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John Lear Briefing Scenario: Why the Answer is "Yes."
by Stephen Bassett
Washington, DC - On November 12, 2003, researcher and accomplished
aviator, John Lear, appeared on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell.
John Lear is a most interesting man, and it was a most interesting evening.
The son of the famous creator of the Lear Jet, William Lear, John is
a former Lockheed L-1011 Captain. He has flown over 150 test aircraft
and has received every certification granted by the Federal Aviation
Administration. He also holds 18 world speed records and has worked
for 28 different Aircraft Corporations. During the late
1960's, 1970's and early 1980's he was a contract pilot for the CIA.
From 1985 to 1992 John plunged into a personal investigation of extraterrestrial
related phenomena. He was a friend of Robert Lazar and was on hand when
Lazar broke with his Area 51 employer and began speaking out about extraordinary
craft of possible extraterrestrial origin being worked on at that facility.
After seven years of research Lear stepped back from the fray admitting
he was frustrated and burned out. He had paid a heavy price for
his efforts, losing two jobs and receiving various intimidations.
His research was conducted during the last years of the Cold War, when
the United States government was fully intent on maintaining the "cover-up,"
and few insiders were breaking ranks. Lear went public with
his overall findings and then withdrew from the field and the limelight.
The legacy of Lear's work lived on in mail lists and websites.
Eleven years passed. Then he turned up on Art Bell with a message.
The message was in the form of a question and has come to be referred
to as the John Lear Briefing Scenario. It has been circulated
extensively on the Internet. Lear asked Art to pretend the
U.S. Government had selected Art Bell to make the disclosure decision
after being fully briefed on the facts surrounding the extraterrestrial
presence. As it happens, John had presented the same scenario
to me the night before his appearance on Coast to Coast AM with Bell.
If these are the facts, do you authorize disclosure to the people -
yay or nay?
I answered, "yes." Bell answered, "no." Lear agreed
with Bell.
Art's response was consistent with the position he has held on disclosure
and repeated on his program over the years - the truth regarding the
extraterrestrial presence is too disturbing and too dangerous for public
consumption and should be withheld until such time as the government
feels the public can deal with the facts. And to his credit, Art
acknowledged some would find this position conflicted for a man who
had devoted years developing a program dedicated to providing alternative
information to its listeners. But that's the way he felt.
I requested an opportunity to come on Coast to Coast AM with Art or
George Noory and offer the reasons why the answer to John Lear's Briefing
Scenario must be "yes." In the meantime, here are the arguments
for a "yes" response to the Lear Briefing Scenario.
First we need to consider the matter of "secondhand information" (or
thirdhand, fourth-hand…). In criminal law it is referred to
as "hearsay," and most of you know it is not admissible in court except
under specific circumstances. What someone tells you may
or may not be true - and that extends to extraterrestrials. Just
because they have really, really hot vehicles and can pass through walls,
doesn't mean they can't lie.
There are many scenarios. Just about every researcher has
one - a well intentioned effort to describe the "big picture."
It's irresistible. You draw on everything you have heard, read
and seen, and much of it is secondhand.
To be fair, in John Lear's posited scenario you are asked to assume
the information to be absolutely true, then make your decision.
This is fine for the purpose of a thought experiment. In the non-experimental,
real world it is not practical. In making a decision of such magnitude
the truth or falsity of the information is of no small importance.
For those, then, who wish to use this scenario as a basis for making
the real world argument against disclosure, consider this: after
56 years of research in the modern era of ufology, there are a few certainties
you can take to the bank. Two of these are: 1) there is an extraterrestrial
presence engaging the human race, and 2) no one in the field of extraterrestrial
related phenomena research/activism knows the big picture. No
one has it right. If they are well intentioned and paying attention,
they very likely have some of it right, a piece here and there.
And if you took all the correct pieces from all the researchers, you
might have a mosaic which came close to the truth.
