Introduction
Over the past few years I have had the responsibility of briefing
senior government and scientific leaders both in the US and abroad on
the UFO/Extraterrestrial subject.
The evidence regarding this subject is clear and overwhelming: It
has not been difficult to make a compelling case for the reality of UFOs
per se. What is a greater challenge is elucidating the architecture of
secrecy related to UFOs (see the exposition of this matter contained in
the paper entitled "Unacknowledged" by this author). But the greatest
challenge is explaining the ‘why'. Why all the secrecy? Why a ‘black' or
unacknowledged government within the government? Why hide the UFO/ET
subject from public view?
The ‘what' or evidence is complex but manageable. The ‘how' or
nature of the secret programs is more difficult, much more complex and
Byzantine. But the ‘why' - the reason behind the secrecy'- is the most
challenging problem of all. There is not a single answer to this
question, but rather numerous inter-related reasons for such
extraordinary secrecy. Our investigations and interviews with dozens of
top - secret witnesses who have been within such programs have enabled
us to understand the reasons behind this secrecy. They range from the
fairly obvious and straight-forward to the really bizarre. Here, I wish
to share some key points regarding this secrecy, why it has been imposed
and why it is so difficult for the controlling interests within covert
programs to reverse policy and allow disclosure.
In The Beginning
In the early days of the ET/UFO phenomena, military, intelligence
and industrial interests had concerns regarding the nature of the
phenomena, whether it originated from our human adversaries and once it
was determined to be extraterrestrial, how the public would react.
In the 1930s and 1940s this was no small matter: If these UFOs were
of terrestrial origin, they would be evidence of an earthly adversary
with technological devices far in advance of US aircraft. And once it
was determined to be extraterrestrial (some quarters knew this prior to
the end of WWII) there were many more questions than answers. To wit:
why were the ET s here? What are their intentions? How do the devices
travel at such fantastic speeds and through the vastness of space? How
might these technologies be applied to the human situation -both in war
and in peace? How would the public react to this knowledge? What effect
would the disclosure of these facts have on human belief systems?
Political and social systems?
From the late 1940s through the early 1950s, a concerted effort was
made to figure out the basic science and technologies behind these
spacecraft, primarily through the direct study and reverse-engineering
of the retrieved extraterrestrial objects from New Mexico and elsewhere.
It was immediately recognized that these objects were using laws of
physics and applied technologies far in advance of internal combustion
engines, vacuum tubes and the like. In the climate of the Cold War and
in a world where a relatively minor advantage technologically could tilt
the balance of power in the nuclear arms race, this was no small
matter.
Indeed, the theme of human geo-political dysfunction appears as a
recurring feature of the secrecy related to UFOs - up to the present
hour. More on this later.
From the Wilbur Smith top secret Canadian government document of
1950, we know that this subject was held in greater secrecy than even
the development of the hydrogen bomb. There was a tremendous effort
underway by the late 1940s to study extraterrestrial hardware, figure
out how it operated and see what human applications might be made from
such discoveries. Even then, the project dealing with this subject was
extraordinarily covert.
It became much more so by the early 1950s when substantial progress
was made on some of the basic physics behind the ET craft energy and
propulsion systems. The best we can estimate, it was then that the
entire project became increasingly ‘black' or unacknowledged.
The compartmentalization of the project dealing with UFOs was
exponentially increased by the early 1950s when it was realized what it
was that these covert projects actually had: Devices displaying physics
and energy systems which - if disclosed - would forever alter life on
earth.
By the Eisenhower era, the UFO/ET projects were increasingly
compartmented away from legal, constitutional chain-of-command oversight
and control. This means that -while we know from witness testimony that
Eisenhower knew of the ET craft - the president ( and similar leaders
in the UK and elsewhere) were increasingly left out of the loop. Such
senior elected and appointed leaders were confronted with (as Eisenhower
called it) a sophisticated military-industrial complex with
labyrinthine compartmented projects which were more and more out of
their control and oversight. From direct witness testimony we know that
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter and Clinton were frustrated by their
attempts to penetrate such projects.
This is also true of senior congressional leaders and investigators,
foreign leaders and UN leadership. This is indeed an equal opportunity
exclusion project - it does not matter how high your rank or office, if
you are not deemed necessary to the project, you are not going to know
about it. Period.
