Advisory Board - Public Policy and Media
Advisory Board members approve the basic mission and goals of the Exopolitics Institute. They offer periodic advise and direction to the President and Board of Directors to assist in the growth of the Exopolitics Institute, and to promote a variety of exopolitical initiatives.* Public Policy and Media advisors help infuse public policy debates with exopolitical perspectives, and promote exopolitics through the mass media.
Tracie Austin was born in England 1965. Having completed various studies at Cauldon College of Further Ed. in 1984, Tracie re-located to London a year later to study at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as a concert pianist, and to teach in her instrument in schools. Her interest in UFOs first began there, when she witnessed a UFO, an event that would later change her life! In 1989, Tracie moved back to her hometown of Staffordshire to teach piano/keyboard to numerous students, and became Project Manager of a popular music tuition agency. Her second daylight sighting occurred in May of 1996. A profound sighting of a black, boomerang object that changed shape, was observed by other witnesses, and made a second appearance that day over her house! The Television channel "BBC Digital" became aware of her sighting, and during the making of their TV documentary titled "Over the Moon", Tracie told her story and re-enacted her sighting. It was in June of 1996, that she hosted her first UFO conference, which became a major success. Radio appearances followed, as well as articles in local newspapers and invitations to speak on the subject at various organizations. A second conference followed in 1998. Research into the UFO phenomena has been an on-going process since her first sighting in 1987, and she has investigated some highly strange UFO activity. Personal sightings of UFOs continue to date. Tracie was invited as MC, and a guest speaker at the 2005 annual MUFON symposium in Denver. Tracie is the Executive Producer and Host of her own cable TV talk show in California called "Let's Talk...Paranormal" which has become quite a success in the USA. Website: http://www.letstalkparanormal.com/
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Maurizio Baiata (Italy) 54 years old, investigative reporter, UFO researcher and video producer, Rome resident. Baiata started his editorial activity 36 years ago as journalist and editor for Rock and Roll Italian publications, reaching the peak of his career as Editor in chief of the Italian edition of the prestigious U.S. magazine "Rolling Stone"' (1978-80). In 1981 he moved to New York, working as radio correspondent for the Italian state network RAI, subsequently becoming editor-cultural page of the daily newspaper Il Progresso Italo Americano. Seven years later, back in Italy, Baiata concentrated his professional interest on UFO research, focusing on the Roswell incident. He produced several documentaries, with large diffusion through all media (Video, TV, magazines). The release of the Santilli Footage in Italy is due to him. Between the years 1995-2000 Baiata has directed and managed four famous UFO magazines: Notiziario UFO", "UFO Network", Dossier Alieni and "Stargate". He has also directed two multimedial encyclopedias: UFO Dossier X (Fabbri Editori) and "Stargate - Enigmi dal Cosmo" (Armando Curcio Editore). In 1997 he released through his own publishing company the book The Day After Roswell by Col. Philip Corso (Il Giorno Dopo Roswell, ed. Futuro) and invited the Author in Italy twice, establishing a deep and sincere friendship. From the original manuscript of Corsos diary Dawn of a New Age, given to him by the Colonel, in the year 2003 Baiata released the book in Italian (Pendragon Edizioni), the first and only edition of it, worldwide. As lecturer, Baiata has participated in numerous UFO conferences all over the world, and countless TV and radio programs. Currently, Baiata is the Managing Editor of the monthly magazine Area 51 (Hera Edizioni), circulating in Italy with very relevant results and, again, giving to the Italian UFO field a unique - exopolitical - editorial perspective. His principal website is: http://www.edizionihera.com/area51/home.html
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Stephen Bassett is a leading advocate for ending the 58-year government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and the planet earth. He is a political activist, founder of the Paradigm Research Group, Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC), author of the Paradigm Clock website, and a political columnist and commentator. Presently he is the only registered lobbyist in the United States representing extraterrestrial-related phenomena research/activist organizations, and X-PPAC is the first political action committee to target the political implications of extraterrestrial-related phenomena. In 2002 he conducted an independent Congressional campaign for the 8th District of Maryland. It was first instance in which a congressional candidate on the November ballot in a federal election addressed the matter of an extraterrestrial presence and the 5-decade government imposed truth embargo. On January 13 of 2003 he launched a new initiative, Citizen Hearing, which intends to conduct a week-long hearing in Washington, DC before former Members of the US House and Senate. The motto is, "If Congress will not do its job, the people will." This ground breaking project awaits funding. In April of 2004 he produced the 1st Annual Exopolitics Expo - the X-Conference - held at the Hilton Washington, DC North/Gaithersburg. It was produced by Paradigm Research Group. The 2nd Annual Exopolitics Expo (X-Conference 2005) was completed on April 22-24, 2005. The 3rd X-Conference is tentatively planned for early June of 2006. Since 1996 Bassett has assisted many other organizations and initiatives which have been making the case for 1) an end to the government embargo on the truth surrounding an extraterrestrial presence, and 2) open congressional hearings to take the testimony of former military and agency employees witness to extraterrestrial-related events and evidence. His work has been referenced in, among others, the Washington Post, Washington Times, New York Times, Legal Times, Christian Science Monitor, National Journal, Pravda, London Sunday Express and ODweyers Washington Report. