Greer describes how unacknowledged special access projects have kept extraterrestrial-related information hidden from even the highest levels of government since the Eisenhower era. He details the testimony of FAA official John Callahan, who preserved radar tapes and pilot transcripts from a 1980s encounter between a Japan Airlines 747 and a massive UFO over Alaska, only to have the CIA confiscate the evidence.
The conversation shifts to zero-point energy and the suppression of breakthrough technologies that could replace fossil fuels. Greer reveals that over 5,000 patents have been seized under the National Security Act and shares how a contracted inventor working on a free energy device was threatened by a former CIA director. He argues that the secrecy is driven not by fear of public panic but by trillions of dollars in fossil fuel interests.
Key Moments
John Callahan and the Japan Air 747 UFO: Greer recounts FAA division chief John Callahan turning over original radar tapes and pilot transcripts of a massive UFO tracked alongside a Japan Airlines 747 over Alaska in the Reagan years.
Briefing Clinton's CIA director Woolsey: Greer describes a three-hour meeting where CIA Director James Woolsey looked him in the eye and asked why UFO secrecy was being kept from him, then admitted the agency had no operational control over the material.
Gordon Cooper, Edwards AFB UFO film, and Cohen: Greer says astronaut Gordon Cooper told him Defense Secretary William Cohen tried to retrieve the 1956 Edwards AFB UFO landing footage Cooper's team filmed - and was blocked, because the material lived in a black project.
The bullet-with-your-name-on-it briefing: Greer relays his team member's account of being herded into an underground SCIF by an admiral, where an officer pulled a bullet from a gun and warned that disclosing the project would mean it finds you.
Energy inventor threatened by ex-CIA director: Greer says one of his funded free-energy inventors, working with Naval Research Lab contacts, was visited and threatened by a former CIA director - who later became Booz Allen's chief counsel - and frightened off his work.
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