This document discusses unacknowledged activities in outer space that are relevant to studying astropolitics but not typically included. It identifies three categories of unacknowledged activities: 1) Waived unacknowledged special access programs run by the US military and intelligence that are kept secret, 2) Corporate programs conducting classified work for the government under similar secrecy, 3) Activities related to unidentified flying objects and the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence that exopolitics seeks to examine. The document argues that exopolitics, which takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying evidence of extraterrestrial life and possible related classified programs, provides conceptual tools that can complement astropolitics by helping to investigate these unacknowledged space activities.
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Deficiencies and Pressing Issues in the Existing Legal Regime of Outer SpaceChristopher Johnson
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The document discusses the general characteristics and purpose of national space policy. It explains that national space policy establishes guidelines for government space activities, expresses a nation's interests in space, and considers factors like international law and private sector involvement. It provides examples of how US national space policy has shaped and been shaped by international space law and encouraged the growth of the private space sector over time.
The speaker thanks everyone for coming to honor her daughter Laura, who has inspired her with unconditional love over the last six years. Laura's love for her family, even in difficult times like when her dog died or when her grandmother got sick, shows her caring nature and motivates the speaker to be the best mother possible. Laura tells the speaker she loves her every morning and that she will take care of her parents in their old age, encouraging the speaker to provide Laura a good life with education and family support. The speaker feels lucky to have such a daughter who has taught her about unconditional love.
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This document provides information about a 10th grade English learner's material developed by the Department of Education of the Philippines. It was collaboratively developed by educators from various schools and reviewed by experts. The material aims to provide meaningful tasks to develop students' 21st century skills through world literature. It contains four modules with lessons designed to enhance students' language and literary skills through integrated activities centered on analysing and interacting with texts. Each lesson provides objectives, activates prior knowledge, introduces a text, includes discovery tasks, and ends with a final task to demonstrate learning. The material aims to help students understand how to lead meaningful lives.
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I was born in Sarasota, Florida and still live there today. I attend Booker High School and live with my mother, brother, and aunt. In my childhood, I won several awards for perfect attendance and honor roll. I hope to attend community college after graduating high school. I value friends and family for their support during happy and difficult times. While uncertain of my future career, I expect to still live in Sarasota twenty years from now, married with one child.
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The document discusses the general characteristics and purpose of national space policy. It explains that national space policy establishes guidelines for government space activities, expresses a nation's interests in space, and considers factors like international law and private sector involvement. It provides examples of how US national space policy has shaped and been shaped by international space law and encouraged the growth of the private space sector over time.
The speaker thanks everyone for coming to honor her daughter Laura, who has inspired her with unconditional love over the last six years. Laura's love for her family, even in difficult times like when her dog died or when her grandmother got sick, shows her caring nature and motivates the speaker to be the best mother possible. Laura tells the speaker she loves her every morning and that she will take care of her parents in their old age, encouraging the speaker to provide Laura a good life with education and family support. The speaker feels lucky to have such a daughter who has taught her about unconditional love.
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa YoganandaLibripass
At once a riveting account of an extraordinary life and a remarkably accessible introduction to a little-known spiritual science, Yogananda's Autobiography is something of a publishing phenomenon. Considered a classic in its field since it was first published in 1946, Autobiography of a Yogi continues to attract countless readers seeking authoritative insight into metaphysical truths.
This document provides information about a 10th grade English learner's material developed by the Department of Education of the Philippines. It was collaboratively developed by educators from various schools and reviewed by experts. The material aims to provide meaningful tasks to develop students' 21st century skills through world literature. It contains four modules with lessons designed to enhance students' language and literary skills through integrated activities centered on analysing and interacting with texts. Each lesson provides objectives, activates prior knowledge, introduces a text, includes discovery tasks, and ends with a final task to demonstrate learning. The material aims to help students understand how to lead meaningful lives.
Ebookprovider.co.cc mother teresa a biographyMania Dila
This document provides background information on a forthcoming biography about Mother Teresa. It includes a list of recent biographies published by Greenwood Press, and then provides publishing details for the upcoming Mother Teresa biography, including the author, copyright information, and cataloging data. The table of contents provides an overview of the 10 chapters that will comprise the biography.
I was born in Sarasota, Florida and still live there today. I attend Booker High School and live with my mother, brother, and aunt. In my childhood, I won several awards for perfect attendance and honor roll. I hope to attend community college after graduating high school. I value friends and family for their support during happy and difficult times. While uncertain of my future career, I expect to still live in Sarasota twenty years from now, married with one child.
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This document summarizes and analyzes concepts related to intelligence analysis. It discusses a 2008 book that assesses the state of US intelligence analysis after 9/11 and proposes improvements. It also explains the intelligence cycle of planning, collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination. Additionally, it covers sources of intelligence like OSINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, and MASINT. Key aspects of analysis like denial and deception, the counterintelligence function, and applying the intelligence cycle to competitive business intelligence are also summarized.
