The OSTP files showed that 1995 brought with it some new ideas
to advance the extraterrestrial hypothesis. The Human Potential
Foundation, for example, hosted an international conference:

When Cosmic Cultures Meet in late May.

Speakers at the Conference were asked to address the
"implications, preparations, and response for the time when
either or both interdimensional and extraterrestrial cultures
come into open contact with cultures of Earth.

The OSTP files document Scott Jones' invitations to a whole list
of people including Jack Gibbons, Hillary Clinton, and President
Clinton. Gibbons in his appeal was asked to include in his
address comments that "the subject is researchable,, should be
considered by competent researchers, and that the government
will make data available to support the research." None of the
three White House invitees accepted the offer. If there was
support inside the White House for extraterrestrials, it wasn't
going to be open support.

In a February 9, 1995 letter Jones mentioned that for some
reason he had been searched out by two sources, and leaked a
couple of explosive facts. Jones was told that the "Lincoln Lab
has been the site of most of the government research on this
subject," and from a separate source the fact that "there are on
average 400 monthly uncorrelated space events detected by the
U.S. Space Command."

"I suspect that anyone who is active in this field cannot avoid
being used by assorted interests who have a particular passion
for their point of view," continued Jones. "While this
information seems plausible based upon other information I know.
I have made no attempt to confirm these statements and do not
intend to pass them along even as rumor."

"There are two areas of sadness on this subject, continued
Gibbons. "The first is the government's bodyguard of lies around
it, and the second is the attempt by some (perhaps even some
parts of the government) to cloak it in evil. Nature is not
evil."

The February 9th letter also indicated that the game plan had
changed for the Rockefeller team on the "UFO Initiative". Jones
indicated some disappointment in how the UFO Initiative had gone
so far. "It appears," Jones wrote, "after Laurance's last
meeting with you that we are not going to get feedback on our
attempts to get the White House to open the books on this
subject. Neither Laurance nor I need any encouragement or credit
for what we have been trying to accomplish. We have done what we
thought was reasonable and needed. For my own part I am shifting
my energy on this subject to a new, supportive strategy."

Jones hinted that the new approach might center on a "public
relations approach" to force the information out. Jones reminded
Gibbons that this possibility had been mentioned by Rockefeller
at their first meeting. Jones outlined the possibilities. "He
(Rockefeller) can afford a rather aggressive and expensive
effort implementing that strategy, e.g., full page ads in major
newspapers."

The U.S.A.F. had closed down their investigation into Roswell in
September 1994. The OSTP files show, however, that in 1995 the
Government Accounting Office (GAO) investigation into Roswell,
initiated by Congressman Steven Schiff,  was still in process.
In April Gibbons was contacted by the GOA and asked  1)whether
your office has an knowledge of what occurred at Roswell, and 2)
what if any, government records or information your office has
concerning this matter.

Gibbons who had now spent two years looking into Roswell,
following  his first meeting with Rockefeller in April 1993,
wrote back with a disappointing report.

In response to your recent inquiry of April 12, 1995. The Office
of Science and Technology reviewed its records regarding the
Roswell Incident. OSTP has no direct knowledge of what occurred
at Roswell and no records, except for the information I received
from the Air Force. I look forward to receiving the GAO report.

The Farley Letters

One of the most revealing documents in the entire Clinton OSTP
UFO collection is a set of two letters sent by C. Richard Farley
Jr. The letters were sent on April 28, and May 1, 1995. Both
were requests for documents. One was addressed to Dr. Gibbons,
and one was addressed to the Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Both were sent Certified U.S. Mail/ Return receipt Req. The
letter addressed to Dr. Gibbons was answered, but that reply
does not appear in the OSTP files.

Letter 1

The April 28, 1995 is by far the most important of the two
letters. This is because Farley attached documents that are not
found in the OSTP package. Secondly, he refers to other
documents  that also are not to be found in the OSTP UFO files.
This clearly indicates that the OSTP collection, as big as it
is, might be only the tip of the iceberg. The Farley letter must
have sent Clinton officials racing to plug the holes Farley had
just opened.

