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[Carol Nistri]

what do all of you think of this article.This article is thanks to Merc btw.


If you are unaware of the prevalence of this subject among those close to Obama, you should find this article very intriguing. Now, I have no knowledge of Obama actually having ridden on a UFO, or communicating with Extraterrestrials. Honestly, there are no indications that he has any interest in the subject whatsoever. However, his chosen Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and the man in charge of his transition into the White House, John Podesta, have shown great interest.
Transition Project chairman, John Podesta
Let’s start with the most vocal of the two. John Podesta served on Bill Clinton’s staff from 1993 until Clinton left office. Podesta’s final position was as Clinton’s Chief of Staff. He is now advising the Obama administration as well. He has remained influential in politics as the Founder and President of a respected liberal think tank called the Center for American Progress.
It has always been known that Podesta is a big sci-fi buff. He made headlines during his tenure in the White House when he had an X-files themed birthday party. He was especially keen on that series. For a man at his level to have an interest in sci-fi is not that unusual. However, to attend a press conference at the National Press Club, and ask the government to release its secret files on UFOs so that scientists can determine the nature of the phenomena can justifiably be called startling.
In 2002, the Coalition for the Freedom of Information headed by journalist Leslia Kean, along with the Sci Fi channel, held a press conference at the National Press Club to address the issue of secrecy regarding the subject of UFOs. At that meeting Podesta stated, “It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old, and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon.” He made this comment in front of many major media representatives in attendance. The video can be seen below.
Freedom of information was a major concern for the Clinton administration. In fact, Podesta was in charge of a project to declassify millions of government documents. Did Podesta not find the UFO documents he was looking for in those stacks of declassified files? We do know that Podesta was not alone in the Clinton White House when it came to searching for the truth behind the UFO mystery.

John Podesta (Image Credit: Center for American
Progress)
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
Files retrieved in Freedom of Information Act Requests submitted by researcher Grant Cameron of PresidentialUFO.com contained two letters from the mid-nineties regarding correspondence between Laurence Rockefeller and President Clinton’s Science and Technology advisor, John Gibbons. The letters were regarding Hillary Clinton’s assistance with Rockefeller’s initiative to release UFO information to the public in 1995 and ‘96.
Laurence Rockefeller fights for disclosure
Laurence Rockefeller, one of the Rockefeller heirs, worked diligently during Clinton’s administration to fund research in UFOs, and to get official government information released. Laurence, who passed in 2004, was by no means a black sheep of the powerful Rockefeller family. He held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and was the founding trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for forty-two years. He was a venture capitalist who was involved with among other things, the rise of the computer era. He helped shape history, and now he wanted the public to be informed about UFOs and was seeking Hillary Clinton’s advice on how to present this to the President.
In the Rockefeller-Gibbons letters, they refer to Hillary and Rockefeller discussing a letter to the President about evidence regarding UFOs and lifting secrecy on Extraterrestrial technology. Another letter between the two referred to keeping the first lady’s office up to date on Rockefeller’s efforts.
Does this confirm that Hillary was interested in the subject? Perhaps not, perhaps she was only helping Rockefeller out of friendship or respect. However, there is other evidence that suggests her husband was certainly interested.

Hillary and Obama (Image Credit: White House
(Pete Souza))
Clinton’s search for the truth
There are actually many instances where Bill Clinton mentioned looking into the UFO subject. You can read many of these at Cameron’s PresidentialUFO.com Web site, one of the more interesting stories was printed in a book by Clinton’s friend William Hubbell. Hubbell was a friend of the Clintons from Arkansas, and was actually indicted for fraud in the Whitewater scandals. Before his indictment he was assigned to the Attorney General’s office as the Associate Attorney General. Hubbell wrote in his book Friends in High Places: “Clinton had said, 'If I put you over at Justice, I want you to find the answers to two questions for me,' Hubbell recounts. 'One, who killed JFK. And two, are there UFOs?' Clinton was dead serious. I had looked into both, but wasn't satisfied with the answers I was getting."
In a recent interview with Grant Cameron, he told me that he felt that he had amassed enough evidence to show that the Clintons were interested in the subject of UFOs, but that not even the President has the power to demand that sort of information. He doesn’t have the need to know. In an interview in Hong Kong, Clinton was asked about his UFO interests, and he admitted that he is sure that career bureaucrats withhold information from the President. You can watch that video below.
Americans need to know
When I had read about this whole saga, I was fascinated. If this is the first time you have heard of it, hopefully you are as well. Grant Cameron’s Web site is great, so be sure to read more there. I have read every word.
So what does this all mean? Well, if Obama, Hillary, and Podesta are in a meeting and the boss asks, “So what about this UFO stuff?” He will be sure to get an ear full, and it is a conversation I would love to hear.
Does it mean that Obama will seek UFO information like Clinton? If Cameron is correct, they will need to try some new tactics. They will also need to weigh whether it is worth the effort.
Proponents of disclosure point out the benefits of the technology. They argue that if ET technology has been obtained in secret that it would be able to help us with the major issues facing the world today, such as the energy crisis. ET technology might be able to help us get off of our dependence on fossil fuels, and open up a whole new world of clean energy. That is, of course, if ET technology has been recovered, and if we can make heads or tails of it.
I personally don’t feel that secrets are conducive to a healthy democracy. Voters need to be informed if we are to make responsible voting decisions. That is what drives my support for disclosure. However, what goes on behind the closed doors of the White House is anyone’s guess. At least the danger of distraction by philandering with interns has most likely decreased.

