The Black World of UFOs: Exempt from Disclosure (17 page)

     
Aside comment
: The ET Communications facility was reportedly located in the Manzano Weapons Storage Area Plant 3 and moved in the late nineties.

     “Seriously?”

     “Quite seriously”

     “How does that work?”

     “From the time a message is sent from here until we receive a response takes 22 days. It’s not 11 up and 11 back. Our sending takes longer than theirs.”

     Sparrow was impressed since this was quite a find. The use of Raven’s name opened doors. The push on our end now was for us to put together a production deal. We needed to structure a TV show that could accommodate the information we were getting. We were first asked to outline two programs starting with Roswell to begin laying the historical perspective of ET contact. In addition to the outline of the programs, we were to include a “wish list” of proof that we felt we needed for each show.

     We were told that if we structured the show that they would supply the proof. The outline was completed and sent off. The next steps were negotiations with a major production company. Negotiations seemed to be going well with one company until their greed exceeded our civil rights, we walked away. The second round of negotiations went much better and most elements were worked out for a contract between us. The contract was on the table, not signed, but with a few points still to negotiate.

The End Game that Failed: How Working with the Government Flopped in 1991

Raven set up a major meeting. They needed us to define who would be the project director on our end. I was the only one who was skilled in both television production (Jaime Shandera) and this intelligence game we had been playing for years. The meeting that Raven was convening would include people from Washington and a CIA contract agent from L.A. Sparrow was going to be at the meeting, but wanted me to fly into Albuquerque to be on standby in case he needed me. There was to be a complete discussion about the television program. Certain key players in the Bush Administration were briefed.

     An operation was underway to brief the heads of various agencies to gain their support for the kind of rumblings that someone was real serious about going public. When you’re focused on what you want to tell, you don’t always look at how the administration in place needs to have a game plan to deal with the public. Secretary of Defense Cheney (now the former Vice President) reportedly said he was against disclosure. The administration had nothing to gain and the Pentagon would need an additional $20 million.

     They would need the money to handle the increased staff to deal with the flood of Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA). The phones would be ringing off the hook and it would disrupt their ability to function with a normal business flow, let alone a crisis.

     It was clear that a lot of thought was being put into the impact that this would have on all fronts. Now we were hearing things we hadn’t considered, but that seemed so logical and expected. Things now seemed to be on a fast track of high exposure that would be hard to back down from. President George H.W. Bush (one) was being mentioned often, but always in “careful” terms; careful in the sense that Bush was only supposed to be marginally aware that an operation was underway to test the political climate for release of UFO information.

     That sounded more like plausible deniability than fact or, proposals, discourse and then deny. If the briefings were underway-- and all indications suggested they were --then they could only have proceeded with Bush’s express approval.

     There were hard rules we learned about MJ-12 over the years and that was there was great consistency. MJ-12 autonomy from the President worked only for day-to-day functioning, political decisions, briefing agencies, and disclosure. Anything that would impact the public and/or the administration required a Presidential directive, and this was not the exception, but the imperative and rule.

     The rumblings we heard had to do with the difficult adjustments going on with the briefings and attitudes of the participants. Raven and Parrot were carrying out the briefings. Parrot was very cynical about Hollywood as he felt they sensationalized too much and could not be trusted to stay on track and remain focused. Raven felt it was the way to go and was the best opportunity to reach the largest audience with the ability to tell the whole story from historical roots. At first, NASA was negative, but the President’s Scientific Adviser was very much in favor which was a big plus.

     As the major meeting approached, I prepared to fly to Albuquerque. I understood my role, which was to be on standby. When I arrived, I checked into a hotel near the airport since this was also close to Kirtland AFB where the main meeting was to be held. When the plane landed and taxied to the terminal, I saw one of the jets out of Andrews AFB, MD. The plane had “United States of America” painted across the fuselage, which was the ones, those U.S. Senators and other Washington dignitaries used on official business. It was parked inside the Air Force base fence at the Kirtland terminal.

     At the hotel, I waited until I received contact with approximate times provided. I would need to be on standby. Once I got the call, I got something to eat. My first briefing came by early evening. Sparrow had a pre-meeting with Heron (Jerry Miller) and Parrot (Senator Pell).

     Raven took the Washington visitor to Los Alamos for a briefing. On the previous day, they had been to the ET communication center (Manzano Weapons Storage Area, Kirtland AFB, Alb, NM, Plant 3 [sic]). Parrot did not go; indeed, he said he had never been there, but sees the readouts. Heron (Jerry Miller) referred to the CIA-LA contact as “Washington’s Man in L.A.” He has been in L.A. for a long time and is thoroughly familiar with the Hollywood community and all of its players.

     The evening meeting had been pushed back to accommodate the Los Angeles briefing. Sparrow felt this was a huge operation and was sure that the entire cross coordinating with officials in Washington was going on. He didn’t know what the OPR (Office of Primary Responsibility) was, but he saw all the signs. He had done the same before but never to this extent nor on this level. There was a vast difference this time as opposed to 1987 when those running the operation were just above him. When they went higher, they were shut down. This time it was coming from the top. Heron (Jerry Miller) said he had never seen an operation interface with the media on this subject––never.

