The Disclosure Project
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| Type | Non-profit organization |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Crozet, Virginia |
| Key people | Dr. Steven M. Greer, Founder |
| Website | disclosureproject.org |
The Disclosure Project is an organization started by Steven M. Greer in 1993, which alleges a US government cover-up of information relating to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The Project claims that UFOs are spacecraft piloted by intelligent extraterrestrial life, and that the United States government has kept this secret. The project claims that the government has also concealed advanced energy technologies obtained from the aliens that are being suppressed and hidden in top secret "black projects" in order not to upset the world geopolitical power and energy sector financial status quo and its oil industry "special interests".
The Project's goal is for free and open Congressional hearings of all data regarding UFOs, including the large amount of information they claim is being hidden, and for release of the technology they claim is being suppressed, particularly free energy sources.
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[edit] Public reception
The Project has been well-received by UFO enthusiasts, with speeches from Greer and various other witnesses being presented at various UFO-themed conferences. Since 2001, Greer has held numerous press conferences and embarked on a continuing series of lectures and television appearances trying to raise popular support.[1]
Mainstream media coverage has been mostly neutral, with a BBC reporter deeming a Disclosure Project the strangest ever held by the National Press Club.[2] James Oberg, an ABC News space consultant and retired NASA engineer notes that not every witness attending the conference necessarily subscribed to Greer's theory, and says people sometimes can be too quick to conclude that the explanation involves extra-terrestrials.[3]
[edit] Selection of witnesses
The Disclosure Project selected most of its witnesses from within military/governmental departments.
Below is a partial list of some of the more notable people involved in the Project:[4]
- Nick Pope: British Ministry of Defense Official
- Dr. Roberto Pinotti: Italian UFO expert
- Astronaut Gordon Cooper (deceased)
- Astronaut Edgar Mitchell
- Monsignor Corrado Balducci (deceased)
- Dr. Carol Rosin
- Dan Willis: US Navy, Communications
- Admiral Lord Hill-Norton: Five-Star Admiral, Former Head of the British Ministry of Defense (deceased)
- Gordon Creighton: Former British Foreign Service official
- Dr. Robert Wood: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Engineer
- Dr. Alfred Webre: Former Senior Policy Analyst, Stanford Research Institute
- Denise McKenzie: Former SAIC employee
- Colonel Philip J. Corso: US Army (deceased)
- Colonel Ross Dedrickson: US Air Force/AEC (ret.)
- Lieutenant Walter Haut: US Navy
- Dr. Hal Puthoff
- Dr. Eugene Mallove
- Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bearden: US Army (ret.)
- John Callahan: FAA Head of Accidents and Investigations
- Larry Warren: Security Officer, RAF Bentwaters Woodbridge, NATO
- Major George A. Filer III: US Air Force (ret.)
- John Maynard: Defense Intelligence Agency (ret.)
- Captain Robert Salas: US Air Force, SAC Launch Controller
- Don Phillips: US Air Force, Lockheed Skunkworks, design engineer/CIA contractor, worked with Kelly Johnson
- Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brown: US Air Force (ret.) Office of Special Investigations, Project Grudge
- Mark McCandlish: US Air Force, conceptual artist for Rockwell X-30 and HYSTP programs
- James Kopf: US Navy/NSA Crypto Communications
- Major General Vasily Alexeyev: Russian Air Force
The complete list of people supporting the Project as well as a summary of transcripts of witness testimony is available in the "Executive Summary and Briefing Document" section on the Project's homepage.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "The Disclosure Project Update 051101". http://www.disclosureproject.org/Update-051101.htm.
- ^ "UFO spotters slam 'US cover-up'". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1322432.stm. Retrieved on 2008-08-03.
- ^ Katelynn Raymer and David Ruppe (May 10, 2001). "Group Calls for Disclosure of UFO Info". ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98572.
- ^ "ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY". The Disclosure Project Homepage. http://www.disclosureproject.org/aboutexecsumm.htm. Retrieved on 2008-08-13.
[edit] External links
- The Disclosure Project Homepage
- 2001 UFO Disclosure Project Conference VideoA Demand for Congressional hearings on UFOs and related technology ]
- The Audio Archives of the Disclosure Project available online
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