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Imagine: A former member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, say Colin Powell, publicly pressures the government to come clean about UFOs. Imagine further that the U.S. Defense Department releases hundreds of pages of documents revealing the truth about the legendary Roswell saucer crash in 1947.
A UFOlogist's pipe dream? In America, it certainly is. In Great Britain, however, it has already come to pass.
Lord Peter Hill-Norton, retired chief of the Admiralty, equivalent to a member of the U.S. Joint Chiefs, has been publicly agitating for an end to official government UFO secrecy for years. And in December 2002 the British Ministry of Defense released a file on the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident, dubbed the British Roswell, made up of 180 pages of previously classified memos, letters, reports and correspondence. The U.S. government still refuses to release its own files on Rendlesham, much less Roswell.
There are many parallels between Great Britain and the United States in UFOlogy. Both countries have their crash retrieval stories, as British UFO writer Nicholas Redfern indicated at November 2003's Crash Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas. Redfern is author of the book Cosmic Crashes investigating crash retrieval reports in Great Britain from 1940 to 1990.
England has its own "Area 51" where crashed saucers and alien bodies are alleged to be held. It is called Rudloe Manor, a huge underground complex in the English countryside that was originally built as an underground factory and storage facility during World War II.
Another British Author, Timothy Good, who wrote the classic UFO tome Above Top Secret and many other books, will be making his influence felt on this side of the Atlantic at the "X-Conference : First Annual Exopolitics Expo," to be held April 16-18, 2004 in the Hilton Washington in DC North/Gaithersburg. That event promises to "bring together in the Washington area the most powerful group of speakers ever assembled to focus on the governmental, political and media aspects of 50+ years of extraterrestrial related phenomena and state sponsored deception, disinformation and denial. And to make things more interesting, it will hold this conference in the middle of the 2004 presidential primary season," according to Paradigm Research Group, the event's sponsor.
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