Full Disclosure From a Spiritual Point of View: What Is Confirmed, What Is Alleged, and How to Respond

Next Level Soul | Updated October 28, 2026

What Does Full Disclosure Actually Mean?

Full disclosure means an official, public acknowledgement by governments that non-human intelligence exists and has interacted with Earth, backed by the evidence, records and programs that would prove it. That is the strict definition. Most people use the word more loosely, and the gap between the strict meaning and the loose one is where most of the confusion lives.

Notice what the strict definition asks for. It does not ask for a sighting. It does not ask for a mysterious video. It asks for an institution to stand up, say plainly that we are not alone, and show its work. As of late October 2026, that has not happened. What has happened is smaller, stranger and still worth your attention: a steady widening of the official conversation about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, which is the term the U.S. government now prefers over “UFO.”

It helps to separate four ideas that often get blended together.

• Unidentified. Something was observed and nobody has explained it yet. This is a statement about our ignorance, not about aliens.
• Anomalous. The object appeared to behave in ways that current knowledge struggles to explain. Even this can come from sensor errors, which is why careful investigators ask for multiple data sources.
• Non-human intelligence (NHI). The claim that some phenomena are produced by intelligent beings that are not human. This is the heart of what people mean by disclosure, and it is the part that remains unproven in the public record.
• Disclosure. The act of an authority formally admitting the third idea, ideally with proof.

Next Level Soul comes at this topic from a different seat than a news desk or a congressional committee. Our community asks bigger questions. Not only “what is in the sky?” but “what does it mean for who we are?” If intelligence is not unique to humans, what does that say about consciousness, about the universe, about the stories we have told ourselves about our place in it? Those are spiritual questions, and they deserve a calm, grounded treatment.

So this guide does two jobs at once. First, it lays out what is actually on the public record, with dates and sources, and it labels allegations as allegations. Second, it explores the spiritual side with the respect it deserves: contact, consciousness, starseeds, channeled teachings, ancient astronaut ideas, remote viewing and the Law of One. When we describe what channelers or authors teach, we are describing their views and the views of their audiences. We are not stating them as established fact. Guests and teachers on Next Level Soul speak for themselves.

One more promise. There is no fear framing here. Plenty of disclosure coverage runs on dread, urgency and the feeling that you must pick a side right now. You do not. You can be curious, skeptical and open at the same time. That is not fence-sitting. It is discernment, and it is the skill this whole topic asks of us.

The Timeline of Official and Public Milestones

The story of disclosure is a story of slow doors opening. Here is a plain timeline of the milestones that matter, with a note on what each one actually is. Some entries are official actions. Others are assertions by individuals that have not been independently confirmed in public.

Several entries in this table, such as the 1947 Arnold sighting, Project Blue Book’s dates, the Condon Committee, the 2020 Navy video confirmation, the 2021 ODNI report and the creation of AARO, are long-standing public record. The 2023 through 2026 entries were checked against news coverage for this article in late October 2026. Details change quickly, so treat the most recent rows as a snapshot.

Read the table from top to bottom and a pattern appears. The official posture moved from dismissal, to quiet study, to admission that some cases are unexplained, to public hearings, to document releases. Each step was real. None of them was the sentence people are waiting for. The slow pace is itself part of the story, and later we will look at what it might mean for how we hold the whole subject.

The Key People and What They Claim

Disclosure is driven by people, and people are not the same as evidence. Below are the most frequently cited figures, described by what is on the public record and what they have said. Everything here that concerns a person’s assertions is a claim, and we say so. We stay with public statements and do not speculate about anyone’s motives or private life.

David Grusch

Grusch is a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer who worked on the UAP task force. In 2023 he told reporters, and then testified to Congress on July 26, 2023, that the United States has a long-running crash retrieval and reverse-engineering effort involving non-human craft, and that the program was hidden from lawful oversight. He stated that his information came from interviews with people he considered credible, rather than from direct personal observation. He is a claimant, a whistleblower by his own description, and a significant reason the topic reached Congress. The Pentagon’s 2024 historical report did not substantiate the specific programs described to its investigators. Both facts can stand together: his testimony moved the public conversation, and his central claims remain unverified in public.

Luis “Lue” Elizondo

Elizondo is a former Defense Department intelligence official who resigned in 2017 and became a public voice on the subject. He has said he ran or helped lead the Pentagon’s AATIP effort. Pentagon officials have disputed the extent of his role, and he has disputed their account. He has publicly argued that the government has more information than it has shared. Again, these are his assertions. His public advocacy matters to the history of the subject, and so does the open disagreement about his specific role.

Navy pilots and military witnesses

David Fravor, Ryan Graves and other aviators described encounters with objects that did not match known aircraft. These witnesses are among the most credible voices in the field because they are trained observers describing experiences in their own professional context. Their testimony establishes that something was seen and could not be explained at the time. It does not establish what the objects were. Some cases may involve sensor artifacts, drones, balloons or classified human technology, as officials have repeatedly said.

Lawmakers and officials

Several members of Congress have pushed for transparency, including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Rep. Tim Burchett, Rep. Eric Burlison and Rep. Jared Moskowitz. On the Senate side, the UAP Disclosure Act was introduced in 2023 and has had continued support but, as of mid-2025 reporting, had not passed. Advocacy groups such as the UAP Disclosure Fund, chaired by former Pentagon official Christopher Mellon, continue to press for a comprehensive law. In October 2026, Rep. Burlison said he was considering whether intelligence personnel who reported a late-2025 encounter with orange orbs near a West Coast military base could testify publicly. News coverage was clear that this is an exploratory idea, no hearing has been announced, and the witness descriptions are not verified findings.

