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Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Three non-governmental organizations have joined forces with former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer in urging the Canadian parliament to hold public hearings on "exopolitics," or relations with extraterrestrials. The groups were reacting to a speech made by Hellyer in September in Toronto in which he warned that "UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head," reports the Edmonton Sun.

Hellyer is also concerned the United States is preparing weapons for use against the aliens and could get the whole world into an "intergalactic war." According to Hellyer, the U.S. interest in returning to the moon is in part based on the desire to build a forward military base there.

The three organizations backing Hellyer's request are the Institute for Co-operation in Space (ICIS), the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium, and the Disclosure Project, a U.S.-based organization that has assembled high-level military intelligence witnesses of a possible ET presence. Earlier this month, the Senate replied to the ICIS that their full agenda precluded hearings in the near future on ET issues.

"That does not deter us," said a spokesman for the NGOs. "Time is on the side of open disclosure that there are ethical extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth.''