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On May 9, 2001, Steven M. Greer took the lectern at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of the truth about unidentified flying objects. Greer, an emergency-room physician in Virginia and an outspoken ufologist, believed that the government had long withheld from the American people its familiarity with alien visitations. He had founded the Disclosure Project in 1993 in an attempt to penetrate the sanctums of conspiracy. Greer’s reckoning that day featured some twenty speakers. He provided, in support of his claims, a four-hundred-and-ninety-two-page dossier called the “Disclosure Project Briefing Document.” For public officials too busy to absorb such a vast tract of suppressed knowledge, Greer had prepared a ninety-five-page “Executive Summary of the Disclosure Project Briefing Document.” After some throat-clearing, the “Executive Summary” began with “A Brief Summary,” which included a series of bullet points outlin
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60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker, who cut in: Wait a minute. Every day for a couple of years? Mhmm, Graves replied.
60 Minutes report dedicated to the subject - signalled something new: UFOs are going mainstream. The shift - from kooky conspiracy to the object of congressional inquiry - has accelerated in recent years, fuelled by the revival of a Pentagon unit to investigate the sightings. And in the next six weeks, a report is due that is required to make public everything the government knows about UFOs. The report, which will be released in June, was mandated by an obscure provision in last year s US$2.3 trillion appropriations bill and requires the director of national intelligence to work with the secretary of defence on a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence gathered by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI.