Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Foreword | p. xv |
Preface | p. xviii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Day One: The Day Everything Changes | p. 9 |
First Reactions | p. 12 |
In Other Words | p. 13 |
The Gathering Storm | p. 15 |
What Kind of Disclosure? | p. 18 |
Full (Radical) Disclosure | p. 18 |
Partial (Controlled) Disclosure | p. 19 |
False (Deceptive) Disclosure | p. 21 |
Spin City | p. 22 |
A Moment in Time | p. 24 |
The Ground Shifts | p. 25 |
The Military | p. 26 |
Law Enforcement | p. 27 |
Media and Communications | p. 27 |
Religion | p. 28 |
Government | p. 29 |
Us and Them | p. 30 |
What Some Know Now (That Gets Disclosed Then) | p. 30 |
Vignette: Remarks by the President | p. 32 |
Facts in the Air: The History of Contact Through the Ages | p. 35 |
Ancient Gods from the Sky | p. 36 |
"Almost Modern" UFOs | p. 41 |
Flying Saucers | p. 43 |
Defending the Air Space | p. 45 |
Beyond National Security | p. 54 |
A Secret Worthy of Keeping? | p. 57 |
Vignette: Air Force Veterans' Petition | p. 58 |
Breakaway: How Secrets Created a World Within a World | p. 59 |
Denial and Ridicule in Service to the State | p. 60 |
Keeping Secrets from Ourselves | p. 61 |
A Nuclear What If? | p. 65 |
The World of 1947 | p. 66 |
Majestic, By Any Other Name | p. 68 |
Choke Points | p. 71 |
Keeping the Lid On, Trying to Pry It Off | p. 74 |
An International Cover-Up | p. 78 |
Paint It Black | p. 80 |
Follow the Wreckage | p. 83 |
Presidents and UFOs | p. 85 |
Who is Really in Charge? | p. 88 |
Separate Worlds | p. 91 |
Worlds Within Worlds | p. 92 |
The Breakaway Group | p. 94 |
Vignette: Congressional Investigation Transcript | p. 96 |
Endgame: When the Impossible Becomes the Inevitable | p. 98 |
Wishful Thinking? | p. 99 |
No Business Like Show Business | p. 100 |
Twelve Angry Insiders | p. 103 |
Arguments Opposing Disclosure | p. 105 |
Arguments Supporting Disclosure | p. 105 |
What It Will Take | p. 109 |
Photographic Evidence | p. 109 |
Investigative Journalism | p. 111 |
Whistleblowers and Leaks | p. 114 |
Public Statement or Deathbed Confession | p. 115 |
Physical Evidence | p. 117 |
Global Discussion and Declassification | p. 118 |
Mass Sighting | p. 121 |
A Combination of Events | p. 122 |
Political Instability | p. 123 |
The Others | p. 126 |
The Long Walk | p. 126 |
The Inevitability of Change | p. 128 |
The Tipping Point | p. 130 |
Vignette: Anniversary Coverage of Day One | p. 132 |
Threat Analysis: Who Goes There and What Do They Want? | p. 134 |
Question #1: Who Are They? | p. 135 |
Extraterrestrial | p. 137 |
Intelligent Machines | p. 139 |
Earth-Based Entities | p. 141 |
Extra- or Ultra-Dimensional | p. 143 |
Angels and Devils | p. 145 |
Time Travelers | p. 146 |
All of the Above | p. 147 |
Question #2: What Do They Want? | p. 148 |
Scientific Research | p. 152 |
Membership Committee | p. 153 |
Rescue Mission | p. 154 |
They Want Our DNA | p. 154 |
They Want Our Meat | p. 155 |
They Want Our Souls | p. 157 |
They Want Our World | p. 159 |
They Want Nothing | p. 160 |
Question #3: Are We Safe? | p. 161 |
Level of Technology | p. 161 |
Infiltration of Society | p. 163 |
Our Military Preparedness | p. 166 |
Do We Even Have a Chance? | p. 167 |
War of the Worlds? | p. 172 |
Who Do They Think We Are? | p. 174 |
Vignette: Martial Law Field Status | p. 176 |
