Topic for Aztec UFO 2009 symposium

"Exposing U.S. Government Policy on Extraterrestrial Life"

Walter Haut’s affidavit concerning events at the 1947 Roswell Crash reveals that U.S. national security officials had secretly approved a range of government policies on extraterrestrial life that would have the highest security classification. This presentation focuses on how select government agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere have secretly implemented public policy over six decades. I examine different ways in which U.S. public policy has been set in terms of resource exchange agreements with extraterrestrial life; illicit funding of black projects concerning extraterrestrial life; suppressing civilian initiatives related to extraterrestrial technologies; and developing strategic national security responses.
I will show how these policies have been justified using national security arguments that appear very tenuous at best.
I will also discuss exopolitics, as a new disciplinary approach for understanding the development of public policy on extraterrestrial life.
Finally, I will discuss the different ways the general public might respond to disclosure of secret U.S. public policies on extraterrestrial life, and what can be done in preparation for such disclosure

Biography

Dr. Michael Salla is an internationally recognized scholar in international politics, conflict resolution and U.S. foreign policy. He has held academic appointments in the School of International Service & the Center for Global Peace, American University, Washington DC (1996-2004); the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1994-96); and the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C., (2002). He has a Ph.D in Government from the University of Queensland , Australia .  During his academic career he was author/editor of four books including The Hero's Journey Toward a Second American Century (Greenwood Press, 2001); Essays on Peace (Central Queensland University Press, 1995); Why the Cold War Ended (Greenwood Press, 1995); Islamic Radicalism, Muslim Nations and the West (1993) . He has conducted research and fieldwork in ethnic conflicts involving East Timor, Kosovo , Macedonia , and Sri Lanka . He has been awarded significant financial grants from the United States Institute of Peace and the Ford Foundation for peacemaking initiatives involving mid-to-high level participants from the East Timor conflict.

Dr. Salla is more popularly known as a pioneer in the development of 'Exopolitics', the scholarly study of the main actors, institutions and political processes associated with extraterrestrial life. His groundbreaking Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004) presented the first scholarly framework for understanding the political implications of an undisclosed extraterrestrial presence. In 2009, two further books are scheduled for release: Exposing US Government Policies on Extraterrestrial Life  and Galactic Diplomacy.  He is Founder of the Exopolitics Institute, and the Exopolitics Journal, and Co-Organizer of the Earth Transformation series of conferences in Hawaii .

His main website is: www.exopolitics.org