Roswell faithful push for ‘truth’ to be told about alien visitors
Published 9:00 pm Saturday, July 7, 2007
ROSWELL, N.M. – Attention all aliens. Come on down. Because seriously, this is your crowd, as 50,000 of your closest admirers are gathering this weekend for the Roswell UFO Festival, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the nearby crash landing of a flying saucer – and, naturally, the ensuing government coverup.
A weather balloon? Please. We are not fools.
At least that’s the thinking here. Not up on the latest ufology? The debate now is all about “disclosure,” meaning not if, but when. When is the government finally going to open its top-secret files to reveal its voluminous data on the sightings, abductions and close encounters dating back until at least July 5, 1947. “The anomalies.” Here in the desert Southwest. And probably Mars.
“The secret world will fall. We want the truth embargo to end,” says Stephen Bassett, the founder of X-PPAC, the first political action committee established to target the politics of UFO/ET phenomena. Bassett spoke at the festival’s conference, which, along with the Alien Chase fun run, costume parades, and carnival rides (Orbiter, Splash Down), have filled every motel room in Roswell, once the home of the world’s only atomic warfare unit and the Enola Gay B-29 bomber.
On Friday night, Bassett told the listeners of George Noory’s “Coast to Coast AM” radio show, which beamed live from the convention center to 500 stations, that: “I believe the Democrats are planning disclosures in the first months of the next administration.”
The Democrats? Naturally.
Several ufologists agreed that “the best ET ticket” would be Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York (or maybe Al Gore?) and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), who have probably already have been briefed on the truth. “But they don’t want to say so now,” Bassett said. Interestingly, Richardson is quoted at the UFO Museum and Research Center (“The Truth is Here!”) as stating: “I don’t think the U.S. government has fully disclosed everything they know.”
Why won’t they tell all? “Because they don’t want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs,” said Richard Dolan, author of “UFOs and the National Security State,” and another of the two dozen speakers this weekend. Dolan is not certain that it is an anti-matter machine. Could be anti-gravity. But they’re working on something, perhaps by “reverse engineering” based upon debris – mechanical or biological – vacuumed up at the crash sites.
“The topic is now being taken very seriously,” Noory said. He said if the CIA could release 693 pages of the “family jewels,” the worst deeds by the nation’s spies, then the UFO research community asks why not the files (probably kept underground) about the extraterrestrials. “We’ve been visited from the very beginning of time,” Noory said. “Maybe we’ve been seeded. Maybe we’ve been changed. I don’t know. But somebody does.”
