The Disclosure Project

The Disclosure Project is a UFO/UAP advocacy and witness-testimony campaign led by Steven Greer, a retired emergency physician who also founded CSETI, The Orion Project, and Sirius Technology Advanced Research.¹ Greer describes the project as an effort begun in 1993 to identify firsthand military, intelligence, government, aviation, corporate, and scientific witnesses to UFO events, alleged covert programs, and related evidence that could support public disclosure.²

The project is best understood as a Greer-centered advocacy network rather than a conventional scientific society. Its core activities have included witness intake, edited testimony packages, press conferences, documentary projects, legal appeals, and calls for Congress or the President to grant immunity so witnesses can testify publicly about classified matters.²³

  Origin and Purpose

Greer says the initiative began in 1993 with briefings to members of the Clinton Administration, CIA Director James Woolsey, senior military officials, Pentagon personnel, and selected members of Congress.² In April 1997, more than a dozen government and military witnesses were assembled in Washington DC for briefings where the project requested open congressional hearings; none followed.²

By 1998, Greer shifted toward a private disclosure strategy: raise funds, videotape witnesses, edit testimony, and prepare a public record if official hearings did not happen.² The project estimated a need for $2 million to$4 million but had raised only a small fraction by August 2000, so Greer and volunteers proceeded with a lower-budget witness-archive effort.²

The resulting 2001 briefing materials framed disclosure as a political, environmental, and national-security issue. The project urged open hearings on UFO and extraterrestrial claims, disclosure of alleged advanced energy and propulsion systems, a ban on space-based weapons, and peaceful cooperation in space.²

  Leadership and Network

  2001 National Press Club Event

The Disclosure Project's signature public event was the May 9, 2001 National Press Club press conference in Washington DC. The project says more than twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate, and scientific witnesses came forward to support its claims about UFOs, extraterrestrial craft, advanced energy systems, and reverse-engineering programs.³ Contemporary press coverage described roughly twenty witnesses at the front of the room, including retired military figures such as Robert Salas, Graham Bethune, Charles L. Brown, and Clifford Stone.⁴

Greer used the event to call for UFO files to be declassified, congressional hearings to be held, space weapons to be banned, and peaceful exploration to include "all cultures on Earth and in space."⁷ The project also told reporters it had identified several hundred witnesses worldwide who were willing, under the right legal protections, to testify before Congress.⁷

The event drew real media attention but not the official response Greer sought. The Washington Post characterized the presentation as heavy on witness authority and light on conventional scientific evidence, while Wired quoted skeptics asking for concrete proof such as recoverable hardware, biological material, or independently testable physical evidence.⁴⁷

  Witness Archive Activity

The Disclosure Project's early archive was built from a rapid 2000-2001 effort to capture and edit witness interviews. Greer's 2001 executive summary says the project recorded more than 120 hours of raw digital video testimony from over 100 witnesses, reduced it to 33 hours of selected testimony and 18 hours of more concentrated material, and generated about 1,200 pages of transcripts.²

The modern Sirius Disclosure site says the project has coordinated over 800 whistleblowers and hosts a witness-testimony playlist with 61 recorded testimonials.³ In April 2024, Greer announced that the Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive was available to the public after a digitization effort covering 33 years of research, including documents, videos, photographs, and witness-related material.⁶ The archive was launched as open access but explicitly described as unfinished, needing years of refinement, categorization, labeling, and professional archival work.⁶

  Later Press Events and Media

The project continued to repackage its archive and claims through films, online evidence pages, paid events, policy statements, and new press conferences.¹³⁸

On June 12, 2023, Greer promoted a Disclosure 2.0 National Press Club event that promised new top-secret testimony, the beginnings of the Intelligence Archive, and a legal team seeking attorneys with expertise in whistleblower protection, constitutional law, congressional procedure, RICO actions, and related areas.⁵ As of May 5, 2026, Greer's site listed a May 8-9, 2026 "25 Years of Disclosure" event in Washington DC.⁶