Contrary to popular myth, since the 1960s concern over some type of
public panic when faced with the fact that we are not alone in the
universe has not been a major reason for the secrecy. Those in the know
-notwithstanding the fantastic tales spun in UFO circles and on the
X-Files -understand that fear of hostile ET s has also not been a
significant factor. While there has been continued confusion in some
covert circles over the ultimate purpose behind the ET phenomena, we
know of no knowledgeable insiders who regard the ET s as a hostile
threat.
By the 1960s - and certainly by the 1990s - the world was very
familiar with the concept of space travel and the popular science -
fiction industry had thoroughly indoctrinated the masses with the idea
of ET s from far away being a possibility. So why the continued secrecy?
The Cold War is over. People would hardly be shocked to find out
that we are not alone in the universe ( the majority of people already
believe this - in fact most people believe the UFOs are real). Besides,
what could be more shocking than to live through the latter half of the
20th century with thousands of hydrogen bombs aimed at every major city
in the world? If we can handle that, surely we can handle the idea that
ET s are real.
The facile explanations of fear, panic, shock and the like do not
suffice to justify a level of secrecy so deep that even the President
and his CIA Director could be denied access to the information.
A Current Estimate
Continued secrecy on the UFO subject must be related, then, to
on-going anxiety related to the essential power dynamics of the world
and how such a disclosure would impact these.
That is, the knowledge related to UFOs/ET phenomena must have such
great potential for changing the status quo that its continued
suppression is deemed essential, at all costs.
Going back to the early 1950s, we have found that the basic
technology and physics behind these ET spacecraft were discovered
through very intensive reverse-engineering projects. It was precisely at
this point that the decision was made to increase the secrecy to an
unprecedented level - one which essentially took the matter out of
ordinary government chain of command control as we know it. Why?
Aside from the possible use of such knowledge by US/UK adversaries
during the Cold War, it was immediately recognized that these devices
were not your dad's Oldsmobile. The basic physics behind the energy
generation and propulsion systems were such that they could easily
replace all existing energy generation and propulsion systems on the
earth. And with them, the entire geo-political and economic order.
In the 1950s, there was no great concern over global warming,
eco-system collapse, ozone depletion, rain forest loss, bio-diversity
degradation etc. In the wake of WW II, what was needed was stability,
not a new convulsion of the world economic, technological and
geo-political order. Remember: those in control like to stay in control.
They are risk - averse, do not like significant change and do not give
up control and power easily.
The disclosure of the existence of ET s, with the inevitable
disclosure related to these new technologies soon to follow, would
change the world forever - and they knew it. This was to be avoided at
all costs. Besides, that was the era of " what is good for GM is good
for America" , and the same would be true of big oil, big coal and the
like.
The inescapable fact is this: The disclosure of the ET presence
would bring with it the certain release of these technologies -and that
release would sweep away the entire technological infrastructure of the
planet. The changes would be immense - and sudden.
Fifty years later, as we prepare to turn the page to a new
millennium ,this is more true now than then. Why? Because avoiding the
problem in the 1950s - while convenient at the time - means that the
situation is more tenuous now. For example, world dependence on oil and
internal combustion technology is greater now than in 1955. And the
world economy is larger by orders of magnitude now, so any change would
be exponentially greater - and potentially more chaotic.
And so this is the conundrum: each decade and generation has passed
this problem on to the next, only to find any path but continued secrecy
more destabilizing than it would have been a decade earlier. In a
maddening circle of secrecy, delay of disclosure and increasing world
complexity and dependence on out-dated energy systems, each generation
has found itself in a greater squeeze than the one before. As difficult
as disclosure would have been in the 1950s, disclosure now is even more
difficult. And potentially earth-shaking in its consequences.
The technological discoveries of the 1950s resulting from the
reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial craft could have enabled us to
completely transform the world economic, social, technological and
environmental situation. That such advancements have been withheld from
the public is related to the change-averse nature of the controlling
hierarchy at the time - and to this day.
And make no mistake, the changes would be immense.
Consider: A technology which enables energy generation from the
so-called zero point field and which enables every home, business,
factory and vehicle to have its own source of power -without an external
fuel source. Ever. No need for oil, gas, coal, nuclear plants or the
internal combustion engine. And no pollution. Period.
