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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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l . 2 a T~ :-educe the potential for a panic reaction in society. the Ann~uncement should be spearheaded by civilian researchers and scient_ists. A government announcement alone may appear abrupt and alarr..ing. a Failu:-e to effect a change in policy and to provide disclosure on this subject by the · · · may result in regrettable outcomes for the Adm!nistration because: 1. The window of opportunity will have been lost. insofar as the end of the Cold War would be a relatively distant event and the new President and his appointed officials would have lost the protective aspect of beir.: new to their responsibilities. 2. G~ven the current increasing trend in extraterrestrial activity and incrE:asingly successful CSETI attempts to establish contact with these spacecraft (See CSETI Briefing Document). there is a very high prob:ibility that a major UFO event of a publicly undeniable nature will tran:;>ire before the current President's tenn expires in January, 1997. A controlled and well thought out Announcement and disclosure of eviccnce is much preferred over an uncontrolled and surprising event. \Nhile the former, if handled wisely. could have a unifying and beneficial effect on humanity. the latter would very likely have a negative and very destabilizing effect. Therefore, the highest risks are associated with non-disclosure. 3. By 1995, re-election concerns and other factors would make this process of diselosure increasingly risky due to the competitive and divisive nature of political campaigns. 4. Other governments are moving in the direction of disclosure on this subject, and the Japanese government is funding and has plans t(? open a major museum on UFOs/ETI in 1996, before the current President's term expires. 5. Other civilian UFO groups who have a decidedly confrontative approach to the U.S. government are_ building a base of both congressional and grass roots support which may prove_emba~ssl~g to the government and military in the U.S. In contrast, ProJect Starlight 1s committed to working cooperatively with the U.S. government and avoiding language or evidence which would be harmful or embarrassing.
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 345 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.