Image from "Close Enounters of the Third Kind"
Jeff Peckman’s ballot initiative for an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission is gaining momentum. If you have not yet visited the Extracampaign website you can visit it here, and find out how to sign the petitition here.
Reading the many comments on the lists of articles appearing reporting on this ballot initiative, they range from supportive to disparaging or derogatory. While the supportive comments show individuals who have taken at least some time to educate themselves on the issues surrounding UFOs and extraterrestrials, the others underscore the very real need for far more education around this phenomenon. The implications go much further than some airy-fairy notion of sky-watchers creating a new pseudo-religion about ETs coming from the heavens, or simply working to prove it’s real. For those with personal experience of this phenomenon, whether they are Disclosure Project witnesses or one of thousands, if not millions, of abductees/contactees around the world, the question of whether extraterrestrials are real or not, or are visiting Earth or not is no longer the issue… they know it’s real. And because they have studied all the data and testimony surrounding the issue to understand the cover-up the U.S. government and military continue to spin out around this subject, they know that the secrecy has grave concerns directly relating to the quality of life on this planet for everyone.
Repression of clean and free energy technology is just one directly applicable issue that needs address, immediately, openly and in a way that is responsible to all the people of this nation. If getting the ballot initiative for an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission is one way to begin to get that education out to the people who need it, then it is worth every bit of Jeff Peckman and team’s efforts on this historic endeavor.
In a world where more and more countries are releasing their previously classified UFO files to the public domain, while the U.S. continues to sit on theirs, it becomes more and more questionable why the U.S. is holding out. Richard Dolan, author of "UFOs and the National Security State" now in volumes 1 and 2, offers a brief comment on why Disclosure is important:
If people had any idea how UFO secrecy has affected their lives, they would be, at the very least, lined up in the queue waiting to sign the ballot initiative for the Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission, getting it on the ballot, and then supporting it and getting it passed when the time comes to vote on it. To understand how this affects the lives of us all, see this earlier article, "What do UFOs and extraterrestrials have to do with life in the real world?"
People who don’t understand, who have not taken the time to educate themselves about this vitally important topic will ridicule. They will denigrate. They will point fingers about this being one guy’s ego trying to get attention. What they really should be doing is asking questions of themselves about what they really know or don’t know about this subject and taking the time to find out more. In order to do this you must find out – not from the waiting cadre of debunkers, more than ready to preserve your comfortable little encapsulated reality on this third rock from the sun, that if there are extraterrestrials out there, they are so far away as to make the journey here next to impossible – but go to the actual witnesses and testimony they give, listen to their stories and watch their faces as they give it. The Disclosure Project Witness Testimony video or the Disclosure Project National Press Club video are some of the very best to start with. Other great documentaries, available through Amazon or to watch on Google Video include “Out of the Blue” or “Fastwalkers”.
Disclosure and it’s implications for humanity discussed:
Years ago, when George Knapp reported extensively on all aspects of the UFO phenomenon, from lights in the sky to government cover-ups, from abductions to cattle mutilations, he made this statement:
“Science is supposed to stand for the investigation of the unexplained, not the explanation of the uninvestigated.”
Investigate for yourselves. Then see how you feel about signing on to that ballot initiative.
Comments
In order to educate myself on this issue, I've read through the ballot initiative. It doesn't seem to actually DO anything: it doesn't require government disclosure; it doesn't have any requirements to educate the public; it doesn't train anyone in government. All it seems to do is create a committee to publish its opinions on the city web site. It can do that without a ballot initiative, and use its own web site.
While it talks of evaluating ET risks, and being a referral resource of some sort, again this certainly doesn't require a ballot initiative.
And there is also a potential for conflict: the information it publishes on the city web site might come across as being endorsed and approved by the city government. So not only will it cause confusion as to who-believes-what, it also might appear that Denver is 'disclosing' UFO information, when it is only this group printing its opinions.
I'd be happy to hear more details, but that's how I read things so far.
Well said. Not to forget this issue has much to do with recognizing our own identity.
I REALLY think that the vested interests of the global minority require complete transparency and accountability to the global majority prior to any Disclosure occurring.
