Steven Macon Greer June 28 1955 is an American ufologist and retired traumatologist who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence CSETI and the Disclosure Project which seeks the disclosure of allegedly classified secret UFO information Greer was born in Charlotte North Carolina in 1955 He claims to have seen an unidentified flying object at close range when he was about eight years old which inspired his interest in ufology Greer was trained as a Transcendental Meditation teacher and served as director of a meditation organization He received a BS degree in biology from Appalachian State University in 1982 and an MD degree from the James H Quillen College of Medicine of East Tennessee State University in 1987 He attended MAHEC University of North Carolina where he completed his internship in 1988 and received his Virginia medical license in 1989 That year he became a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society