Steven Greer

Born June 28, 1955 in Charlotte, North Carolina. At approximately age 8 (circa 1963), Greer witnessed a disc-shaped craft near his home — an experience that planted the seed for his life's work. At age 17, had a near-death experience that profoundly expanded his understanding of consciousness and non-local awareness, which he later connected to the CE-5 contact protocols. Crucially, Greer's uncle worked at Grumman Aerospace (now Northrop Grumman) on classified aerospace programs, reportedly including work connected to the lunar module and other advanced projects. Through his uncle, Greer had a family connection to the defense-aerospace world and gained early awareness that classified programs existed far beyond what the public knew. This wasn't someone who stumbled into the topic — he had a family line into the contractor world that later became central to his disclosure work. Studied at Appalachian State University, East Tennessee State University (medical degree), then Maharishi International University where he studied transcendental meditation — connecting medicine, meditation, and consciousness research. Became an emergency room physician and trauma department chairman at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, North Carolina. In the late 1980s, Greer began having direct contact experiences using meditation-based protocols, which convinced him the phenomenon responded to consciousness, not technology. This insight became the foundation of CE-5 (Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind) — human-initiated contact through coherent thought and intention. Founded CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in 1990 to formalize this approach. In 1993, briefed CIA Director James Woolsey and his wife at Woolsey's home — a full presentation on UAP evidence and the covert programs hiding it. Woolsey was reportedly stunned. That same year, founded The Disclosure Project. Throughout the 1990s, briefed members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, heads of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Pentagon officials, and foreign heads of state. Built a network of nearly 1,000 military, intelligence, and government whistleblowers willing to testify. On May 9, 2001, organized the landmark National Press Club event — over 20 credentialed witnesses including FAA Division Chief John Callahan, Sergeant Karl Wolfe (NASA lunar photos), and multiple military officers went on the record about UAP programs. This remains the single most concentrated public disclosure event in history. The event was months before 9/11, which buried the momentum. Met Monsignor Balducci at the Vatican in 1997. Briefed Admiral Thomas Wilson (J-2, Joint Staff intelligence) with Edgar Mitchell — the Wilson-Davis memo documents Wilson being denied access to a SAP involving recovered craft. Personally knew Eugene Mallove (murdered 2004), warned him to publish immediately, was ignored. Documented dozens of cases of scientists killed or bought out. Produced four major documentaries: Sirius (2013, the Atacama humanoid), Unacknowledged (2017, USAPs above presidential authority), Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020, CE-5 methodology), and The Lost Century (2023, suppressed energy and propulsion technologies). Claims the US has used EMP weapons to down 1,000-2,000 ET craft. States the Shawn Ryan Show was threatened after his appearances and that Joe Rogan banned him. Organizing the 25th anniversary NPC event for May 8, 2026 with new Green Beret and military whistleblowers. Left a lucrative medical career to do this full-time with no institutional backing — funded by speaking events and documentaries. Whatever one thinks of his more controversial claims, the factual record is that a trauma surgeon walked away from medicine to spend 35 years building the largest military/intelligence witness archive on UAPs in existence.