EXPLORING THE SOCIAL FALLOUT OF
NHI CONTACT AND DISCLOSURE

Open contact with a highly advanced extraterrestrial or ultra-terrestrial civilization would
cause greater societal shock and upheaval than the Industrial Revolution,
or for that matter, anything previously experienced by humanity.

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THE REALITY OF OMINOUS NON-HUMAN
MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES

In the past, UAP have reportedly seized control of both American and Russian nuclear weapons.
And UAP continue to surveil ongoing military operations. Who are the mysterious beings
operating these craft and what are their intentions toward Earth?

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MINIMIZING CULTURE SHOCK
AND SOCIAL DISRUPTION

Exposure to non-human technology, science and cultures would radically impact institutions
and power structures on Earth, not to mention our very understanding of what it means
to be human. How do we prepare for this looming social upheaval?

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HUMANITY ON THE BRINK

Launched by futurist writer Blake Harris, the ProbeX Project seeks to harness both traditional and
innovative tools of futures research to explore likely cultural impacts and disruptions from
full UAP disclosure and the ongoing interactions with a non-human intelligence.

An Emerging New Paradigm

Credible high-level government and military whistleblowers have now testified before U.S. Congressional Hearings that UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) or UFOs are physical craft of non-human origin. They demonstrate flight capabilities far beyond what is possible with human technology. Clearly, open contact with a non-human civilization would be one of the most significant events in human history and would have earth-shattering implications for the future of humanity. So it is becoming increasingly important that we explore and come to grips with the potential cultural impacts of such contact.

Scientific literature and science fiction have suggested various scenarios of how a highly advanced extraterrestrial and human civilization might interact. Predictions range widely, from extraterrestrials providing significant help in rapidly advancing and safeguarding human society to the other extreme of a galactic imperial power using its sophisticated technologies to subjugate humanity.

The implications of interaction with a technologically superior non-human civilization have been likened to the meeting of two vastly different cultures on Earth. Such interactions have generally led to the destruction of the less advanced civilization receiving the contact (as opposed to the one initiating contact).

Any large difference between the power of an advanced non-human civilization and our own could not only be traumatic or terrifying, but could potentially even cause or accelerate the collapse of human society.

About Blake Harris

After the emergence of the Internet as a global phenomenon in the 1990s, Blake Harris (formerly an investigative and business journalist and magazine writer) shifted his primary focus to exploring short- and long-term impacts of the digital revolution. For more than a decade, he was the lead staff writer and chief editor of Government Technology's futurist magazines, Visions and Digital Communities—paper and online publications that featured many of the world's foremost futurists and technology leaders. And for a short time, working with Eric McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan's eldest son and co-author, Blake also headed up Probe, a futurist think tank project at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, from which the current ProbeX Project fondly draws its inspiration and name.

The ProbeX Methodology

Marshall McLuhan defined "probes" as concise, often cryptic aphorisms or statements designed to provoke thought and stimulate insight rather than provide definitive answers. The purpose of a probe, in his view, was not to confirm existing ideas or offer linear explanations but to pose new questions and disrupt conventional thinking, thereby fostering a deeper engagement with the world. In much the same way that futurists often use scenarios, Marshall and Eric McLuhan came to view "probes" and "tetrad analysis" as powerful social diagnostic tools with which to better understand both the present and a rapidly approaching future. These proved remarkably insightful.

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"The most highly classified subject in the U.S. Government"

So said a once-secret Canadian government report. And clearly, if there was nothing startling
to the UFO/UAP phenomenon, then why have secret intelligence investigations continued to be so
highly classified since at least the early 1950s? The answer is obvious. As soon as governments
determined that some UAP were actual physical vehicles with capabilities far beyond human science
and technology, then the leading nations of Earth immediately faced three paramount issues.

First

The nation that succeeded in reverse engineering the advanced technologies found in these vehicles could dominate the future of the planet. Starting in the late 1940s, attempting this became a Cold War priority for both the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Second

From a strategic intelligence perspective, governments needed to rapidly determine just who these visitors were and what they wanted. What overall threat did these vehicles and their occupants represent? It soon became abundantly clear that there were clandestine and sometimes even malicious aspects to UFO activity on Earth.

Third

From religious, psychological, and sociological perspectives, there were questions about how increasing contact with these visitors might affect our lives and cultures. Heightened concerns about this certainly contributed to the continued "above top secret" classification of the undisclosed government investigations into the phenomena.

