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Michael
E. Salla, Ph.D.,
is President and Founder of the Exopolitics Institute. He is author
of Exposing U.S. Government Policy on Extraterrestrial Life (Exopolitics
Institute, 2009) and Exopolitics: Political Implications of the
Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004) and founder
of the popular website: Exopolitics.Org.
He has held full time academic appointments at the Australian National
University, and American University, Washington DC. He has a PhD
in Government from the University of Queensland and an MA in Philosophy
from the University of Melbourne, Australia. During his professional
academic career, he was best known for organizing a series of citizen
diplomacy initiatives for the East Timor conflict that received
large financial grants from the United States Institute of Peace
and the Ford Foundation. He is currently a resident of Hawaii. For
more information click here.
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Paola
Harris, MEd. is the International Director of the Institute.
She is an Italo-American photojournalist and investigative reporter
in the field of extraterrestrial related phenomena research. She
has studied extraterrestrial related phenomena since 1979 and is
on personal terms with many of the leading researchers in the field.
From 1980-1986 she assisted Dr. J. Allen Hynek with his UFO investigations
and has interviewed many top military witnesses concerning their
involvement in the government truth embargo. In 1997, Ms. Harris
met and interviewed Col. Philip Corso in Roswell, New Mexico and
became a personal friend and confidante. She was instrumental in
having his book The Day After Roswell, for which she wrote
the preface, translated into Italian. She returned to Roswell in
the summer of 2003 for the American debut of her book, Connecting
the Dots…making sense of the UFO Phenomena (Granite Press).
Paola has consulted with many researchers about the best avenues
for planetary disclosure with emphasis on the “big picture”
and stressing the historical connection. She is a close friend of
Monsignore Padre Corrado Balducci and assisted in filming the Italian
witnesses, including the Monsignore, for the Disclosure Project
for the May 9, 2001 press conference. She was instrumental in bringing
to Italy Robert Dean, Dr. Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe, Dr.
Richard Boylan, Russell Targ, Travis Walton, Derrell Sims, Helmut
Lamner, Michael Lindemann, Nick Pope, Bill Hamilton, Carlos Diaz
and Dr. John Mack. Her new non-profit association, Starworks Italia,
will continue to bring speakers to Italy and promote disclosure
and exo-political dialogue world-wide. She has been a speaker on
many radio shows and conferences in Italy, San Marino, Belgium and
Germany, and has appeared many times on Italian TV. She has written
for Nexus, UFO Magazine, Notizario UFO and Dossier Alieni, among
others publications. Paola lives in Rome and has a Masters degree
in Education. Her principal website is: www.paolaharris.com
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Angelika
Sareighn Whitecliff is a multi-disciplinary researcher
involved in the study of consciousness, multidimensional communications
and humanity's extraterrestrial origin. She has been a conscious
clairvoyant and telepath since childhood, and has been actively
communicating with beings of different vibrational frequencies her
entire life. Angelika has also had several physical interactions
with benevolent, human extraterrestirals who are here to assist
humanity in a planet wide spiritual awakening. Angelika helped co-found
the Exopolitics Institute with its legal launch in April 7, 2005
as a non-profit corporation in the State of Hawaii (see Articles
of Incorporation ). She was co-organizer of the 2007
and 2008 Earth Transformation Conferences, and of the 2006 Extraterrestrial
Civilizations & World Peace Conference. She is co-Founder
of GalacticDiplomacy.com
and Coordinator of the Citizen Diplomacy program of the Exopolitics
Institute. She has professionally taught classes and seminars in
developing clairvoyance, the energetic healing arts, retrieving
past/future life memories and communicating with spiritual guides,
angels and extraterrestrial visitors. She currently organizes seminars
involving extraterrestrial contactees in Zacatecas, Mexico and dolphin
interactions on the Big Island, Hawaii. Her writings are available
here, and more biographical information is available here.
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Haktan
Akdogan (Country Director - Turkey) a pioneering Turkish
UFO researcher, was born in Turkey . He is fluent in English, French
and Turkish. Akdogan's curiosity about the mystery of Space drew
his interest to this field since childhood and became a part of
his daily life. It has been now 21 years that he continues his scientific
researches on the subject and participating in worldwide UFO Symposiums.
