The Savior 's Day Conference discusses UFOS In Chicago

Don Schmitt
February 2011

DS: I checked my e-mail last night when I got in, and it was televised all over the world, but not here. We were told CNN was going to cover it, but why didn't they?

(Male voice) So no American media showed up?

PH: I'm American media, okay? You've got to talk to me. (laughs)

DS: We had two rooms; we had 5000 people in the main coliseum room and 4000 in the overflow room. This was at the Hyatt Coliseum. We personally met for an hour and a half, at his invitation, with the minister Louis Farrakhan. He offered us financial support as well as their full support to spread the word that we are not alone, that this is a true phenomenon, that the cover up was something that was serving the purposes of strictly the government. It has nothing to do with representing the best interests of the public, their constituents, and the very people who placed these people to represent us.

PH: Is he addressing it to the American public?

DS: To the American public.

PH: Is he American?

DS: He lives here.

PH: He's the minister of the Muslim Brotherhood, isn't he?

DS: The American Muslim Brotherhood.

PH: Is this addressed to President Obama?

DS: No, we thought it was going to be, but it was to all political officials throughout the world that the time for disclosure, the time for the files to be opened, is at hand. He hopes that maybe the United States would finally follow the example of other countries and specifically people in the Muslim world who accept this, who are taught that this is true. When we parted company, and he doesn't normally do this, when he was up on stage with us making his final remarks calling for disclosure, he hugged each one of us individually and he called me Herr Schmitt because of my German last name. I know that he can be a controversial figure, but he is also recognized as a world statesman, a world leader.

PH: He also offered you financial support for this?

DS: It's not that he's going to write out a check or anything, but he emphasized that if we ever needed his support or his people's support, all we need do is call on him.

PH: Don, I attended your lectrue this morning because you're so good, you're so thorough, you're so nuts-and-bolts, so detailed, you uncover every stone. Why do you think he picked you to speak at this event, and what did you say in the five minutes that you were allotted?

DS: I said that we have had the truth now for nearly sixty years, that we have had presidents who have tried to pry loose the truth, that they too believe that we need to know that we are not alone, and even the presidents are being denied. Bill Clinton, as I pointed out in my talk yesterday, made every effort to find out. I would like to find out what is the secret government behind all this, who are the puppet masters calling the shots, telling the very person occupying the Oval Office that you have no need to know? I'm sorry, but that's not the way our government is structured. Who appointed these people to be dictators?

PH: Did you also speak as a researcher, that after all the good work you had done, that it's not going where it's supposed to go, that people are not understanding that the crash at Roswell was a real event?

DS: I'm very frustrated with the American media. As an investigator, yes, we're running a race with the undertaker. It's not that I’m disappointed with our investigation at all. I believe we've demonstrated that there is something.

PH: What else do they need to know?

DS: Right. In any court of law, we'd win this hands down. I emphasized the deathbed testimony, but I also lamented the fact that the American media is serving as proxy for the government in doing all they can to attack the message, to destroy the messengers. They should be our public watchdog. They're there to protect us. They have their First Amendment right to freedom of the press, and they're using it to destroy the truth, as we know it. They're not doing their job, using due diligence. To me, that's the bigger crime. The government gets away with what we allow them to get away with. But the press should be right there, peeling away the layers of the onion, exposing what they have been inflicting on civilians, on military, on American citizens who are being deprived of their First Amendment rights. If it's just a weather balloon, then what is the deep dark secret in all this? I also emphasized the government culpability, the fact that they did threaten civilians. The minister talked about how people most likely died over this, they were hurt over this, children were threatened over something that we are told was so mundane as a weather balloon. I don't care if it was a Mogul balloon; it was still just a balloon.

PH: What was the response to that from the audience?

DS: He received a standing ovation. The response we had from the audience was just tremendous. I was leery at first, because I thought that these people would not be informed or educated on this topic. But when I asked how many people in this audience of 5000 people have heard the word Roswell, over 90% raised their hands.