Richard (Dick) Farley, as mentioned previously, was an award
winning investigative writer, who was hired by the Human
Potentials Foundation. In connection with the Rockefeller White
House UFO briefing initiative, Farley was the one who wrote the
"Matrix of UFO Beliefs" that was used during the first April
1993 briefing of Dr. Gibbons. Farley was also the author of  the
"Annotated Bibliography" that Scott Jones provided to Gibbons
following the initial briefing.

Farley provided many of the UFO books that were provided to
Gibbons following the first briefing to bring him up to speed on
the UFO issue. Finally, Richard Farley was the member of the
Rockefeller Initiative, who on the date of the second face to
face meeting with Gibbons (February 4, 1994), broke with the
Rockefeller team and made his own UFO approach to the White
House. Farley sent three packages of material into the White
House through Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of
Staff Philip Lader. This material said Farley "eventually
brought the Rockefeller UFO Initiative at least to Mack
McClarty, then Chief of Staff to the President."

Of all the documents attached to the Farley letter, the most
revealing is a transcript of a phone interview between Scott
Jones at the Human Potential Institute and Dr. Ronald Pandolfi
at the CIA "discussing Pandolfi's (and CIA's) role in supporting
Gibbons' response to the Rockefeller 'UFO' Initiative."

Farley wrote in his April 28, 1995 letter to Gibbons that Scott
Jones' former executive assistant told him "Jones routinely
'bugged' Pandolfi's calls." Farley further stated that the
attached transcript was given to him by Jones "for purposes
which were not clear to me then, nor presently; I sent it to the
FBI and CIA months ago."

The transcript is important because of timing and personality.
It was dated April 15, 1993, the day after Laurance Rockefeller
and  Scott Jones first sat face-to-face with Science Advisor
Gibbons to brief him on the UFO situation. It therefore gives
clear insights about how the whole "Rockefeller UFO Initiative"
to the White House began.

The key personality involved in preparing for the briefing - Dr.
Ronald Pandolfi - points to the fact that the initial
Rockefeller briefing was taken seriously, and that key CIA
people were apparently counseling Clinton's Science Advisor on
the UFO topic.

Dr. Pandolfi, worked for the CIA's Directorate of Science and
Technology. Pandolfi was described by The American Spectator as
"the CIA's highest ranking scientist."

The fact that this high ranking CIA scientist and agent phoned
Scott Jones on the day of the briefing indicated that the CIA
may have been trying to feel out what Rockefeller was up to, or
they were attempting to aid Rockefeller at someone's bequest.

According to the transcript of the April 15th telephone call,
Pandolfi told Jones"

"We (CIA) had been tasked a couple of days before the proposed
visit of Laurance Rockefeller with the White House Science
Advisor, to provide a briefing update to him - and we didn't do
that. Instead we tasked our friend Dr. Maccabee to do it. He did
an excellent job... Gibbons said that he had gotten a one page
input from Rockefeller indicating what the subject was going to
be, and he didn't have any background on it, claimed that he had
never heard of MJ-12, or things like that, and so he contacted
our representative over there and asked whether we could provide
some support."

Jones, who stated he had not seen the Maccabee briefing paper,
asked Pandolfi why the CIA didn't do the briefing itself.

Pandolfi replied, "We didn't have the material here to do it on
that short of notice, didn't have any reference material in the
file records, and Bruce had already taken a shot on something
fairly similar."

This claim about lack of reference material in the files of the
CIA is strange in light of what Pandolfi's predecessor
Christopher C. "Kit" Green told Bruce Maccabee in 1979. Kit had
apparently stated that the CIA files may contain as many as
15,000 UFO-related files, of which two or three thousand were
really interesting.

Both Dr. "Kit" Green and Dr. Ronald Pandolfi had each been in
charge of what has come to be known as the "Weird Desk" at the
CIA where all the UFOs files are kept. Maccabee termed the job
done by these two men as the "Keeper of the Weird." Kit Green,
in fact, had long been rumored to be qualified to brief
Presidents on the UFO issue, taking over the job that was held
for many years by CIA agent Arthur Lundahl. Back in the
eighties, researcher Bill Moore described Kit Green as " a
person close to the President of the United States, capable of
checking on information to determine its reliability."

