UFO Witnesses Require An Apology and Reconciliation

Aboriginal reconciliation has been a hot topic in Australia for years now. The Australian government has finally agreed upon the unique status of indigenous Australians and their need for recognition, respect and understanding in the wider community.

However there is another group of people whose needs remain unaddressed and this is the collection of witnesses who have experienced UFO sightings or close encounters with extraterrestrials and/or their vehicles.

Over the years these people have been forced to live with their experiences in secret without the support they require from society. Their experiences remain invalidated by the wider community due to it’s lack of education about the existence of extraterrestrial life. This is a result of the various authorities and institutions that our civilization requires to act as its guide, and who indeed have this knowledge, and are withholding it from the general public. The true reason for this remains complex and elusive, and without full disclosure can only be speculated upon at best.

Nevertheless, the results are the same. A group of people within our society remain unrecognized, disrespected, humiliated and invalidated. They’re forced to live with a secret so profound that it drives wedges within their families often leading to family breakdown, estrangement and/or divorce, as well as loss of status among their friends, workmates or peers. The escalating stress caused by this lack of understanding of their experiences by others often leads to the manifestation of illness, behavioural problems or drug abuse in order to cope with experiences that far exceed the range of usual human experience.

They turn to voluntary UFO organisations - which lack manpower, funding and skills - to find answers to the meaning of their experiences. In Australia this situation has been compounded by the fact that in January 1994 the Australian Department of Defence advised they would no longer receive reports of UAS (Unusual Aerial Sightings), and members of the public seeking to report UAS to the RAAF would be referred to civilian UFO organisations.

This policy change, which the DOD claimed was the result of declining reports to the RAAF, came the same year UFO Research Queensland Inc received 512 reports from the public. The following year it received 813 reports, the most reports received in one year since the establishment of the organisation in 1956. Due to the overwhelming amount of these reports UFORQ and other similar organisations around the country continue to struggle to meet the needs of witnesses.

This situation is unsatisfactory. The authorities and institutions responsible for withholding the relevant information that can educate the public about the extraterrestrial situation need to face their responsibility to the people and come forward with the truth. It’s time to validate witness experiences by releasing what it knows to the public. If people like Dr Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the Moon, who stated in a public interview last week that ETs exist, then so can others. (listen to interview here

http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk:80/Article.asp?id=804160&spid=)

It’s time these witnesses were allowed to come in from the cold and be part of society once again. The greater public will only accept these people and their experiences in a new context which includes the reality of extraterrestrial existence within the public mind. The eradication of ridicule and rejection can only be achieved through reeducation via a campaign of raising public awareness of the subject. Civilian UFO groups can only do so much given their voluntary status and lack of resources, so the reeducation of the public needs to come from those who can provide these resources.

Many actions are required from governments, the media, the UFO community and the greater public, but many people have to work together.

To date, the global UFO community has been willing to work towards reeducating the public but this has had minimal success. It’s now time for larger groups to become involved and help the hundreds of thousands of witnesses world wide to be accepted within society. Only with the help of this larger group will this be achievable. All aspects of community must be cared for without exception.