Scientists and investigators

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has argued for a scientific approach to the question, including open data and instruments aimed at the sky. NASA’s study team chair David Spergel said in 2023 that the team saw no evidence that UAP are extraterrestrial. These voices do not cancel each other out. Both ask for better data. That shared request is the most reliable common ground in the entire debate.

Steven Greer

Dr. Steven Greer, a physician, founded the Disclosure Project and later other disclosure efforts. He promotes the idea that advanced technology has been suppressed and that humans can initiate peaceful contact through meditation-based protocols he calls CE5. These are his positions and the positions of his followers. Critics point out that many of his claims have not been independently verified. We cover his work, and the other meanings of “disclosure,” in its own section below.

A NASA-world perspective: Shehnaz Soni

Aerospace engineer and author Shehnaz Soni has joined Alex on the Next Level Soul Podcast twice. In Episode 400, she describes her path from Karachi to the Artemis program and says she works on the Artemis III mission. In Episode 443, the conversation turns to UFOs and UAPs. Her page records her saying that she has never heard NASA make a statement on the subject, that many of her colleagues love Star Trek, and that, in her view, what is labeled unidentified was identified and then made unidentified for the public. She also says she believes we have been visited, and that human consciousness is rising quickly.

Please hold this the way she offers it. These are Shehnaz’s personal opinions, not NASA positions, and nothing in this guide treats them as official findings. They sit alongside the 2023 NASA report cited above, which found no evidence that UAP are extraterrestrial. Both can be true at once: a working engineer can feel wonder and hold a personal belief, while the formal record remains open.

Watch: A NASA Scientist on UFOs and Our Spiritual Role

If you prefer to start with her story, Episode 400 with Shehnaz Soni covers her journey from Karachi to rocket science and what she says quantum physics reveals about consciousness.

A good rule when reading anyone’s name in this field: ask what they directly saw, what they were told by others, and what they believe. Those are three very different kinds of information, and a lot of the heat in this topic comes from mixing them together.

Confirmed, Alleged, or Unproven? A Plain Scorecard

If you only read one section, make it this one. It sorts the headline claims into three honest buckets. The point is not to tell you what to believe. The point is to give you a map so that you always know which kind of statement you are standing on.

Confirmed by official sources

• The U.S. government has an office, AARO, whose job is to investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena, and it has delivered reports to Congress.
• The Pentagon confirmed that three well-known Navy videos are authentic Navy footage, and described the objects in them as unidentified.
• Congress has held public hearings on UAP, including on July 26, 2023 and September 9, 2025.
• Government agencies have received hundreds of UAP reports, and a portion remain unexplained for lack of data.
• The U.S. President publicly announced on February 19, 2026 that he would direct agencies to identify and release files on this subject, and the Pentagon has since published documents in rolling batches, the latest on October 23, 2026.
• NASA’s independent team recommended better data collection and reduced stigma around reporting.

Alleged but not publicly verified

• That the United States or other countries hold recovered non-human craft or biological remains.
• That secret programs have reverse-engineered such craft, and that these programs have been hidden from Congress.
• That individuals have been harassed, silenced or harmed for speaking out.
• That a specific person’s account of a program, a facility or a recovered object is accurate.

An allegation can be sincere, informed and still unproven. That is not an insult to the person making it. It is simply where evidence stands. Allegations about named private individuals deserve special care, and we do not repeat or amplify them here.

Unproven or contradicted in the public record

• That UAP are definitively extraterrestrial in origin. The NASA team and AARO each reported no evidence for this, while leaving room for further data.
• That governments have publicly acknowledged contact with non-human beings. They have not.
• That any official release so far contains a “smoking gun.” Commentary on the October 23, 2026 batch notes the files do not prove aliens are visiting Earth. They mix old, previously public material with new witness accounts.

How to read this scorecard

Two mistakes sit on either side of the truth. The first is to say “nothing has been shown, so it is all nonsense.” That ignores the real, documented fact that trained people have reported things they cannot explain, and that governments have taken the reports seriously enough to create offices, pass laws and release records. The second mistake is to say “powerful people are hiding it, so it must be true.” That treats secrecy as proof. Secrecy is a reason to ask questions. It is not an answer.

What a grounded person can honestly say is this: something is going on in the public conversation, the official posture has changed, a large amount remains unexplained, and the strongest claims have not yet met the standard of public evidence. You can hold all of that without strain.

Where Disclosure Stands in Late October 2026

Here is the most recent picture we could verify, as of October 28, 2026. We kept to reporting we actually read, and we flagged what is still proposed rather than done.

The presidential directive and the file releases

On February 19, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on social media that he would direct the Secretary of Defense and other departments and agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files on alien and extraterrestrial life, as well as UAP and UFOs. DefenseScoop reported that the post gave no timeline and did not specify which files would be released. The Pentagon’s chief spokesman said the department looked forward to working with the interagency on the directive.

Reaction was mixed in a way that is worth noticing. Former Pentagon intelligence official Christopher Mellon said the moment could be consequential but depends on follow-through, and noted that AARO had not released a required second volume of a congressionally mandated report. Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet said a president has authority that AARO lacks, but that he would believe it when he saw it. An anonymous whistleblower quoted in the same coverage predicted a broad effort across the intelligence community but doubted anything about reverse-engineered technology would become public.