Not only was Green qualified to brief the President, Dick Farley
maintained that Ronald Pandolfi had stated that "Kit had been
brought in to brief the President.(Clinton)"  Pandolfi in a
later discussion denied that President Clinton was briefed by
"Kit" Green. "I have no reason," stated Pandolfi, "to believe
Kit ever briefed Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky,
Jack or any other frequent visitor to the White House on the
issue of UFOs.

Dick Farley also maintained that "Kit" Green was brought in to
brief Dr. Gibbons as soon as it was learned that Rockefeller
would be coming to the OSTP to present his case for UFO
disclosure. Farley stated,

The REAL briefing of Dr. Jack Gibbons was conducted by Dr.
Christopher "Kit" Green... for the record, both Ron Pandolfi and
Kit Green have confirmed to me that Kit did come in and brief
Dr. Jack Gibbons, a result of Laurance Rockefeller's effort to
get UFO disclosure on the agenda."

In the Jones/Pandolfi phone transcript Pandolfi added further
detail to the Maccabee UFO briefing done for Dr. Gibbons. "We
helped him (Maccabee) on it and he did a fairly professional job
like you would do a briefing for a President. He had one and a
half pages of bulletized notes, and then tabs going back to
paragraphs on each of the main points, and then further tabs
going back to the original source material."

Maccabee, however, contends that he received no help from
Pandolfi or anyone else in writing the briefing book titled
"Briefing on the U.S. Government Approach to the UFO Problem as
Determined by Civilian Researchers During the Last Twenty
Years."

I had no help. Pandolfi called me up at home. Said it is needed
tomorrow morning by 8 AM. So I planned what I was going to say,
including the "tab references" and then wrote the first page and
a half executive summary and sent that. Subsequently I sent the
tabs. There was exactly no input from Pandolfi or anyone else.

Further in the transcript, Jones asked Pandolfi what feedback
Maccabee had gotten to his briefing. Pandolfi replied, "Bruce
was not at the briefing so he knows nothing at this point."

Jones then asked if Jack Gibbons had seen Maccabee's briefing
prior to himself and Rockefeller presenting their UFO briefing.
Pandolfi responded that Gibbons had read the UFO briefing book
prepared for him.

He supposedly had. He got it the night before, and he claimed he
read it either the night before or early that morning. Kit was
supposed to meet with Jack yesterday and supposed to give us
some guidance today if there is any additional follow-up or his
reactions were.

This statement differs radically from a statement Pandolfi made
in an E-mail comment in November of 2000. In this version of the
story Pandolfi stated Gibbons had not read the Maccabee briefing
book.

Bruce delivered the briefing book to Jack the following morning
before his meeting with Rockefeller. My understanding is that
Jack gave the briefing document to Rockefeller. I have no reason
to believe Jack read the briefing book or made a copy."

Bruce Maccabee, the author of the briefing book, provided yet a
third story of what happened. He stated that he worked all night
on the briefing, having been given less than a day to produce
it. He finished it just before the 8 am deadline he had been
given. He faxed the briefing to Dr. Gibbons' office, and found
out later from Pandolfi that his briefing had not been used. The
Rockefeller briefing had started early and was ending just as
Maccabee's briefing book was arriving by fax in Dr. Gibbons
office.

The one thing every version of the April 14, 93 briefing agrees
on is that Jack Gibbons was not keen on the UFO subject.
Pandolfi in the April 15th telephone call with Jones said, " My
guess is that he (Gibbons) is not going to do anything. He
seemed to be fairly adverse to this whole subject."On the other
end of the phone, Scott Jones agreed,

What he told me, I've known Jack for eight years, I was not
surprised at what he told us during the time we spent with him.
He said he had no information on this, no personal knowledge,
and was not read into it, doesn't know the literature. I think
that is a true statement. My assessment is that he was not at
ease with the subject when we were talking about it. That also
did not surprise me. He declared to us that he was an agnostic,
that if there was some evidence there he would be glad to look
at it. But at this point he has no knowledge of such evidence.

