Steven Greer

Dr. Steven M. Greer is a retired emergency physician who since 1990 has orchestrated a global UFO disclosure lobby combining citizen diplomacy, whistle-blower testimony and streaming-era documentaries.¹²

He introduced the CE-5 "human-initiated contact" protocol, ran the 2001 National Press Club briefing that showcased more than twenty military witnesses,³ and finances continuing field expeditions through films such as Sirius (2013), Unacknowledged (2017), Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020), The Cosmic Hoax (2021) and The Lost Century (2023).⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸ Proponents value his extensive witness archive; detractors question his vetting standards and fundraising methods.⁹¹⁰

Steven Macon Greer was born 28 June 1955 in Charlotte, North Carolina. He completed undergraduate biology studies at Appalachian State University, earned an MD from the University of North Carolina, and became director of emergency services at Caldwell Memorial Hospital while independently gathering pilot and military testimony on unexplained aerial events.¹

  Career snapshot

  Transition to UFO activism

In 1990 Greer founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) to promote citizen diplomacy with non-human intelligences. He left clinical practice in 1998 to focus full-time on policy advocacy, arguing that secrecy around advanced propulsion threatens global stability and violates constitutional oversight.¹²

  Timeline

  Disclosure Project initiatives

Greer launched the Disclosure Project in 1993, assembling hundreds of government, military, and corporate witnesses willing to testify under oath. On 9 May 2001 he hosted a National Press Club briefing where more than twenty former officials described radar tracks, crash retrievals, and intimidation — a presentation later submitted to members of Congress and the United Nations.²³

  Collaborators and network

  CE-5 contact protocols

Greer teaches "Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind" field methodologies that combine group meditation, coherent thought sequencing, and directed laser signaling to initiate interactive sightings. He documents these exercises in the handbook Contact — Countdown to Transformation and in live training expeditions held worldwide.²⁴

  Funding and media ventures

Crowdfunding and private donors financed the documentary Sirius (2013), which claimed evidence for exotic propulsion and free-energy research. Subsequent films Unacknowledged (2017) and Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020) widened public awareness and generated substantial streaming revenue, supporting Greer's Sirius Disclosure media platform and mobile applications.⁴²⁵

  Criticism and controversy

Skeptics highlight the 2013 Atacama skeleton episode, where geneticists identified a supposed extraterrestrial specimen as a human fetus, and question Greer's assertions of weaponized zero-point energy. Mainstream ufologists such as Richard Dolan criticise his pay-to-participate expeditions and speculative claims about covert false-flag operations.²⁶²⁷

  Influence on contemporary UAP policy

Greer's archival witness statements circulated among Hill staff during drafting of the 2017 2060 NDAA UAP provisions. Several later whistleblowers, including David Grusch, have cited Disclosure Project materials when describing compartmented aerospace programs, although legislators treat the evidence as preliminary.

  Selected works

• Extraterrestrial Contact (1999)
• Hidden Truth — Forbidden Knowledge (2006)
• Unacknowledged (2017)
• Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020)

  Impact and reception

The 2001 press event pre-dated later government UAP admissions and remains the largest single-day civilian witness showcase.³ His films regularly enter top-ten documentary charts on iTunes and Netflix, drawing millions of viewers.⁵ The CE-5 smartphone app has spawned local contact teams in more than ninety countries.¹³ Lawmakers occasionally cite Disclosure Project briefings preserved at the Clinton Presidential Library, though no formal hearings have followed.²⁸

DNA analysis showed the Atacama "alien" skeleton to be a human fetus with genetic disorders, challenging Greer's claim.²⁶²⁰ A 1999 letter from Woolsey's party disputed Greer's characterisation of their dinner, prompting a public rebuttal.¹⁸ Watchdog researchers allege he mixes documented testimony with unverified anecdotes for fundraising.¹⁰

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