by Ryan Robert Hallett

Created on: May 25, 2010

57 Alien Species: Are We Alone?

On May 9, 2001, twenty individuals from a variety of professions convened at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to disclose their personal experiences related to the subject of UFOs. Though largely and perhaps conspicuously ignored by the mainstream media, the conference included such high-profile speakers as Watergate lawyer Daniel Sheehan, former White House chief of staff John Podesta, and the orchestrator of the Disclosure Project (www.disclosureproject.org), emergency room surgeon and long-time lobbyist for disclosure, Dr. Stephen Greer. These witnesses were only twenty of over four hundred brought together under the Project's umbrella.

Testimony at the conference ranged from actual work claimed to have been done on so-called Black Projects, including the reverse engineering of downed alien craft, to the sightings of commercial and military pilots and personal experiences of scientists, contractors, and various others. The general message of the conference: extraterrestrials do exist, they visit Earth, and certain elements within the military are covering it all up. Beyond this, testimony varies wildly.

One witness, Clifford Stone, allegedly a former sergeant in the U.S. Army, takes it all a step further when he claims that he has actually been involved in the removal of crashed alien spacecraft. He states that in total, 57 species of aliens have been catalogued, and that some of them look so similar to people that they can live among us, unnoticed. Stone's testimony has created considerable controversy in an already controversial field of inquiry. While one cannot help but cast suspicion on such extraordinary claims, unsupported by direct evidence, they become somewhat less outlandish in the context of such a high-profile conference. Still, one common thread in the UFO conspiracy literature is that the secret is maintained through compartmentalisation. That is, each person involved only knows a fragment of the story, and the select few who are truly in the know are hidden within this web. In other words, if there really have been teams recruited to retrieve downed alien craft, they would not necessarily have been privy to any information other than exactly what they needed to know in order to clean up the mess. Governments, let alone secret governments, are not known for giving up sensitive information to those without a need to know. According to an interview conducted with Dr. Greer on the Internet radio show

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