In the November 2000 E-mail, Pandolfi was even more blunt about
Gibbons attitude on the day of the initial Rockefeller briefing.
Speaking of his personal involvement in the first briefing
Pandolfi said,

I had one and only one conversation with Jack on the issue of
UFOs. Jack asked why in the world someone like Rockefeller would
believe in such nonsense. My response was that only a fellow
believer could answer such a question.

The transcript in the OSTP files reveals that Pandolfi and Jones
agreed to work together. Pandolfi sent over a copy of the
Maccabee briefing book. Jones stated he would like to see it, as
he was in the process of putting together some additional
material for Gibbons.

If Jones did provide the Maccabee briefing book to Gibbons it
did not appear in any of the Jones correspondence to Jack
Gibbons. It also was not part of the 1993 OSTP files after being
received by fax in the OSTP office. Maccabee did even recover a
copy of the briefing when he filed a FOIA for it in July 1996.

The records seem to show that there were possibly three briefing
1) One done by "Kit" Green on April 13; one done on April 14th
by Laurence Rockefeller and Scott Jones using "The Matric of UFO
Beliefs" briefing; and a briefing done by Bruce Maccabee that
may have been read by Dr. Gibbons. Yet, there were absolutely no
official record in OSTP files of these briefing having taken
place.

A copy of the Maccabee briefing finally became part of the OSTP
UFO files in January 1977 when Maccabee attached a copy of it to
letter addressed to Dr. Gibbons. He wrote to Gibbons,

In April 1993, at the request of Dr. Ronald Pandolfi of the CIA.
I sent (faxed) you an information paper regarding UFOs...  In
that briefing paper I presented evidence that the government has
collected a rather large number of documents on UFO sightings.
Moreover, one could easily conclude from these documents that
the government has sufficient evidence to prove that many UFOs
are, in fact, neither natural phenomena nor misidentified
artifacts of human creation...  .i.e., are apparently artifacts
of non-human origin (so called flying saucers). A copy of this
document is enclosed in case you have lost the previous one.

Another key document attached to the April 29, 1995 Farley
letter, is a draft of a letter from Scott Jones to Dr. Gibbons
dated April 30, 1993 just after the first Gibbons briefing. No
such letter could be found in OSTP file received in my FOIA.
This means that the letter was never sent, or it was pulled from
the files for some reason.

The letter is an important one. In it Scott Jones details the 18
UFO books that the Foundation came up with to bring Gibbons up
to speed on the UFO issue.

The letter also describes four letters (attached to the Jones
April 30 draft) concerning the Clinton Administration and UFOs.
These letters have been rumored, and this Jones draft confirms
they exist. They were not attached to the letter that Farley
sent to Jones. The Jones draft letter describes the letter as:

1) Melvin Laird to Secretary of Defense Designee Les Aspin,
January 8, 1993, requesting a review of classified space
programs with the intent to declassify some of the materials.

2) Melvin Laird to Laurance Rockefeller, January 28, 1993, in
which he states that Defense Secretary Aspin feels that the
issue should be coordinated through the office of the
president's Science Advisor.

3) Les Aspin to Melvin Laird, January 14, 1993, acknowledging
that he had received the letter on the classification issue.

4) A draft of a letter from Laurance Rockefeller to President
Clinton requesting that he take action on the UFO issue.
Attached to the letter was "Potential Estimates of the
Situation" which appeared to early version of the Matrix of UFO
Beliefs.

In addition to these letters wrote Jones, "there have been
private conversations between these principals and others that
have been more direct to the specific issue than the words in
the letter suggest."

Finally, the April 29, 1995 Farley's letter attaches three other
letters which further the idea that there is much more to be
found than the 991 pages in the OSTP files. These are

C One of the letters Richard Farley received from Philip
Lader, Assistant to the President and deputy Chief of Staff.
Lader was Farley's source inside the White House. On the letter
Lader makes a handwritten comment, "Remarkable thoughts !"

C Another letter from Melvin Laird to Laurance Rockefeller
where he states of the UFO secrecy issue, "it is government-
wide policy which needs to be changed."

