A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact by Jim Marrs, Richard Dolan, Bryce Zabel Read Free Book Online Page A

accordingly when Monday arrives. There will be plenty to observe, because every network will pre-empt its programming for this story, and every cable news outlet will throw all their resources into it.
    If Disclosure does happen on a Friday, expect journalists to travel under a government escort to a previously secret location such as Nevada’s Area 51, or U.S. Air Force Headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base over the weekend.
    Some of the first day’s tremors are public; some are concealed. Many workers are sent home from the office. “Essential” personnel, however, are on-the-job in a big way.
    The media trots out experts, charts, and polls. It wags fingers at the government. Public employees scramble for answers, just like everyone else. It is like a Richter 13 magnitude earthquake, and no one is escaping collateral damage. The military pivots to DEFCON 2 (just short of imminent nuclear war), science turns upside down, religion scrambles to dress up old sermons for new realities, and corporate leaders text each other about profit potentials and risks. And this is on Day One. The world is just getting started.
    The shock of this news will not exist in a vacuum. It will instead be multiplied by the feeling that the truth has been withheld, and the people who are briefing everyone are the same people who have either behaved stupidly or just plain lied. There will eventually be blowback on a huge scale. Yet on Day One, the feeling of having been lied to for generations will not have had time to form completely. The first 24 hours will be about understanding that the news is real and adapting to this knowledge in the most basic way possible.
    Most people, including the self-described “skeptics,” have refused to read anything about UFOs. They have avoided thinking about the subject in any way other than as story fodder for science fiction films. They will be the most shocked; their belief spectrum will shift radically, all at once. Others less dogmatic, or especially those who have taken some time to acquaint themselves of the facts as they can be known, will have less distance to travel.
    Preparation to hear and accept this news may be more important than you think. You can do the world a great deal of good if you are one of a critical mass of people who can react with calm rationality on Day One. This early consideration of what is coming is important because, ashistorians routinely advise us, whenever contact between two civilizations occurs, it is the less-advanced one (at least technologically) that collapses. There are many analogous situations—Cortez and the Aztecs, Pizarro and the Incas. Indeed, in the film Apocalypto , the arrival of the Spaniards at the Yucatan in 1502 is portrayed as the fulfillment of an Oracle’s prophecy that these strangers would come to “scratch out the Earth. Scratch you out. And end your world.”
    Consider the shock those civilizations may have felt. Now consider how our overcrowded, technologically sophisticated world, in which news travels instantaneously and news cycles are measured in hours, will shape and distort our perceptions of threat. Consider, too, how it will affect our collective, societal self-esteem. Collapse in ancient times may have taken decades. For us, it could be instantaneous.
    If there is one silver lining to this fear for the collapse of civilization, it is that a threat from the Others might serve to drive humanity together. In Apocalypto , for example, the two killers from the dominant native culture stop the pursuit of their intended victim, and instead gaze with him at the arrival of Europeans wading ashore from their huge, unfathomable sailing ships. May this perhaps be a metaphor for our contemporary national strivings and hatreds that seemed so important the minute before Disclosure, now transformed into uncomprehending awe at the ships and visitors who have come here for unknown reasons?
    In the days and weeks after Day One, there will be a