The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race

by Len Kasten

  Consonant with the goals of Project Starlight, in the fall of 1993, CSETI began a series of briefings of top international figures to educate them as to the real facts of the extraterrestrial presence. This process included briefings with senior Clinton-administration officials, CIA Director James Woolsey, former head of the U.K. Ministry of Defense and five-star admiral Lord Hill-Norton, United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, other senior United Nations officials, members of Congress, and senior Pentagon officials. Woolsey, director of the CIA from 1993 to 1995, later a Washington lobbyist, and now a partner in a venture capital firm, publicly expressed indignation that Greer characterized his meeting on December 13, 1993, at the home of a mutual friend and including all their wives, as a “briefing,” claiming that it was simply a dinner party and nothing more. Greer claims that Woolsey had no previous knowledge of much of the information he conveyed to him that night.

  GOVERNMENT ULTIMATUM

  In a dramatic briefing paper titled “National Security Implications of the UFO/ETI Subject,” dated August 30, 1995, Greer cited all the cogent and compelling reasons why he believed continued secrecy to be both dangerous and unconstitutional. He said, in part, “The current covert management of this issue appears to be operating independently and outside of the constitutional chain of command. The group controlling these operations, which involves reconnaissance, extraterrestrial technology back-engineering, and space-based targeting of ETS (among others) is non-responsive to congressional or Executive Branch oversight and control. This constitutes a real and grave threat to national security and to constitutional democracy and freedom.”

  Not shrinking from this challenge, Greer, on November 15, 1996, under the aegis of CSETI Project Starlight, sent a letter to all of the top U.S. government officials, including the president, advising them that unless they objected in writing, all security oaths related to UFO activity taken by government officials, presumably including military and intelligence personnel, would be considered null and void because such oaths existed outside of “legal constitutional oversight and control.” The letter stated, “UNLESS OTHERWISE DIRECTED, this assessment would be regarded as accurate and all such government witnesses would be free to speak openly as of 1 January 1997.” This was a bold and unprecedented act by a private citizen. Remarkably, almost all of the recipients of the letter sent an acknowledgement, and the deadline date came and went without the receipt of a single objection, warning, or threat! Thus, on that date, January 1, 1997, Project Disclosure officially began.

  PROJECT DISCLOSURE

  At the commencement of Project Starlight in 1993, Greer began identifying, seeking out, and interviewing military and government witnesses to UFO events who were willing to talk. He also started gathering as much hard evidence as he could find. By the time Project Disclosure began, he had amassed an impressive cast of witnesses. In April 1997, more than a dozen such government and military witnesses were assembled at the Westin Hotel in Washington, D.C., for briefings with members of Congress, Pentagon officials, and others in an attempt to persuade Congress to hold open, secrecy-free hearings on the UFO and ET presence and advanced energy and propulsion systems that could conceivably provide solutions to global environmental challenges; to enact legislation to ban all space-based weapons; and to develop and explore space peacefully. The members of Congress weren’t interested. If they were impressed by the witnesses, they didn’t admit to it. At that point, Greer realized that he had to take his case to the press and the people.

  For the next four years, CSETI continued to identify and interview witnesses. By early 2001, it had an army of several hundred such witnesses covering every branch of the armed services, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the DIA, the CIA, and NASA. Internationally, the witnesses included high officials of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other agencies and countries. Over one hundred interviews had been videotaped, and seventy were transcribed into edited testimony. A four-hour videotape summary of testimony and a document of more than five hundred pages were produced. Virtually all of the people involved were prepared to testify before Congress.

  In his Project Disclosure description, Greer said, “The weight of this testimony, along with supporting government documents and other evidence, establishes beyond any doubt the reality of extraterrestrial life forms, UFOs, or extraterrestrial vehicles, and advanced energy and propulsion technologies resulting from the study of these vehicles . . . The testimony and evidence proves that these vehicles have been tracked on radar on many occasions, have landed and/or crashed on terra firma, and have been retrieved and studied by specialized and compartmentalized projects. Advanced technologies which have been identified from the study of these vehicles, once disclosed, will replace currently used forms of energy generation and propulsion. These technologies will enable the Earth to attain a sustainable civilization without pollution, energy shortages, or global warming.” And further, “These numerous recorded witnesses constitute only a small portion of a vast pool of identified present or former military, intelligence, corporate, aviator, flight control, law enforcement officers, scientists and other witnesses, who will come forward when subpoenaed to testify at Congressional hearings.”

