Fifth Annual X-Conference CNN News Coverage APRIL 20, 2009

"What on Earth?" - Award-Winning Documentary About Crop Circles

"What on Earth?" - "Inside the crop circle mystery," an award-winning feature-length documentary film, will be screened as part of the X-Conference on Friday, April 17, at 9 pm, at the Hilton Gaithersburg, 620 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. The X-Conference is an annual gathering to address the politics and implications of the UFO/ET issue: exopolitics. There is a 'disclosure movement' underway which is international and gaining momentum. The movement seeks the formal acknowledgement by world governments of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

Full conference information at: www.x-conference.com

In "What On Earth?," filmmaker Suzanne Taylor tracks her interactions in England as part of an international community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, educators, writers, and farmers who marvel at crop circles, the unexplained global phenomenon that has puzzled humanity for decades, and perhaps even centuries.

The superstars of the film are the circles themselves. The photography is breathtaking and awe-inspiring. A big question that's addressed by the interviewees is why something so startling and spectacular is so largely ignored.

The circle enthusiasts, who converge in England every summer to go circle-chasing and indulge in circle analysis, talk about why they changed their lives to engage with this phenomenon. Evidence is presented that challenges the idea that all the glyphs are made by people, and the motives of hoaxers who make some of them is a subject for speculation. So are questions about who, or what is delivering the circles that can't be accounted for as coming from people, and why they are being created.

"The most startling revelations we get from the circles come from their shapes," says Taylor. "Mathematical information encoded in them delivers a virtual curriculum in number and geometry." Also, the circles are looked at as art, as instigators to reexamine ancient knowledge lost to a culture separated from nature, and as coming from a source that is aware of us, delivering patterns that point to events on Earth and in response to whims and wishes that individuals and groups express.

In the film, interviewees speculate about what the effect would be if it were ascertained that the circles aren't being made by us. "If that happened," says Taylor, "knowing we aren't the only intelligent occupants of the cosmos likely would humble us to where we would think as a planetary humanity and work cooperatively to solve the problems we all share."

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X-Conference 2009 Press Release

Washington, DC - Paradigm Research Group will hold its fifth X-Conference (Exopolitics Expo) April 17-19 at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD. This event is an integral part of PRG’s advocacy work aiming to change government policy toward extraterrestrial-related phenomena. Since 1947 the United States has imposed a "truth embargo" on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. This engagement has been confirmed by a mountain of evidence compiled by hundreds of researchers over six decades.

Conference and registration information is found at: www.x-conference.com. It is open to the public and there is on-site registration. Press passes are available.

X-Conference 2009 is hosted by former CNN news anchor, Cheryll Jones. Featured speakers this year include:

Dr. Edgar Mitchell - this author, explorer, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and one of only 12 humans to set foot off the planet Earth (Apollo 14) triggered an international media storm in July of 2008 when many in a UK radio audience heard for the first time his assertions about what he has learned about an extraterrestrial presence in our skies (See: www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Mitchell_Media_Coverage.htm) Dr. Mitchell will give his most comprehensive lecture on the intersection of his life with these issues, the response he has received and his thoughts on the disclosure process and the possible new paradigm in a post-disclosure world.

Nick Pope - media coverage in the United Kingdom of the extraterrestrial/UFO issue has exploded over the past twelve months due to the timed release of thousands of documents and sighting reports by the British government into the public domain. These releases have generated hundreds of articles both in the UK and the United Kingdom. At the center of this storm is Nick Pope, a former Senior Executive Officer with the UK Ministry of Defence, who directly investigated the UFO issue while working for the MoD and is now a leading researcher and spokesperson. Nick will address the powerful events unfolding in his country.

Major Milton Torres: Nick Pope will be joined by USAF Major (ret.) Dr. Milton Torres who was featured in one of the MoD documents released last year. Major Torres was ordered to shoot down a UFO while on duty in the UK and is now publicly speaking to that extraordinary event.

Other speakers include: Stephen Bassett (Moderator); George Noory (Special Presentation); Dr. Roger Leir (Special Presentation); Col. John Alexander, PhD (Special Presentation - Debate with Stephen Bassett); Colin Andrews; Art Campbell with Manuel Kirklin; Richard Dolan; Graham Hancock; Paola Harris; Jeff Peckman; Michael Salla; PhD; Victor Viggiani; Alfred Webre, JD. Guest Activists: Dr. Joseph Buchman, Dr. Rebecca Hardcastle, Terri Mansfield, Robert Fleishcer (Germany), Angelika Whitecliff, Frederik Uldall (Denmark).

All members of the U. S. Congress have received invitations to send representatives to X-Conference 2009.

A post-conference press event will be held at the National Press Club, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC on Monday, April 20, at 10 am. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Nick Pope, Major Milton Torrres and other speakers will have announcements and take questions on the most important issue of our time.

Contact: Stephen Bassett
Executive Director
202-215-8344
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org

Citizens aim over heads of ‘Feds’ for extraterrestrial UFO disclosure

Jeff Peckman
Denver UFO Examiner

March 23, 4:37 PM

The citizen ballot initiative to disclose UFO “X-files” is starting again in Denver. Jeff Peckman of the Extra Campaign, filed a draft of the proposed ordinance, to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission, at the Denver City and County building on March 20. The local commission is viewed by some as potentially more effective than the U.S. government in achieving disclosure of evidence about UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors to Earth.

