February 24, 2026

301. Why Do Alien Disclosure Stories Captivate Our Culture?

1 hour

People want transparency! Or do we? If nothing else, public calls for revealing government secrets raise a lot of ruckus, especially when the secrets in question seem to be covering up aliens. Zack is our UAP/UFO expert. Stephen is intrigued yet skeptical. We’re both all over last week’s headlines. One former president claimed he knows aliens are real. Then the current U.S. president said he would declassify files. Whatever happens next, why do people want disclosure so badly?

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Quotes and notes

Armies of the Aliens series on Fantastical Truth

1. Disclosure may expose human loneliness.

This news could upend members of the alien fandom.

We could all discover there were no aliens after all.

Instead we might hear about human technology.

And we might suspect we’re alone in the universe.

2. Disclosures can upset our metaphysics

Disclosure of extraterrestrial life could upend religion.

Or we could discover the “aliens” are interdimensional.

Some writers believe consciousness rewrites our understanding of the universe.

Maybe the twist on the Fermi Paradox means humans actually arrived first.

Zack posted this response on X:

“I definitely believe that sinister interdimensional beings directed many religious texts. And that the Bible was given by an interdimensional being. Just one that is supreme to all the others, and good.”

3. Worst, disclosures may promote demons.

This too could upend society’s “respectable” materialism.

That notion explains elite seances and messages from “aliens.”

This would be biblical, but seeing this exposed could be shocking.

It might even mean some of powerful leaders are controlled by demons

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Top question for listeners

If we get “disclosure” at all, what secrets do you expect to learn?

Autumn Grayson wrote a whole essay about ep. 298:

… In general, when it comes to people’s political posts, there are some things I dislike, and some things that would be good to stay away from. It’s certainly best if people say things that have more substance than just expressing outrage or disapproval, because well thought out engagement on a topic is better. But I do respect people’s freedom and autonomy to say what they want to. I’ll agree with it or disagree with it as I see fit. I’ll get something out of it and learn from it either way, but what I may learn is that the content creator is someone I would not want to communicate or collaborate with. Or, the content creator ends up being an example of what NOT to do.

Whatever people do, they should remember that they’re showing something of themselves to the audience, and people have to ask themselves if that is truly how they want to come across and communicate to others. It may feel good to voice outrage in the moment or gain social clout for being on what some people call ‘the right side of history’, but is it really accomplishing anything constructive? Is this really the kind of person the author wants to be?

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