FC: UFO enthusiasts gather in DC, demand Congress hold hearings

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 06:29:27 PDT

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       Ooo-WEE-ooo Fans Come to D.C.
       By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
       2:00 a.m. May 10, 2001 PDT
       
       WASHINGTON -- UFO enthusiasts gathered on Wednesday to share dozens of
       eyewitness accounts and a thick sheaf of documents that they claim
       finally prove the existence of alien visitors.
       
       At a National Press Club event, the Disclosure Project said it has
       identified "several hundred witnesses throughout the world" who are
       eager to testify before Congress about their encounters with
       extraterrestrial spacecraft or beings.
       
       "There is a secret government -- a covert government -- operation that
       has dealt with this for at least 50 years," said Steven Greer, the
       group's founder.
       
       Greer said he wanted UFO files declassified, a ban on space weapons,
       and peaceful exploration "with all cultures on Earth and in space."
       
       Call it a close encounter with an X-Files spinoff. The three-hour
       event featured testimonials from all-too-earnest UFO buffs, warnings
       that the "adolescent phase of humanity" was nearly over, and vague
       descriptions of anti-gravity devices, free energy machines and
       faster-than-light spaceships that could end human suffering -- if only
       the feds would fess up and tell all.
       
       But it isn't merely the Defense Department, the CIA, the National
       Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office and even more
       secretive agencies that are participating in the cover-up, says Greer,
       a physician who lives in Crozet, Virginia. He fingered Northrop,
       Lockheed Martin and SAIC as examples of government contractors who are
       surreptitiously developing aircraft and weapons based on technology
       snatched from UFOs.
       
       Carol Rosin, a self-described space defense consultant, went even
       further: "We can end the energy crisis," she said. "We can build cars
       that drive around off the road, on beams."
    
       Until UFO fanatics produce tangible evidence -- an alien body, an
       unknown metal, or a beam-mobile -- their claims should be dismissed
       with prejudice, says Kevin Christopher, a spokesman for the Committee
       for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
    
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