An excerpt from the GTA Member Webinar on December 18, 2025.
Transcript edited for print.
So now we get into the secrecy. We’ll get into the astrology part, but first I want to lay out the framework so you can really understand what’s going on.
What’s really happening here is that the dam has started to break. Maybe not fully, but it has a leak they can’t seal. And at some point, the pressure is going to build enough to burst the whole thing open. This specifically deals with what they call the legacy program.
The Legacy Program: A Government Within a Government
The film, The Age of Disclosure, transitions into explaining the nature of this legacy program, which is essentially a parallel state. Like I mentioned before, the level of funding, manpower, and scientific-industrial intelligence allocated to this program is massive. It’s basically a real government operating within a government, beyond constitutional oversight.
So these whistleblowers—over 30 people at the highest levels of government—are all saying that this program isn’t just about technology. In the film, they make it clear that it’s really about government legitimacy.
This program has been active for about 80 years. It operates with its own funding, its own security, and its own authority, completely firewalled from constitutional oversight. Its main purpose is to retrieve and reverse engineer unidentified phenomena, while keeping everything hidden from the public through disinformation and institutional resistance. That’s all coming directly from the film.
The Structure: Intelligence, Military, and Private Industry
They also go into the organizational structure, describing a multi-agency collaboration. You have the CIA, the Air Force, and especially the Department of Energy, which plays a major role in managing analysis, research, and storage of recovered technologies. Then you have defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, which was discussed quite a bit.
The CIA handles coordination and intelligence gathering. The Air Force handles retrieval—actually going out and recovering the craft. If something crashes in China, the U.S. Air Force will get there before the Chinese do. If it goes down in Brazil, they’re taking it. No country is off limits. This is treated as a military mission of the highest level, using the most advanced covert capabilities available to secure that technology.
The Department of Energy handles material analysis and secure storage. That’s where these craft are kept, which is why you won’t find them sitting at an Air Force base. And then the contractors, like Lockheed Martin, handle reverse engineering. Because they’re private entities, they operate outside direct government oversight, which creates plausible deniability.
This is why Congress has no access to this information. They can’t get briefed on it. So in a way, you have a CIA within the CIA, an Air Force within the Air Force, and a Department of Energy within itself. Then you have contractors like Lockheed developing advanced aircraft—stealth fighters and so on—as the public-facing side, while the real work, the UFO reverse engineering, happens behind the scenes.
Corporate Secrecy and Presidential Limits
The film also talks about why private sector involvement is so important. Once this technology is in private hands, it’s no longer just a national security issue—it becomes a corporate governance issue protected by privilege. That makes it extremely difficult, even for a sitting U.S. President, to demand access.
Legally, the President can’t just call up the CEO of Lockheed Martin and say, “Let me see everything or I’ll shut you down.” That’s not how it works. They’re trying to change laws around this, but right now, if Lockheed has developed something far more advanced than anything publicly known, the President may not even be fully informed. Maybe they are—but they don’t have to be.
That’s why you could have highly advanced, reverse-engineered craft flying around—those triangular objects people report—and the U.S. Air Force can still say they have no knowledge of them. It’s designed that way. They don’t want transparency.
The Machinery of Secrecy: Disinformation, Intimidation, Denial
Maintaining secrecy for 80 years requires a very sophisticated system. The film describes an information campaign built on public ridicule. There are individuals whose job is to discredit people who come forward—especially those who speak publicly. They destroy reputations, damage credibility, and create long-term consequences.
There’s also witness intimidation. People who encounter UAPs or have knowledge of the program face pressure, denial, and suppression. The government maintains a categorical refusal to acknowledge any of this, and that refusal is built into the legal and institutional structure.
This creates what you could call a triad of secrecy: disinformation, intimidation, and denial. Disinformation often works through social engineering—shaping narratives, creating confusion, and reinforcing stigma. Intimidation targets careers, reputations, and personal safety. And denial becomes the official stance.
But denial only works if the culture punishes inquiry. That’s why stigma is so powerful. It turns the public into part of the enforcement system.
The Government Schism: A Battle of Philosophies
The film also talks about something deeper—a government schism. This isn’t about political parties or elections. It’s a divide within the system itself.
On one side are those who hoard information and use it as leverage. On the other are those who believe the secrecy has become illegal, dangerous, and morally corrupting.
This isn’t a simple good-versus-evil conflict. It’s a clash between two governance models: stability through control and repression, versus stability through transparency, legitimacy, and accountability. And according to the film, this conflict is actively unfolding right now.
A System Under Threat: Control Mechanisms and Institutional Behavior
They describe methods of control almost like a field manual. Stovepiping prevents departments from sharing information. Stigma discourages reporting. Contractor shielding blocks access. Bureaucratic warfare prevents oversight.
What’s important is that none of these mechanisms require extraterrestrials to be real. These are standard institutional behaviors used to protect sensitive information.
This is essentially how systems defend themselves. The fight over disclosure isn’t just about revealing information—it’s about how an entire structure reacts when it’s under pressure.
The Religious Rift: Theology Inside the Pentagon
One of the most surprising aspects discussed in the film is the presence of religious opposition within leadership. There are individuals inside the Pentagon and Department of Defense who actively resist disclosure based on their beliefs.
Some interpret the phenomenon through a Christian framework, seeing it as something demonic or spiritually dangerous. In their view, this isn’t just unknown technology—it’s something that contradicts their understanding of God, humanity, and reality itself.
This perspective has influenced decisions, including sabotaging funding, derailing careers, and in extreme claims, even targeting whistleblowers.
So for them, this isn’t about science or intelligence—it’s about a spiritual threat.
The Deeper Divide: A Theological Schism in Washington
Ultimately, what emerges is not just a political or institutional divide, but a theological one. There’s a deep disagreement within leadership about what this phenomenon actually represents.
Some see it as a technological reality that must be understood and disclosed. Others see it as something fundamentally dangerous, even evil, that must be suppressed at all costs.
And that divide—more than anything—may be the real reason the dam hasn’t fully broken yet.
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