A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact (5 page)

Facing the facts in the air. Previously ignored accounts of unknown craft become key evidence overnight. Vancouver, B.C., October 8th, 1981
. Photo courtesy of Hannah McRoberts.

During this shadow period, world capitals will be in a state of excitement and anxiety, as officials consult each other formally and through back-channels. In the United States, preparatory meetings will take place to coordinate across the three branches of government, as well as the military and intelligence communities. All of this will be aimed at synchronizing, containing, and managing. The major agencies and institutions will need guidelines in order to provide a unified message. This will create leaks that will be firmly and categorically denied until they are confirmed and it happens.

The announcement will not come from any sense of patriotism or altruism. The decision to change the world, to
let
the world change, will simply be a matter of damage control. It is only at the point where the thing that has always seemed impossible—Disclosure—will now become inevitable.

Full (Radical) Disclosure

When the leadership of the Breakaway Group makes a decision to disclose, they must decide what to say. This is a complex secret, full of nuance, with the potential to rend the fabric of the status quo. They will have several options in deciding what to tell, how to tell it, and how truthful—or deceptive—they will be.

The government might disclose as much as it can as fast as it can. Although it would take weeks or months to fill in the full mosaic of contact, the idea is to let it all hang out from the finest moments of joining the brotherhood of the universe to the darkest hours of feeling under threat by malevolent forces.

This is a risky throw of the dice. Some argue for it and even romanticize it, knowing that they will never have to make the decision. All voices on the inside, however, are apt to look at this option with fear and dread.

What they would have to consider is a scenario in which the government immediately dumps massive amounts of evidence, hoping that this one single
mea culpa
allows its leaders to put the controversy behind them. This involves the release of an avalanche of supporting evidence—DVDs, decrypted files, or secure download sites full of video and photos
(including corpses and wreckage)—and would involve the posting of tens of thousands of pages of documents to the Internet. The next edition of the
New York Times
would perhaps read alarmingly like many previous issues of the
National Enquirer
.

By releasing it all at once, much like President Nixon did when he released all of the Watergate tape transcripts at the same time, the hope would be that there will be so much to process that the public reaction would initially be enormous, and then die down. Nixon, however, provides his own cautionary tale. Rather than releasing the actual tapes and forcing the reporters and the Supreme Court clerks to sift through them, he released redacted transcripts. People, fed up with his lying, rejected that. Nor will they accept a Disclosure that is stripped of its full content. If the idea coming from the Breakaway Group is to deliver the so-called UFO truth
Full Monty
style then they will have to do just that.

The technical obstacles alone would be overwhelming. First, simply assembling the films, videos, and photos would increase the likelihood that they would leak prematurely and create a
War of the Worlds
-type panic. More important, posting everything to the Internet would be impossible without a proper declassification review, unless the government wanted to offer the conspiracy theorists a first opportunity to interpret them.

There is another reason why full Disclosure may be an unattractive option. It may well be that, during the period leading to the great announcement, the president is briefed by intelligence experts who describe truly disturbing elements of the UFO phenomenon. After all, we can presume that the other intelligences here on Earth are very likely to be more advanced than we are. And the fact that they, too, have been rather secretive about their presence may not bode well. Simply because they are demonstrably smart does not mean that their intentions are “good” from the limited point of view of the humans that happen to inhabit Earth.

Partial (Controlled) Disclosure

A partial, or limited, Disclosure confirms the basic fact that “we are not alone,” and tries to manage the tidal wave of questions and accusations on a case-by-case basis. Essentially, this is a stall for time. One motivation
for this strategy comes from the top: to conceal crimes that have been committed while preserving the secret. Also, the secret-keepers can reassure themselves that they are giving the public a chance to absorb this new information in a calm manner, preventing a panic and societal implosion.

Even so, simply announcing that “they’re here” will break like a tidal wave over the public’s consciousness. The “go slow” approach would be an attempt by governments to appear forthcoming, but also evaluating the evidence in a deliberate, responsible manner.

This will still be a death by a thousand cuts. Here, the information is dribbled out piecemeal; much of it is protected and released unwillingly. It is not a pleasant strategy, yet it will be the favored one. It is the only way for those erstwhile secret-keepers (now forced to be secret-givers) to try to maintain some semblance of control over the situation. This has been their obsession and a mission for a long time, and will not cease because of a forced announcement. They, and their representatives, will still face a set of difficult questions where “no comment” will not satisfy.

It is not just that all of the information released at once would be unsettling. It is that any part of
all
of the information will be unsettling and potentially explosive. For instance, how might Disclosure affect the financial markets, given that there will be technologies from UFOs that may be introduced? How might these same technologies affect international relations? What if the Others have substantial underground bases here on Earth—does one come out and just say so? What if some of
them
look like
us
—would it be a good idea to mention this? How does one talk about abductions? What if there had been some measure of collaboration between them and certain intelligence groups? How bad might public panic be?

Because of these concerns, even if there is a mass sighting those in charge of maintaining the secret may only confirm the existence of one species, possibly the common “Grays,” providing the information that they are from Zeti-Reticuli, if that is the case (and assuming this information is known), or naming where they do come from, if it is not. This will be a significant bombshell, of course. Yet, it would only be a very limited disclosure if the truth turns out to be that there are dozens of other species observing us from other worlds, dimensions, or times.

