They won't tell us everything, but we can take action for ourselves to learn what's up.

You've probably seen several of the "tic-tac" videos and heard the commentary on the UAP encounters by Navy personnel; this article will not inundate you with more of those. They are all part of an obvious campaign to "disclose" to the public on the subject, with multiple authority figures from our military and industrial complex showing up repeatedly and thoroughly on TV and the internet over the past few months.

The Disclosure People

It's interesting and informative to list a few of the key players in the organization To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, the key group interfacing with the public regarding current disclosure efforts. Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 is a famous rock star — perfect for reaching the younger generation. Jim Semivan, the founder of the Academy, is a former senior Intelligence Officer with the CIA. Similarly, Luis Elizondo, Harold Puthoff, Dr. Norm Kahn, Dr Paul Rapp, and Christopher Mellon are all former high-level personnel from the Pentagon and other three-letter agencies of note. None of them are currently under the employ of our government or the military, a common way to distance these types of people from various forms of accountability.

What They Will and What They Won't Disclose

By the time you read this, the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin might have delivered the legally mandated report on UAPs to the Senate Intelligence Committee. I could very easily be way off base, but I have a prediction as to what the public will be told in this report. Here's the narrative as I imagine it:

"There are unknowns in our airspace and in our oceans. We know they're there, and they are real, but we don't know where they come from. There's very little evidence that any other country on this planet has the ability to create the phenomenon, but that's not an absolute certainty. Whatever they are, and wherever they come from, they could be a threat, and therefore we need to step up funding and research to determine if they are threat."

Of course the wording will be a little different, but it's pretty obvious to researchers that this will likely be the main gist of the story they want us to buy in to. The big debate behind the scenes will be whether there's more to this story than this surface level explanation. Many of us think this to be true, and that the bigger story will be that they still haven't "come clean" with all they know. In my opinion they have a carefully crafted agenda, and a slow "drip disclosure" provides a convenient compromise between those who want us all to know the truth and those who want to keep it all secret.

Why They Want To Scare Us

Trillions and trillions of dollars, many thousands of dollars for every man, woman, and child in the United States, has been funneled over the past few decades into black budgets with such secrecy that not even our elected officials know anything about where it's being spent. There is zero accountability for these expenditures.

It's fairly obvious, however, that the vast MIC (Military Industrial Complex) has been using these funds to ramp up defense and other R&D, ostensibly to strengthen and protect our country against all threats — foreign, domestic, real, or imagined. It's quite a self-supporting and perhaps dangerously evolving system that I'll leave for others to discuss and debate.

One important concept to think about is that the MIC agenda is self protecting. That astronomical black-budget secretive cash flow is all important, so anything that can support it is justified. Currently, an unknown "threat" from the UAPs is a simple concept to push, and some of us believe acquiring ever-increasing funding is the actual motivation for the current partial disclosure of what has been kept so secret so successfully for so long. They want the money to keep on keeping on.

Should We Be Terrified?

Here's a question to ask yourself. If extraterrestrials have the advanced knowledge and ability to travel vast distances through the cosmos using technology our experts currently say is "impossible", and if they do indeed present some sort of a significant military type of threat to our existence on this planet, then why have they left us alone? Surely they could have "disappeared" us in an instant if they really wanted to do so.

Yes, it is possible extraterrestrial life forms could have a psychology so vastly different from us that they are still waiting for unknown reasons for the right moment to strike us down using their military might. But we need to think and act in terms of realistic probabilities, and it is highly improbable that the thousands of highly credible UFO/UAP sightings and encounters have represented an existential threat to us. It just doesn't make sense.

What You Can Do To Help Us All Learn the Truth

There are steps we can all take to be much more prepared to learn the truth about this subject. Above all we need to be open minded. Strong skeptics and fanatical believers alike muddy the subject drastically. Anything is possible, but some things are more probable than others, and the goal of clear, open-minded thinkers is to gain facts and data to pin down the probability factor for any and all unknowns. Don't accept anything naively, and don't reject anything offhandedly.

This need to be open-minded includes what the MIC-supported authorities tell us in their attempts to convince us we need to spend big bucks to meet the upcoming threat. Maybe we do, maybe we don't, but we need to know more of the truth for ourselves before we accept the picture they're painting for us to, literally, buy into.

Keep Your Eyes to the Skies!

UFO sightings are very common. Most sightings are explainable, but as the Senate Intelligence Committee report will show, there's a big residue of sighting events that represent something very real; something experienced by people of all walks of life and located all over the Earth.

Look up. If you do, statistics show that you have an excellent chance to see for yourself something that will need to be explained. After their first sighting, a common pattern is for people to eventually witness follow-up events, mostly because they are motivated to look up. Be ready!

How To Be Ready

A few years ago, as a Field Investigator for MUFON, I authored a book titled How To Investigate UFOs With Your Smart Phone. This book is now way out of date, mostly because smart phones have evolved so rapidly. Today there are many superior apps and techniques available than those I listed and described in my book. My goal here on Medium over the next few weeks is to write a series of articles that update this concept. There are many free and powerful apps that enable the average person to "investigate" sightings, whether something they see themselves or sightings by people they come in contact with, in a powerful way that can help important research into this subject advance much more quickly.

For example, it's extremely important to record, in a verbal, written, or photographic manner, the details of a sighting as soon as possible after an event. The nature of human psychology is such that our minds modify our memories over time, especially when those memories are of strange or hard to understand events. We quickly begin to map previous knowledge and experiences onto these experiences in an attempt to understand them. Smart phones provide a very handy and very powerful way to record fresh details in a timely manner.

There are many other powerful ways that your smart phone can help provide valuable data and analysis for getting to the answers and truth we all want and deserve to know. Stay tuned! … and be sure to click the Follow button at the top of this article to easily find my follow-up series of articles on this subject. Thank you!

John's passion and mission is sharing Python code to help demystify life's challenges and to have fun. John is the inventor of the popular, free, online game FourSkor and he is the author of Python for Numworks , Python for OpenSCAD, Python for the TI-Nspire CX II, Python for the TI-84 Plus CE Python calculator, Python for CASIO Calculators, and many other titles.