ZNN PRESS ROOM: House Panel will hold first Public Hearings on UFOs in over 50 Years

Two Pentagon Officials due to Testify at a Hearing

about UFOs Next Week or...

How to Reassemble a Clay Pidgeon

A ZNN EDITORIAL

ZlandCommunications [ZNN] In 1966 former President Gerald Ford made a ground-breaking statement about UFOs. He said, “I believe the American people are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given them by the Air Force to date.”

Soon after, Ford, then the House Republican minority leader from Michigan, organized a hearing in response to reports of UFOs by over 40 people, including 12 policemen. The Air Force explained them away as “swamp gas.” Mr. Ford shot back calling the report by the US Air Force “flippant.”

Was this President Ford's way of launching a projectile of hope for the American people to find out what these bizarre craft really were and where they were from? Or, was it all just the beginning of a flock of clay pigeons launched into orbit by the keepers of the secret to be mis-identified and blasted out of the sky into smithereens?

Since then, the US government and military agencies have played hide and seek with the truth - taking every opportunity to dismiss, ridicule and out-right lie about the existence of the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects; something they knew was as real then as it is now.

Some 50 years later the cat and mouse game continues with the announcement of public hearings on UAP. The US government and Pentagon seem to have come to their collective senses - admitting the phenomenon is real and yes - even renaming the circumstance of UFOs to UAP - Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. A blockbuster admission but has anything really changed?

Do not be hoodwinked by this new shell-game reframed as "transparency".

Readers will notice when reviewing the reports by the New York Times, CNN, VICE and others below - the veil of secrecy has been drawn back - about an inch. The language used by those in the US Congress who are spearheading the hearings may sound revelatory in the pursuit of transparency.

The reality? The curtain remains stubbornly stuck as the Pentagon's secret keepers rearrange the furniture in their house of cards before members of the US Congress.

If anyone who has been around this 75 year fiasco of secrecy and lies perpetrated by the United States government feels - by calling two Pentagon witnesses to testify that the air-of-secrecy will be cleared - think again. We won't all go home to count our new Extraterrestrial currency or more confidently stand on the roof tops asking ET to call home.

Ronald S. Moultrie

One UAP advocate observed that,"Witnesses Ronald S. Moultrie, under secretary of defense for intelligence and security, and Scott W. Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence will - undoubtedly - under oath - dodge and sidestep questions to maneuver the pieces of furniture around to re-create the old lies into new furnishings of deception, misdirection and yes - more lies. Moultrie and Bray and others in the inner sanctum of intelligence have no real problem keeping secrets - it's the people they tell the lies to that have the problem."

Scott W. Bray

Many who have followed ZNN for the last twelve years might figure that the Canadian office of ZlandCommunications would be turning back-flips now that 'hearings are here'.

Well - it ain't so.

The file folders are still neatly on the desk; the computer keyboard is quiet with no major banging onto Twitter or any other excuses for 'news' and... the telephone used for our interviews is still in its cradle.

Readers do need to read the mainstream coverage below - that we must insist upon - remain informed. But read the coverage without raising your hopes.

Why?

We repeat... for those of us who have been around the 75 year yo-yo UFO fiasco of secrecy and lies by the US government have long since realized our hopes have been raised dozens of times - only to be shot down like a clay pigeon. Leaving us to scramble to reclaim and re-assemble fragments of the remaining pieces only to see them for what they really are - just chunks of prevarication and mendacity.

That said, we at ZNN really hope we are wrong...