Disclosing the Secret

by Vincent Amato

  “The crashed disk?”

  “The crashed disk,” Charles said, nodding. “The very same one your grandfather held bits and pieces of. In return, all the Grays wanted was to be permitted to study our race unhindered and to come and go as they required. They didn’t even mind if our government wanted to keep this deal a secret; in fact, it actually suited them.”

  “We took the deal with the Grays.” Jake’s realization was barely a whisper. The pieces of the puzzle were falling into place. It was the height of the Cold War; the shadow government group managing the dealings with the second ET race wanted their advanced tech in order to gain an advantage over the Soviets as well as anyone else who would threaten the United States.

  As it became clear, Jake felt a cold chill. In exchange for ET technologies the US Government would allow the second ET group to study the human race. More to the point, they would turn a blind eye to it.

  They were allowing abductions!

  “So all those stories about people being abducted by gray aliens with large heads and black eyes…” Jake trailed off in a fearful whisper.

  The scientist didn’t know how to respond; even to him it sounded unbelievable.

  Dr. Reilly spoke slowly, as if gently nudging the truth in his direction. “It was the price we were willing to pay to get our hands on their advanced technology. For reasons of their own they had a keen interest in our genetic make-up. If they were to study us, they would indeed need samples. So every now and then they would take one of us.”

  Jake was speechless; he could barely get his mind around what he was being told.

  Charles could sense he was struggling with the idea. “Now you may understand what would happen if all this came out. The population’s reaction to decisions made by our own government, for technologies that promised to solve all the world’s energy and pollution problems, but was never shared… Well, it could be catastrophic. Have you any idea how many of the government’s own federal laws it has broken since?”

  As Jake began to fully comprehend the ramifications of what he was hearing, he could feel the world he once knew teetering on the brink of unprecedented change.

  Oh my God, this can’t be happening!

  They were both still for a long moment, silent in their own thoughts. The park had since grown in population from when they first sat. A mother had laid out a picnic rug and was playing with her infant child. A group of children were kicking a soccer ball to each other, arguing among themselves about whose turn it was. The rest of the world seemed to continue on with their day blissfully unaware of the realities beyond our own atmosphere.

  Charles attempted to lighten the tone, taking a philosophical left turn. “Now, if it were us that had discovered another civilization somewhere, wouldn’t you want to sit back and study them for a period of time? And if that civilization had a history of violence, was culturally fragile, possessed nuclear weaponry and were active in hundreds of tribal wars among themselves at any one time, would you want to rush in and potentially cause global mass panic? Do you think that would end well? Or would you let that civilization learn for themselves, in their own time, that they may not be the only life in the universe.”

  Jake found his voice. “I would probably leave them a few clues, some signs.”

  “That’s exactly what they’ve done.” Dr. Reilly’s face showed a hint of a smile. “We were directly contacted in a more public manner in 2001, but you will never hear about it on the six o’clock news because it was much too shocking. They replied to a message we had once sent, and we had even attached a mug shot!”

  Jake looked confused.

  “In 1972,” the scientist explained, “we sent out a message from the Arecibo Radio telescope in binary code. It gave a description of who we were, our DNA, which planet in the solar system we live on, and what type of technology we used to send the signal. Imagine the shock and surprise when we got a reply in exactly the same format laid out in two crop circles formed in an adjacent field from a SETI radio telescope listening for signs of life. Their reply was accompanied by an image of what they looked like, that they were carbon-silica based, had an additional DNA strand, lived on three out of the four planets in their solar system and showed us a low resolution image of the technology they used to send their reply.”

  Once again, Jake could only stare.

  “As it turns out, in the exact same field a year to the day earlier, a crop circle was found that resembled the technology they showed at the bottom of their reply, but in more detail. Then a year after the Arecibo reply, again to the day, in the exact same location, was an enormous crop circle with a detailed image of a non-human entity holding a disk, or CD, printed with a binary code. The crop circle was so detailed that we were able to read the disk right off the crop, as if they burned us a CD and delivered it in person. And printed on that disk was a warning.”

  “And… What did it say?”

  The scientist cocked his head slightly, as if reading the translation off a memorized image, “Be aware of false gifts, their broken promises. Much pain, but still time. Believe, there is good out there. We oppose deception.”

  “What does it mean?”

  Dr. Reilly’s gaze sharpened. “A message of hope.”

  Jake lowered his eyes in contemplation, trying to process what possible meaning the message could hold.

  “Be aware of false gifts, their broken promises.” The words left his lips as a whisper as he tried to connect the dots. Jake’s eyes shot back up in realization, “But it’s also a warning; there’s more than one ET race. It’s talking about the Gray’s technology.”

  Charles sat back looking impressed. “Indeed there are. At last count we have had recorded contact with 63 races since the early 1930s. Some were good, for example, those who met with the likes of Barney and Betty Hill. Unfortunately contactees such as Travis Walton had, well, negative experiences. It’s why Stephen Hawking once said we shouldn’t be calling attention to ourselves until we truly understand what, or who, is out there.”