  Claims

The Disclosure Project's claims are sweeping. Its public materials assert that UFOs and extraterrestrial vehicles are real, that some technologies have been recovered or reverse-engineered, that advanced energy and propulsion systems have been suppressed, and that secrecy has persisted through illegal or extra-constitutional programs embedded in military, intelligence, and corporate structures.²³⁸

Greer's more recent framing also emphasizes a distinction between extraterrestrial visitors and alleged man-made UAP systems. The project argues that secrecy around both categories risks weaponization, false threat narratives, and continued dependence on fossil fuels.⁸

These claims are usually presented through witness testimony, narrative dossiers, declassified or alleged documents, and Greer's interpretation of technical and political patterns. The project has not produced public, independently verified craft, bodies, propulsion systems, or chain-of-custody materials that would settle its strongest claims by normal scientific or legal standards.⁴⁷⁹

  Influence

The Disclosure Project helped popularize a now-familiar UAP disclosure playbook: assemble credentialed witnesses, call for congressional immunity, present secrecy as a democratic-oversight problem, and connect UFO evidence to aerospace, energy, and national-security policy.²⁷ The 2001 National Press Club event became a durable reference point for later activists even though it did not produce immediate congressional hearings.¹⁰

The project also influenced the internal politics of UFO advocacy. Journalist Leslie Kean, who later helped bring UAP coverage into mainstream outlets, told The New Yorker she saw credible people at the 2001 event but also viewed some claims as too grandiose and unsupported for the strategy she wanted to pursue.¹⁰ That split foreshadowed a broader division between Greer's extraterrestrial-and-energy-suppression thesis and a more cautious UAP framing centered on military sensor data, aviation safety, and unresolved cases.

  Criticism and Evidentiary Limits

The central criticism is evidentiary: the project has collected many statements from people with impressive backgrounds, but rank and sincerity do not establish the underlying claims. Contemporary reporters noted that the 2001 event relied heavily on witness authority and did not provide publicly testable proof proportionate to claims about extraterrestrial bodies, retrieved craft, anti-gravity systems, or covert energy breakthroughs.⁴⁷

Government reviews have not validated the project's strongest assertions. AARO's 2024 historical review found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel had confirmed a UAP sighting as extraterrestrial technology, and found no empirical evidence that the U.S. government or private companies had reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology.⁹ AARO also concluded that many modern hidden-program claims were tied to circular reporting among believers, misidentification of real classified programs, poor data, and interviewees without firsthand access to the alleged programs.⁹

That does not make every witness account worthless. The project's archive preserves a large corpus of testimony that researchers can compare against documents, dates, agencies, aircraft records, sensor reports, and later official disclosures. Its historical value is strongest as a record of disclosure advocacy and witness culture; its weakest point remains the gap between extraordinary claims and independently verifiable evidence.

  References

  References

1. Dr. Steven Greer - "About" https://drstevengreer.com/about-us/index.html ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. The Disclosure Project - "Executive Summary of the Disclosure Project Briefing Document" https://drstevengreer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ExecutiveSummary-LRdocs.pdf ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

3. Dr. Steven Greer - "Evidence" https://drstevengreer.com/evidence/index.html ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

4. The Washington Post - "They're Out There" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/technology/2001/05/09/theyre-out-there/531b5034-6a7e-464a-9d63-55bf78f759bd/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

5. Dr. Steven Greer - "Save the Date: June 12, 2023! Dr. Greer's Groundbreaking National Press Club Event!" https://drstevengreer.com/save-the-date-june-12-2023-dr-greers-groundbreaking-national-press-club-event-free-to-watch/ ↩ ↩²

6. Dr. Steven Greer - "Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive - NOW AVAILABLE" https://drstevengreer.com/dpia/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

7. Wired - "Ooo-WEE-ooo Fans Come to D.C." https://www.wired.com/2001/05/ooo-wee-ooo-fans-come-to-d-c/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

8. Dr. Steven Greer - "The Unacknowledged Threat" https://drstevengreer.com/document/the-unacknowledged-threat/ ↩ ↩² ↩³

9. All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office - "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I" https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-CLEARED-508-COMPLIANT-HRRV1-08-MAR-2024-FINAL.PDF ↩ ↩² ↩³

10. The New Yorker - "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously ↩ ↩²