| by Cielito Pascual and Phyllis Ison from: Share International, July / August 2001 |
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Once you listen to Dr Steven Greer speak, you can’t
help but walk out into the world with a different view of everyday reality.
According to him, the cars rushing by are running on technology obsolete
for 50 years. The haze in the sky is from pollution that need not exist.
And the most disquieting claim of all: that the technology which could
have freed the world from many of its most persistent problems has been
withheld from us for three generations.
Dr Greer, a former emergency-room physician, presented these claims at
a major press conference in Washington DC in May 2001 with the official
launch of his UFO Disclosure Project campaign. “The reason that we
are coming forward now is that we are asking Congress and President Bush
to move toward an official inquiry and disclosure on this subject,”
declared Dr Greer.
“It has the most profound implications for the human future, for
US national security and for world peace. The physical technologies connected
with UFOs and extraterrestrial vehicles, if declassified and used for
peaceful energy generation and propulsion, would definitively solve the
looming energy crisis. They would end global warming and overcome the
environmental challenges Earth is facing.”
Twenty-one witnesses from Dr Greer’s team of over 400 men and women
gave their testimony before journalists from the world’s top media
outlets. Witnesses were selected on the basis of their ranking in government
service, their unambiguous testimony on UFOs, their ability to corroborate
the experiences of others, and the integrity of their background.
Some of them have held security clearances at the highest levels of the
US military. Their statements involve actual witnessing of UFO craft,
first-hand observation of US Government cover-up on events and records
pertaining to UFOs, and the reality of ready-to-implement energy systems
derived from extraterrestrial technology.
The primary objective of the Disclosure Project is to catalyze a citizens’
movement that will demand an official and open Congressional investigation
into the UFO phenomenon and end decades of government concealment of the
issue.
Towards this purpose, Dr Greer and his team have put together a 500-page
briefing document which includes transcripts of over four dozen interviews
with scientific, military and civilian witnesses. The following summaries
of testimony are based on statements made at the Washington press conference,
at a Disclosure Project public symposium also in Washington, and from
transcripts of interviews published in the briefing document.
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An object photographed by Paul Trent on
May 11th, 1950 over McMinnville, Oregon (USA), which he and his wife observed |
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The eyewitness
Lieutenant Graham Bethune is a retired US Navy commander pilot with a
top-secret clearance. In 1951, Bethune was assigned to fly high-ranking
US military officers and civilians from Keflavik, Iceland, to Ardentia,
Newfoundland. Just after midnight, as their plane headed toward its destination,
Commander Bethune, his crew, and all 31 of his VIP passengers witnessed
a 300-foot UFO.
“About 300 miles outside of Argentia, Newfoundland, I saw a glow
on the water. As we approached this glow, it turned into hundreds of circles
of white lights on the water. We watched it for a while; when the lights
went out, there was nothing on the water. The next thing that we saw was
a yellow halo that was very small, about 15 miles away. It came up to
10,000 feet in a fraction of a second. I disengaged the autopilot and
pushed the nose over, because I was going to go under it at the angle
that it was coming toward me. The minute that I did that, it was up at
our altitude and I could see nothing outside of the cockpit but this craft.
I didn’t know which way to go. Then all of a sudden I heard a racket.
I didn’t know what it was. And I said: ‘What the hell was that?’
One of the crewmen looked around and said: ‘Everyone [in the plane]
was ducking [down] and they collided [with each other]. They were all
lying on the [floor of the plane].’
Then [the UFO] appeared over to the right, moved out slowly and flew with
us. It was not at our altitude, but we could see the shape of it. It was
a dome and I could see the coronal discharge. I went back aft, let the
other pilot, Al Jones, take my seat, and went to see if the passengers
were OK. They had some bumps and bruises. One passenger was a doctor so
I went to him first. I said: ‘Doc, did you see what we saw?’
He looked me straight in the eye and said: ‘Yeah, it was a flying
saucer.’ He said: ‘I didn’t look at it because I don’t
believe in such things.’ It took me a couple of seconds to realize
what he was saying. Being a psychiatrist, he couldn’t believe in
that kind of thing. “So I went back to the cockpit and said, “Al,
whatever you do, don’t tell anybody we saw anything. They will lock
us up as soon as we get on the ground.” He says: ‘It’s
too late. I just called Gander control [in Newfoundland] to see if they
could track this by radar.’ So that’s how the story got out.”
Once the plane landed at Argentia, the entire crew was interrogated by
military personnel. “It was obvious from the questions and demeanor
of the US Navy men who debriefed us that they’d seen things out there
before,” said Bethune. When the crew returned to the Patuxant River
Naval Air Test Center in Maryland, they were required to file individual
reports.
