Beyond Disclosure – the Exopolitical Paradox,” with Guest, Executive Director of Paradigm Research Group (PRG), and Host of DisclosureWire Podcast, Stephen Bassett; and Musical Guest, Internationally Acclaimed Singer / Songwriter, Chris Pierce on The LIFE CHANGES Show – Ep #623
Guest: STEPHEN BASSETT; and Musical Guest: CHRIS PIERCE
STEPHEN BASSETT
Stephen Bassett is the executive director of Paradigm Research Group (PRG) founded in 1996 to end a government imposed embargo on the truth behind extraterrestrial related phenomena. He has spoken to audiences around the world about the implications of “Disclosure” – the formal confirmation by heads of state of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He has given over 1200 radio and television interviews and PRG’s advocacy work has been extensively covered by national and international media including being featured on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
In 2013 PRG organized a “Citizen Hearing on Disclosure” at the National Press Club in Washington. In November of 2014 PRG launched a two year political initiatives out of Washington, DC that injected the ET issue into the 2016 presidential campaign. PRG recently launched a new exopolitical podcast out of Washington, DC – the DisclosureWire – based in the National Press Building two blocks from the White House.
Bassett has appeared in many documentary films and his lectures and interviews are well represented on YouTube.
On episode 196 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we are joined by first-time guests, Luis Elizondo and Sean Cahill. In 2017, the New York Times published a story that exposed a highly secretive Pentagon unit that studied UFOs. It was known as AATIP, The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. It was directed by a man named Luis Elizondo, a former Special Agent and senior counterintelligence officer for the Department of Defense. After leaving the program, Elizondo helped facilitate the release of three videos taken by Navy pilots of unidentified aerial objects, which were officially released by the Department of Defense and acknowledged as genuine unknown aerial phenomena. One of the cases Elizondo investigated while in the Pentagon and one of the videos he would subsequently help release, was from an event known as the Nimitz UFO incident.
For several days in November 2004, a Navy missile cruiser sailing around 100 miles off the coast of southern California detected strange radar signals emanating from an object. The Navy then deployed fighter jets to catch a closer glimpse and one succeeded in recording a video of what is now known as the Tic Tac UFO. Dozens witnessed the UFO activity that day. And one of those witnesses was Chief Master-at-Arms, Sean Cahill. Today, we speak to both Luis Elizondo and Sean Cahill about where they've been, what they've learned, and where they're going next.
The USS Kidd was among the warships reportedly swarmed by "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" in July 2019.
By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Mysterious flying objects repeatedly harassed three US warships off the coast of California in 2019 — at one point matching the speed and bearing of one destroyer for 90 minutes, according to newly released details from the ships’ logs.
The unidentified crafts, described in the logs as “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” buzzed three destroyers for several days, according to records obtained by the news site The Drive through the US Freedom of Information Act.
As many as six of the drones swarmed around the USS Kidd, USS Rafael Peralta and USS John Finn over several days in July 2019, at times performing “brazen” maneuvers, the report said.
“Kidd reported UAV overhead,” one of the ship log entries from July 14, 2019, reads.
“White light identified hovering over ships flight deck,” said another entry.
“Two UAV’s spotted off the starboard wing,” the Rafael Peralta log read, followed by another entry six minutes later: “Four UAV’s spotted off the starboard bridge.”
The Navy vessels, which are equipped with sensors, radar, thermal imaging and electro-optical systems, were nonetheless unable to track the drones when they disappeared.
On July 15, 2019, the ships contacted the cruise ship Carnival Imagination, which was sailing nearby, to determine if the crafts were from there.
The crew of the cruise ship said not only were the drones not theirs — but could see five or six of them flying around the Navy destroyers, Forbes said in a report.
The sightings took place while the warships were engaged in military exercises about 100 miles off the coast of Los Angeles — well beyond the range of commercial drones.
The incident prompted an investigation by the Navy, Coast Guard, FBI and other agencies, Forbes said, but failed to come up with an answer.
Details of the mysterious incident were first reported by Dave Beaty, who posted about it on Twitter in June of last year, Forbes said.
The revelation is just the latest report of unexplained crafts buzzing around the sky.
In a report earlier this month, a former national intelligence official said a forthcoming government report will reveal “difficult to explain” evidence surrounding UFO sightings — including that they have been known to break the sound barrier without a sonic boom.
