This past week saw an interesting little tidbit come out on the UFO UpDates List entitled, "Clinton Aide Slams Pentagon's UFO Secrecy" and told us of a press conference that was called by a former White House chief of staff and an international investigative journalist, John Podesta. Podesta was one of numerous political and media heavyweights on hand in Washington, D.C., to announce a new group put together in order to gain access to secret government records about UFOs.

The story was reported by Richard Stenger of CNN's Science and Space area but this little attempt at some kind of disclosure by an ex-White House high-level staffer kind of got overshadowed by a much larger event happening around the Washington area - The Beltway Sniper. In fact, the press conference supposedly had a total attendance of some seven - count 'em - seven media people in the audience.

In other words, what would happen if we had a total disclosure event and nobody bothers to see or hear it? Now this particular press event was not a complete disclosure of what the government of the United States has been hiding, in fact, it was what may be recorded in history as the opening salvo in a battle to get AT what the Government and more notably, the Pentagon, has been hiding about UFO's.

John Podesta's Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFI) is going to press the U.S. Air Force for documents involving Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly - both of which were clandestine operations reported to have existed decades ago to investigate UFOs and retrieve objects of unknown origin.

John Podesta was Clinton's Chief-of-Staff and as such should know his way around White House and Pentagon political side-stepping maneuvers so he and his group have the potential to be able to get at places where others might find their access denied.

The main thing however that was announced at the Press conference that never was - was the message that the group is not out to prove the existence of aliens visiting our planet, but to begin an initiative to legitimize the scientific investigation of unexplained aerial phenomena. In other words, they want people to stop hiding - stop denying what everyone is seeing and reporting and actually investigate what is going on in our skies.

What they're talking about is nothing new however, if they're successful, it might bring an end to an era where scientists are vilified for even suggesting that perhaps there is something flying around in our skies that defies rational explanation. it might bring an end to professors being removed from teaching courses in universities because they happen to believe that there is something or someone out there that just might not be from this planet and the Government is actively lying about it!

The effort sounds good and the initiative has bold values but the press conference couldn't have been called at a worse time unless of course, somebody wanted to have the message of disclosure delivered when nobody was listening... but that's just my take on it!