The rolling Pentagon releases

According to EarthSky’s coverage, the Pentagon (now styled the Department of War) began publishing UAP records under a program called PURSUE in 2026. The reported batch dates were May 8, May 22, June 12, July 10, August 7, September 18 and October 23. The seventh batch, released October 23, included 28 new files, all documents, with no new video, audio or images. It mixed material from the 1940s to the 1960s with some 2026 items. These included a June 2026 report of a small, matte-black triangular object near a sensitive site in the western United States, which witnesses described as silent and fast. A ground survey found no wreckage, and AARO and the FBI both examined the report. The release also included 1962 to 1964 interagency guidance on handling crashed foreign or unidentified craft and progress reports from a contractor that studied UAP for the Defense Intelligence Agency between 2008 and 2010.

The same coverage was careful to say that none of this proves extraterrestrial visitation, that many items are old or already public, that the June 2026 item is a witness account which AARO said merits further investigation rather than a conclusion, and that the series is rolling, so future content and timing are not yet known.

The orbs report and the proposed hearing

In May 2026, an FBI interview report was made public describing intelligence officials who said they saw several orange orbs alongside their helicopter near an undisclosed West Coast military base in late 2025. IBTimes reported on October 11, 2026 that Rep. Eric Burlison was considering whether these witnesses could testify publicly, that some had met members of Congress privately without sharing all of their video, and that public testimony could expose sensitive information. Avi Loeb, who leads the UAP Scientific Advisory Council, said he had not seen the footage and wanted access to it and the location so scientists could gather data. The article stressed that the descriptions are not verified findings and that the objects remain unexplained.

Sentinel News reported on October 12, 2026 that House Oversight Chairman James Comer wants to revive a UAP hearing in the post-election session in November 2026, after a hearing aimed for September was dropped when the House calendar changed. No topic or witness list had been settled, so the hearing is proposed, not announced.

What is missing

There is still no formal, official acknowledgement of non-human intelligence. The comprehensive UAP Disclosure Act, which would create an independent review board with strong declassification powers, had not been enacted as of the most recent reporting we reviewed. Advocates in 2025 argued that smaller provisions in annual defense bills were helpful but fragmented, and that a whole-of-government approach was needed. We were not able to verify any new legislative outcome in October 2026. If you are reading this later, check the sources at the bottom of this page for updates.

In short: a lot of paper, a lot of attention, a proposed hearing, and no sentence that settles the question. Which brings us to the other meanings of the word.

What Bashar says about the timing of disclosure

Darryl Anka, who channels Bashar, has talked with us about disclosure more than once. In Episode 709, “Full Disclosure: Meeting Our Cosmic Family,” he says Bashar has long called 2026 the year of disclosure, and that he never meant only UFO information. He means all secrets beginning to come out. He also says the extraterrestrials, not governments, now set the timing, and that he expects open contact to arrive in phases over a decade or two so humanity can absorb it. He is clear that these are his views and Bashar’s, not established facts.

Watch: Full Disclosure, Meeting Our Cosmic Family with Darryl Anka

Earlier, in Episode 486 on Bashar’s 2027 predictions, Darryl said Bashar has made only three public predictions, the latest being a contact event around the end of 2026 or the start of 2027 that would be unquestionable. He added that a prediction is a reading of today’s energy and not a fixed future. For the full picture of what Bashar says about aliens, see Bashar and Aliens: What Darryl Anka Says. Compare all of this with the scorecard above: it is a channeled expectation, not an official finding.

The Other Meanings of Disclosure

Ask five people what “disclosure” means and you may get five answers. The word has been carrying several different ideas for decades, and knowing which one someone is using will save you a lot of confusion.

1. Government acknowledgement

This is the strict meaning we started with: an official statement, with evidence, that non-human intelligence is real. It is what lawmakers who support the UAP Disclosure Act are working toward, and it is the benchmark most journalists use.

2. Document release and transparency

Sometimes “disclosure” simply means declassifying records. Project Blue Book, the Air Force effort that ran from 1952 to 1969, was one of the earliest public examples, and the files are available in archives today. Its official conclusion was that the sightings posed no threat and showed no evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles, though a number of cases were left unexplained. The 2026 Pentagon file releases fit this meaning. They are a form of transparency. They are not, on their face, an admission about the nature of the phenomena.

3. The 2017 and 2023 moments

For many people, disclosure began on December 16, 2017, when the New York Times reported on a Pentagon program that investigated unexplained aerial encounters and published Navy videos. For others it began on July 26, 2023, when a former intelligence officer told Congress, under oath, about what he had been told regarding crash retrieval programs. These moments changed what polite society was willing to discuss. Whether anything in them proves non-human intelligence is a separate question, and the answer so far is that it does not.

4. Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project

Dr. Steven Greer organized what he called the Disclosure Project and held a press event at the National Press Club in Washington on May 9, 2001, presenting people he described as military, government and corporate insiders who said they had knowledge of UFO phenomena. ABC News covered the event under the headline “Group Calls for Disclosure of UFO Info.” Greer’s later work includes documentaries, a large archive of testimony and a claim that advanced energy technology has been withheld from the public. These are his claims and the claims of his witnesses. They have not been verified by governments or by independent scientific review, and critics, including many UFO researchers, have challenged parts of his account. Supporters see him as a pioneer who made a difficult subject speakable. Both observations are part of the record.

