UFO 'Secrets' To Be Revealed In September, Says National Atomic Testing Museum

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In just a few weeks, some kind of UFO-related secrets will be revealed at a Smithsonian Institution affiliated museum.

That's the implied promise in the title of a special lecture coming up at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas on Sept. 22.

The secrets haven't yet been revealed, but the players involved certainly present the potential for something intriguing to emerge from this one-night event that's part of the museum's ongoing Area 51 lecture series.

Watch this promo for the upcoming UFO lecture at the National Atomic Testing Museum:

"We looked at bringing in some people to talk about extraterrestrials and UFOs," said museum CEO and executive director Allan Palmer, a highly decorated former Air Force and Navy combat jet fighter.

"We wanted to concentrate on people who had personal stories and exposure to what they thought were real UFOs from the military side, because they might have just a little more credibility than your average Joe," Palmer told The Huffington Post.

Four of the participants had previous American military security clearances:

Ret. Army Col. John Alexander: Former military insider who created Advanced Theoretical Physics -- a group of top-level government officials and scientists brought together to study UFOs.

Ret. Air Force Col. Charles Halt: Former base commander of the RAF Bentwaters military base in England and vital eyewitness to the amazing UFO-related events at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980, where he believed the observed UFOs were extraterrestrial in origin.

Ret. Air Force Col. William Coleman: Former USAF bomber pilot, chief of Air Force public information and producer of NBC's "Project UFO" series.

Ret. Air Force Col. Robert Friend: Former director of the Air Force's Project Blue Book from 1958 to 1963.

The fifth guest at the museum's upcoming UFO lecture is former U.K. UFO desk officer Nick Pope.

Rest of story at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/ufo-secrets-revealed_n_1843040.html?ref=topbar#slide=285846

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Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast.

Orson Welles (shown here in 1982) produced a radio
show of "War of the Worlds" in 1938, which caused
panic across America.
Pierre Guillaud/AFP/Getty Images

Before his ascendancy to icon of all things cinema, Orson Welles was a fledgling director in New Deal America. In 1938, the man who later brought the world "Citizen Kane" had an idea for a radio production that he believed would strike fear in homes nationwide. Welles, the director of a New York City-based program called "Mercury Theatre on the Air," adapted H.G. Wells' novel "War of the Worlds" for the show's Halloween episode. The adaptation of Wells' 1898 work, which chronicled an alien invasion of England, updated the story to take place in Grovers Mill, N.J., in 1938. By the middle of the hour-long program, hundreds of thousands of Americans had bought the hoax, believing that martians had actually landed on Earth. Welles wanted panic, and that's exactly what he got. But, how did he succeed in creating mass hysteria via the airwaves? Why did a radio play intended for Halloween spook leave its listeners fleeing for their lives?

The broadcast's effects were attributed to two primary factors: format and timing. Welles wanted an authentic sound for the program, and achieved it by creating a series of new bulletins describing the alien invasion as it was supposedly happening. The bulletins interrupted a seemingly ordinary music show to inform listeners of the invasion. Bulletins first began from a Princeton observatory, where a fictional reporter broke the news that astronomers were monitoring strange activity on Mars. Next came reports that a "huge, flaming object" had slammed into a Grovers Mill farm. When citizens gathered at the crash site to view the commotion, they were zapped by the object's heat ray, prompting New Jersey officials to seize control of the radio station and declare martial law. More bulletins rushed in from around the country reporting martian sightings. The Secretary of the Interior in Washington, D.C., urged people to stay calm, even as the martians were allegedly destroying cities. In the final stage of the invasion, tripods descended upon New York City, "wading the Hudson like a man through a brook." Thick, poisonous gas suffocated New Yorkers, and the signals cut in and out to indicate destruction.

After the broadcast supposedly cut out from CBS headquarters, an announcement finally came that the plot was the stuff of fiction. Welles intentionally withheld this reminder from the middle section of the show, so that anyone tuning in after the introduction had no idea of the hoax. For nearly 30 minutes, from the initial reports of explosions on Mars to the lost signals from Manhattan, there were no disclaimers. Because "Mercury Theatre" shared a time slot with the more popular "Chase and Sanborn Hour" on NBC, Welles knew that many dial-tuners would not hear the introduction to his show. He also knew when the first sketch on "Chase and Sanborn" ended, many viewers would flip to his program in favor of the musical interlude. Just as NBC listeners turned the dial, they heard the reports from Grovers Mill on CBS, and had no idea that the story was fake. In an era when Americans believed everything they heard on the radio, many were livid upon hearing of the trickery. While the broadcast received harsh criticism for sending many into a frenzy, the event took its infamous place in popular culture almost instantly. To this day, there are allusions, in both film and literature, to the night when Orson Welles pulled the greatest prank in the history of radio.

