Kucinich’s close encounter

The presidential candidate’s televised acknowledgment of seeing a UFO has put the issue back on the radar.

Although it’s unlikely that voters will ever have anything resembling a close encounter with Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential hopeless has helped revive an issue that means more to many Americans than any election: suppression of UFO evidence by the men in black.

You may recall that during a recent MSNBC Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, moderator Tim Russert drew out Kucinich on the revelation (by Oscar-winning paranormal investigator Shirley MacLaine) that he had once spotted a “triangular craft, silent and hovering.” Kucinich’s reply, which was intriguing in its own right, came at a conjunction of — well, maybe not of UFO activity, but certainly of UFO aficionado activity.

This fall saw the first anniversary of the multiple-witness saucer incident over the United Airlines terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, which is already shaping up as this decade’s great sighting. In late October, a federal judge ordered NASA to search its records for information on one of two fabled UFO sightings from 1965.

And last month, the New York-based Coalition for Freedom of Information held a conference at which more than a score of pilots from around the world gathered to share their experiences with unidentified flying objects. Moderator Fife Symington (the controversial former governor of Arizona) summed up the conference by calling for the government to stop perpetuating “the myth that ALL UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms” and reopen its official Blue Book investigation, which has been closed since 1969.

Are we on the verge of an alien breakthrough? Is this new critical mass of respectable UFO hawks about to rout the army of dissembling federal agents, driving around in their 1964 Chevy Malibus with their shades and fixed smiles?

Probably not. There have been high-profile flying saucer enthusiasts in the past, including astronauts Buzz Aldrin, who spotted a mysterious something during Apollo 11′s return trip, and the late Gordon Cooper, who once informed the United Nations, “I believe that . . . extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth.”

Kucinich mentioned in his own defense that President Carter was a UFO witness, and he might have mentioned that Ronald Reagan was as well. Then again, if you think presidents really run the country, well, that’s what “they” want you to think.

If anything keeps the cult of the UFO alive, it’s not the respectability of the witnesses but the clumsy, protesting-too-much denials of government agencies. The Federal Aviation Administration got caught in a fib about last year’s O’Hare incident after the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request. And it’s somewhat perverse to call for reopening a federal UFO investigation given how universally hated the knee-jerk-skeptical Project Blue Book turned out to be.

John Podesta, the Clinton White House chief of staff who has never disguised his interest in flying saucers, makes the case that the government should declassify its UFO-related materials “and let people have at it,” a demand that is as reasonable as it is unlikely to happen, given how easily this topic can be rerouted into japery.

In his debate reply, Kucinich made a point dear to respectable UFO investigators: “It was an unidentified flying object, OK?” he said. “It’s like … it was unidentified. I saw something.” There’s a difference between saying objects in the sky are sometimes not familiar and claiming to have been probed by taciturn “grays,” and people such as Coalition for Freedom of Information co-founder Leslie Kean express understandable frustration that UFO ridicule purposely blurs that distinction.

But with Kucinich as a central advocate, ridicule may be unavoidable. In the debate, Kucinich made a self-deprecating joke about moving his campaign headquarters to “Roswell, New Mexico, and another one in Exeter, New Hampshire.” Roswell everybody knows about, but with the easy reference to the 1965 Exeter incident, Kucinich leaves the impression that he’s not just a UFO witness, he’s a buff.

Let him go on, and we suspect Kucinich will soon be expanding on the Kecksburg sightings, the Val Johnson incident, Lonnie Zamora, the “Kaikoura lights” and countless other visitations from the sky that continue to sustain our nation’s sense of mystery.

(Source: http://www.latimes.com)

Kucinich’s close encounter

The presidential candidate’s televised acknowledgment of seeing a UFO has put the issue back on the radar.

Although it’s unlikely that voters will ever have anything resembling a close encounter with Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential hopeless has helped revive an issue that means more to many Americans than any election: suppression of UFO evidence by the men in black.

You may recall that during a recent MSNBC Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, moderator Tim Russert drew out Kucinich on the revelation (by Oscar-winning paranormal investigator Shirley MacLaine) that he had once spotted a “triangular craft, silent and hovering.” Kucinich’s reply, which was intriguing in its own right, came at a conjunction of — well, maybe not of UFO activity, but certainly of UFO aficionado activity.

This fall saw the first anniversary of the multiple-witness saucer incident over the United Airlines terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, which is already shaping up as this decade’s great sighting. In late October, a federal judge ordered NASA to search its records for information on one of two fabled UFO sightings from 1965.

And last month, the New York-based Coalition for Freedom of Information held a conference at which more than a score of pilots from around the world gathered to share their experiences with unidentified flying objects. Moderator Fife Symington (the controversial former governor of Arizona) summed up the conference by calling for the government to stop perpetuating “the myth that ALL UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms” and reopen its official Blue Book investigation, which has been closed since 1969.

Are we on the verge of an alien breakthrough? Is this new critical mass of respectable UFO hawks about to rout the army of dissembling federal agents, driving around in their 1964 Chevy Malibus with their shades and fixed smiles?

