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Michael
E. Salla, Ph.D.,
is President and Founder of the Exopolitics Institute. He is author
of Exposing U.S. Government Policy on Extraterrestrial Life (Exopolitics
Institute, 2009) and Exopolitics: Political Implications of the
Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004) and founder
of the popular website: Exopolitics.Org.
He has held full time academic appointments at the Australian National
University, and American University, Washington DC. He has a PhD
in Government from the University of Queensland and an MA in Philosophy
from the University of Melbourne, Australia. During his professional
academic career, he was best known for organizing a series of citizen
diplomacy initiatives for the East Timor conflict that received
large financial grants from the United States Institute of Peace
and the Ford Foundation. He is currently a resident of Hawaii. For
more information click here.
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Paola
Harris, M.Ed., is an Italo-American photojournalist and
investigative reporter in the field of extraterrestrial related
phenomena research. She has studied extraterrestrial related phenomena
since 1979 and is on personal terms with many of the leading researchers
in the field. From 1980-1986 she assisted Dr. J. Allen Hynek with
his UFO investigations and has interviewed many top military witnesses
concerning their involvement in the government truth embargo. In
1997, Ms. Harris met and interviewed Col. Philip Corso in Roswell,
New Mexico and became a personal friend and confidante. She was
instrumental in having his book The Day After Roswell, for
which she wrote the preface, translated into Italian. She returned
to Roswell in the summer of 2003 for the American debut of her book,
Connecting the Dots…making sense of the UFO Phenomena
(Granite Press). Paola has consulted with many researchers about
the best avenues for planetary disclosure with emphasis on the “big
picture” and stressing the historical connection. She is a
close friend of Monsignore Padre Corrado Balducci and assisted in
filming the Italian witnesses, including the Monsignore, for the
Disclosure Project for the May 9, 2001 press conference. She was
instrumental in bringing to Italy Robert Dean, Dr. Steven Greer,
Linda Moulton Howe, Dr. Richard Boylan, Russell Targ, Travis Walton,
Derrell Sims, Helmut Lamner, Michael Lindemann, Nick Pope, Bill
Hamilton, Carlos Diaz and Dr. John Mack. Her new non-profit association,
Starworks Italia, will continue to bring speakers to Italy and promote
disclosure and exo-political dialogue world-wide. She has been a
speaker on many radio shows and conferences in Italy, San Marino,
Belgium and Germany, and has appeared many times on Italian TV.
She has written for Nexus, UFO Magazine, Notizario UFO and Dossier
Alieni, among others publications. Paola has a Masters degree in
Education. Her principal website is: www.paolaharris.com
. She is the Institute's International Director.
Angelika
Sareighn Whitecliff is a multi-disciplinary researcher
involved in the study of consciousness, multidimensional communications
and humanity's extraterrestrial origin. She has been a conscious
clairvoyant and telepath since childhood, and has been actively
communicating with beings of different vibrational frequencies her
entire life. Angelika has also had several physical interactions
with benevolent, human extraterrestirals who are here to assist
humanity in a planet wide spiritual awakening. Angelika helped co-found
the Exopolitics Institute with its legal launch in April 7, 2005
as a non-profit corporation in the State of Hawaii (see Articles
of Incorporation ). She was co-organizer of the 2007
and 2008 Earth Transformation Conferences, and of the 2006 Extraterrestrial
Civilizations & World Peace Conference. She is co-Founder
of GalacticDiplomacy.com
and Coordinator of the Citizen Diplomacy program of the Exopolitics
Institute. She has professionally taught classes and seminars in
developing clairvoyance, the energetic healing arts, retrieving
past/future life memories and communicating with spiritual guides,
angels and extraterrestrial visitors. She currently organizes seminars
involving extraterrestrial contactees in Zacatecas, Mexico and dolphin
interactions on the Big Island, Hawaii. Her writings are available
here, and more biographical information is available here.
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Haktan
Akdogan (Country Director - Turkey) a pioneering Turkish
UFO researcher, was born in Turkey . He is fluent in English, French
and Turkish. Akdogan's curiosity about the mystery of Space drew
his interest to this field since childhood and became a part of
his daily life. It has been now 21 years that he continues his scientific
researches on the subject and participating in worldwide UFO Symposiums.
In order to share information on the subject and shed some light
on the hidden facts, he produces a weekly documentary TV Program
on UFOs named "UFO Reality" in Turkey. Mr. Akdogan has
also hosted a weekly Radio program about UFOs at "Cool FM"
for 2 years. Akdogan founded "Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research
Centre" on May 2, 1997. The Centre chaired by Akdogan has been
involved in intensive studies on the subject and initiated many
National and International Conferences and workshops. The Centre
organized an historical event, The First International UFO Symposium
of Middle & Eastern Europe, Balkans and Middle- East, realized
on 20-21st February 1999 with the participation of 5.200 people
as well as hundreds of news reporters . This followed by the 2nd
and the 3rd Conferences in 2000 and 2001. Apart from the Centre's
studies, Haktan Akdogan is continuing to give conferences on the
subject both in Turkey and abroad. He continues to speak at numerous
national conferences, at Universities , National Associations and
private organisations...etc. He is also the board director of "The
International UFO Congress" in Nevada. In order to inform the
public on UFO reality, Akdogan participated in more than 135 national
TV programs and news as a guest speaker, published numerous articles
and gave many interviews both on TVs, radios and national newspapers.
Akdogan is also the founder of the First International UFO Museum
of Middle and Eastern Europe, Balkans and Middle-East which has
opened in Istanbul, Turkey on January 17th 2002. And two new ones
which opened in Denizli and Goreme-Turkey in 2005. He is also the
creator of World's First "Travelling UFO Museum" which
was established summer of 2003 and The Museum on the wheels visits
15-20 cities during summers in Turkey. He is the founder of "
SIRIUS Publishing House". He is also publisher and editor in
chief of "X Magazine", a monthly publication of UFO and
Paranormal related phenomenon. Haktan Akdogan is the creator of
the "World UFO Day" which suggests to make peaceful demonstrations
and events worldwide on every 2nd of July to increase the public
awareness about this important fenomenon as well as to demand world
governments to tell the people of the Earth "The Truth!"
His website is: www.siriusufo.org
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MIKE
BIRD (Country Director - Canada) saw a UFO hover
over Lake Ontario for over 2 hours in Sept 1975. He watched it through
a telescope. His wife and parents also watched it and confirmed
what he saw. He attended his first MUFON Conference in 1976 and
he helped to organise the MUFON Conference in Toronto in 1982. In
the early 90s he started his own UFO Discussion and Abduction Support
Group. Mike was the Regional Director for MUFON Canada for the years
2003-2005. In
September 2005, 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.
Website: Exopolitics
Canada
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Neil
Gould.(Hong Kong) After Neil's personal
experiences with extraterrestrials it has become his mission to
be involved with the breaking of the media truth embargo with regard
to extraterrestrials and their ongoing interaction with the planet
Earth. The new world will be about free energy, better health, unlimited
fresh water, no dependency on oil. In time, a truth and reconciliation
hearing will be held for all those who have been involved in the
Military Intelligence black operations. Neil has written a true
account of life with ADD/ADHD. Some, (not all), symptoms are misdiagnosed
and are the result of implants or knowledge capsules placed there
by extraterrestrial beings, some of whom are multidimensional in
nature. He is the creator and webmaster of Exopolitics Hongkong
which disseminates information on extraterrestrial life to Hong
Kong and elsewhere in East Asia. Main website: http://www.exopoliticshongkong.com/
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