And the reason this is so is that everyone's big picture, however awful
or sanguine, is composed in large measure of secondhand information,
hearsay, and much of it is simply not true. Not true because
of government dispensed disinformation, well intentioned misinterpretation,
outright hoaxes by private parties, simple mistake, delusion and even
alien mendacity.
Thus it is that any decision to delay the truth process based upon any
posited scenario has the profound deficiency of being based upon a substantial
portion of false information. In other words, because of the cover-up
it is not possible to establish a fully valid scenario. Without
a valid scenario we cannot decide to end the cover-up. This
is not a circular argument the human race can afford.
Without the comfort of a valid big picture scenario, it is necessary
to fall back upon first principals. There are many, but one stands
out. Does the human race wish to move forward in ignorance and
fear driven by government imposed information embargoes or advance with
as much truth as can be wrung from science, common sense and government
files?
There have been many arguments put forth in many forums for disclosure.
They would fill a dozen articles. Most of you have read or heard
many over the years. Let's take another tack. For
those who may feel this response has been begging the question, let's
take the heart of John Lear's Briefing Scenario and answer it piece
by piece. [Lear's scenario is shown in blue font.]
[Lear]
So here's what happened, Art. We'll use some videos and stills. Our
first UFO recoveries were in the late '30s. We made a couple in the
beginning of the '40s and then came Roswell, which the public found
out about.
[Bassett] The Roswell case already approaches a 100% public awareness
quotient in the U.S. and is considered a likely crashed UFO by a majority
of Americans. Learning there were other crashed vehicles will
be much like learning other U.S. corporations are cooking their books.
[Lear]
We got 2 live aliens from Roswell. One died shortly there after
and one lived till 1956. And we found out so far there are 18 different
alien species that we know about monitoring Earth.
[Bassett] Fifty percent of the polled public already believes some UFOs
are alien craft with aliens in them. Eighteen species?
This is probably preferable to one species. It only confirms the
galaxy to be teeming with life. The human race is one of eighteen
(hundreds? thousands? millions?) of sentient life forms.
They know about you, but you don't know about them, because a small
cabal of men operating in secret believe they know what is best for
the rest of humanity.
[Lear]
Some are good and some are hostile, most are indifferent.
[Bassett] This describes every nation's tourists. No one
would expect it to be otherwise.
[Lear]
We found out that we are the experimental product, if you will, of an
alien race who we never met and we don't know who they are.
[Bassett] The implication is genetic engineering and not the creation
of life itself by aliens from inorganic matter, which if true, would
be challenging, but in either case is not provable.
[Lear]
All we know is that the Grays are cybernetic organisms, glorified robots
if you will, who work here at the behest of their employers monitoring
us through abductions.
[Bassett] A cybernetic organism was just elected the Governor
of California. The issue of abductions is now in the public domain.
A good case can me made that more damage will occur to abductees, if
the truth process is delayed.
[Lear]
We were never able to find out what the experiment is all about except
that we have been externally corrected about 65 times. And they, the
aliens, refer to us as "Containers." There's been speculation that the
souls our bodies contain are the reason for the experiments. But
nothing's been proven or determined.
[Bassett] The scenario itself states that soul "containers" are
a matter of "speculation," and not "proven" or "determined." On
such speculation is the most important information in human history
to be withheld from 99.9999% of the human race? We have
been corrected 65 times? Good. One can only imagine how
bad human behavior might be if there had been no corrections.
[Lear]
Since 1938 we've lost over 200 aircraft due to UFO hostilities and thousands
of soldiers in all kinds of different actions with aliens. Since
that time several hundred thousand civilians have disappeared with no
trace.
[Bassett] We lost more aircraft in World War II, and at least
the families knew why. Several hundred thousand civilians
have disappeared in that time frame without alien assistance.
Missing people, while tragic, is not new or shocking.
[Lear]
Several thousand of those were eliminated by us because of their chance
encounters with the aliens which we could ill afford to have publicized.
[Bassett] This would be a bitter pill. However, since "us"
means that humans committed these atrocities and not "all powerful aliens,"
the disclosure process would open the way to ending such actions.
