UFO
hunter for Clinton: 'X-Conference' by
Whitney Blair Wyckoff For
a number Americans the economy is a major issue for this upcoming presidential
election. But many of those attending the X-Conference held in suburban Washington,
D.C., over the weekend are concerned with a different kind of green. The
X-Conference is a weekend-long symposium on exopolitics--or governmental, political
or social issues relating to aliens and UFOs. Various heavyweights in the UFO
community came to the event to speak about their work and to discuss a conspiracy
to cover up encounters with the third kind. "There
is no more important research going on in the world," said Steve Bassett,
executive producer of the event, at the conference on Sunday morning. Most of
the 120 or so audience members nodded in agreement. Grant
Cameron, a lecturing UFO researcher, said that UFOs have long been an issue with
presidential candidates. But he said that he no longer thinks that presidents
have all the facts when it comes to extra terrestrial visits. "There's
a government inside a government," that controls this information, Cameron
said. Take former
President Jimmy Carter, he said. Cameron said that Carter admitted to seeing a
UFO and promised to disclose any information the government had about UFOs during
his presidency. But Carter never did, Cameron said. Rom
Simone, another lecturer, said it was because Carter was an outsider, shut out
of the industrial-military complex. "This is what Eisenhower warned about
in his last speech," Simone said. For
this election, Cameron thought that Dennis Kucinich was the mostly likely candidate
to provide full disclosure on UFOs. After all, Kucinich also admitted to seeing
an unidentified flying object during one of the presidential debates. But since
Kucinich dropped out of the race, Cameron endorsed another candidate. Carmeron
ended up endorsing Hillary Clinton on his Web site "Hillary is sympathetic
to the issue," said Cameron, a Canadian who also works as a building facility
manager at the University of Manitoba to pay the bills.
Cameron
added that both Hillary and former president Bill Clinton met with UFO enthusiast
Laurance Rockefeller to talk about extra terrestrials. And Cameron said that he
has acquired documents through Freedom of Information Act requests that show that
the former president investigated UFOs.
But
Cameron stressed that it is up to the UFO community to keep pushing the issue.
"Everybody
is waiting for a Messiah, everyone is waiting for someone to come and make it
all better," Cameron said. "Disclosure is our game. It's up to us to
do the work and push the issue." While
some at the conference were skeptics about UFOs until they witnessed a sighting,
Terri Mansfield said that she had believed in life outside of Earth ever since
she was a little girl. "I
used to look up at the sky and wonder where I came from," she said. Eleven
years ago, Mansfield witnessed a light formation over Phoenix that some said was
a UFO. The event got much press coverage. Mansfield is featured in a documentary
called The Phoenix Lights. Even
though Cameron has devoted his life to studying UFOs, he said he has no problem
with cynics. In fact, Cameron's 25-year-old son has no interest in UFOs, he said. "Everybody
has a right to believe what they want to believe," he said. "In the
end it will eventually work out."
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