  Some of the witnesses were very highly placed in the government, and much of the testimony confirms information previously considered wild-eyed and highly speculative, thus salvaging the reputations of many investigators who had sometimes been ridiculed and under attack. All of the witness briefing documents as well as an executive summary are available at the Project Disclosure website, www.disclosureproject.org, as of this writing. Be assured, even the most jaded UFO researchers will be astounded at what they find in this material.

  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 alread
y 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

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  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.”*20

  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.*21 All 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).

  Adamski’s meeting with Orthon (art by Jim Nichols)

  The Roswell crash, July 1947 (art by Jim Nichols)

  Antigravity disc at Area 51 (art by Jim Nichols)

  NASA pulsar map

  Panoramic view of Biosphere 2

  Biosphere 2 interior

  Hybrid face on Time magazine cover

  Folded space creates a wormhole.

  The Eye of Horus, the “Sky King.”

  The Followers of Horus were ancestors of the pharaohs.

  Nazi flying disc (art by Jim Nichols)

  Nazi Antarctic base (art by Jim Nichols)

  Secrets of the pharaohs (art by Jim Nichols)

  Atlantis (art by Jim Nichols)

  Pleiadian starbase (art by Jim Nichols)

  There is no record that Shandera and Moore ever made their movie, but for Friedman, this providential “package from heaven” was a life-changing event and launched him on a twelve-year research and writing project that culminated in the publication of the definitive book on the subject of MJ-12, Top Secret/Majic. Friedman’s interest in UFOs is unusual. He’s a nuclear physicist, and ufology does not usually attract scientists, probably for the same reason that physicians, who are also scientists, have such difficulty accepting alternative medicine. Friedman presents an interesting contrast with Carl Sagan, his classmate at the University of Chicago, where both were majoring in physics from 1953 to 1956. Sagan, as Friedman discusses in his book and as everyone knows, was an outspoken debunker of ufology. Sagan says in his classic book, Cosmos, “We maintain that there is no credible evidence for the Earth being visited, now or ever.”*22 But Friedman always kept an open mind.

  After getting his master’s degree in 1956, Friedman went to work on the development of compact nuclear reactor engines for advanced aircraft. That became his specialty, and he worked on various aspects of this cutting-edge technology for several large aerospace companies, including General Electric Aircraft, Aerojet General Nucleonics, General Motors’ Allison Division, Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory, McDonnell Douglas, and TRW. Since this research was always carried out in secret, often with money from “black budgets,” Friedman usually carried a top-secret clearance. The media and the public were never made aware that we were trying to develop aircraft powered by nuclear reactors.

  “SPECIAL REPORT 14”

  Friedman’s classified work took him to places where UFO-related activities were tantalizingly close but just out of his scope. One such place was the Air Force’s Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Base in Dayton, Ohio. This was where Project Blue Book was administered and where alien craft propulsion systems were being studied. Project Blue Book, initiated by the Air Force in early 1952, was the follow-on operation to Project Sig
n and Project Grudge, both designated to receive and analyze UFO reports. Blue Book was directed by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, who was very conscientious and thorough. It was Ruppelt who retained the analytical services of the Battelle Memorial Institute.*23 Ruppelt left the project in September 1953, replaced by Airman First Class Max Futch, who was replaced by Captain Charles Hardin in 1956. Evidently Hardin was replaced later by Major Friend.

  Friedman met Major Friend, the head of Project Blue Book, who allowed him into the “vault inside a vault” at the Battelle, but only with an escort. The Battelle had in its archives all of the thousands of reports and evaluations of UFO sightings that were turned over to Blue Book. This was Friedman’s first introduction to UFO literature, and he was astounded and fascinated.