[Lear]
A slightly more frightening phenomena known as "human mutilations" have
occurred on a regular basis and are similar to "cattle mutilations".
In that the human or humans are taken from the street, so to speak,
and returned to the same area about 45 minutes to an hour later with
their rectums cored out, their genitals removed, eyes removed from their
sockets, and completely drained of blood. In all cases it appeared that
the mutilation procedures occurred while the persons were still alive
and conscious. One of our scientists speculates that apparently the
human specimens had to be alive for the samples to be worth anything.
[Bassett] This is perhaps the least likely segment of the scenario
to be valid. However, if true, it would be a challenge to
the public perception of safety and create serious questions regarding
the social contract. It is also true we can't stop terrorism and
will likely live with it indefinitely. Who would advocate withholding
all information of terrorist threats from the public in order to keep
them calm? Thus, when large planes fly through office windows,
the mess would be cleaned up and all would quickly dismiss the event
as odd but unworthy of explanation? More importantly,
who can truly estimate the defensive power of 260 million people focused
on specific measures? Further, these kinds of "awful truth"
examples are predicated on aliens as not simply "all powerful," but
"godlike." If this were true, one might wonder why it is
that such all powerful, godlike beings have a disconcerting habit of
crashing to the ground, being picked up by military retrieval teams
and hauled off to secret bases dead on arrival?
[Lear]
Abductions occur on a daily basis throughout the United States to at
least 10% of the population.
[Bassett] The 10% figure would raise some eyebrows, but the abduction
phenomenon is being discussed on Oprah Winfrey. Again, it is assumed
that total awareness of such a circumstance by an entire nation offers
no relief. Such a case has not been made in this scenario.
[Lear]
When we were first made aware this we protested to the little gray being
we had held in captivity at the YY-2 facility in Los Alamos, but a deal
was struck that in exchange for advanced technology from the aliens
we would allow them to abduct a very small number of persons and we
would periodically be given a list of those persons abducted.
We got something less than the technology we bargained for and found
the abductions exceeded by a million fold than what we had naively agreed
to.
[Bassett] Sounds a little like the NAFTA deal. Thanks to
the need to maintain the cover-up, much of the technology is being withheld
from full public use. Thus, the public gets shortchanged twice.
The people will be angry. They will want to replace some government
personnel. It's about time.
[Lear]
In 1954, President Eisenhower met with a representative of another alien
species at Muroc Test Center, which is now called Edwards Air Force
Base. This alien suggested that they could help us get rid of the Grays
but Eisenhower turned down their offer because they offered no technology.
[Bassett] Perhaps a well informed public might persuade another
president to take that deal.
[Lear]
At this point it became apparent to all involved that there was no such
thing as a God, at least how the public perceives God. Certainly some
form of computer recorder stores information and an occasional miracle
is displayed by the aliens to influence a religious event.
[Bassett] The implication here is that this information would
cause people to turn away from God. It is more likely to turn
people toward God "It became apparent" is not exactly a
convincing measure of certitude. Many things will become apparent
to many people, assuming, of course, they are included.
The influencing of religion would be an interesting component.
It would take far more specifics than what is presented here to sway
committed members of formal religions. And alien miracles
aside, unless these fine off-planet beings can explain their whereabouts
prior to the big bang, those comfortable with a creator god will have
no trouble incorporating these interfering imps into their faith.
[Lear]
This so unnerved Eisenhower that he had "In God We Trust" put on paper
money and coins and put in the Pledge of Allegiance to reaffirm the
public belief in God. Shortly after this it was determined in meetings
between the US and the Russians that the situation was serious enough
that a cold war should be manufactured as a ruse to divert attention
of the public away from UFOs towards some other scary threat like the
H-bomb. It was also decided to keep the ruse secret from any elected
or appointed officials within both the US and Russian governments as
it took so long to vet these officials and the ruse was easier to manage
if the top people didn't know about it.