In order to share information on the subject and shed some light
on the hidden facts, he produces a weekly documentary TV Program
on UFOs named "UFO Reality" in Turkey. Mr. Akdogan has
also hosted a weekly Radio program about UFOs at "Cool FM"
for 2 years. Akdogan founded "Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research
Centre" on May 2, 1997. The Centre chaired by Akdogan has been
involved in intensive studies on the subject and initiated many
National and International Conferences and workshops. The Centre
organized an historical event, The First International UFO Symposium
of Middle & Eastern Europe, Balkans and Middle- East, realized
on 20-21st February 1999 with the participation of 5.200 people
as well as hundreds of news reporters . This followed by the 2nd
and the 3rd Conferences in 2000 and 2001. Apart from the Centre's
studies, Haktan Akdogan is continuing to give conferences on the
subject both in Turkey and abroad. He continues to speak at numerous
national conferences, at Universities , National Associations and
private organisations...etc. He is also the board director of "The
International UFO Congress" in Nevada. In order to inform the
public on UFO reality, Akdogan participated in more than 135 national
TV programs and news as a guest speaker, published numerous articles
and gave many interviews both on TVs, radios and national newspapers.
Akdogan is also the founder of the First International UFO Museum
of Middle and Eastern Europe, Balkans and Middle-East which has
opened in Istanbul, Turkey on January 17th 2002. And two new ones
which opened in Denizli and Goreme-Turkey in 2005. He is also the
creator of World's First "Travelling UFO Museum" which
was established summer of 2003 and The Museum on the wheels visits
15-20 cities during summers in Turkey. He is the founder of "
SIRIUS Publishing House". He is also publisher and editor in
chief of "X Magazine", a monthly publication of UFO and
Paranormal related phenomenon. Haktan Akdogan is the creator of
the "World UFO Day" which suggests to make peaceful demonstrations
and events worldwide on every 2nd of July to increase the public
awareness about this important fenomenon as well as to demand world
governments to tell the people of the Earth "The Truth!"
His website is: www.siriusufo.org
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MIKE
BIRD (Country Director - Canada) saw a UFO hover
over Lake Ontario for over 2 hours in Sept 1975. He watched it through
a telescope. His wife and parents also watched it and confirmed
what he saw. He attended his first MUFON Conference in 1976 and
he helped to organise the MUFON Conference in Toronto in 1982. In
the early 90s he started his own UFO Discussion and Abduction Support
Group. Mike was the Regional Director for MUFON Canada for the years
2003-2005. In
September 2005, he was co-organizer of the Exopolitics Toronto Symposium
which featured the public emergence of former Canadian Minister
of Defence, Paul Hellyer, calling for an end to the UFO cover up.
Website: http://exopoliticstoronto.com
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Jeff
Peckman is an activist who finds and creates strategic
projects for public outreach. From 2004-2007 he was Vice President
of Special Projects at the DaVinci Institute. For many years prior
he taught Transcendental Meditation and promoted the Vedic Tradition
of knowledge, including in the U.S.S.R in 1990. He is the author
and chief proponent of the 2008 Denver ballot initiative to create
an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission. His previous ballot initiatives
include the Oregon 2002 statewide initiative to label genetically
engineered food (www.voteyeson27.com)
and the 2003 "Safety through Peace" ballot initiative
in Denver. Each of these initiatives attracted worldwide media coverage,
inspired a lot of public discussion, and created a rallying point
for related organizations and advocates. He is also founder of www.worldpeacemarket.com
which promotes Metatron TechnologyTM, a new and higher dimension
technology that brings a unique type of Divine light onto Earth,
primarily through the Internet. Its peace and coherence-creating
effects include a side benefit of removing harmful chaos in man-made
electromagnetic fields. He also writes a popular column as the Denver
UFO Examiner. Main web sites: www.extracampaign.org
and www.worldpeacemarket.com
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