Editor’s Blog: Disclosure and the Divine

[WARNING: MAJOR MOVIE SPOILERS AND TRUTH THAT IS STRANGER THAN FICTION]

I’ve been excited to see Disclosure Day since I learned it was a movie. Historically, I was never interested in aliens or UFOs. I always kind of thought the topic was cheesy and never actually considered whether it could be true.

Recently however I discovered a side of the internet, specifically Reddit, that has captivated my attention and imagination. There are loads of subreddits dedicated to aliens. Here is a quick list if you’re ready to get weird.

r/aliens
r/aliensrhere
r/experiencers
r/highstrangeness
r/interdimensionalnhi
r/theufolibrary
r/uap
r/uapdrop
r/ufo
r/ufos
r/ufoscience
r/ufouapnews
r/ufo_extraterrestrials

And when I say weird, I mean, literally there is psy-op nonsense (psychological operations using targeted information to influence how people, groups, or governments think and act in ways that support their objectives) happening all over those subreddits. Probably due to the fact that there are dark money defense contractors who have reverse engineered alien technology like gravity control and they want to keep it to themselves. They want the masses to be confused and they want you to be afraid. But they aren’t doing a very good job at it because… well, I and many others have noticed their shenanigans.

THE DISCLOSURE
This week I got the chance to go see Disclosure Day. I thought Spielberg did a great job of showcasing what happens when extraordinary events befall your average citizen. It was funnier than I was expecting and I greatly enjoyed it. I cried. I laughed. I got mad.

The main characters are a news lady (a shimmying meteorologist who wants to be an anchor) and a cyber security type nerd who has sold his soul to an evil defense contractor. They are inextricably bound to one another and the aliens.

The nerd is in a relationship with a character I found completely unnecessary. I personally wanted the news lady and the super secret spy boy to be romantically and physically involved in the film. I was hoping for a graphic on screen sex scene but unfortunately Spielberg didn’t get my notes.

Once the nerd and his little girlfriend escape from the clutches of the defense contractors (over which the U.S. Government has no control, ahem…) for stealing secrets they seek refuge in a convent. There we find out they’ve had sex (gross) and she used to be a nun initiate. 

I was keenly interested in how Spielberg would approach the religious element for a myriad of reasons. He had teased it in several interviews and it trickled down to my boomer Baptist father, who before I went to see the movie HAD to mention “hollywierd” and the interview where Spielberg suggested it could force Christians to reconsider some of their beliefs. My father felt Spielberg was picking on Christians. I’m not going to lie I kinda’ laid into him on ancient symbology, collective consciousness and Judeo-Christian victimhood.

LISTEN… It is my firmly held belief that Christians (to reiterate I believe in GOD and the teachings of Jesus) in the United States don’t get to play martyr. They hold too much wealth and have held political power for far too long (ESPECIALLY IN TEXAS) for them to boohoo the existence they’ve created or claim in any way that their belief system or religious freedom is being stifled. In Texas they control the curriculum, both sides of the legislature, and the entirety of state government, that doesn’t even touch the corporate world. You cannot wield all of the power and be a cry baby. I mean you can but it’s not a good look. Rant over. For now.

THE DIVINE
In the movie, the nerd’s girlfriend (Jane) is on the lam and reaches out to her nun mentor. The conversation produces a very memorable moment in the movie. The nerd has shown her evidence of aliens in captivity and she doesn’t think that humans will be able to handle the truth. She calls the nun to reaffirm her faith as she struggles with the fact that there are extraterrestrials on earth and whether that negates God’s existence. The nun tells her she doesn’t think Jane lost her faith in God but in people. Jane references the following verse in Genesis.

Genesis 1:26  KJV

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

She says, “In Genesis, God says we are created in his image…”

The nun interrupts her, “on earth.”

“On earth,” she says again.

That resonated with me. 

The universe is vast. Unfathomably vast. The fact that life exists on this planet means there can be life on other planets. It also means those lifeforms can be less or more advanced than we are.  If they are here it means they are more advanced, we’ve barely made it off our own planet.

If you spend anytime researching UFOS you know there is a connection between their appearances and our military and nuclear sites. They are monitoring us and have been for decades. They found a way to travel across time and space and could easily blow this planet up if they wanted. But they haven’t. In my humblest of opinions, they are making sure we don’t blow ourselves up.

THE DEFENSE 
The Trump Administration’s response to the topic has been all over the place. 

Firstly it has been a joke. No literally, they just keep making jokes: posting AI pictures of a tall gray jacked alien walking in chains with Trump, posting and then deleting a picture of Trump with Nordic aliens on the White House lawn, creating the aliens.gov website that at first seems like it is about extraterrestrials but is solely about illegal immigration. It might be a funny joke to them but it isn’t helpful to your average citizen.