     They knew that when things started to break, Washington would be flooded with phone calls with reporters wanting to know things. All bases would be covered so that all offices would know how to respond.

     Heron then spoke of some of the devices the aliens have given us. There is a beam device that can detect nuclear warheads. If it scans areas in Russia, for example, it can tell if there are nuclear warheads and their size and explosive yield. There is also a box that, when opened, emits what looks like light rays, but they are not light. They can’t be measured on a spectrometer. When you pass a crystal or prism through this beam pictures show up. There doesn’t appear to be anything in the box to cause the beams. There are no harmful side effects from the beams. The box has been tested and examined and it remains baffling. Heron says there is a warehouse full of these types of things that the aliens have given us which we cannot figure out.

     Following the preliminary briefing, I was on my own for several hours. The next meeting was to take place in a vault room on the base (Kirtland AFB, NM). It is in these rooms that the most sensitive subjects are discussed. In fact, there are some classifications of information where discourse between two people can only be conducted in a vault room.

     The vault room cannot be bugged. The walls, ceiling and floor are electronically treated and the hallways and buildings are secured at all times. No matter your clearance level, if you are not designated during an assigned use, you cannot be admitted. If a document is typed in a vault-- as certain levels of classification require --then the typewriter itself remains classified until the ribbon is removed.

     It was close to 2 a.m. before I received the briefing from the main meeting. It was stipulated that they wanted television presented in a way that was appealing to the public; they didn’t want a lot of special effects. Every re-creation must be factual. The reason for doing this, they explained, was to prepare the public for the future: We will be visited by ET. We will soon be able to see aliens in space with new astronomical equipment and they want the public to be prepared. The Ebens are a non-hostile species, exploring the universe; they go about their lives and let us do the same. The only aircraft we have lost due to alien sightings have been from chasing the alien craft beyond the designed tolerance of the plane. We have no knowledge of any offensive weapons on their part.

     They don’t want any government bashing for keeping the alien presence secret since they had a long-range plan and many presidents didn’t want to implement it. Eisenhower said no; Kennedy was iffy (not true from latest information, he paid with his life); Johnson said get that crap out of here; Nixon had Watergate; Carter was fascinated and wanted to know everything (later refused to talk); Reagan was afraid to deal with it (false, he pushed disclosure); Bush I (one) was, well, opinionated; and later, Kissinger warned Clinton not to, and Bush II said no.

     Our proposal was received very well. It was taken back to Washington. Certain people still had to get into place. That was understood to mean Robert Gates (the current Defense Secretary) had to complete the confirmation process for Director of Central Intelligence (DCI).

    There was a lot of special information relative to how we were to deal with the government, the networks, briefings, changes, time frames, etc…. It was stated that the aliens might be back as early as 1993. We are not in constant contact; there is a window of two or three months in the year (this statement doesn’t explain all the UFO sightings).

     There have been other aliens here, several species in the last 60-70 years. One group was hostile, but not known to have harmed anyone; perhaps it was they who had carried out some of the alien abductions, but the Ebens will reportedly protect and shield us.

     It was said that General Scrowcroft asked to be read into the program the moment he became National Security Adviser. He wanted to see the project manager (that was Raven) and asked like a child, “May I see something please?”

     Following the meeting, I caught a couple hours of sleep and was on the first flight back to L.A. It certainly would appear that we were on the line in postcard number 2 that said, “The scene was set: The curtain to rise when the T-I-M-E was ripe.” The scene was et like no other time in this long adventure. But, we still did not know what T-I-M-E meant. Hopefully, that wouldn’t be another mountain to climb.

     Almost immediately after I returned, a major problem began to erupt on our landscape. With the Gates hearing just days away, his role in the Iran-Contra affair suddenly loomed large. New testimony had just come to light that during the Iran-Contra scandal, that the number three (3) man at the CIA knew what was going on. If true, that put a great big spotlight on Robert Gates. Gates was assistant National Security Adviser under Scrowcroft in the Bush Administration, at the time of his nomination to the CIA. During the Iran-Contra scandal he was he number two (2) man at the CIA as Deputy Director under William Casey.

     The burning question was how the number one (1) man at the CIA and the number three (3) man had knowledge, but yet the number two (2) man was out of the loop!? Until there were answers provided to the growing list of questions, the hearings were therefore delayed and we were delayed. Parrot said, “If Gates does not get in, there is no way in hell this thing is going forward.”

     The briefing of agencies continued. Some conducted their own research as to impact and cost. The soundings coming back presented a mixed bag. NASA was now in favor of release. The feeling there was that it would free up money from Congress for future space projects. The Pentagon was firmly against it. The Auditors General’s office felt we would be facing $2.5-3 billion in lawsuits from angry citizens and groups feeling they had been lied to and denied access.

    They anticipated more than 100 lawsuits. We countered that was absurd since the agencies that denied the existence of UFO files did not deliberately deceive; they simply did not know those files existed; besides, those files were properly classified. One could argue ‘til hell freezes over whether it should be classified, but not over whether the procedure was proper. It is even quite legal to lie if there is no way to avoid revealing the existence of certain types of classified “black projects.”