UNACKNOWLEDGED
by Steven M. Greer, M.D.
Copyright 1996
Copyright 1996
Can the government keep a secret?
A really big secret - the biggest of all time? When the peccadillos of every politician and government leader
are prime time news, could the government hide from us the most astounding discovery in the history of the
world - the existence of extraterrestrial life?
Well, yes - and no.
First, the concept of government must be redefined, because there exists the government of ‘we the people’,
elected and appointed officials, public representatives, the executive, legislative and judicial branches, etc,
etc, a la your standard junior high civics course.
But then, there is also the unacknowledged ‘government’: the ‘government’ of deep cover, deep black
projects, contract agents and companies, and shadowy mid-level functionaries whose task it is to ensure that
the government of ‘we the people’ know little or nothing about the unacknowledged ‘government’.
The right-hand does not know - or often want to know - what the left hand is doing...
But we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves now. First some background.
For nearly six years I have quietly researched how real secrecy is maintained, in the latter half of the
twentieth century. What I have found is astonishing, and frankly unbelievable. What you are about to read is
the truth - but I admit that I would not have believed it had someone told me this 3 years ago. You may want
to read the rest of this article as if it were a fictional story. You may feel more comfortable looking at all of
this from a distance. But let some part of you know that this is the truth.
This article is not about whether UFOs/ETs are real, or are visiting earth. Let’s get this out of the way first,
since it is the easy part: UFOs are real; they are of extraterrestrial origin; they have been around for decades
(if not centuries); there is no evidence that they are hostile; there is probably more than one type of life form
visiting us; and aspects of the ‘government’ have known this for 50 years, at least.
The more difficult part of this subject is getting your mind around the fact that something this extraordinary
is real, and yet remains somehow unreal, hidden, secret, enigmatic. That the official government - and the
official keepers of truth in the media and science- have been deceived for this long is a tribute to the
sophistication, depth, breadth, and ubiquity of a secret program unparalleled in history.
Indeed, the story of how - and why - this deception has existed exceeds the extraterrestrial phenomenon
itself in bizarreness, mystery, and incredulity. In fact, it seems that the effectiveness of the secrecy is itself
related to the stunning incredulity of the nature of the secrecy. Put another way, the whys, hows, and
wherefores of these secret projects are so bizarre and unbelievable, that they provide their own best cover:
no one would believe it even if they came upon it. It is absolutely over the top.
To be honest, my own first reaction to what you are about to read was, “yeah, right...”. But then
confirmation after confirmation and independent corroboration after independent corroboration convinced
me of it. And then I was saying, “Oh God...”
Space here only permits me to share with you the highlights of 6 years of intense, behind-the-scenes
research. Someday, I hope the entire story can be told, names and all, but for now allow me to paint for you
a broad picture and some of the details. This information comes from personal, private and exquisitely
sensitive meetings and long discussions with very senior and relevant military, intelligence, political and
private corporate sources. The search for truth regarding these secret projects has brought me to heads of
state, royalty, CIA officials, NSA operatives, US and foreign military leaders, political leaders and high-tech
corporate contractors. The process has been exhaustive, relentless and mind-blowing. Safety and prudence
require that I leave their names out of this for now; by the time you finish reading this, the reason will be
obvious.
This phase in the CSETI project began in earnest in July of 1993, when a small group of military and
civilian people involved with the UFO matter met at my request to discuss how to best liaison with the
government and military. From an operational point of view, CSETI needed a senior point of contact (POC)
within the chain of command who knew what we were doing to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. We
wanted to ensure that our efforts were safe from intentional or unintentional
military/intelligence/government interference. And we wanted to be clear that our effort should be regarded
as a citizen's diplomacy effort and that a stand-down order should exist protecting us from any interference,
in the US or abroad. In the previous year, CSETI had facilitated two near-landing events in England and
Mexico and we wanted to be sure, given these developments, that we could proceed with safety for both our
teams and for the extraterrestrial visitors, whom we regard as our guests.
Over the following few months, members of our team had had discussions and briefings with a wide array of
government, military, intelligence, political, international and private leaders around the world. What we
learned seemed surreal, unimaginable and bizarre.
