Soft disclosure

Soft disclosure is the term used within the UFO disclosure movement for the gradual, deniable acclimatisation of the public to the alleged reality of non-human intelligence and recovered technologies of unknown origin through fiction, entertainment, and incremental media leaks, rather than through a formal government announcement.[citation needed] It is treated as one instrument of controlled disclosure — managed release on the controllers' own terms — and is closely associated with predictive programming, the embedding of real capabilities and events inside ostensibly fictional film and television so that genuine witnesses can later be dismissed as having merely absorbed the fiction.

Examples cited within the movement include the Stargate franchise's parallels to alleged programs such as Project Looking Glass, and the recurrence of secret space program motifs in science fiction. The same fiction-parallels are, on a skeptical reading, evidence of ordinary cultural influence running the other way — claimants drawing on popular entertainment — and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) found no evidence of any authentic program being seeded through fiction.

See also

• Controlled disclosure
• Counter-disclosure
• Predictive programming
• Disclosure (political movement)
• Influence of U.S. intelligence community on popular culture

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