Years later Bethune was able to retrieve these reports from the National
Archives and confirmed that the UFO they encountered that night had traveled
10,000 feet straight up in a fraction of a second and was tracked on radar
at 1,800 miles per hour, well exceeding the 500 miles-per-hour capacity
of the most advanced man-made craft at that time.
The cover-up
For six years, John Callahan was the division chief of the Accidents and
Investigations Branch with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in
Washington DC. The FAA is responsible for the airspace above the United
States and its territories.
In 1986, an incident occurred in Alaska in which, it was reported to Callahan,
a UFO followed a Boeing 747 airplane for 31 minutes, then trailed a United
Airlines flight on its final approach towards landing, at which point
the UFO disappeared.
The incident is considered the best-documented UFO event to date, with
visual confirmation as well as air-based and ground-based radar confirmation.
After collecting the radar and sound recordings, Callahan and his staff
precisely synchronized the voice recordings of the pilot, the airtraffic
controller and the military controller with the radar images, and videotaped
the presentation with Callahan’s personal video camera.
The audio and video recordings were presented to the FAA administrator,
who then set up a briefing with President Ronald Reagan’s Scientific
Study Team. Attending this meeting, Callahan observed, were three CIA
officials, three FBI officials, and other officials whom he said did not
identify themselves but appeared to be very excited about the evidence
being presented.
At the close of the meeting, one of the CIA men announced: “You are
now sworn to secrecy. This meeting never happened and this event never
happened.” Callahan told the man: “You’ve got to tell the
public about this.” He said: “No, we don’t tell the public
about this; it would panic the public.”
Callahan recounted: “When we gave the presentation to the Reagan
staff, I was standing behind the group that was there. And when they were
speaking to the people in the room, they had all those people swear that
this never happened. But they never had me swear it never happened. It
always bothered me that we have these things going on, and when you see
or hear something on the news, it’s just dismissed. I have a hard
time saying nothing.”
All the documenting evidence at the briefing was confiscated by the CIA
representatives. However, Callahan retained copies of the materials in
his office which remained there until he retired in 1988. These materials
— the radar video, voice transcripts, the FAA report, and the computer
printouts of the event — are now in safekeeping with the Disclosure
Project.
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This photo was taken September 4th, 1971 by the
photo camera of an official carthographic air plane of the government
of Costa Rica 10000 feet above the Lago de Cote. The crew of four
people hadn't noticed the object, which showed up on a photograph
afterwards
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NASA involvement in the cover-up
Donna Hare was a contract employee working as a technical illustrator
and engineer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
from 1967 to 1981. During Hare’s time at NASA she held a secret clearance
pass which gave her access to restricted areas.
In 1971 she walked into a NASA photo lab which had restricted clearance
and started a conversation with one of the technicians who was also a
friend. He drew her attention to an aerial photograph of the earth that
had a “dot” on it. When she asked if the “dot” was
on the emulsion he smiled and answered:
“Dots on the emulsion do not leave round shadows on the ground.”
He further explained: “We always airbrush these out before we sell
them to the public. We can’t have creatures appearing on this photograph
we want to get rid of.”
Hare realized what her friend was implying and was shocked to realize
that there was a protocol for eliminating UFO images in pictures. So she
began asking questions of the employees around her and what she found
was even more disturbing. She learned that employees were being instructed
not to talk about any UFO evidence they had seen. Also, astronauts who
had witnessed UFO craft had signed oaths of silence and if they spoke,
they would have their pensions taken away.
Hare had an incident described to her of armed guards hitting one man
because he glanced at one of the UFO pictures while following instructions
to destroy them. One man she knew well had been “in quarantine with
the astronauts”. He told her that craft had been on the moon when
the astronauts landed. A short time after their conversation, Hare was
never able to contact the man again, as if he “disappeared off the
face of the Earth”.
Says Hare: “One of the things that I’m upset about is that good
people are forced to do illegal things. And I believe that this information
should be given to the American people. I’m willing to testify before
Congress that what I’ve said is true.”
Advanced technology
One of the aims of the Disclosure Project is to establish that significant
technological breakthroughs in energy generation and propulsion have resulted
from the study of extraterrestrial vehicles (ETVs). The following accounts
have a bearing on that claim.
Sergeant Clifford Stone, United States Army (Retired), describes how he
was regularly sent to recover debris from downed UFO craft. “I was
involved in those types of operations to retrieve crashed ET objects.
A lot of people think that you are just in your unit waiting for the next
UFO crash, a landing where there is going to be debris. It doesn’t
work that way. You have a real job in the military. However, if you are
in an area where an event takes place and you are one of these people
that they can call upon in your field of expertise, then you are called
in.”
