Preparing for Disclosure: What is Going On and What Does It Mean?

For the past 80 years (at least), the U.S. government (and others around the world), in collusion with private contractors, has been running a disinformation campaign to hide the existence of non-human intelligence (NHI) and a program to retrieve and reverse-engineer their technology.

This sounds like a movie plot, but in case you have not come to the realization yet: yes, this is happening.

If you are new to this concept, let me catch you up a bit:

UAPs (previously known as UFOs) have appeared in similar forms (glowing orbs, disc-like craft) for thousands of years. The paradigm of the time had them called angels or gods or ghosts, but the accounts of them are remarkably consistent over the centuries. They are real and have been around for a very long time.

Shortly after the U.S. built the first nuclear bomb, UAP visits spiked, most especially around nuclear test sites and silos. Something about nuclear signatures appears to attract some of these UAPs. This is supported by a substantial body of reports and documentation, though the exact nature of the attraction remains debated. At some point, some of these UAPs began to crash. Whether this was the result of conflict or some complication of technology is unclear. The U.S. government began a program of crash retrieval and reverse engineering, which was hidden from the public side of government and became known colloquially as The Legacy Program. The reverse engineering appears to have been tasked to independent contractors such as Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman. Early efforts to reverse-engineer these technologies coincide with the explosion in human technology in the 1950s. Everyone involved has signed extensive NDAs, where revealing the information would be considered treason, punishable by death.

At this point, there have been millions of sightings and thousands of reports, all remarkably consistent, and all long dismissed out of hand as the words of drunks or crazies. Careers were destroyed, people were threatened or worse, and perhaps the most egregious crime of all, humans have been denied an essential truth of life and the advantages of any technology that may have been successfully copied. Bob Lazar came out in 1989 with stories of his work at Area 51 and was branded a fraud, even though his story was backed by a well-respected, Peabody-winning investigative journalist. Anyone attempting something similar was ridiculed and cancelled.

However, over the past decade, the tone has shifted dramatically. In 2001, the Disclosure Project held a conference during which attendees heard testimony from dozens of military and government officials who alleged knowledge of these craft and retrieval programs. New initialed agencies were formed specifically to deal with UAPs. It is important to remember that The Legacy Program was and is a black operation. Presidents and other government and military leaders are read in on a need-to-know basis. The secrecy is intense.

Then, in 2017, the New York Times published an investigative report revealing the existence of government programs focused on UAPs (again, something the government had long denied even existed). This was accompanied by the release of Navy videos of UAPs. This was the start of the modern disclosure movement. In 2020, the Pentagon officially released a handful of Navy UAP videos, and the DoD formed the UAP Task Force. In 2021, an ODNI report covering 144 UAP cases (of which only one was explained) was delivered to Congress. In 2022, the first congressional hearings about UAPs in over 50 years really turned up the temperature.

Now, if you haven’t seen the congressional hearings through 2022 and 2023, you missed multiple high-ranking military, intelligence, and government officials testifying that the U.S. has knowledge of NHI, that UAPs have crashed, and that there is an active recovery and reverse-engineering program in place. These are not drunks. These are not crazies. These are people who would know.

The Age of Disclosure is a slick documentary featuring interviews with 34 of these high-level officials. When I say “high level,” I do not mean staff sergeants—I mean high level. Among the interviewees are:

  • A Secretary of State
  • U.S. senators
  • U.S. congresspeople
  • Former Director of National Intelligence
  • Former Acting Secretary of Defense
  • DoD officials
  • Defense Intelligence Agency officials
  • A U.S. Navy admiral
  • A Northrop Grumman executive
  • FAA and National Security Council officials
  • Astrophysicists
  • A Stanford professor
  • A former NASA official

Like I said: these are not drunks or crazies. And they are all saying versions of the same thing. People have more consistent reports that UAPs exist than they do of many other well-accepted phenomena that they readily accept as real.

Beginning this year (2026), the U.S. government has been releasing tranches of UAP files to the public. So far, the majority have been videos at great distance from objects that appear as dots. The reveals in the tranches so far establish the government’s knowledge of, and long-term handling of, UAPs. Certainly, there is a lot to wonder about with stories of triangular craft and videos of objects moving in ways humans have not yet mastered. But this has just been the appetizer, with more profound claims still kept locked away. There is an ongoing push by some for blanket immunity to those who come forward, but Disclosure is no celebratory event.

Things have really amplified over the past week, with highly credentialed former government and intelligence officers claiming, very publicly, that not only are UAPs real, but that we have recovered craft, recovered non-humans, that there are multiple species of NHI, and that these different species have at times attacked one another. Even the head of astrophysics at Harvard confirmed that he has been told by reputable sources that this is all really happening. Pretty wild, right? Additional claims include a secret cold war with China and Russia over non-human technology, and a U.S. program to lure UAPs to specific areas.