Probably not. There have been high-profile flying saucer enthusiasts in the past, including astronauts Buzz Aldrin, who spotted a mysterious something during Apollo 11′s return trip, and the late Gordon Cooper, who once informed the United Nations, “I believe that . . . extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth.”

Kucinich mentioned in his own defense that President Carter was a UFO witness, and he might have mentioned that Ronald Reagan was as well. Then again, if you think presidents really run the country, well, that’s what “they” want you to think.

If anything keeps the cult of the UFO alive, it’s not the respectability of the witnesses but the clumsy, protesting-too-much denials of government agencies. The Federal Aviation Administration got caught in a fib about last year’s O’Hare incident after the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request. And it’s somewhat perverse to call for reopening a federal UFO investigation given how universally hated the knee-jerk-skeptical Project Blue Book turned out to be.

John Podesta, the Clinton White House chief of staff who has never disguised his interest in flying saucers, makes the case that the government should declassify its UFO-related materials “and let people have at it,” a demand that is as reasonable as it is unlikely to happen, given how easily this topic can be rerouted into japery.

In his debate reply, Kucinich made a point dear to respectable UFO investigators: “It was an unidentified flying object, OK?” he said. “It’s like … it was unidentified. I saw something.” There’s a difference between saying objects in the sky are sometimes not familiar and claiming to have been probed by taciturn “grays,” and people such as Coalition for Freedom of Information co-founder Leslie Kean express understandable frustration that UFO ridicule purposely blurs that distinction.

But with Kucinich as a central advocate, ridicule may be unavoidable. In the debate, Kucinich made a self-deprecating joke about moving his campaign headquarters to “Roswell, New Mexico, and another one in Exeter, New Hampshire.” Roswell everybody knows about, but with the easy reference to the 1965 Exeter incident, Kucinich leaves the impression that he’s not just a UFO witness, he’s a buff.

Let him go on, and we suspect Kucinich will soon be expanding on the Kecksburg sightings, the Val Johnson incident, Lonnie Zamora, the “Kaikoura lights” and countless other visitations from the sky that continue to sustain our nation’s sense of mystery.

(Source: http://www.latimes.com)

LA Times Opinion Piece on Dennis Kucinich – Gives Life to the UFO Issue

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LA Times Opinion Piece on Dennis Kucinich – Gives Life to the UFO Issue

Toronto ON – December 1, 2007 – The LA Times has just posted an opinion piece that clearly bolsters the level of credibility of the Kucinich UFO encounter – while also mentioning the successful lawsuit by CFi against NASA, John Podesta’s concerns for an information release and other evolutionary sign posts as the American media initiates a position on this issue.

The insemination of the UFO/ET issue into the media has clearly taken place.

It appears the media is expecting… something.

It also appears the gestation period for this issue in the media is moving along quite nicely.

Although not remotely close to its birth and infancy, the initial conception of the matter can be readily traced – not to the back seat of a 1957 Chevy but to the hard work of pioneer researchers, advocates, lobbyists and citizen scientists who have patiently nurtured this new world-view.

The injection of the matter into the US Presidential campaign and the National Press Club Press Conference by CFi on November 12, 2007 has rejuvenated media interest.

This major mainstream posting by the LA Times gives rise to a widening systemic flow of ideas and positions relating to the UFO/ET matter – it has clearly become a strategic image on the sign-post of growing media engagement.

Despite the silence maintained by White House officials and other Presidential hopefuls, the LA Times is now added to the growing list of mainstream media outlets that are beginning to formulate and yes, parent a position on the embryonic news potential of an emerging UFO/ET narrative.

The tactical matter of which media outlet will strip itself from the stirrups of government control to give public recognition to the UFO/ET matter has now become an issue itself.

The imminent birth is a ways ahead – still. Soon however, the issue will be on the front pages of major newspapers – minus its umbilical chord – ready to meet the press and its public.

Perhaps the New York Times, the Washington Post, the burgeoning Canadian National Post or even the Toronto Star will over-see the delivery – ultimately a tantalizing event for those parents, who linger, impatiently pacing in the waiting-room down the hall for the truth to emerge.

Two long-suffering questions remain – Will it be a traditional 12 month human gestation period or the 22 to 24 month incubation period of the pachyderm and – like the Presidential election – will it be a boy or a girl?

While the parents of this issue – and there are many progenitors – have no gender preference, they fully recognize the first trimester has proven to be a fluid one, full of surprises as the American election moves into the ’08.

The forthcoming birth will resolve their desires.

What of the child?

Once born into the world of public scrutiny the infant will require circumspect care and prudent nurturing – but, once of age it will take the world by storm!

You are invited to review this most revelatory opinion article in the LA Times.

Please distribute.

LA Times Opinion
Kucinich’s Close Encounter
The presidential candidate’s televised acknowledgment of seeing a UFO has
put the issue back on the radar.
December 1, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-ufo1dec01,0,5688964.story?coll=la-opinion-leftrail

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