Podesta–McCasland emails
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| Date | 24 January 2016 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Military encounters (topic), Bases & Area 51 (topic) |
| People | John Podesta, Tom DeLonge, Neil McCasland, Rob Weiss |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 183 |
| Year | 2016 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2016 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
The Podesta–McCasland emails are messages among Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta, musician Tom DeLonge and retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, released by WikiLeaks in October 2016 among Podesta's hacked emails. They showed DeLonge arranging contact on UFO disclosure between Podesta and senior defence figures in 2015–2016.[1][2]
Background
Podesta, a senior White House adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, had long supported releasing government UFO files and said his biggest failure under Obama was not securing their disclosure. In January 2016 Hillary Clinton said Podesta had made her promise to open files on Area 51, barring national-security threats.[2]
The emails
In an email in 2015 DeLonge offered to introduce Podesta to two "very important" senior officials. In another, dated 25 January 2016 with the subject line "General McCasland", DeLonge said he had worked with McCasland for four months and given him a four-hour presentation, and claimed that Roswell wreckage had been shipped to the laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which McCasland had run until a couple of years earlier. McCasland, a former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, was described as having helped assemble DeLonge's team of advisers. The release also included an August 2015 email from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell about extraterrestrial intelligence and "zero point energy".[1][2][3]
The meeting
Email traffic suggests a Google Hangout meeting took place on the morning of 25 January 2016. A list of invitees included Podesta, DeLonge, McCasland, Clinton campaign aide Milia Fisher, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works executive Rob Weiss and retired Major General Michael Carey; McCasland's wife, astronaut Susan McCasland Wilkerson, accepted an invitation. None of the participants has confirmed who attended or what was discussed.[2][3]
Significance
The emails caused a stir because they connected a rock star, a presidential campaign chairman, retired generals and a major defence contractor on the subject of UFOs. The next year DeLonge co-founded To the Stars Academy with former government officials. McCasland later became a subject of interest in the UAP debate but has not publicly discussed UFOs. The Clinton campaign did not comment on the UFO emails and condemned Russia's alleged role in the leak.[1][4]
People and topics
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- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Lockheed Martin — The aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- John Podesta — Clinton campaign chairman with a long interest in UFO disclosure.
- Tom DeLonge — Musician who founded To The Stars Academy.
- Disclosure — The official release of government information about UFOs.
- Neil McCasland — Retired Air Force major general named in the Podesta emails.
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
- Rob Weiss — Lockheed Skunk Works executive named in the Podesta emails.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
On the Timeline
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- Project Greenglow (December 2015) — A BAE engineer discloses Project Greenglow, a UK gravity-control research project.
- Area 6 (5 March 2016) — The nuclear security agency publicly describes Area 6 activities in Nevada for the first time.
See every 2016 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Roswell, ET among topics in leaked emails from Blink-182 rocker, Apollo astronaut to Clinton adviser", CBS Los Angeles (Oct 2016) · cbsnews.com · archived copy
- "Tom DeLonge emailed Clinton's adviser about aliens", BuzzFeed News · buzzfeednews.com · archived copy
- "Hillary campaign manager held UFO meeting with USAF generals, rock star, and top secret aircraft developer", Open Minds · openminds.tv · archived copy
- To the Stars (company) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Tom DeLonge on the Podesta emails — Rolling Stone · rollingstone.com · archived copy
- openminds.tv · openminds.tv · archived copy
Further reading
- Roswell incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFOs and the Air Force: records — National Archives · archives.gov · archived copy
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Hangar 18 (the legend and 1980 film) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- To the Stars Academy — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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