GREER, Steven

Steven M. Greer is an emergency room physician who became a prominent figure in UFO disclosure advocacy. He founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) in 1990 and later the Disclosure Project in 1993, aimed at ending alleged government secrecy about UFO encounters and extraterrestrial contact.

Greer's Disclosure Project organized a 2001 National Press Club event featuring military and intelligence witnesses testifying about UFO encounters and government cover-ups. The event gained significant media attention and featured testimony from former military personnel, air traffic controllers, and government officials claiming knowledge of UFO incidents.

He has promoted controversial claims including "close encounters of the fifth kind" (CE-5), which he describes as human-initiated contact with extraterrestrial beings through meditation and consciousness protocols. Greer conducts paid workshops teaching these contact methods and claims to have successfully summoned UFOs during group meditation sessions.

Critics within the UFO research community have questioned Greer's methods, his commercial approach to UFO research, and some of his more extraordinary claims. Skeptics argue that his CE-5 protocols lack scientific rigor and that many of his claimed UFO sightings can be explained by conventional phenomena such as satellites, aircraft, or celestial objects.