Consider: A technology using electro-gravitic devices which allows
for above surface transportation - no more roadways to cover fertile
farmland since transportation could take place totally above the
surface.
Sounds great. But in the 1950s, oil was plentiful, nobody worried
too much about pollution, global warming was not the faintest concern
and the powers that be just wanted stability . The status quo. And
besides, why risk the tectonic changes related to such a disclosure? Let
a later generation take care of it.
But now, we are that later generation. And 1999 is not 1949. The
earth is straining under the burden of a growing population - now 6
billion people - all of whom want cars, electricity, TV s and the like.
Everyone knows that we do not have 50 more years of oil - and even if we
did, the earth's ecosystem could not withstand 50 more years of such
abuse. The risks of disclosure are now much less than the risks of
secrecy: If secrecy continues much longer, the earth's ecosystem will
collapse. Talk about a big change and global instability...
Many people will consider the technological and economic impact of
such a disclosure as the central justification of continued secrecy.
After all, we are talking about a multi-trillion dollar per year change
in the economy. The entire energy and transportation sectors of the
economy would be revolutionized. And the energy sector - the part where
non-renewable fuels are purchased and burned and have to be replenished -
will utterly vanish. And while other industries will flourish, only a
fool would dismiss the impact of such a multi-trillion dollar segment of
the economy disappearing.
Certainly the ‘vested interests' involved in the global industrial
infrastructure related to oil, gas, coal and internal combustion engines
and public utilities is no small force in the world.
But to understand UFO secrecy you must consider what all that money represents at its core. Power. Massive geo-political power.
One must consider what will happen when every village in India (or
Africa or South America or China) has devices which can generate large
amounts of power without pollution and without spending huge sums of
energy on fuel. The entire world will be able to develop in an
unprecedented fashion - without pollution and without billions spent on
power plants, transmission lines and combustible fuels. The have-nots
will have.
This would widely be considered a good thing: after all, much of
world instability, warfare and the like is related to mind-numbing
poverty and economic depravity in a world of great wealth. Social
injustice and extreme economic disparity breeds much chaos and suffering
in the world. These decentralized, non-polluting technologies would
change that permanently. Even the deserts will bloom...
But it must be remembered that geo-political power flows from
technological and economic prowess. India has over 1 billion people and
the US about one-fourth that, but who has the greater geo-political
power?
As these new energy systems proliferate, the so-called third world
will rapidly reach parity with the industrialized world of Europe, the
US and Japan. This will cause a massive shift in geo-political power.
And the industrialized world will find that it must then actually share
power with the now down-trodden third world.
Those in the cat-bird seat currently (and in 1950) have no interest
in doing any such thing. We can hardly even support and share power in
the United Nations.
The release of information on the UFO / ET subject will lead to the
global proliferation of new energy systems which will rapidly result in
an equalization of power in the world. The US and Europe have around 600
million people. That is only 10% of the world's population. Once the
other 90% rise in technological and economic standing, it is clear to
see that the geo-political power will shift - or equalize - to the rest
of the world. Power will have to be shared. Real global collective
security will be inevitable. It is the end of the world as we know it.
When you combine the economic and technological impact with the
geo-political impact, it becomes obvious that the changes related to
ending secrecy are truly tectonic - massive, world-encircling and
transformative. It is not to be regarded lightly.
But 50 years after the world could have had these new technologies -
and 50 long years of ecological degradation, social and economic chaos
and disparity - we find that we are the last generation in the long line
of passing the cosmic hot potato known as the UFO secrecy problem.
And here we stand, holding this hot potato, but what shall we do about it?
To end the secrecy means vast and profound changes in virtually
every aspect of human existence - economic, social, technological,
philosophical, geo-political and so forth. But to continue the secrecy
and the suppression of these new energy and propulsion technologies
means something far more destabilizing: the collapse of the earth's
ecosystem and the certain depletion of the fossil fuels on which we
depend. And the growing anger of the have-nots, who are needlessly being
deprived of a full and dignified life. There are no more generations to
which we can pass this cosmic hot potato: we must deal with it and do
what should have been done in 1950.
The Webs We Weave
As if the foregoing was not enough to justify secrecy, recall that
extraordinary things have been done to maintain this secrecy. The
infrastructure needed to maintain and expand the level of secrecy which
can deceive presidents and CIA Directors and senior congressional
leaders and European Prime Ministers and the like is substantial - and
illegal. Let me be clear, the entity which controls the UFO matter and
its related technologies has more power than any single government in
the world or any single identified world leader.