Beginning at least as early as World War II, we found that certain officials in the US government knew that
we were not alone, that there were advanced machines flying around in certain regions of the WWII conflict
which were not ours, and not theirs. A medical colleague and friend, whose relative was a celebrated WWII
pilot, has told me that this pilot was sent to Europe by the president to figure out what these so-called ‘foo’
fighters were. He reported back to the president that they were extraterrestrial spacecraft.
From there on, it gets more and more strange. A retired general, who later became right-hand man to a
certain CIA director told me this: That as a military officer in 1946, he was responsible for writing ‘nonresponsive’
letters regarding a series of day time sightings of UFOs over Idaho. He said people knew the
UFOs were real, but soon a Cold War was on, and later a few hot wars ensued, and everyone was concerned
with global thermonuclear war- so who had time to worry about these enigmatic but harmless ETs.
Who indeed.
Multiple new, independently corroborating witnesses told us of the crash and retrieval of ET spacecraft in
1947 in New Mexico and in 1948 in Kingman Arizona. Now, THIS really got someone’s attention, and the
name of the game was, henceforth, ADVANCED EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY. How does it
work; what can it be used for; how will they use it; what if the Soviets figure it out before we do; what if it
leaks out and some new Hitler uses it to dominate the world; what if people panic when they learn of it;
what...
And a million more questions, at the time all unanswered.
And thus was born the secret project of the millennium.
After all, at the time, we were working on the development of the hydrogen bomb - and our arch-enemy the
Soviets were hot on our tail. What could be more destabilizing to already fragile world order than the
introduction of inter-stellar propulsion technology to a world of vacuum tubes and internal combustion
engines? To say we were facing a quantum leap in technological capability is an understatement. And we
wanted it safely for ourselves.
So, ‘National Security’ demanded that this entire matter be kept quiet at all costs. And no cost was spared in
doing so.
But there was one very large and busy fly in this ointment: The ETs were flying, sometimes in formation,
with thousands of witnesses, over the skies of America, and the rest of the world. Now, how do you hide
that?
The mind hides it. In an Orwellian twist, it was found from past psychological warfare efforts during WWII
that, indeed, if you tell a lie often enough, especially if told by ‘respected’ authority figures, the people will
believe it. It appears that one of the masters of psychological warfare during WWII was put in charge of this
in the late 1940s. General Walter Bedell Smith helped coordinate the psychological warfare components of
this problem, and helped launch the big lie: UFOs, even though millions have seen them, do not exist.
For every sighting which made its way into public awareness, there would be official denial and, worse,
ridicule of the event and the observers. Harvard Astronomer Donald Menzel was trotted out to tell the world
that it was all hysteria, that UFOs were not real, that it was all poppycock.
So well into the 1950s, a relatively small group of people knew the truth and kept the truth to themselves.
When an event occurred which got the media’s attention, authority figures would deny and ridicule it. Since
humans are generally insecure social creatures, and more like lemmings that we would like to admit, it
became clear that if you wanted to avoid embarrassment, ridicule, and social estrangement, you kept quiet
about UFOs, even if you had seen one up close and personal. Add to this the active encouragement of wacky
stories and bizarre tall tales within the civilian UFO subculture, aided by the naturally occurring level of
crazies and crack-pots in society generally and, well, you get the picture. Any respectable person - and
especially the ‘respectable’ media, scientists and political leaders- would have to view this as the ‘topic non
grata’ to avoid.
(Having gone through what I have in the past 6 years, I really can’t say I blame them...)
But this is all very conventional stuff, really. The bizarre twists began in the 1950s when a new model for
covert projects evolved; a Frankenstein was created, but now it has gotten a will of its own, has gotten up off
the table, breaking all restraints and is moving around amongst us.
In late 1993 and into 1994, 1995 and 1996, from one meeting to another, a shocking truth emerged.
Somehow on the way to the 90s, something awful had happened: The entire matter had been largely
privatized, was 10 levels deep black and was operating outside the constitutional chain of command of The US or any other government. Now, I know what you are thinking - I thought the same at first - but hear me
out.