Unfortunately

A sophisticated, decades-long intelligence disinformation campaign was also mounted to publicly ridicule and discredit the UFO narrative. (One might ask why if there were no real UFO truths to hide.) This campaign discouraged witness disclosures as well as serious investigations by the mainstream media and the scientific community at large. Meanwhile, the extreme secrecy surrounding actual government investigations facilitated the emergence of an array of UFO grifters. All this is now increasingly well documented.

"The only conclusion is that humanity is in fact
not the only intelligent life in the universe,
and certainly not the alpha species."

"UAP and the nonhuman intelligence controlling them present at best a very serious national security issue,
and at worst the possibility of an existential threat to humanity." — Luis “Lue” Elizondo, former head of AATIP,
the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Areospace Threat Identification Program.

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DOMINANT ISSUES AND PROSPECTIVES UNDER STUDY

Publicly, the entire subject of UAP/UFOs has been manipulated and suppressed by an intelligence
community that secretly placed a high priority on investigating these craft and the beings behind them.
But now as elected government leaders and high-level intelligence whistleblowers force
more and more disclosure, how might we expect our societies to respond or change?

Disruptive Technologies

Non-human technology could have profound unforeseen impacts on the nature of human culture and civilization. Just as television provided a new outlet for a wide variety of political, religious, and social groups, and as the printing press made the Bible available to the common people of Europe, allowing them to interpret it for themselves, so an extraterrestrial or ultra-terrestrial technology might change humanity in ways not immediately apparent.

Friend or Foe

Many who believe extraterrestrials are here to help us argue that any civilization capable of traversing the vast distances of space could easily have laid waste to human civilization. However, in the last century, there is no real evidence that extraterrestrials have done anything significant to actually provide direct technological help to Earth. We continue to struggle with such existential threats as environmental degradation, global warming, species loss, and global wars.

Threat Analysis

Science fiction films often depict humans successfully repelling alien invasions, but scientists more often take the view that an extraterrestrial civilization with sufficient power to reach the Earth would be able to destroy human civilization with minimal effort. Operations that are enormous on a human scale, such as destroying all major population centers on a planet or bombarding a planet with deadly neutron radiation, may be routine strategies for a hostile ET civilization.

The Sixth Observable

When Luis “Lue” Elizondo headed up the Pentagon's AATIP program, he outlined "the five observables" they associated with UAP. But there was a less well-known sixth observable that Elizondo sometimes discusses: biological effects and paranormal experiences (such as poltergeist-like phenomena). UFO contactees often experience what is known in UAP circles as “the hitchhiker effect,” where paranormal events seem to follow them home.

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Capt.Edgar Mitchell

Apollo 14 Astronaut

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real. It has been covered up by governments for quite some time now.

General Nathan Twinning

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff 1955-58

The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious. (Sept. 23, 1947)

Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding

Commander-in-Chief Royal Air Force Fighter Command WW II

I am convinced that these objects exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth.

Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter

First Director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency 1947-1950

Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is.

Senator Barry Goldwater

U.S. Senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987

I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information was stored.... I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above top secret.

Whitley Strieber

Novelist and author of the non-fiction book, “Communication”

Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why … What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them.

USAF Intelligence Officer David Grusch

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency/Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force

I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program to which I was denied access. (Testimony to a U.S. House of Representatives Hearing, 2023.)

Ronald Reagan

President, United States of America, to the United Nations, 1987

Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us?

Ben Rich

Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991

There are two types of UFOs – the ones we build and the ones ‘they’ build.

David Fravor

Former commander F/A-18F fighter squadron, USS Nimitz

The technology that we faced is far superior to anything we had. And there's nothing we could do about it, nothing. (Testimony to a U.S. House of Representatives Hearing, 2023)

Wilbert B. Smith

Secret 1950 memo to Controller of Telecommunications, Department of Transport, Canada

I made discreet enquiries through the Canadian embassy staff in Washington who were able to obtain for me the following information: (a) The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb. (b) Flying saucers exist.

Luis Elizondo

Former director of the U.S. Dept. of Defense Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP)

Imagine a technology that can do 6-to-700 g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space. And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing.

Hermann Oberth

German physicist and rocket pioneer

We cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Leader of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991.

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

First Director of the CIA, 1947 to 1950

I know that neither Russia nor this country has anything even approaching such high speeds and maneuvers. Behind the scenes, high-ranking officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs, but through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.

J. Edgar Hoover

Director of the FBI, Memo July 10, 1947

We must insist on full access to the disks recovered. In the La. case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.

Harry Reid

Former U.S. Senator, 1987-2017.

The UFO phenomenon is real, and the government knows it.

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