These are the "hidden-royals" of yesterday that have enormous stakes in this game. It is a clever design to keep the majority at bay, and it has worked well until now.
There is no way that Disclosure (un-censored) will occur with this status-quo unchallenged. The time for philosophizing and debating this really obvious (and not that surprising) phenomenon is over. There is simply no more time left, and humans as a species, are entertaining a massive die-off (this is really not a big surprise either).
Well said Rj well said!
GW
According to the people in the U.F.O. research community, there are several countries that have already "Disclosed".
If this is true where is the smoking gun?
Unfortunately the supposed disclosed information that the other countries have released is nothing more than personal reports. This is the same stuff that we are getting in the private sector.
Just because someone has a military title does not make their personal experience any more credible.
I thought that the Gov/Military people were the ones that were covering up this stuff in the first place? So why would be trust the reports from them more than the civillian reports? And because they are all personal experiences why should they matter in the first place?
In the arena of UFOs and ET, there are two kinds of fool in the center ring:
1 - Those dedicated, industrial strength debunkers who would deny the existence of air, if they could.
2 - Those who believe that 'disclosure' is going to happen without there being a storming of the Bastille.
Unfortunately for the greater mass of humanity, these fools are quite entertaining and they have captured the rapt attention of the greater number of that mass. So, what does that culling leave for a genuine movement towards real disclosure? The equation can be summed up in two words: Damned few.
Short of a disk or triangle hovering over Washington (or Paris... or London, etc.) at the same time there is a working number of media on hand, the attention will remain intently... and contently on the fools.
Niara could you ask Jeff Peckman to address what Rj (june 18, 5:01 PM)has alluded to, after all he is asking for more details and I believe he should be given it. If you can persuade a real sceptic then many more will sign.
Thanks
Thank you for the initiative in asking for more details. But, I don't see what is skeptical about my post, or why I am being alluded to as a skeptic.
My analysis is just how the ballot initiative reads. Just because the initiative language is questioned, or even criticized, really doesn't mean someone is being skeptical or anti-disclosure. In fact, the most valuable thing any political or scientific initiative can harness are the views of those that do not 100% agree with their designs. By doing that, their movement can address their weaknesses before they become systemic and self-defeating.
As a side-note, I do believe that alluding to those who question a movement's elements as 'skeptics' points to a potential weakness in a movement itself: if the reaction to questions is so defensive, it seems to imply an insecurity in its own ability to back up its answers. Which, in this case, could damage public opinion, and so threaten the success of the initiative.
All I can say to some of these comments is that I'm an experiencer myself, and once you've had the experience, it's irrefutable for you. So when you also observe what's being kept from the public, you have a choice. You can keep quiet, which I did for over 12 years out of fear of ridicule of friends and family, and fear of gov't/military repercussions, or you can do your level best to educate, which I'm doing now, post Bush-Cheney era which I never want to see happen again in this country. Some people here may dish up more scorn on this, that's fine, I think there's a term - armchair quarterbacking? It doesn't change the truth. Nor does it change the fact that people need to learn about all of this and it's implications across the board. Jeff Peckman had no idea what would happen when he started the ballot initiative. But just doing it has been an educational process for the public, never mind the mandates of the actual intiative if it's voted in.
Niara,
Does that mean that RJ is right and the initiative has no real purpose other than helping "experiencers" get out the story to the public? If so I think that that is the most inconsiderate way to do this. Even though they say no public money will be spent, it already has been and if this continues the public funds will only be used more and more.
How much has it already cost the city for the meetings and legal fees just to this point?
I do agree that the initiative has been educational, but not just to the public. We all learn from events, even when we think we're the ones doing the teaching. In this case, I think the lesson that the ballot is teaching, is that people who believe extraterrestrials are among us, or believe that the government is hiding information, are the extreme minority. The lesson is being taught to the backers of this initative by the public, by not giving the signatures needed to put it on the ballot.
I do hope the lesson is learned well. The test will be in seeing what the Disclosure supporter's next steps are: accept the lesson, or continue to relearn it, year after year.
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