Hi Everyone, 

Very glad I finally re-recorded this lecture from CITD just a few weeks ago. In it, I explore a question that has definitely been on my mind: what happens when disclosure unfolds inside a civilization that is itself becoming unstable?

As I see it, we are living through an era of geopolitical transformation and potential crisis. But it’s more than that. There’s a near-universal loss of trust in institutions. There’s the rapid rise of AI, and information warfare, and just all the accelerating systems of technological control.  This is the environment into which UAP disclosure seems to be emerging.

I am not so sure that disclosure will arrive as a single dramatic event. Not saying it can’t be that way, but instead, my take is it will probably be partial, contested, and shaped by the same institutions and incentives that have managed the subject for decades. At the same time, I suggest that we may be making a fundamental mistake by equating disclosure with contact itself. Disclosure is a human process. The phenomenon is something larger. In a sense, this lecture examines where those two realities intersect, and where they diverge.

This version is a bit longer than the one I gave for CITD. 

I hope you find this interesting. I’d like to know your thoughts. 

Richard