There is a growing movement to encourage full disclosure by assembling a preponderance of testimony from highly credible witnesses and participants. The Disclosure Project, whose spokesman is Dr. Steven Greer, is a movement whose proponents envision a utopian disbursal of extraterrestrial technology that would ultimately redefine human civilization. Reasoning that were enough credible witnesses to come forward, authorities would then be constrained to admit what they have been keeping secret for decades. While a technological windfall would undoubtedly solve a number of human problems, particularly those involving energy, some believe the cost of free energy would be far too expensive to bear.

Behind the veil of national security, governments have continued work on the general issue of UFOs and extraterrestrial contact. Artifacts and other physical evidence have been amassed for at least six decades. Many "scientific breakthroughs" are attributable to these strokes of fortune. The controlled release, to private corporations, of some of these technological bonuses permeates our culture today, and has become so mundane that we believe there is nothing improbable about their existence. But the psychological conditioning which has been present for three generations has predisposed the majority of us to dismiss the topic from serious consideration.

Some corporations connected with technology distribution projects blatantly advertise their association with ET technology, using it as a marketing tool. Due to the inundation by the media of all things ET, in movies that mitigate the topic through desensitization, and in journalism that demeans alleged contact, the public is largely confused and ambivalent regarding the subject. As researcher Jim Marrs has stated, acceptance of the subject matter is based more upon one's existing paradigm, or point of view, than upon the merit or credibility of specific ET events or testimony.

When considered objectively, the open acknowledgement of any ET liaison with our government would mean its sure and unequivocal demise, either from internal strife and rebellion or from the inevitable collapse of the values associated with its standing as a sovereign nation. Since energy (i.e. petroleum and coal) is currently such a valuable commodity, and the dollar is tied to it as the basis for the valuation of petroleum, any energy source that jeopardizes that status quo is something our government cannot allow. But that evaluation is not based upon selfish desire alone. We have all mutually agreed to allow our government to protect our way of life.

The government equivocates acquiescence to the release of the truth of its alien involvement and the subsequent acceptance of alien assistance and technology with allowing communism to spread. While these two concepts have nothing in common, we have tasked our government to protect us and they are doing that job.

Given the magnitude of the potential collapse of the American (and global) financial empire, brought about by an uncontrolled release of technology to the public, and the subsequent demise of our nation, it is inconceivable that anyone who has sworn to protect the country from all enemies, foreign or domestic, would wish any facts to surface, nor any technology release, without careful control. And it is logical, within that paradigm, that alien technology would be commandeered as much as possible for national security applications, rather than for public consumption.

If we begin to see that keeping secrets from us, according to their view, was in our best interest, then we can understand why the truth of our government's dealings with ET over the years has been handled the way it has been. We as a people have insisted, albeit indirectly, that they do so.

Many who doubt the existence of such conspiracies point to the overwhelming level of confidence needed for a large number of people to actually keep a secret. How could so many people be involved and not leak something? Those involved patriots are actually behaving in a patriotic fashion, keeping the truth from us to protect our freedoms and way of life. But some who have felt less inclined to keep secrets have leaked things for years.

Most participants are on a "need to know", compartmentalized knowledge level of security. In other words, many high level participants have only a small section of the puzzle. The big secrets and the big picture are kept even from them.

And what are the big secrets?

One program the government struggled with involved human genetics and was called Project Garnet. This study revealed information that was so unbelievable that the program was allegedly completed, having "determined all that was necessary" for it to accomplish. Another study, and field of investigation, was religion. Among the classified documents given to alleged participants were papers that described the purpose of religion, and the corresponding effect it has on humanity. The big secrets are to humanity as ET technology is to human finances. An in-depth revelation of this aspect of ET association would mean a complete overhaul of our perspectives as nations and peoples, faiths and beliefs.

The truth, which would be given to humanity, would be non-bunkable, irrefutable and provable, repeatable and reproducible. The evidence and proofs would make it impossible to deny any aspect of the revelation and it would be internally consistent, corroborating and supportive evidence for all subsequent revelations. Our cultures worldwide would topple like houses of cards. But not without an unimaginably violent period of denial our human psychologies require.