5. CE5, or Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind

CE5 is Greer’s term for deliberate, peaceful attempts by humans to initiate contact, usually through group meditation, intention and coherent thought directed toward non-human intelligence. The traditional “close encounter” scale, associated with astronomer J. Allen Hynek, runs from sightings to physical evidence to contact with beings. The fifth kind is an addition by Greer for human-initiated contact. Participants describe lights, feelings and a sense of presence. Skeptics point to the usual explanations for night-sky experiences, including aircraft, satellites, expectation and imagination. A grounded way to treat it is as a contemplative practice. If you try it, do so for the quality of attention it develops, not as a technology for summoning anything.

6. Exopolitics

Exopolitics is a field, mostly outside academia, that studies the political and diplomatic dimensions of possible contact with non-human civilizations. Its advocates discuss treaties, secrecy, governance and public readiness. Its claims about specific alliances or agreements are not verified, and it is best read as speculative policy thinking and community discussion rather than established research.

7. Personal disclosure

There is one more meaning, and it matters most to this community. Many people describe a personal disclosure: an experience, a dream, a sighting, a sense of contact or a moment of expanded awareness that changed what they believed was possible. Near-death experiencers often describe something similar, a sudden widening of reality. If that is your story, you do not need a hearing room to validate it. Our near-death experience stories are a good place to see how often ordinary people meet the extraordinary and are changed by it.

When you hear the word, pause and ask, “Which disclosure?” That one question clears up half the arguments online.

Contact and Consciousness: The Spiritual Heart of the Question

Set the politics aside for a moment. Imagine, only as a thought experiment, that intelligence from beyond Earth is real and that it has been present in some form. What would that ask of us?

Many spiritual traditions, in different words, already hold a few ideas that seem relevant. The universe is alive with intelligence. Consciousness is not limited to the human brain. We are part of something larger, and reality has more layers than the ones our daily senses report. For people who hold those ideas, the possibility of non-human intelligence is not a shock to the system. It is a natural extension of what they already feel to be true.

Here is the part many conversations skip. Even if the physical evidence for visitors never arrives, the question still works on us. It asks us to examine the assumption that humans are the pinnacle of intelligence. It asks us to look at our relationship to humility, wonder and fear. It nudges us from “we are the center” toward “we are one expression among many.” You can feel that shift without any government announcement.

Contact as an inner and outer experience

People who report contact experiences frequently describe them as more than visual. They talk about telepathic communication, a sense of being known, emotional waves and changes in their outlook afterward. Researchers who study these accounts disagree about what they are. Some propose that they are genuine encounters with non-human intelligence. Others see psychological, neurological or cultural explanations, such as sleep-related phenomena, imagination, trauma processing, suggestion or expectation. A grounded approach does not need to pick a winner. It can ask a more practical question: what did the experience do to the person’s life? Did it make them kinder, more curious and more stable? Or more frightened, isolated and dependent on a single voice?

That test, the fruit test, is one of the oldest forms of spiritual discernment. We will return to it.

The consciousness-first view

Some teachers in the spiritual world propose that consciousness is fundamental and that what we call contact is a meeting of consciousness at different frequencies of awareness, not simply a meeting of physical craft. In this view, the “visitors” may be multi-dimensional, may interact through awareness itself, and may be less like travelers and more like neighbors in a larger house. This is a philosophical and spiritual position. Science has not confirmed it, and it should not be presented as fact. What it offers is a frame that many seekers find meaningful, one in which inner work and outer questions are connected.

If you resonate with that frame, you may enjoy exploring practices that train awareness directly. Our guide to the astral journey looks at how people describe consciousness traveling beyond the body, and our Seth Material page explores one of the most influential channeled bodies of work on the nature of reality. Neither is evidence for extraterrestrial contact. Both are windows into how seekers think about consciousness, perception and the layered structure of experience.

The physics view: Tom Campbell

For a physicist’s version of the consciousness-first idea, we turn to Tom Campbell, a physicist and consciousness researcher who spent a decade working with Bob Monroe. In Episode 719, “Full Disclosure Will Trigger a Global Awakening,” he describes reality as a data stream that a larger consciousness system sends to each of us, and he treats the physical world as a kind of virtual reality. Asked about disclosure, he says that people who report UFO sightings are not making it up, because they are experiencing real data in their own data stream. In his view, most of the UFO phenomenon is consciousness based, and its message matches what philosophers have long said: humanity needs to grow up and become love.

He also offers a reason why a saucer has not landed openly: he believes the larger system wants to reduce fear, and with so much fear in the population, open contact could start a panic instead of a wake-up. Tom is describing his own model. It is a theory he developed over decades, and it is not a settled consensus in physics. If you want the foundation first, start with his earlier visit, “We Live in a Cosmic Hologram”.

Watch: Full Disclosure Will Trigger a Global Awakening with Tom Campbell

Contact and frequency: what Bashar says

On the vibration side of contact, Darryl says in Episode 709 that advanced beings give off a frequency close to spirit, and that our primitive brain can read it as danger. That is why, he says, Bashar advises meeting them halfway by raising your frequency, like a slow gear speeding up to mesh with a fast one. In Episode 147, Darryl explains that the natural frequency is already there, and the work is clearing the beliefs that block it. Both are perspectives from a channeled source, offered for reflection.

