United Nations UNGA Decision 33/42 (1978)

[gzhpcu]

Anybody ever hear about this?

http://exopoliticsinstitute.org/UNGA...ion-33-426.pdf

Late in 1978, prominent UFO researchers approached the United Nations with the suggestion to set up some type of international clearing house whereby investigators and researchers would be able to coordinate on an international level scientific research into unidentified flying objects, and to inform the Secretary-General of the observations, research, and evaluation of such activities. The UN General Assembly responded favorably by adopting Decision GA /426. Unfortunately, nothing was done to bring the decision to fruition and it lies dormant to this very day.

source: http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc748.htm

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Anybody ever hear about this?

33/426? I'm beginning to think the UN never heard of it.

33rd annual (1978) session resolutions

Goes up to:

A/RES/33/206 31 May 1979 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. QUESTION OF NAMIBIA

(And years around that year tend to have resolution counts in the low 200s.)

Edit: http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/33/ares33r72.pdf makes a mention of a document, in the footnotes. Not seeing the document, reference seems be about disarmament. I think maybe typo: A/RES/33/62 is about the "disarmament decade".

Edit: Google searches of site:www.un.org yields nothing of significance for "UFO" and only a few references to North Korean "unidentified flying vehicles" for "unidentified flying".

Edit: finally got a hit at the library. Link

UN Document Symbol:
A/DEC/33/426
Issuing Body / Session:
A/ 33
Title:
Establishment of an agency or a department of the United Nations for undertaking, co-ordinating and disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects and related phenomena
Author / Contributors:
UN. General Assembly (33rd sess. : 1978-1979)
Relation Notes:
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 33rd session, 19 September-21 December 1978, 15-29 January and 23-31 May 1979. - A/33/45. - 1979. - p.237. - (GAOR, 33rd sess., Suppl. no. 45)
Library Notes:
No job no.
Voting Summary:
Adopted, 87th plenary meeting
Vote / Action Date:
19781218
Subjects:
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS*
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH*
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION*
UN. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (22nd sess. : 1979 : New York)
UN. General Assembly (34th sess. : 1979-1980) -- Agenda
Type of Material:
B01
Distribution:
GEN

I think I emailed myself a copy. Hasn't shown up yet.

Edit: Oh, I see why I didn't get hits at first. A/DEC/33/426 is a "decision". I was looking through resolutions.

Edit: Note to myself since the library link above leads to a maintenance page: material appears available through Google search site:un.org DEC/33/426 (when the maintenance is over)

Edit: I think all those links into the library were Google spotting leftover results of searches by others. Those results might have persisted for some time, but they have evaporated now and point to nothing (perhaps as a result of that scheduled maintenance, mentioned below). I'm having trouble using the UN Library system itself to locate the document, even using language supposedly from the document itself. I think I'll give up, frustrated.

[Fortis]

33/426? I'm beginning to think the UN never heard of it.

33rd annual (1978) session resolutions

Goes up to:



(And years around that year tend to have resolution counts in the low 200s.)

Edit: http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/33/ares33r72.pdf makes a mention of a document, in the footnotes. Not seeing the document, reference seems be about disarmament. I think maybe typo: A/RES/33/62 is about the "disarmament decade".

Edit: Google searches of site un.org yields nothing of significance for "UFO" and only a few references to North Korean "unidentified flying vehicles" for "unidentified flying".

That's the conclusion that I am coming to as well. Couldn't find any reference to it at the UN, and the use of a "well known search engine" only pointed to believer sites.

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Still hasn't shown up in my mailbox. I don't know if the UN library is open to just anyone. I just saw the mail-me button at the bottom of the page and filled in the info, not very carefully, and punched it.

Any bets about whether it's about extraterrestrial space alien UFOs or plain old unknown flying objects?

And what's a "decision" in UN parlance? Just some bureaucrats going: "Yeah, OK. Whatever."? No funding? No office set up? No commitment? I'd probably decide the same. Who, besides the space-alien-visitor believers, who seem to make much of decision 33/462, cares?