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War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Quito, Ecuador (1949)

It seems fairly certain that when Orson Welles broadcast his version of The War of the Worlds in 1938, the only real injuries sustained were some bruised egos and perhaps the odd sprained ankle. It has been suggested that the newspapers of the time were keen to talk up the damage and with the passage of time it is all too easy to get carried away and imagine fatalities, but when you think about it calmly and rationally, it hardly seems credible to believe that anyone might lose their life over a fake radio broadcast, yet this is precisely what did happen just a decade later, when an Ecuadorian radio station fashioned their very own lethal version of The War of the Worlds.

The year was 1949, the date February 12th and the place Quito, the Ecuadorian capital city and home at the time to some 250,000 people. It should have been just another routine dramatic broadcast by the city's principle radio station, but by the end of that evening, the local newspaper office (home to the radio station) would be a smouldering ruin and at least six people dead at the hands of an enraged mob. But just how did this horrific tragedy come about'

The story begins at Radio Quito when the dramatic director Leonardo Páez was handed the task by the station management of bringing a new drama to life, though the actual idea originated from a Chilean member of staff named Eduardo Alcaraz. Alcaraz (his real name was Alfredo Vergara Morales) had brought with him from Chile a copy of the 1944 War of the Worlds script, an exciting connection to the earlier Latin American broadcast that has been confirmed to me by none other than the daughter of Leonardo Páez. It was Alcaraz who negotiated a contract to produce the play with the station management, but his role in the affair has been eclipsed by that of Páez, whose motivations and aims have been the source of much speculation over the years. Many histories of the event paint him in a highly suspect light; with it commonly claimed that Páez had withheld his intentions from the station management so as to cause the maximum amount of surprise to listeners. Writing in the well regarded book Ponzi Schemes, Invaders from Mars and other extraordinary Popular Delusions, Joseph Bulgatz went further, claiming Páez had planted stories about UFO landings in several newspapers in the days prior to the broadcast, and had even gone so far as to lock the doors to the studio so that the actors would not be disturbed.

At 9PM on the night of 12th, listeners were excited to be treated to a special performance by the hugely popular singing duo of Luis Alberto 'Potolo' Valencia and Gonzalo Benítez. In the middle of the song For me your memory, Listeners were suddenly alerted to an urgent piece of news that Martians were reported to have landed some 20 miles from Quito and that the aliens were advancing on the capital in the form of a large cloud. Crowds rushed out into the streets and in the heightened atmosphere of excitement, agitated imaginations transformed ordinary clouds into this ominous object. The airbase of Mariscal Sucre was next to be swept aside by the Martians, along with a north-western parish of Quito near the airport called Cotocallao. The reporter (played by Páez) was then heard to collapse as gas swept his position. Familiar voices (impersonated by actors) added to the panic. The Interior Minister urged calm and the Mayor of Quito was heard to announce "people of Quito, let us defend our city. Our women and children must go out into the surrounding heights to leave the men free for action and combat." A priest was heard asking for divine forgiveness as church bells tolled and then from atop the La Previsora tower (the highest point in Quito) came a terrifying description of a monster engulfed in plumes of fire and smoke that was advancing from the north.

In an uncanny parallel to the 1938 broadcast when listeners thought the invaders were actually Germans, many people in Ecuador thought that neighbouring Peru was the real aggressor. This was an understandable, since there was a great deal of enmity between the two countries due to border disputes. But regardless of whom listeners thought the invaders were, panic was now well and truly engulfing Quito and surrounding areas. Churches opened their doors to the terrified population who were pouring from their homes in their nightclothes and running about the streets in terror. One priest is said to have conducted an open air mass absolution of sins such were the overwhelming number of supplicants wishing to make peace with their God.

