Once we got back on track, I traveled around with a camera, filming witnesses mostly on my own. Now, anyone who knows me and machines has to laugh! Forget levitating a car. That's easy. Getting me, the biggest mechanical moron on Planet Earth, to operate a digital cam- era by myself, now that's a real miracle! I have no problem intubating someone who's just been shot through the neck or, de-fibrillating a heart. But a digital video camera!
Once we had identified enough of these resources, catalogued them and put them in a database, we set a date for the event. It was an enormous undertaking done with minimal resources and all volunteers.
We had over 110 hours of videotaped testimony, from the former USSR to Spain and Italy and England to France and Latin America and all over the United States. We have insider testimony from every agency and from every era— from the '40s right up to the '90s.
I had to take all the original digital videotape and using a dual G-4 Apple computer and a simple video editing program, go through all the videotape, edit it, make the cuts and create a log for every scene and every witness. I did this all myself, because someone who knew the whole picture had to do the cut.
I edited the 110 hours of testimony down to about 35 hours. And then I took the 35 hours and edited it down to about 18 hours. Those 18 hours were given to Jeff Thill, God bless him, and in his free time (work- ing full time at Laser Pacific and raising two young children) took the 18 hours and created the Disclosure Project videos. We had no budget for it. This was achieved only by donated labor, material and real dedication.
Also, the 35 hours of videotape were used to create 35 hours of audiotape. That audiotape was then given to a transcription service that transcribed it into text. That text was then loaded onto disks that I put on my laptop computer.
It was 1,200 pages of transcripts! That had to be boiled down to what became the Disclosure book --that also had to include all the govern- ment documents and other documentation and position papers. And I had to write all that and all the transition pieces in about 2 months to create a 600-page book. It was an all- consuming undertaking.
We engaged the National Press Club and Sarah McClendon, the famed White House correspondent, was our official host.
When we launched this event at the National Press Club, all we could afford was a one-woman shop for a PR agent. I wrote all the press releases and she and I began to notify the press that this important event involving dozens of top-secret military witnesses to UFO events was about to happen. We lit up the system and
everybody was waiting for this event to happen on May 9th, 2001.
"We'll get the little Holloman room for this event...It's all you'll need."
"Oh, no - we need the ballroom."
"But that room is never used — except for very large and important events."
"This will be a very large and important event!" "You've got to be
out of your mind."
"No, we need the entire ballroom!"
"Well, the last time they filled the ballroom was when President Reagan was
there!" "Just get it. Do it."
"Okay — you won't listen to me . . . but I'll get it."
The day of Disclosure, she was so glad we had the ballroom, because it was packed with 22 cameras at the back of the room and the entire media. About 20 of these military and government related witnesses were present.
Connect Live is the official web-cast and internet hosting entity for the National Press Club - and also for CNN and the Pentagon. They were engaged to webcast the entire event, live.
Well, the president of Connect Live told me after the event that as we went live, the first hour of the testimony was externally, electronically jammed! He had never seen this happen! Now, we knew there would be an attempt by the NSA to jam the webcast, and our security had seen activity to that effect the night before - logistics being set up. As it turned out, the webcast got back up after an hour and it ended up being the most watched web-cast in the history of the internet! The people at Connect Live later pulled me in and showed me the band width that was used: "This event used up every T-1 line - we have never seen this kind of vol- ume for a news webcast!" The number of people viewing the event live was half a million people — and they do not know how many people tried to get on but were unable to connect.
Ultimately, the whole two-hour press conference was viewed by over three million people. It was covered briefly by various news agencies— CNN and BBC and most other major news groups.
The general manager of the National Press Club was stunned at the number of news people present. News networks were canceling other programming and
were heard saying, "This is the real X Files!" There was enormous excitement.
This event beta-tested the National Security shadow government control on this issue and over the media. It was interesting to see how they would handle it.
Well, word of this event got out. Ultimately, between the interviews on the BBC and the Voice of America and all the other media coverage, hundreds of millions heard about it. The National Press Club staff thought we had a multi-million- dollar budget and a huge staff. But all we had was the incredible dedication of our volunteers!
When they found out that there wasn't a single paid person there except this one temporary PR woman, they couldn't believe it. The general manager of the National Press Club said, "Well, this is the most organized event that's ever been here!" They also told us that it was the best attended press event at the National Press Club since Ronald Reagan had been in the building.
The media was allowed to cover a certain amount of this event, or it would have been too obvious of a cover-up. But then they took it off the airwaves very quickly. So, it went up on CNN Headline News briefly, and CNN International actually had a very significant amount of cover- age in Europe. Pravda and the Chinese news agency also covered it.
But what was interesting was to see the lack of follow-through with the big media organizations -- such as the "Wall Street Journal", who interviewed me, and the big news magazines and others. They would say, "This is really a significant event!" And then later they would get back to me and they would say, "Well, 'they' won't let us run with this story." Ira Rosen, Executive Producer of ABC News, had been a key investigator for Mike Wallace at "60 Minutes" and had won an Emmy for his work. He had been involved for a year or so with what we were doing and had been at our home for meetings. He'd been through all the mate- rials. We'd given him enormous amounts of documents, testimony, and information. He wanted to do a very strong "Prime Time Live" and "20/20" piece, if not a series, on this. But after this national press event, he called and said, "Well, it looks like I'm not going to be able to do this story." I asked, "Why not?" He says, "They won't let me put it on. They won't let me do this piece." I asked, "Who's 'they'?" He said, "Well, Dr. Greer, you know who they are."
He told my wife and me, while he was at our home having lunch, that he had credible information that they couldn't 'go with' regarding shadowy FBI interests that had shot Martin Luther King. Rosen had been involved in getting to the bottom of that — but they also never ran that story. So it was interesting to see how ABC ultimately had to back off covering the UFO subject. There was enormous pressure brought to bear not to let this get too much traction.
The covert controllers knew that if the major news groups started pulling this yarn and unraveling it, the whole cover-up would come undone. We have enough assets and enough information to unravel the whole matrix. And certainly, the interests that want to keep this secret know this and brought pressure to bear to kill the in-depth follow-up stories.