Watch: Bashar’s Channeled Message to Humanity with Darryl Anka

The shift that is already happening

Here is a gentle observation. The public is already adjusting. Hearings, document batches and presidential statements have normalized the topic. Each small step lowers the stigma, which is exactly what NASA’s study team recommended when it called for reducing the stigma that discourages pilots from reporting. A culture that can talk about the question calmly is a culture that is quietly getting ready for any answer. That readiness is not a prediction that an answer is coming. It is simply emotional fitness, and it is a good thing to build whether or not the sky ever opens.

Starseeds and Channeled Sources: What Their Communities Teach

Next Level Soul has hosted many conversations with channelers, authors and teachers whose work touches the theme of contact. This section describes what those communities teach. It is not a statement that any of it is factual. These are the views of the teachers and their audiences, offered so you can understand the landscape and decide what resonates.

Starseeds

The term “starseed” describes people who feel that their soul originated, or spent significant time, somewhere beyond Earth, and who incarnated here to help during a time of change. Starseed communities often describe common feelings: a sense of not quite belonging, strong empathy, a pull toward service, vivid dreams and an early curiosity about the stars. There is no scientific test for starseed origin. Many people find the framework useful because it gives a name to feelings of difference and purpose. If you want to explore it, start with our overview of what a starseed is.

Within that world, a few families of origin come up again and again:

• Pleiadian. Associated with compassion, healing, artistry and a nurturing temperament. See our page on Pleiadian starseeds.
• Arcturian. Associated with advanced consciousness, geometry, healing technology and a more analytical spiritual style. See Arcturian starseeds.
• Lyran. Associated with strength, leadership, creativity and a protective or warrior-like energy. See Lyran starseeds.

These categories grew out of channeled material, workshops, books and community discussion over several decades. Different teachers describe them differently, and they do not always agree. That variation is a clue that these are best held as symbolic and experiential maps rather than as a literal registry.

Bashar

Bashar is described by Darryl Anka, the channeler who presents him, as an extraterrestrial consciousness from a civilization called Essassani. The teachings emphasize following your highest excitement, acting without insistence on outcomes, and understanding that reality responds to belief and perspective. Anka has been channeling Bashar publicly since the 1980s. Within the community, Bashar is also described as speaking about a coming era of open contact once humanity reaches a certain collective stability. Those statements are part of the channeled teaching and are not verified predictions. Darryl Anka has been a guest on Next Level Soul, and listening to a primary source is always better than reading a summary of it.

If you want the Bashar story from the beginning, Darryl Anka and Bashar: The Complete Guide and Who Is Bashar? are the best places to start. The origin story is also told in the film First Contact: Channeling Bashar, available on Next Level Soul TV. Next Level Soul founder Alex Ferrari helped make the film, working as its post-production supervisor, colorist and online editor.

Watch: First Contact, Channeling Bashar (trailer)

Darryl’s latest word on open contact is in Bashar’s 2027 Predictions, Episode 486. He says the beings introduced first will likely be more genetically related to us, so that we can handle the meeting, and he stresses that a prediction is a reading of current energy.

Watch: Bashar’s 2027 Predictions with Darryl Anka

Kryon

Kryon is presented by author Lee Carroll as a magnetic-service entity who speaks about humanity’s shifting energy, the role of the planet’s magnetic grid and the potential for spiritual maturity. Carroll’s books and talks frame humanity as a more capable and loved species than most people believe. You can hear him discuss the work in our conversations with Lee Carroll. As with other channeled material, the teachings belong to the channeler and his readers.

What these teachings tend to share

Across very different sources, a few themes repeat:

• Humanity is not alone, and has never been entirely alone.
• Contact is tied to readiness, which they describe in terms of emotional, spiritual or collective maturity.
• Free will matters. Non-human beings, in these accounts, do not override human choice.
• The most important work is internal. Fear, in particular, is described as the main obstacle to a healthy relationship with any larger reality.

Whether you take these as literal reports, as symbolic teaching or as creative philosophy is up to you. Even on the most skeptical reading, the repeated emphasis on fearlessness, responsibility and self-trust is practical advice. That part works whether or not you ever believe in beings from the Pleiades.

A caution, offered kindly. Channeled material is generated through a person. It can contain insight, it can contain the channeler’s own mind and culture, and it can contain error. The test we recommend is simple. Does this teaching leave me more grounded, more loving and more able to think for myself? If yes, keep it. If it asks you to surrender your judgment, hand over money out of urgency, or fear the future, set it down.

Ancient Astronauts and the Anunnaki

A different strand of the conversation looks backward rather than upward. Did beings from elsewhere shape early human civilization? The ancient astronaut idea, popularized by Swiss author Erich von Daniken in his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods, proposes that monuments, myths and technologies of the ancient world point to contact in the distant past. It is among the most widely discussed alternative-history ideas, and also one of the most contested.

The Anunnaki story

The Anunnaki are deities in ancient Mesopotamian texts. In the 1970s, author Zecharia Sitchin proposed that they were actually extraterrestrials from a planet called Nibiru who came to Earth, mined gold and genetically engineered early humans. This reading has influenced a great deal of popular spirituality and online discussion. Academic specialists in Sumerian and Akkadian languages generally reject Sitchin’s translations and interpretations, saying they do not match what the cuneiform texts say. The fair summary is that the Anunnaki are real figures in ancient texts, while the claim that they were visitors from another planet is a modern interpretation held by a community of enthusiasts, not an established historical finding. You can read our fuller treatment on the Anunnaki page.

