The Disclosure Project

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company_name = The Disclosure Project
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foundation = 1993
location = Crozet, Virginia
key_people = Dr. Steven M. Greer, Founder
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homepage = [http://www.disclosureproject.org disclosureproject.org]
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The Disclosure Project is an organization started by Steven M. Greer in 1993, which alleges a US government coverup of information relating to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The Project claims that UFOs are spacecraft piloted by intelligent extraterrestrial life, that the United States government has kept this secret, and that the government has also concealed advanced technologies obtained from the aliens the Project claims exists.

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. The group follows a conspiracy theory developed by Greer and others.

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. [cite web | url=http://www.disclosureproject.org/Update-051101.htm | title = The Disclosure Project Update 051101]

Mainstream media coverage has been mostly neutral, with a BBC reporter deeming a Disclosure Project the strangest ever held by the National Press Club. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1322432.stm|title=UFO spotters slam 'US cover-up'|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=2008-08-03|last=|first=] 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. [cite web
url=http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98572
title=Group Calls for Disclosure of UFO Info
publisher=ABC News
author=Katelynn Raymer and David Ruppe
date=May 10, 2001]

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: [cite web |url=http://www.disclosureproject.org/aboutexecsumm.htm
title=ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
publisher=The Disclosure Project Homepage
accessdate=2008-08-13]

*Nick Pope: British Ministry of Defense Official
*Dr. Roberto Pinotti: Italian UFO expert
*Astronaut Edgar Mitchell
*Astronaut Gordon Cooper
*Monsignor Corrado Balducci
*Dr. Carol Rosin
*Dan Willis US Navy: Communications
*Admiral Lord Hill-Norton: Five-Star Admiral, Former Head of the British Ministry of Defense
*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 Phillip J. Corso, Sr.: US Army (ret.)
*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 - USAF (Ret)
*John Maynard: Defense Intelligence Agency (ret.)
*Captain Robert Salas: US Air Force, SAC Launch Controller
*Don Phillips: USAF, Lockheed Skunkworks, design engineer/CIA Contractor worked with Kelly Johnson
*Lt. Col. Charles Brown: USAF (ret.) Office of Special Investigations, Project Grudge
*Mark McCandlish: USAF, Conceptual artist for Rockwell X-30 program and HYSTP program
*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.

See also

* Free energy suppression

References

External links

* [http://www.disclosureproject.org/ The Disclosure Project Homepage]
* [http://speedstream.netro.ca/netrostream113/npcc.wmv 2001 UFO Disclosure Project Conference Video] A Demand for Congressional hearings on UFOs and related technology ]
* [http://www.topsecrettestimony.com/ The Audio Archives of the Disclosure Project available online]