World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues
By Steven M Greer
, M.D.
Since the end of the Second
World War, the US military industrial complex has secretly sponsored at
great public cost the R&D of new technologies for energy
generation, air and outer space flight, futuristic weaponry and other
mostly military ends, which have not been made available for the common
good. Yet today’s environmental and economic emergencies dictate that
the accumulated know-how be used for the benefit of mankind in its
peaceful applications.
[ [There] exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its
own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its
own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances,
and free from the law itself. — Senator Daniel K Inouye
In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military
Industrial Complex.. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this
combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should
take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can
compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery
of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and
liberty may prosper together
— President Eisenhower – January 1961
The above address by two-term Republican US President and five-
star Army General Dwight Eisenhower was issued as a prescient warning
when he left office in 1961. Many have wondered why such a
conservative, pro-military president would issue such a warning. We now
know why. The Disclosure Project, an NGO based in the United States,
has identified several hundred military, intelligence and corporate
witnesses to illegal and extra-constitutional projects that have
suppressed information and prevented public access to technologies
which could provide a definitive replacement for oil, coal, nuclear
power and other conventional energy sources.
These technologies have been both acquired and developed by military
and industrial interests in the US, UK and other countries that have
repeatedly lied to or withheld this information from legally
constituted authorities and the public. This information has the
potential to completely transform the current state of the world in the
areas of technology, energy production, propulsion, the environment and
geopolitical issues related to oil and energy supplies. In short, a
sustainable, non-polluting and affluent civilisation could be created
by the wise application of these technologies, and many of the most
pressing crises facing the world community could have been avoided if
it had not been for the deliberate suppression of such technological
knowledge.
While “national security concerns” have been invoked as reasons for
such secrecy, in reality the policy is driven by the resolve to
maintain the current “status quo” based on the pre-eminence of oil and
fossil fuels and related special interests. By the time President
Eisenhower left, a transformation had occurred in the structure of
Western military, intelligence and corporate programmes. The urgent
pressures of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War with the Soviets
had created an atmosphere of extreme secrecy, dwarfing the secret
infrastructure surrounding the Manhattan Project that built the atomic
bomb during the Second World War.
The fate of the free world was at stake, and no expense was spared
to create the means to advance technologies within the dark womb of
secrecy. A culture evolved that required such secrecy for national
survival and the “need-to-know-only” requirements of such programmes
were further reinforced by the well-known espionage scandals of that
era, including that of the Rosenbergs. However, such a culture of
generally regarded justifiable secrecy also created opportunities for
abuse within the military, intelligence, corporate and laboratory
complex. Classified programmes, appropriately structured to require a
genuine need-to-know situation in order for one to have access to them,
became increasingly “compartmented”, restricted and shadowy.
Mechanisms for funding became Byzantine and obscure; programme
structures were hidden with cover stories, “store front” operations and
became virtually impenetrable; and the people within such programmes
found themselves at once increasingly isolated and strangely empowered.
It was in this womb, awash with billions of dollars of so-called “black
budget” funding, that extreme (and many would maintain essential)
secrecy gave birth to the monster of rogue, illegal and powerful
“unacknowledged special access projects” (USAPs) dealing with a number
of unusual phenomena and technologies.
In the world of USAPs, compart-mentalisation is so great, the need
to know so restricted and the information so important, that meaningful
supervision by the constitutionally required authorities in the US, UK
and other countries became simply impossible. Here, “unacknowledged”
means that nobody is ever told about the project unless he absolutely
needs to know and is directly required to be involved in operations.
Even if a senior official inquires, the answer is “no such project
exists.” Moreover, the milieu of the “revolving door” world of
military, intelligence and corporate programmes created corporate and
financial influences that ran counter to genuine “national security”
interests or any legitimate public interest. Especially in the United
States, the multi-billion dollar expenditures on military technologies,
research and development programmes and outsourced services and
operations allowed for a comingling of public finances and private
interests. This, combined with the extreme compartmentalisation of
programmes, allowed for serious abuses of the public trust to take
place. Ultimately, such programmes — networked carefully with other
programmes and corporate research — became so restrictive that legal
authorities were routinely and as a matter of course left out of the
loop. Ultimately, those left out of the loop would become members of
Congress and even the US president. Indeed, when President Eisenhower
left office, operations had become so complex and out of control, that
he was convinced he was being shut out of vital developments and
operations. In the years since, matters have decayed exponentially to
the point that we estimate today some $100 billion per year go into
unacknowledged programmes escaping the substantial knowledge of the US
president and US Congress.
