What Dr. Steven Greer Claims Is Behind the Drone and Orb Sightings

This article draws on our conversation with Steven Greer.

Steven Greer says the orb sightings claims now circulating around New Jersey and elsewhere point to a covert military-corporate operation, not an ordinary mystery in the sky. He answers the hosts’ basic questions by dividing the objects into two buckets: some are standard drones, some are more advanced craft, and most of the public spectacle serves a psychological campaign aimed at media coverage and public reaction.

He ties that argument to a long timeline. Greer says he had predicted this kind of rollout for 30 years (4:16), and he frames the current wave as part of a plan he believes has been building for decades rather than a sudden outbreak of unexplained activity.

What does Steven Greer say these objects actually are?

Steven Greer says the objects being reported are a mix of conventional drones and more advanced vehicles, and he treats that split as the starting point for understanding the current sightings. He does not present them as one neat category. Instead, he says some craft fit ordinary human technology while others belong to a more secretive aerospace world connected to hidden research, testing, and operations.

“The psychological part is working, by the way.”

— David Spade (4:57)

That line from David Spade captures the part Greer keeps returning to: public reaction is not incidental in his account. He says the campaign depends on confusion, repetition, and mass attention. In his telling, the objects matter, but so does the effect they have when people see lights, movement, disappearance, and strange behavior, then watch the same images cycle through news and social platforms.

He says he has known for 18-19 months a group of senior intelligence and aerospace operatives connected to desert R&D, testing, and operations around UFOs and UAPs (5:05). That is where he places his confidence. The claim is not that random witnesses have pieced it together from the outside; it is that insiders have described a system from within.

So when you hear Greer talk about these reports, he is not offering one answer for every object. He is sorting them into visible tools of a broader operation, with some machines meant to be recognized as drones and others meant to keep the mystery alive.

Why does Steven Greer think the orb sightings claims are part of psychological warfare?

Steven Greer says the current wave of reports works as psychological warfare because fear and uncertainty prepare the public for a larger event. He describes the present sightings as rehearsal, conditioning, and narrative-building at the same time, not just isolated aerial incidents.

“What we’re going to do, we’re going to hoax an alien threat to consolidate sort of a totalitarian power around the world, because it’ll be so frightening to people.”

— Steven Greer (20:48)

He places that idea inside a longer story he has repeated for years. Greer cites Carol Rosin’s account that Wernher von Braun warned in 1974 about a staged alien threat. He also mentions a man who came to Washington in 1997 after serving on an interagency committee and said events could be hoaxed to simulate an alien attack (22:17). Those are not side references in his framework. They are part of the spine of it.

Greer says the visible campaign now uses both simple and exotic-looking craft because the public does not need technical consistency to feel alarm. It only needs enough spectacle to make the question stick: what are these things, where are they from, and why can nobody stop them? In his account, that is the point. The uncertainty creates the opening.

He treats the media role as central too. Once videos spread, the narrative moves faster than any explanation. That is why he talks about staging, perception, and response almost as much as hardware.

Who does Greer say is behind the current drone and orb activity?

Steven Greer says a rogue network inside military and corporate aerospace circles is behind the activity, with hidden facilities and compartmented operations keeping it out of normal oversight. He describes the system as secretive, distributed, and insulated from elected authority.

One of his most specific claims is that the main operative he refers to has six other rogue black sites (5:29). Later, he also says people are defecting from six black sites (42:30). He presents those sites as places where advanced programs, covert missions, and the handling of unusual craft or materials sit beyond lawful transparency.

“Some are psychopaths, and they have the ability to hoax all kinds of stuff.”

— Steven Greer (44:36)

He uses that line to explain how such a program could create incidents that look inexplicable from the outside. The claim is not just secrecy. It is active deception, carried out by people he says can stage events and manipulate what the public thinks it is seeing.

Greer adds that the evidence he expects from an insider could include non-human-intelligence craft, bodies and beings, man-made anti-gravity craft, and illegal operations involving downed extraterrestrial vehicles and civilian planes after temporary flight restrictions. He says the operative could come forward in the next 30 days or so (5:44). In his telling, the reason the current sightings matter is that they sit right beside a possible internal break in the system.

