A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact Read Online Free PDF Page A

in this book, to refer to the overall process of acknowledging humanity’s contact with other intelligent beings. It covers all aspects, all the moving pieces, all the complexity, of the event’s impact. You can disclose a fact about UFOs, but Disclosure is the event and the process. It encompasses all that happens when we say, “We are not alone.”
    The Others
    The biggest re-definition will be how we come to refer to the “intelligent non-humans” that have been in contact with us. It is possible that when Disclosure comes, these beings may be referred to by the name that they call themselves, or it may be a name used by the intelligence groups that have monitored them. For this book, we will call them “The Others.”
    The other common terms have too much baggage. Most are too specific, and many could be wrong. Terms such as extraterrestrial , ET , EBE , or Eben (the last two for “extraterrestrial biological entity”) commonly invoke outer space. Calling them visitors sounds like the reptoids from the television series V . Besides, it may turn out that they are not visiting at all. The word aliens has a certain accuracy, in that these beings are probably alien to humanity in key ways. But then again, maybe not. The word is also emotionally charged—it predisposes us to see them as enemies, and even has been politicized by current immigration debates.
    What we do know about them is that they are not us. This means, by definition, that they are Others.
    The Breakaway Group
    In the 1950s, retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe called the secret-keepers the “Silence Group.” If certain documents leaked in the 1980s are to be believed, the group had the name of Majestic-12 or MJ-12. These days there is no direct evidence that name is still in use. “The Breakaway Group” is our name for them. We believe they are still at work today, having become a quasi-private, quasi-public group. To a large extent, these people have their own rules, their own secrecy protocols, their own technology. As the following pages will suggest, they have probably developed their own society, separate from the one that spawned it, yet still interacting with it. The existence of The “Breakaway Group” is nearly as important a secret as that of the non-human intelligences themselves.
    Ground Zero
    “Ground Zero” once referred to a nuclear blast contact point. Then, following 9/11, it referred to the hole where the World Trade Center once stood. If the cover-up begins to unravel with a mass sighting, the term will be re-defined yet again as the location where the slide toward Disclosure gained traction. For example, let us assume for illustration purposes that a mass sighting occurs in Montreal, Canada. If that is the event that begins the final disintegration of the secret, the city will be referred to as Ground Zero—even though, as pedants will point out, the event never took place on the ground, but in the sky above.
    Trigger Event
    Something will start the process toward Disclosure. As we already suggested, it could be an undeniable mass sighting of a UFO. But it might also be a compelling revelation from Wikileaks or some other citizen-based group that hacks into classified records. It may be the appearance of physical evidence discovered in the attic of a Roswell witness. Or perhaps a deathbed confession by an ex-president or prominent general whosees a chance for immortality by speaking the truth. It could be a foreign government, such as China, Russia, or Brazil, acting unilaterally. It could also be the Others themselves, although they have apparently declined every previous opportunity throughout the years to announce themselves. But whatever the trigger event is, it will be a tipping point that shifts the momentum from secrecy to openness.
    Avalanche
    After the trigger event comes the avalanche. They often start slowly, then gather momentum. Finally, they become unstoppable. In the rapid downhill fall of UFO secrecy,