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This is a CSETI Project Starlight comprehensive briefing document, prepared by Steven M. Greer, M.D., director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and dated April 1997. It contains CSETI position papers arguing that the US government secretly holds extraterrestrial craft and that covert management of the subject threatens national security, along with letters to President Clinton seeking disclosure. It also includes government records, among them an FAA Charlotte Tower re-recording of a December 1977 police helicopter sighting.
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a."'ld a careta.~er, John -~ooeylll teet a!>a.e Solov:.., G;.te
o! t~e "Control Zone." · This object_appeared to be a."l ai:'cr.l!'t vmich ,-.-..~ ~t..rti:lg
t.o m~ke an out.side loop, trailing srnol!:e behind. Socn these two~ re..lized that
t.~e !"o:,:icrly ccscr:ibed smoke behind the aircra!'t. ,-;as a till. This object.
continu~c to descend in a controlli d dive, z:iue!i ilOTrer th~ an ai:-cra.i't. r-oul~
ove , ..nc! ,-;~en it app:-o!?.chec! the ground it l.evelled orr ..nC: !lew slor.ly, porillel
t.~ the brour:d. This object came -within tt'fo hun=-ed and ten (2.10) !eet or the
tt:o observors ~nd t :~:; paralleli.,g the cround at a~ro.":L"\ately the cpe-.,d that a
rn...n co:tld wtlk, at o height or cappro,:imatcly s; ;,c ( 6) !eet·. '::-ooper R~:- o;ttc::;,t~d
t.c. c:.;p:-oach tt;~ object but ,s he .ppronche~ the o!:>ject ~ecz::.~ =--...ller ca.-:: :-t~ t~c!
:r.c•: !.ng in• a soctheastc::-ly ciirectioo. This object is stld to have appro..ched ..
~:..~e {9) :oot. cyclone c~, ..i., l!.."lk .rence ~c! r:&ce a co:it:-olle~ i:.over.,ent t:: c:'!..:-
:.~.e .re:ice, then a v:oo,-: t:-ee, then a telephone post ...,c! ,.:...--e, a!te:- t.ti:::!': ,tr.c
object &ained htocientu,i .md oltituce .nc! cleorec a hill at •??!"ox:i!!l..tely on, ,1)
~~le a~ay. Th~ o~~ect. appeared to be p~hr sh.pee!. Vih~n this o~j~et ~.s c+e:- the
~ll it ~as :.?till -.risible as the S3Jne sized object that r.zs obser-,eC: "~e., ':uy
~ifty ( 50) !cct ai-:a:-·. (The c,:planation 61ven r..is that t.'lis obje:ct. c:-C"I': 1:.:-i;er
a:; it cuncd ul.titude and speed. )
lpp:-o:tl.r.lat.ely !ive minutes later the obje~ appe~ed a~ai:l ~a~ :-e~p~~red
!!"or:i ar,?:-oyJ:.-~tclr tt-e s.une loc.1tion !roc ~ich it had c.sa??e.u-ed. -;t:e cb~ct
w.. s SP.en as~ f i ve rr.inutes 1 ..ter !or ap;,roxi.zna":.ely .ten seco:ids.
Du:-ing the above hapreninss, U:-. John ~bne~er had vis~ re!ere:-.:~ o!
th:.~ object c:~in& its first slight !or :.;:,pro,d.::ia~ely seven cln~es. T:oo?er
~~er T:.s interrupted tt:'i.ce c!uri.ng· which times he eillec! bis heod~e:-s 1., ar.
:.ttcr.;:-t to get other observors. ,'..l.10, during the !&nt..stic: !1.1.ght o! t.his.
o~jec:t, ':'roo;,c:- nyner ~topped l.'.r. E. t;. Hig.'lto,,,r, ,.~o "'":i.S O!l t.hc high'fici;::" in ~
vehicle, to ve:-ify ,-~at t2s being seen. l!r. Hibhtor.er•s !t.tei:.ent subst.....,ti.. .. es
the description ~s be!o:-e.
!3y the tii:ie the object appecar ed the seconc! time, Joe :..rzecki, Copt. or the
•.t.c::ic ;;..,~rcr ·ccm--..ission Security Pat:-.:;l., r.as i=esen~ .nd. L.lso Yii~esse~ this
phenonienon.
-=:ach of the ob:.e:-vors descriced the object subst.v.-tiallr as !ollor.s:
a. ~~en t~e otject r..::s first si&ht:ed it ~paere~ to be nn "w-c:ratt,
trailing S!IIOY.e, o:- better described as "smoke ~Tit.1..~g.
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