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Pick an administrative agency of either the federal or a state government. Find where the current and proposed regulation changes for that agency are located on the Internet (i.e., the Federal Register or the State Administrative Agency website.) Regulations.gov is a good place to begin your research. Pick one proposed regulation change currently under consideration (if you find one that has already closed out but interests you, you can use that instead) and write the following regarding it:
1. State the administrative agency that controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you, or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers, and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points)
2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points)
3. Write the public comment that you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points)
4. Provide the "deadline" by which the public comment must be made. (If the date has already passed, please provide when the deadline was). (5 points)
5.
a. Once you have submitted your comment, what will you be legally entitled to do later in the promulgation process (if you should choose to do so)? (See the textbook's discussion of the Administrative Procedure Act.)
b. If the proposal passes, identify and explain the five legal theories you could use in an attempt to have (any) administrative regulation declared invalid and overturned in court.
c. Which of these challenges would be the best way to challenge the regulation you selected for this assignment if you wanted to have the regulation overturned, and why?
Answer all of these questions for #5 even if you are in favor of your proposed regulation.
The response to question 5 should be a minimum of 2–3 paragraphs long. (15 points)
Copy and paste the above five items into a Microsoft Word document and answer each question fully. Your homework will be about 1 to 2 pages long, single-spaced (50 points
11 Secret Intelligence, Covert Action
and Clandestine Diplomacy
Len Scott
‘The essential skill of a secret service is to get things done secretly and deniably.’
(John Bruce Lockhart, former Deputy Chief of SIS)1
Much contemporary study of intelligence concerns how knowledge is acquired,
generated and used. This chapter provides a different focus that treats secrecy,
rather than knowledge, as an organising theme. Instead of scrutinising the process
of gathering, analysing and expl.
This document provides an introduction and summary of a legal research paper on space tourism. It discusses the existing international space laws and treaties that govern space travel. It acknowledges that while laws exist, the field of private space tourism is still developing. It then outlines some hypothetical legal scenarios that could arise from space tourism and private space travel becoming more common. Finally, it describes a small pilot survey conducted with medical students in India to gather preliminary data on perspectives about space tourism. The document aims to explore the legal issues and opportunities surrounding the growing concept of space tourism.
This document establishes the United States' policy on domestic drone use, directing federal agencies to integrate drones into national airspace by 2016 while protecting citizens' privacy rights. It tasks Congress and state legislatures with developing regulations for both government and private drone use. The Federal Aviation Administration will test drones at six sites to ensure safety and compliance with future policies. The goal is to use drone technology to enhance security, prevent crime, and respond to emergencies, but in a way that does not violate the Fourth Amendment.
Private, non-governmental actors are becoming increasingly active in space activities, driving innovation and expanding our capabilities. However, their ambitions have implications for international and national governance regimes. This lecture was given at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy's 2019 Geopolitics and Global Futures Symposium
This document is a thesis submitted to American Public University examining the justification for the NSA's domestic bulk data collection and surveillance program. It provides background on the NSA's origins and mission, as well as the laws governing domestic surveillance. It discusses the controversy around the NSA's activities following the Snowden leaks, debating whether the national security benefits outweigh civil liberty costs. The thesis conducts a qualitative analysis of sources on both sides and aims to determine if the current legal framework requires reform while still protecting national security within the Constitution.
This document provides an overview of national security intelligence as a discipline. It aims to impart an understanding of the secret government agencies that provide security-related information to policymakers and carry out covert operations. The field of national security intelligence study has grown significantly since the 1970s, stimulated by intelligence scandals and failures in the US. This handbook seeks to map out the discipline and suggest future research agendas, drawing on the expertise of contributors from various countries and backgrounds. The goal of intelligence is to provide accurate and timely information to help policymakers make more effective decisions.
This document discusses opportunities for increased information sharing within space situational awareness (SSA) and implications for current SSA operations. It defines SSA and notes its importance for military space operations. Recent policies call for greater data sharing between government agencies and other space entities to improve safety. However, implementing policy changes requires planning to mitigate impacts. The document recommends a management system to fuse SSA data from various sources and a military commander with authority over protection resources. Lessons from maritime and drone operations may inform developing an SSA information sharing framework.
Big brother recipe for revolution By Glen Krawezyk...528Hz TRUTH
- The US Army War College published a paper in 1994 proposing a "revolution in military affairs" using new technologies like sensors, robotics, and non-lethal weapons for purposes beyond traditional warfare like counterinsurgency and peacekeeping.
- The paper suggested developing technologies for "psychological, biological, and defensive" purposes in conflicts "short of war" and using location monitoring devices and behavior modification for peace enforcement.
- Critics argue this revolution aims to change public attitudes to accept formerly unacceptable military technologies and operations through "psychological warfare" against American citizens. Investigations found evidence such experimentation on citizens was already occurring covertly using directed energy and neurotechnologies.
DARPA was established in 1958 in response to the Soviet Union launching Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, which demonstrated that the US was behind technologically. DARPA's initial focus was on space, missile defense, and nuclear detection. Over 50 years, DARPA has funded high-risk, high-reward research and development projects to provide technological advantages for the US military, including the ARPANET which helped launch the Internet. DARPA aims to challenge existing approaches and achieve disruptive capabilities through projects involving technologies, sensors, materials, and integrated systems.
This document provides an overview of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and discusses unidentified flying objects (UFOs). It describes the 16 agencies that make up the IC, led by the Director of Central Intelligence. It also details the missions and oversight of the IC. Additionally, it discusses the PARAGON Group, an intelligence organization established in 2003 to study UFOs and recover extraterrestrial technology. The document provides context on reports of UFOs from the early 20th century and the US and UK governments' investigations of these sightings.