That such a situation could arise was forewarned by President
Eisenhower when, in January 1961, he cautioned us regarding the growing
"military-industrial complex". This was his last speech as president to
the world - and he was warning us directly of a frightening situation
about which he had personal knowledge. For Eisenhower had seen the ET
craft and deceased ET bodies. He knew of the covert programs dealing
with the situation. But he also knew that he had lost control of these
projects and that they were lying to him about the extent and full
nature of their research and development activities.
Indeed, the current state-of-the-art in secrecy is a hybrid,
quasi-government, quasi privatized operation which is international -
and functions outside of the purview of any single agency or any single
government. ‘The Government' - as you and I and Thomas Jefferson may
think of it - is really quite outside the loop. Rather, a select,
tightly controlled and compartmentalized ‘black' or unacknowledged
project controls these matters. Access is by inclusion alone and if you
are not included, it does not matter if you are CIA Director, President,
Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations or UN Secretary General, you
simply will not know about or have access to these projects.
Indeed the situation is so dire that senior Joint Chiefs of Staff
leaders in the Pentagon who I have briefed have no more access to such
projects than any other civilian - unless they are on the ‘inside' for
some reason. But this is rare.
Essentially, the covert management of this matter operates as part
super-secret international government program, and part privatized
organized crime operation: It is more like a secret Mafia than
government as one would normally think of it.
To acquire and maintain such power all types of things have been
done. We are reminded of that Robert Frost poem in which he describes
‘the webs we weave...'. But how does such an entity extract itself from
such a web of secrecy, deceit, lies and insubordination?
To be specific, this group has usurped power and rights not legally
granted to it. It is extra-constitutional, both in the US and in the UK
and other countries around the world. It is, therefore, a criminal
enterprise and a conspiracy of the first order. Additionally, it has
committed crimes which include assassinations, murder, kidnaping, theft
of technology and so forth.
I will grant the possibility that, at least initially, this covert
undertaking was designed to maintain secrecy and avoid instability. But
the risks of inadvertent leaks - or a national or world leader deciding
legally that it was time for disclosure - made it essential to weave a
web of greater and greater secrecy and of illegal operations. And now
the web has closed in on the operation itself.
That is, the complexity of the compartmentalized projects, the
degree of unconstitutional and unauthorized activity, the
‘privatization' (or theft) by corporate partners (the ‘industrial' part
of the military - industrial complex) of advanced technologies, the
continued lying to legally elected and appointed leaders and to the
public - all of these and more have contributed to a psychology of
continued secrecy -because disclosure would expose the greatest scandal
in recorded history.
For example, how would the public react to the fact that the
degradation of the entire earth's ecosystem and the irretrievable loss
of thousands of species of plants and animals now extinct due to
pollution, has been utterly unnecessary -and could have been avoided if
only an honest release of this information had occurred in the 1950s?
How would society react to the knowledge that trillions of dollars
have been spent on unauthorized, unconstitutional projects over the
years? And that these tax-payer dollars have been used by corporate
partners in this secrecy to develop spin - off technologies based on the
study of ET objects which were later patented and used in highly
profitable technologies? Not only have the taxpayers been defrauded,
they have then been made to pay a premium for such breakthroughs which
were the result of research paid for by them! And this does not address
the intellectual property theft of such technologies from the ET s.
While the basic energy generation and propulsion technologies have been
withheld, these corporate partners have profited wildly from other
breakthroughs and benefits in electronics, miniaturization and related
areas. Such covert technology transfers constitutes a multi-trillion
dollar theft of technologies which really should be public domain since
taxpayers have paid for it.
And how would the public react to the fact that the multi-billion
dollar space program, using internal combustion rockets and the like,
has been a primitive and unnecessary experiment since much more advanced
technologies and propulsion systems were in existence before we ever
went to the moon? NASA and related agencies have, for the most part,
been as much a victim of this secrecy as has the rest of the government
and the public. Only a small, very compartmentalized fraction of NASA
people know of the real ET technologies hidden away in these projects.