Within a few months of that initial meeting in July of 1993, I and of the CIA, Congress, the Clinton
Administration, the UN, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military in England and elsewhere. Our initial logic
was first to make the case to these folks that since the Cold War was over, a window of opportunity had
opened through which a major disclosure on this matter could be made. The time had come to return this
matter to the international community. Right? Wrong! Virtually without exception, leaders in the military,
intelligence fields, politics and national security areas agreed that the time had come for the truth to be told.
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Problem is, they had no access to the truth, or the data, or the cases, or the technology or the deceased ET
bodies in storage (yes we know where they are and it is not Wright Patterson Air Force Base any longer).
Those who I thought would be in the loop were out, and the ones running the show were a strange
combination of covert operatives and private corporate interests. From then on it was through the looking
glass we go.
My ancestors fought in the American Revolution in North Carolina. They fought for the establishment of a
constitutional, representative form of government; now I wondered what had happened to the constitution.
Like a very bad dream, I kept hoping to awaken to find it was not true. How could I share this with others?
Who would believe it? It was bad enough for a doctor in NC to maintain that we were being visited by
advanced extraterrestrial life forms, but this?
I asked a friend who was on the staff of President Reagan’s National Security Council how this could be
true. How could some of the most powerful people in the world - in government, in the military, the senior
intelligence and national security areas - not only not know about this, but have NO ACCESS to this
information? I asked him if we let the President know exactly who out there really does know about this and
he called them into the Oval Office and said, “I am the President of the United States and I want you to tell
me everything you know about this matter”, what would they do?
He laughed and said, “Steve, if they don’t want the President to know, they will simply lie to the president
and say no such thing exists.
It’s done all the time....” I was stunned by the cynicism of this, and by the clear breech in constitutional law. Under the ruse of ‘plausible deniability’ to ‘protect’ senior government officials, this apparently is done in certain sensitive areas, and the UFO matter is the most sensitive of all. In a meeting with a very senior leader in the intelligence community, whose position anyone in the public would assume allowed him to know every bit of important secret information, I discovered that, even though this official knew the matter was real, that the UFOs were real, he had no access to either past or current information or projects dealing with the ET subject. Again, I was stunned. Ditto for very senior Senate investigators with subpoena power and top-secret clearance. Ditto for people at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ditto for senior UN people. Ditto for senior Ministry of Defense officials in Great Britain. Ditto for heads of state. And so it went, on and on. No deception this; these meetings were arranged by personal, back-door contacts and friends. Ironically, these leaders were turning to us for information, analysis and, strangely, action, to get this secret mess fixed. My pointing out that I am only a country doctor from North Carolina, with a wife, four kids, a minivan and a golden retriever did not change this reality. So in my ‘spare’ time, I have done what I could. UNACKNOWLEDGED SPECIAL ACCESS PROJECTS. USAPS. This term - concept, really - took some time to take hold. Call me naive, but I really believe in democracy and the constitution, the office of the president, the importance of a congress and so on. But such quaint notions at some point had to be assimilated in my mind and reconciled with this new reality: That the president, and congress and the courts and the UN and all the other world leaders exist. They worry about taxes, money, programs of this sort or another. But the really big stuff - leave them out of it. After all, these people come and go every 2 or 4 years. What they don’t know won’t hurt them; besides, we’re doing them a favor by keeping them innocent of any knowledge of these secret projects. At any rate, these projects are UNACKNOWLEDGED, and they don’t really exist at all... In working with people on the inside of these projects, you must understand that I had to endure a very steep learning curve. Having never been in the military, the government or the intelligence field, this was all new to me. Please understand that I cannot betray the confidence of those who risked so much to share this information with me. People have been killed - and recently - for less, much less. What is a USAP? It is a top-secret, compartmentalized project requiring special access even for those with a top-secret clearance, AND it is unacknowledged. This means that if someone -anyone- including your superiors, including the commander and chief, the president, asks you about it, you reply that no such project exists. You lie. People in these USAPS are dead serious about keeping their project secret, and will do nearly anything to keep the story covered, and to keep both other officials and the public disinformed. And the granddaddy of all USAPS is the UFO/ET matter. Remember that a top-secret Canadian document written by Wilbur Smith in 1950 stated that he had found that a secret US group was working on the UFO matter, including the technology behind the UFOs, and that this was the most secret undertaking in the US government, exceeding even the secrecy surrounding the development of the H-bomb. Now imagine if you will, this project 50 years later. A lot of water has gone beneath the bridge. There has been 50 years and countless billions spent on various aspects of the project: reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology to figure out how it works; experiments with non-linear propulsion and communications systems; massive public disinformation efforts and the deceit of constitutionally elected and appointed officials and bodies; and more. Add to this active disinformation - the hoaxing or simulation of false ET events, to deceive the public and serve as decoys, thus taking peoples’ attention away from the real action. Abductions. Mutilations. Hybrid babies floating in space and in underground bases. Secret pacts between one-world -government forces and the sinister aliens. And so forth ad nauseam. Tragically, the tabloid media, book publishers, the UFO subculture/industry and the general public eat this stuff up by the gallon measure.
