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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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-2- 0000 0 7 ).. At 10:00 U1 on 4 J.uc 50 u X va1 checkiDc the ccapu1 at m.4-bridge ~ a briqe port bol~ I observed a tlJina obJcct ott t.be •tarboard ~v. I i=lediatel.7 shouted to the C3p~ vbo vu 1D ~e chart rooz. and tbe Chi.et Hi~ vbo va1 belov on the port deck, ot '11tY observation and ·vent out or. tbe tl71DG bridge •z:o,aelt. 1'be obJect vu app::"Ox:1.m&tely 70' abo..-e tbe "borizo:i at a 411tance or l2 :ilea. It cue tovvd ur, then ran on a course reciprocil.l. · to ours eD4 tun,ed :,ff into the horizon ill the nortbeut. I clearly HY lta sbadov on the vat.a-. M.T impression or the object 'S"U that it vas ell1pt1c&l• ·• aot unlike a .Tepaneae d1a::iond l,ox kite ill shape. I haTe no idea or its she but the ler.i;th Vila about ai.x ti::ies the bread~h and -" bad a depth or troi11 tw to fiTe teet. It mde DO noise an4 was travelilig at • t.rce~~ rate o! speed. As it traveled throus}l the air~ 1t u.4e a spizmilig or vobbly motion. After it disappcL-ed in the horizon, l sav it reappear aeveral seco~ later, u- cecdilla at an e ven faster speed tben vhen I fit"rt observed it. • I bave-iio idea vhat this object ns, I never 11av anything cocipuable to it "before, and it va11 one of t!i~ D':>St f'r1gbten1ng experiences I bave · ever hGd. I rouchly estimate t!lat the object traveled 2S miles d..iri~g the 15 seconds I bad it under obaervation. Tc~ue~tor;, ~r Tti~Chiet' ;;., !h1rd ~..ie. ~ --~m1evec1· :on s !~ ~ two t;ie~or-orncers~ The Captain, who vu abaent at that time, vila 1.zrterr- - ,ed OD 9 !ugust b7" on1,- one ·of the tvo Intellicen.ce Otticere. In deecribing tb3 ocearrence; t ha. Cbid and Third ¥.ate, reenaetec! ~•ir behartom- at tbe till• ot lighting, and the period tr= the tae the Cbie.t Mate aa.v the object abeam ,mUl he reached the after d&clc &M aav it dliappe.a.r ott the starboard qua.rt.er va1 timed at 15 eeconds. le layillg -ui.,- uglff or obee:rnt1cm·:out 011 a cba.rt and aasi:miac the object vas tsn miles dieta:it and takiDg· the-:ttme !Jrt,,· accoant, it 1• ffident it -.ae carta1.cly traveling d a YflrT biga ·rate ot epeed, vhic.h approxil:lated 400 to ~C\J tiles per hour. It v1Il be t.ote.d that there is & trcendou1 diacrep&ncy bet.wen tb<- · Captain' a esti:mte· or the •peed &lld the eetilll.ate of the tvo ortieere llhlc.h .:ould not be expla..illed as they vero nry caref".il in making their statements az:id asserted that I ,their o~e..-ntions had been correct. ill three men vere quite evidentl7 Tef"f z:n1ch upset by t he sight!.z:i.G. Aside ·rrom the di&crepancies, it wss quite ev!dent to the lntelligez:ice Ctf1cere v.io i.nterviwed tbe~e mec that they bad certai.nl7 eeec •0111• I nr, ULusual object vhich they could cot id'?ct!.l'y but vas just as certainl.7 not ~ conventional type or a.irera.tt. II -end- a "DC\tfVAL l\~C:CRD iu:,.st:1\ET\Jruq'I'O ~- .... .--~~..... __.. .... , '
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