Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American medical doctor and ufologist who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of suppressed UFO information.

Early life

Greer was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1955.^[1] Greer's uncle is claimed to have been involved in designing the Lunar Module of the Apollo program. Greer claims to have seen an unidentified flying object at close range when he was about eight years old, which allegedly inspired his interest in ufology.^[1][2] He was trained as a Transcendental Meditation teacher and served as director of a meditation organization.^[1][3] Greer completed his graduate work at East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine in 1987.^[4] He attended MAHEC University of North Carolina where he completed his internship in 1988 and received his Virginia medical license in 1989.^[4] That year he became a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.^[5][6][7]

Career

Greer founded the Centre for the Study of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence in 1990 to create a diplomatic and research-based initiative to contact extraterrestrial civilizations.^[2][3] In 1993 Greer founded The Disclosure Project, a nonprofit research project, whose goal is to disclose to the public the government’s alleged knowledge of UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and advanced energy and propulsion systems.^{[8][9][10][11]} The Disclosure Project was allegedly founded in an effort to grant amnesty to government whistle-blowers willing to violate their security oaths by sharing insider knowledge about UFOs.^[12] Greer says he gave a briefing to CIA director James Woolsey that same year.^[13][14][15]

In October 1994 Greer appeared in Larry King's TV special The UFO Coverup?.^[16] In 1995, Greer was working as a physician at the department of emergency medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital,^[3][17] where he was chairman.^[1]

In 1997, Greer along with other members of CSETI, including Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, made a presentation at a background briefing for members of Congress.^[18] In 1998 Greer gave up his career as an emergency room physician, in favor of the Disclosure Project.^[19][20]

In May 2001, Greer held a press conference at the National Press Club in D.C that featured "20 retired Air Force, Federal Aviation Administration and intelligence officers".^{[2][21][22][23][24][25]} According to a 2002 report in the Oregon Daily Emerald, Greer has gathered 120 hours of testimony from various government officials on the topic of UFOs, including astronaut Gordon Cooper and a Brigadier General.^[8] That year, Greer appeared on the radio show Coast to Coast AM.^[26]

Greer was the keynote speaker for the 2008 International Conference on Science and Consciousness held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.^[27]

Controversies

In 2013 the documentary Sirius was produced, inspired by Greer's work.^[28][29][30] It prominently features images of the 6-inch (150 mm) long Atacama skeleton, which Greer alleges is a deceased alien lifeform found in the Atacama desert in Chile.^{[31][32][33][34][35]} This is inconsistent, however, with genetic evidence. ^[36][37]

See also

• Conspiracy Theory
• Ufology
• Exopolitics
• Free energy suppression
• Con Artist
• Extraterrestrial life

References

External links

• Steven Greer bio at The Disclosure Project web site
• Steven Greer bio at ET Contact Now web site
• Steven M. Greer at IMDb

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