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Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO!


 
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:00 am    Post subject: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO! Reply with quote
UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister

OTTAWA (AFP) - A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.

"I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation ... that could be a way to save our planet," Paul Hellyer, 83, told the Ottawa Citizen.

Alien spacecrafts would have traveled vast distances to reach Earth, and so must be equipped with advanced propulsion systems or used exceptional fuels, he told the newspaper.

Such alien technologies could offer humanity alternatives to fossil fuels, he said, pointing to the enigmatic 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico -- which has become a shrine for UFO believers -- as an example of alien contact.

"We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough," he said.

Hellyer became defense minister in former prime minister Lester Pearson's cabinet in 1963, and oversaw the controversial integration and unification of Canada's army, air force and navy into the Canadian Forces.

He shocked Canadians in September 2005 by announcing he once saw a UFO.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO! Reply with quote
If this guy is the former defense minister for Canada maybe he should "come clean" about all the UFO evidence in Canada. If anyone would have access to such evidence it would be him, so it's amusing how at 83 years old he is pointing his fingers at other nations demanding they fess up to their UFO secrets. What are the odds that every other nation is in the exact same boat as Canada and doesn't really have any UFO evidence? ::171

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Hellyer became defense minister in former prime minister Lester Pearson's cabinet in 1963, and oversaw the controversial integration and unification of Canada's army, air force and navy into the Canadian Forces.


arguably the most loathed defense minister ever...He was a nutbag then, and seems he still is...

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:46 am    Post subject: Re: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO! Reply with quote
So Canada has one armed forces now?

Murray, are you Canadian?

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO! Reply with quote
Here is yet another difference between Canada and the US: we keep our nutjob senators around (and in office!) until they die...giving them lots of time to embarass us. ::70

In theory though, he's right. But he's just been watching too many Babylon 5 episodes. :p

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO! Reply with quote
Yes I AM Canadian, to quote the beer commercial...

Our armed Forces are theoretically all one, with common uniforms, etc, etc. There is no seperate Navy or Aor Force, certainly no parallel organization like the US Marines.

In reality, the branches, in the minds of those that serve in them, are distinct. Which is where it matters as far as espirit des corps goes.

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