The summaries are my own readings of publicly stated claims, not quotations.
Michael Salla
Exopolitics.org, former academic in international relations
Claim: That Earth is subject to secret space programs, treaties between governments and extraterrestrial groups, underground bases and an ongoing power struggle between civilisations — often rendered with names, dates and organisational charts.
My response: The wealth of detail rests almost entirely on anonymous or unverifiable insider accounts that cite one another. The precision is rhetorical, not evidentiary: the more names and maps, the less testable the whole becomes. Using it as a premise would undermine the demands that can actually be pressed in law.
Elena Danaan
Author, reports contact with extraterrestrial groups
Claim: Direct contact and messages from a ’galactic federation’, liberation operations, species-specific alliances and a cosmic narrative with rolling updates.
My response: This is essentially testimonial literature of a religious kind: it cannot be falsified, it changes over time without accounting for corrections, and it offers comfort rather than accountability. I treat it not as fraud but as a different genre — one that does not belong in a case addressed to a state.
Steven Greer
Disclosure Project
Claim: That an assembled cadre of military witnesses has already settled the matter, and that reports of hostile visitors are staged by human actors.
My response: Collecting testimony had real value, but the conclusions run further than the material supports, and dissenting witnesses are explained away as part of the deception. A system in which every counter-example is part of the conspiracy cannot be examined.
Alfred Lambremont Webre
Lawyer, coined the term ’exopolitics’ around the year 2000
Claim: That humanity is a party to the legal order of a ’universe society’, and that secret programs exist for time travel and teleportation (Project Pegasus), human colonies on Mars and competing ’timelines’ that can be selected.
My response: Webre's early contribution was to frame the question as legal and institutional rather than a matter of sightings — that framing mattered. But the later claims about Mars colonies and timeline selection rest on a handful of unverifiable individual witnesses and are in principle impossible to refute. The legal frame is useful; the asserted factual basis is not.
Stephen Bassett
Paradigm Research Group, registered lobbyist in Washington
Claim: That formal acknowledgement by the US government is imminent, and that lobbying, media pressure and citizen hearings (the 2013 Citizen Hearing) are the route there.
My response: The method is right: Bassett works with legislators, public records and public hearings — the world where decisions are actually made. The problem is the calendar. Three decades of recurring ’it is happening now’ erodes credibility and makes it easy to dismiss even the sober demands. I use his work as political history, not as forecast.
Paola Leopizzi Harris
Italian-American journalist and photographer, worked with J. Allen Hynek
Claim: That a long series of interviews with military personnel, officials and experiencers — including Italian cases, Rendlesham and Charles Hall's ’Nellis’ accounts — together demonstrate genuine contact.
My response: Harris is first of all an archivist and interviewer, and that is where the value lies: primary recordings and documents that would otherwise have been lost. But the selection is rarely tested against conflicting information, and individual unsubstantiated accounts are presented as established. I treat the material as sources to examine, not as conclusions to quote.
Lisa Renee
Ascension Glossary
Claim: That Earth and humanity are undergoing an ’ascension’ in which extraterrestrial, inter-dimensional and ’artificial intelligence’ entities compete for human soul and DNA.
My response: The work is a reference for a religious cosmology, not a checkable source. The concepts cite themselves and one another within a closed system in which every counter-example or absence of evidence is read as confirmation.
The channelling and ’super soldier’ genre
Broad, commercially driven
Claim: Personal missions, recovered secret memories, cosmic timelines and imminent mass disclosure with dates attached.
My response: Failed predictions are reinterpreted rather than counted as errors. That is the genre's clearest marker, and the reason nothing here rests on it.