Why this story still resonates

It is worth asking why the idea has such staying power. One answer is that the ancient world really is full of astonishing achievements, and many people feel that the standard story leaves emotional gaps. Another is that the idea answers a deep longing: to be wanted, designed and watched over rather than accidental. A third is that it speaks to the feeling that humanity has forgotten something about itself.

A grounded response honors that longing and also keeps the facts straight. Archaeologists have documented how ancient people built remarkable things with human ingenuity, organization and time. Saying so is not a denial of mystery. Many researchers feel it makes the achievement more impressive, not less. If you want an alternative-history perspective that stays curious about origins, our conversation with Billy Carson on ancient discoveries presents his views, which are theories to explore rather than settled history.

Ancient texts and the Book of Enoch

Old religious and mythological texts also describe beings who came from the heavens. The Book of Enoch, for example, tells of watchers who descended to Earth. Scholars read this as ancient Jewish apocalyptic literature, with its own symbolic and theological meaning. Some modern readers connect it to ancient astronaut theories, and others read it as spiritual allegory. In our conversation with Robert Edward Grant, you can hear his perspective on the text in the Book of Enoch discussion, and a wider look at his thinking in his live conversation. As always, these are the guest’s views. Hearing a thoughtful person’s reading is different from treating it as settled history.

The Watchers: Freddy Silva

Author Freddy Silva has joined us to talk about the ancient texts and the Watchers. In Episode 729, he describes the Watchers as tall, glowing beings he says he met in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid, and he says they follow a prime directive: they can nudge and suggest, but humans must choose. He also recommends going back to original sources instead of today’s opinions presented as facts, which is exactly the habit described next. All of this is Freddy’s own account.

A useful habit

When someone presents an ancient astronaut claim, try a three-part habit. Ask what the original source actually says. Ask what the specialists in that field say about it. Ask what else could explain it. If the story survives all three questions, it has earned your attention. If it only survives the first, it may still be a beautiful story, and it is fine to enjoy it as such.

This habit also keeps you safe from a quieter risk. Some versions of ancient astronaut thinking slide into claiming that ancient peoples could not have built their own monuments. That can carry a hidden disrespect for the cultures involved, and it is worth noticing. Wonder and respect can travel together.

Remote Viewing and the Law of One

Two other threads connect the disclosure conversation to consciousness research and spiritual teaching. Both are interesting. Both come with caveats.

Remote viewing

Remote viewing is the practice of describing distant or hidden targets using what practitioners call extrasensory perception. In the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. intelligence agencies funded research on the subject, much of it at the Stanford Research Institute, with participants such as Ingo Swann and researchers such as Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff. The program later known as Stargate was ended in the mid-1990s, and its records were declassified. An outside review at the time concluded that the results were not useful for intelligence operations. Practitioners and some researchers disagree and point to cases they consider striking. The honest picture is that it is a documented, government-funded research program with contested conclusions.

For this topic, remote viewing matters because some people use it to explore claims about non-human intelligence, hidden facilities or other worlds. Treat those results with real caution. Remote viewing impressions are notoriously hard to verify, and they are easily shaped by the viewer’s expectations. As a practice for developing attention, intuition and inner stillness, though, many people value it. Our overview of remote viewing explains the history and the methods in plain language.

The Law of One, or Ra Material

The Law of One is a body of channeled sessions conducted between 1981 and 1984 by physicist Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert and Jim McCarty. The source identifies itself as Ra, described as a social memory complex, a unified group consciousness, that had contact with Earth in ancient times. The material discusses love and light, the unity of all things, densities of consciousness, and the idea that contact with other civilizations is constrained by a principle of free will, which the text calls the Law of Confusion.

Several features make the Law of One interesting to people thinking about disclosure:

• It offers a reason why a more advanced civilization might choose not to make open contact. In this teaching, overt arrival would interfere with free will and could distort development.
• It frames the “service to self” and “service to others” polarities as part of a spiritual curriculum, not simply a cosmic conflict.
• It places the deepest work in personal choice: loving, accepting, forgiving, serving.

Like every channeled source, it reflects the minds of the people who received it and its claims cannot be independently verified. Many readers find its philosophy of unity and free will profound. Others find the density and complexity of the text challenging. Either way, it has influenced a generation of seekers and many of the ideas that circulate in modern contact communities.

The common lesson

Remote viewing and the Law of One are very different, but they point in the same direction. Both suggest that the most reliable instrument for exploring the unknown is a trained, calm, honest mind. Neither asks you to run toward spectacle. Both ask you to build the inner stability that would let you meet any answer with grace.

That is where the spiritual response to disclosure begins, and it is what the next sections are about.

What a Spiritually Grounded Response Looks Like

Suppose a major announcement came tomorrow. Or suppose nothing ever does. In either case, there is a way of carrying yourself that serves you well. We think of it as a grounded response, and it rests on four habits.

Curiosity over fear

Fear is the default reaction to the unknown, and it is a normal one. It is not a failing. But fear narrows attention, and it makes us easier to persuade, sell to and steer. Curiosity does the opposite. It widens attention and keeps us asking questions. When you notice a news story about UAP tightening your chest, try this: breathe out slowly, put a hand on your heart, and say silently, “I can wonder about this without needing to know yet.” Then read the article again. You will often find that the story itself is calmer than your first reaction.

Many people who are drawn to this subject are carrying a quieter worry underneath: that the world is changing faster than they can keep up with, and that something enormous is being kept from them. That worry is understandable. You are not foolish for feeling it. You can honor it and still choose steadiness.