This document provides an overview of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and discusses unidentified flying objects (UFOs). It describes the 16 agencies that make up the IC, led by the Director of Central Intelligence. It also details the missions and oversight of the IC. Additionally, it discusses the PARAGON Group, an intelligence organization established in 2003 to study UFOs and recover extraterrestrial technology. The document provides context on reports of UFOs from the early 20th century and the US and UK governments' investigations of these sightings.
This document discusses improving the role of intelligence in counterproliferation policymaking based on case studies of nuclear proliferation incidents. The key findings are:
1) Ineffective nonproliferation policy actions are rarely due to a lack of timely intelligence. Policymakers often pursue other priorities and ignore intelligence.
2) The intelligence community is reticent to forcefully advocate policy actions based on evidence, allowing policymakers to ignore intelligence.
3) Good intelligence does not always prompt action if policymakers believe no good policy options exist or risks of action outweigh risks of inaction.
4) Context is important - intelligence is more likely to drive action when political circumstances increase policymaker sensitivity to nonproliferation issues.
OP-ED TOPIC FOR 2012 FALLIntroduction. . .____________________.docxMARRY7
OP-ED TOPIC FOR 2012 FALL
Introduction. . .
_______________________________________________________________________________
Public Anthropology’s Community Action Website Project helps to provide students with key skills they need to be successful in their future careers: critical thinking, effective communication, and active citizenship.
The Project encourages (1) critical thinking regarding an ethical issue, (2) a sharing of ideas among students from different universities, (3) improved writing skills, and (4) active citizenship – a sense that students working together can facilitate change.
Let's begin. . .
_______________________________________________________________________________
THE ISSUE
The rules for regulating research are regularly updated. The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, for example, is now in the process of completing a new set of regulations
(see
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/
)
.
After reading the material below, you will be asked to address in your Op-Ed (or opinion piece) two questions regarding how much, or how little, governmental regulation of research is appropriate.
There are four steps to this skill development process:
(1) READ:
You should carefully read the background material to gain an idea of the issue you will be writing about. If you rush through the material, you will probably do poorly -- grade wise -- on this writing assignment.
(2) DECIDE:
You will then take a stand on the issue discussed and, critically, develop an effective argument in support of your position.
(3) PREPARE:
Before you write your Op-Ed (or opinion) piece, you should carefully look at the criteria others will use in evaluating your piece (see below) as well as examples of model Op-Eds from leading North American newspapers. These should provide a sense of how to frame and phrase your own Op-Ed.
(4) WRITE:
You should write your Op-Ed in a word processing program – such as WORD – and cut and paste your Op-Ed into the space provided on the website.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
In writing your Op-Ed, you are strongly encouraged to ONLY use the information provided below (especially the four case studies). Yes, there are lots of links in the following materials. But they are mainly provided so you appreciate the statements being made are well documented.
Writing your Op-Ed is primarily an exercise in critical thinking, not in collecting data from the web to support this or that position. Given the information as reliable as we can make it – given the demands of this assignment – what do you view as a reasonable stance? How do you reason with the information provided to a thoughtful position regarding freedom versus regulation in research?
A BIT OF HISTORY:
THE BELMONT REPORT
(see
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/belmont.html
,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_report
) of 1979 constitutes the foundation for regulating research across all parts of the United States government. Quoting from the report itself:
On .
This document analyzes the current status of space law and conventions regarding sovereignty in outer space. It discusses key treaties like the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and the Moon Treaty of 1979. While these treaties established some framework, many challenges remain unaddressed. Issues around defining boundaries between airspace and outer space, liability for damage, and jurisdiction over objects in space continue to be debated. The document concludes more work is still needed to harmonize regulations and reduce ambiguity regarding sovereignty and activities in outer space.
This summarizes a report on a symposium discussing space traffic management. The symposium was organized by the International Institute of Space Law and European Centre for Space Law during a session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. There were eight speakers who discussed the definition and development of space traffic management. A key topic was the upcoming 2016 study by the International Academy of Astronautics on developing a roadmap for implementing space traffic management based on the 2006 study. The speakers addressed related topics like the legal framework for international commons and how rights and obligations may apply differently in different contexts like outer space.
Kapcsolatfelvételi teszt - Mary Rodwell, Exopolitika Magyarország
Ha úgy gondolod, hogy volt már ufóélményed, de nem érted pontosan; ha úgy érzed, küldetésed van; ha nem érted miért vagy e bolygón, akkor ebből a tesztből válaszokra vagy válaszirányra lelhetsz.
Mary Rodwell és az Exopolitika Magyarország közös írása.
Ajánlott még: Csillaggyermek-teszt: http://www.slideshare.net/exopolitika/csillaggyermekteszt-exopolitika-magyarorszg
Mary Rodwell - New Human and Hybrids, 2021 lecture, 98 slidesExopolitics Hungary
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1) Ineffective nonproliferation policy actions are rarely due to a lack of timely intelligence. Policymakers often pursue other priorities and ignore intelligence.
2) The intelligence community is reticent to forcefully advocate policy actions based on evidence, allowing policymakers to ignore intelligence.
3) Good intelligence does not always prompt action if policymakers believe no good policy options exist or risks of action outweigh risks of inaction.
