A search of all the World's major English Language Newspapers (courtesy of the Wall Street Journal News retrieval service, to which I subscribe) yielded the following. Tony NATIONAL/FOREIGN And now, a plea for government hearings on UFOs For `good of humankind,' group wants inquiry into visits by extraterrestrials Bob Hohler, Globe Staff 04/14/97 The Boston Globe City Edition Page A8 (Copyright 1997) WASHINGTON -- No one cited Hale-Bopp or Heaven's Gate when a UFO group, backed by an astronaut who has walked on the moon, called last week for hearings on an alleged government cover-up of earthly visits by extraterrestrial life forms. The only references to "Independence Day" or the "X Files" were uttered by Dr. Steven M. Greer, director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, who assailed the sci-fi fare as part of the "90 percent of what people are exposed to on this subject: rubbish, complete and utter nonsense." Greer and the former NASA astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, told reporters and congressional officials in separate closed-door briefings that their assessment of extraterrestrial activities, although widely disputed, requires urgent federal attention for the good of humankind. Greer, Mitchell and a panel of "witnesses" asserted that several extraterrestrial civilizations -- working together from bases within the solar system and possibly from temporary outposts under water on Earth -- regularly visit the planet and are prepared for wide-scale contact with humans. All that stands between such an intergalactic moment, Greer asserted, is human civilization reaching out with a new foreign diplomacy. "What has been lacking is an appropriate response from planet [416 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=04_1997&mid=3978052&hilit=UFO> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 04_1997&3856552 Score: 100 Subject: The Tectonic Strain Theory of Geophysical Luminosities by Chris A. Rutkowski