Citizen Hearing

Citizen Hearing is a proposed public forum to create a bipartisan fact finding process surrounding the extraterrestrial phenomena and alleged government suppression of such facts from the public. It would take place before at least five (5) former Senators and Congresspersons, who would take testimony from and question witnesses regarding their personal experience with events and evidence.

Authors & Sponsors

The Citizen Hearing project was originally drafted by Alfred Webre and Stephen Bassett in September of 2000. The project was initially sponsored by the X-PPAC and the Paradigm Research Group. Other sponsors are presently sought.

Goals

Educate the general public and sitting Members of Congress, incite the media towards a greater level of scrutiny and action, lay the groundwork for open Congressional hearings on the same subject matter, and put pressure on the U.S. Congress to hold open, comprehensive Congressional hearings.

Testimony & Evidence

Testimony and reports for the Citizen Hearing would come from qualified witnesses who have direct personal experience with events and evidence surrounding extraterrestrial phenomena and the alleged government suppression of the facts from the public. Testimony from former government and military employees will have the highest priority. The Disclosure Project claims to have over 400 such witnesses willing to testify before the U.S. Congress.

Board of Advisors

Individuals in three areas - legal, government and research - will be recruited for a Board of Advisors. They will provide input regarding all aspects of the Citizen Hearing initiative. However, their most important role will be assisting in assembling, vetting and supporting those witnesses who volunteer to present to the member committee. Alfred Webre (legal, government) and Richard Dolan, author of "UFOs and the National Security State", are the only two Members of this Board so far since the project is only at its inception.

Witnesses

The Citizen Hearing is committed to treating all potential witnesses and presenters with the highest respect and professionalism. Contact with potential presenters is not expected to begin until the Citizen Hearing initiative is well along in funding and public support. The Citizen Hearing would take place in Washington, D.C. It would be held in a hotel ballroom laid out in such a manner as to resemble a typical Congressional hearing format.

Public Education

As a public service, the Citizen Hearing would be broadcast and/or netcast live via television, radio and the Internet, including audio-visual and written transcripts. Any coverage, full or in part, by news networks would, of course, be welcomed.

The hearing would not be a commercial venture. All product of the Citizen Hearing would be immediately placed into the public domain. No rights or commercial interest in the event, the final report, and video and written transcripts would be entertained. The only exception to this might be an exclusivity for television or radio coverage by a commercial network in return for a guarantee of coverage. Such an arrangement would not exclude coverage by C-SPAN, National Public Radio, or the Public Broadcasting Service.

Critics

Critics of such initiatives say that such hearings are unnecessary because UFO's and extraterrestrials only exist in the imagination of witnesses and no physical proof has yet been discovered.

External links

• Citizen Hearing official website (http://www.x-ppac.org/Citizen%20Hearing/index.htm)
• Paradigm Research Group by Mr. Stephen Bassett (http://www.paradigmclock.com)
• Washington, DC Exopolitics conference (http://www.paradigmclock.com/X-Conference/X-Conference.htm) with Co-Hosts Stephen Bassett and CNN's former News Anchor, Cheryll Jones
• Exopolitics (http://www.exopolitics.com) - Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe

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