Steven Macon Greer was born in 1955. He is an American person who studies UFOs and was once a doctor. He started two groups: the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and the Disclosure Project. These groups aim to share information about UFOs that some people say are kept secret.

Early life and education

Greer was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1955. He reported seeing an unidentified flying object at close range when he was eight years old and another UFO when he was 18 years old.

He was trained as a Transcendental Meditation teacher and worked as a director of a meditation organization during the early 1970s.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Appalachian State University in 1982 and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University in 1987.

Medical career

Greer earned his medical license in Virginia in 1989 and worked in the emergency room. In 1998, he retired from his job as a doctor to focus on his work studying UFOs.

Ufology career

Greer started the Center for the Study of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) in 1990 to create a program focused on diplomacy and research to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations. The group described CE-5, or "close encounters of the fifth kind," as human-initiated contact and communication with extraterrestrial life. CSETI reports having over 3,000 confirmed UFO sightings by pilots and over 4,000 instances of what they call landing traces. The organization uses RAMITs, or "Rapid Mobilization Investigative Teams," to reach landing sites quickly. CSETI has developed a protocol involving psychic methods for human-initiated contact with UFOs.

In 1993, Greer created the Disclosure Project, which aims to publicly share information about the government's supposed knowledge of UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and advanced energy and propulsion systems. Greer describes the Disclosure Project as an effort to offer protection to government whistleblowers who are willing to break their security oaths to reveal classified UFO information.

In October 1994, Greer appeared on Larry King's TV special The UFO Coverup? In May 2001, Greer held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., which included 20 retired Air Force, Federal Aviation Administration, and intelligence officers.

Documentaries

In 2013, Greer helped produce Sirius, a documentary that explains his work and ideas about alien life, government secrets, and close encounters of the fifth kind. The film was directed by Amardeep Kaleka and narrated by Thomas Jane. It covers Greer’s 2006 book Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge. The movie first showed in Los Angeles, California, on April 22, 2013, and includes interviews with former government and military officials. Sirius shows a six-inch (15 cm) human skeleton called the Atacama skeleton, which some claimed was alien. However, genetic testing proved it was human, with genetic markers linked to indigenous women from South America. The director of the lab that studied the skeleton said, “It’s an interesting medical mystery of a person born with unusual physical problems.”

In 2017, Unacknowledged, a documentary featuring Greer, was released. It was directed by Michael Mazzola and narrated by Giancarlo Esposito. The film first appeared on iTunes and other digital platforms on May 9, 2017, and reached the top spot on those platforms worldwide, and number two in the United States.

In April 2020, Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact has Begun was released. The documentary was directed and written by Michael Mazzola and includes Greer, Daniel Sheehan, Jan Harzan, and Russell Targ. A film critic from Variety called the movie “fantasy propaganda” and said it presents the idea that the government has hidden information from the public. Another critic from the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film was “too long and unfocused,” focusing more on unrelated stories than making a clear argument. A writer from The Hollywood Reporter noted that the film was “too enthusiastic about its strange ideas” and claimed it incorrectly grouped recent UFO-related news into a misleading story about government efforts to create fear and support a “one-world government” for an “interplanetary war.” The critic also said that although Greer has discussed UFOs for many years, he has never managed to get an alien spacecraft to come close enough for a clear photograph.