The new draft is a revision of a similar petition approved for circulation in September 2008. That petition was put on hold after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. A number of key people in the Obama administration have publicly endorsed the release of the government’s UFO ‘X-files’. For that reason, signature gathering for the petition was suspended. Disclosure advocates hoped that transparency and openness, advocated by President Obama, would result in disclosure of UFO ‘X-files’.

However, the lack of visible interest in UFO disclosure from the Obama administration has prompted restarting the Denver initiative. The new strategy is to appeal to a higher power – the power of the People. There is increasing support for citizens to take on the task of briefing the public directly about extraterrestrial UFO evidence. In fact, there is a growing belief that the Federal government is not even competent to perform the task even if it becomes willing.

James Madison, America’s fourth President stated, “The People are the only legitimate fountain of power…”. Disclosure of extraterrestrial UFO evidence by the People, to the People, for the People, might well be the only reliable way to get the job done. It is expected that disclosure advocates in other cities will use the same strategy and add to the momentum of the grassroots effort.

Citizen ballot initiatives and other grassroots efforts to disclose UFO evidence are among the topics to be discussed at X-Conference 2009 April 17-19 in Gaithersburg, MD. The event includes a press conference on April 20 at the National Press Club.

A mandatory discussion of the draft ballot initiative will be held at the Denver City and County Building , 1437 Bannock Street, on April 8 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 391. The meeting is open to the public.

For more info: www.extracampaign.org, www.x-conference.com

X- Conference 2009 - April 16 to 19

Speakers/Panelists/Documentarists:

Cheryll Jones (Host);
Stephen Bassett (Moderator/Speaker);
George Noory (Special Presentation & Keynote - short);
Edgar Mitchell, PhD (Special Presentation);
Dr. Roger Leir (Special Presentation);
Col. John Alexander, PhD (Special Presentation - Debate with Stephen Bassett);
Colin Andrews;
Art Campbell;
Richard Dolan;
Graham Hancock;
Paola Harris;
Jeff Peckman;
Nick Pope;
Michael Salla; PhD;
Victor Viggiani;
Alfred Webre, JD.

Guest Activists:
Dr. Joseph Buchman,
Dr. Rebecca Hardcastle,
Terri Mansfield


Breaking News:

• A major development in the work of Dr. Roger Leir will be revealed for the first time and further addressed in the PRG press conference at the National Press Club on Monday morning.
• Apollo 14 Astronaut, author, lecturer and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, will give a full lecture on his personal experience with the UFO/ET issue, the decision to impose a truth embargo, and the implications of Disclosure.
• Special Presentation - X-Conference 2009 will include a debate/dialogue/Q&A between PRG Executive Director Stephen Bassett and Dr. John Alexander. All topics will be on the table. Col. Alexander's background in military intelligence and covert operations is as well known as his interest in paranormal subjects. He is the quintessential insider and is outspoken on the status of the UFO/ET/Disclosure issues. This is notable given his ongoing involvement in a number of national security related projects. This you don't want to miss.
• Special Presentation - X-Conference 2009 will include a special 2-hr presentation by George Noory including a review of past moments from Coast to Coast AM with audio clips, plus autographs and Q&A. George received the 2008 PRG Courage in Journalism Award.
• Special Presentation - one of the most prolific authors and researchers of the ancient world, Graham Hancock, will look at the exopolitics of the distant past.

Banquet: A buffet dinner will include vegetarian options along with white and red table wines and a cash bar for beer and cocktails, Keynotes by Dr. Edgar Mitchell (main), Paul Hellyer (short), George Noory (short), PRG Awards for Political Courage, Courage in Journalism, Disclosure, Hall of Fame Inductees. Special guests TBA.

Exhibitors: TBA

Art Gallery: Once again the X-Conference will be graced with the art works of individuals attempting to interpret the unfolding transition underway from their personal experience and perspective. Artists TBA.

Venue: the Hilton Gaithersburg, MD. This 3 Star, 3 Diamond hotel has unlimited free parking, free shuttle to and from metro access (Shady Grove on the Red Line), conference facilities for 1000, banquet facilities for 400 and is equidistant from all three major airports - Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), Baltimore/Washington International (BWI). [Note: Regan National (DCA) has convenient access to the Metro.]

Schedule: Friday lectures, panel, Meet the Speakers Cocktail Party, documentary screening; Saturday lectures, panel, banquet with Keynotes, PRG Awards, special guests, documentary screening; Sunday Lectures; Monday National Press Club press conference (public welcome). Additional special features and surprises will be developed right up until the conference.
Documentaries: TBA.

With the cherry blossoms blooming, April is an excellent time for an extended stay in Washington, DC. Take advantage of the special conference rate from April 14 through 23 and combine the conference with a vacation in the nation's capital. The free Hilton shuttle will take you to the Shady Grove metro for trips right to the Mall.

For more info and registration please visit the website here .