Life in the Stars
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November / December 2006
Martin Keller
In May 2001 CSETI held a press conference at the National Press
Club at which it produced an impressive list of witnesses from the
government, the military, and the private sector-along with a ream
of documents and film footage-establishing, as noted in Greer's
book Disclosure (Crossing Point, 2001), that 'we are indeed being
visited by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations and have been
for some time.' Among the witnesses was John Callahan, who, when he
was division chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch of
the Federal Aviation Administration, headed a 1986 investigation of
a Japanese 747 that was chased for 30 minutes by a UFO (the
incident was captured on radar and recorded). Not surprisingly,
major media outlets all but ignored the press conference and failed
to scrutinize the supplementary material.
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There are a number of reasons the media avoid these topics,
argues Terry Hansen in The Missing Times: News Media Complicity
in the UFO Cover-up (Xlibris, 2001), including historical
precedent, national security, and psychological resistance.
(Consider, the author writes, that 'for five years, the editors of
Scientific American refused to acknowledge the aviation
achievements of the Wright brothers because the magazine had been
told by trusted authorities that manned, heavier-than-air flight
was a scientific impossibility.')
In 2006 one would hope for a better, more enlightened
investigative media climate than the one that existed at the dawn
of aviation. If the claims by Corso and others are true, and other
crash retrievals of and technological transfers from
extraterrestrial spacecraft since the '40s have continued, imagine
what mind-boggling innovations have yet to be revealed-and who
stands to profit.
Martin Keller is a freelance writer and publicist who lives
in Minneapolis. He worked pro bono as a public relations liaison
for the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence from
1992 to 1997.
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