USAP AND ADVANCED ENERGY AND PROPULSION SYSTEMS The “crown jewels”
of such USAPs are those connected to very advanced energy and
propulsion systems. In the 1940s and 1950s, a concerted effort was made
to investigate a number of phenomena related to emerging sciences,
including those associated with electromagnetism and
electro-gravitic/magneto-gravitic technologies for their promising
potential in creating energy and propulsion systems valuable to urgent
defence projects. During that era, particular interest was paid to what
the public call UFOs (unidentified flying objects). It is important to
note that the term UFO was only coined after covert programmes
discovered that such objects were neither unidentified nor “flew” in
any conventional sense of the word. Indeed, the majority of the
information and culture associated with UFOs is disinformation designed
to deflect serious scientific, media or mainstream governmental
inquiry.
People have been systematically deceived for half a century. UFOs
well-documented aerial phenomena, some of which are extra-terrestrial
vehicles whereas others are advanced covert government aircraft using
energy and propulsion technologies that could transform life on earth.
It should be noted that the man-made devices are the result of
illegally classified research and development (and acquisition) of
technologies as well as the study of retrieved extraterrestrial
vehicles. Once technological breakthroughs were made, the secrecy
associated with these projects became extraordinary.
Indeed, the clandestinity surrounding these advanced energy and
propulsion devices far exceeded the secrecy that shrouded the
development of the hydrogen bomb. From a November 21, 1950
(authenticated) top secret Canadian document:
I [the author] made discreet enquiries through the Canadian Embassy
staff in Washington who were able to obtain for me the following
information: a. The matter is the most highly classified subject in the
United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. b. Flying
saucers exist. c. Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated
effort is being made by a small group headed by Dr Vannevar Bush. d.
The entire matter is considered by the United States authorities to be
of tremendous significance.
Putting aside the aura of silliness that surrounds the subject in
pop culture, the media and the tabloids, over 2000 pages of documents
released to the Disclosure Project by the US, UK, Spanish and other
governments clearly establish the importance of the matter at the time.
Space here does not allow inclusion of even a sampling of these
documents but they may be viewed, in part, on our website and reviewed
in the book Disclosure by this author.
Today, this subject usually elicits laughter, embarrassment and
dismissal. This is certainly understandable since at least 99 per cent
of everything said, written, filmed or otherwise placed in the public
domain on the subject is outright deception. But in the corridors of
power — and especially in the corridors of covert programmes — the
matter is of utmost importance. This is because at the core of this
enigma lies a body of science that eliminates in one generation the
need for oil, fossil fuels and the related pollution and establishes a
truly sustainable world civilisation exempt from poverty as we know it.
The relentless ridicule associated with the UFO subject matter is
deliberate and staged: It hides a profound body of knowledge dwarfing
the changes that have transpired from the industrial revolution until
today by several orders of magnitude.
In a letter to Congress, first CIA Director Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter had this to say: It is time for the truth to be brought
out … Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly
concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule,
many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are
nonsense … I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers
from secrecy about unidentified flying objects… We have identified
nearly 500 military, corporate, intelligence and laboratory witnesses
to events and programmes connected to these matters.
The body of evidence is overwhelming and definitive. In May 2001, we
held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC at
which more than 20 such witnesses provided testimony and documents
regarding their direct, first-hand involvement in the subject. It was
the most-watched webcast in history, and ultimately over a million
people viewed the event over the Internet.
The event was reported by CNN, CNN International, major networks
like the BBC, the Voice of America, Pravda, the Chinese News Agency,
Telemundo, The Washington Times and other media around the world. Tens
of thousands of people wrote to the president and members of Congress
asking for an investigation of the subject and a general
declassification of information.
And then September 11 happened. In view of the US Patriot Act and
other developments, including the Iraq war, the US Congress has elected
not to pursue the matter. But the international community, which is
greatly harmed by the continued imposition of this secrecy, is the
primary victim and should be the prime mover in getting these matters
investigated.
EXPERT WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY Sufficient evidence, documents,
physical proof and testimonies exist to definitively make the case for
the reality of the issue as well as its illegal handling. Beginning in
1992, we met with senior government officials in the US, UK, the United
Nations and other agencies and discovered a remarkable degree of
interest in resolving this problem and obtaining a general disclosure
of the facts. The officials ranged from members of the US Senate
Intelligence Committee to the first acting CIA director under President
Clinton, including very senior admirals and generals at the Pentagon
and in the British General Staff. There is widespread agreement that
the subject has enormous implications for the future of humanity and
that the secrecy has become inexcusable. What has been lacking is the
will to take meaningful action on the issue. While interest and moral
support for disclosure are high, fear is even greater.