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television talk shows, in numerous documentaries and brought the message to millions of people of the likelihood and implications of "Disclosure" - the formal acknowledge by the United States government of an extraterrestrial presence about the earth - not maybe, not someday, but NOW. Web Pages: Paradigm Research Group: www.paradigmclock.com; X-Conference: www.x-conference.com; X-PPAC: www.x-ppac.org; Citizen Hearing: www.citizenhearing.org
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Tim Binnall is the host of the popular radio show, Binnall of America. He hosts a forum, columnists and has podcast interviews of many UFO/exopolitics researchers. Tim is part of the next generation of UFO/exopolitics researchers. Website: http://www.binnallofamerica.com
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Robert Fleischer is the coordinator of the German Exopolitics Initiative. He was born in the ancient communist part of Germany. He started to become interested in UFOlogy at an early age of 16, when he came to know the famous Paleo-SETI researcher and author Erich von Däniken from Switzerland. He has worked as a TV-journalist for several German TV networks and abandoned this path when he realized it was very hard to report on issues he considered of upmost importance. He has a university degree in conference interpreting and is fluent in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. His research interests include free energy, Paleo-SETI, Exopolitics, 9/11 and the mechanisms behind the media cover-up. He is author of the book Mentality in the Film (Mentalität im Film, ISBN: 978-3-8300-3063-8) in which he analyzes how opinions can be influenced by means of culture-related signs and symbols in the movie. He is a filmmaker and currently working on a documentary about 9/11 and its geopolitical background. He supports German UFO associations like MUFON-CES in publishing their research work. As the coordinator of the German Exopolitics Initiative, his main goal is to bring the UFO discussion in the German public back to a respectful and fact-oriented level, so that there can be an informed and open public debate about the perhaps most important issue that mankind is facing today the extraterrestrial presence on Earth. Website: http://exopolitik.org/
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David Griffin - Born in the English Midlands, he has lived in many areas of the UK. He does not come from a background of UFOlogy but like many people has found that you repeatedly end up in this field after years of research in wider areas. Academically he managed to obtain a place on Bradford University's infamous ' Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution' degree course the year the college was under pressure to shut the course down from then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Has worked in virtual learning and learning innovation after obtaining an MSc in Interactive Media and Education with emphasis on Human Computer Interaction but also a variety of areas including NHS support for people with chronic addictions, and NLP based learning and events promotion. Research interests include:
* 'off-planet' cultures and the ethics of intervention in developing worlds
* the interface between alien consciousness and ethnopsychopharmacology
* the ETI disclosure process and post-disclosure impact
* why exopolitics has a small 'p' - horizontal information distribution methods
* the alien false flag agenda and synthetic terror
* black budget roles in the UFO agenda and narco-trafficking as a black-budget source
* the war on drugs as a general war on consciousnessCurrently expanding the UK node of Exopolitics sites and pursuing methods of pushing the field in the UK and Europe. Main website: http://www.exopolitics.org.uk
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Ross Hemsworth is a business entrepreneur and owner of a number of radio networks, but is also a well known paranormal radio and TV presenter, scientific investigator of anomalous phenomena and an intriguing and entertaining speaker at events worldwide. He has been hailed as a forward thinking visionary and prolific investigator and also promotes positive thinking and cosmic ordering making things happen rather than waiting for six numbers to make you rich in the lottery stakes! He is also co-founder of The Phantom or Fraud Project. As a successful speaker, and now author with his first book (The Dead ARE Talking) set to be a massive worldwide hit (www.phantomorfraud.org) Ross tours the world promoting the growth of spirituality, and sciences more open-minded approach to the paranormal. He also has some intriguing views on inter-dimensional entities what some people call ALIENS! Rosss key topics are parallel dimensions, dowsing and Earth energies and their effect on ESP & telepathy, Soul survival the evidence to support it, ORBS dont write them off until youve heard the news, and The Knights Templar they may NOT have originated in France after all! Ross presents the worldwide syndicated hit radio show Now THATS Weird (www.nowthatsweird.co.uk) which has an estimated global audience of over 500,000 listeners. He has also presented various TV shows including the hit UK series Ghost Detectives. Ross can be contacted at: ross@glastonburyradio.net or +44 11458 830922