4) Context is important - intelligence is more likely to drive action when political circumstances increase policymaker sensitivity to nonproliferation issues.
OP-ED TOPIC FOR 2012 FALLIntroduction. . .____________________.docxMARRY7
OP-ED TOPIC FOR 2012 FALL
Introduction. . .
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Public Anthropology’s Community Action Website Project helps to provide students with key skills they need to be successful in their future careers: critical thinking, effective communication, and active citizenship.
The Project encourages (1) critical thinking regarding an ethical issue, (2) a sharing of ideas among students from different universities, (3) improved writing skills, and (4) active citizenship – a sense that students working together can facilitate change.
Let's begin. . .
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THE ISSUE
The rules for regulating research are regularly updated. The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, for example, is now in the process of completing a new set of regulations
(see
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/
)
.
After reading the material below, you will be asked to address in your Op-Ed (or opinion piece) two questions regarding how much, or how little, governmental regulation of research is appropriate.
There are four steps to this skill development process:
(1) READ:
You should carefully read the background material to gain an idea of the issue you will be writing about. If you rush through the material, you will probably do poorly -- grade wise -- on this writing assignment.
(2) DECIDE:
You will then take a stand on the issue discussed and, critically, develop an effective argument in support of your position.
(3) PREPARE:
Before you write your Op-Ed (or opinion) piece, you should carefully look at the criteria others will use in evaluating your piece (see below) as well as examples of model Op-Eds from leading North American newspapers. These should provide a sense of how to frame and phrase your own Op-Ed.
(4) WRITE:
You should write your Op-Ed in a word processing program – such as WORD – and cut and paste your Op-Ed into the space provided on the website.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
In writing your Op-Ed, you are strongly encouraged to ONLY use the information provided below (especially the four case studies). Yes, there are lots of links in the following materials. But they are mainly provided so you appreciate the statements being made are well documented.
Writing your Op-Ed is primarily an exercise in critical thinking, not in collecting data from the web to support this or that position. Given the information as reliable as we can make it – given the demands of this assignment – what do you view as a reasonable stance? How do you reason with the information provided to a thoughtful position regarding freedom versus regulation in research?
A BIT OF HISTORY:
THE BELMONT REPORT
(see
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/belmont.html
,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_report
) of 1979 constitutes the foundation for regulating research across all parts of the United States government. Quoting from the report itself:
On .
This document analyzes the current status of space law and conventions regarding sovereignty in outer space. It discusses key treaties like the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and the Moon Treaty of 1979. While these treaties established some framework, many challenges remain unaddressed. Issues around defining boundaries between airspace and outer space, liability for damage, and jurisdiction over objects in space continue to be debated. The document concludes more work is still needed to harmonize regulations and reduce ambiguity regarding sovereignty and activities in outer space.
This summarizes a report on a symposium discussing space traffic management. The symposium was organized by the International Institute of Space Law and European Centre for Space Law during a session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. There were eight speakers who discussed the definition and development of space traffic management. A key topic was the upcoming 2016 study by the International Academy of Astronautics on developing a roadmap for implementing space traffic management based on the 2006 study. The speakers addressed related topics like the legal framework for international commons and how rights and obligations may apply differently in different contexts like outer space.
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Michael Salla - Astropolitics and the ''Exopolitics'' of Unacknowledged Activities in Outer Space
1. VIEWPOINT
Astropolitics and the “Exopolitics” of Unacknowledged Activities in Outer Space
Michael E. Salla
Exopolitics Institute, Pahoa, Hawaii
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published as “Astropolitics and the
“Exopolitics” of Unacknowledged Activities in Outer Space,” Astropolitics: The International
Journal of Space Politics & Policy, 12:1 (Published online: 03 March 2014) 95-105, Available
online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14777622.2014.890492
DOI: 10.1080/14777622.2014.890492
Abstract
The role of unacknowledged classified programs remains an enigma for fully
understanding activities in space and the study of astropolitics. Classified
programs by law are not publicly announced, and remain inaccessible to all
except those with valid security clearances to be briefed about them. In the U.S.,
waived Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAPs) are the most highly
classified programs conducted by the U.S. military and intelligence community,
and require those briefed to deny a program’s existence, and even refer to
elaborate cover stories to mislead any investigating activities related to such a
program. The same classification protocols are also required of private contractors
working with U.S. military departments and/or intelligence agencies on classified
programs. As space continues to grow in its national security significance, the
number of waived USAPs pertaining to outer space is likely to grow significantly
from its current number. This requires adopting the necessary conceptual tools
and methodological flexibility for investigating unacknowledged activities in
outer space. This even extends to evidence concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial
life. This paper suggests that “exopolitics” is a unique multidisciplinary approach
to extraterrestrial life that offers a helpful set of conceptual tools for studying
unacknowledged space activities, and complements the field of astropolitics.
