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May 8, 1997: Disclosure - Steven M. Greer

May 8, 1997
1h 22m
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Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, delivers a detailed account of the historic April 9th closed briefing he organized for nearly 30 congressional offices in Washington. Over a dozen military and intelligence witnesses with top-secret clearances presented firsthand testimony, and all signed statements agreeing to testify under oath before Congress with penalty of perjury.

Greer reveals that an astronomer formerly associated with Harvard's observatory confirmed receiving approximately three dozen signals of apparent extraterrestrial origin through the beta system, signals ruled out as Earth-based, satellite, or naturally occurring. A former Space Command officer described tracking a massive metallic disc off the eastern seaboard in October 1981 that moved from Newfoundland to Norfolk in a single radar sweep. Perhaps most strikingly, Greer claims witnesses described alien reproduction vehicles, human-built craft using recovered extraterrestrial technology, demonstrated at a secret 1988 air show at Edwards Air Force Base.

The conversation turns to the architecture of secrecy itself, from black budget funding that even Senate appropriations staff cannot penetrate to alleged threats against a UN Secretary General. Greer urges listeners to contact their representatives and calls on military witnesses to join a growing coalition of over 115 individuals prepared to force public disclosure of what he calls the most important issue in human history.

Key Moments

  1. April 9 closed congressional briefing recap: Greer describes the historic April 9, 1997 closed briefing in Washington - members of Congress, staffers, executive-branch and embassy people heard about a dozen first-hand top-secret military and intelligence witnesses, with 115 total witnesses identified ready to be subpoenaed.

  2. Harvard BETA observatory ~30 ETI signals: Greer relays an astronomer-witness (former Sky and Telescope / Astronomy editor, ex-Sagan colleague) testifying that Harvard's BETA system has received roughly three dozen signals ruled out as Earth-based, satellite, or natural - apparently deliberate artificial signals.

  3. Eisenhower-era witness on New Mexico crash debris and Mount Weather: Greer describes a witness - assigned to Eisenhower's military group at the White House in 1959-61, still a practicing lawyer - who was personally shown hieroglyphic-marked debris from a New Mexico ET crash and told at Mount Weather they could already track UFOs routinely. A younger witness independently drew nearly identical symbols.

  4. Alien Reproduction Vehicle test flight at Edwards (Nov 1988): Greer claims a November 1988 secret air show at the Edwards North facility flew a human-built ARV - a domed disc that levitated silently using anti-gravity tech derived from 50 years of ET study. Cites Lockheed Skunk Works' Ben Rich on hidden interstellar capability.

  5. Witness disappears mid-briefing; warning of staged ET hoax: Greer reports an intelligence-officer witness who left the gathering to make a phone call and never returned, later sending a midnight note that information was being reclassified - and that ARVs were planned to be used to hoax a hostile-alien event to justify space-based weapons spending.