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John Kuhles is a veteran UFO reserch from the Netherlands. He is promoting exopolitics in the Euroepean Parliament and is running as an Exopolitics candidate for the next European parliamentary elections. He hosts a popular alternative radio show in the Netherlands, Untold Mysteries. His main website is: http://www.untoldmysteries.com/
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Hal Corbett McKenzie is one of the few journalists in America who has covered the UFO scene professionally. As a founding editor and writer for The News World daily newspaper in New York City, which later changed its name to the New York City Tribune, he edited a weekly supplement called UFOs and Other Cosmic Phenomena. The supplement featured interviews with the late J. Allen Hynek, the "father of ufology;" New York artist Bud Hopkins who authored the books Missing Time and Intruders that introduced the abduction phenomenon to the public, UFO archivist and photoanalyst Colman VonKevicsky; and Aphrodite Clamar, a New York psychiatrist who has treated abductees. Chilean UFO journalist J. Antonio Huneeus, now a writer and editor for Fate magazine, was a regular contributor. The supplement also provided a sounding board for local UFO researchers. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1970, where he served as associate editor of the FLF newspaper, The Rising Tide. He participated in the founding of The News World in 1976. During the 14-year life of the newspaper he served as international editor, news editor, science editor, commentary editor and finally senior editor, as well as editor of UFOs and Cosmic Phenomena. When in 1982 The News World changed its name to The New York City Tribune and dropped the UFO supplement, he continued to field space and UFO-related articles as science editor. The paperback edition of Whitley Strieber's book Communion quotes McKenzie's review of the book. From 1991-93, while working as current affairs editor for The World & I magazine in Washington D.C., he published free-lance articles in UFO magazine and in British UFO writer Timothy Good's book Alien Update 1993. He was also active in Operation Right to Know, a political organization dedicated to ending UFO secrecy, serving as secretary-treasurer. In June 1993 he testified before a hearing of the National Archives and Records Administration's Information Security Oversight Office and in July helped organize a demonstration in front of the White House to demand an end to UFO secrecy. In September 1993 he moved to his late father's hometown of Montezuma, Georgia, and worked as reporter and editor for the Americus Times-Recorder, winning the 1996 Georgia Associated Press Public Service Award, Class A; and staff writer for the Robins Rev-Up, the weekly Air Force newspaper at Warner Robins Air Force Base. In March 2003 he became webmaster of www.cosmictribune.com, a website dealing with extraterrestrial, environmental and religious news. He now works as webmaster for Insight on the News, a website sponsored by The Washington Times. McKenzie and his wife, who teaches kindergarten, now live in Macon, Ga., and have five children and one grandchild.
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Joe Montaldo is Founder, National Director, and Spokesperson for I.C.A.R. the International Community for Alien Research (www.icar1.com). Originally affiliated with MUFON as an Investigator, Mr. Montaldo became disenchanted with the lack of information being shared with the general public. His first step in furthering public awareness was establishing a personal website (www.alienenigma) in 1998. Later, the I.C.A.R. site () was added to the Internet. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1963, he attended area private schools before joining the U.S. Navy. While in the Navy, Joe earned three degrees in Advanced Electronics and Avionics. In April of 2004, Mr. Montaldo began hosting the Wake Up USA a UFO Study talk show on Stardust Radio. He currently hosts UFO Undercover on the Paranormal Radio Network which he founded in 2007. During his time as a radio host, Joe has interviewed most of Ufologys personalities. In the process he has gained many friends in the community as well as the opportunity to work to ward his goal of ufologist and the public sharing information openly. Having been an investigator for more than 20 years, Joe Montaldo is extremely knowledgeable on UFOs, Alien Abductions, Star Children, Indigo Children, Milabs, Government Involvement, and all matters involved in Ufology. In an effort to go directly to the public, a chat room was opened on Pal Talk under Social Issues-UFO Alien Phenomena-Voice Room. This chat room provides a place for people to exchange ideas, share experiences and find personal help dealing with Alien Contact. I.C.A.R., starting as a grassroots organization, is now established with members in 11 countries. While UFO sightings are always investigated, I.C.A.R.s main focus is on Alien Abductions and the Alien Agenda. I.C.A.R. members and Joe have investigated close to 5000 cases of Alien contact and abductions. In 2005, Montaldo and members of I.C.A.R. provided press coverage in Washington D.C. at the X-Conference. Mr. Montaldo has been featured in newspaper articles, radio talk shows and speaks at area meetings as well as hosting his Wednesday night talk show. My future goal is to gain information for I.C.A.R. and share it with the Public. The public needs to understand what is going on with Alien Contact, and exactly what the Alien Agenda is. Main websites www.icar1.com & www.paranormalradionetwork.org .