Last month, the FBI confirmed that it had received a report from an American Airlines pilot who reported a “long cylindrical object” over New Mexico at 37,000 feet.
In November 2019, reports surfaced of a similar incident in 2004 involving the USS Princeton off the coast of California — with the Navy allegedly trying to delete the details.
To mark UFO Week on BLAZE, we spoke to two experts in the field: Philip Mantle, the director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association; and Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator with years of service in the government.
The channel undertook a survey of 2,000 UK adults on matters regarding extraterrestrial and unidentified aerial phenomena, with some staggering results. For example, 11% of respondents believe they’ve seen a UFO.
Responding to the figures, Pope told UNILAD, ‘It’s a proper regular opinion poll just as you would ask on any subject. If you extrapolate those figures, that’s millions of sightings. So that’s incredible.’
While there’s any number of famous cases one could cite, whether it’s Roswell, Tehran or Rendelsham Forest, Pope says the ones he found ‘extremely troubling were ‘all of the near-misses between UFOs and commercial aircraft… when it’s pilots, military personnel, police officers, when you’ve got things simultaneously tracked on radar, that gets my attention.’
Earlier in 2020, the Pentagon officially released three declassified videos of UFOs, immediately becoming a worldwide talking point and going on to spark an impending report from US intelligence agencies as part of the COVID-19 relief bill – this is because ‘the Intelligence Authorization Act wasn’t going to get through, so they piggy-backed it onto a bill they knew was going to pass’, Pope said.
UFO sightings have been common for years, but interest has only increased thanks in part to pop culture, but also due to developments like the Mars rover searching for life, or The New York Times covering the Pentagon clips. ‘It’s traditionally a very sceptical publication when it comes to UFOs… I think it was a turning point really,’ Mantle explained.
According to 52% of the respondents, panic and fear would be the dominant reactions if aliens were proven to be visiting Earth. Mantle, who has spoken to people who’ve experienced close encounters of both the third (contact) and fourth (abduction) kind, says experiences ‘depend on the individual’.
Discussing the research for his book Without Consent, Mantle said, ‘A number of people said they wholeheartedly believe it was beings from another world, others said they thought it was some kind of spiritual experience, others just didn’t know.’
He spoke about a man from Wales called David Thomas ‘who was frightened to death at the time, and continued to be scared for some years afterwards. David was so scared he went for hypnotherapy, because he had nightmares about it’.
Mantle said, ‘It’s fear of the unknown. It can be scary, yes, because these experiences, whatever they are, happen to anyone, at any place, at any time, so it’s not something you can predict, it’s not something you can protect yourself against. You can’t wear a crucifix so the vampires won’t get you, or a clove of garlic. But to the best of my knowledge, nobody’s been physically harmed by these encounters.’
He added, ‘I think the terrifying part of it is the lack of control. You have no control over these encounters. And even the sceptics think these encounters happen, they think there’s a psychological explanation. Well, if there is, it’s still a subject worthy of study.’
As for whether Pope has seen any UFOs himself, despite investigating so many sightings, ‘Sadly I’ve not seen anything, but I live in hope. I think it’s about time. I’ve spent years investigating this for the government, and I see my role now as a communicator on this issue.’
Some government agencies are standing in the way of efforts to catalog reports of “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” Politico reports, citing several current and former government officials.
Back in 2017, reports emerged of a secretive Pentagon program that was tasked to look into unexplained UFO sightings in military airspace. Several of these incidents were caught on video, and in January, the CIA declassified every file it claims to have on these sightings.
But government employees tasked with looking into the incidents are now claiming that agencies are not releasing relevant information, in some cases resisting the release of any classified information.
And it’s not just active resistance.
“Just getting access to the information, because of all the different security bureaucracies, that’s an ordeal in itself,” Christopher Mellon, a former Pentagon intelligence official, told Politico.
In August, the Pentagon established a special Navy-led “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force” to look into these reports — but it hasn’t made much progress.
“I know that the task force has been denied access to pertinent information by the Air Force and they have been stiff-armed by them,” Mellon added.
A Pentagon spokesperson declined to “publicly discuss the details of the UAP observations” with Politico.
The task force will likely have to delay delivering its report to Congress, which could make it look like the government is trying to hide what it knows — even if the evidence ultimately turns out to be underwhelming.
“We have to try to know what it is,” senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Fox News this week, noting that the task force will likely blow past its June 1 deadline. “I can tell you it is being taken more seriously now that it ever has been.”
