On May 9, 2001, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., a historic conference took place, the likes of which the world has never seen before. An international panel of journalists attended the event, later covered by CNN Headline News, ABC, the BBC, FOX, The Washington Times, The London Sunday Express, Pravda, and other outlets around the globe, the largest in National Press Club history. Over 250,000 people waited online to view the webcast live over the Internet, despite the attempts at jamming later reported by the president of Connectlive.com. When the crowded conference was finished nobody was laughing, and nobody was making jokes. The topic was something that has up until now been the subject of official denial, secrecy, ridicule, and professional disinformation for over fifty years, but in reality is one of the most serious issues facing the world today. On May 9, the first 21 of a list currently numbering over 450 high-ranking witnesses in government, military, industry, and intelligence came forward with unambiguous testimony and documentation establishing the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence.
The credentials of the witnesses are indeed impressive: John Callahan, former Division Chief for the Accidents, Evaluation and Investigation division of the FAA, Brigadier General
Stephen Lovekin, Lt. Col. Charles L. Brown, former Defense Intelligence Agency official John Maynard, NASA contractor Donna Hare, Dr. Carol Rosin, Sgt. Karl Wolfe, to name just a
few. Clearly, these professionals aren’t just Ma and Pa seeing little green men in the barn anymore.
"At times I used to carry nuclear weapons," said witness Major George Filer III at the press conference. "In other words, I was mentally fit to carry nuclear weapons, but I’m not mentally fit if I see a UFO. This criticism and this ridicule have done more to keep the story coming out than almost anything else." *
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