Adam smiled. “It’s the subject matter. When I tell my brother about what happened last night, he may dissociate himself from me.”
“You need to understand — the ridicule attached with seeing UFOs… it was all intended. Back in 1953, the CIA actually hired Disney Studios to create cartoons about little green men so that the subject would never be taken seriously — de-fanging the whole issue into silliness. It will take a lot of courage to pursue this, not just in terms of one’s own personal safety, but also your reputation. You’re going to be ridiculed and laughed out of meetings; you’re going to be ostracized. Everything terrible you can imagine has been said about me, and so what? I mean, you just expect it… but most people in the public eye don’t want to go through it.
“I wrote a paper about this called, When Disclosure Serves Secrecy. It’s on our website, SiriusDisclosure.com — I suggest you read it. The paper describes the dangers of doing what we’ve done and how the process of disclosure is being hijacked by charlatans who masquerade as disclosure supporters. It’s an old CIA trick they’ve used time and time again to diffuse the threat of the public learning the truth about a subject from the inside. In my case, they attached nonsense to the body of evidence I compiled; things exacerbating the fear factor and the silliness — the whole evil aliens are coming to eat us for lunch. The CIA has gone to extraordinary lengths to perpetrate alien abductions in order to add fuel to the craziness associated with UFOs, keeping legitimate scientists from getting involved.”
“But you got involved. You weren’t afraid.”
“I had a sighting when I was a boy, plus I had a near-death experience which somewhat inoculated me. Still, my goal was never to brief presidents and CIA directors, and I certainly didn’t expect to have to deal with threats on my life, let alone see harm come to people I cared deeply about. I was working full-time as an emergency and trauma doctor in a North Carolina ER and I loved my work. Using meditation to establish peaceful contact between humans and these visiting Interstellars… I stumbled upon that when I was much younger. My only intention was to show our visitors that there is far more to the human race than the military establishment that was shooting them down. So I founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence — a grass roots movement that bypassed governments in order to make peaceful contact with these civilizations as citizen diplomats, much like Physicians for Social Responsibility were citizen diplomats to the Soviet Union during the darkest days of the Cold War.
“Our first really successful CE-5 experience happened with a group of about fifty people on a beach near Pensacola, Florida. Two of our participants were Air Force pilots, one was a colonel. That night we vectored in four ET craft and they materialized and were filmed — it was actually quite close but the night cameras back then weren’t very good. The story ended up on the front page of the Pensacola paper and I suddenly found myself flying way above the radar of some very serious national security guys.
“In March of 1992, about a month after the close encounter in Pensacola, I was invited to attend a conference in Atlanta. Being naive, I thought it was just a UFO convention. Once I arrived I realized half the people there were part of MJ-12.”
“Like who?”
“The former Head of Army Intelligence, the NSA, DIA — a lot of Intel spooks. And they were very confrontational, asking me, ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing?’ I said, ‘Well, you can read about it, I don’t have any secrets.” I told them I was developing protocols and a team to make contact with these civilizations outside governmental channels because the government was broken. I was told it was none of my business and not to do it. My response was, ‘Try stopping me.’ We kind of had a mano a mano in a hotel room until three in the morning.”
“What changed? How did you go from group meditations to briefing presidents?”
“A senior official at the CIA flew a trusted emissary down on a private jet to visit me in North Carolina. This man’s family founded the California Institute of Technology, one of the most prestigious universities in America. He said, ‘Dr. Greer, do what you were planning on doing and don’t give up. Someone’s got to do this because it’s out of control; moreover someone’s going to have to spearhead a contact protocol — right now, the system is completely dysfunctional.’ I told him that I was an emergency room doctor and I was just doing this ad hoc between ER shifts and raising four children. All the time I’m thinking, ‘why is this guy asking me to do something? Why don’t they just do it themselves?’ That was my initiation into this weird ‘down the rabbit hole’ world of secret projects.
“A few months later William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States. Almost immediately I was approached by people who were friends of his who said, ‘This is something that the president is very interested in.’ Webster Hubble, who was third in command at the Justice Department prior to being convicted of some other problems, told me Clinton wanted to know three things when he took office: Who really killed Marilyn Monroe, who killed Jack Kennedy, and what is all this UFO stuff? Apparently they made inquiries into the subject and were not happy with the answers they were getting, meaning they knew they were being lied to. At about that time, some military people who were in favor of disclosure approached me. These people had had UFO experiences, either on battleships or at strategic air command facilities where nuclear weapons were being kept, and they offered to assist me.
“One of these men was a naval commander… very connected up in the Pentagon. When he showed up at my front door, my first thought was that he was a spy. Turns out he was a stand-up guy who did everything he could to set up a number of the deep background briefings that I did at the Pentagon. We decided to have a meeting to discuss how to put together a team that would brief the right folks in government and encourage them to end the secrecy. You have to understand, this was back in 1992-93, when I actually thought we had a functional constitutional government. Since then I’ve learned it’s all window dressing, that there’s a parallel governmental process that operates completely independent of the people we elect.
“Anyway, we had this meeting and it was decided that we should contact certain key people in the U.S. government to — in military speak — de-conflict the CSETI contact teams from Air Force and other military operations so that they didn’t interfere with us and we didn’t interfere with them. That was the whole purpose of the meeting, to make sure we weren’t caught in the middle… to prevent an accidental shooting. It seemed that whenever and wherever we were doing our CE-5, we’d have a run-in with military jets, helicopters, and all kinds of stuff coming into our contact sites… and we still do to this day. All I wanted was to keep my people safe.
“My military advisor met with Admiral Cramer, the Head of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After speaking with him he decided we needed to have a meeting with the Intel people at Wright-Patterson, the air force base where the Roswell remains were sent. This was in September of 1993. While that meeting was being set up, two more influential individuals came calling. The first one was Leah Ghali, the wife of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the U.N. Secretary General. The second was Laurance Rockefeller.