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Lavinia Pallota (Laurea, It.). Dr Pallotta is part of the editorial staff of "Area 51" magazine in Rome, Italy and an Italian UFO researcher. She writes regularly for a number of Italian UFO magazines. She has conducted interviewes with whistleblowers, experiencers and contactees. She also translates UFO/exopolitics literature from English into Italian. Her website is: Impattoalieno.net
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Pepón Jover del Pozo (Spain) I would like to use three words that capture my essence as a way to briefly present myself. The first one describes who I am, a seeker of truth; the second, my main interest, consciousness and its expansion and finally freedom, my biggest eagerness. I search for the truths that help me become conscious of anything unconscious within me in order to transform myself into a freer spiritual being. My continuous search for the truth about life has lead me to find in my journey the extraterrestrial issue and become aware of the consequences of such fact for our Human Civilization. I've realized that this is the biggest human secret ever kept and that it has the great potential to dynamite the structures that enslave our psyche into this illusory matrix of a three dimensional reality; hence freeing humankind from suffering. Since this realization, I've experienced how the pieces of the puzzle of the big mystery of life I was trying to put together, started to fit and a great image began to emerge. Exopolitics became then the platform from which to pursue my biggest desire for all human beings: freedom. I was born in Barcelona, Spain, however, I've never had the feeling of belonging to a country but rather to some larger and deeper reality. My academic background starts with a four year degree in International Trade at Pompeu Fabra University, afterwards again a four year degree in Psychology with a specialization in clinical psychology at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya both in Barcelona, and at the present time, I'm finishing a two year MSc on Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. I come from the business world, having worked for a while in different companies and later on shifting towards the health sector, working as a practicum student of psychology in Psycho Oncology at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona. Once finished psychology I became a transpersonal psychotherapist which lead me to start the MSc I'm finishing now. Throughout the years 2000 and 2001 I've published six articles in a well known newspaper, El Mundo, about psychology and spirituality. Since 2006 I've been running my main website www.trans-personal.com where I freely publish my articles and research. Since early 2008 I have been running the Spanish Exopolitics site which has been disclosing the truth about the ETs reality and free energy, as well as to educate, inform and serve as a platform for the Spanish speaking community on Exopolitics. Website: www.exopoliticsspain.es
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Frederik Uldall (1972) is the founder and coordinator of the Danish exopolitics initiative. He holds a master's in human geography and a minor in political science from the University of Copenhagen. After his studies he was granted a pre-doc at Copenhagen Business School's Centre for Corporate Values and Responsibility. However, he left the academic career in order to pursue ideas which are "outside the box". Frederik has also worked as a research assistant at London School of Economics, as an assistant desk officer at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as a project manager in a Danish IT-company in India.During his studies he focused mainly on issues related to the developing countries and the global environment. In his master's thesis Frederik investigated how companies construct perceptions of nature through the articulation of "Corporate Social Responsibility". He examined how corporations reproduce the nature/society-dichotomy, where man is separate from his source. He showed how the dualistic view legitimizes the continuing exploitation of "nature"; when one does not see oneself as a part of something one will have a stronger incentive to behave unethically. Social constructivism and discourse analysis constituted the theoretical and methodological framework. In the light of these he illustrated how the production of the dualistic perception of nature has been tied closely to the creation of the modern scientific paradigm. The latter can be seen as something contingent and can be viewed as a result of power struggles. In other words: the scientific paradigm is constantly being reproduced and can be constructed differently. Thus, discourse analysis could also be used to shed light on the antagonisms between the exopolitical discourse and the hegemonic discourse of political science. An analysis could raise the awareness of the fact that the former can be absorbed by the latter. Furthermore, it could illustrate the interests in society which prevent exopolitics from becoming mainstream. Websites: http://www.exopolitics.dk and http://www.exopolitik.dk