Stone says that as many as two dozen downed UFO craft were retrieved in
the 40s and 50s. He claims that other crashes have occurred but in some
cases the craft was recovered by the extraterrestrials (ETs) themselves.
He states that he has had encounters with ET beings, animate and otherwise,
and is convinced that their interaction with humanity is an effort to
prevent human efforts to militarize space.
In his testimony published in the Disclosure Project briefing document,
Stone says that he has reason to believe that US Army General Douglas
MacArthur was fully aware of ET intelligence. As a result, MacArthur organized
what was called the Interplanetary Phenomena Research Unit, an organization
which functions secretly to this day.
“The Army tries to state that it was not an official [organizational]
effort to try to investigate UFOs. But it was organized by a General,
it bore fruit, it came to conclusions that were not popular, ie, the existence
of interplanetary spacecraft. And they continued to do exactly what they
do today, and that is to be part of a multi-intelligence operation in
the recovery of objects of unknown origin, particularly those that are
of non-Earthly origin. Their purpose is to assess that information, get
raw field intelligence data, and
process that data into some type of useful intelligence product to disseminate
to the field — to those people who have a need to know and those
people who are, shall we say, the keepers of that information.”
Mark McCandlish has worked for the last 21 years as a conceptual artist.
His employers include a variety of defense contractors such as General
Dynamics, Lockheed, Northrop, McDonald-Douglas, Boeing, Rockwell International,
Honeywell, and Allied Signet Corporation. During his career he twice held
secret security clearances. McCandlish’s own extensive knowledge
of advanced energy systems, combined with serendipitous meetings with
very knowledgeable people, has convinced him that the US
military “not only have the [extraterrestrial] technology, they’ve
got the technology in deployment.”
One of McCandlish’s college friends, Brad Sorensen, informed McCandlish
that on 12 November 1988, during a high-level briefing for senior generals,
Sorensen had personally witnessed flying saucers on display at an Air
Show at Norton Air Force Base east of Los Angeles, California. Stored
within a huge hangar were three separate craft described as Alien Reproduction
Vehicles (ARVs).
Sorensen observed them hovering untethered above the floor. They were
all identical in shape and proportion but were scaled in three different
sizes. The smallest was approximately 24 feet in diameter at its widest
part, was flat on the bottom, slightly bell-shaped, and had a dome on
top with sloping sides. The other two were approximately 60 feet and 130
feet in diameter.
From what Sorensen observed, these vehicles operated on a high-voltage
electricity propulsion system known as zero point energy. Sorensen told
McCandlish that while at Norton Air Force Base, a three star general mentioned
that these vehicles were capable of doing speed of light or better.
On exhibit was a running videotape showing the smallest of the three vehicles
positioned in the desert making three quick, hopping motions. It accelerated
straight up and out of sight, completely disappearing from view in just
a couple of seconds without any sound or sonic boom.
Together McCandlish and Sorensen worked out a detailed sketch of the ARV
craft that Sorensen witnessed. Later on, McCandlish obtained photographs
that were taken by the military in 1967 near Provo, Utah, which matched
the so-called ARV in shape and proportions.
Then, in 1992, McCandlish learned from a man named Kent Sellen that in
1973, while working as a crew chief at Edwards Air Force Base in California,
Sellen had unintentionally wandered into the area where the classified
aircraft, or ARVs, were housed. In a matter of seconds he was accosted
and threatened with a machine gun barrel put to his throat. A hood was
put over his head to blindfold him and he was taken to another area.
He was put through an 18-hour debriefing process, during which he was
told details about the configuration and operation of the ARV. Sellen
shared this information with McCandlish, which helped him fill in the
details of the sketch that he and Sorenson had drawn up. Searching through
the patent records, McCandlish also discovered that in 1967 (the year
the Provo, Utah, photo was taken) a patent had been secured on a vehicle
with virtually the same shape and propulsion system as the ARV seen at
the Norton Air Force Base Air Show. The man who filed the patent assisted
in a laboratory near Princeton, New Jersey, where experiments in electrogravitic
propulsion, or anti-gravity, took place.
Subsequently, Brad Sorensen met with the famous aeronautical designer
Herbert Tan. He gave Tan a copy of the ARV sketch that had, at that point,
developed into a blueprint. Tan thought that it was a joke and hung it
on his wall as a gag. A third party confirmed that a colonel from Edwards
Air Force Base visited Tan, saw this blueprint on the wall, and registered
quite a degree of shock and anger, wanting to know where he had gotten
this blueprint. Apparently, the colonel knew that such a craft existed.
The blueprint was displayed at the Disclosure Project public symposium,
with indications that the details have been corroborated by four military
officers.
