Glimpses of Disclosure
Grant Cameron
X-Conference 2004 – First Annual
Exopolitics Expo
April 17-18,2004
Since
the modern age of Ufology began in 1947 there have been a number of occasions
when people representing various segments of the government have approached people
in the media and in the UFO community. They have offered up clear glimpses of
information that indicate the UFO phenomenon is and extraterrestrial phenomena
and that the government has known it right from the beginning. The importance
of these government approaches is that the government was not required to do it.
They simply could have continued to carry on as if nothing had happened. I am
not going to spend my time dwelling on the possible government motives for these
glimpses. My intention is simply to list the examples and allow interested people
to discuss it later. The possible reasons for what is going on include:
• Steering investigators away from the truth;
• Undermining the credibility of subject and researcher;
• Controlling
the researcher and the flow of leaks on UFOs, or a controlled way of releasing
the truth behind the phenomena while keeping control.
Finally,
before I begin I would like to mention that I think they are two different methods
used by government to get the information out. The Democrats appeared to make
direct efforts to force out the documents and stories. The republicans, on the
other hand, appeared to use back door cloak and dagger methods to get out the
word. Now, let me move on to brief glimpses of disclosure that began to appear
at the end of the Truman and beginning of the Eisenhower administration.
The
first person to be closely tied into government for glimpses into what was going
on was the famous contactee George Adamski. He claimed to have had a number of
contacts inside government who helped “cooperate in the collection attempt
to get photographs of the strange craft moving through space.” Adamski listed
a group of government contacts and special government privileges he had been granted.
• An association with 4 U.S government scientists from Point Loma Naval Electronic Laboratory.
•
An association with a similar group of scientists in
•
Adamski’s key contact outside the
• According to a source of Jacques Vallee’s - in Australia Adamski was traveling on a passport bearing special privileges.
• Adamski claimed he had a pass to enter the White House.
Very clearly involved in this early disclosure initiative was movie producer Walt Disney. The story of the incident was told by one of his key animators Ward Kimball.
At
the 1979 MUFON UFO symposium in
According
to Kimball’s account of events Disney went along with the USAF plan, which
was not that unusual. The use
of Walt Disney cartoons, after all had been suggested by the 1953 CIA Robertson
UFO panel as part of a public-education program involving the mass media to "strip
the UFO phenomenon of its special status and eliminate the aura of mystery it
has acquired." Once Walt Disney had finished his meetings with the
USAF, he began to work on the requested UFO documentary for the public. He asked
his animators to think up what an alien would look like. Meanwhile, he waited
for the Air Force to deliver on the promised film. After some period of time the
Air Force re-contacted Disney and told him the film offer had to be withdrawn.
There would be no UFO footage as promised.
Kimball told researcher Stanton Friedman that once he found out there would be no delivery of UFO film; he personally spoke with an Air Force Colonel who told him, “There indeed was plenty of UFO footage, but that neither Ward, nor anyone else, was going to get access to it.” This caused Disney to end the UFO documentary project.
Recent
information indicates that Disney may actually have gotten some film and didn’t
use it. This story comes from a prominent
In
the 1970s, Maloney was dining with the head of Disney, and four of the original
nine Disney animators while on a trip to the Disney Corporation in
The man offered to show Maloney some unusual film footage at his house. When Maloney saw it he described it as "old footage of UFOs," and "two beings that he was told were aliens."
UFO investigator Georgina Bruni interviewed Mike Maloney about his early 1970s encounter at Disney. She described what Maloney told her about the aliens he had been shown on the film:
One, which appeared to be dead, was laid out on a table - or slab, the other was clearly alive and moving around on the floor. He was given no information as to the source of the footage, which he was told was “top secret", but he was in no doubt that it was a genuine piece of old film. Mike described it as being similar to the alien autopsy footage that had been shown on television. At no time did he say it was the same, just similar. Of the footage he personally viewed, he said: ‘If the film that I saw was a fake, it was a brilliant fake.’
At exactly the same time as Disney was being offered his UFO film for a documentary the USAF was busy helping Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse to produce a 92-minute documentary titled "UFO" was released in May 1956.
Three top Air Force USAF officials Albert M. Chop, Major Dewey J. Fournet, Captain Edward Ruppelt, provided technical assistance to Greene and Rouse. The three key officials had many meeting with the producers. Greene told researcher Robert Barrow:
"Together we went into a lengthy and exhaustive study of reports, various documents and affidavits of UFO sightings and reports from radar experts which, with some heretofore top secret motion pictures, in color, of flying saucers, form the basis of the film."
