Exposing U.S. Government Policies On Extraterrestrial Life: The Challenge Of Exopolitics [Paperback]

Michael E. Salla (Author)

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Publication Date: January 24, 2009

This book reveals how the U.S. has been secretly implementing public policy concerning extraterrestrial life without the awareness of the U.S. Congress, the general public and even senior national security officials. The revelations in this book will come as a profound shock to many. That will be especially so for public policy professionals who have mistakenly believed that seniority, responsibility and merit determine access to a country's most deeply hidden national security secrets. This book prepares the general public for the truth about extraterrestrial life, and how select government agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere have secretly implemented public policy over six decades. The hope is that exposing such information will inspire the general public to seek to participate in an informed way in future public debate over appropriate public policy on extraterrestrial life.

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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 addition to Exposing US Government Policies on Extraterrestrial Life, he has another book scheduled for release in 2009 that reveals his most recent exopolitics research and its relationship with international politics: 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

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• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Exopolitics Institute (January 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982290209
• ISBN-13: 978-0982290200
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Developing a whole new study: well worth reading, March 4, 2010

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This review is from: Exposing U.S. Government Policies On Extraterrestrial Life: The Challenge Of Exopolitics (Paperback)

Astronauts, military brass, and other high ranking officials now attest to direct, physical experience with non-humans and their craft. Years ago, Michael Salla PhD saw an abundance of good, reliable evidence suggesting that aliens exist. After teaching political science at American University, he dedicated himself to studying the politics of human-alien interactions (exopolitics). Salla's book examines the many sources on the subject, then uses the best evidence to develop an analysis of the implications of alien-human interactions. If you're new to the subject, read this book---it will help you sort out much fact from fiction. After an alien craft crashed near Roswell, NM in 1947, the US government dedicated huge resources to the study and replication of downed alien technology. As Salla notes, such programs rival the Manhattan Project in scale, but they far exceed it in scope.

Numerous reliable officials suggest that the US military was both perplexed and partly outmaneuvered by advanced, intelligent aliens during the first decade after Roswell. Salla's early chapters show how alien-related programs went deep black and soon became a security and constitutional nightmare. Initially, President Truman had direct control over alien-related programs, but when Eisenhower allowed Nelson Rockefeller to re-design his executive department in 1953, Rockefeller removed Eisenhower and subsequent presidents from active management of such programs. Eisenhower felt betrayed, and since 1953, crimes committed in alien-related programs have become a threat to both the US Constitution and human global security.

This book shows how the CIA Act of 1949 is used to funnel up to a trillion dollars annually into alien-related programs by allowing the CIA to secretly use funds from other agencies without regard to laws about their usage. Salla looks at the evidence for new, sometimes disturbing subjects like reported secret government agreements with extraterrestrials and human rights abuses at US government bases where whistleblowers say e.t.'s are allowed as part of joint programs (in which humans sometimes don't appear to have the upper hand). Worse yet, corruption and racketeering in alien-related government programs has resulted in disinformation and back-stabbing by CIA and other compromised personnae--all intended to confuse the public, for highly questionable reasons. Salla shows how some critics of Eisenhower National Security staff member Col. Philip Corso have crossed the line, going from critics to questionably-motivated debunkers.

Salla says "the power politics strategy that has dominated the extraterrestiral management system has laid the foundation for a devastating breakdown in the way the extraterrestrial presence is managed." In other words, human officials are way over their heads when dealing with extraterrestrials, who, can offer advanced technology to corrupt human officials in order to manipulate them and thwart public awareness of the many risks involved. What risks? Weapons technology, advanced spaceflight and energy technology, and more. The question, of course, is the alien agenda in all of this.

Both of Salla's exopolitics books, to date, break new ground by looking at very real, sometimes shocking developments in secret government programs that will play a major role in the technology and the politics of the human future. We're entering what may be the most important phase in all of human history---the tipping point in public awareness about aliens. However, readers must think for themselves and must carefully consider both the science and the credibility of the many sources who write on alien-related subjects.

14 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars welcome addition to UFO literature, March 16, 2009

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I commend Mr. Salla for writing a book about the secretive involvement of our government in UFO matters. The author begins with the assumptions that UFO's exist, aliens exist, and that some people in our government (and in the CIA) know all about what is going on in this arena! There are many such "leaps of faith" in this book, with "evidence" being drawn from a variety of authors and researchers. The problem here is that there are TOO many assumptions made, and that some of the people that are called upon as "authorities" are not any more knowledgeable about UFO's than you or I. [In the UFO field, NO one yet knows all the answers or facts, so it is presumptuous to quote any researcher as an "authority." Everything must be viewed as a "theory," not a fact.]

My main bone of contention with Michael Salla, and many of the people that he draws information from, is that they overlook the basic principles of astronomy. They make the assumption that aliens can come from ANY star and from ANY distance (supposedly because alien physics is different and better than ours, allowing aliens to "bend" space or use "wormholes.") Until I see an article or book written by an astrophysicist that demonstrates the likelihood that alien craft can travel faster than the speed of light, I will not accept the idea that we can have alien visitors from very far away. This means that aliens are most likely NOT visiting us from the Pleiades (ca. 440 LY away), Betelegeuse (ca. 300 LY away), Alpha Draconis (ca. 230 LY away), the Andromeda Galaxy (ca. 2.2 million LY away), etc. In addition, astronomers believe that alien life MIGHT exist in main sequence star systems with spectra of about F8 to G6 (optimally) and that are at least 3-4 billion years old. This eliminates stars such as Alpha Draconis, Vega, Sirius, Procyon, any star in the Pleiades, and Arcturus (all of which are accepted as homes of aliens by Salla and other authors referred to in his book).

Salla also accepts the "12th planet" idea of Sitchin, which is totally ridiculous from an astrophysics point of view.

I recommend that people interested in possible extraterrestrial life start with a scientific source such as the "TPF"--Terrestrial Planet Finder--or some comparable listing of stars. On such lists you WILL find Alpha Centauri, Tau Ceti, and Zeta Reticuli, which are mentioned by Salla and others as home stars of aliens.

In summary, I DO feel that Michael Salla has made an important contribution to UFO literature with this book, but primarily in the area of "exopolitics" itself--not in the area of alien types and origins.