There's an interesting UFO conference taking place this weekend [View all]

You've probably already heard about the well-hyped (and ridiculed) 'Citizens' Hearing on Disclosure,' where former Congresspeople were paid big bucks to listen to testimony from UFO witnesses. The media had a field day ridiculing the less credible of those witnesses.

This coming weekend's symposium in Greensboro, NC, sponsored by the Center for UFO Research has, so far, received little, if any, attention from the media. That's too bad; because this symposium has attracted some very interesting and credible speakers.

One of the most famous is Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record.

Other speakers include:

• Charles Halt, USAF Ret. Halt was Deputy Base Commander at RAF Brentwaters in England when one of the most famous 'close encounters in history occurred on the base.
  
• Dr. Richard Haines, "a senior research scientist who worked at NASA-Ames Research Center from 1967 - 1988 on projects such as Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and the International Space Station, and managed the Joint FAA/NASA Head-up Display Evaluation Program. (quoted from the symposium speakers page)." Currently he is Chief Scientist for the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP),
  
• Wilfried de Brouwer, retired general of the Belgian Air Force who presided over the official investigation of the Belgian UFO 'wave' in 1989-1991.
  
• Xavier Passot, head of the GEIPAN, the official UFO investigation agency attached to the National Center for Space Studies (CNES), the French space agency. (Yes, other countries do take UFO studies that seriously!).