Introduction
Astropolitics as a formal field of scholarly interest began with the launch of the Sputnik satellite
in October 1957. It was widely understood that the launch of future satellites and national space
programs require international agreements governing satellite orbits, their capabilities, and future
efforts to explore outer space. On 13 December 1958, one year after Sputnik, the United Nations
(UN) established an ad-hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space whose main goal
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was to “promote international cooperation in the peaceful use of outer space.”1
After the passage
of another year, on 12 December 1959, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 1472 (XIV)
authorizing the creation of the permanent Committee on the Peaceful Uses for Outer Space
(COPUOS).2
On its UN website, the Committee states its goal of devising “programmes in this
field to be undertaken under United Nations auspices, to encourage continued research and the
dissemination of information on outer space matters, and to study legal problems arising from
the exploration of outer space.”3
On 12 April 1961, the first human, Yuri Gagarin, was launched into space as part of the Soviet
Vostok program. He was followed by Alan Shepard from the United States on 5 May 1961 who
was part of the Mercury program. Subsequent manned missions into outer space and the Moon
required international cooperation involving the safety of astronauts and their equipment after
launching into outer space, and addressing questions of sovereignty concerning future manned
missions to the Moon and other celestial bodies.
International discussions over past, current, and future space activities culminated in the first
international treaty concerning activities in outer space. The Outer Space Treaty (OST) came into
force on 10 October 1967 and was officially titled: “Treaty on Principles Governing the
Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other
Celestial Bodies.”4
It has been ratified by all spacefaring nations and is currently the basis of
international space law. The OST is a very significant treaty since it provides a legal basis for all
human related activities in outer space. Developing suitable processes by which these activities
remain transparent and accountable are an important part of how the UN promotes international
cooperation in the peaceful use of outer space. Importantly, the OST makes states responsible for
the space activities of non-governmental organizations operating from within or based in state
territories. This is vitally important given the growth of commercial space activities and the role
of corporate contractors in classified space activities conducted in the United States and other
countries.
“Astropolitics” is herein defined as the political study of stars, celestial bodies, and activities in
outer space. Space activities include those officially acknowledged by national space programs
and military forces of different nations through official media releases. However, it is the
activities that are not officially acknowledged that pose the greatest challenge to the
comprehensive study of astropolitics. This paper examines three different categories of
unacknowledged activities occurring in space. The first is unacknowledged waived “Special
Access Programs” run by the U.S. military and intelligence services, and their international
equivalents. The second category is corporate programs obliged to follow similar classification
security protocols for conducting military/intelligence contracts. The final category involves
activities related to the unidentified flying object (UFO) phenomenon and the possibility that
some of these activities are guided by an extraterrestrial intelligence. “Exopolitics” is defined as
a multidisciplinary approach examining evidence of extraterrestrial life and classified
military/intelligence/corporate programs possibly related to alien technologies. It is proposed that
exopolitics provides a helpful set of conceptual tools that complements astropolitics in the study
of outer space activities.
3. Unacknowledged Activities in Outer Space
3
ASTROPOLITICS AND UACKNOWLEDGED SPACE ACTIVITIES
Astropolitics, as currently studied at various academic institutions, primarily focuses on activities
in outer space, and how these pertain to international space law. The only officially
acknowledged activities are those pertaining to various space programs belonging to national
governments, and a small but rapidly increasing number of commercial space entities. For
example, a course on “Astropolitics and the Development of Space” is taught at the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs, and focuses on: “how politics, policies, and laws affect the use of
space assets in the civil, commercial, and security areas.”5
Also, this journal of Astropolitics “is
dedicated to policy relevant and interdisciplinary analysis of civil, commercial, military, and
intelligence space activities.”6
Currently, the emerging discipline of astropolitics, as evidenced in
academic courses and publications, focuses on space activities acknowledged to exist by
governmental and non-governmental entities, and their public policy implications.
I contend here that in addition to these officially acknowledged space activities, astropolitics also
encompasses “unacknowledged” activities. This includes space activities and programs that may
exist, but are not publicly acknowledged by the responsible states for national security reasons.
There are three categories of unacknowledged space activities that need to be considered for the
study of astropolitics.
The first category involves unacknowledged programs that are related to various national
militaries and intelligence agencies that invoke various levels of security classification in the
conduct of such programs. In the United States, such classified programs are known as Special
Access Programs (SAP) in the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Intelligence Community.
Some of these classified programs are “unacknowledged” in so far as their existence is not
publicly admitted. According to a 1995 DOD Manual titled: “National Industrial Security
Program Operating Manual:”
There are two types of SAPs, acknowledged and unacknowledged. An acknowledged SAP is a
program which may be openly recognized or known; however, specifics are classified within that
SAP. The existence of an unacknowledged SAP or an unacknowledged portion of an
acknowledged program, will not be made known to any person not authorized for this
information.7
The DOD Manual goes on to clarify the measures taken to keep secret the existence of
unacknowledged programs:
Unacknowledged SAPs require a significantly greater degree of protection than acknowledged
SAPs... A SAP with protective controls that ensures the existence of the Program is not
acknowledged, affirmed, or made known to any person not authorized for such information. All
aspects (e.g., technical, operational, logistical, etc.) are handled in an unacknowledged manner.
