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By Hal McKenzie
Imagine that a press conference in Washington, D.C. presented a score of top-level government witnesses testifying to the reality of extraterrestrials and their technology on the earth. Not only do these witnesses confirm that we are not alone in the universe, but they say technology derived from the visitors provides the means to solve all of man's problems regarding energy, global warming and pollution, perhaps even leading to a golden age of world peace and prosperity
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Disclosure Project Director Dr. Stephen Greer at May 9, 2001 press conference.
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You don't have to imagine it. That very press conference occurred over two years ago on Wednesday, May 9, 2001 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The major newspapers and TV stations from which most Americans get their news, however, were silent on the issue -- only a handful of local media covered it. Furthermore, the live webcast that carried the press conference over the Internet, which hundreds of thousands were prepared to download, was deliberately jammed by computers traced to the Department of Defense.
In effect, the most important announcement of the century was rendered a non-event, and is now known mostly to a handful of people in the UFO community. This journalist became aware of the Disclosure Project, as it is called, only by attending the Alternate Realities Conference June 27-29 at Roan Mountain State Park, Tenn., when MUFON investigator Earle Benezet played a video of the conference and mentioned it in his talk.
The full details of the conference and much more are available on the Disclosure Project website.
In announcing the press conference, Disclosure Project director Steven M. Greer said, "over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. The weight of this first-hand testimony, along with supporting government documentation and other evidence, will establish without any doubt the reality of these phenomena."
The Disclosure Project started several years earlier by Greer to publicize the secret information about extraterrestrials that had been withheld by the government since World War II. In 1993, "I started an effort that was designed to identify firsthand military and government witnesses to UFO events and projects, as well as other evidence to be used in a public disclosure," Greer wrote.
At first, Greer and his associates spent a great deal of time and effort to brief members of the Clinton Administration, including CIA Director James Woolsey, senior military officials at the Pentagon, and members of Congress, among others. "In April of 1997, more than a dozen such government and military witnesses were assembled in Washington D.C. for briefings with Congressmen, Pentagon officials and others. There, we specifically requested open Congressional hearings on the subject. None were forthcoming," he wrote.
Rebuffed, in 1998 they decided to "privatize" the process by raising funds to videotape, edit and organize the testimony of "over 100 military and government witnesses to UFO events and projects." Despite a lack of funds, Greer and a couple of volunteers began the Witness Archive Project from August through December 2000.
Working at his home, Greer edited over 120 hours of raw digital video testimony, eventually boiling it down to 33 and then 18 hours. The 33 were dubbed to audiotape and transcribed resulting in about 1200 pages of transcripts.
This material, including the entire 2-hour May 9 press conference, is available through the website. "The witnesses who have given testimony to date are extraordinarily brave men and women - heroes in my eyes - who have taken great personal risks in coming forward. Some have been threatened and intimidated. All are risking the ever-present ridicule that attends this subject. Not a single one of them has been paid for his or her testimony," Greer wrote.
The facts presented at the press conference, which are only the "tip of the iceberg" of the hundreds of hours of testimony the Disclosre Project amassed, are startling enough. Even more mind-boggling are the implications of the testimony.
"We have identified insiders and scientists who can prove, in open Congressional hearings, that we do in fact possess classified energy generation and anti-gravity propulsion systems capable of completely and permanently replacing all forms of currently used energy generation and transportation systems. These devices access the ambient electromagnetic and so-called zero point energy state to produce vast amounts of energy without any pollution. Such systems essentially generate energy by tapping into the ever-present quantum vacuum energy state - the baseline energy from which all energy and matter is fluxing. All matter and energy is supported by this baseline energy state and it can be tapped through unique electromagnetic circuits and configurations to generate huge amounts of energy from space/time all around us," Greer writes.
"The disclosure of these new technologies will give us a new, sustainable civilization. World poverty will be eliminated within our life times. With the advent of these new energy and propulsion systems, no place on Earth will need to suffer from want. Even the deserts will bloom … Once abundant and nearly free energy is available in impoverished areas for agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing and electrification, there is no limit to what humanity can achieve. It is ridiculous - obscene even - that mind-boggling poverty and famine exists in the world while we sit on classified technologies that could completely reverse this situation.
"So why not release these technologies? Because the social, economic and geo-political order of the world would be greatly altered. Every deep insider with whom I have met has emphasized that this would be the greatest change in known human history. The matter is so highly classified not because it is so silly, but because its implications are so profound and far reaching. By nature, those who control such projects do not like change. And here we are talking about the biggest economic, technological, social and geo-political change in known human history. Hence, the status quo is maintained, even as our civilization hurtles towards oblivion."
Greer calls for new leadership that has the courage to face change and reign in the special interests that resist it. Considering how successfully those special interests quashed his first major press conference, however, it remains an uphill struggle
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