  The scientist waited a moment while his young companion gathered himself.

  Jake’s mind exploded with a myriad of questions: Why are they here? What do they want from us? How long have they been visiting us? What is their technology like? How far ahead of us are they? What is their world like? Do they have a system of government? Do they believe in God?

  His thoughts were a collage of interrelated ideas that seemed to make no sense. Jake flashed on the agent who once had approached his father years ago, and one pivotal question stood out. “Someone like you once approached my father. What did he want?”

  “He was in fact looking for me.” The scientist’s tone was calm, but resolute. “Well, more to the point, he had been searching for my employer and the facility in which we conduct our research. Mistakenly, he asked your father if he knew where the recovered disk was.”

  Jake shot him a surprised look.

  “Remember, in the military intelligence community there is little we don’t know. Despite his best efforts, Mr. D’Amato never did find us. But it doesn’t mean that other countries could have come forward before our own government had come to an agreement with our shadow government, the secret keepers, and decided it was time to disclose these realities.”

  Meeting eyes with the scientist, Jake was unsure where he was going with this.

  “China, the Soviet Union as it was known back then, Brazil… Any one of those countries could have come forward to disclose what they knew. Our President should have worked out a deal with our military intelligence community, the secret keepers, and come to an understanding of what they wanted, formed an agreement on a disclosure deal that absolved them of felonies committed during the course of the cover-up, and together bring forth the most profound event by any political party of all of recorded history.”

  Trying to follow, Jake said nothing.

  “The most important issue in history has been under the President’s nose for 70 years, and for 4
5 of them he couldn’t do a thing because the US had this little problem of 80,000 stockpiled nukes, all ready to launch against other nations. So his hands were tied until 1991.”

  Dr. Reilly sensed his young friend was struggling to keep up. He paused a long moment, as if to emphasize the importance of what he was about to share.

  CHAPTER 33

  “The initial reason for the cover-up has long since passed. We’ve had ample time to prepare the public for what is to come. We now know a great deal about these off-world visitations and why they are here.”

  Jake was still staring in disbelief.

  For the last hour Dr. Charles Reilly’s revelations had just transformed Jake’s perception of the universe and the world he lived in. His heart was pounding. Sitting on that park bench, Charles had walked him through the answers to all the questions he wanted to ask. The reality of day-to-day life was now morphing into a tiny sliver of a much greater universal reality far beyond the comprehension of human civilization.

  Jake’s heart was pounding. The implications of what he was learning seemed as unbelievable and awesome as it was terrifying.

  “This is the most important issue in the history of the human race,” the scientist continued. “And yet anyone under the age of 70 has lived every day of their life under a truth embargo. The secret keepers have done such a great job. Have you ever heard the terms Fastwalkers, ETVs or ISEs?”

  Jake returned a puzzled look.

  “Well, that’s how good a job we’ve done for nearly three-quarters of a century. A fair degree of social engineering of the populous has been ongoing since the forties. There is a vital reason why no congressman or senator will speak out on the subject of ET visitations.”

  Charles counted on his fingers as he explained: “Universities won’t teach it, the government won’t acknowledge it, and the mass media won’t investigate it let alone report on it.”

  Jake nodded has he followed.

  “When a credible citizen has ever come forward about a possible ET sighting, the key to maintaining the status quo by the secret keepers has been to make their claim unsupportable so there could be no way to verify, or confirm, their sighting. Nowadays you could show the average citizen the famous 1952 Washington UFO fly-by footage, or photos of the crop circle warnings I spoke of, and they will STILL think that they themselves would be crazy to believe their own eyes.”

  Jake pictured images of crop circles and old UFO footage, shaky and half out of focus, as Charles spoke. “The education system, institutions and the press have made the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence a topic reserved for the disturbed, the crazy and the weak-minded.”

  The scientist paused, his tone lowering. “But we now live in a very different time. The public still has a right to know about issues that affect the whole planet, no matter how reality-shattering the truth is. Our entire population has to deal with it, not just an elite few.”

  Charles wondered if his young friend knew that 90 percent of Americans already believe there is life elsewhere in the universe, or that 40 percent of US citizens had now accepted that ET visitations were occurring.

  The shadow government, Charles’s former employer, had kept the reality of ET visitations, as well as their technology, out of the mainstream public domain for seven decades. They had deemed human civilization as not yet ready to accept the greater reality of what lies beyond earth’s atmosphere. But what the population wouldn’t accept, Reilly knew, was if the public were to be told that they were incapable of understanding or handling the true nature of the universe and its full spectrum of life.

  Jake spoke as if he had personal experience of facing ridicule. “But until something changes, anyone who comes forward with a credible sighting becomes labeled a liar again and again. The government will then make up an explanation for it, saying it was just swamp gas, Project Mogul or crash test dummies!”

  Feeling his anger build, Jake continued. “You were one of them. Can’t you do something?”

