We recently interviewed Stephen Bassett, organizer of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. Today his Paradigm Research Group sent out a press release with the details of a statement calling for the United Nations to sponsor “a world conference addressing the possible evidence for an extraterrestrial presence engaging this planet.”

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Open Minds UFO Radio: Lee Speigel, reporter for the Huffington Post, live blogged the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure last week. We got some insight into the testimony presented, and how the former congress members seemed to be very persuaded by the information.

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While not all of the congress members who participated in the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure are convinced we are being visited by extraterrestrials, they do appear unanimous in the opinion that the testimony was impressive.

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At the close of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure law professor Edgar Cahn sat down to share his thoughts on the event and the testimony presented.

Yesterday Antonio presented to the committee of 6 former congress members on UFO activity and government reactions in Chile, France and Russia.

Video testimony by an anonymous alleged former CIA official was shown at the Citizen Hearing

We caught up with the Sirius UFO documentary producer, JD Seraphine. We asked him what inspired him to put this project together, and what he thinks of Dr. Greer's work and UFOs in general.

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• An Alien's Guide to Conquering the Earth Naturally - Discovery News
• Quantifying the consequences of an ET discovery - Phys.Org

We discuss Steven Greer's film Sirius and the Atacama humanoid. Alejandro interviews Greer and the film's producer J.D. Seraphine. That and other space and UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

AIR DATE: 5/3/13

We caught up with the Sirius UFO documentary director, Amardeep Kaleka. Amardeep is a regional Emmy award winning director.

Prof. Sara Seager believes the narrow search by researchers will bypass many potentially habitable worlds.

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'Machine learning' technology is helping the SETI Institute.

Open Minds journalist, Antonio Huneeus, is one of the presenters at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. We got him on Skype last night so he could give us an update on the day’s activities.

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