By Graeme Beamiss (Contributor) – Email
Print Edition: March 11, 2015
Even if the term “politics” doesn’t already exhaust you, you wouldn’t be alone if “exopolitics” confuses you.
Exopolitics is defined by graduate of Yale Law School and co-author of the Spaces Preservation Treaty Alfred Lambremont Webre, who defined the term as the “science of relations among intelligent civilizations in the multiverse.” In essence, it is a tentative, pragmatic response to an extraterrestrial presence, something that over 500 military, government, airline pilots, and scientists in the US alone are now calling for.
Before I go any further, I need to make a few things clear. First, what follows is only to suggest that the reader do his or her own thorough research before accepting or dismissing information. Second, being a skeptic myself, I feel any information that challenges the status quo and potentially expands our perception is invaluable in helping us to become critical thinkers. Lastly, while this topic is undeniably inundated with sensationalism and false claims, there are parts that merit public acknowledgment.
That said; let’s take a brief look at the past 15 years of ufology. According to the ExoUniversity website, over 30 countries have made their UFO reports, in part or in full, available upon request between 2000 and 2010, including Mexico, Germany, and the UK. In 2001, Dr. Steven Greer, former chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital, organized a national press club meeting in Washington, DC (called the Disclosure Project), during which he and 19 others testified about their involvement in top secret projects and other activities pertaining to extraterrestrials and their technologies. These included former high-ranking army and air force personnel, government officials, and scientists with either personal experience or access to sensitive data on the subject, such as those stationed at nuclear weapon storage facilities.
Among these officials was Lt. Col. Charles Brown, who explained that, while working as an analyst for the Office of Strategic Services in 1948, army and air force personnel “had ground visual, ground radar, airborne visual, and airborne radar confirmation of some of these sightings.” Sgt. Clifford Stone also detailed his experiences within the US army in 1969, stating, “I was involved in situations where we actually did recoveries of [crashed] saucers, for lack of a better term, and debris thereof.” He went on to say that “there were bodies involved in some of these crashes. Also some of these were alive. While we were doing all this, we were telling the American public there was nothing to it. We were telling the world there was nothing to it.”
In 2005, Paul Hellyer, the former Canadian Minister of Defense, spoke at a symposium in Toronto on the subject of secrecy and the dangers it posed in relation to the UFO phenomenon. At the 2008 X-Conference, he reiterated his point, saying that “an official US policy insists that UFOs don’t exist. The veil of secrecy must be lifted and it has to be lifted now.”
As it stands today, the official story hasn’t changed, but individuals like Alfred Lambremont Webre aren’t waiting on that. In 2012, he launched the ExoUniversity, a BC-based non-governmental organization designed to “bring affordable continuing education by high-profile authors, scientists, and educators in ExoSciences, PsiSciences, and Exopolitics to a worldwide audience online.” This project is among the first practical responses to the UFO phenomenon aimed at extending knowledge to the general public. Its success depends entirely on you, the reader — not for your acceptance of the existence of extraterrestrials, but for your ability to look critically into the subject and make informed decisions.
It’s naïve to expect that our governments, our media, our education systems, or even our parents will present us with everything we need to know. Only we, as individuals, can make that distinction. After all is said and done, I hope at the very least this has stretched your imagination, and encouraged you to think a little more about our place in the stars.
