Are you a witness?

Many of the nearly 100 people who attended The Disclosure Project's conference Sunday are, and if you have spotted an extraterrestrial life form or its craft, you may be one, too.

``I can't think of anything more important for the human species, if just 10 percent of this is real,'' said Bob Teeters, who works at a hospice in Naples, Fla.

Teeters and the other attendees gathered at Florida International University's North Miami campus at 3000 NE 151 St. to hear from Steven Greer, M.D., the Charlottesville, N.C.-based director of The Disclosure Project. The project is a grassroots movement to lobby Congress for hearings on space aliens -- and their advanced propulsion systems.

After uncertainty about whether the event would take place at all, organizers scrambled to secure FIU as a last minute venue. Despite ridicule by skeptical detractors, inquiry and activism by those interested in extraterrestrials is gaining momentum nationwide.

Greer's passion was inspired at 8 or 9, when he and neighborhood buddies spotted a disk-shaped antigravity craft in broad daylight, he said.

``It was not ambiguous,'' he said of the sighting.

According to Greer, ``unacknowledged special access projects'' are being controlled by a powerful unelected governmental and corporate bureaucracy blocking the advent of superior alien energy systems in exchange for fossil fuels. He believes implementing this technology would eliminate poverty.

``People have been killed to keep this quiet,'' Greer said. ``It puts an enormous burden on those of us who know.''

Greer believes providing immunity and a forum for serious discussion to the ``witnesses'' -- allegedly more than 450 military and other personnel with first-hand knowledge about extraterrestrials -- may help mankind overcome pollution and global warming.

``You see society dealing with these intractable problems, and they're fixable,'' Greer said. ``Meanwhile, the world is dying; the Earth is impoverished.''

Corporate interests may not be the only threat to what Greer calls the ``ultimate diplomatic issue.''

Some extraterrestrials may even be cooperating with the government, according to Michael El-Legion, an investigative reporter with Vortex Network News. El-Legion theorizes that the ``grays'' -- the most popularly depicted space aliens with the big egg-shaped heads and bulbous eyes -- are actually a renegade group.

It was the ``human-appearing extraterrestrials'' who seeded, and still care about, the human species, El-Legion said.

He says he first encountered the space aliens, resembling ``good-looking earth people'' and dressed in silver blue metallic suits, as a 6-year-old in Southern California, when they intercepted his fall off an oceanside pier before he hit the water.

Pharmacist John Nigara had to find out for himself. Last September, he says he and a friend went out to Lake Okeechobee, where they successfully vectored in alien spacecraft. ``We are joining a cosmic society,'' Nigara said. ``It seems a quarantine is being lifted.''

Attendee Sheila Knies became interested in the subject years ago at a psychic fair when she met a presenter handing out information about extraterrestrials. ``I thought it was a bunch of garbage about little green men,'' said Knies, who has changed her mind.

In fact, Greer believes that at least 50 civilizations, from the Milky Way and other galaxies, may be working together to monitor earth's weapon systems, which have become a threat to the universe -- sending up what he calls ``a cosmic red flag.''

``It's time for people to investigate this. If we're wrong, we'll be proven fools,'' Greer said. ``If we're right . . .''

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