Million Fax on Washington

The Million Fax on Washington was a November 2008 – January 2009 petition aimed at influencing President-elect of the United States Barack Obama to focus the attention of his new administration on aliens.^[1][2] Believers tried to flood the transition administration with letters and faxes urging for this issue to be taken seriously, specifically to begin by disclosing secrets which the UFO enthusiast community believes has been kept hidden from the public by the United States government in secret black budget projects for more than 60 years and to hold congressional hearings on the issue.^[3]

Activists wanted the incoming president to require a "full briefing from military services and intelligence agencies regarding what they know" and to open congressional hearings "to take testimony from scores of government witnesses who have already come forward with extraordinary evidence and are prepared to testify under oath."^[4]

The goal of the Million Fax on Washington project was to reach 40,000 faxes sent to the administration in the 77-day period between election day November 4, 2008 and the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2009.^[1]

The project was organized by Maryland-based Paradigm Research Group led by lobbyist Stephen Bassett. Bassett is also Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee (X-PPAC) which is the only registered political action committee concerning aliens.

Phase II & III

Phase II of the Million Fax on Washington began on January 20, 2009 and ran through May 31, 2009. Letters, faxes and emails with the same requests were directed to the White House.

Phase III of this organized petitioning process began on June 1, 2009. The target for Phase III correspondence was the White House press corps care of the White House Correspondents' Association. The press corps was called upon to start asking questions about aliens.

Obama insiders sympathetic to UFO disclosure

The organizers of the campaign expressed optimism that then President-elect Barack Obama would be sympathetic to their cause because key members of his administration have previously involved themselves in the UFO disclosure issue.^[3] John Podesta, co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project, has advocated government disclosure on the UFO issue on several occasions^[5] and has actively supported the Coalition for Freedom of Information, a pressure group which seeks the truth behind UFOs by gaining access to secret government records about UFOs.^[4][2][6] Also Bill Richardson (who was at one point expected to be Secretary of Commerce in the Obama administration) has given mainstream credence to the UFO issue by writing a foreword in a book on the Roswell incident^[6] and UFO sightings within New Mexico where he served as governor from 2003 until January 2011. He has also voiced the opinion that there has been a cover-up on the issue of government files related to the UFO issue.^[4][6]

Other governments have declassified UFO files

According to Paradigm Research Group there has been in place a government imposed "Truth Embargo" regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.^[7] Stephen Bassett who heads the campaign cites the responses of other nations, such as Britain and France, which have already made many of their UFO-related government files public.^[7][4][2][3]

Issues to address

On the Million Fax on Washington website people who wish to participate in the petition are encouraged to address several specific issues in the letters they write to the transition administration:

1. demand and receive a full briefing by his military services and intelligence agencies regarding the extraterrestrial presence and related phenomena^[1]
2. support convening congressional hearings to take testimony from scores of former military and agency employees regarding extraterrestrial phenomena^[1]
3. formally acknowledge to the American people the extraterrestrial presence - Disclosure
4. release into the public domain extraterrestrial derived technologies, secretly studied and reverse engineered for six decades, and now essential to overcome the environmental, economic and societal challenges of our time.

See also

• The Disclosure Project
• Alien

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "UFO enthusiasts urge Obama to release X-Files about alien sightings". Daily Mail. 30 November 2008. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090611/UFO-enthusiasts-urge-Obama-release-X-Files-alien-sightings.html. Retrieved 23 December 2008. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Harper, Karen (1 December 2008). "Will Barack Obama open the X-Files (UFO investigations) to the public?". Washington Examiner. http://www.examiner.com/x-1172-Birmingham-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2008m12d1-Will-Barack-Obama-open-the-XFiles-to-the-public. Retrieved 23 December 2008. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ ^{a b c} Shipman, Tim (30 November 2008). "UFO enthusiasts call on Obama to release X-Files". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3536229/UFO-enthusiasts-call-on-Obama-to-release-X-Files.html. Retrieved 23 December 2008. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Harper, Jennifer (1 December 2008). "Inside Politics: Obama Phone Home". Washington Times. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/01/inside-politics-48017626/. Retrieved 23 December 2008. 
5. ^ Cox, Billy (10 October 2008). "Once again, with gusto". Sarasota Herald Tribune. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081010/BLOG32/810100254?Title=Once_again__with_gusto. Retrieved 23 December 2008. 
6. ^ ^{a b c} Norman, Tony (2 December 2008). "Change is coming (but not for space aliens)". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08337/932038-153.stm. Retrieved 23 December 2008. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Demerjian, Dave (7 October 2008). "The Next President Will Be Forced to Disclose the Truth About UFOs". Wired. http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/next-president.html. Retrieved 23 December 2008. 

External links

• Million Fax on Washington
• Paradigm Research Group
• Million Fax on Washington video on YouTube