Former US President Donald Trump asked for a report into "unidentified aerial phenomena", with the results set to be published in June. It may trigger a huge debate on UFOs.
2021 is set to be the year of the UFO thanks to Donald Trump's out of this world legacy to lift the lid on alien activity.
He may have left office in a storm of controversy but he could be remembered light years into the future as the first US President to take ETs seriously.
One of his final acts was an order in the Covid-19 relief bill for the director of national intelligence to submit a report into "unidentified aerial phenomena" or "anomalous aerial vehicles" – aka, flying saucers.
When the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies release the data in June it is set to trigger a global debate on unidentified flying objects. Highly-regarded business magazine Forbes predicts the planet is about to experience the "year of the UFO".
The ex-President's former director of national security John Ratcliffe said the report will include previously unknown sightings from "all over the world".
Part of the mission is to determine if any unexplained objects sighted have links to adversarial foreign governments and the threat they pose to US military assets and installations.
The US set up a £16million advanced aerospace threat identification programme inside the Pentagon in 2007 to probe mysterious craft.
Though officially disbanded in 2012 it was said to have continued its work.
Former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who ran the Pentagon programme until 2017, said: “For the first time the government is finally taking this topic seriously. The evidence is overwhelming at this point.
"We're dealing with some very advanced technology that, from a national security standpoint, is very significant. I don't think this is a US phenomenon. It is a global phenomenon. Is it a threat? My response is, it could be, so we'd better find out what it is.''
US astronomer Avi Loeb said all sightings should be properly investigated. "It shouldn't be a matter of national security but a matter of science", he said.
“Let's get to the bottom of this.”
Videos captured by three US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighters and released last year (2020) showed UFOs moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible manoeuvres.
One was shot in 2004 and the others in January 2015.
In the two later clips, US Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief at what they were witnessing.
Drafted Pentagon reports are said to include a photo of a silver cube-shaped' UFO emerging from the ocean and soaring through the sky captured from his cockpit by a military pilot on his mobile phone in 2018 off the US east coast.
Another extremely clear' snap reportedly shows an unidentifiable triangular aircraft emerging from the ocean in front of a Hornet fighter pilot.
The reports are also said to contain an admission that extraterrestrial origins for the objects cannot be ruled out.
Marco Rubio, vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said: “My thing is very simple – we don't know what that stuff is that's flying over the top of our installations. Let's find out.”
‘ET Embassy Day’—each year slated to take place on the first Saturday of April—Raelians worldwide will, once again, intensify their awareness campaign and invite the public to join and contribute to this unique endeavor sponsored by the International Raelian Movement.
“Our goal is to have the United Nations adopt an addendum to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations entitled ‘Optional Protocol concerning Embassies for Extraterrestrials,” explained Daniel Turcotte—Raelian Guide and Head of the International Raelian Movement Embassy Project.
“The UN Secretary-General’s office explained that the Secretary-General will open a debate on the issue only if asked by a sufficient number of UN member states ambassadors,” added Turcotte.
Turcotte also explained that Raelians are launching an international awareness campaign to motivate citizens of all countries to send an e-letter to their respective UN ambassador requesting that they present the case for the ‘Optional Protocol concerning Embassies for Extraterrestrials’ to the UN General Assembly. The hope is to be compelling enough for them to hold an international diplomatic conference to discuss that optional protocol drafted and submitted by Raelians.
It is noteworthy that ‘ET Embassy Day’ also comes in the midst of a renewed interest in the UFO phenomenon with the ‘UFO Disclosure Report’ slated to be released this coming June by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (UAPTF). The official confirmation made by the US Department of Defense last year, to the effect that some UFOs are likely to be of extraterrestrial origin, gives an even greater significance to the ET Embassy Day project.
According to recent polls conducted in many countries and in 15 different languages, more than 60% of the global population believes that life exists on other planets and they would welcome an official contact.
“As a response to the demands of their citizens regarding the ‘Optional Protocol Concerning Embassies for Extraterrestrials’, we believe the UN General Assembly will, sooner or later, be left with no other alternative than to discuss the necessary diplomatic arrangements for humanity to welcome this extraterrestrial civilization to Earth,” Turcotte added. “And if the UN doesn’t take the lead, then the countries we are already in discussions with certainly will. We will happily work with these enlightened nations to identify the best possible location for the Embassy Project,” he concluded.