Consider what some of these top secret “whistle-blower” witnesses
have said about this secrecy and the fear it engenders: Brigadier
General Stephen Lovekin: Army National Guard Reserves. As a young army
officer he worked with President Eisenhower in the last years of his
presidency. But what happened was that Eisenhower got sold out. Without
him knowing it, he lost control of what was going on with the entire
UFO situation. In his last address to the nation, I think he was
telling us that the military industrial complex would stick (sic) you
in the back if you were not totally vigilant. And, I think that he felt
like he had not been vigilant. I think he felt like he trusted too many
people. And Eisenhower was a trusting man. And I think that he realised
that all of a sudden this matter is going into the control of
corporations that could very well act to the detriment of this country.
This frustration, from what I can remember, went on for months. He
realised that he was losing control of the UFO subject. As far as I can
remember, that was the expression that was used, “It is not going to be
in the best hands.” That was a real concern. And so it has turned out
to be … “It had been discussed with me on numerous occasions what
could happen to me militarily if I discussed this. I would say that the
government has done as good a job enforcing secrecy through the
installation of abject fear as they have done with anything within the
memory of modern man.” One older officer discussed with me what
possibly could happen if there was a revelation. He was talking about
being erased and I said, “Man, what do you mean erased?” And, he said,
“Yes, you will be erased — disappear.” And I said, “How do you know all
this?” And he said, “I know.” Those threats have been made and carried
out. Those threats started way back in 1947. The Army [and the] Air
Force was given absolute control over how to handle this. This being
the biggest security situation that this country has ever dealt with
and there have been some erasures … I don’t care what kind of a
person you are. I don’t care how strong or courageous you are. It would
be a very fearful situation because from what Matt [this older officer]
said, “They will go after not only you. They will go after your
family.” Those were his words. And, so I can only say that the reason
that they have managed to keep it under wraps for so long is through
fear. They are very selective about how they pull someone out to make
an example of. And I know that that has been done.
Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt : US Marine Corps, present at a
retrieval of a UFO in South America “You weren’t supposed to be there.”
“You are not supposed to see this.” “You are going to be dangerous if
we let you go.” I thought that they were going to kill me, really …
Lethal, deadly force has been used. For those of you who don’t know, I
know marine snipers and I have heard other guys talk about it and I’ve
heard that these guys go on the streets and they stalk people and they
kill them. I know that the Army Airborne snipers do the same thing.
They use Delta Force to go grab these people and silence them by
killing them.
Larry Warren: US Air Force, Security Officer, present during the
landing of a UFO at Bentwaters Air Force Base in the UK We were gone
over with a Geiger counter and there was one return on one of the guys,
and something was taken out of his pocket. (He had picked up an item
from the retrieved craft.) This guy was removed very quickly. And, I
will swear on my life, I never saw him again. He was removed. This
happened to a lot of people. It led to a suicide that the Air Force is
responsible for. This is a real person with a real name …
Master Sergeant Dan Morris : US Air Force, NRO (National
Reconnaissance Office) Operative I became part of a group that would
investigate, gather the information, and in the beginning it was still
under the Blue Book, Snowbird and different covert programmes. I would
go interview people who claimed they had seen something and try to
convince them they hadn’t seen something or that they were
hallucinating. Well, if that didn’t work, another team would come in
and give all the threats. And threaten them and their family and so on
and so forth. And they would be in charge of discrediting them, making
them look foolish and so on and so forth. Now if that didn’t work, then
there was another team that put an end to that problem, one way or
another.
Professor Robert Jacobs: US Air Force, who filmed a UFO intercepting
an early ICBM test After an article [came out about the incident] … I
started being harassed at work. I started getting odd telephone calls
that would come during the day. At night, at my house I would get
telephone calls — all night long sometimes — 3.00 in the morning, 4.00
in the morning, midnight, 10.00. People would call and start screaming
at me. “You are going down (unprintable expletive)! You are going down!
And that’s all they would say.” And they’d keep screaming that until I
finally hung up the phone. One night somebody blew up my mailbox by
putting a big load of skyrockets in it. The mailbox went up in flames.