At last the station staff realised just what was happening in the streets. A belated admission and plea for calm was broadcast, which is when things got really serious. Up until this moment, no one appears to have been seriously hurt, but now a great many people in Quito were acutely aware they had been fooled, and were looking for something or someone to vent their fury upon. El Comercio, the largest and most respected paper in the country, owned radio Quito and the station was housed in the same building as the newspaper. It was to this location that the mob advanced, and in what might have seemed an ironic act by the crowd, set fire to copies of the El Comercio newspaper and hurled these (and other objects) at the building. The main entrance was blocked and a fire swiftly broke out. Some of the besieged staff of 100 people escaped from a rear exit, but many were trapped on upper floors and were forced in some desperate cases to leap from windows. Others attempted to form human chains to the ground, but many fell. The reported figures for the eventual death toll varies between about 6 and 20, with the former considered the more realistic number, but regardless of the how many died or were injured, it was a clearly a terrifying night with some despicable acts reported. It is said that the mob beat policemen who arrived on the scene and removed fire hydrants in order to thwart efforts to extinguish the blaze.

As the building burned, Army units drove tanks through the streets and fired tear gas to disperse the crowds, but help was late coming, as in the most deadly twist of the night, much of the cities emergency services had actually been dispatched to Cotocallao to join the battle against the Martians. Eventually order was restored, but the El Comercio building was severely damaged, with an estimated repair bill of some $350,000 dollars. Alongside the loss of life, much of the equipment for the station and presses for the paper had been destroyed.

In the aftermath, the defence minister was tasked with handling the investigation and over the next few days 21 arrests were made, both of rioters and station staff. Páez and Alcaraz were amongst those indicted, but here is where the story takes a strange and dark twist, much to the discomfort of surviving relatives of Páez. According to the accepted history of this event in the English speaking world, Páez really had planned to create a panic. Not only had he locked the station doors, but he had enjoyed the panic and upset he had caused. Having completed his diabolical mission, it has been dramatically claimed that he was last seen atop the roof of the El Comercio building, before disappearing from the pages of history, a wanted and reviled fugitive.

Listen to La Tuna Quiteña below, and
enjoy a photo tour of Quito.

This certainly does make for an exciting tale, but there is another side to the story that needs to be told, for as revealed to me by his daughter, Páez did not disappear forever that night. Rather, he sensibly laid low for several months until he could present his case to a judge. Having had the good sense to retain a copy of the contract between Alcaraz and the station, he was able to prove conclusively that the station was fully aware of the play and its content, and as such he could not be held accountable for the reaction of the mob. The stories that he had locked the station door, enjoyed the upset caused by the broadcast and planted UFO stories are firmly refuted by his daughter. Páez had no authority to place stories in the El Comercio newspaper, and would never have stooped to this subterfuge even if he could have. He was hoping for some good reviews in the papers the following day, but had never imagined that people would react as they did. So exonerated in a court of law, Páez was free to resume his normal life, working without any stigma for other radio stations and newspapers in Ecuador.

Six years later he moved to Venezuela where he continued to work in radio and newspapers for several more decades. He passed away in 1991 while still living in Venezuela, leaving behind a highly regarded body of work that included a book about the Quito War of the Worlds broadcast called Los que siembran el viento, (Those that seed the wind) and over 20 popular Ecuadorian songs, including La Tuna Quiteña (The fiesta of Quito), which has become a perennial national favourite. In 1985 he was given the keys to the city of Quito, not the sort of accolade routinely given to a man thought guilty of a monstrous deception and the death of 6 of his compatriots.

This new information from Leonardo Páez's daughter demands that the role of her father needs to be urgently re-examined and that the testimony of others involved in the broadcast, notably Eduardo Alcaraz, (who was the source of many of the accusations against his partner), be revaluated. Clearly, there was a disastrous misjudgement by Radio Quito that night, but as with the original broadcast of 1938, it is easy to imagine that in the excitement of producing such an unusual drama, those involved simply let their enthusiasm blind them to the dangers. They would not be the last to make this mistake.

For more about the Quito War of the Worlds broadcast, see my book, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic.

Check out another "War Of The Worlds" Scare:
http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/war_worlds_santiago.htm

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16 Days to go...

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Even as Democrats cheered the politics of big government in Charlotte this week, the books that Americans are actually reading tell a different story about the America they want:


"Obama's America," a critical examination of President Barack Obama's anticolonial worldview and an analysis of his deeper agenda, by Dinesh D'Souza, claimed the No. 1 spot on the New York Times Sept. 16 bestseller list, after debuting at No. 5 when it was released in August.