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On October 8th, 1981 Hannah MacRoberts made this
photo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Canada). Neither she
nor her family had seen the object, which showed up on this photograph
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Future prospects
The press conference launching the Disclosure Project seemed to be effective.
The National Press Club, where the event was held, reported the largest
audience in its internet webcasting history, with a quarter of a million
people waiting online at the start of the event. Serious media coverage
came from CNN World, BBC television and radio, as well as major US networks.
Print media coverage reached as far as Russia and China and dozens of
other outlets. In the following two weeks, Disclosure Project staff met
with over two dozen US Senate and House officers and also held a substantial
meeting with a member of Congress.
After six years of countless meetings with military, intelligence and
private corporate officials, Dr Greer confidently draws an astonishing
conclusion: a half century of secrecy has given rise to a scientific and
military industry operating yearly on tens of billions of dollars, wholly
functioning outside the constitutional chain of command of the US or any
other government.
Dr Greer describes it as a “military-industrial complex with labyrinthine
compartmentalized projects that were more and more [beyond] control and
oversight.” Indeed, his direct witness testimony shows that Presidents
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter and Clinton were frustrated in their attempts
to penetrate such projects.
The technologies which Dr Greer says have been derived from reverseengineering
of downed UFO craft hold tremendous benefit for humanity if used for peaceful
purposes. These systems fall into the categories of quantum vacuum/zero
point field energy access systems, electrogravitic and magnetogravitic
energy and propulsion — also understood as anti-gravity systems —
room temperature nuclear effects, as well as electrochemical and related
advances to internal combustion systems, which achieve near zero emissions.
According to authoritative witnesses, these systems have been researched
and deployed for nearly 50 years, yet remain hidden because of the potential
economic and geopolitical impact that independence from fossil fuels would
create. Had these systems been implemented decades ago, we would not be
suffering from the levels of noise and air pollution which we experience
everyday.
Dr Greer underscores the point that “the disclosure of such new energy
technologies will have far-reaching implications for every aspect of human
society and the time has come to prepare for such an event. For if such
technologies were announced today, it would take at least 10 to 20 years
for their widespread application to be effected. This is approximately
how much time we have before global economic chaos begins, due to demand
far exceeding the supply of oil, and environmental decay becomes exponential
and catastrophic.”
Most of the Disclosure Project witnesses have known that telling their
stories puts them and their families at financial, professional and personal
risk. Many have signed national security oaths of secrecy. However, Dr
Greer points out, the oaths were signed under circumstances that had no
legal basis — concerning activities which existed beyond the reach
of any legal, constitutional jurisdiction — and therefore the oaths
are null and void.
The Briefing Document explains: “More than one covert contact has
told us that, indeed, any such witnesses can and should speak out at the
right time and place, since no legal entity would — or legally could
— do anything about it.”
Notably, no one affiliating himself or herself with the Disclosure Project
has ever been threatened. Perhaps the protective nature of the Disclosure
campaign stems from its co-operative approach to the very institutions
that are in some way perpetuating the UFO/ET secrecy.
At the public symposium, Dr Greer emphasized: “View no one on the
planet as an enemy — they need our education. Our biggest supporters
are not from the New Age community, or the UFO community, or from environmental
activists. Our staunchest supporters are the military people, they are
in the Pentagon. Believe me, they are also the victims of these covert
projects.”
For the Disclosure Project to move forward, Dr Greer is seeking specific
cooperation from the national security establishment. Should that co-operation
not be forthcoming in a timely way, he is preparing legal action. For
legal counsel, the Project will be represented by Daniel Sheehan, who
served as Director of Cases in the Pentagon Papers. In addition, as Chief
Counsel, Sheehan was the first to present to Congress evidence of a shadow
government in the Iran-Contra case. The Project intends to raise $2 million
in tax-deductible donations to mount its legal campaign.
The Disclosure Project Campaign will set off on a 15-city tour of the
United States, with a stop in London, beginning in late summer. They will
provide for the general public an exclusive showing of a two-hour documentary
film as well as a presentation by Dr Greer and members of his witness
group. Through this it is hoped a groundswell of public demand can be
built to bring forth Congressional hearings.
Dr Greer, self-described as “only a country doctor from North Carolina,
with a wife, four kids, a minivan and a golden retriever”, walked
away from a successful career as an emergency-room physician to devote
himself fulltime to the Disclosure Project. In view of what he and his
team have accomplished so far, it’s no empty promise when he says:
“Our campaign will continue until our objectives are met.”
Interview with Dr. Greer about the UFO cover-up
Newsletter (June 2002) by Dr. Greer about a staged threat from outer space
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