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June 15, 2001: ET Disclosure - Dr. Steven M. Greer

Jun 15, 2001
2h 48m
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Art Bell welcomes Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, fresh from his landmark May 9, 2001 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Over 20 military, government, and intelligence witnesses testified before a global audience of more than one billion people about extraterrestrial contact and the reverse engineering of advanced energy and propulsion systems.

Dr. Greer reveals that multiple U.S. presidents, including Carter and Clinton, were deliberately denied access to classified UFO programs by intelligence officials operating outside constitutional authority. He shares testimony from senior FAA official John Callahan, who preserved radar data and recordings from a 1986 Alaska UFO encounter that the CIA attempted to confiscate and suppress entirely.

A congressional staffer named Rhiannon joins the broadcast to urge listeners to write physical letters to their representatives, explaining that emails are routinely deleted while constituent mail demands attention. She and Dr. Greer outline a nationwide campaign for open congressional hearings, a ban on space weapons, and the declassification of suppressed energy technologies that could address the global environmental crisis.

Key Moments

  1. 43 NSA/CIA assets on the major media's payroll: Greer relays trial attorney Daniel Sheehan's claim - made while representing the New York Times during the Pentagon Papers - that 43 NSA and CIA national-security operatives were on the payroll of the major media to kill UFO-related stories.

  2. DIA director told Greer to 'get this out': Greer says he met privately with the J-2, head of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs - who later became the sitting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency - and was told 'I know this stuff is going on, I have been denied access to it... whatever you have to do to get this out, do it.'

  3. JFK and Clinton: 'a secret government within the government': Greer recounts that JFK told a military witness he knew of the subject but had no control over it, and that Bill Clinton told reporter Sarah McClendon, 'Sarah, there's a secret government within the government, and I don't control it.'

  4. Eisenhower aide saw New Mexico crash material: Greer describes Brigadier General Stephen Lovekin (a practicing attorney) coming forward to testify that Eisenhower knew about UFOs but had lost control of the program, and that Lovekin himself had seen crash materials from the New Mexico recovery in the 1940s.

  5. Anti-gravity 'figured out since the 50s': Greer cites a lieutenant colonel witness who described a hangar at Norton AFB storing a UFO 'we had built,' claiming the U.S. has had anti-gravity since the 1950s and craft capable of going to space and back since the 60s - while NASA's lunar module program ran in parallel.