Not only does this nonsense serve as effective decoys to the unfunded and unprofessional civilian UFO subculture, it creates the patina of craziness and tawdriness needed to keep ‘respectable’ scientists, mainstream media and public officials silent. It keeps the whole matter safely off their radar screens. From the mid-1940s to the mid to late 1950s, as these matters go, this secret group was somewhat conventional. A number of officials in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations knew about it and were involved. It was genuinely felt to be imperative to the national security that this matter be kept quiet for a while. And I believe they were acting in good faith, and within the reasonable limits of our constitutional democracy. But apparently sometime in the mid to late Eisenhower years, a pattern developed where those who legally should be in the loop were shoved out. We have more than one corroborating source that this was the case in the late Eisenhower years and the Kennedy Administration. First-hand witnesses have told us that Eisenhower was furious that he was being kept in the dark about a number of important aspects of the UFO/ET matter. He had seen the ET spacecraft and bodies, and yet he found that extraordinary projects were underway, and he was out of the loop. Is it any wonder then that, notwithstanding the fact that he was a 5-star general and conservative Republican, he warned of the “military-industrial complex” in his last address to the nation as president? People forget that it was this 5 star general - and not Abby Hoffman - who coined the term military-industrial complex, first warning us of the dangers of its excesses. Why? Because he had seen those excesses up close and personal. Fast forward to June of 1963. Kennedy is flying to Berlin to deliver his famous speech proclaiming “I am a Berliner”. Onboard Air Force One is a military man who relates the following: Kennedy, on the long flight, at one point began discussing the UFO matter with this military officer. He admitted that he knew the UFOs were real, had seen the evidence, but then astonished the officer by stating that “the whole matter is out of my hands, and I don’t know why...”. Kennedy said that he wanted the truth to come out, but that he couldn’t do it. And this is the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, stating that the matter is out of his hands, and he doesn’t know why. I wonder if he found out before he was killed later that year. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Clinton Administration figures, military leaders, intelligence leaders, foreign leaders. All out of the loop. But all know its real. What is going on? USAPS is only part of the story. The smaller part. Remember Eisenhower warning of the military-industrial complex? Operative word: industrial, private, privatized. In discussing this matter with a former head of the Ministry of Defense in Great Britain in July of 1995, I found that he was similarly kept out of the loop. We found once again that the real secret stuff was kept from even a man who was head of MI5 and the MoD. The answer existed in part with USAPS, but more largely with private contract entities. The US government builds almost nothing (thank goodness...). The B2 Stealth bomber is not built by the US government, but FOR the US government by private industry. And private industry keeps secrets even better than USAPS. It makes sense: after all these years nobody knows the formula for Coca Cola. Not even the President of the United States can get it. The formula is secret and private. Now if you will, combine the proprietary power of private secrets with a combined liaison with USAPS and you build a covert fortress which is virtually impenetrable. Because if you try to get at it through the private sector, it is protected by proprietary privilege. And if you try to get to it through the public sector - government - it is hidden in USAPS, and the ‘government’ as you and I ordinarily think of it is clueless. And from personal experience I can tell you that if you inform the leaders of this, they will hold their heads in their hands and say, as I once did, “Oh my God...” So, what is the essential profile of this covert operation? Below is my current assessment, based on the degree of penetration and research as of the spring of 1996: Last code name related to me by reliable sources: PI-40 Meaning of code name: Unknown Description: PI-40 is a quasi-governmental, USAPS related, quasi-private entity operating internationally/transnationally. The majority of operations are centered in private industrial ‘work for others’ contract projects related to the understanding and application of advanced extraterrestrial technologies. Related compartmentalized units, which are also USAPS, are involved in disinformation, public deception, active disinformation, so-called abductions and mutilations, reconnaissance and UFO tracking, space-based weapons systems, and specialized liaison groups (for example to media, political leaders, the scientific community, the corporate world, etc).