Most
importantly Greene and Rouse obtained two key UFO films. The two films, both showing
daytime UFOs in flight were the
Nixon Administration
Let
me set the scene. In December 1969 the
Lt.
Colonel Hector Quintanilla Jr., a former Chief of Project Blue Book, for example
wrote a manuscript on his days investigating UFOs for the Air Force. He called
it “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma.” He had wanted to call it “UFOs:
A $20,000,000 Fiasco.”
The
When
the project was shut down, this PR nightmare was over. Never again would the Air
Forced be forced to explain UFOs by putting an officer in front of media microphones
to explain the latest reported sighting. If they wanted to investigate UFOs, they
could now do so in absolute secrecy without the unwanted publicity.
In
Why
after getting out of the UFO nightmare in 1969, did the government jump back in
with both feet in 1973? The 1973 event began when Emenegger was working as the
creative director for Grey Advertising in
We
went to Norton Air Force Base to discuss other things, among them 3-D moving holography,
laser and cancer all of the R&D advance research – ARPA kind of projects,
and the UFO thing was brought up to us, which I just couldn’t believe, but
said “Oh, we’ll just go along with it.” And one conversation led
to another, a contact with the Pentagon. Everyone couldn’t have been more
open about what we were doing. Anyone along the line could have questioned, and
said – and I expected them to say, “Like – what the hell are you
guys talking about.
On
the 1988 UFO documentary “UFO Cover-up Live” Emenegger said that Paul
Shartle, Security Manager and Chief of Requirements for the Audio-Visual Program
the base was the first to describe a film of a filmed encounter between aliens
and base officials at Holloman Air Force base. “While discussing several
of the subjects, UFOs came up. Paul here told us about a film of an alien craft
at Holloman Air Force Base three years earlier.”
Shartle described what was on the film during his appearance on the documentary,
Shartle: I saw footage of three disc shaped crafts. One of the crafts landed and two went away.
Question: Why did it land?
Shartle: It appeared to be in trouble because it oscillated all the way down to the ground. However, it did land on three pods. A sliding door opened. A ramp was extended and out came three aliens.
Question: What did they look like?
Shartle:
Well, they were human size, had an odd gray complexion and a pronounced nose.
They wore tight fitting jump suits, thin headdresses that appeared to be communications
devices, and in their hand they held a translator, I was told. A Holloman base
commander and other Air Force officials went out to greet them.
Emenegger
and Sandler were offered the film of the alien base encounter for the documentary
that they had been asked to make for the Pentagon. Negotiations ensued and involved
meetings right in the Pentagon where Emenegger and Sandler did not even have to
sign in. Emenegger described the situation in a 1994
We headed for the Pentagon and we walked into the building – I remember the two of us, and for some reason we were herded by two plain clothes men into a little narrow room with fluorescent lights over it and I just remember, and some man sitting behind a desk and he pointed at us and he said “We’re very concerned about you bringing up the subject of UFOs. He said it causes when people like you put these things on the air it causes the phone lines – it ties up our phone lines. It is not part of our duty, our national defense”, and on and on. I was under these fluorescent lights watching these three plain clothes men. I thought I was going to die there for a minute.
But again my partner had enough sense to say “Heh! We were invited by Mr. Hatch by Colonel Coleman, and they said “Okay, well just a warning.” So we went of to meet Colonel Coleman. Now he’s the one that looks like Hemmingway with the beard walking through the E-ring at the Pentagon. The first thing he says to us was, “You know if you come across information or technology which is against the interest of our national defense- you can be fined and imprisoned.” So it was like warning #2.
Then
we went into his inner office, and a strange thing happened. He said, “Come
on boys. Sit down. Let me tell you something.”
Everyone
in these Pentagon production meetings had a chance to protest the idea but no
one did. Emenegger explained,
Well, they all had a chance. As a matter of fact, you know, one of our agreements was to go over the script at the Pentagon, and if there was any question about anything that they had the right to ask about it. Strangely enough, no one even questioned the whole thing about the landing at Holloman Air Force Base – like, “Well OK.”
It all unfolded. One would call another. For instance Coleman said, “Hold on” as we were sitting in his office. He would put a call into (General) George (Weinbrenner) and say. “Do you want to talk to these guys?” A day later I think we went down into the bunker, and there confronted George. We couldn’t have – I think I was pretty straightforward. My first question was, “What about the landing at Holloman Air Force Base.” He kind of said, “Well, I’ll tell you.”