And that night at 1:00 in the morning the phone rang. I picked it up
and somebody said, “skyrockets in your box at night, oh what a
beautiful sight!” And things like that have happened on and off since
1982 … I believe this nutty fringe around UFOs is part of a concerted
effort to keep serious study of it down. Anytime anybody tries to study
this subject seriously, we are subject to ridicule. I’m a full
professor at a relatively major university. And I’m certain that my
colleagues at the university laugh at me and hoot and holler behind my
back when they hear that I have an interest in studying unidentified
flying objects — and that’s just one of the things that we have to live
with … What happened to the film is an interesting story in itself as
Major Mansmann related to me and other people. Sometime after I had
gone, the guys in civilian clothes — I thought it was the CIA but he
said no, it wasn’t the CIA, it was somebody else — took the film and
they spooled off the part that had the UFO on it and they took a pair
of scissors and cut it off. They put that on a separate reel. They put
it in their briefcase. They handed Major Mansmann back the rest of the
film and said here, “I don’t need to remind you, Major, of the severity
of a security breach; we’ll consider this incident closed.” And they
walked off with the film. Major Mansmann never saw it again.
Merle Shane McDow: US Navy Atlantic Command These two gentlemen
began to question me about this event. They were being pretty rough
about it, to be honest with you. I remember literally putting my hands
up and saying, “Wait a minute fellows. I am on your side. Just a
minute.” Because they were not really nice. They were very intimidating
and made it quite clear to the point that nothing that was seen, heard,
or witnessed, that transpired was to leave this building. You are not
to say a word about it to your co-workers. And off base, you just
forget everything that you may have seen or heard concerning this. It
didn’t happen …
Major George A Filer, III: US Air Force (Retd.) At times I used to
carry nuclear weapons. In other words, I was mentally fit to carry
nuclear weapons, but I’m not mentally fit if I see a UFO. This
criticism and this ridicule have done more to keep the story coming out
than almost anything else.
John Callahan: FAA Head of Accidents and Investigations … When they
got done, they actually swore all these other guys in there that this
never took place. We never had this meeting. And this was never
recorded … This was one of the guys from the CIA. Okay? That they
were never there and this never happened. At the time I said, well I
don’t know why you are saying this. I mean, there was something there
and if it’s not the stealth bomber, then you know, it’s a UFO. And if
it’s a UFO, why wouldn’t you want the people to know? Oh, they got all
excited over that. You don’t even want to say those words. He said this
is the first time they ever had 30 minutes of radar data on a UFO. And
they are all itching to get their hands onto the data and to find out
what it is and what really goes on. He says if they come out and told
the American public that they ran into a UFO out there, it would cause
panic across the country. So therefore, you can’t talk about it. And
they are going to take all this data … …
When the CIA told us that this never happened and we never had this
meeting, I believe it was because they didn’t want the public to know
that this was going on. Normally we would put out some type of a news
release that such and such happened …
In short, so ruthless and unrelenting has been the secrecy
associated with these issues that no institution or leader to date has
been willing to take the matter on. Indeed, after we met with CIA
Director James Woolsey in December 1993 and recommended that President
Clinton take direct executive action to end the secrecy and facilitate
a disclosure, we saw first hand how great the fear was. A friend of the
president visited us after this meeting and informed us that it was
felt that the president would “end up like [President] John Kennedy if
he did what we suggested.” Of course, we initially burst into laughter,
until we were stopped and informed that such concerns were real. We
were stunned. Until then, we had relegated such concerns to the dustbin
of conspiracy theories. But it appears that the fear and ruthless
control exercised by these projects around the world has effectively
kept the matter off the public radar screen.
In our view, the propagation of such fear as a tool for control is a
genuine form of international terrorism. Its effects are devastating:
it has neutralised democratic processes and institutions, engendered
paralysing fear, hijacked the future of humanity, impoverished billions
of people and decimated the earthly environment in the span of one
human lifetime. Indeed, the harmful effects of such rogue secrecy
exceed by orders of magnitude the consequences of any terrorist
organisation operating today.
Subsequent meetings with members of Congress and other high
officials resulted in enormous concern — even consternation — but no
action. We repeatedly heard that many in senior positions were
concerned with such unsanctioned secrecy, but these officials would
simply pass the buck to others, saying “Why don’t you meet with so and
so on another committee and get him to hold a hearing?”
Other witnesses have described these operations thus: Dr Paul Czysz:
McDonnell Douglas Career Engineer The black budget world is like trying
to describe Casper the friendly ghost. You might see a cartoon of him
but you don’t know how big he is, you don’t know where his funding
comes from, you don’t know how many there are because of the
compartmentalisation and the oath that people have to take. I know
people today that worked on one of the things that I worked on, and if
you asked them about it — even if it is being discussed on the Internet
— they would say “No, I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
They’re in their seventies now, but they still would absolutely never
admit that they even know what you’re talking about. You have no idea,
but it’s probably larger than you think.
