[from the Executive Summary, Important Editorial Notice]
Beginning in 1993, I started an effort that was designed
to identify firsthand military and government witnesses to UFO events
and projects, as well as other evidence to be used in a public disclosure.
From 1993, we spent considerable time and resources briefing the Clinton
Administration, including CIA Director James Woolsey, senior military
officials at the Pentagon, and select members of Congress, among others.
In April of 1997, more than a dozen such government and military witnesses
were assembled in Washington DC for briefings with Congressmen, Pentagon
officials and others. There, we specifically requested open Congressional
Hearings on the subject. None were forthcoming.
In 1998, we set out to "privatize" the disclosure process
by raising the funds to videotape, edit, and organize over 100 military
and government witnesses to UFO events and projects. We had estimated
that between $2 million and $4 million would be needed to do this on a
worldwide basis. By August of 2000 only about 5% of this amount had been
raised but we decided to proceed since further delay was deemed imprudent
given the serious issues involved here. So beginning in August we began
creating the Witness Archive Project and we set about the task
of traveling all over the world to interview these witnesses in broadcast
quality digital video format. Due to the severe limitation of funds, this
effort was predominantly prepared by myself and a few other volunteers
roughly from August 2000 through December 2000.
Beginning in late December 2000, I began editing over
120 hours of raw digital video testimony at home. I should note that I
am a medical doctor and not an editor. Nevertheless, from late December
2000 until late February 2001 the 120 hours were reduced first to 33 hours
of select testimony and then 18 hours of super-select testimony. The 33
hours of select testimony were dubbed to audiotape and transcribed resulting
in approximately 1200 pages of testimony transcripts. In March and early
April, 2001 I edited these transcripts into a readable form, which appear
herein.
I must emphasize that this has been done under the most
severe time and funding constraints, working 7 days a week and mostly
18 hours a day. And I thought the Emergency Department was tough!
I share this only so the reader will understand that
these transcripts and other materials are very likely to contain errors.
These include likely errors in proper names arising from the phonetic
spelling of such names directly from transcribed audio tapes of testimony.
I apologize in advance for these.
The transcripts (that appear in the Briefing Document)
have only been altered to correct for a) length and b) grammar and readability.
I have assiduously avoided changing the meaning of testimony at all times.
Statements in brackets [ ] are for clarification. Statements in italics
and brackets [ ] reflect commentary on my part and are followed by my
initials, SG.
These materials are, as you can now discern, only the
tip of the iceberg of what we have recorded on digital videotape. That
is, from over 120 hours of testimony by over 100 witnesses we transcribed
only 33 hours and then further edited materials down to a fraction of
that amount. Moreover, the full archive represents the testimony of only
100 witnesses of the more than 400 identified to date. The edited testimony
will be appearing in book form. A portion of it appears in The Disclosure
Project Briefing Document and only small excerpts and summary bios of
testimony appear in this Executive summary. We hope in the future to secure
funding for a 5-6 part broadcast quality video documentary series to be
made from the videotaped testimony we have as the impact of hearing and
seeing these witnesses speak is very moving.
As you read this testimony remember that it is indeed
only the beginning. The rest is up to you: Call and demand that Congress
and the President and the leaders of other countries hold hearings into
this subject without delay. These witnesses welcome a subpoena so that
they may officially testify under oath to what they have experienced and
said here. Indeed, the most revealing testimony waits to be seen since
the deepest sources are refusing to come forward until protected through
official Congressional hearings.
This then brings me to my last point: The witnesses
who have given testimony to date are extraordinarily brave men and women
- heroes in my eyes - who have taken great personal risks in coming forward.
Some have been threatened and intimidated. All are risking the ever-present
ridicule that attends this subject. Not a single one of them has been
paid for his or her testimony: It has been given freely and without reservation
for the good of humanity. I wish to personally thank them here and extend
to them my personal, highest respect and gratitude.
Please, I implore you not to let this effort and their
sacrifice be in vain. Help us place this matter in front of the public,
the media, and our elected representatives so that the full truth may
be disclosed, so that those Earth-saving technologies now classified may
be released, and so humanity may enter a new chapter in its evolution
as one of many people in the cosmos.
This summary is focusing on the testimony of important
first-hand witnesses. We have thousands of government documents, hundreds
of photographs, trace landing cases and more, but it is impossible to
include them in a summary of this length. These materials will be made
available for any serious scientific or Congressional inquiry.
Steven M. Greer, M.D.
April 2001
