UFO enthusiasts urge Obama to release X-Files about alien sightings

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:26 PM on 30th November 2008

UFO aficionados are urging Barack Obama to release classified documents about sightings of alien spacecraft, spurred on by support from within his own White House team.

They have written to the president-elect, pressing him to reveal the contents of America's X Files.

In a letter, the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee asks Mr Obama to 'end the six-decade truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race'.


The Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee is calling for an end to the 'six-decade truth embargo' about alien spacecraft

They hope to have garnered 40,000 signatures in support of their campaign by the time Mr Obama is inaugurated in January.

The enthusiasts are encouraged by public statements from John Podesta, who is running the president-elect's transition team, and Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico, who is expected to land a cabinet post.

When he was the White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, Mr Podesta was in charge of a project to declassify 800 million pages of intelligence documents.

He said in a press conference: 'It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon.'

UFO enthusiasts want Barack Obama to follow Britain's example

Gov Richardson is a fellow UFO enthusiast. He has written a forward to a book on the 'Roswell Incident' in New Mexico, where an alien spacecraft crash is said to have landed in 1947.

Campaigners believe the corpses of humanoid aliens have been locked away by the government.

Gov Richardson has urged the Pentagon to disclose what really happened, and last year insisted there had been a 'cover-up'.

The committee wants the U.S. to follow Britain's example in making public reported contact with UFOs.

Stephen Bassett, Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee, told the Sunday Telegraph: 'The release of documents in Britain and France has put huge pressure on the US. It makes the government here look pretty stupid.

'I think we are seeing the Democrats moving towards disclosure.'

The group wants military services and intelligence agencies to brief the incoming president about what they know.

They also urge Mr Obama 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.'

The Flatwoods Monster

In September of 1952 an unusual object came to rest on a hill in West Virginia. The events of that night have come to be known as the Braxton County Monster and the Phantom of Flatwoods, or the Flatwoods Monster. The monster was described as being a large pulsating red ball of light that hovered above or rested upon the ground. Some believe that it may have been a powered craft that was piloted by the second entity, that was at least 10 feet tall and that it had a red face which appeared to glow from within, and a green body.
Witnesses described the creature's head as having bulging, non-human eyes and as either being shaped like a heart/an Ace of Spades, or as having a large heart/Ace of Spades shaped Cowling behind it. The creature's body was described as being man-shaped and clad in a dark pleated skirt; later described as being green. Some accounts record that the creature had no visible arms, while others describe it as having short stubby arms; ending in long claw-like fingers, which protruded from the front of its body.
Whatever it was it scared the dickens out of the witnesses and made them sick.

Here is an account of the event:
At 7:15 pm, on the night of September 12, 1952 two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer (ages 13, 12, and 10) witnessed a bright object cross the sky. The object appeared to come to rest on land belonging to local farmer G. Bailey Fisher.

Upon witnessing the object, the boys went to the home of the May brothers' mother, Kathleen May, where they reported seeing a UFO crash land in the hills. From there, Mrs. May accompanied by the three boys, local children Neil Nunley and Ronnie Shaver, and 17 year old West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene 'Gene' Lemon, traveled to the Fisher farm in an effort to locate whatever it was that the boys had seen.

After traveling about ¼ of a mile the group reached the top of a hill, where they reportedly saw a large pulsating "ball of fire" about 50 feet to their right. They also detected a pungent mist that made their eyes and nose burn. Lemon then noticed two small lights over to the left of the object; underneath a nearby oak tree, and directed his flashlight towards them, revealing the creature, which is reported to have emitted a shrill hissing noise and to have begun to glide towards them before changing direction and heading off towards the red light. At this point the group fled.

Upon returning home Mrs. May contacted local Sheriff Robert Carr, and Mr. A. Lee Stewert; co-owner of the Braxton Democrat, a local newspaper. Stewert conducted a number of interviews and returned to the site with Lemon later that night where he reported that "there was a sickening, burnt, metallic odor still prevailing". Sheriff Carr and his deputy Burnell Long searched the area separately, but reported finding no trace of the encounter.

Early the next morning; on Saturday September 13, Mr. A Lee Stewart visited the site of the encounter for a second time and discovered two elongated tracks in the mud, as well as traces of a thick black liquid. He immediately reported them as being possible signs of a saucer landing based on the premise that the area had not been subjected to vehicle traffic for at least a year. It would later be revealed that the tracks most likely belonged to a 1942 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by local Max Lockard; who had gone to the site to look for the creature some hours prior to Stewert's discovery.

After the event, Mr. William and Donna Smith; investigators associated with Civilian Saucer Investigation, LA, obtained a number of accounts from witnesses who claimed to have experienced a similar or related phenomena. These accounts included the story of a mother and her 21 year-old-daughter, who claimed to have encountered a creature with the same appearance and odor a week prior to the September 12 incident; the encounter reportedly affected the daughter so badly that she was confined to Clarksburg Hospital for three weeks. A statement from the mother of Eugene Lemon, in which she said that, at the approximate time of the crash, her house had been violently shaken and her radio had cut out for 45 minutes, and a report from the director of the local Board of Education in which he claimed to have seen a flying saucer taking off at 6:30 on the morning of September 13 (the morning after the creature was sighted).

After encountering the creature, several members of the September 12 group reported being overcome with similar symptoms which persisted for some time, which they attributed to having been exposed to the mist emitted by the creature. The symptoms included irritation of the nose and swelling of the throat. Lemon was reportedly the worst affected. He suffered from vomiting and convulsions throughout the night, and had difficulties with his throat for several weeks afterwards.

A doctor who treated several of the witnesses is reported to have described their symptoms as being similar to victims of mustard gas, though such symptoms are also commonly found in sufferers of hysteria, which can be brought on by exposure to a traumatic or shocking event. (Wiki)

The town of Flatwoods holds an annual one day Monster Day Festival that takes place in the Flatwoods Outlet parking lot. A Braxton County Monster Museum is operated near the town of Flatwoods, and local gas stations sell Monster-related artifacts.

The following is a video of Stanton Friedman (ufologist) who visited the Flatwoods area, Here is his impression of the event...


The Flatwood Monster, like all monsters has it's place in cryptozoology and ufology. What happened on that hill is anyones guess, but to date no one has been able to completely refute the described events.
Comments welcome.
J.

Alien Moon Body Or Clever hoax?

Well, get ready for the next Alien Autopsy. This was found on Myspace and the text included is as follows:
Description: William Rutledge was an astronaut during the 1970s, employed by the USAF in collaboration with NASA during a secret Space mission. A person who claimed to be him allegedly filmed this video and claimed it to be of an alien found inside an abandoned spaceship on the moon.
A dab of Clearsil™ might just clear that completion up, ya think???
More than likely this is probably some burial ritual performed on an individual right here on earth. In the vacuum of space all the moisture of a body would boil out leaving a corpse in much worse shape. However, it says it was found on a ship. So... It shouldn't be too hard to examine the "Apollo" 20 patch and read the names on it. Perhaps they are consistent with actual astronauts from the 1970's. By the way, the last mission to the moon was Apollo 17, so if there was a secret moon mission then it would have to be 18, 19 or even 20.
But if it's a secret mission, why go to the bother and cost of commissioning a patch? Patches were used to commemorate the launch and mission for the public.
We may not have seen the last of this video though, it's been viewed 176,609 on Myspace since 6/10/08!
Here's the vid, comments welcome!

William Rutledge's Video: Alien EBE Mona Lisa