The Laurance Rockefeller UFO Disclosure Initiative | Official Government Documents

Not sure if this truly belongs in the Dingbat files or not. There have been many credible witnesses regarding UFO sightings. Were these really UFOs from outer space or simply government red herrings enacted to hide the development of secret weapons systems. 
Both sides have been argued.
The following article is quite long but contains a great deal of information
I post, you decide.

The following is a detailed paper discussing official UFO disclosure efforts from the late 20th Century. The information was obtained from a Freedom of Information Request made in January 2001, releasing almost 1000 pages of official government documents.
 
 Contained below is prima facie evidence that the government has known about the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials for at least the past 70 years. This data can be used to help awaken more close minded individuals to the reality of extraterrestrial activity on Earth. For those who demand evidence that the phenomenon is real, this paper is an excellent resource.

Laurance Rockefeller made a concerted effort, with various high-level government contacts, to officially release all government documentation related to the UFO phenomenon in the late 1990s. His involvement in the disclosure initiative is perplexing, but it is obvious that he was instrumental in alerting certain government officials — who were not briefed in these areas — that the government had been covering up the UFO issue.

As one example, Jack Gibbons, former Science Advisor to the President, was surprised to learn that the government had been withholding information regarding UFOs from the public. Once Gibbins was made aware care of Rockefeller, he and several other high-level officials began a disclosure effort. Steven Greer was participating in briefings to high-level White House staffers, for the purpose of preparing them to disclose to the public. Much of what Greer discusses in his work is summerized below

But despite the initiative successes, no official disclosure came about. And in mid-2001, several months prior to the infamous September 11th terror attacks, Greer held a National Press Club event with dozens of insiders and whistleblowers in a grassroots disclosure effort. That was a seminal event in the push for official disclosure, and since that time, the body of evidence being added to by insiders has expanded greatly.

Given the Rockefeller family's involvement in secret government criminal syndicate activity, especially related to deep black budget government projects, one wonders if this initiative was part of an early limited or partial disclosure effort.

In this brief excerpt from the below report, we see how intimately Rockefeller was involved:
During this February 1994 meeting Gibbons made a stunning proposal related to Rockefeller’s main request that all UFO information be declassified and released. Rockefeller referred to the Gibbons proposal in a follow up letter.

“We believe that your approach of starting by addressing a specific incident is an important and reasonable way to begin the process of declassification in this area.”[x]

It was an opportunity that Rockefeller’s made the most of. He fully encouraged Gibbons to work to declassify Roswell, the “mother of all UFO cases.” Rockefeller wrote,

"The July 1947 Roswell incident would be a logical and challenging place to start. While much in the public sector has been written about it, the government has had nothing to say about it after the original press release saying that a flying disc had been recovered was retracted. The public record of this incident has been thoroughly analyzed. Further information depends upon access to classified information.

Many are convinced that Roswell marks the beginning of government secrecy about UFOs. However, whatever the truth of Roswell, a definite statement about it from the government would be very important. If it actually was UFO related, it could be used to start the process of reversing the government’s 40 plus years of denial on the subject. If it can fully be explained as not UFO related, it would be a significant contribution to the field, and perhaps even contribute to more rigor in research on the subject.

If this specific project initiative is successful, it will become an important prototype for the release of all UFO information. Obviously, the means of carrying out this event-related review is up to you. However, to the extent we can be helpful, we want to be."[xi]

Rockefeller added, “Scott Jones and his associates are quite current on research accomplished on this subject. I have asked that they be available to assist your investigation in any appropriate way.”v

In addition to “lifting classification about Roswell” Rockefeller asked that President Clinton “grant amnesty on an individual basis to allow those with knowledge of the incident to speak without fear of prosecution.”

Finally, Rockefeller asked that Gibbons “designate a staff person for continuing contact.” In the meantime, and under these circumstances, Rockefeller promised that he would hold off on the letter he was drafting addressed to President Clinton.

This “Clinton draft letter” popped up over and over in the 1,000 pages released by OSTP, from this first reference in 1994 to early 1996 when it appeared the letter might have been sent to the President. It appeared attached to Gibbons letters, in various states of draft. In one draft, discussed later, Gibbons or one of his staff actually made comments in the margin about various ideas expressed in the letter.


Attached to this Gibbons letter, was an even more interesting letter to Anne Bartley who appeared to have been one of the Gibbons staffers in the room during the February 4th meeting. In this letter, Rockefeller makes an even more stunning disclosure - it was the President’s Science Advisor Jack Gibbons who had proposed making Roswell a test case for new declassification procedures. Rockefeller wrote,

"Jack’s suggestion to make the 1947 event a test case of the Government’s willingness to review classification procedures under the President’s recent Executive Order was a very good one."[xii] As with the letter to Gibbons, Rockefeller dangled the proposed letter to Clinton, “my idea of the letter to the President seems best tabled and for us to concentrate on Jack Gibbons and follow through on his suggestion.”

For Much more and a list of references, go to Stillness In The Storm/The-Laurance-Rockefeller-UFO-Disclosure-Initiative-Official-Government-Documents-Clinton-OSTP-Confirm-Knowledge-of-UFOs-and-ETs.