[Bassett] A manufactured war? Has there been any other
kind? One might consider a disclosure process aiming to
put the government back into truth business and break down the walls
of the secret empire, would be a good start toward preventing more "manufactured"
wars and other edifices of government propaganda and manipulation.
How does encouraging and expanding the "black world" decrease
the disruption of the actions of the "black world?" This
is akin to not telling someone they have cancer in order to spare them
the anxiety, while a cure is available to save them.
[Lear]
In the late 1950's NASA was formed to compartmentalize, containerize,
and sanitize information from all space platforms and vehicles. We sold
NASA to the public claiming that all information would belong to them
but they got very little and even that was highly sanitized.
[Bassett] The dilemma and corruption of NASA is being dissected
on several hundred websites. Again, only disclosure will
open the door to reforming this agency.
[Lear]
Our first efforts were to keep the public from learning about Venus.
A very similar planet to Earth and it's population is very similar to
us and just as technologically advanced. We have learned a lot from
them. Starting with the Russian Venera 1 and US Mariner 2, we
made Venus look like a lead melting, volcanic surface, spewing sulfuric
acid into a pressurized atmosphere 90 times that of Earth. And as often
the case we overdid it, and we wondered why nobody asked how a parachute
survived a descent into 800-degree air.
[Bassett] Certainly, present life on another planet would be profoundly
exciting. But given the 25-year public interest in Mars artifacts,
a populated Venus might be anticlimactic. Again, the public has
clearly shown its belief that UFOs are extraterrestrial craft piloted
by extraterrestrials. If some are Venusians, this does not
add much to their charisma. Should they be Venus bound and not space
faring, they would just be our harmless neighbors.
[Lear]
We set up operations in Pine Gap, Australia to preclude any prying eyes
figuring out what we were up to. We regularly eliminated through extreme
prejudice anybody who was part of the operation and made the least little
tiny threat about disclosure or dissatisfaction with the operation.
[Bassett] Again, these are the actions of humans which disclosure
might prevent in the future.
[Lear]
Any space mission that included Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Mariner, Voyager,
Clementine, and all the rest. All data initially came transmitted to
Pine Gap then it was relayed to JPL or wherever after sanitizing. We
had a little trouble with amateur radio operators but we figured out
how they could intercept these signals but we managed to deal with that.
[Bassett] Sequestered transmissions and the treatment of space
data as classified is generally known, and the public assumes the government
operates this way.
[Lear]
When the Russian threat began to fade we introduced Vietnam which kept
the public occupied for over ten years. The cover up and personnel to
run the operation began to get bigger and bigger and required more and
more money. We were forced to inflate the defense budget, which soon
not enough. Then we got into the drug business which was still not enough.
We were the ones that looted the savings and loan industry and Wall
Street to boot.
[Bassett] The tragedy of Vietnam, expanding black budget, growing
defense expenditures, government involvement in drug smuggling and the
savings and loan fiasco are all known to the public and were covered
by the media. They are all outrageous in their own right.
Learning they were tied in some way to alternative agendas such as the
UFO cover-up may increase, but will not multiply, the outrage.
[Lear]
It is so out of control now most people want immunity and want out.
[Bassett] Good. Grant them immunity and let them out.
[Lear]
But there is so much secrecy and so many double and triple blinds in
place that it's unlikely that this thing can ever be dismantled.
[Bassett] The question presented by the scenario was to disclose
or not to disclose. It was not about how difficult the truth
process would be. Life is difficult. Good government is
difficult. Major change is difficult. Failure to rise
to the difficult is how nations and empires fall. Abraham
Lincoln believed America could only fall from the inside, not form outside
forces. Such an outcome could only be accomplished with intense
secrecy and systemic lying - exactly the circumstances evolving since
1947.
[Lear]
And even if you give us the go ahead to spill the beans to the public
it's unlikely they will get anything more than "yes, we recovered a
flying saucer and yes, there was an occupant" but that's all we're gonna
tell ya.
