Will President Obama End UFO Secrecy?

When Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976, hesecrecy in this city," said Obama. "The old rules
promised that he would see the public learned thesaid that if there was a defensible argument for
truth about UFOs. He was convinced he had seennot disclosing something to the American people,
an unidentified flying object, but never confirmedthen it should not be disclosed. That era is now
whether he thought it was an alien spacecraft.over. Starting today, every agency and
UFOlogists call the particular sighting "The Jimmydepartment should know that this administration
Carter UFO incident." It happened one evening instands on the side not of those who seek to
1969, two years before he became the governorwithhold information, but those who seek to
of Georgia. He was giving a speech at the Lion'smake it known."
club when a guest called his attention to an objectObama's memorandum directs US government
in the sky. The object was reported to be 30agencies to respond favorably to Freedom of
degrees above the horizon and Carter described itInformation Act requests unless there are
as being "bright white" and being as bright as thecompelling reasons not to. This could be of great
moon. It was said to have appeared to haveassistance to journalists and citizen researchers,
closed in on where he was standing but to haveincluding those investigating the government's
stopped beyond a stand of pine trees someinvolvement in the UFO phenomenon.
distance from him. The object is then said toWhether Obama plans a proactive release of UFO
have changed color, first to blue, then to red,secrets is unknown, but there is citizen pressure
then back to white, before appearing to recedeon him to do so, as reflected in comments made
into the distance.to his transition team's website. Comments
One of the things President Obama did on Daypromoting UFO disclosure finished among the top
One is open up the Freedom of Information Act.100 submissions posted to the Citizen's Briefing
He reversed Ashcroft's restrictions on FreedomBook at Change.gov, which no longer exists it is
of Information Act requests as well as changesnow the WhiteHouse.gov
to the Presidential Records Act, and adoptedIn an "unofficial poll" conducted by Billy Booth's
general principles on transparency and open"Guide to UFOs" he says that In an interview with
government. According to Obama's memo,the late Tim Russert, Obama once remarked that
presented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation:he was more interested in the plight of everyday
"All agencies should adopt a presumption in favorAmericans than aliens. That is understandable,
of disclosure, in order to renew their commitmentconsidering the economic and social problems we
to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher inare experiencing at this time. However, that does
a new era of open Government. The presumptionnot necessarily mean he won't try to release
of disclosure should be applied to all decisionsinformation on UFOs, as long as there is a
involving FOIA."concerted effort among Americans to make their
This week Fate Magazine, a magazine that hasdesires known.
been around since the 1940s and reports on trueUfologist are hopeful mainly because with the
incidents of UFO events and other areas of theFreedom of Information Act being more open to
paranormal, released the following press release.the public than in the past 8 years and because
In one of his first official acts as president, Barackof the President's insistence to have government
Obama issued a memorandum that could lead totransparency, then this could be the time when
the disclosure of previously unknown UFO secrets.everyone finally learns the TRUTH about UFOs.
"For a long time now there's been too muchThe truth is out there.