{"id":24253,"date":"2013-04-11T17:48:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T21:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=24253"},"modified":"2013-04-11T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T21:48:39","slug":"dem-former-congresswoman-to-head-panel-pushing-existence-of-space-aliens-not-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2013\/04\/dem-former-congresswoman-to-head-panel-pushing-existence-of-space-aliens-not-a-joke.html","title":{"rendered":"Dem Former-Congresswoman to head panel pushing existence of space aliens (Not a joke!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/ET-cmilies-face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24259 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/ET-cmilies-face.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000\">ROFLOL!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000\">(And they call Christians and the Bible crazy!)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Next frontier for Cheeks Kilpatrick: Panel expl<\/strong>oring existence of alien life<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24254\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/080730_kilpatrick1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24254\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/080730_kilpatrick1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick will be paid about $20,000 and expenses will be covered to prove alien contact and extraterrestrial vehicles on Planet Earth is being hidden from the public&#8217;s eye!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Washington<\/em> \u2014 A group hoping to prove alien contact with Earth has tapped former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick to help convince the federal government to acknowledge the existence of extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Democrat and mother to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will help preside over 30 hours of congressional-style hearings April 29 to May 3 at Washington&#8217;s National Press Club. She did not respond to calls for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, the public panel pledges to expose evidence of &#8220;extraterrestrial <a id=\"itxthook0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130411\/POLITICS02\/304110362#\" rel=\"nofollow\">vehicles<\/a>&#8221; and a government effort to deny sightings of such craft commonly called UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Bethesda, Md.-based Paradigm Research Group that is hosting the hearings, said he sought former members of Congress to interview dozens of witnesses in a style that harkens back to their work peppering witnesses in congressional hearings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24255\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/if-pigs-could-fly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24255\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/if-pigs-could-fly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If pigs and cows could fly&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I had invitations out to about 50 former members who I thought were likely candidates to participate, and Congresswoman Kilpatrick was the first one to respond,&#8221; Bassett said.<\/p>\n<p>Kilpatrick became a U.S. representative in 1997 but lost her seat to Hansen Clarke after a 2010 primary challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Kilpatrick will be joined by five other former members of Congress for the hearings. Each will be paid about $20,000 and their expenses will be covered, Bassett said.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Kilpatrick on the bipartisan panel are ex-Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska (Democrat and more recently Libertarian), as well as former Reps. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., Darlene Hooley, D-Ore., Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., and Merrill Cook, R-Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The chosen panel members weren&#8217;t required to believe in aliens or a government cover-up, but pledged to keep an open mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made it clear to them that I am unlikely to be persuaded,&#8221; Utah&#8217;s Cook told the Salt Lake Tribune. &#8220;Extraterrestrial life? I can buy into that as a possibility, but to this day I have not heard or read or seen anything that makes me believe that anyone has encountered one on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24256\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/Three-giant-alien-spaceships-are-approaching-earth.-Governments-around-the-globe-are-preparing-for-war.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24256\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/Three-giant-alien-spaceships-are-approaching-earth.-Governments-around-the-globe-are-preparing-for-war.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ask any late night whacky talk show host (aka George Norey) and his guests and I&#8217;m confident they&#8217;ll confirm that three giant alien spaceships are approaching earth &amp; Governments around the globe are preparing for war!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Paradigm Research Group disagrees. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been tracking these (extraterrestrial) crafts for decades,&#8221; Bassett said. The evidence is &#8220;overwhelming \u2014 beyond any reasonable doubt there&#8217;s an extraterrestrial presence (and) almost certainly from another planet,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The five days of testimony are to be filmed and included in a documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Bassett started the Paradigm Research Group, a lobbying organization, in 1996 urging the government to reveal evidence of extraterrestrials engaging the human race.<\/p>\n<p>The organization collected enough signatures from fellow alien believers on a White House citizen petition Web page in 2011 to generate an official response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race,&#8221; Phil Larson, from the White House Office of Science and <a id=\"itxthook1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130411\/POLITICS02\/304110362#\" rel=\"nofollow\">Technology<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> Policy, wrote in response to the petition. &#8220;In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public&#8217;s eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a id=\"itxthook2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130411\/POLITICS02\/304110362#\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wall Street<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/icon1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> Journal devoted part of a 2011 article on the White House&#8217;s &#8220;We the People&#8221; petition project to Paradigm Research Group.<\/p>\n<p>Bassett said he hopes the hearings will generate enough attention for the government to change its mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a government policy of denial,&#8221; Bassett said. &#8220;And once that policy ends, we are going to learn the truth about this phenomenon pretty quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24257\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/ET.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24257\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/04\/ET.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MonoET &#8211; the most beautiful alien smile ever painted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>From The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130411\/POLITICS02\/304110362#ixzz2QBtwV7sU\">http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130411\/POLITICS02\/304110362#ixzz2QBtwV7sU<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROFLOL! 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