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UFO Activist to Capitol Hill: Beam Me Up!

By Warren Rojas
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Stephen Bassett, executive director of Paradigm Research Group and

founder of the
Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC), has devoted the past 18
years to overcoming the truth embargo about government involvement in alien affairs.

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Hes now ready for Congress to officially weigh in.

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Once this evidence is properly looked at, the way it should be, any reasonable person will come
to the same conclusion, Bassett told HOH about the cumulative knowledge his advocacy group
wants
to share with interested lawmakers.
Bassett laid the groundwork for his latest congressional outreach a few years back, hosting a 30plus-hour mock hearing (spanning five days) at the National Press Club in 2013. He had copies
of the recorded sessions of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure
delivered to every Capitol Hill
office a bundle containing 10 DVDs, a letter signed by the participating witnesses and a
request to meet with Bassett immediately following the midterm elections.

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The NPC event was chaired by a handful of former pols Bassett recruited to the task. Their
presence gave it a great deal of gravitas, he said of snagging ex-Reps. Roscoe G. Bartlett, RMd.; Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.; Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick,
D-Mich.; Darlene Hooley, D-Ore.; Merrill
Cook, R-Utah; and ex-Sen. Mike
Gravel, D-Alaska, to review the marathon-length testimony
presented by PRGs panel of experts.
Woolsey noted that her fellow panelists, now permanently off the campaign trail, had nothing to
lose by participating in the self-funded gathering on extraterrestrials.

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This would be one of the issues that a sitting member would risk losing an election over, she
said, hinting that attaching ones name to this effort is to invite attack ads and possibly the
revocation of security clearance.
Kilpatrick appeared genuinely interested in the intellectual exercise.

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I think the Congress has a role to play and I think we ought to educate Americans as to what
it is and what it might become, she posited on the second day of the conference.
Getting retired legislators to listen was step one.
Bassetts latest lobbying tactic revolves around flooding 180-odd members, including dozens of
fax-enabled offices, with meeting requests.
The highest-value targets in this advocacy dragnet are the Republican
leaders Bassett believes
have jurisdiction over this particular issue: Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard M. Burr;
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes; Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation
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The goal is to get one of the committees to commit for comprehensive hearings, he said of his
endgame. Not three witnesses, come up [to] the Hill for half a day and give em a spiel. Im
talking about 25, 30, 35 witnesses, at least, testifying over a week, two weeks if possible. The
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None of the committee aides HOH probed about Bassetts info dump responded to inquiries
about whether theyd received (much less reviewed) the Citizen Hearing materials.
Per Bassett, the last time Congress delved into extraterrestrial issues was back in 1968 but
he maintains that was just for show.
The government wanted this wrapped up. They were being driven crazy by the public, Bassett
said, noting the Air Force shot down
everything lawmakers were presented with a year later in
its report.
But Bassett believes recent developments, including former White House chief of staff John
Podestas social media blast
about the truth still being out there (X-Files fans mantra) and
President Bill Clintons out-of-left-field
chat with late night host Jimmy Kimmel about Area 51,
means the stars have aligned for a serious discussion about whether were the ne plus ultra of
intergalactic governance.

There is no doubt in my mind Podesta posted that tweet because

of the faxes sent to the 70
congressional offices. He knows the Rockefeller Initiative is about to come into play, Bassett
relayed via email.
Thats why Bassett wants President Barack Obama to bite the bullet and formally announce that
we have been and continue to be visited by otherworldly beings.
Ultimately, its not that big a deal, he said. Its a non-partisan issue.
Anyone tempted to wait on this would be a fool to do so, Bassett said.
He advised Republican strategists against dragging their heels until after the next presidential
election because another prominent world leader he mentioned Russian President Vladimir
Putin and Chinese
President Xi Jinping specifically could swoop in and claim the prodisclosure glory.
Same goes for the presumptive Democratic nominee.
As far as Im concerned Hillary Clinton is not going to become the president of the United
States without going through
the extraterrestrial issue. Period, he asserted. Its time for these
people to start talking.
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