[gzhpcu]

Googling, I found this:

Less than a week after a senior U.N. official confirmed that the U.N. Secretariat would hold a meeting on extraterrestrial policy if it were requested by a U.N. member nation, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. and U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice’s offices will not even discuss the matter on the record. On March 18, 2009, Juan Carlos Brandt, U.N. Chief of Advocacy and Special Events stated to this reporter, “If there is one (1) U.N. member state that would ask for a meeting on extraterrestrials, it would take place.” The office of the President of the 63rd U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the former Sandinista foreign minister of Nicaragua (1979-90), also has confirmed to this reporter that it would support any U.N. member nation calling for implementation of UNGA Decision 33/426, which calls for coordination of research on “unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and extraterrestrial life.” On March 22, 2009, a U.S. ally, the U.K. Ministry of Defence released over 1200 previously secret files relating to UFOs and extraterrestrial life. On March 26, 2009, when reached by this reporter, neither Hillary Clinton’s nor Susan Rice’s offices nor their spokespersons would comment on the U.N. official’s statements, or on U.S. plans to support implementation of UNGA Decision 33/426.

source: http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Clintons-State-Department-ducks-extraterrestrialUFO-disclosure

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http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Clintons-State-Department-ducks-extraterrestrialUFO-disclosure

"This reporter" is a blogger dressed up as an examiner.com "examiner". You, too, can be an examiner.

What is this blogger's reputation and track record?

home page

One sample: Open extraterrestrial (UFO) contact will occur during Obama years says time acceleration researcher. I'm not impressed.

(My mailbox is still empty, except for the offers from Canadian pharmacies, randomly named Chinese websites and people who want to sell me a d1ploma.)

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And what's a "decision" in UN parlance? Just some bureaucrats going: "Yeah, OK. Whatever."?

United Nations Documentation: Research Guide

United Nations resolutions are formal expressions of the opinion or will of United Nations organs. They generally consist of two clearly defined sections: a preamble and an operative part. The preamble generally presents the considerations on the basis of which action is taken, an opinion expressed or a directive given. The operative part states the opinion of the organ or the action to be taken.
The term "decision" is used to designate formal actions, other than resolutions, dealing with non-substantive or routine matters such as elections, appointments, the time and place of meetings and the taking note of reports. They are sometimes also used to record the adoption of a text representing the consensus of the members of a given organ.

Decisions don't seem to mean a whole lot.

Mailbox status: offers of m0rtgage, acai berries, weightl0ss plans. No UN decision 33/462. I despair.

[gzhpcu]

Thanks for clearing it up....

[01101001]

Thanks for clearing it up....

Someone else should try to get a copy of the decision from the UN Library. I failed. I'm still curious as to what it really says, compared to the document cited in the opening article.

[Grashtel]

Someone else should try to get a copy of the decision from the UN Library. I failed. I'm still curious as to what it really says.

I just tried going there and got a message that the site was undergoing urgent maintenance, depending on how long that has been going on it may well be why it hasn't been mailed to you yet.

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I just tried going there and got a message that the site was undergoing urgent maintenance, depending on how long that has been going on it may well be why it hasn't been mailed to you yet.

Oh. I went back and saw the same. I guess I broke it. Sorry. Probably nobody ever ordered a document before. Hah.

With whatever happened if I don't get the doc, I'll try again and make note here.

(Edit, as noted above: I think all those links into the library were Google spotting leftover results of searches by others. Those results might have persisted for some time, but they have evaporated now and point to nothing (perhaps as a result of that scheduled maintenance, mentioned below). I'm having trouble using the UN Library system itself to locate the document, even using language supposedly from the document itself. I think I'll give up, frustrated.)

It's probably as in the OP, effectively: 1) Gee, Grenada, thanks for your input. 2) Anyone who wants to study the issue should go ahead. Knock yourselves out. And keep us posted, please, if you find anything cool. 2) We'll pass this on to the responsible slightly-related committee for however they might wish to treat it. 4) The responsible committee will invite Grenada to offer more input (so they don't feel, like, totally ignored).

[gzhpcu]

I just tried going there and got a message that the site was undergoing urgent maintenance, depending on how long that has been going on it may well be why it hasn't been mailed to you yet.

Hmmmm, fishy... definitely a coverup conspiracy....

[novaderrik]

Decisions don't seem to mean a whole lot.

yup- sounds like the U.N. to me..

[eburacum45]

One sample: Open extraterrestrial (UFO) contact will occur during Obama years says time acceleration researcher.

Can I be a 'time acceleration researcher'?
Perhaps it means you can boil eggs in less than 3 minutes.
From that link:

One agenda item that Obama conspicuously left out of his speech is probably the most certain and impactful event and outcome to occur during his presidency – the impending passage of our solar system through the plane of the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

. Oh dear me, no.