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NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF THE
UFO/ETI SUBJECT: A Brief Summary
by Steven M. Greer, M.D.
Copyright 1995
National security implications of the UFO/ETI subject
are profound and far-reaching, albeit currently
unrecognized.
These implications may be considered in separate but
related aspects: those intrinsic to extraterrestrial
activity and those arising from current covert
management of the issue.
Historical Background:
Early national security considerations dealt with
concern over public panic arising from the detection
of near-earth and earth-landed extraterrestrial
spacecraft (ETS), and from the technological
implications of advanced extraterrestrial material as
it may impact the arms race and Cold War. Additional
concerns were related to the impact on religious
belief systems, the political order and economic
systems.
Importantly, once actual ETS were retrieved in 1947,
thereby allowing extraterrestrial hardware to be
studied and back-engineered for possible human
military applications, the need for complete secrecy
regarding the matter was deemed paramount by
authorities at that time. Given the tensions of the
early atomic era and the mounting "Cold War" with
the USSR, it is understandable that the introduction
of extraterrestrial technology was thought to be
destabilizing to an already dangerous situation.
Moreover, given the history of technological secrets
related to atomic and hydrogen weapons being stolen by
agents of the USSR, there was understandable concern
that any technological breakthrough related to
extraterrestrial technology might find its way into
Soviet hands. If such an event enabled the USSR to
produce actual military applications before the US,
obviously this would have placed the US military
capability in a potentially catastrophic disadvantage.
Since the 1970's, we have reason to believe that a
degree of cooperation on this matter has evolved with
the USSR and the US and perhaps other nations.
Certainly the end of the Cold War has largely removed
earlier concerns vis a vis technological breakthroughs
and the fear of Soviet aggression.
Moreover, the psychological reasons for secrecy related
to public panic are not valid today. At least 57% of
the population accept that UFOs are real and are of
extraterrestrial origin. And 30-40 years of space
exploration by human society has prepared the population
for the possible existence of other extraterrestrial
civilizations capable of space travel. In short, the
previous concerns motivating secrecy are not relevant
today.
Intrinsically, there is no reason to believe that the
extraterrestrial presence pose a threat to the national
or world security. If hostility and aggression were
related to their purpose here, it is likely that events
congruent with hostility would have transpired long before
now. It is our assessment that the extraterrestrials are
not hostile, but are very concerned with human capability
related to warfare and the militarization of space.
Activity by extraterrestrial assets related to the
neutralization of ICBM facilities and to containing
military-oriented space exploration should be understood
in light of their concern over a known history of human
aggression which has been coupled with the advent of
weapons of mass destruction and space exploration.
Indeed, given the past history of human military assets
focusing on and pursuing extraterrestrial spacecraft, we
believe the extraterrestrials have responded with
remarkable restraint.
Ironically, the threat to national security exists
not with the extraterrestrial presence, but the current
covert management of the subject. In the absence of
extra-terrestrial hostility over 50 years, current
secrecy cannot be justified on the basis of fear of
extraterrestrial aggression. A disclosure related to
the extraterrestrial presence, if calmly and rationally
presented, will not cause panic in the USA or elsewhere.
1995 is not 1945, and world society has evolved to the
point where this information can be assimilated in a
positive fashion.
In contrast, the covert and apparently extra-
constitutional management of this matter is a real
threat to national and world security, and undermines
constitutional freedom and democracy. Unless it is
terminated, this covert management will greatly harm
US national security and the chances of a lasting
world peace.
Assessment:
It is our assessment that the current covert management
of this issue involves the following elements which are
a direct, immediate and ongoing threat to the national
security.
1. The continued denial of the extraterrestrial
presence creates a situation where a sudden, undeniable
public extraterrestrial event could induce panic, since
proactive disclosure efforts which could ameliorate
public fears are non-existent. It is likely that such
a public extraterrestrial event will transpire within
the next 2-10 years or sooner. Therefore, secrecy and
denial are a real threat to national and world security.
2. 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, extra-
terrestrial 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.