8
In addition to the stringent security requirements pertaining to an Unacknowledged SAP
(USAP), these may be further classified by making them Waived USAPs. According to a 1997
Senate investigation:
Among black programs, further distinction is made for “waived” programs, considered to be so
sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress. The
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chairperson, ranking member, and, on occasion, other members and staff of relevant
Congressional committees are notified only orally of the existence of these programs.9
A strictly oral briefing about a program that is so classified that U.S. Congressional members and
others learning about it cannot admit to its existence or consult others for expert advice, means
that USAP’s have no effective congressional oversight placed upon them. Congress has to take
the word of the sponsoring military service or intelligence agency that the program is being run
responsibly and in accord with U.S. and international space laws. Indeed, any member is
authorized to deny the existence of such a program, and refer to a cover story. In this regard, a
1992 supplement to an earlier version of the DOD Manuel states:
Program Cover stories. (UNACKNOWLEDGED Program.). Cover stories may be established for
unacknowledged programs in order to protect the integrity of the program from individuals who
do not have a need to know. Cover stories must be believable and cannot reveal any information
regarding the true nature of the contract. Cover stories for Special Access Programs must have the
approval of PSO [Program Security Officer] prior to dissemination.10
The second category of unacknowledged space activities pertains to private corporations that
invoke similar security procedures as the U.S. military or intelligence agencies as a condition for
working on highly classified contracts. These industry standard security procedures by the DOD
are outlined in the “National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual.” Here is how the
1997 U.S. Senate Report summarizes the current situation:
Industrial contractors performing classified contracts are governed by the National Industrial
Security Program (NISP), created in 1993 by Executive Order 12829 to “serve as a single,
integrated, cohesive industrial security program to protect classified information.” A Supplement
to the NISP operating manual (NISPOM) was issued in February 1995 with a “menu of options”
from which government program managers can select when establishing standards for contractors
involved with special access programs.11
It is common for national militaries and intelligence agencies to award contracts to private
corporations for conducting aspects of unacknowledged programs, including those related to
space activities. For example, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Science Applications
International Corporation, and General Dynamics are a few of the many U.S. companies that are
awarded military/intelligence contracts for research and development on highly classified
programs, some of which involve space activities.
Other major spacefaring states have their own equivalents to USAPs involving unacknowledged
space activities conducted by national militaries and intelligence organizations, along with the
assistance of private corporate contractors. The scope and budgets of these officially sanctioned
unacknowledged space programs are not well known and traditionally are part of the nebulous
world of “black programs” that are funded in opaque ways. While these “black programs” are
not a major focus of astropolitics, there are studies that do address black programs. Among these
is Tim Cook’s Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget.12
These officially sanctioned black
programs, however, may not be the only unacknowledged activities occurring in space. There is
a third category of unacknowledged space activity involving the possibility of extraterrestrial
intelligence that still needs to be considered.
5. Unacknowledged Activities in Outer Space
5
SPACE ACTIVITIES AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
Activities in outer space may also be under the control of an extraterrestrial intelligence that may
or may not be known by national space programs. The problem that immediately arises here is
that extraterrestrial life has not been acknowledged by any state or major scientific organization
to have been officially discovered yet. Consequently, the impact of extraterrestrial activities in
outer space remains moot for states and scientific organizations involved in space exploration
and the implementation of the OST. Academic organizations studying astropolitics similarly treat
the subject of extraterrestrial life as speculative, and therefore marginal to the study of space
activities. However, not all agree that extraterrestrial intelligence is yet to be discovered.
There is a small though vocal group of scientists, researchers and activists who study reports of
UFOs that appear to be under intelligent control that either emanate from outer space, or rapidly
move into outer space from land or undersea locations. Dating from 1947, over 100,000 UFOs
have been reported, investigated, and analyzed by various sources including national militaries
and national space organizations.13
This had led to considerable interest in the “extraterrestrial
hypothesis” that some UFOs are interplanetary in origin.
Studies undertaken by national military and scientific organizations have delivered reports
substantiating the UFO phenomenon, without necessarily endorsing the extraterrestrial
hypothesis. One of the earliest examples was the US Air Force (USAF) that formally studied
UFO reports beginning in the summer of 1947. On 23 September 1947, General Nathan
Twining, head of the Air Material Command, sent a summary letter concerning flying discs (i.e.,
UFOs) to the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, Brigadier General George
Schulgen. Twining reported: “The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or
fictitious,” and recommended a formal investigation of the phenomenon.14
The USAF
consequently initiated Project Sign in 1947, a formal investigation of the UFO phenomenon that
evolved into Project Blue Book that lasted from 1952 to 1969 when it was closed upon the
recommendations of a University of Colorado study called the Condon Report released in
October 1968.15
Analyzing USAF efforts to study the UFO phenomenon since 1947, the Condon
Report concluded:
Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that
has added to scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads
us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation
that science will be advanced thereby.16
Despite the negative conclusion of the Condon Report, military departments and space agencies
of other countries have continued to conduct formal investigations of the UFO phenomenon.
These investigations documented a relationship between extraterrestrial intelligence and
activities in outer space.
To illustrate, France created a department in 1977 within its national space agency, the Centre
National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), to undertake a civilian study of UFO reports. This
department, the Groupe d'Études des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEPAN) was
initially well funded and represented a serious scientific investigation of the UFO phenomenon
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by French scientists.17
With the 1969 closure of Project Blue Book by the USAF, GEPAN
represented continued global public interest in the UFO phenomenon, and the continuing number
of UFO sightings that could not be explained.