[Bassett] Ah, but this is exactly the definition of disclosure:
the formal acknowledgment of the extraterrestrial presence. Whatever
else is learned is between the people and the government. It is
a political process. There are no guarantees, and the public
might, contrary to the fundamental tenet of this scenario, go right
back to sleep - hit the snooze button. But they must have that
choice.
[Lear]
So go ahead and roll the tape for Mr. Bell. What you see here is what
human mutilations look like. That one was a male about 27 years old.
That one is film of dead aliens being pulled from the wreckage of a
craft that crashed in Olancha, California in the '50s. That craft you
see over there was over 250ft. in diameter and had to be buried on the
spot. That site is in Utah near Dugway Proving Grounds. The object you're
looking at now is the as the Kecksburg Acorn which was brought to Wright
Patt in the middle '60s. There's Frank Drake trying to force information
out of a being tied down to a stretcher. He was supposedly from Tao
Ceti.
[Bassett] Unless the production values are very good, this film
is going straight to video. Most kids today will find the video
record doesn't measure up to the special effects standards of last year's
game cube.
[Lear]
These pictures you're looking at now are structures on the Moon. That's
the tower in Sinus Medii and it's over seven miles tall. And that thing
over there is what we call the Colossus of Oguram(sp) in Mare Crisium.
We don't know what it does but the machine itself is bigger than Brooklyn,
New York. Now those are videos of the domes covering the craters. As
you can see, some are in a very advanced state of decay.
[Bassett] This is old news. These issues have been
in play for three decades. In general, artifacts on the
Moon or Mars representing long past entities are the safest and least
disruptive kind of information the public can learn.
[Lear]
These are 5 second slides of the 18 different alien species we are looking
at. That one there is the most gruesome looking. The guards at one facility
are carefully indoctrinated over several months being shown pictures
similar to but not exactly like the alien. Only when he'd been acclimatized,
so to speak, of the horrible looking beings are they allowed to stand
in security positions. Before these acclimatizations were done, we had
two guards die of a heart attack as the aliens came down the hallway
unexpectedly.
[Bassett] That's what happens when you don't tell people what
is going on. The cover-up is scarier than the truth.
Since the aliens can pretty much come and go as they please, it might
be nice if the people knew they were here, just to keep those heart
attacks to a minimum should they decide to drop in unannounced on the
Larry King Show.
[Lear]
And this last clip is of the Kennedy assassination. You've heard of
the second gunman theory? Well, this is the second camera that recorded
exactly what happened and we had 4 gunmen. And the bottom line was that
Kennedy had to go. He insisted on releasing what little alien information
we had told him about and he was trying to withdraw troops from Vietnam
which we were using as a diversion for the public.
[Bassett] The only people upset about this will be the legion
of authors with Kennedy conspiracy books in galleys with the wrong theory.
The public will appreciate finally knowing the truth. Actually,
multiply that appreciation by all the truths to be found, once the fear
of looking is put aside.
[Lear]
After Kennedy we never told any President anything. Nixon knew because
he was briefed as VP in 1952. That's how we knew where to take Jackie
Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base to see the alien bodies we had in
storage there.
[Bassett] What an odd America the secrecy cabal wants - a place
where the greatest scientists in the world must be kept in the dark
for their own good, while a television comic gets to see alien bodies.
While this is compatible with a paradigm where Arnold Schwarzenegger
becomes governor of California and Dennis Miller has to ward off demands
he run for the Senate, do you really want to say "no" to disclosure
and maintain such a status quo?
___________
There you have it. When you break it down, it doesn't seem so
frightening, does it? Other scenarios are out there.
Break them down as well. The answer will be the same.
No disrespect is aimed at John Lear. All of these responses are
debatable. But at the core of the most profound transition
in history is a question being asked of every living human, whether
they are as yet aware or not: do you want to build your life and
your nation with truths or lies?
History has been quite consistent on the outcomes. Those who choose
lies are diminished or even destroyed. Those who choose
truths persevere or even flourish.
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