There will hardly be a future wherein humanity, as we know it, will step out in some kind of Gene Rodenberry Star Trek utopian vision. If that were to happen, we would more likely be like the Ferengi than the crew of the Enterprise. Of course we love the Ferengi, as they are so much like us. But that is not a good thing - it is simply the misplaced high self-esteem we have as a species.

Humans would not do as well, behaving as we do, in interstellar space as we have done on earth. We will unavoidably pick a fight with the wrong people and cause ourselves no end of sorrow. So on that note, let us thank our government for protecting us from this tragedy for so long.

Another big secret is that as it is here, it is out there too. Where we are the neighborhood bullies, pillaging the planet, exploiting everything in our paths, driving to extinction species of animal and vegetable, performing genocide on our brothers, there are those out there of a similar mindset, but with much greater and more bizarre appetites. In fact, some of our ET visitors are worrying the other folks in the neighborhood. Due to its association with ET, our government is conscious of this and has particularly tried to avoid further contact with those types. We need to appreciate the basic distrust our governments inculcate, rather than being open to anyone and anything coming our way.

Our governments know that they are completely helpless in providing protection from this celestial enemy - and have allegedly acquiesced too many agreements with those who can offer some protection. This bit of information would only serve to further reduce any government's effectiveness by admitting its inability to provide and necessity to accept outside help for our security. This is tremendously embarrassing for a world super-power to confess. It is also destabilizing.

In our government's view, stabilization is essential - keeping things the way they are. Stabilization is the organizational counterpart to homeostasis in living organisms. After all, that is what we expect from them. We do not want to go to bed in one system only to wake up in a totally different political or economic system. We want our property to retain its value, our money to remain liquid, and our values to be firm. We would not want radical change - even if it were to mean perfect social equality.

In the end the probability of disclosure depends on at least two things. First, we, as a people (humans), need to decide if chasing money for a few decades and dying on Social Security (or its international equivalent) really makes sense. Can we take a real, objective look at our lives and determine whether what we have been doing is not just some form of psychosis or not? Can we continue to define our existence by consumption and obeisance to the old social norms or is there really something else for this divine human animal? Disclosure will change all that and render meaningless what we have all worked for. Humans will not be the same again. And there will be no going back. Once that genie is loosed, it will not go easily back into its bottle. By the natural course of disclosure, our world political and economic systems will evolve and become something quite unrecognizable from what we have today. The first will be last and the last first, so to speak. Are we really ready for that? Or is that slim chance we may win the Wall Street lottery enough to continue our support of oppressive dehumanizing economic systems?

Secondly, if we are ready for it, then how do we vouchsafe personal freedom to those who have kept the secrets from us for so long? Undoubtedly, there have been nefarious deeds done in the name of national security. People have been maimed, maddened, economically destroyed and professionally discredited, and killed as well. There are many crimes against humanity that, revealed, will become collateral damage for any real disclosure movement. Good people have worked hard in keeping this business classified and have done some things we cannot simply, as a people of law, "raise our eyebrows" concerning. Without an ironclad amnesty policy and national and international laws governing the release of previously classified information related to any extraterrestrial issue, very few people will ever let their cats out of the bag. We need to be prepared to pardon all actions related to keeping secret what happened in the past. All actions: even hideous and unforgivable atrocities against whole nations, or cities and portions thereof, need to be pardoned. No recriminations for their actions to date.

Changing the way humans have thought since the middle of the second millennium is an unimaginably difficult task. Our faith in finance surpasses all religions in its permeation of our cultures - it is a world religion of its own. There are far too many human individuals and nations involved for a homogenous understanding of a completely new meaning of life to evolve. Abandoning our instinct to collect and amass provision is probably not going to happen without a change to our actual genetic structure. In addition, the inculcation of the injunction to "turn the other cheek" and to absolutely forgive people for their sins is completely beyond the reach of us humans. We would walk on water easier than forgiving all wrongs done to us. An open and full disclosure of the truth of alien intervention, both past and present, depends on at least two things which are simply not currently within the pale of human emotion.