This means that the “big picture” spills out first, while the media—asleep at the switch all these years—tries to repair its damaged reputation by leaping on the story. It will usher in a true battle royale over what we “need to know.” Even though the public will eventually answer that question with a definitive
everything
, that will come later, as the days turn to weeks, then to months, then to years.

False (Deceptive) Disclosure

Nothing is a certainty in the world of trillion-dollar secrets, security classifications that are levels above the president, and lies and deception going back for more than half a century. It is possible to imagine a situation where the true holders of the secret know they have to say something important in order to appease a demanding population. They would then offer up a form of Disclosure that is only a bigger lie.

In the event of a widely recorded mass sighting, for instance, the strategy would be to admit that, yes, something unusual was flying in the sky, and was actually classified human military technology. In other words, they confirm that the hardware exists, but insist it is entirely human. They then fall back on national security, and refuse to answer any more questions.

It is elegant in its simplicity. By acknowledging the truth of the sighting, the greatest act of debunking is primed. It is also, if practiced by a superpower like the United States, Russia, or China, a dodge against a potential enemy, saying in effect that “my weapons are so impressive you thought they had to be extraterrestrial.”

Whatever country uses that strategy has turned its competitors into reluctant co-conspirators. Other nations may well choose not to challenge such a statement publicly, as this would force them into the position of claiming that UFOs are real. This form of False Disclosure, then, is a double-down. It allows one country to bluff the rest of the world, co-opt its enemies, and maintain the status quo for another few years at minimum.

As attractive as this might seem, it is a risky course that would probably backfire. At some point, it would be necessary to demonstrate the technology to aviation and aerospace experts. The public could be skeptical of such a claim, and credibility could become a serious issue.

Another form of False Disclosure would be to admit that whatever the sighting event was, it was certainly unusual, and that the government is just as curious as its citizens. In this scenario, a president or other foreign leader would try to put him- or herself and the country on the side of the people, and would probably create a commission to deliver a report on UFOs within a certain period of time. This is stonewalling of the highest order, of course. Yet, while the commission is busy at its business of determining what is behind the UFO phenomenon, the government, the Breakaway Group, and other secret-keepers have more time to assess the damage and determine their next step.

Yet another form of False Disclosure would be something that has been widely discussed on countless Internet blogs and social network sites: announcing that a hostile ET race threatens humanity. This would be a type of “false flag” operation, in which a secret agency carries out an operation to make it appear that other groups or entities are responsible. False Flag operations have occurred at various times throughout the history of warfare, but also in modern history as covert operations designed to confuse and manipulate the public, the most notorious example being the Reichstag Fire of 1933, an event carried out by the Nazis but blamed on Communists, and which served as the foundation for Hitler’s dictatorship.

It has been claimed that an alien false flag invasion has been planned for many years under the code name “Blue Beam.” The idea would be to fake an ET invasion through advanced holography and other technologies, and then terrorize the public into acquiescing to the creation of a global police state. Could this happen?

Nothing can be ruled out in the 21st century, when people are manipulated and pacified daily via an entertainment complex that often works hand-in-glove with the state apparatuses around the world. Also, there are technologies available to covert groups that now exceed the wildest imaginations of prior generations. We must say, why not, indeed?

However, claims require evidence, and here Blue Beam has always fallen short. So, too, in the logic of its implementation. The logistics alone would be a planner’s worst nightmare. Moreover, does faking an alien invasion mean there really are no aliens? Many Blue Beam proponents
appear to believe this. If, however, Others of some sort are here, then the perpetrators of a Blue Beam event would seem to be taking a huge risk, assuming that the Others go along with everything without a hitch. Perhaps there would be reason to think so, and perhaps there could be collaboration between the human elites and “them” to make it happen. But the problem is that there is no evidence to support any of this conjecture. It’s easy to make claims, but much harder to make a case.

Considering all factors involved, it is more likely that the decisionmakers behind Disclosure would rather play matters down. Bold lies always bring great danger, but this particular bold lie would be a powder keg beyond all others.

But if Blue Beam lacks evidence and logic, it remains possible that Disclosure could be used as an attempt to spread fear of the Others and enforce docility among the public. At all events, we must assume that those people who have managed the secret all these years will not simply walk away from the table after Disclosure.

Spin City

Day One starts with confirmation. No matter what form Disclosure takes, the public will be subjected to what military public relations experts call “information shaping.” From the perspective of any government, this will be necessary. Any chief executive forced to discuss this with the world will be in a tough position, especially if there is any bad news to report.

National leaders will do everything possible to control public discourse as it unfolds. Whether or not they succeed will be of great significance. Most certainly, the leaders of the key UFO secrecy nations will have a general plan that was previously worked out in preparation to Disclosure.

These leaders will need to decide how frightened they want the world to be. A certain amount of fear is useful to someone who is out front on a major issue. Fear causes people to look for leadership to calm the social order. Too much fear, however, can devolve into something that cannot be controlled.

If hostile intent of any kind is hinted at or acknowledged, the world will look toward the United States, the most powerful military power, for reassurance. In that case, the talking points of the U.S. president will be as follows:

“To the extent that the Earth is under threat, we have the capability to respond. Our military has a plan and significant capabilities to implement it, if necessary.”