Platform For UFO Disclosure
Paul Kimball has nominated me to run for president over at his The Other Side Of Truth blog. While this is of course fairly self-indulgent joking between friends, it reminds me of the famous question about “What would you do if you were president?”
Since this is not a political blog, we’ll concentrate on the UFO question. Dick Cheney and Rudolph Giuliani have both been confronted with this subject on the campaign trail. Cheney said “Well if I had been briefed on it, I’m sure it was probably classified, and I couldn’t talk about it.” Giuliani, responding to a child’s question about an alien attack last week in Exeter, NH, replied “If we’re properly prepared for anything that happens, we’ll be prepared for that.”
Obviously, the UFO subject is not very high on the list of anyone running for public office, and it never will be, unless the phenomenon itself decides to make it important to the vast majority of the public.
Elected officials need to work within the structure of military and security establishments to find out what is going on, how much is known, and what the problem would be exposing this knowledge to the public. The way to force disclosure, I believe, is to convince those who hold those secrets that it would be in their best interests to release the pertinent information. That would be a tall order indeed–perhaps nearly impossible. For anyone whose life is the custodianship of secrets within secrets, ad infinitum, an open approach is dead on the launchpad.
No, the proper way to do it would be behind the scenes, assuring the parties involved that no one but yourself and the people hired to speak for you would be responsible for revealing whatever could be revealed. Perhaps a political runaround would be in order, where you placed the information in the hands of a political adversary or even an ally, letting him or her take the heat and/or acclaim. Working on elected officials from the outside certainly isn’t paying any fast dividends.
Because I believe (and this is only a theory) that those in charge of UFO information know little more about the origin or purpose of non-human visitors than the rest of us, I also think that a real “disclosure” is not possible, since those in possession of the story don’t really know what to do with it, except scare the rest of us into submission by leaking wild stories and controlling the rumor mill. Perhaps the best way to look into it is on an individual level–using a “bottom-up” approach, rather than asking for official permission to spout the things we claim to know already.
Most people reading this already believe that the human race has had contact with non-human entities, or at least their effects. Why do we need some “authority” to tell us something we already know, except to provide some needed data points?
I stumbled onto that by writing it. Data points (meaning officially sanctioned, reputation-on-the-line data points) may be a key. If the some of the disclosure people (and many other UFO researchers) push their “we told you so” egos out of the way, perhaps what they should really be asking for (quietly and with little fanfare) is more and better info, and not a release of the “truth” about UFOs. What you are looking for defines what you will find, and how you ask the questions.
I will now take questions from the press. 
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Oct 21 2007 
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:30 am
But what is your position on health care for illegal extraterrestrials?
I wanted to let your readers know that I finally got my own blog up. There are already a few posts. Here’s the link:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&Mytoken=5C61A658-5E74-462A-9AF4B16B906920321382694
Walter
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:48 am
Hizzoner Bishop;
When you say:
“…perhaps what they should really be asking for (quietly and with little fanfare) is more and better info, and not a release of the “truth” about UFOs.”
Sir;
Can you agree that for many persons this demand for strident truth from officialdom is prosecuted a seemingly necessary gesture born of abject impatience regarding information _not_ received and acting out about it as an irritated result… in other words: shooting to “the moon” on an issue so as to have more assurance of getting across “the street”?
…And a follow-up question,Sir.
Insentient, repugnant, and insulting official denial has been apropos of our society for 60 years with regard to UFOs, among other perhaps related subjects. Do you consider anger and hyperbole from the rank and file citizen a predictable and understandable reaction to that entirely senseless and non-progressive denial?
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October 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 am
Strongly agree with this post. I don;t think there is a vast reserve of information to disclose, but just a few “data points” would be an excellent beginning - that, and rending asunder the laughter curtain.
Right now, we can;t even form decent hypotheses, since there simply aren’t enough data. I speculate that the ET hypothesis could for the first time be properly formulated if we just had a little more officially sanctioned information. At present, it is a victim of Clarke’s 3rd law.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:29 am
I’ll vote for you but only if Gorightly is named as VP or Sec. of State. AdventureMan can be NSA head or SecDef. I want Zorak as White House SpokesMan(tis).
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:33 am
Candidate Bishop:
Assuming for the moment that the week before Kennedy died, he asked for three reports prepared for him, which included:
- A timetable to remove troops from Viet Nam;
- A plan to include Soviet astronauts aboard the Apollo moon landings; and
- A CIA briefing on all the documents they held on UFOs;
And you were still committed to asking for a full disclosure on the subject of UFOs, which would you increase first:
Your Secret Service detail, or
Your insurance policy?
And a follow-up: if Presidents Kennedy, Carter and Clinton asked for and never received a full briefing (and assuming that the Republican Presidents were never interested in disclosure in the first place), then what steps would you take that might compel the agencies with such knowledge to reveal them?
Also, may I submit my name for the Cabinet position of Secretary of the Exterior? I figure off-Earth contact might just fall into that portfolio.
– TemplarScribe
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October 23rd, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Walter,
They don’t need healthcare. They need to give that to US.
Good to see you’re up and blogging. It’s a joy and an annoyance all at once–just like life!
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Hey Al L,
Answer to #1: People may be impatient for the wrong sort of answer, made that way by the culture and the people who hold the “secrets.”
#2: See #1, and yes, the frustration is understandable. What should be stopped is the culture of secrecy and conspiracy that those with power engage in becuase they don’t know anything else.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 pm
disowned,
I agree, but with a caveat: We should try to avoid a preconcieved notion about what we are going to find before we start asking.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Templar,
I have tried to change my paranoia and its associated inertia) into more useful pursuits, and I don’t see why that would change if I (or anyone who would actually run for office) got into a position to actually do something about things that bother many people.
There is a well-founded rumor that Carter did receive a briefing, but it didn’t amount to much.
I don’t know enough about the internal culture of the CIA/ NSA/ FBI, etc. to attempt to decipher what would make them give up the UFO stuff, but after a thorough internal briefing, some sort of combination of good cop/ bad cop might work.
Sec. of the Exterior sounds like a good office to create in this new “culture of openness.” You got it.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
crg,
All good ideas. I will consider them closely. Especially Gorightly.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I say that had we followed Keely and Tesla’s leads, we wouldn’t NEED health care, and the aliens would have been disclosed long ago.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Actually, folks, WE are the aliens.
You MUST read Joseph Farrell’s THE COSMIC WAR.
Not that it’s all new, but just so well consolidated. I’m finishing it now and loving every page. I strongly urge everyone to read this book.
Then follow it up with Sesh Heri’s HANDPRINT OF ATLAS next year…