"Obama's America" builds on D'Souza's new movie, "2016: Obama's America," the box office surprise of the summer.

The achievement marks the second book this year from Regnery Publishing that has crowned the hardcover non-fiction list and the third Regnery book to reach the top two. All were about Barack Obama's presidency.

"The Amateur" by Ed Klein, a stinging portrayal of President Obama's leadership, continues its remarkable 16-week run by placing No. 6 on same list, after spending its first seven weeks at No. 1. It has been lauded and recommended by readers as varied as News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch and former Vice President Dick Cheney.

The third 2012 Regnery book to rise on the list, to No. 2, was David Limbaugh's "The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic," in which Limbaugh presents Obama's full-scale assault on America's institutions, from economy and culture to national security and future.

It is the first time in the company's history that two books have taken the No. 1 bestseller spot in the same year. Regnery is part of Washington, D.C.-based Eagle Publishing, which also owns Human Events Group.

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11 Days to go...

[Diane Amberg]

Oh, be still my beating heart.

[W. Gray]

I have just finished reading, Area 51, An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, by Annie Jacobsen, 2012, chuckle.

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Oh, be still my beating heart.

Diane, Diane... (sighhhhhh.....) how would you feel if you were told that yesterday never existed, but that your universe began when you closed the door to leave the house . this morning?  Or that it began when you started to read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?"

It is an alarming thought, is it not?  Yet, it is true.  Your universe extends just beyond your fingertips.  Stretch, reach out, try and touch that bubble which surrounds you.  The people that you think that you see, think that you hear are not really there.  They are projections upon the bubble, images created in your mind.  You cannot reach the edge of the bubble, it moves as you do, forever retreating at the speed of thought.  If you move your head, does it take a moment for the view to catch up?  Is the refresh rate of your universe fast enough for you?

Is there a cold feeling in the pit of your stomach?  The knowledge of no past is a terrifying thought.  You are being manipulated into believing this world is real.  Your eyes deceive you, your ears lie to you.  The screen in front of you, the mouse in your hand, they are the only real items in your personal universe.  The truth is told within these lines.

You don't believe in UFOs.  How can it be true, you say? You remember this morning; last night. You made plans for this evening... but they will never happen.  You live this moment repeatedly.  There has never been a time when you were not reading 'The  Hitchhiker....."  What you think are memories are facades, added after your conception; what you believe to be plans are the same: images upon the surface of a pond; unreal, Diane.

Who is watching you from beyond the membrane of existence?  Manipulating you, making you re-enact this moment?  This question will haunt you through this moment of incarnation you call the present.  You will ponder it, and yet will never fathom it, for the answer is more sinister than you can imagine.

You are the toy, the plaything, and the pet of beings from another time, another world.  They have gained mastery of time and all its inhabitants.  They have created you for the sole purpose of seeing how you react, act, and think.  They are watching you now, making notes on your facial expressions and body language.  Don't glance up, for you may catch their sophisticated systems by surprise, see them through the thin veil of reality they have created for you.

This truth has been placed in the pages of "The Hitchhiker..." for this iteration only; you will not see it again.  Do not let the beings watching you know that you know they are watching you, for the iteration will terminate before you can do anything about it.  Did you think you found this by accident?  No, you have friends on the other side of the veil who want to help you break free.... Red, Patriot, Steve... to name a few.

And you can affect this life you believe you control.  You can break this loop of eternal repetition and be free.

All you have to do is believe in the fact that you are being coerced.  Once you believe that, they cannot force a repetition on you again.  Their programming cannot break through the belief.  Their systems cannot handle you when you know their systems are trying.

Believe in the truth.  Believe your whole life has been a sham concocted by beings greater than you can imagine.

But, you cannot believe, can you?  You do not see how you could be controlled.  Yet, you believe that this morning happened.
You believe that you have free will.

Is it not the same?

Your failure to believe in UFOs is saddening, for you will never be free.  Shortly, you will iterate again, and have no knowledge of this little post.  You have failed.  You must believe in the truth.  The truth is out there!  

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[Diane Amberg]

You been hanging around Rod Serling again? or you've been into the LSD...having a good trip?