Stanton T. Friedman

Silly Effort to Investigate.
Everybody listens to organizations like SETI as if they are speaking the word of God.
SF believes it's silly to search for ETI this way.

Edwin Hubble argued there was more than one galaxy and made the case that yes, there certainly more than one galaxy.
Numbers now range into the billions of galaxies.
In 1938, we found a new process for using nuclear processing. However, we were never able to get this off the ground for some type of propulsion.

For a very long time we thought we were the only solar system and galaxy. Then came the Kepler satellite and they're turning out billions of planets. And interestingly enough, it was only looking at one very small point in space and found all that stuff.
Frank Drake said there might be something along the lines of 8000 planets out there that could potentially communicate with us.
Narrowing the search down to searching for RADIO communications from another planet is absurd and they continue searching to this day. Even still, as much as they desire to do this, they refuse to look at the evidence for UFOs. They say that it simply doesn't exist and don't even give it the slightest consideration.

Lord Rees in 2012 said "Only kooks see UFOs". "Why would they come here to talk to cranks ?", he said. He doesn't give any references of said kooks or any data to back up his opinion but just quickly throws out the negative comment for all to hear.

"Don't bother me with the facts, my mind is made up" is the mantra of these people who refuse to read ANY evidence.
another one is...
"If you can't attack the data, attack the people."

Astronomers say "there is nothing to UFOs" but always ignore large-scale scientific studies. Project Blue Book is a great example of this. It contained on 3201 sightings. They found 21.5% of the sightings that could not be explained. ?!! So the Secretary of the Air Force on the basis of the report they could not say that UFOs existed. (this is insane given the results) Someone in the Air Force went on to lie about this percentage and brought it down to 3% of the sightings that were unknown. This was a flat out lie.

It was a complete whitewash and similar stupid lies have been proclaimed ever since. This was in 1955 , not that long ago and they're saying the same stupid lies.
July 29th, 1968, congress had witness testimony from educated (PhD') about having data regarding UFOs to a congressional panel. One would think that the Astronomers on this panel would have at least given some credence to this testimony.

The Condon Report was another one of these failures. The conclusion was 30% of the cases could not be identified. One would think such a high percentage of unknowns did not merit more study. Edward Condon simply dismissed this fact and said that UFOs could not possibly exist.

Dr. J. Allen Hynek was another person important. He led Project Blue Book originally and spent most of his life studying UFOs.

The nasty, noisy negativists don't want to bother with the data.

He showed a cartoon of a guy searching for his lost car keys under a street light even though he lost his keys over near his car. SF paralleled this with SETI searching for ETI using radio signals.

IT all boils down to "smart people don't know what the heck they're doing".

Astronomers say "govts can't keep secret". Shostak, "Look at FEMA< Katrina, and the US Post Office".

Neil DeGrasse Tyson said "the govt can't keep secrets, just look at how much we know about Clinton's genitalia". He also said it would take way too long. However, most of the things we send out into space don’t have propulsion after it enters orbit.

We need to look at REAL history. Manhattan project, done in secret, done in National Labs and cost about $10 Billion dollars.
Lockheed built an aircraft that cost $10 billion dollars in secret.
Corona spy satellite, August 1960, was developed for CIA by Lockheed. Russians knew about and couldn't do anything about it. This satellite gathered the most amount of data more than any other spy device created. We found out the Russians were doing way less than what we thought and this was important for intl relations.

haha He showed us a picture of a redacted CIA UFO document that he waited for five years to receive. Only five words were legible.
Stanton goes on TV and holds up the BLACKED OUT docs. The next time he calls in for a copy of some newly de-classified docs, the person on the other end said they knew who he was because of his announcement. So this time the docs were completely WHITED OUT instead.

USAF General Carroll Bolender in July of 1969 said in reference to Project Blue Book: Reports of UFOs which could affect National Security are NOT PART of the blue Book system. If we close Blue Book, the public would not have a place to report sightings. Essentially, he said Blue Book and UFO investigations and any interest at all was no longer of value to the Air Force. However, there has been evidence that does show this to be the contrary.

Time after time , government agencies might lie in response to a request for further information. Many times they simply say "It's classified".

Magellan took 3 years to go one time around the globe. Jules Verne did it in 80 days. Now, the ISS goes around the world in 90 minutes. Progress comes from doing differently in an unpredictable way. We can go around the world much more quickly now but not by building better sailing ships.

Stanton showed us a picture of a nuclear-rocket engine designed to be used once you're in orbit. It delivered a lot of energy in a small machine. The government decided not to use it and it was until many years later when government AGAIN came up with the idea to do create another machine of this same kind.

Stanton went on to go over some of the aspects of the Betty and Barney Hill case. He discussed how Zeta Reticuli 1 and 2 are only 7 light years apart and how a civilization might have motivation to communicate with each other.

He also went through some of the books that he has written and talked a little about each one.

Man is not at the top of the heap. We kill ourselves in wars and all throughout the world every day. It's time we grew up.