  Charles’s voice was soft, and yet there was resolve in his tone. “I agree, we have to end the government’s policy of suppressing the ET presence.”

  He chose his words carefully. “Jake, my intent is to release information to the general public and bring on global disclosure. I’m convinced that the reality of the ET presence is far too important to be held in the hands of the elite organizations, the keepers of the secret. Their only interest is to re-engineer the exotic off-world technologies and apply them for their own commercial gain, no matter how noble their agenda may seem.”

  Jake’s expression turned from one of anger to astonishment as he met eyes with Reilly.

  “Ironic, I know, coming from an individual who was once part of the military industrial complex charged with keeping the ET presence a secret,” Charles said, a smile growing across his face.

  A new realization propelled Jake’s head into another spin. He’s somehow become a sympathizer; that’s the reason for his defection.

  Scrutinizing the scientist sitting with him on the park bench, Jake asked, “Who are the keepers of the secret?”

  It was a question Reilly knew was coming. He hesitated a moment as if searching for the right words. “Let me answer that by saying there are many organizations that have noble exteriors who promote particular agendas to their employees, government and media. But at the same time their internal agendas are kept secret, well hidden from the light of day, and only the organization’s central core are privy to the truth. Their outer layers are only window dressing to cover up their real agenda, their real purpose.”

  Jake nodded, his eyes riveted on the scientist.

  “The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Federal Reserve Bank, NSA, KGB and the CIA are all examples. Their inner cores are interlaced together to form an elitist, super-secret society with their own culture and economy.” He again counted with his fingers as he ran through a list: “Oil, gold, gas, diamonds, platinum and so on. These organizations are powerful, wealthy, and their single intent is to manipulate the world’s economic, political and social systems in order to control this planet’s vital resources. These are the elite. And deep within their inner circles are the keepers of the secret.”

  There was a long silence. Jake breathed deeply as if to absorb the unsettling truth.

  How can it all be true? How could one person, or even one country, hope to change all this? Jake wondered.

  They both watched a group of families walk past their park bench. “Jake, think of the population of this planet for one moment; we live for money, we fight for land then divide the land up and establish different currencies represented by different flags. The governments chosen to lead us are rife with corruption and at any given time one will be at war with another. And despite knowing that we are damaging the very environment that sustains us, we continue to pollute our skies and oceans.”

  Jake knew the scientist was right. He pictured a handful of countless atrocities that had happened in recent history; the invention of the atomic bomb, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Gulf War.

  Jake listened as the scientist elaborated. “The very system that supports life on this planet is under attack. More than three billion tonnes of coal is burned daily on this planet. And it’s not only the volume of fossil fuels we burn; it’s the rate at which they are burnt that is significant.”

  The scientist explained that 50 percent of all the carbon dioxide that has been released into the atmosphere over human civilization’s entire history had only happened over the last 40 years, and that life could not be sustained with excessive carbon dioxide levels in our air. The amount of energy used daily has tripled in the last 30 years, and in the last decade human use of electricity has increased by 60 percent. Over the same time period global production of coal has increased by over 25 percent, natural gas by 40 percent with carbon dioxide levels rising by 25 percent.

  Consumption and oil prices continue to spiral upwards. In 1950 one-quarter of the planet’s
land surface was native forests, now it’s less than one-fifth. As a consequence the oceans cannot soak up all the excess atmospheric carbon dioxide that the shrinking forests can’t absorb.

  The inhabitants of earth are literally industrializing themselves out of existence! Reilly thought.

  Dr. Reilly’s demeanor turned frosty. “I feel strongly about our destruction of this planet. We don’t seem to realize that the next generation will inherit an endangered earth. Humans do not understand how unique this plant is. It has a tremendous biodiversity and complex range of ecosystems. Its natural resources are plentiful, and it supports countless forms of life with an immense genetic library.”

  “If you think about it,” Charles continued, “despite our technological achievements, we really are an infant race. Einstein really hit the nail on the head when he said, ‘Our technology has surpassed our humanity.’ We can only hope one day our humanity can surpass our technology.”

  The scientist could sense his young companion was struggling with the idea.

  “Jake, you ask ‘why the secret?’ The group managing the secret recognized that the inhabitants have treated this planet poorly. They deemed our civilization not yet ready for something bigger than themselves. Now think of what would happen to the political system if the populous thought their elected governments were no longer in control.”

  “There would be mass panic,” Jake concluded.

  “Is it that we can’t trust the rest of the population to accept this cosmic reality? Or is it that if we disclose that 1 in 5000 were being abducted then it would be political suicide?” Reilly’s tone was ominous.

  A cold silence hung between them. Reilly watched as an expression of shock grew across his companion’s face.

  “That’s right,” Charles reiterated. “And what would happen to our economic system? What would happen to the religious institutions, how will they explain it?”

  “But doesn’t the government have its own scientific program searching for ET life, the SETI program?” asked Jake.