The truth is out there somewhere and if the U.S. government is covering it up, UFO researchers want to know.

They are also encouraged by the fact that Hillary Clinton has said she’ll reveal what she can about the subject if she is elected president – unless it threatens national security, Winnipeg’s Grant Cameron said.

Cameron will be one of seven experts who will address the very first Canadian Public Hearing on UFOs in Brantford, Ont., June 25.

“We need openness on this issue, it’s time to stop playing around,” said Cameron, who has written several books on it, including ‘UFOs, Area 51, and Government Informants.’

“It’s important because, if you look at the implications, the aliens are giving the message that we’re destroying our world,” said Cameron, 62. “And that we’re not the only fish in the fish bowl.”

It could also unite the world against a possible threat instead of people fighting each other, he added.

Cameron first got into UFO research after he believes he saw one during the infamous Charlie Red Star phenomenon around Carman 41 years ago.

“I didn’t really think I’d see anything, but then it flew right in front of our car,” said Cameron, who retired as a University of Manitoba facilities manager six years ago.

But he’s not trying to prove what he saw.

“The answer’s not determined by what you see in the sky, you need to get some better evidence,” Cameron said.

That evidence, he believes, can be found in American files on UFOs. In fact, Cameron recently won two international awards for his research of presidential files on extraterrestrials.

Even John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign manager who also worked for Bill Clinton when he was the president, believes there has been a cover-up and wants it to end, Cameron claims.

The hearing is part of the Alien Cosmic Expo in Brantford that weekend.

“We want the Canadian government to do more on this and if they don’t, they’re part of the cover-up,” said Bob Mitchell, one one of the event’s organizers.

Also speaking will be: former Deputy Prime Minister Paul Hellyer, who will discuss Canada’s knowledge of the subject, Richard Dolan, Steven Bassett, Nick Pope, Stanton Friedman and Travis Walton.

Chris Rutkowski, a well-known local UFO researcher, got a late invitation but was not interested in attending.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s being kept hidden and, even if there was, I don’t think Hillary Clinton would release it,” Rutkowski said.

The Canadian public hearing on UFOs is meeting in Brantford on Saturday, June 25. Here’s what they’ll be discussing:

-UFO sighting reports

-The crash at Roswell, NM, in 1947

-Official government UFO documents obtained through FOIA and the Canadian Access to Information Act

-What U.S. presidents know about the UFO/ET issue

-Alien abductions

-Documented international UFO incidents over U.S. and UK military and nuclear installations

THE PANEL

-Paul Hellyer: Former Canadian deputy prime minister and minister of defence, the highest-ranking former government official to claim the existence of ETs and the world-wide government cover-up.

-Richard Dolan: An American UFO author, researcher and historian.

-Steve Bassett: A U.S. lobbyist demanding the U.S. government “come clean” on UFOs and alien contact. He is the executive director of the Paradigm Research Group in Washington.

-Nick Pope: UFO author, who previously ran the UFO investigation department with the British ministry of defence.

-Grant Cameron: A Manitoba-based UFO researcher specializing in “what the presidents know.”

-Stanton Friedman: A retired nuclear physicist and expert on the 1947 Roswell incident.

-Travis Walton: who says he was abducted and whose book Fire in the Sky was turned into a Hollywood movie.

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