When does Greer think more whistleblowers will come forward?

Steven Greer says a key insider could step forward soon, and he links that possibility to a narrow window before mid-January. He speaks as if the timing matters because public events and insider disclosures are moving on the same clock.

He says the operative he has described could emerge in the next 30 days or so with hard evidence (5:44). He also says he expects something could happen before early January, meaning before the 15th. That is how he places urgency around the current sightings: not as an open-ended mystery, but as part of an approach to a deadline.

Greer also says he has been working for 20 months with a separate group of special-forces personnel, mostly former Green Berets (24:56). He presents them as people he has briefed for direct action around these hidden programs. That claim widens the story beyond disclosure in the media. In his account, there are people preparing on the ground while the public sees lights and videos overhead.

“Thank you for what you’re doing for those of us stuck on the other side.”

— Steven Greer (23:19)

He uses that line while describing the existence of people inside the system who want out. The picture he paints is not of one dramatic whistleblower standing alone. It is of a split inside the apparatus, with some people trying to expose what others are still running.

Why does Greer connect these sightings to nuclear history and long-term secrecy?

Steven Greer connects the present reports to nuclear history because he says unusual craft have appeared around atomic weapons and weapons sites since the start of the nuclear age. He places today’s sightings inside a secrecy structure he says has lasted for seven decades.

His timeline starts with the first atomic weapons in 45 (41:03) and a crash at White Sands in 1945 (41:17). He treats those early dates as foundational, arguing that the secrecy did not begin recently and that the official wall around the subject was built at the same time as the modern military-technological state.

From there he reaches into Washington. He says blocked oversight goes back to Senator Goldwater in the 60s, using that as an example of how even high-ranking political figures could be shut out. That matters in his framework because it explains why public office and formal authority do not automatically give anyone access to the hidden programs he describes.

“It was a God damn mistake then, and a God damn mistake now, that this was ever kept secret.”

— Steven Greer (57:20)

He uses secrecy, not mystery, as the organizing idea. The sightings are only the visible edge. Underneath, he says, sits a long-running system that locked away technology, incidents, and accountability.

What evidence does Greer say exists beyond the public videos?

Steven Greer says the evidence goes far beyond clips of lights in the sky and includes named testimony, redacted witness material, and large collections of government paperwork. He points readers toward an archive he says was built to preserve statements that would otherwise vanish into rumor.

He describes that archive as containing named testimony, hundreds more redacted names, and thousands of pages of government documents. He presents it as the paper trail behind the wider claims: not proof he walks through piece by piece here, but a record he says exists for people willing to study it.

That helps explain why his answer to the sightings does not stop at eyewitness accounts. He keeps moving from visible objects to hidden programs, from viral footage to institutional records, and from anonymous fear to people who, he says, have put their names to what they know.

Dana Carvey brings in one old Washington reference with a line about presidential power and pressure inside the system.

“He was the guy who told Nixon, you got to go.”

— Dana Carvey (1:00:33)

The point of bringing in names like Goldwater and Nixon-era power players is to show how high Greer thinks the wall of secrecy reaches. In his map of the issue, the public sees flashes in the sky, while the real story sits inside archives, black sites, and people trying to decide whether to talk.

FAQ

Does Steven Greer say every sighting is the same thing?

No. He says some objects are ordinary drones and others are more advanced craft, and he treats the mix itself as part of the confusion.

Does Greer say the New Jersey sightings are extraterrestrial?

Not in a simple all-or-nothing way. He says the current reports involve both man-made systems and, in the evidence he expects from insiders, material tied to non-human-intelligence craft.

Who does Greer say is running the operation?

He says a rogue military-corporate network inside intelligence and aerospace circles is running it through black sites and compartmented programs.

What timeline does Greer give for new disclosures?

He says a key operative could come forward in the next 30 days or so, and he also says he expects something may happen before early January, meaning before the 15th.

What does Greer say people should do with these claims?

He points people toward testimony, documents, and whistleblowers rather than treating viral footage alone as the whole story.

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