The Obama administration insists the U.S. government has no evidence of extraterrestrials,
but there are plenty of people who believe the government is
withholding such information. Now some of those most ardent believers
are setting out to prove it
The Paradigm Research Group,
a lobbying organization that pushes for the disclosure of information
relating to extraterrestrials, has enlisted six former congressmen to
preside over five days of congressional-style hearings on the issue.
Former
Reps. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.; Carolyn Kilpatrick, D-Mich.; Darlene
Hooley, D-Ore.; Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md.; Merrill Cook, R-Utah; and former
Sen. Mike Gravel, D-Alaska; will participate in the event, focusing on
"an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and a government
policy to embargo that truth," according to Paradigm Research Group.
The
group is paying the former congressmen about $20,000 each for their
participation and will cover their expenses, Paradigm Research Group
founder Stephen Bassett told CBSNews.com. Bassett said he reached out to
dozens of former congressmen and is pleased with the diversity of his
committee.
The event will be modeled after the
congressional hearing system, with witnesses providing written and oral
testimony to the six former congressmen. There are about 40 witnesses
expected to testify, including some with space and military backgrounds
like Edgar Mitchell, a NASA Apollo 14 astronaut who walked on the moon
in the 1970s, and John Callahan, the former division chief of the
accidents and investigations branch of the FAA.
Its aim
is to "send the message to Congress just 14 blocks up the street,"
Bassett said, "This is what you should be doing." The last time Congress
addressed the issue was in 1968, and since then "the evidence has piled
up," proving the existence of extraterrestrial engagement, Bassett
said.
The hearings will take place at the National Press
Club in Washington, D.C., from April 29- May 3. They will be open to the
public and streamed online in multiple languages, as well as filmed for
a documentary in production called "Truth Embargo."
Cook, the former Utah congressman, told
the Salt Lake Tribune that he's an "open-minded skeptic" on the subject
of extraterrestrial life but thinks he is "unlikely to be persuaded."
"I
can buy into that as a possibility, but to this day I have not heard or
read or seen anything that makes me believe that anyone has encountered
one on Earth," he said.
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