The
two men were told of a film that had been shot at Holloman Air Force Base we here
an alien ship had landed. An alien got out of the crafts and met with officials
at the base. The group then moved down the tarmac to a base building.
Emenegger
was promised 3200 feet of film from this film that could be placed in his documentary
to help make the people aware of that fact that UFOs did exist and there had been
official contact between the government and the extraterrestrials. Emenegger and
Sandler were offered other UFO film for the documentary. One example was a Top
Secret film involving a missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base that was tracked
by UFOs.
We
were given a film - Top Secret- it was still Top Secret on it – Quintanilla’s
name was on it, of a launching at Vandenberg of which three cameras followed the
one missile take-off. Behind it you saw two little white - looked like transparent
moons sort of just trailing and following it their way but from every camera -
no matter what position - so it wasn’t a reflection. We had Bob Baker who
was the guy who did the 1952 Robertson Panel guy. Anyway Bob Baker was very well
known at that time. So he came in and analyzed it and said it’s a million
to one that it’s anything but - its not Venus - it’s not a reflection
- it’s this - it’s unknown stuff.
The
documentary and book went ahead but in a move that would become a pattern for
all future glimpses of disclosure, the Holloman film was withdrawn at the last
minute. Coleman recalled the film, and a man was forced to drive the film back
across the country in his car. Emenegger and Sandler were forced to use recreations
to talk about a possible encounter between the government and the aliens.
The Carter Administration
Carter
as probably everyone in the room knows saw a UFO prior to becoming Governor of
Georgia. In 1976 the National Enquirer interviewed Carter about the incident,
and about what he would do about UFOs if elected to the White House. Carter made
a promise to release all the sighting data.
Enquirer: Governor, when you once saw a UFO. If you were President, would you reopen inquiry into UFOs?
Carter: Well - No what I would make the information we have about those sightings available to the public, and let them decide. I never have tried to identify what I saw. It was – you know- a light in the western sky. It was very unique. I had never seen it before. There were about 20 of us who saw it. None of us could figure out what it was. Well, I don’t think it was anything solid. It looked just like a light. It was a very peculiar aberration. I don’t make fun of people who say they have seen unidentified objects in the sky.
Enquirer:
The
Carter:
I don’t know yet.
Disclosure seemed only moments
away. A President was in the White House who had experienced the phenomena, and
who believed a well-informed public had the right to know. What many don’t
realize is that Carter did place some conditions on his UFO promise.
I
don’t see any reason to keep information like that secret but there may be
some aspect of the UFO information with which I am not familiar that might be
related to some secret experiments that we doing that might involve our national
security –our new weapons systems. I certainly wouldn’t release that.
But if it was something removed from our national security, in my opinion as President
I would go ahead and release that. I see nothing wrong with that.
Many of the UFO accounts I have heard concerning the Carter administration state that Carter backed away from his promise to disclose and did nothing about UFOs while in the White House. This is not true at all. Carter did push hard on disclosure and did achieve a great deal.
Jimmy
Carter started to push for the UFO answer even before he was president. During
his president elect briefing given by President Ford’s Director of Central
Intelligence George Bush, Carter demanded the files on UFOs.
Bush
told Carter that he could not provide the requested documents. He stated Carter
did not have a “need – to - know” and that curiosity on the part
of the President was not sufficient reason to be told about UFOs. Now Ronald Pandolfi,
who is rumored to run the weird desk at the CIA, has expressed his doubts
that George Bush even denied UFO information to the president-elect because it
would have gotten him fired. The fact of the matter is, however, that Carter removed
Bush. In fact Bush never served a single day as DCI under President Carter.
Once
in office Carter continued to push for UFO disclosure. Those who elected him did
not forget the UFO promise because the White House received 9,000 UFO letters.
Carter’s promise to release was stalled by more than just the pledge Carter
had made not to release information tied into the national security. It was limited
by who Carter was. Carter had run as a
Carter also got into trouble with the military
industrial complex, often rumored to be a controlling factor in the UFO cover-up,
by cutting $5 billion from the defense budget. He also cancelled the B-1 bomber,
shelved the neutron bomb, vetoed a nuclear aircraft carrier, and disassembled
the draft machinery. In the end he was run over. Carter made a number of efforts
to shake the federal agencies for any information they might have on UFOs, or
for any secret system that existed for coordinating information on UFOs. His trusted
Press Secretary Jody Powell took on this task. Powell contacted agencies such
as the FBI and NASA.