Certainly my uncle, who helped design the lunar module which took Neil
Armstrong to the moon, was as much a victim an anyone insofar as he was
denied access to these technological breakthroughs. He had to rely on
the old physics and the old internal combustion jet thruster
technologies just like everyone else. What a shame.
The inescapable reality is this: This secret project, no matter how
well intentioned initially, got carried away with its own secret power.
It abused this power. It has hijacked our future for fifty years. And
the scandal of this fact would result in such consternation in society
and in government that its consequences can hardly be imagined. Indeed,
it could well be cataclysmic from a social and political perspective.
In fact, the quiet coup d'etat of the late 1940s and early 1950s, once exposed, could result in real instability today.
But the situation is actually much worse than this. All that is
written above is dwarfed by a larger problem: The covert group running
these UFO related black projects have also had exclusive sway over the
early days of an embryonic extraterrestrial-human relationship. And it
was been tragically mismanaged - nearly to the point of genuine global
catastrophe.
For what happens when an unelected, unappointed, self-selecting,
militarily oriented group alone has to deal with inter-species relations
between humans and ET s? Well, as in most areas, if you wear
rose-colored glasses the entire world looks red. And if you are wearing
military glasses, every new and uncontrolled development will be seen as
a potential or real military threat.
The nature of such a group - which is inordinately controlled and
incestuous - is that it is homogenous in world-view and mind-set. Power
and control are preeminent qualities. Such extreme secrecy creates a
very dangerous milieu in which checks and balances, give and take, are
utterly lacking. And in such an environment, very dangerous decisions
can be made with inadequate feedback, discussion or insight from needed
perspectives which are, per force, excluded.
In such an environment of extreme secrecy, militarism and paranoia,
we have found that immensely dangerous actions have been taken against
the ET s. Indeed, we have multiple inside sources who have described to
us the use of increasingly advanced technologies to track, target and
destroy extraterrestrial assets. If there is even a 10% chance that this
is true ( I am convinced it is 100% accurate) we are dealing with a
global diplomatic and social crisis which is utterly out of our control
but which puts the entire planet at risk.
Remember, covert reverse-engineering projects have resulted in huge
quantum leaps forward in technologies which, once applied to military
systems, could be a real threat to ET s which may be here peacefully.
The attempts to rapidly militarize space is likely a result of a myopic,
militaristic and paranoid view of extraterrestrial projects and
intentions. If left unchecked, it can only result in catastrophe.
Indeed this group, no matter how well-intentioned, is in urgent need
of exposure so that global statesmen with a new perspective can
intercede in this situation. While we see no evidence that the ET
civilizations are at all hostile, it is also clear that it is unlikely
that they will allow unfettered and growing interference with their
operations. Self-defense is likely a universal quality. And while
tremendous restraint has been shown by the ET s thus far, might there be
a ‘cosmic trip wire' if human covert technologies begin to reach parity
and we are using such advanced technologies in a bellicose fashion? The
prospect is sobering.
We need our Jimmy Carters and Dalai Lammas and other international
statesmen involved with so vast a problem. But if access is denied -and
the subject remains undisclosed and off the global radar screen - we are
left with the unelected few to decide our fate and act on our behalf.
This must change, and soon.
In the final analysis, while the changes attendant such a disclosure
related to UFOs and ET s would be massive and profoundly impact
virtually every aspect of life on earth, it is still the right thing to
do. Secrecy has taken on a life of its own - it is a growing cancer
which needs to be cured before it destroys the life of earth and all who
dwell on her.
The reasons for secrecy are clear: global power, economic and
technological control, geo-political status quo, the fear of scandal
surrounding the exposure of such projects and their behavior and so
forth.
But the one thing more dangerous than disclosure is continued
secrecy. The earth is dying because we are killing her. The top 250
people and families in the world have the net worth of 2.5 billion of
our poorest citizens. The promising relationship between humanity and
people from other planets is being militarized and strained by failed
thinking and failed programs run completely in secret.
As daunting as disclosure may be, with all its potential for
short-term instability and change, continued secrecy means that we will
destroy the earth through our folly and greed. The future of humanity,
which has been delayed and hijacked for the past 50 years, cannot be
hijacked for 50 more. For we do not have 50 more years - the earth's
ecosystem will collapse before then.
There are no easy choices. But there is one right one. Will you help us make it?
Steven M. Greer M.D.
Albemarle County
Virginia
14 April 1999