3. We have credible, first-hand sources who insist
that extraterrestrial spacecraft have been targeted by
human covert space weapons and on at least two occasions
have been destroyed. If true, the risks to world peace
and security are real and imminent, and the continuation
of these covert activities constitute the gravest dangers
to national and world security. Hostile actions taken by
human covert assets against extraterrestrial assets
constitute a grave and immediate threat to the national
security. A relatively small, covert entity, acting
without consultation with the United Nations, the Congress,
the President of the United States, or the public is
engaging in actions on behalf of all humans which endanger
the earth and world peace. Unless controlled, these
actions could precipitate interplanetary conflict and a
disaster for the world generally and the United States
specifically. This covert management must be terminated
and control of this issue returned to constitutional
authority and to public domain.
4. The concentration of the technological advances
related to the back-engineering of extraterrestrial
technology into the hands of a small covert operation
constitutes a grave and immediate threat to the national
security, to world security, and to the future of the
earth. These extraterrestrial technologies, which have
been the object of covert research and development for
over 45 years, are potentially of great benefit to
humanity if used wisely for peaceful purposes, but are
of immense danger when concentrated into a small covert
operation which is unresponsive to the public or the
legal and constitutional chain of command. The threat
this poses to the US and world security is great, and
the longer this situation continues, the greater the
concentration of advanced technological power in the
hands of a relative few. The secret control of such
powerful technologies is inherently a threat to freedom,
democracy, and to our nation and the world. Its
utilization for covert agendas outside constitutional
control represents a grave danger to the US and must be
restrained and reversed.
5. Importantly, secrecy and covert operatives per
se constitute a real threat to the national security,
since national security in a constitutional democracy
can only be legitimately related to freedom and
democratic government. Only in very rare and well-
justified circumstances can extreme secrecy and covert
operations exist, since by nature freedom and democracy
cannot coexist with unrestrained secrecy and secret
power. The profound implications of the detection of
extraterrestrial civilizations cannot be allowed to
be the exclusive domain of covert operations which are
unrelated to public discourse and consultation. To do
so is to undermine the US Constitution, democracy and
freedom, and this constitutes a real and grave threat
to national security.
6. Finally, exclusive covert control of this
matter has resulted and continues to result in the
loss of opportunity for the world to come to terms
with the extraterrestrial presence in a peaceful and
mutually beneficial fashion. This means that the people
of the world, the United Nations and other international
and national institutions are deprived of the opportunity
to deal rationally with this issue. National and world
security are therefore negatively impacted by the loss
of opportunities in the following areas:
> The environment, which is seriously at risk
for large-scale collapse over the next 100 years, would
be profoundly improved if extraterrestrial technologies
could be peacefully deployed. So-called zero point or
free energy systems, which are non-polluting, would
permit a sustainable technological civilization to exist
on earth and would transform the earth environmentally
and economically. Establishing peaceful and mutually
beneficial relations with extraterrestrial civilizations
would eventually permit us to understand and apply such
technologies.
> World unity and peace will be enhanced by the
global realization that we are not alone in the universe.
The acknowledgement of this fact will enhance the awareness
that we are really one people living on the shared homeland
of earth, and many of the conflicts currently afflicting
the earth will be seen in a new perspective. This can be
achieved without either deifying or demonizing the
extraterrestrial presence, but rather placing it in a fair,
scientific, and neutral light. Eventually, world peace and
a significant enhancement in the current geopolitical
situation may result from the disclosure that we are not
alone. An international infrastructure, and institutions
capable of dealing peacefully with relations with extra-
terrestrial civilizations would, of necessity, evolve, and
this in turn would strengthen world unity and cooperation.
> World culture, ideas, science and many other
diverse areas may benefit through the development of
peaceful relations with other worlds. While this process
may take decades, if not centuries, its delay only puts
off the time when the people of the earth will be united
not only globally, but with other planetary civilizations
as well.
In summary, it is imperative to the national security that
the President and Congress undertake measures to terminate
the secret, covert management of the UFO/ETI subject.
Failure to place this matter in open, public discourse and
control constitutes the gravest failure of democracy and
government in the history of the world. That we do this
is a test of our faith in democracy and our faith in the
people. As the 21st century approaches, we must roll up
the cancerous excesses of secrecy which are the legacy of
the Cold War and unfurl a new era wherein democracy is
reaffirmed and a lasting world peace is given a chance.
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