John Maynard: DIA Official Of corporations involved in this matter,
Atlantic Research Corporation is one of the big ones. So it’s not very
often heard about. It’s an insider beltway bandit, if you want to call
it that, very low profile, mostly has all of its work done within
Intelligence. TRW, Johnson Controls, Honeywell; All of them at some
point or another became involved with the intelligence field. Certain
works, activities were contracted out to them. Atlantic Research was
one of them — way back. These are entities that were created out of
people in the Pentagon to become a “beltway bandit” — received
projects, grants, and monies to do certain projects that were so highly
classified and compartmentalised that, you know, only about four people
would know what was going on. So it was that tightly controlled.
Edgar Mitchell : Astronaut Whatever activity is going on, to the
extent that it is a clandestine group, a quasi-government group, a
quasi-private group, it is without any type, as far as I can tell, of
high-level government oversight. And that is a great concern.
Sergeant Clifford Stone : US Army …. They
immediately come out and say, “Oh, we can’t keep secrets, we can’t keep
secrets.” Well, the truth is, yes, we can. The National Reconnaisance
Office remained secret for many, many years. The mere existence of the
NSA remained secret. The development of the atomic weapon remained
secret until once you exploded one you eventually had to tell some
people what was going on. …. I had classified documents the Air Force
acknowledged. When I got members of Congress to help me open up more
files, they were immediately destroyed and I can prove this. When
Congress did their review of the way we protect documents, and the way
we go ahead and implement our secrecy programmes, they found that you
had special access programmes within special access programmes — that
it was essentially impossible to keep control of them all by Congress.
And, I’m telling you right now; it is essentially impossible to keep
control of them all. When it comes to UFOs, the same criteria [sic]
applies. Therefore, only a small nucleus within the intelligence
community, numbering less than a hundred — no, I’d suggest less than 50
— control all that information. It is not subject to congressional
review or oversight at all.
Dr Robert Wood: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Engineer As you may
know, when you get cleared for one of these classified programmes you
wear your special badge and you know you can talk to anybody who’s in
the room with a lot of candour and it feels like that’s one’s
psychological group — there’s a lot of camaraderie that builds up. And
you had access to special libraries. So one of the things that we could
do is go up to the library that the Air Force ran and sort of paw
through top secret material. Since I was interested in UFOs, when I had
some usual business to take care of, I’d also look in their library to
see what they had on UFOs. And for about a year I was getting quite a
few hits on the subject about various reports. Then all of a sudden,
the whole subject material vanished. The entire classification for the
subject just vanished. The librarian in our group that I was working
with said he’d been in that vault for twenty years and knew exactly how
things were normally done. He said, “This is remarkable!” He said,
“I’ve never seen that before, you just don’t have a whole subject
vanish out from under you.” He said, “I think there is something there
that you hit on …”
In the meantime, there was one other thing that came about as a
result of my association with Jim McDonald (a well-known UFO scientific
investigator). I liked the guy; he was really an energetic physicist
and wouldn’t let any grass grow under his feet. When he got a case he
would dig his teeth into it and present an overwhelmingly convincing
story to professional societies. He would talk to the American
Institute of Aeronautics and the American Physical Society, and I
happened to be members of both. So whenever he was in town I would pick
him up, escort him, made sure he felt welcome. So once when I was
travelling through Tucson, where he lived, I stopped — I had a two-hour
layover to catch an airplane — and he came out to the airport to have a
beer with me. I said, “What’s new, Jim?” He said, “I think I’ve got
it.” I said, “What do you think you got?” He said, “I think I got the
answer.” I said, “What is it?” He said, “I can’t tell you yet. I have
got to be sure.” It was six weeks after that that he tried to shoot
himself. A couple months after that he finally died. Knowing what I
think I now suspect about the skills of our counter intelligence
people, I think we had the capacity to convince him to do it himself. I
think that’s what happened …
Clearly in order to have effective control of this subject, you have
to control it at all levels and the most obvious level is the media. So
you have to look at all the kinds of media there are, the movies, the
magazines, and of course in the early days that’s all it is, newspapers
and movies and magazines. Now we have the Internet and video and all
those other sorts of things. But as the technology has blossomed in
these other avenues, the people worrying about this control have also
just moved into those avenues right along with them. So every time a
new avenue comes up they have a new counterpoint.