Problems raised by the respective efforts of different national militaries and space organizations
to study UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis in an ad-hoc manner was eventually brought to
the UN by the Prime Minister of Grenada, Sir Eric Gairy. Gairy raised the UFO issue at the UN
General Assembly’s Special Political Committee on 28 November 1977. He proposed the
“establishment of an agency or a department of the United Nations for undertaking, coordinating
and disseminating the results of research into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and related
phenomena.”18
On 19 December 1978, after a year-long debate over the merits of the UN launching an
internationally coordinated effort to study UFOs, the UN General Assembly, on the
recommendation of the Special Political Committee, passed Decision 33/426. The Decision
called for the creation of a specialist UN Agency that would study the UFO phenomenon and the
extraterrestrial hypothesis:
2. the General Assembly invites interested Member States to take appropriate steps to coordinate
on a national level scientific research and investigation into extraterrestrial life, including
unidentified flying objects, and to inform the Secretary-General of the observations, research and
evaluation of such activities.19
COPUOS was the designated body for further consideration of UN Decision 33/426, but to date
it has not been implemented. Nevertheless, UN Decision 33/426 does establish the international
precedent for COPUOS monitor outer space activities that might be related to the UFO
phenomenon and extraterrestrial intelligence.
After several years of study, the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defence in France
released in July 1999, a 90 page report titled: UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?
The report was written by a committee comprising generals, admirals, aviation experts, and
scientists known as COMETA (French acronym for committee for in-depth studies). Known
generally as the COMETA Report, it gave fresh scientific legitimacy to the study of the UFO
phenomenon.20
The COMETA report emphasized the seriousness of a rigorous scientific
investigation of the UFO phenomenon. It made a number of recommendations that included:
expanding of funding and investigations by the “Service d'Expertise des Phénomènes de
Rentrées Atmosphériques” (SEPRA - the successor of GEPAN) of the UFO phenomenon;
establishing a unit at the highest level of government to deliberate on policy aspects of the UFO
phenomenon; and establishing close diplomatic relations with the United States to coordinate a
policy response to the UFO phenomenon.21
As exemplified by historical interest in the UFO phenomenon by various military and national
space programs, and a formal decision by the UN, the UFO phenomenon and the extraterrestrial
hypothesis cannot be simply dismissed from the study of astropolitics. Basically, space activities
relevant to the study of astropolitics may include those that are in the control of an
extraterrestrial intelligence. This third category of unacknowledged space activities requires the
development of a subfield of astropolitics that specializes in investigating supporting data and
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evidence related to the extraterrestrial hypothesis. This is where the concept of exopolitics
becomes relevant.
EXOPOLITICS AS A SUBFIELD OF ASTROPOLITICS
As a field of scholarly study yet to be endorsed by any university or scientific institution,
exopolitics is a civil society initiative that focuses primarily on evidence of extraterrestrial life
and its political implications. It has been defined as follows by a group of its leading
practitioners:
Exopolitics is an interdisciplinary scientific field, with its roots in the political sciences, that
focuses on research, education and public policy with regard to the actors, institutions and
processes, associated with extraterrestrial life, as well as the wide range of implications this entails
through public advocacy and newly emerging paradigms.22
Exopolitics practitioners study a wide range of evidentiary sources concerning the discovery of
extraterrestrial life and technology, as well as classified government responses.23
Many, though
not all, exopolitics practitioners accept the extraterrestrial hypothesis concerning the UFO
phenomenon, and endorse the conclusion that major national governments have conspired
together to keep evidence confirming the discovery of extraterrestrial life secret from their
citizenry.
Clearly, the question of extraterrestrial activities in outer space is highly controversial; yet, as an
emerging field of academic study, there is no reason why astropolitics cannot deal with such a
controversy in a satisfactory manner. After all, the primary goal of astropolitics is to study
activities occurring in outer space. The possibility that some of activities are extraterrestrial in
origin needs to be thoroughly considered in the astropolitics field. Otherwise, astropolitics would
be in the untenuous position of studying only officially acknowledged human activities occurring
in outer space when evidence suggests otherwise. One solution for researchers of astropolitics
would be to proceed with the political study of acknowledged human activities in outer space
and how these impact on celestial bodies and the OST, while also seriously considering the
possibility of unacknowledged space activities that may pertain to UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
Astropolitics needs to avoid what Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall describe as the “UFO
taboo”:
In short, considerable work goes into ignoring UFOs, constituting them as objects only of ridicule
and scorn. To that extent one may speak of a “UFO taboo,” a prohibition in the authoritative
public sphere on taking UFOs seriously, or “thou shalt not try very hard to find out what UFOs
are.24
Therefore, in addition to the two categories of unacknowledged space activities discussed earlier
– highly classified programs in the military/intelligence community and corporate arena - we
now have a third. Extraterrestrial activities related to the UFO phenomenon may also be
occurring in space without official or public knowledge. This requires examining evidence of
UFO/extraterrestrial activities in outer space. Of special interest, is how these relate to the OST
and other ratified treaties of the international space community.
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While astropolitics can be used as a generic term for activities occurring in outer space,
exopolitics may be better considered to be a complement or subfield of astropolitics, insofar as
exopolitics focuses on evidence of extraterrestrial life and technology. In addition,
unacknowledged classified programs allegedly created by national governments in response to
the discovery of extraterrestrial life would also fall under the purview of exopolitics.
