Stephen G. Bassett

Stephen G. Bassett is the first extraterrestrial life (ET), disclosure (ufology) lobbyist in the United States, executive director and treasurer of the political action committee Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee and executive director^[1] of Paradigm Research Group (PRG)^[2] that says it wants end to end the governments imposed truth embargo regarding the facts of extraterrestrials engaging the human race. [Note: In November 2016 Chase Kloetzke became the second registered ET lobbyist.]^[3]

Bassett’s involvement with ET political activism began in 1996 when he worked as a volunteer for Harvard Medical School's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer professor John Mack's Program for Extraordinary Experience Research.^[4]

Also in 1996, Bassett registered as Washington D.C.'s first ET issue lobbyist^[5] and in 1999 set up his political action committee Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee.^[6]

In 2002, Bassett ran as an independent for the United States Congress in Maryland's 8th congressional district on a pro-ET disclosure platform,^[5] but lost receiving just 1% of the vote.^[7]

Between 2004 and 2010 Paradigm Research Group produced six X-Conferences (Exopolitics Conferences) in the Washington, DC metro area. The first five were held at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The sixth conference was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.^[8]

In 2013, Bassett’s Paradigm Research Group sponsored the April 29th to May 3 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure held at Washington D.C.’s National Press Club where expert witnesses gave sworn testimony to 5 former US congresspersons and one former US senator alleging that the facts regarding ET’s were being suppressed.^[4][9][10]

From November 5, 2014 through December 31, 2016 Paradigm Research Group conducted a political initiative targeting presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The purpose of the initiative was to put media pressure on Secretary Clinton to publicly address her connection, and the connection of her husband President Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, to the extraterrestrial presence issue.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]} This connection goes back to the Rockefeller Initiative (1993-1996) wherein Laurance Rockefeller engaged the Clinton administration to release all government held UFO files and grant amnesty to witnesses who might come forward with relevant information.^[18][19][20]

Appearances in documentaries

• The Disclosure President,^[21] commissioned by Field of Vision, a project of First Look Media and directed by Elizabeth Lo, 2016.
• Quantum Earth,^[22] produced and directed by Frederic Eger, 2016.
• ETs Among Us: UFO Witnesses and Whistleblowers,^[23] produced and directed by Cybela Clare, 2016.
• The UFO Conclusion,^[24] produced by Time Anderson, Eric Jenson, Nils Allen Stewart and direct by Rich Lowry, 2016.
• Alien Agenda Planet Earth: Rulers of Time and Space,^[25] produced by Warren Croyle, Anthony Mikes and Robert D. Miles and directed by Anthony Miles and Robert D. Miles, 2014.
• Codes and Conspiracies:The UFO Cover-Up ,^[26] a television documentary series produced by Flight 33 Productions and directed by Douglas Cohen, 2014.
• The Hidden Hand: Alien Contact and the Government Cover-Up,^[27] produced and directed by James Carman, 2014.
• Watchers 7: Physical Evidence ,^[28] Produced by L.A. Marzulli and Richard Shaw and directed by Richard Shaw, 2013.
• Unsealed: Conspiracy Files: Secret Government Warehouses,^[29] a television documentary series produced by Bellum Entertainment and Smart Dog Media, 2013.
• The Disclosure Dialogues,^[30] produced by Ronald James Television and Media and directed by Ron James, 2011.
• The Day Before Disclosure,^[31] produced by New Paradigm Films and directed by Terje and Trulls Toftenes, 2010.
• Fastwalkers,^[32] produced by Robert D. Miles and directed by Anthony Miles, 2006.
• Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs,^[33] produced by Graviton Entertainment and directed by David Sereda, 2005.
• UFO Files: When UFOs Arrive,^[34] a television documentary series produced by Kraylevich Productions Inc. and Weller/Grossman Productions, 2004.

Awards

Excellence in UFOlogy, MUFON International Symposium, 2014^[35]

Researcher of the Year, International UFO Congress, 2014^[36]

Lifetime Achievement Award, Conscious Life Expo, 2014^[37]

Further reading and external links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stephen G. Bassett.

• "Meet the Lobbyist Pressuring the US Gov’t to Disclose Extraterrestrial Activity"; Robin Seemangal; New York Observer, 16 September 2015. Retrieved on 20 April 2017.
• "Lobbyist buzzes Washington over extraterrestrials and a government ‘truth embargo’"; Jennifer Harper; Washington Times, 20 January 2015. Retrieved on 20 April 2017.
• "ETs for Hillary: Why UFO Activists Are Excited About Another Clinton Presidency"; A. J. Vicens; Mother Jones, 3 April 2015. Retrieved on 20 April 2017.
• "UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist."; Ben Terris; Washington Post, 11 December 2015. Retrieved on 20 April 2017.
• "Stephen Bassett holds 'Citizen Hearing on Disclosure'"; Patrick Gavin Interview - Video; Politico, 29 April 2013. Retrieved on 20 April 2017.
• "The UFO Disclosure Candidate"; Len Kasten; Atlantis Rising, November/December 2002. Retrieved on 20 April 2017.
• "Close Encounters of a Strange Kind"; David Segal; Washington Post, 7 September 1997. Retrieved on 20 April 2017.

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