Group Calls for More UFO Study

I haven't seen too much info on the National Press Club event from Monday yet, but I haven't been anywhere near a computer, TV or even newspaper for the most part this week. If there's been a lot more reported than what I know, I'd love to hear about it.

After taking a quick look around, I see that a couple of people have written about it, and Reuters picked up the story, as did PhysOrg, at least. While it doesn't look like there was much "new" information for those who know about the UFO enigma, it's nice to see that there was some positive, non-mocking information presented by the types of people that will probably carry some weight with the average person.

From what I've seen, it seems like they mostly called for more government investigations(which might nor might not do anything at all even if carried out), pulled out the 9/11-national-security-card, and told their own stories. Certainly nothing ground breaking there, but, progress is progress, I guess.

Seems like the search for the truth probably isn't going to go too much faster than the slow pace it seems to be going at right now, however, just being forward moving is pretty good right now, I think, seeing as how that hasn't always been the case.

Is the World Actually Close to Disclosure?

The question has me thinking quite a bit lately. It started out when I got involved a bit in Paul and Mac's discussion on contact, and what it's ramifications would be, and it's continuing now with the recent Larry King show on UFOs and the upcoming event at the National Press Club.

It's actually quite an interesting time to be keeping an eye on UFOs and the public reaction recently. O'Hare really seemed to open a lot of eyes, and got mainstream press that wasn't purely mocking. As little as it seemed at the time, it really looks like a step forward now. Of course, recently, Dennis Kucinich was asked about his sighting during a "debate" for democratic nominee for President, which only served to keep the ball rolling it seems.

Momentum seems to be gaining now, even though I was prepared to be completely and totally offended by the Larry King special. To be clear, I haven't actually seen it yet, but I've read the transcript available here. It seems to have been a fairly level headed discussion, on national TV, to a large audience. I almost feel like I'm suddenly in a parallel world here. Have we actually gotten to the point where it's not taboo to discuss this?

From what I've seen lately, I'll stick with my previous thoughts on whether or not we're ready. Some people are, some probably aren't, but it's time to understand what's going on around us. Of course, disclosure and contact are different, but I think they'd likely have similar results.

Imagine all of the world's governments coming forward with what they know and what they don't know. Would we suddenly realize an alien presence among us? Would we be forced to accept cryptoterrestrials right here on our planet? Perhaps we still wouldn't know what, exactly, we were dealing with, but we'd understand that there was something legitimate going on that we had to study. Any one of those would certainly open up a new dialogue amongst all of us.

It seems to me that we must be reaching some sort of a critical point in the study of UFOs. Whether that's "disclosure" or whether that's the opening of legitimate scientific study I'm not sure, but I'll take either one at this point.

I'll certainly be keeping my eyes open over the next few days to see what comes out of the upcoming National Press Club event. It seems like if there's ever going to be something of importance come out of such a gathering, it's going to be this one(and certainly not Hoagland's). There actually seems to be some sort of momentum gathering in this regard, and I, for one, hope it continues.