C A letter from Scott Jones to Laurance Rockefeller dated
almost a year before the White House UFO Initiative thanking
Rockefeller for his financial support, and promising that the
foundation will "focus on research into the existence of UFOs
and the possibility of tapping into the universal power grid."

This third letter also discusses a possible meeting between
three billionaires Laurance Rockefeller, Robert Bigelow, and
Hans-Adam Liechtenstein to discuss funding of UFO research.

Letter 2

The second Farley letter found in the OSTP was dated May 1,
1995. It was a letter that was actually addressed to the
Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard. It was only a single page
with one attachment. The attachment was two pages from a study
done for the U.S. Coast Guard titled The Road to 2012: Looking
Towards the Next Two Decades. This futuristic report was written
by John L. Petersen of the Arlington Institute.

The enclosure referenced a futurist "Wild Card" scenario
postulated by John Petersen. ("Official Contact is Made with
Extraterrestrials"). The importance of this scenario appearing
in a study done for the Coast Guard, and possibly paid for by
taxpayers, was it's link to CSETI Director Dr. Steven Greer, who
was using Petersen as one of his key military advisors. Farley
wrote of the important connection,

People claiming association with Mr. Petersen, and who also are
quite deeply involved in a professed public campaign claiming to
be about "making contact with extra-terrestrials" have cited
this report, and Mr. Petersen's asserted 'high-level government
contacts" in their soliciting of private funding in support of
this group's alleged "Project Starlight." Billed as an effort to
persuade U.S. citizens that contacts with "ETs" in "UFOs" are
either imminent or have been made, this group also has been
positioning itself to play an "international role" managing
public responses. This subject organization is based in North
carolina, and calls itself CSETI, (Committee to Study
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. . . CSETI has received funding
from Laurance Rockefeller."

Interestingly, Farley's letter concerning Dr. Greer and John
Petersen was sent at exactly the same time that Dr. Greer was
writing a memo to President Clinton. Greer was writing the
President "requesting a meeting with relevant Administration as
soon as possible." In addition, Dr. Greer wrote seeking White
House cooperation in a project that he and Laurance Rockefeller
were working on.

CSETI, Mr. Laurance Rockefeller, Astronaut Gordon Cooper, as
well as several other prominent astronauts and military figures
will be convening a meeting of witnesses on June 2, 3, 4, 1995,
and we invite the Administration to send an observer or
participant to this meeting."

This meeting of high quality witnesses (Asilomer Conference) is
never mentioned in the OSTP files, even though the conference
was financed by Laurance Rockefeller. Dr. Steven Greer, who had
gathered the witnesses together,  is also never directly
mentioned in the OSTP files  which is strange in light of the
numerous contacts that Dr. Greer had inside the White House.
Rumors circulated on the Internet that Dr. Greer had indeed
provided two briefing to Science Advisor Dr. Gibbons.

The references to Greer briefing Gibbons may have been a
reference to Rockefeller and Jones doing the briefing as a part
of the Greer team It seems had to believe Greer would move to
brief Gibbons when he knew Rockefeller was doing the same thing.
A reference to Gibbons in Greer's May 1995 Memo to President
Clinton does make one think about the Greer role in the Clinton
OSTP.

Please find enclosed several documents previously conveyed to
the Administration via the Director of Central Intelligence
(James Woolsey), the President's Science Advisor, and Mr. Bruce
Lindsey.

On June 4, 1995, the 24 Participants of the Asilomar Conference
wrote a letter to President Clinton asking "that the appropriate
members of the Administration meet with members of the Project
Starlight Coalition... that the President issue an executive
order to release U.S. government witnesses from their national
security obligations/oaths related the subject (UFOs). . . and
that the President issue an executive order to declassify and
release currently classified materials, documents and evidence
related to the subject. . ."

There were now at least three major efforts focused at the White
House 1) Rockefeller's Disclosure Group 2) Richard Farley and 3)
Dr. Steven's Greer's group. Each group was making contact with
their contacts inside the White House. Each group was writing
letters and presenting evidence to support their case.

These contacts and letters, like many before, did not break the
logjam and release the classified UFO information. With these
drawbacks in mind Laurance Rockefeller patience had worn thin.
He prepared himself to go directly to the President.