Now the standard initial reaction is disbelief. “They must be crazy!” you say. “They’re lying!” While it is certainly possible that hundreds of whistleblowers and witnesses over the past 80 years have all been, for some reason, repeating the same bizarre lie that is impossible to walk back from, it is highly unlikely. Primarily because: why? Why would people spanning generations throw away their careers and credibility to share in a lie so wild that it seems impossible? Why would the U.S. government need multiple initialed agencies to investigate UAPs? Why would anyone go on Joe Rogan and describe seeing dead Nordics (one of the presumed races) in video of a crashed UAP? Why would a guy who was extremely high in the chain of US security go on CNN to tell people that he saw non-human craft and beings with his own eyes?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Though there is a substantial body of evidence and testimony already available, most people will find it impossible to believe that there are several species of NHI that have been visiting Earth in a variety of craft without clear, undeniable evidence presented to them. And therein lies the problem.

“Catastrophic disclosure” refers to the total release of secrets to the public, all at once. Some believe that AI will do this for us if our leaders will not. What has been happening is a soft launch of disclosure. There is just enough room for the majority of people to wave off all this UAP talk as silliness; I assure you, this is not silliness. When that moment comes, when it is no longer in any doubt, there will be consequences, regardless of how gradually the truth is released. As part of understanding the UAP issue, one must also prepare for the potential of significant upheaval.

As part of this near-century-long cover-up, people have been publicly destroyed, had careers end, have been threatened, and some have been killed. Will there be any justice for all the people whose lives were ruined in service of hiding this truth from the public? What about the independent contractors? A company like Lockheed gets exclusive access to new tech and materials, giving them a massive market advantage that their competitors—who were not involved—did not have. Will they face legal or political consequences for creating an asymmetrical edge? And what about the technology? If indeed we could have access to technology such as zero-point energy, and that technology was suppressed to protect fossil-fuel interests, what will be the public reaction? Most importantly, we will come to the realization that we are not alone, that we are not superior, that we have been kept in a deliberate state of ignorance while a select group uses the truth to consolidate power. Faith in religions, in governments, in major institutions will all evaporate in a single moment, sending many into spirals of rage or depression.

Once you come to the realization that this is real, this is happening, you start to run through what disclosure would look like. Despite being provided with the evidence to date, most have not yet crossed the threshold of acceptance. The slow rollout of evidence is meant to cushion the ontological shock of the new reality, but there will still be upheaval and panic. Move your money out of fossil fuels. Be prepared to leave densely populated areas. Get ready for unstable people to do unstable things.


What does Disclosure look like? The first 24-72 hours will see digital media overwhelmed. Social media sites may crash, increasing a sense of panic. News will be wall-to-wall. People will cluster around screens rather than go to class or work. Roadways will be impassable, so if you are going to leave, have that set up and ready to go so you can get out of the cities. People will stockpile gas and groceries. People will start looting when they can’t get the products they need to calm them. The economy will go haywire. Stock your emergency supplies. You don’t want to be in a city when either martial law or anarchy are imposed.

This is a somewhat optimistic prediction; there are always greater dangers. In the first couple of weeks, expect financial institution failures, a total collapse of certain industries like tourism, people will face shortages of basics as people hoard, supply chain failures, millions of suicides, theocracies will be overrun, compute power will be in limited supply. It will affect every single aspect of life. One would think that, with the slow conditioning of the public to accept the truth, the shock will be reduced, but I fear it will have the opposite effect. People are actively working to ignore this looming pivotal moment in our species, like a doomsday cultist digging in to defend the belief the world will end on a specific day. Like the cultist, when the day comes and passes, it will be as if the floor has fallen out from beneath you, and you’re falling in every direction at once.

I hope that the worst of the above does not come to pass, but we have seen what mobs of people are capable of for far, far less of a reason. If you can get millions to angrily march against a non-existent king, prioritizing that over work or family, imagine the angry mobs of Disclosure. Riots have occurred over sports matches and police brutality – what do the riots over having been lied to about something so important look like? The COVID-19 global response, where the people willing surrendered all their rights to governments with barely a struggle, is a good model to expect leaders to try to replicate. Only this time, there will be no faith in the institutions. Even if the majority conform, enough will revolt to create chaos. If there is one truth one can rely on, it is that one cannot rely on humans not to panic and destroy.

Things are coming to a head very rapidly. It is a fast-developing situation, not limited to the US, and due to concerns like those above, there is a substantial effort to try and keep Pandora’s Box from fully opening. What is covered here is just the tip of an iceberg of interdimensional travel, sentient plasma, telepathy, and chrononauts. It will get really weird, really fast. Stay on top of the issue, don’t be dismissive of it, try to imagine how disclosure may immediately affect you, and make preparations as you can. Billions of people will, in one shared instant, lose all trust in authorities while their entire understanding of reality is shaken to the foundation. The results are unpredictable. Do people resume their daily lives? Do they report to work? Will the economy collapse? What does a post-secrets world look like, and do we really want to go there? Looks like we’ve passed the point of no return; buckle up.


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