dolan: "Our society is going through a technological revolution, and I think something will happen that will force the UFO issue to come out. Maybe there are already controlled leaks today, but it will lead to a geo-political revolution. There needs to be a TRUE United Nations." "French: "The dumbest thing we could do would be to weaponize space." 11:45 AM - 04/29/2013Reflecting Back To 1978 U.N. UFO PresentationHuneeus tells the committee about the milestone 1978 United Nations presentation on UFOs. The following image shows a 1978 meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim discussing the upcoming UFO presentation that was produced by NBC Radio's Lee Speigel, now a writer for The Huffington Post. This image includes, clockwise, left to right: astronaut Gordon Cooper, astronomer Jacques Vallee, astronomer Claude Poher, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, Grenada Prime Minister Eric Gairy, Waldheim, Morton Gleisner of the Special Political Committee, Speigel, researcher Leonard Stringfield and psychologist David Saunders.11:21 AM - 04/29/2013Second Panel Testimony On UFO HistorySecond panel of historian Richard Dolan, researcher/writer Antonio Huneeus, Constitutional attorney Daniel Sheehan and USAF Ret. Lt. Col. Richard French has just been sworn in and expected to offer testimony on historical UFO records. 10:52 AM - 04/29/2013 Why Don't We Hear More About Worldwide UFO Cases?Cong. Darlene Hooley: "Why aren't we hearing more about sightings around the world?" Stanton Friedman: "It's not about how much is going on - it's more about how much do we hear about the sightings...how many UFO reporters do you know?" 10:47 AM - 04/29/2013UFO Pilots: Living Or Not?Cong. Merrill Cook talks with panel about the possibility that some UFO sightings might involve a form of artificial intelligence vs. living beings piloting them.10:31 AM - 04/29/2013Kilpatrick introduces Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan"I am honored today to take on this assignment, and to have one of the leaders here on this topic. I'm honored to introduce Minister Louis Farrakhan." To which, stood up to mild applause. 10:12 AM - 04/29/2013Researcher/Producer Linda Moulton HoweTells committee about her documentary that focused on the numerous unexplained animal mutilations that have plagued the U.S. for many years..."Ranchers told me they had seen beams of light pick up their cattle, which would explain why there were no tracks found near the animals that had many organs removed, with no blood near the animals." She talked about being shown an alleged presidential briefing paper at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico in 1983 that described several real UFO cases that involved small humanoid bodies. "My greatest challenge as a journalist is to get on the record things I'm told by military personnel." 10:01 AM - 04/29/2013Nuclear Physicist Stanton Friedman"I was the youngest contributor to the original 1968 congressional UFO hearings...an example of bias and ignorance about UFOs appears in this month's issue of Astronomy...Progress comes from doing things differently...Another false myth is that the government can't keep secrets." "Government cover-up isn't just an idle concept...it's past time for the press and scientific community to do their homework." 9:46 AM - 04/29/2013Canadian researcher Grant CameronCameron, creator of The Presidents UFO website, is giving specific examples of past presidents or presidential candidates who have talked positively about UFOs and the ET situation.9:36 AM - 04/29/2013UFO Historian Richard Dolan speaking to the committeeUFO Historian Richard Dolan offers details of recent UFO cases. "There are well over 10,000 reports every year. But not all are unexplained. The combination of astonishing performance and a lack of official acknowledgement of the phenomenon require more action." 9:34 AM - 04/29/2013Meet The Congressional Panel9:18 AM - 04/29/2013NASA Retiree Capt. Edgar Mitchell: We Are Not Alone"We're not alone in the universe. They have been coming here a long, long time it seems. The evidence suggests it... Let's go forward with understanding this phenomenon."9:12 AM - 04/29/2013Former Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey's Opening Remarks"The very idea of listening to the participants who will speak this week has caused quite a stir in my district... because there's a newspaper that has covered me for 20 years that hardly ever paid attention. Well I made front page... just last week. Finally, I'm retired and they're gonna put me at the top of the fold.We're gonna be sitting like we're in committee... IT'S OUR COMMITMENT TO LISTEN THROUGH OBJECTIVE EARS AND TO ASK THE KINDS OF QUESTIONS THAT WE THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD LIKE US TO ASK SO THAT THEY CAN BE BETTER INFORMED... WE'D LIKE TO MAKE THE PUBLIC MORE AWARE. WE'RE HOPING THAT THIS WILL POSSIBLY LEAD TO LEGISLATION... I think we're going to have a very interesting week."