CONCLUSION:
ASTROPOLITICS AND A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF SPACE ACTIVITIES
Astropolitics’ primary focus on publicly acknowledged activities in outer space is important
since it highlights a number of UN treaties and resolutions. Examining activities occurring in
outer space in the context of UN resolutions and treaties is very helpful for developing oversight
of what is happening in outer space. This is essential for maintaining transparency and
accountability for government and corporate sanctioned space activities.
We know most about acknowledged activities that are occurring outside of Earth’s atmosphere
through the press releases of various national space programs, military services, and media
scrutiny. As for unacknowledged space activities, the evidence is controversial and difficult to
substantiate. The classification process in the United States makes it an offense for details of
SAPs to be publicly released without official authorization. In the case of Waived USAPs, those
aware of these programs and any relationship to space activities are obliged to deny their
existence and refer to cover stories that are misleading, if not patent falsehoods . Astropolitics as
a discipline should take into account space activities that may be part of a highly classified
unacknowledged space program or even extraterrestrial in origin. At the same time, astropolitics
needs to be careful not to conflate what we know of acknowledged activities in space with
evidence of unacknowledged activities that is highly controversial and subject to intense debate.
This latter area more properly belongs to the nascent field of exopolitics that may be categorized
as a complement or subfield of astropolitics.
It is secret activities occurring in outer space under the rubric of national security that are of most
concern. This is especially the case for a secret space program that is done without any legal
oversight by policy makers in the countries participating in such a program due to the nature of
the classification system for SAPs or their international equivalents. Casting light on all activities
in outer space is very important in due to the treaty obligations all national governments are
obliged to follow.
Astropolitics must begin with what we know of acknowledged activities in outer space, and then
evaluate these in terms of international obligations invoked by OST and its corollary treaties. For
unacknowledged SAP activities that by definition are difficult to substantiate due to lack of
documentation, we have exopolitics as a subfield that has developed conceptual tools for such an
investigation. We gain a great deal in controlling our future destinies as a planet as we consider
evidence of all the range of activities occurring in outer space, acknowledged and
unacknowledged, that can significantly impact our lives and futures. Astropolitics and
exopolitics offer complimentary conceptual tools for understanding what is happening in outer
space.
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NOTES
1
Resolution Adopted by The General Assembly, 1472 (XIV) “International co-operation in the peaceful uses of
outer space,” http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/SpaceLaw/gares/html/gares_14_1472.html (accessed September
2013).
2
Ibid.
3
United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space,
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/COPUOS/copuos.html (accessed September 2013).
4
“Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the
Moon and Other Celestial Bodies,” http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SpaceLaw/outerspt.html (accessed September
2013).
5
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Course, “Astropolitics and the Development of Space”
http://www.zvents.com/colorado_springs_co/events/show/171693545-uccs-course-astropolitics-the-development-of-
space (accessed September 2013).
6
Astropolitics: The International Journal of Space Politics and Policy,
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=fast20#.UqXyfeIiyXM
(accessed September 2013).
7
“National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual:” DOD 5220.22-M-Sup. 1, February 1995. 1-1-2:
https://www.fas.org/sgp/library/nispom_sup.pdf (accessed December 2013).
8
Ibid. 3-1-2 & A-4, https://www.fas.org/sgp/library/nispom_sup.pdf (accessed December 2013).
9
“Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy,” (Senate Document. 105-2 – 3
December 1997), 26, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CDOC-105sdoc2/pdf/GPO-CDOC-105sdoc2-7.pdf
(accessed December 2013).
10
“Special Access Program Supplement to the National Industrial Security,” (Draft 29 May 1992). 3-1-5,
www.fas.org/sgp/library/nispom/sapsup-draft92.pdf (accessed December 2013).
11
“Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy,”
https://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/chap2.pdf (accessed December 2013).
12
Tim Cook, Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget (Grand Central Publishing, 1990).
13
See Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, “Sovereignty and the UFOs,” Political Theory 36: 610 (2008).
14
“Letter From General N.F. Twining to Commanding General, Army Air Forces, 23 September 1947,”
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=679398 (accessed September 2013).
15
“U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet: Unidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book,”
http://archive.is/20120719123429/http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=188&page=1
(accessed September, 2013).
16
Edward Condon and Daniel Gillmor, eds., Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (New York: E.P.
Dutton, 1969), http://files.ncas.org/condon/text/sec-i.htm (accessed September 2013).
17
See articles describing GEPAN and official French studies of UFOs, http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/gepan-
sepra.htm (accessed September 2013).
18
Don Berliner, “UFO Briefing Document: International Agreements and Resolutions ‒ United Nations,”
http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1037.htm (accessed September 2013).
19
“Recommendation to Establish UN Agency for UFO Research ‒ UN General Assembly decision 33/426,” 1978,
http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc902.htm (accessed September 2013).
20
English translation of Cometa Report, http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/Cometa.htm (accessed September
2013).
21
COMETA Report Summary, http://www.netowne.com/ufos/important/cometa.htm (accessed September 2013).
22
Exopolitics Institute, “Defining Exopolitics,” http://exopoliticsinstitute.org/?page_id=1043 (accessed September
2013).
23
Referenced exopolitics articles by leading practitioners, www.ExopoliticsJournal.com (accessed September 2013).
24
Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, “Sovereignty and the UFOs,” Political Theory 36: 610 (2008).