It’s done all the time....” I was stunned by the cynicism of this, and by the clear breech in constitutional law. Under the ruse of ‘plausible deniability’ to ‘protect’ senior government officials, this apparently is done in certain sensitive areas, and the UFO matter is the most sensitive of all. In a meeting with a very senior leader in the intelligence community, whose position anyone in the public would assume allowed him to know every bit of important secret information, I discovered that, even though this official knew the matter was real, that the UFOs were real, he had no access to either past or current information or projects dealing with the ET subject. Again, I was stunned. Ditto for very senior Senate investigators with subpoena power and top-secret clearance. Ditto for people at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ditto for senior UN people. Ditto for senior Ministry of Defense officials in Great Britain. Ditto for heads of state. And so it went, on and on. No deception this; these meetings were arranged by personal, back-door contacts and friends. Ironically, these leaders were turning to us for information, analysis and, strangely, action, to get this secret mess fixed. My pointing out that I am only a country doctor from North Carolina, with a wife, four kids, a minivan and a golden retriever did not change this reality. So in my ‘spare’ time, I have done what I could. UNACKNOWLEDGED SPECIAL ACCESS PROJECTS. USAPS. This term - concept, really - took some time to take hold. Call me naive, but I really believe in democracy and the constitution, the office of the president, the importance of a congress and so on. But such quaint notions at some point had to be assimilated in my mind and reconciled with this new reality: That the president, and congress and the courts and the UN and all the other world leaders exist. They worry about taxes, money, programs of this sort or another. But the really big stuff - leave them out of it. After all, these people come and go every 2 or 4 years. What they don’t know won’t hurt them; besides, we’re doing them a favor by keeping them innocent of any knowledge of these secret projects. At any rate, these projects are UNACKNOWLEDGED, and they don’t really exist at all... In working with people on the inside of these projects, you must understand that I had to endure a very steep learning curve. Having never been in the military, the government or the intelligence field, this was all new to me. Please understand that I cannot betray the confidence of those who risked so much to share this information with me. People have been killed - and recently - for less, much less. What is a USAP? It is a top-secret, compartmentalized project requiring special access even for those with a top-secret clearance, AND it is unacknowledged. This means that if someone -anyone- including your superiors, including the commander and chief, the president, asks you about it, you reply that no such project exists. You lie. People in these USAPS are dead serious about keeping their project secret, and will do nearly anything to keep the story covered, and to keep both other officials and the public disinformed. And the granddaddy of all USAPS is the UFO/ET matter. Remember that a top-secret Canadian document written by Wilbur Smith in 1950 stated that he had found that a secret US group was working on the UFO matter, including the technology behind the UFOs, and that this was the most secret undertaking in the US government, exceeding even the secrecy surrounding the development of the H-bomb. Now imagine if you will, this project 50 years later. A lot of water has gone beneath the bridge. There has been 50 years and countless billions spent on various aspects of the project: reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology to figure out how it works; experiments with non-linear propulsion and communications systems; massive public disinformation efforts and the deceit of constitutionally elected and appointed officials and bodies; and more. Add to this active disinformation - the hoaxing or simulation of false ET events, to deceive the public and serve as decoys, thus taking peoples’ attention away from the real action. Abductions. Mutilations. Hybrid babies floating in space and in underground bases. Secret pacts between one-world -government forces and the sinister aliens. And so forth ad nauseam. Tragically, the tabloid media, book publishers, the UFO subculture/industry and the general public eat this stuff up by the gallon measure.