For more info:
Alejandro's Internet Radio Interview with Grant Cameron on this subject
Cloalition for the Freedom of Information
Grant Cameron's Presidential UFO website
Grant's HIllary Clinton UFO website
Barack Obama UFO.com

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[lee934]

Makes a lot of assumptions and claims Obama has ridden in a ufo, evidence please!

[mercuryrapids]

Originally Posted by lee934

and claims Obama has ridden in a ufo, evidence please!

No it doesn't...

Now, I have no knowledge of Obama actually having ridden on a UFO, or communicating with Extraterrestrials.
(my emphasis)

[Carol Nistri]

where does it say that Lee?

[mercuryrapids]

By the way, I did a review of the UFO Files programme, UFOs and the White House for UFO DATA Magazine. It can be read here:

UFOs and the White House

When Gerald Ford died, I also did a small piece about his UFO connections:

Gerald Ford and the UFO Debate

On December 26th, 2006, Gerald Rudolph Ford died aged 93. He was the 38th President of the United States and inherited the big seat in the Oval Office from Richard Milhous Nixon, who was forced to resign after the Watergate Scandal. This made Ford the only unelected president of the world’s most powerful nation. For almost three years, his administration saw the USA withdraw from Vietnam and the signing of the Helsinki Accords, which hoped to reduce Cold War tensions in Europe. His administration also provided arms and aid for Indonesia when it invaded East Timor in 1975, resulting in the deaths of up to 200,000 people and a bungled rescue attempt of American sailors from a ship taken captive by the newly-formed Khmer-Rouge government of Cambodia. He also survived two assassination attempts. Perhaps most notably (and infamously) Ford granted Nixon a presidential pardon, absolving ‘Tricky Dicky’ of any crimes ‘he may have committed during his Presidency’.

Ford’s career intersected with the UFO subject on several occasions, most notably in the Sixties, when, as a congressman, he pushed for investigations into UFO sightings in 1966. He wrote to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative L Mendel Rivers:

“No doubt you have noted the recent flurry of newspaper stories about unidentified flying objects (UFOs). I have taken special interest in these accounts because many of the latest reported sightings have been in my home State of Michigan.

“The Air Force sent a consultant, Astrophysicist Dr. J. Allen Hynek of NorthwesternUniversity, to Michigan to investigate the various reports; and he dismissed all of them as the product of college pranks, or swamp gas, or of an impression created by the rising crescent moon and the planet Venus. I do not agree that all of these reports can be, or should be, so easily explained away.

“Because I think there may be substance in some of these reports, and because I believe the American people are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given them by the Air Force to date, I am proposing that either the Science or Astronautics Committee, or the Armed Service Committee of the House, schedule hearings on the subject of UFOs and invite testimony from both the executive branch of the Government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFOs.�

Rivers called hearings and what followed was a recommendation that independent scientists be assigned to evaluate UFO sightings from the archives of the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book. The man charged with leading this team was Dr Edward U Condon of the University of Colorado. When the Condon Report was released in 1968, the conclusion:

“Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.�

A year later, Project Blue Book was closed down. So, with the best of intentions in mind, Ford was partly responsible for official UFO studies grinding to a halt!

Once Ford became president, he would have little time for UFOs, however it seems his interest in the subject remained. He was quoted years after leaving office as saying: “During my public career in Congress, as Vice President and President, I made various requests for information on UFOs. The official authorities always denied the UFO allegations.�

Following his troubled presidency, it came as little surprise when he was voted out of office and a genial, Georgia peanut farmer by the name of James Earl Carter Jr. Jimmy Carter would also show an interest in UFOs, having officially reported a sighting while acting as governor of Georgia in 1969. He would also attempt to find out more about the subject through official channels while ensconced in the White House. Like Ford before him, he would be doomed to failure.

Steve Johnson

[Carol Nistri]

I had no idea the Los Angeles incident went as far as the President Merc??

[mercuryrapids]

Originally Posted by Carol Nistri

I had no idea the Los Angeles incident went as far as the President Merc??

[Carol Nistri]

well Ill be dipped.

[lee934]

Originally Posted by mercuryrapids

No it doesn't...

Oops I really should engage brain before my typing fingers LOL, sorry!