A year or so ago I came across a battered 1st edition copy of
Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications by a Steven M. Greer,
M.D. I purchased it for a reasonable price of £10 and put it on my shelf in the appropriate section, where it has remained -- unread... until just
last week. After reading it -- the contents, in my opinion, raise legitimate questions as to the credibility of Steven Greer's earlier work.
For those of you who haven't read it; the beginning chapters start off fairly promising -- as you can see from this snippet of the first few lines
under Introduction:
Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications (pg xvii)
On December 13, 1993, my wife and I flew to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Clinton's first CIA Director, James Woolsey. The cover story for
this meeting was simply a small dinner party consisting of CIA director Woolsey and his wife, Dr. Sue Woolsey (Chief Operating Officer of the National
Academy of Sciences) and our host and his wife. Shortly before the meeting, we learned that I was to be the first person to brief the Director of
Central Intelligence on the subject of UFOs and extraterrestrial (ET) intelligence: Woolsey had made inquiries but had received no information on the
subject from any official government channels.
I guess if you're writing a book such as this, you would want to lay the foundation that you know what you're talking about, right? It would be a
good start. I find it hard to believe that the Director of Central Intelligence would have any trouble obtaining information, but never mind. Greer
goes on to state that the CIA Director and his wife had seen a UFO in broad daylight, and believed that they existed -- before outlining the reasons
for writing
Extraterrestrial Contact, which, primarily, are to "explain what all of this means" -- as the sub-heading of the title
suggests.
A good start, right?
I'll skip a few chapters that detail topics such as Greer's opinions on the implications of an Extraterrestrial disclosure, his tasks to achieve
Humanity's goal in the Universe (which includes implementing a type of 'New World Order' on Earth), CSETI's protocols, and ET abductions and
technology. It's only fair of me to note that these chapters do include interviews and quotations of various Military personnel reminiscent of his
popular work on The Disclosure Project -- which I find to be more credible. The following chapters are devoted to reporting several encounters various
Armed Forces around the World have had with this line of phenomena, and cite multiple Military witnesses.
If anyone is even reading this, you're probably asking:
"
So what is the problem?"
Well, the trouble arises with the adventures of Steven Greer and "The Ambassadors to the Universe." A research team led by Greer and some
Colleagues, who train up groups of volunteer recruits to perform strange tasks such as "surrounding the Earth with a protective layer of healing
energy," while they camp out in the countryside terrain of England, or Mexico, waiting for unidentified flying objects to appear.
If I'm starting to sound like a facetious skeptic, I suggest you read this quote from page 255 first, before you call me one:
We spent the late afternoon at the house while the rain fell outside. Dr. Greer decided to cancel a trip to Stonehenge because of the rain, so we
had a training session indoors and watched a video of UFO's. He and Shari decided to go upstairs and do some healing treatments.
[...]
Dr. Greer had told us to be outside for the 10:30 to 12:30 "sighting window." At 11:34 p.m (the same time that 5 of us had an anomalous "shooting
star" sighting in the yard the night we arrived in England), we all saw a bright white ball shoot from behind the big tree in the back yard in an
arc, ending at the bay window corner of the house at the second floor level.
Continued in next post...
[edit on 20-5-2007 by Nobusuke Tagomi]