Not only does this nonsense serve as effective decoys to the unfunded and unprofessional civilian UFO subculture, it creates the patina of craziness and tawdriness needed to keep ‘respectable’ scientists, mainstream media and public officials silent. It keeps the whole matter safely off their radar screens. From the mid-1940s to the mid to late 1950s, as these matters go, this secret group was somewhat conventional. A number of officials in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations knew about it and were involved. It was genuinely felt to be imperative to the national security that this matter be kept quiet for a while. And I believe they were acting in good faith, and within the reasonable limits of our constitutional democracy. But apparently sometime in the mid to late Eisenhower years, a pattern developed where those who legally should be in the loop were shoved out. We have more than one corroborating source that this was the case in the late Eisenhower years and the Kennedy Administration. First-hand witnesses have told us that Eisenhower was furious that he was being kept in the dark about a number of important aspects of the UFO/ET matter. He had seen the ET spacecraft and bodies, and yet he found that extraordinary projects were underway, and he was out of the loop. Is it any wonder then that, notwithstanding the fact that he was a 5-star general and conservative Republican, he warned of the “military-industrial complex” in his last address to the nation as president? People forget that it was this 5 star general - and not Abby Hoffman - who coined the term military-industrial complex, first warning us of the dangers of its excesses. Why? Because he had seen those excesses up close and personal. Fast forward to June of 1963. Kennedy is flying to Berlin to deliver his famous speech proclaiming “I am a Berliner”. Onboard Air Force One is a military man who relates the following: Kennedy, on the long flight, at one point began discussing the UFO matter with this military officer. He admitted that he knew the UFOs were real, had seen the evidence, but then astonished the officer by stating that “the whole matter is out of my hands, and I don’t know why...”. Kennedy said that he wanted the truth to come out, but that he couldn’t do it. And this is the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, stating that the matter is out of his hands, and he doesn’t know why. I wonder if he found out before he was killed later that year. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Clinton Administration figures, military leaders, intelligence leaders, foreign leaders. All out of the loop. But all know its real. What is going on? USAPS is only part of the story. The smaller part. Remember Eisenhower warning of the military-industrial complex? Operative word: industrial, private, privatized. In discussing this matter with a former head of the Ministry of Defense in Great Britain in July of 1995, I found that he was similarly kept out of the loop. We found once again that the real secret stuff was kept from even a man who was head of MI5 and the MoD. The answer existed in part with USAPS, but more largely with private contract entities. The US government builds almost nothing (thank goodness...). The B2 Stealth bomber is not built by the US government, but FOR the US government by private industry. And private industry keeps secrets even better than USAPS. It makes sense: after all these years nobody knows the formula for Coca Cola. Not even the President of the United States can get it. The formula is secret and private. Now if you will, combine the proprietary power of private secrets with a combined liaison with USAPS and you build a covert fortress which is virtually impenetrable. Because if you try to get at it through the private sector, it is protected by proprietary privilege. And if you try to get to it through the public sector - government - it is hidden in USAPS, and the ‘government’ as you and I ordinarily think of it is clueless. And from personal experience I can tell you that if you inform the leaders of this, they will hold their heads in their hands and say, as I once did, “Oh my God...” So, what is the essential profile of this covert operation? Below is my current assessment, based on the degree of penetration and research as of the spring of 1996: Last code name related to me by reliable sources: PI-40 Meaning of code name: Unknown Description: PI-40 is a quasi-governmental, USAPS related, quasi-private entity operating internationally/transnationally. The majority of operations are centered in private industrial ‘work for others’ contract projects related to the understanding and application of advanced extraterrestrial technologies. Related compartmentalized units, which are also USAPS, are involved in disinformation, public deception, active disinformation, so-called abductions and mutilations, reconnaissance and UFO tracking, space-based weapons systems, and specialized liaison groups (for example to media, political leaders, the scientific community, the corporate world, etc).