DS: There was another point that Minister Farrakhan repeatedly mentioned, and not only referring to us there at the dais, but collectively, all the other researchers and investigators involved in this field of study. That was the heroics, the bravery, the sacrifice of our very social lives in trying to uncover one of the biggest stories of all time, and that we needed to be supported, we needed to be applauded for our efforts. That was another time the audience stood and applauded.

PH: We need to be sustained and know that a hundred years from now, our dedication will be recognized. We were the pioneers.

DS: He used that word, that we are the true pioneers. Not Carl Sagan, not the others who are on the government take. I cite Sagan as the example. Once the government waves the carrot, you become their useful idiot. You maintain their party line. and then you're showing that you have no principles, that you have a price.

PH: You can be bought. It's the people like us that can't be bought. We're dedicating our lives to this, but I figure we're doing it for the future generations. You said that, too.

DS: We're doing it for all the people who provided us with the information and can no longer speak for themselves, the Walter Hauts, the Jesse Marcels,

PH: I do it for the same reason. But the public themselves have power, the government's not doing it, and the media's not doing. It's got to be the general public. They've got to get a clue.

DS: Coming to these conferences is the best way to support our efforts, because if we're speaking to empty chairs, it's all for naught. We're preaching to the choir. We had 9000 people yesterday in Chicago, and I know we've had over a thousand people here in Arizona. I hope it's a sign that we've turned the corner. We went through some very lean years where we had 200-300 people at a conference. We thought, that's it. We've lost.

PH: Yes, but if we have the critical mass, they have to digest this and do something about it. It can't be just us. They have to do something, take the action, because the idea that we're not alone and we're part of a cosmos that's visiting us is so serious to digest.

DS: Unfortunately, the next generation is being brainwashed to dismiss all of it. That's another reason we have to get to them first. When I see younger children come through the museum in Roswell, I take the parents aside and ask them to explain this to their kids, that it's not just one lone incident that might have happened, it's ongoing,

PH: Many other countries have released their files on UFOs. Why is everybody waiting for the United States to do so?

DS: Because the Roswell incident is what placed us in the driver's seat. We have the big bargaining chip.

PH: So by releasing our material, our government would have to address Roswell, and that would open up a Pandora's box that they could never close again.

DS: Yes. You can also put on the record that just as with the press, I believe that a lot of foreign aid has been dished out over decades to buy the silence and cooperation of other countries in order to keep this quiet.


PH: So you think it was a success?

DS: It was a success for us. Success for the American media? Not for a second. They flatly refused to cover it; they refused to treat it seriously. And I think that's where Mark Rodhiger and company at CUFOS are correct, that the American media is a lost cause. They get their marching orders. They promise that you'll stay in business as long as you cover things the way they tell you to. In any other shape, manner or form, you lose your license. They cut you off.

PH: This event was streamed to the world?

DS: I've heard from people in other countries that they were able to see it live, all over the world.

PH: My job is to get it out here. That's why I'm interviewing you right now, because I want to get it in real time. It just happened, it's breaking news, and you were there, so you're the witness and I want to get it out.

DS: I need to mention this -- I didn't have a chance to make the correction, and this happens to Stan Friedman all the time -- at one point, when they were thanking us, they called me Dr. Donald Schmitt. I wasn't sitting near the microphone, so I didn't make a fuss about it, but I know the skeptics are going to jump on that. My initials are D. R. Schmitt, and at times I've signed things that way. I know they'll jump on this, but it's so silly. They can't attack this information, so they'll attack the person, the most insignificant element of all this, because that's all they can do.

PH: I'm glad they asked you because you're a representative of the ultimate researcher, the nuts and bolts researcher who's proactive but doesn't throw in his opinion. You just tell it like it is, you're recording history.

DS: I'm presenting it as it has been presented to me by eyewitnesses, who in any court of law would swear on a stack of bibles that this is what I saw, this is what I held in my own hands. Jesse Marcel himself, the late intelligence officer, said, "What I handled was not made on this earth." What else does a reporter need to hear? You're talking about the biggest story of the millennium.

PH: Thank you for giving us a firsthand report on a very historic event, even though it wasn't reported here in this country.

DS: I'm glad I was here.