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June 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 30/06/2010 11:46 PM Page 18 18 UFO’s at the UN - A Close Encounter UFOs at the UN -- A Close Hynek, Vallee and I met with Spielberg in UNDERTAKING, COORDINATING AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS OF RE- SEARCH Encounter California, and he offered to have Columbia INTO UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS AND Pictures provide UFO-related materials to show RELATED PHENOMENA (UNGA ITEM 126) IS Continued from Page 16 at the U.N. SCHEDULED TO BE TAKEN UP BY THE SPECIAL When the day of the event arrived, Nov. POLITICAL COM- MITTEE (SPC) ON 27 27, 1978, in addition to speeches given to the NOVEMBER. UNDAUNTED BY A LACK OF He quickly agreed, and I spent 1978 RESPONSE TO gathering my ammunition for the November special political committee by Hynek and THE ITEM DURING AND SINCE THE 32ND UNGA, Vallee, nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman event. PRIME MINISTER GAIRY HAS APPARENTLY LAID In July of that year, I arranged for spoke about the evidence that favored his theory THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BLITZKRIEG SALES several of my UFO "presenters" to meet with of extraterrestrial visitation. PITCH WHICH WILL INCLUDE A CAST OF And there was also Army Lt. Col. Larry SUPPORTERS RANGING FROM SCIENTISTS TO Gairy and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Coyne, who electrified the committee with a ASTRO- NAUTS, SUPPLEMENTED BY A Waldheim to discuss our plans. story about a night in 1973 when he and his HOLLYWOOD FILM PRODUCTION. The experts I requested included 2. MISSION HAS LEARNED THAT astronomer (and former UFO consultant to the Army helicopter crew had a terrifying close GRENADA’S MINISTER OF EDUCATION, DR. encounter with a UFO. Air Force) J. Allen Hynek, who coined the term One of the documents I obtained for the FRIDAY, WILL INTRODUCE A RESOLUTION (AS YET NOT DISTRIBUTED) TO THE "Close Encounters of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd event was a letter that I asked ex-astronaut SPC FOLLOWED BY TESTIMONY FROM FOUR OR Kind." Cooper to write, which was distributed to all FIVE EXPERTS POSSIBLY INCLUDING: DR. J. On hand with Hynek and me were ALLEN HYNEK (U.S. ASTRONOMER), DR. French astronomer Jacques Vallee; U.N. delegates. In it, he said, "I believe these JACQUES VALLEE (FRENCH ASTRONOMER), DR. extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are astrophysicist Claude Poher, who headed up the visiting this planet from other planets, which CLAUDE POHER (FRENCH UFO STUDY GROUP), DR. DAVID SAUNDERS (PSYCHOLOGIST), AND official French UFO research group; obviously are a little more technically advanced CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL psychologist David Saunders, a member of the than we are here on Earth. PAGE 02 USUN N 05165 180251Z famous U.S. government Condon Committee, FORMER ASTRONAUT GORDON COOPER (V.P. "I would also like to point out that most which discredited UFOs in 1969; and Gordon astronauts are very reluctant to even discuss WALT DISNEY R&D). Cooper, one of America's original "right stuff" UFOs due to the great numbers of people who WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING THE GROUP astronauts. have indiscriminately sold fake stories and TOGETHER IS PRODUCER E. LEE SPEIGEL WHO At this highly publicized meeting, HAS PRODUCED AN AUDIO VISUAL Hynek told Waldheim that he and many of his forged documents, abusing their names and PRESENTATION WHICH WILL FOLLOW THE colleagues felt that "the time has come for reputations without hesitation." TESTIMONY OF THE “EXPERTS”. ALL OF It was an amazing experience, bringing official education of the public regarding UFOs. all these people together for such a high-profile THE ABOVE LISTED PERSONS HAVE BEEN OFFICIALLY ACCREDITED TO THE UNGA BY We now recognize that, apart from its potential event. The outcome of our efforts was that the GRENADA. scientific importance, it has sociological and General Assembly invited interested member CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 1 political significance." I spent the rest of 1978 collecting a large nations "to take appropriate steps to coordinate number of pictures, films and documents to on a national level scientific research and CONFIDENTIAL TWO MEETINGS HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED investigation into extraterrestrial life, including 3. include in the final November presentation -- unidentified flying objects, and to inform the FOR THIS ITEM BY THE CHAIR- MAN OF THE SPC. many of which had to be translated into several secretary-general of the observations, research PRESUMABLY DELEGATES WILL BE languages for the delegates. GIVEN A DAY OR SO TO DIGEST THE Among the documents given me by and evaluation of such activities." INFORMATION PRESENTED AND THEN RETURN But the UFO issue quietly hit the back Hynek was one he'd managed to secure from the burner on the U.N. agenda when, in early 1979, TO ACT ON THE RESOLUTION. Air Force while he was the official scientific Gairy was overthrown in Grenada by opposition 4. THUS FAR ONLY TWO COUNTRIES HAVE consultant. It was a chapter from a 1968 leader Maurice Bishop. GONE ON RECORD WITH A POSITION ON THE textbook, "Introductory Space Science," created GENERAL PROPOSAL. SEYCHELLES SUPPORTED So, here we are in 2010 with a new by the USAF Academy department of physics. international effort afoot. It's no wonder I feel a THE IDEA WHILE INDIA REJECTED THE And it was, of course, not for the public eye. little kinship with the European Union's ESTABLISHMENT OF A SEPARATE UN AGENCY OR COMMITTEE BUT SUGGESTED THAT SOME In the lengthy chapter, titled DISCUSSION OF UFO’S COULD BE INCLUDED "Unidentified Flying Objects," Air Force Borghezio. It would be great if his endeavor to WITHIN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF THE pry some real UFO stuff out of the EU works. officials laid out for academy cadets clear and “EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE/INTELLIGENCE” It's been 32 years since I tried it at the concise information about UFOs, including the U.N. I'm a patient man. ITEM UNDER CONSIDERATION BY THE following, almost shocking, revelations OUTERSPACE COMMITTEE. THERE APPEARS TO BE VERY LITTLE INTEREST ON THE PART OF (completely contrary to official explanations): CONFIDENTIAL MOST DELEGATES TO PURSUE THIS MATTER. "What we will do here is to present NEVERTHELESS GRENADA WILL PRESS evidence that UFOs are a global phenomenon PAGE 01 USUN N 05165 FORWARD UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM GAIRY which may have persisted for many thousands 180251Z ACTION IO-15 WHO SEES HIS COUNTRY AS HOST OF A CENTER of years ... NFO OCT-01 ARA-11 ISO-00 DOE-15 ACDA-12 FOR UFO RESEARCH. ACTION REQUESTED: PLEASE PROVIDE 5. CIAE-00 "The most stimulating theory for us is DODE-00 PM-05 INR-10 L-03 NSAE-00 INSTRUCTIONS ON U.S. POSITION TO BE TAKEN that the UFOs are material objects which are IN THIS MATTER AS WELL AS DESIRED LEVEL OF either 'manned' or remote-controlled by beings NASA-01 VISIBILITY. LAST YEAR GRENADA who are alien to this planet. There is some REQUESTED OUR SUPPORT AND MISOFF evidence supporting this viewpoint." NSC-05 OPS-09 AF-10 FA-10 FUR-12 HAD TO SCRAMBLE HARD BEHIND THE SCENES TO WATER DOWN THE RESOLUTION AND, IN SOE-02 SS-15 After offering cadets numerous NFA-11 EFFECT, DELAY A VOTE FOR ONE YEAR. examples of UFO cases that were unexplained, SP-02 SVC-00 /149 W ANOTHER CONSIDERATION the chapter concludes, "This leaves us with the ---------------------076211 180256Z /14 IS WHETHER TO ISSUE A DISCLAIMER ON unpleasant possibility of alien visitors to our STATEMENTS MADE BY U.S. CONFIDENTIAL planet, or at least of alien controlled UFOs ... 180251Z NOV 78 CONFIDENTIAL USUN NEW YORK FROM USMISSION and what questionable data there are suggests TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY PAGE 03 USUN N 05165 180251Z NATIONALS ON THE GRENADIAN DELEGATION. the existence of at least three and maybe four 5565 IF LAST YEAR’S INSTRUCTIONS STILL OBTAIN, different groups of aliens." INFO AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE INDIAN Even filmmaker Steven Spielberg C O N F I D E N T I A L USUN NEW YORK SUGGESTION WOULD BE ABOUT AS FAR AS WE offered to help with our 1978 presentation. Just 05165 WOULD BE WILLING TO GO ON THE ISSUE. E.O. 11652:GDS a few months after the 1977 premiere of his epic TAGS: UNGA, GJ, TSPA LEONARD CONFIDENTIAL "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (in which SUBJECT: GRENADIAN UFO CRUSADE: DÉJÀ VU PAGE 2 astronomer Hynek served as technical adviser), 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AGENCY OR A DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS FOR DECLASSIFIED