Steven Greer's 1990s private meetings
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| Date | Mid-1990s |
|---|---|
| Topics | Military encounters (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Steven Greer, Bill Clinton |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 107 |
| Year | 1990 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1990 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 10 |
In the 1990s Steven Greer, an emergency physician who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) in 1990 and the Disclosure Project in 1993, says he privately briefed senior officials and wealthy, well-connected figures in an effort to bring about official disclosure of UFO information. The testimony refers to an account of a private gathering in San Francisco described in his 2006 book Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge.[1][2]
Greer's account
In the Disclosure Project's 2001 briefing document, Greer wrote that from 1993 his group "spent considerable time and resources" briefing the Clinton administration, including CIA Director James Woolsey, senior military officials at the Pentagon and selected members of Congress. He also said he personally briefed the director of intelligence (J-2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a serving director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, all of whom, he said, had been left out of the loop or denied information. Greer has described his meeting with Woolsey as taking place at a dinner in December 1993.[3]
Washington briefings
Greer said that in April 1997 more than a dozen government and military witnesses were brought to Washington to brief members of Congress, Pentagon officials and others, and that he asked for open congressional hearings, which were not held. From 1998 he set out to "privatize" disclosure by videotaping witnesses, leading to the May 2001 press conference at the National Press Club with about 20 witnesses.[3][4]
Assessment
The meetings are known mainly from Greer's own books and talks. Journalist Leslie Kean, who worked with Greer, left the effort because of what she called the 2001 event's "outrageous, grandiose claims". Critics have dismissed his later documentaries, one calling a 2020 film "fantasy propaganda".[2][4]
People and topics
- Steven Greer — Physician who founded CSETI and the Disclosure Project.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- CSETI — The organization founded by Steven Greer in 1990.
- Disclosure Project — Steven Greer's campaign for UFO disclosure, best known for its May 2001 press conference.
- Disclosure — The official release of government information about UFOs.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Bill Clinton — 42nd U.S. president, lobbied about UFO files by Laurance Rockefeller.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
On the Timeline
- AGARDograph 313 and gyroscopic drives (March 1990) — A NATO aerospace study discusses a gyroscopic device said to counteract gravity.
- SAIC electromagnetic-gravity coupling study (1990) (August 1990) — An SAIC study tests whether electromagnetism and gravity can be coupled for space propulsion.
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References
- Steven M. Greer, *Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge* (2006), Internet Archive · archive.org · archived copy
- Steven M. Greer — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Disclosure Project Briefing Document (2001), Internet Archive (PDF) · archive.org · archived copy
- ""UFOs and the New Yorker", History News Network (Apr 2021) · historynewsnetwork.org · archived copy
- 'Group calls for disclosure of UFO info' — ABC News (2001) · abcnews.go.com · archived copy
- Greer's Disclosure Project — Patrick Gross · ufology.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- Greer's Disclosure Project event, 9 May 2001 — Patrick Gross · ufology.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- Disclosure Project National Press Club event, 9 May 2001 (video) · amara.org · archived copy
- 'Deafening Silence': media response to the 9 May 2001 event — Jonathan Kolber · lifeboat.com · archived copy
- archive.org · archive.org · archived copy
Further reading
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Stargate collection — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- Steven M. Greer — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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