The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race (13 page)

THE PRESS CLUB GAMBIT

In late March 2001, Greer appeared as a speaker at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada. In a rousing speech, he revealed that a landmark event in the protracted, bizarre struggle between the government and the citizenry for the release of UFO information was about to take place. He announced that on May 9, at a public meeting of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., about “two dozen” high-ranking military personnel would tell the world what they knew about UFOs and secret government flying disc development. He promised that this would be the breakthrough event that would end the secrecy once and for all and would put the information out in the legitimate media marketplace at last. Greer’s fiery speech was greeted by many rounds of enthusiastic applause from the large audience as he castigated the government for appropriating to itself, for military purposes, an assortment of new technologies derived from ET contact that could end reliance on fossil fuels and end poverty in the third world by making new forms of abundant energy freely available. As planned, this meeting definitely had the hallmarks of a landmark event. It conjured visions of the press corps scurrying for their cell phones and laptops after the presentation.

The Press Club meeting did happen, right on schedule on May 9, 2001. It was carried by live radio and three TV networks, and over two hundred and fifty thousand people were lined up to view the simultaneous webcast, which was hit by some very sophisticated jamming, causing the connection to be down about 15 percent of the time. But it was recorded in its entirety. The audio portion is available for listening, along with visuals of the speakers at the Project Disclosure website (see above).

Somehow the Press Club event did not have the impact that Greer had envisioned. There was no scurrying by the press writers, and it didn’t make the news the next day anywhere in America. It just sort of disappeared into a black hole, testifying once again to the power of the media managers. As one ponders this, there is a realization that even if it had made the front pages the next day, daily life all over the world would not have changed a bit. Everyone would have gotten up the next morning and gone to work, still beset with all their financial, romantic, and health concerns, and not able to give a thought to our extraterrestrial friends. It’s a fact that most people already believe in aliens anyway. Thanks to years of mass psychological preparation by Hollywood, this news has already been processed and discounted by the public, and they just can’t get excited enough about it to start haranguing Congress for legislation. Yet I believe that Greer is absolutely correct in his assessment that our interaction with the aliens is potentially the solution to all our energy problems, will open the portal to travel to the stars, and will ultimately lead to our joining the extraterrestrial community. The public consciousness has been very cleverly put to sleep on this issue. Let’s hope that this courageous visionary can eventually succeed in waking us up again and jolting us back to reality.

Steven Greer at National Press Club presentation

UFO Crusader

Of all the subjects of UFO investigation that could possibly produce the “smoking gun” that all ufologists are seeking, the most promising and most likely to reveal the existence and dimensions of the sixty-year government cover-up are the MJ-12 documents. If it can indeed be indisputably proved that a high-level organization such as MJ-12 really has existed since 1947 with the stated purpose of controlling the investigations of and release of information about UFOs and extraterrestrial visitations, then the entire cover-up is revealed. It is unquestionably the key to the Pandora’s box of government secrets.

A “MAJICAL” PACKAGE

Certainly, if the Roswell crash did occur, then the ramifications of that crash would have reverberated all the way to the president almost immediately. The “buck” would definitely have stopped at the desk of Harry S. Truman. And it is supremely understandable that the very first act of such a president as Truman, who was basically scientifically challenged, would be to empanel a committee of the most learned scientists and experts he could find to formulate a plan for dealing with such an incredible development. So if you accept the reality of Roswell, then you must necessarily accept the reality of a group such as MJ-12. It would have been the only correct response to an event such as the crash of an extraterrestrial craft on U.S. soil and the recovery of four nonhuman, alien bodies near the crash site. That is probably the most important fact about MJ-12—that its existence was logical and necessary.

Yet, until one fateful day in December 1984, no one in the now-burgeoning field of UFO research had ever postulated the existence of such a group. On that day, an undeveloped roll of 35mm black-and-white film arrived in the mail at the home of Jaime Shandera in Burbank, California. Shandera was a movie producer and director with a well-known interest in UFOs who was on the verge of creating a fictional film on the subject. He had already contacted ufologist Stanton T. Friedman and asked him to act as a consultant for the movie. Friedman, in turn, had put him in touch with William Moore, coauthor with Charles Berlitz of
The Roswell Incident
. Shandera and Moore, who lived in Arizona, had agreed to cooperate in making the movie and in using Friedman, who lived in New Brunswick, Canada, as a consultant when the mysterious package with no return address and an Albuquerque, New Mexico, postmark was dropped in Shandera’s mailbox. The roll of film, when developed, contained pictures of an eight-page document. The title page read, “BRIEFING DOCUMENT: OPERATION MAJESTIC 12 PREPARED FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: (EYES ONLY) 18 NOVEMBER, 1952.” Stamped at the top and bottom of each page was the apparent document classification, “TOP SECRET/MAJIC EYES ONLY.”
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TRUMAN CREATES MJ-12

The document first announced that Operation Majestic-12, which was to be “a TOP SECRET Research and Development/Intelligence operation responsible directly and only to the President of the United States,” was created by an executive order by President Truman on September 24, 1947. It then gave the names of the twelve original members of MJ-12. They were (1) General Nathan F. Twining, (2) Dr. Donald Menzel, (3) Mr. Gordon Gray, (4) Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, (5) Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, (6) General Robert M. Montague, (7) Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner, (8) Dr. Detlev Bronk, (9) Dr. Vannevar Bush, (10) Secretary James V. Forrestal, (11) Mr. Sidney W. Souers, and (12) General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. By the time of the briefing in November 1952, Forrestal, who had been Truman’s secretary of defense, was dead. According to the official record, he committed suicide on May 22, 1949. The document said that he was replaced on MJ-12 by General Walter B. Smith on August 1, 1950.

The briefing document then reviewed the history of UFO contact, beginning with the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting over the Cascade Mountains of Washington in June 1947, and covered the Roswell crash on July 4, 1947. The document stated that the main wreckage of the crashed alien craft was found seventy-five miles northwest of Roswell, with debris scattered around for about three-quarters of a mile, and that four alien bodies were found, apparently ejected, two miles east of the main site.
^*21All were recovered on July 7 and moved to Army Air Force facilities for evaluation. It revealed that Bronk’s team suggested the term “Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities” to describe the aliens and that Menzel considered it “likely that we are dealing with beings from another solar system entirely.” The briefing document also revealed that there was a second saucer crash on the Texas-Mexico border in December 1950 and then went on to express concern over the upsurge in UFO activity from May through the autumn of that year (1952).