Hi Everyone, 

I recorded this after learning about a very strange statement by an individual I had not known about previously, Dr. Jennice Vilhauer, who is a member of the government’s new UAP Science Advisory Council. She has recently said(opens in new tab) that the council met at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on August 31. She said that at that meeting, they were told that the United States government has a preparedness plan in the event that nonhuman intelligence is confirmed. She also said the United States is prepared to take an international leadership role.

Probably some of you have heard about this. I looked into this. Well, I found a few things that genuinely were … unsettling. This is what I wrote for the YouTube description box:

The latest rumors of an imminent White House announcement concerning UFOs and non-human intelligence have generated some discussion. In this video, I examine what is actually known and explain why I remain unconvinced that a genuine disclosure plan is underway. I also take a close look at two new documents addressing the psychological and social consequences of disclosure. Some of their recommendations seem sensible, on the face of it. But others envision an extraordinary national apparatus involving HHS, intelligence agencies, educators, clinicians, religious leaders, coordinated public messaging, and population-level behavioral-health monitoring. This raises a basic question: Who will control the information, and who will define the public’s proper response? Finally, I return to the historical record—official memoranda, extraordinary military encounters, and decades of crash-retrieval testimony—which strongly suggests that the real problem is far older and more serious than the latest Washington rumor.

9-page policy brief, “A National Preparedness Framework for the Human Consequences of Disclosure”:

https://disclosure.org/api/media/Documents/Disclosure-Foundation-Policy-Brief-06-A-National-Preparedness-Framework-for-the-Human-Consequences-of-Disclosure.pdf(opens in new tab)

Full research paper, “The Psychological Impact of UAP/NHI Disclosure”:

https://disclosure.org/api/media/research/psychological-impact-of-uap-nhi-disclosure/full-report.pdf(opens in new tab)

Christopher Sharp, “UFO History Is Being Shaped in Washington—No One Knows How This Ends”:

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/ufo-history-is-being-shaped-in-washington-no-one-knows-how-this-ends(opens in new tab)

I’m not trying to say that clinicians should not be trained and prepared to deal with psychological stress in any post-disclosure moment. But what she and her colleagues, including Christopher Mellon, are suggesting here seems Orwellian. Am I misinterpreting something here? 

I have tried to cut some of the inside-disclosure-transparency crowd some slack — more slack than *many* would give. But this? This strikes me as having zero upside and a whole lot of downside. 

It is just a proposal. Very likely it won’t go anywhere. But jeez. All these people seem to know how to do is to insert more management, more coordination. What I argue in the video is that what is needed is more truth. This anger management they are looking to mitigate — well, when people (if people) ever learn the depths of a truly mind bending coverup for 80 years, they *will* be angry. Pissed off, furious, and more. And they will have every right to be. 

I gave a bit of a history lesson in here as well. Please let me know what you think. 

I think I forgot to turn on my good microphone, so it’s off the native mic of the laptop. But after I recorded it, I really didn’t want to switch it out. At least I saw that I had been mirroring my office for the last couple of videos, so things don’t look reverse any more. 😉

Richard