Discernment over belief or disbelief

Belief says yes to a claim. Disbelief says no. Discernment says, “Show me, and meanwhile I will keep an open and unhurried mind.” It is the most useful spiritual skill for this entire topic. It means you can listen to a pilot’s account, a whistleblower’s claim and a channeler’s teaching with respect, while still noticing which parts are observation, which are hearsay and which are inspiration.

No panic and no worship

Two extremes are worth avoiding. Panic treats any new information as a threat. Worship treats any new being as a savior. Spiritual maturity sits in the middle. It says, “Whatever is out there, whatever is true, I remain responsible for my own choices, my own values and my own peace.” That is the message of every tradition that asks us to look inside for the foundation. The power is within you, whatever the sky does.

Love as the measure

If any non-human intelligence were ever to communicate with us, how would we know whether to trust it? The same way we judge any teacher: by what it does to love. Does it increase compassion, honesty and freedom? Or does it generate dependency, secrecy and fear? Many spiritual traditions offer this measure, and it is as useful for judging a cosmic message as it is for judging a human relationship.

Stay useful

Finally, remember that your everyday life is still the main stage. Kindness to a neighbor, patience with a child, honest work, a walk in the evening. A person who stays kind while the headlines swirl is practicing exactly the maturity that so many teachings say we need. You do not have to be an investigator to take part in this moment. You only have to be a steady human being.

Preparing Emotionally: A Practical Toolkit

Preparation here does not mean stockpiling or strategizing. It means building emotional and spiritual fitness, the kind that helps with any big change, from a diagnosis to a move to a headline. Here is a simple toolkit you can start on an ordinary Tuesday.

1. Regulate before you research

Before you open a disclosure video or thread, check in with your body. Are your shoulders tight? Is your breathing shallow? If so, spend three minutes slowing down first. A calm nervous system reads information more accurately. If you do this one thing, you will notice a difference in how you process everything from this topic to the evening news.

2. Set an information diet

The disclosure space produces content constantly, and a lot of it is built to hook you with urgency. Pick a small number of sources you trust, check them at set times, and let the rest go. Weekly is plenty for most people. Daily doomscrolling does not make you better informed. It makes you more anxious.

3. Keep a curiosity journal

Write down what you think, what you feel and what you still wonder. Separate three columns: “What I have seen or verified,” “What I have been told,” and “What I hope or fear.” Over time you will see how much of your inner conversation is hope or fear rather than evidence. That insight alone is a form of freedom.

4. Practice stillness

Meditation, prayer, breathwork, a quiet walk. Any of them will do. The point is to build the ability to sit with not knowing. Disclosure, if it comes, will arrive in installments, with disagreement and ambiguity attached. People who are comfortable with uncertainty will handle that far better than those who need a final answer.

5. Talk with people, gently

Share your curiosity with friends or family who are open to it, and be gracious with those who are not. Not everyone wants to talk about this, and some people carry religious or personal reasons for discomfort. Lead with listening. A good conversation about the unknown can bring people closer. A lecture rarely does.

6. Lean on community, and professional care when you need it

If the subject triggers anxiety, sleeplessness or intrusive thoughts, that is a sign to slow down, not to push harder. Talk with someone you trust, and consider a counselor or doctor if the distress is persistent. People who have had unusual experiences, including near-death experiences, often find that a supportive community and a kind professional make the integration far easier. Seeking help is a strength.

7. Keep your values close

Write down three values you want to carry through any change. They might be honesty, compassion and courage. When news breaks, ask yourself how those values would respond. That question will guide you better than any prediction.

You can explore how our community thinks about the year ahead in our 2027 predictions conversation, and you can hear many perspectives on consciousness, contact and meaning on the Next Level Soul podcast. Both are offered as perspectives to consider, not forecasts to fear.

What Bashar says about getting ready

Darryl’s preparation advice, in Episode 709, is simple. Take it in phases, notice your first reaction, and if it is fear, ask what story sits underneath. He says a fear-based belief perpetuates itself by telling you something worse will happen if you let go, and he invites us to hear that as a story the belief is telling, not a fact. His closing message: be more of who you are. In Episode 544, he adds that Bashar’s January transmission, “No More Secrets,” is about how holding on to consequential secrets keeps us in a state that is not conducive to open contact. Consider it a prompt for your own journal, not a forecast.

Watch: Time Is Moving Through You with Darryl Anka

How to Evaluate Sources and Claims

This subject attracts honest researchers, sincere witnesses, careful journalists, enthusiastic hobbyists, hoaxers and people selling something. All of them can be found on the same social media feed. Here is a short, practical checklist that works for UAP news and for spiritual claims alike.

Six questions to ask

1. Who is the source, and what did they directly witness? First-hand observation, second-hand report and opinion are three different things. Look for the distinction.
2. Is there documentation? Photos, video, radar data, official records, dated documents. A claim with multiple, independent kinds of data is stronger than a claim with one.
3. Has anyone independent checked it? Look for confirmation from people who do not share the claimant’s interests. A claim repeated by many people who got it from the same person is still one claim.
4. Are simpler explanations ruled out? Balloons, drones, aircraft lights, lens flares, sensor artifacts, parallax and misidentified satellites account for many cases. A serious investigator addresses these first.
5. What does the source gain? Everyone gains something, from attention to income to belonging. That does not make them wrong, but it is worth noticing, especially when urgency or a purchase is involved.
6. Does it match how the claimant behaves over time? Reliable sources correct their mistakes in public and update when they learn something new.

