Disclosure movement
Beliefs
Mark Pilkington) has written about the paradoxical beliefs of disclosure, noting that "Disclosure's advocates claim that what they want is truth, but what they actually want is to have their existing beliefs about UFOs and extraterrestrials confirmed by a government they already distrust on the issue."
History
While the roots of the disclosure movement can be traced to the 1940s and the work of Raymond A. Palmer and Richard Shaver, disclosure is distinct from earlier conspiracy theories that posit government secrecy about UFOs in that it simultaneously advocates for the end of such secrecy as a means for human civilization to capitalize on purported valuable alien technology. As early as 1952, the US Air Force had acknowledged reports from "credible observers of relatively incredible things", but cautioned that "there has been no pattern that reveals anything remotely like purpose or remotely like consistency that we can in any way associate with any menace to the United States". In 1955, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy by Donald Keyhoe argued for an end to a supposed cover-up. By 1963, Keyhoe, citing conversations with members of Congress, called for "full disclosure of UFO facts" and publicly predicted "some action in a few months", though no major announcement occurred in the ensuing months. In 1977, the US News and World Report published a claim that 'unsettling disclosures' about UFOs would be announced by the CIA before the end of the year; none emerged.
Origins
Steven Greer, who claims to have seen a flying saucer as a child, is widely regarded as a prime influence of the disclosure movement, having popularized the term "disclosure" to refer to advocacy for the end of this perceived cover-up in the early 1990s, and Greer himself identifies as the founder of "the worldwide disclosure movement". In 1993, he established The Disclosure Project which, according to Religion Dispatches, "encourages the government to disclose the reality of UFOs, as well as advanced technologies like alternative energy that could save the planet". Some persons affiliated with Greer's initiatives practice his "CE-5" protocol which attempts to directly commune with space aliens via meditation as a means of compelling disclosure, and Greer commercially markets "Ambassador to the Universe" trainings to teach CE-5.
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