Dr. Steven Greer has scheduled a press conference at the National Press Club Ballroom in Washington for 8 May 2026, 3:00pm to 4:30pm Eastern, exactly twenty-five years after the 9 May 2001 Disclosure Project briefing at the same venue. Doors open at 2:00pm. Media RSVPs were requested by 4 May.
The 2001 event placed more than twenty named military officers, intelligence officials and federal contractors in front of cameras to describe their personal involvement with classified UAP programmes, and is the single most-cited public reference point for what observers now call the modern disclosure movement. The 2026 anniversary event is structured the same way: live witness testimony, supporting video and photographic evidence, and a closing set of policy recommendations addressed to the President and to Congress.
Witnesses billed for testimony
Three witnesses have been previewed in the press materials.
The first is described as a US Army Green Beret who is expected to recount being taken to a facility in Indiana said to contain non-human artefacts, and to describe a separate observation of a human-built craft of “Tic Tac” form during an active mission.
The second witness is a US Marine who is expected to testify about a 300-foot-diameter craft, described as human-built, allegedly used in human-trafficking operations. The third is a US Marine who is expected to describe a large triangular craft observed near the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California.
Greer’s organisation has consistently maintained that a substantial subset of UAP observed near US military assets are reverse-engineered or Special Access Programme craft of human origin, distinct from a separate category of objects of non-human origin. The 2026 testimony list reflects that distinction.
Closing recommendations
Greer is expected to close the event with a set of recommendations for presidential executive actions and congressional initiatives “aimed at increasing oversight, accountability, and transparency related to UAP and associated programmes.” The specific text has not been released in advance.
How this slots into the current cycle
The press conference lands inside an unusually active disclosure cycle. President Trump’s 20 February 2026 directive ordered the Department of War, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies to identify and release UAP records. On 18 April in Phoenix, and again on 29 April speaking to reporters, Trump said the first releases would begin “very, very soon” and that the review had identified “very interesting documents.” No date has been published.
In parallel, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s 31 March letter to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth demanding 46 specific UAP videos passed its 14 April deadline without delivery. The Comer-Burlison briefing deadline of 27 April also passed without a publicly disclosed outcome. The Polymarket “aliens confirmation by 30 April” market resolved to “No” with approximately 29.4 million dollars in trading volume.
Against that backdrop, Greer’s event is a privately organised disclosure act, conducted on Press Club premises rather than under federal authority, and presenting witness testimony rather than declassified documents. The legal weight is therefore lower than a Pentagon release, but the precedent is that the 2001 briefing produced the named witness list that Congress has since drawn from for the 2023 and 2025 hearing cycles.
What we will be tracking
Three specific questions will determine the news value of the 8 May event.
First, whether any of the three previewed witnesses are willing to be named on the record, or whether Greer will follow his usual pattern of presenting some witnesses anonymously with face-and-voice protection.
Second, whether any of the testimony pertains directly to the 46 video files now in dispute between Rep. Luna and the Department of War. The Luna list includes a Lake Huron F-16 / AIM-9X engagement (callsign AESIR11, 12 February 2023), Iran and Persian Gulf formations, Afghanistan spherical objects and East China Sea encounters. Witness testimony tied to any of those specific incidents would convert the 46-video question from a closed-door congressional dispute into a public-record matter.
Third, whether Greer’s closing policy recommendations align with, conflict with, or supplant the Schumer-Rounds UAPDA 2025 text now under consideration as an NDAA amendment. The UAPDA model is JFK Records Act-style: a federal review board with subpoena power and a presumption of disclosure. Greer’s recommendations have historically called for a presidential commission with broader subpoena authority and immunity provisions for testifying witnesses.
The NHI News Network will post a summary and source-verification pass once the event has concluded.