Gentle red flags

• Urgency without evidence (“it is happening this week, act now”).
• Certainty about secret details that no one could know.
• Claims about named private individuals, which can do real harm and almost never come with proof.
• Pressure to buy, join or donate before you have time to think.
• A story where every critic is part of the cover-up. That structure cannot be tested, which is why it should make you cautious.

Encouraging signs

• The source separates what they know from what they believe.
• They name their uncertainty out loud.
• They welcome questions and point you to primary documents.
• They are willing to say “I might be wrong.”

Go to primary sources when you can

Official reports, hearing transcripts and released documents are published by the institutions themselves. Reading even a short portion of the primary text usually shows you more than a summary, a headline or a clip. Our sources list at the bottom of this page includes the news coverage we relied on, and we encourage you to follow it back to the documents.

The same discipline for spiritual claims

The checklist applies to channeled material and to spiritual teachers too, with one adjustment. In the spiritual realm, the evidence is often experiential. So add one question: does practicing this teaching improve my life and my relationships over time? A teaching that makes you more patient, honest and loving has earned a hearing. A teaching that makes you more anxious, special or separate from other people has not.

What Would Change the Picture

One of the healthiest things you can do with a big question is decide in advance what would move you. It protects you from fixed positions in both directions. Here is a list of developments that would meaningfully change the state of the evidence, in either direction. We offer it as a way to keep an open mind with clear standards.

Developments that would strengthen the case for non-human intelligence

• Physical evidence examined openly. Material or biological samples made available to independent laboratories, with chain of custody and published results that others can replicate.
• High-quality multi-sensor data. Radar, infrared and optical records of the same event, with calibration data, released for independent analysis. NASA’s team specifically noted that few reports contain all three.
• Named, on-the-record witnesses with corroborating documents. Public testimony from people with direct knowledge, supported by paperwork, budgets or program records, rather than secondhand accounts.
• Independent oversight with real access. A review body with the legal power to examine classified programs and report to the public, as proposed in the UAP Disclosure Act.
• Consistent findings from different countries. Records from several governments, produced independently, that point to the same kinds of events.
• Scientific observations from open instruments. Dedicated sky-monitoring projects producing repeatable, reviewed results.

Developments that would weaken it

• Cases that drop out one by one as better data identifies balloons, drones, sensor artifacts or known aircraft.
• Authoritative release of the underlying files showing that key claims trace back to a small number of sources or to misunderstood programs.
• Consistent failure of promised evidence to appear after real investigations.

What would change the spiritual angle

Here is a point worth sitting with. Almost none of the above changes the core spiritual practices: presence, compassion, honesty, courage, service. If an announcement came tomorrow, the best response would be the same as today’s. If nothing ever came, the best response would also be the same. That stability is one of the great gifts of an inner path. It lets us explore the biggest questions without needing the answer to be a certain way.

A note on timing

The pace of this story has been slow, uneven and full of reversals. Hearings get canceled. Reports are promised and delayed. Document releases arrive in batches that satisfy some and frustrate others. If you let your peace depend on the next headline, you will ride a roller coaster. If you let your peace come from within, you can watch the headlines as an interested, caring observer.

That is the invitation of this whole guide. Stay curious. Stay discerning. Stay kind. The rest unfolds on its own schedule.

Our Interviews on Disclosure at a Glance

Here is a quick map of the conversations mentioned in this guide, so you can go straight to the voice you want to hear. Each summary reflects what the episode page says the guest shared, and each is a personal perspective.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources and Further Reading

1. DefenseScoop, Trump directs release of UAP and UFO files (Feb 20, 2026)
2. EarthSky, Pentagon UAP files, batch 7 (Oct 2026)
3. IBTimes UK, Burlison considers testimony on orange UAP orbs (Oct 11, 2026)
4. Sentinel News, Congress eyes a new UAP hearing (Oct 12, 2026)
5. DefenseScoop, UAP disclosure advocates call for expanded reforms in the FY2026 NDAA (Jul 29, 2025)
6. Roll Call, No evidence of extraterrestrial technology, report finds (Mar 8, 2024)
7. Nextgov, NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial (Sep 2023)
8. ABC News, Group calls for disclosure of UFO info (Disclosure Project, 2001)
9. Next Level Soul Podcast Episode 709, Full Disclosure: Meeting Our Cosmic Family with Darryl Anka
10. Next Level Soul Podcast Episode 486, Bashar’s 2027 Predictions with Darryl Anka
11. Next Level Soul Podcast Episode 544, Time Is Moving Through You with Darryl Anka
12. Next Level Soul Podcast Episode 147, Bashar’s Channeled Message to Humanity with Darryl Anka
13. Next Level Soul, Bashar and Aliens: What Darryl Anka Says
14. Next Level Soul, Darryl Anka and Bashar: The Complete Guide
15. Next Level Soul, First Contact: Channeling Bashar
16. Next Level Soul Podcast Episode 719, Full Disclosure Will Trigger a Global Awakening with Tom Campbell
17. Next Level Soul Podcast Episode 443, NASA Scientist Reveals Truth About UFOs and Our Spiritual Role with Shehnaz Soni
18. Next Level Soul Podcast Episode 400, Shehnaz Soni on rocket science and spirituality
19. Next Level Soul Podcast Episode 729, Ancient Watchers and the Bloodline of Jesus with Freddy Silva