Congressional Citizens hearing on UFO disclosure at D.C

[cat]

[Darkhorse]

So they paid a few former legislators and an astronaut $20,000 each to listen to nut jobs talk about UFOs for 5 days.

[John Galt]

the astronaut is one of the nut jobs though dark

[Spider]

A lot of people who spend a lot of time in the sky have seen things. Probably not what they think, but I don't doubt many have seen something.

[uebermann]

I'm not sure what to think. I want to believe that there's aliens here, but at the same time, its really hard to take anyone on just their word. Even an astronaut. Being an astronaut doesn't make one immune to greed and the effects of the almighty dollar.

I really don't think the world is ready to know such a thing anyways. Most people (especially the super religious) would really freak out.

[The Dharma Bum]

We are probably in a test tube or something. lol

If there is an alien intelligence it may be as far beyond us as we are beyond bacteria.

[The Dharma Bum]

Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of movements are a form of dissent, used by people who are too locked into the system to confront authority in a more direct manner.

If it's the governments UFO policy that they oppose it's not quite as personally damaging as opposition to the use of space-related technology or weaponry to further the aims of imperialism.

[cat]

CIA Official Breaks Silence on Extraterrestrials
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=102_1367737372
The interview in the video. MUST SEE. Shocking revealation.

Part article:

WASHINGTON—In a gripping testimonial, an ailing former member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has talked via video for the first time publicly about his experience dealing with extraterrestrials, their craft and a cover-up.

The 15 minute prerecorded video of an anonymous former senior CIA officer was broadcast May 3 on the final day of the week long Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. The 77-year-old man, though he was articulate, and sitting up as he spoke, was obviously in a poor state of health. He worked for the CIA under President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958 and had chosen to break his long-held silence as he approached the end of his life.

Organizer of the Citizen Hearing, Steve Bassett, introduced the video saying it offered an insight into the suffering of many military and government officials who are forced to live a world of secrecy and fear in what he calls the “truth embargo” about extraterrestrial encounters.

“In a sense, this video represents the many individuals out there who could not come before a committee like this, who want to talk, but it’s difficult. The vast majority of individuals who have interacted with this issue while working for the government, going back to the 40s, took the information that they had to their grave and did not talk if they were told not to talk.

“This gentleman has received numerous threats from his government not to talk, but he wanted this testimony to be presented and we agreed. He has only been interviewed by two researchers who are here today, Linda Moulton Howe and Richard Dolan,” he said.

After the screening Linda Moulton Howe authenticated the former CIA official’s credentials and his account, telling the hearing she had spent three days with him in which she had recorded eleven 90 minute audio tapes in 1994. She said on her return to her home after the three days she had received a phone call from him saying he and his wife had been threatened with retaliation if they went public and she could not release the tapes.

[J.K. Gregg]

The chances that intelligent life exists, that it developed interstellar travel, that it exists during our species' lifetime, and that it lives anywhere near us in the universe, leads me to believe that everyone in that room was either paid to be there, or is fruit-loops.

[spacemonkey]

The govt does not like to aknowledge things beyond its understanding or control. Although Iv'e never seen any space critters myself, my money is on yes, their real, and here.And probably played a part in who we are today, regardless of what the govt says.