The reader should note that we have gathered nearly 500 such
credentialled witnesses from every agency and branch of the military,
as well as select corporations involved in the secrecy. The group
maintaining this secrecy, at least at a policy level, numbers some
200–300 individuals from a number of countries and represents a
powerful array of interests including those connected to financial,
technological, security, religious, media, political and scientific
areas.
In 1993, contacts in this group stated to us that about a third of
those involved were in favour of ending the secrecy and a broad
disclosure of the facts; as of today we estimate over 40 per cent hold
this opinion. Those who think that such a group could not get away
indefinitely with such secrecy are right. We have obtained sufficient
actionable intelligence, sources and documents to make the case. We
have names, programme code numbers, the locations of operations and
corporate programmes and related vital intelligence. But to whom will
this information be disclosed and to what end? Since the secrecy
related to these technologies and operations is rogue, unconstitutional
and harmful, any legitimate governmental or international body could
hold a hearing at which witnesses and evidence could be presented.
Legal and national security experts associated with the Disclosure
Project have determined that, since the secrecy is unregulated and
outside the bounds of the law, the leaders of such projects have no
legitimate right to enforce such secrecy. This means those persons
holding secrets are no longer constitutionally bound by any past or
current secrecy oaths. This assessment has been shared with senior
governmental officials and to date no entity or official has challenged
this position. Significantly, during the preparation and in the
aftermath of the above-mentioned National Press Club event, none of the
whistle-blowers or staff of the Disclosure Project have been threatened
or silenced in any way. We have been able to make a definitive case for
the evidence as also for the illegal nature of the secrecy. Hence, no
legal entity can insist on silence.
A CALL FOR REVELATION
Aside from these legal arguments, there is a compelling moral and
ethical reason to end the secrecy. First, humanity is suffering
needlessly due to the continued withholding of vital scientific and
technological knowledge acquired through these programmes. These
technologies allow for the extraction of useful energy from the
so-called quantum vacuum state. This means that every village in Africa
or India could have an off-the-grid energy source that extracts energy
from the space around the device, with no need for the burning of fuels
or transmission lines from central utilities. Such “free energy”
generators would utterly transform the current, seemingly hopeless
world situation as regards poverty, pollution, economic stagnation and
the like. Second, the world stands to gain from new critical
technology. The implications of replacing fossil fuels and nuclear
power with these new, advanced energy and propulsion systems cannot be
overstated: every aspect of life on earth will be affected and a truly
sustainable, technologically advanced civilisation can be built. The
developing world can bypass the stage of industrial pollution and
expensive centralised utilities and go directly to point-of-use power
generation. As abundance grows exponentially, educational opportunities
will increase.
Global warming will cease and pollution generally will be brought
under control. Desalinating sea water will become inexpensive and help
prevent desertification and resource depletion. And we will have no
more oil wars. Third, disclosure of these secret programmes is not
without its potentially negative consequences. It may be argued that
such a new technology could have destabilising military applications.
This is no doubt true — every new technology can be harnessed for war.
But this brings up an important point: are we, as a civilisation,
prepared to see humanity commit planeticide — the killing of an entire
planet — just so we can avoid the respon-sibility of creating a
peaceful world? The state of the world will not be significantly
improved by tinkering around the edges of oil, coal, solar or wind
power, and we are facing a cruel future of environmental decay,
impoverished exploding populations, global instability and war. This,
while a comprehensive solution to these problems sits in a black box.
Hence, it is time for these technologies to be properly and carefully
disclosed and applied. The International Court of Justice and other
international agencies must take a leadership role in investigating and
disclosing the facts, and facilitating the release of these new energy
and propulsion systems. The Disclosure Project stands ready to provide
full information and briefings to governmental leaders, institutions
and agencies. The international community must investigate these issues
— and stop looking the other way. Illegal secrecy, withholding
solutions to our most pressing concerns, is one of the greatest moral
and political crises of our time, if not the greatest one. The time has
come that this publicly funded but “hijacked” research be made
available for the benefit of all of humanity. That six billion humans
continue to live in a manner that cannibalises our home planet while
solutions are deliberately and with malice withheld cannot be allowed.
No matter how great the financial or other interests may be in propping
up the dying oil economy, we cannot let our oil addiction drag the
entire body of humanity down with it. Instead, with courage and care,
let us disclose the truth, and allow these wondrous new sciences to
provide humanity with the means to live peacefully and in abundance on
earth. This is no utopian dream. We already have the means to create
such a world. Now we must find the will.