The
FBI said they “had no authorization or reason for conducting any inquiries
on this subject” and that they turned everything over to the Air Force “without
taking any action on it.” NASA knew that the UFO issue was a no-win situation,
and would be a severe strain on their budget, which Carter had just cut. They
agreed to answer UFO mail sent to the White House and investigate any “bona
fide physical evidence from credible sources”.
The
Carter administration did much more towards UFO disclosure than it has been given
credit for. A good number of the declassified government UFO documents we have
today were released under the Carter administration. During the four Carter years
approximately 3,000 pages were released including big collections from the CIA,
FBI, and NSA. Carter met openly with UFO personalities such as
Stories
told by attorney Daniel Sheehan clearly showed that Jimmy Carter did call for
a collection of UFO information once he became president. Sheehan, a prominent
civil rights attorney had been called as a consultant to two studies being done
for the president. One of the studies was on UFOs, and one was on extraterrestrial
intelligence. Sheehan described how he was contacted to obtain the
I was contacted by Marcia Smith, the head of
the Science and Technology Division of the Congressional Research Service, to
see if I as chief counsel for the
As part of his work, Sheehan asked
Marcia Smith to see the classified sections of Project Blue Book. Someone up high
aided Marcia Smith, the author of the reports from the Library of Congress, and
Sheehan was asked to go to the
Back
in 1977, when I was asked to participate as a special consultant to the Library
of Congress research group analysis for President Carter, I was given access to
the Project Blue Book files – the classified sections of them during the
preparation for a seminar which I was asked to present to the top 50 scientists
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California in the SETI program. In that context
I was allowed to review the classified sections of the Blue Book Project. In that
section I came across absolutely clear pictures - photographs -of a UFO
that was on the ground. It had apparently crashed. It was stuck in the stuck in
the side of an embankment. There was snow all around in the photographs, and there
were
You
could see them in a number of these photographs. Then there were actual close
up photos from different perspectives of the vehicle, and they actually had insignia
on the side of the vehicle that they had taken close up pictures of. So when I
saw this, in the context, where I had been allowed into this room downstairs in
the new building of the Library of Congress that had not even been opened yet.
This was a brand new building. They had a big special room downstairs. There were
Air Force guards at the doors. When I actually saw these photographs in the files
I said “Well, Now that I have seen this, and I know that the
Sheehan
further reported that Carter did get the two reports and that they had stunning
information in them.
She went forward and supervised two of the final studies. The first study reached the conclusion – this was an official United States government Congressional Research Service report that was prepared by the Congressional Research Service Science and Technology Division and sent to the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives, who in turn sent it to the President. In this report they concluded that there were from two to six – at least- from two to six highly technological intelligent civilizations other than on our planet here in our galaxy.
And
secondly, they prepared a full report on the UFO phenomena. It actually had diagrams
of all the different shaped UFO craft that were there, and in fact projected that
it appeared to be that in a certain number of cases, and they indicated that from
5% to 6% of these cases – of these sightings – that there was absolutely
no other rational explanation for these phenomena, given the caliber of
the witnesses, the caliber of the collaboration of the sightings, to lead to any
other conclusion than the fact that they appeared to be coming from one or more
of these two to six extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy.
Another indication that Carter
did gain knowledge about the true nature of the UFO phenomena and tried to disclose
it came from a story told by actress Shirley MacLean. MacLaine was responding
to a question put to her by UFO researcher Art Greenfield on the Larry King Show.
The question was based on what actor Nicholas Cage had stated a couple weeks earlier
during an appearance on the David Letterman show.
Question:
Hello, Good evening Larry and Shirley, About two weeks ago, Nicholas Cage
was on the Letterman Show and said Shirley had
told him that President Carter had told her he had seen recovered alien spacecraft
and aliens in a hanger. Can you tell me exactly what President Carter said?
Shirley: "He didn't tell me that, but he told me many times that when I first wrote "Out On A Limb" that he would support me, that it was true, that there were occupants. Why should we be the only people in the universe? He wanted to shine the sunshine laws on intelligence, to expose it, to see how the people would react, but he didn't and wouldn't and couldn't, as he explained to me."
Grant
Cameron became involved in extraterrestrial-related
phenomena research in May 1975 with a personal sighting near
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