1 - The Black Vault

• For
Immediate Release
Contact:
Alfred Webre 604-733-8134
Dr. Steven Greer 540-456-8302
Wednesday, May 9'\ 2001
8 - 9 AM - Continental Breakfast
9:00AM- 11:00 AM- Press conference
The National Press Club Ballroom
529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC
MILITARY, GOVERNMENT WITNESSES TO
PROVIDE TESTIMONY ON UFO/EXTRATERRESTRIAL PRESENCE;
CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION SOUGHT
On Wednesday, May 9th, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific
witnesses will come forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the
reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced
energy and propulsion technologies. The weight of this first-hand testimony, along with
supporting government documentation and other evidence, will establish without any doubt the
reality of these phenomena, according to Dr. Steven M. Greer, director of the Disclosure Project
which is hosting the event.
The Disclosure Project, a non-profit research organization, is calling for open Congressional
hearings on the UFO/Extraterrestrial presence, and for legislation that will ban space-based
weapons. Congressional hearings were last held in 1968 by the House Science and Astronautics
Comni.itt.ee (90th Congress, 2"d Session, Committee Print No. 7. "Symposium on Unidentified
Flying Qbjects.")
The Pro' ect has identified several hundred witnesses throughout the w
branch of the armed services, the Nationa Reconnaissance Office (NRO), DIA, CIA, NASA,
Russia. UK, and other agencies and countries. Over 100 have been videotaped;
7o have been transcribed into edited testimony. Videotaped summary of the testimony and an indepth
briefing document with witness transcripts will be available at the press conference.
Among the witnesses attending the event are: John Callahan, former Division Chief of the
Accidents and Investigations Branch, FAA; Master Sergeant Dan Morris, former US Air Force
and NRO operative with cosmic top secret clearance; Dr. Carol Rosin, space missile defense
consultant and former spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun; Major George A Filer III, former
Air Force Intelligence; Graham Bethune, retired Navy commander pilot with a top-secret