Blowback: Collateral Damage & Unintended Consequences | p. 178 |
The Great Panic of Year One | p. 180 |
The Fire Spreads | p. 182 |
Cracked Foundations | p. 184 |
Government | p. 184 |
Dancing in the Dark | p. 186 |
Truth Commissions | p. 187 |
Amnesty and Pardon | p. 189 |
Economy | p. 190 |
Taking Stock of the Situation | p. 191 |
The Biggest Bail-Out Ever | p. 193 |
Energy's New Equation | p. 194 |
Repealing the Law of Gravity | p. 198 |
Legal System | p. 200 |
Can You Arrest the Others? | p. 200 |
Can You Sue the Others? | p. 201 |
Bureaucracy Grinds On | p. 203 |
The Friendly Skies Become Less Friendly | p. 205 |
The Ultimate Aviation Law Case | p. 206 |
An Entirely New Court System | p. 209 |
Media | p. 209 |
These Are the People Who Will Tell Us About Disclosure? | p. 214 |
They Will Survive | p. 217 |
The Worst It Could Be | p. 217 |
Vignette: The Gray Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag | p. 219 |
The (New) Age of Aquarius: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out | p. 220 |
Daily Life | p. 221 |
Family Still Matters | p. 223 |
Education | p. 224 |
No More Falsehoods or Derisions | p. 225 |
History and Political Science | p. 225 |
Economics | p. 227 |
Psychology | p. 227 |
Anthropology | p. 228 |
Archeology | p. 229 |
Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts | p. 230 |
Popular Culture | p. 232 |
This Revolution Will Be Televised | p. 234 |
The Next Generation of Movie Aliens | p. 238 |
The Man Who Puts the Extra in Extra-Terrestrial | p. 238 |
Filmmakers Thrust into the Future | p. 239 |
A Comic Book Perspective | p. 239 |
Stan Lee's Point-of-View | p. 240 |
Contact as a Laughing Matter | p. 242 |
Visions from the Future | p. 243 |
The Next Great Health Care Debate | p. 243 |
The Next Generation | p. 245 |
Vignette: Network Rating Memo | p. 247 |
Paradigm Shift: Our New Place in the Universe | p. 248 |
When Worlds Collide | p. 250 |
The End of Religion? | p. 250 |
No Fear | p. 251 |
The Vatican Moves Toward Disclosure | p. 253 |
Christians and Aliens | p. 254 |
Other Faiths, Easier Transitions | p. 258 |
Two Interesting Cases: Scientology and Falun Gong | p. 261 |
The Bottom Line About the Higher Power | p. 263 |
The Universal Order | p. 264 |
The Nature of God | p. 266 |
Science | p. 267 |
Carl Sagan: They're Everywhere But Here | p. 269 |
Sagan Was Not Alone | p. 272 |
New Frontiers | p. 273 |
In Search of Holy Grails | p. 274 |
Computing | p. 277 |
Disclosure and The Singularity | p. 280 |
Religion and Science: New Paradigms From An Old Conflict | p. 281 |
Disclosure and the God Hypothesis | p. 282 |
Vignette: Public Opinion Poll on Trust in Government | p. 284 |
Exopolitics Rising: Moving from First Contact to Informed Contact | p. 285 |
The Politics of Exopolitics | p. 285 |
The First Exopoliticians | p. 288 |
Separate, Not Equal | p. 289 |
Unlocking the Door | p. 292 |
Politically Incorrect | p. 294 |
Reclaiming Legitimate Power | p. 297 |
All Politics Is Global Now | p. 300 |
Another Way to Look at It | p. 301 |
The Past Actually Is Prologue | p. 303 |
Big Brother Versus Big Other | p. 306 |
Our Universe, Our Planet, Ourselves | p. 312 |
Open Letters: Inside/Outside | p. 313 |
To the Keepers of the Secret | p. 314 |
To the Others | p. 317 |
To Those of Us Coming Out of the Dark | p. 318 |
Our Final Thought | p. 320 |
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