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Victor Viggiani is a recently retired school Principal from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Psychology (York University Toronto Ontario Canada) and a Masters in Educational Administration and Curriculum Development (Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada). Victor is also a College Supervisor at the Faculty of Education of Medaille College in Buffalo New York. Victor's research and analysis of anomalous aerial phenomenon spans over 30 years. His experience involves UFO sightings report investigation, counselling work with individuals reporting anomalous experiences, presentations and journalism in the field of ETI Disclosure issues. Extensive UFO research has been completed throughout the South Western U.S.A. in locations such as Groom Lake Nevada, Corona, Roswell, Socorro, The Very Large Array Telescope, White Sands, Los Alamos NL and Dulce in New Mexico and in South and North Eastern Australia. His published work includes: "Area 51: A Desert Journey," "Alien Abduction Symposium Boston Mass: A Review of Alien Abduction Dialogue Between Dr. John Mack and Budd Hopkins," "Disclosure: A Terrestrial Imperative," "A series of professional articles in educational journals on Student Discipline, Classroom Management, Teacher Supervision, and Curriculum Development." He was co-organizer of the Exopolitics Toronto Symposium which featured the public emergence of former Canadian Minister of Defence, Paul Hellyer, calling for an end to the UFO cover up. Principal website: http://exopoliticstoronto.com/
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Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd, is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor in International Law. He is a former Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for the Study of Social Policy at Stanford Research Institute, where he directed a proposed 1977 Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communication Study He is an author, futurist, lawyer, environmentalist and a space activist who promotes an Exopolitics Initiative, and a ban on weapons and warfare in space. With others, Webre is a co-architect of the Space Preservation Treaty (www.peaceinspace.org ) and the Space Preservation Act that was introduced to the U.S. Congress by Congressman Dennis Kucinich and is endorsed by over 270 NGO's worldwide. He is the author of Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe (2005). Alfred Webre is presently International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (www.peaceinspace.com ), an international organization to prevent the weaponization of space, transform the war economy into a peaceful, cooperative, sustainable Space Age society, and promote cooperation amongst Life in the Universe. He is the host of a public affairs radio talk show in Vancouver, B.C. He was the first to use the term 'exopolitics' and started the first exopolitics website at: www.exopolitics.com
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Farah Yurdozu. Farah Yurdozu is Turkey's first female UFO researcher and writer and known on several continents as an authority on the paranormal, UFO's and the metaphysical. More than twenty years she has been working as a professional writer and investigator in the fields of UFO investigations and paranormal subjects. She speaks fluent Turkish, English and Spanish with a degree from the Spanish Language and Literature Division of Istanbul University. Born in Istanbul, as a teenager Farah became hypnotic trance medium at that city's Center for Metaphysical Study, one of the world's first institutions dedicated to paranormal research. This led to her writing four best-selling books in her native country on UFO's and the paranormal, and hosting her own TV show which is still broadcast in the Turkish speaking world. In 2002 she moved to the New York City area where she continues her work as a UFO researcher, writer and lecturer. She was recently a featured participant in TLC's paranormal investigation TV series DEAD TENANTS as an investigator psychic-medium. She is a columnist for the leading monthly publication UFO Magazine. As a journalist and as a producer at Jerry Pippin Internet Radio she has interviewed such important personalities as Russell Targ, Whitley Streiber, Alfred L.Webre, Stanton Freidman, Budd Hopkins and more. Though her work reflects a passion for all aspects of the paranormal, her main interest is abductions and close encounters. Farah Yurdozu is a speaker at 10th Annual UFO Symposium March 23-24-25, 2007. Her first book (UFOS ARE ARRIVING) is a general documentary investigation about the history of UFO-Alien contact in her country and all over the world. In her other book titled (UFO TRUTHS & LIES) she analyzed the nature of Alien Abductions and historical cases from a realistic and updated view. She is the writer of two novels (METAPHYSICAL LOVE IN MADRID) which is a reincarnation story and (LIFE IS A HORROR FILM) is a vampire story. In 1992 she hosted her own TV show "GELDILER" on Kanal D, one of Turkey's major television stations. She also appeared as a guest on many other TV and radio shows and debates related to the UFO subject in Turkey and Spain. She was also a constant speaker on UFOs and paranormal cases in her native country Turkey. Her writings and interviews have appeared in leading national Turkish magazines and daily newspapers such as "Fenomen", "Ruh ve Madde","Tempo","Nokta", "Kad?n", "Bugün", "Cumhuriyet", "Aktüel", "Sabah", "Milliyet". Farah was a speaker at NUFOC, National UFO Conference in 2005. She participated to Kevin Smith show and Jeff Wiles radio shows in 2006. Her principal website is: http://www.farahyurdozu.com.
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