Exopolitics
Exopolitics is the study and practice of political relations between humanity and non-human intelligent beings, encompassing the full range of interactions — treaty negotiations, contact protocols, disclosure processes, covert programs, secret space programs, and conflicts — that occur between human institutions and off-world or non-terrestrial intelligences. The term was coined and the discipline formalized by Alfred Lambremont Webre in his 2000 book Exopolitics: A Decade of Contact and subsequently elaborated by Michael Salla, who founded the Exopolitics Institute in 2005 and launched the Exopolitics Today podcast as a primary platform for secret space program witness interviews, treaty analysis, and contact-chain documentation.
Exopolitics as a discipline treats the existence of non-human intelligent beings as a premise rather than a hypothesis — the field's subject matter is the political, diplomatic, and strategic dimensions of an already-confirmed contact situation rather than the question of whether contact has occurred. Core topics include the Eisenhower-era treaty negotiations, the operations of the Majestic 12 oversight body, the structure and politics of secret space programs, UAP disclosure processes, crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs, and what Elena Danaan, Corey Goode, and others describe as ongoing galactic-level political dynamics involving dozens of non-human intelligent factions with competing interests regarding Earth.
Origins of the term
Alfred Lambremont Webre introduced the term "exopolitics" in 2000, defining it as the science of relations between human civilization and other intelligent civilizations in the universe. Michael Salla expanded the framework into a multi-volume body of research beginning with Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (2004), establishing Exopolitics as a formal academic discipline with distinct methodological commitments: treating contactee and whistleblower testimony as primary source material, cross-referencing claims across multiple witnesses, and applying diplomatic and political science frameworks to non-human-intelligent-being–human interactions.
Salla describes his transition to exopolitics as having been catalyzed by encountering Steven Greer's 2001 Disclosure Project press conference: "I shifted from being an international scholar looking at international conflict and what are the sources of conflict and trying to resolve these things, to exploring the things that a lot of academics view as kind of like conspiracy." He describes having forged a career in exopolitics after becoming "persona non grata" in conventional academia, and noted that by 2018 the field's subject matter was "starting to be taken seriously" after years of marginalization.
Salla traces the intellectual lineage of the exopolitics field to Donald Keyhoe as its first practitioner — the first researcher to systematically document governmental cover-up of flying saucer evidence — while noting that Keyhoe's methodological conservatism (focusing on sightings and rejecting crash-retrieval testimony as a distraction) created a gap that later exopolitical researchers filled: "I consider the Exopolitics community as actually emerging out of the early literature of Donald Keyhoe."
Scope
Exopolitics covers at minimum the following domains:
- Galactic politics: the structure, membership, territorial claims, and policy positions of ET federations, empires, and councils — including the Galactic Federation of Worlds, the Alpha Draconian Empire, the Nebu collective, and the Council of Five — and their relationships to each other and to Earth.
- Secret space programs: the covert fleet programs operated by Earth militaries and corporations, including Solar Warden, the Dark Fleet, the Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate, and the Chinese secret space program, and their operational histories and treaty relationships with non-human intelligent factions.
- Disclosure processes: the political mechanics by which classified information about non-human intelligent contact is (or is not) made available to the public and to elected officials — including the role of the deep state, Majestic 12, the UFO cover-up, and movements such as the Disclosure Project and controlled disclosure strategies.
- Treaty law: agreements between human governments and non-human intelligent beings, such as the Greada Treaty of 1954, their terms, violations, and consequences.
- Galactic diplomacy: Earth's eventual integration into interstellar governance structures such as the Galactic Federation of Worlds and the Intergalactic Confederation.
Key researchers and practitioners
Michael Salla (Exopolitics.org, Exopolitics Today podcast, 14+ books) is the field's principal academic voice, with particular emphasis on secret space program whistleblower testimony. Alfred Lambremont Webre (ExoNews.com) focuses on legal and juridical dimensions. Elena Danaan contributes contactee-sourced galactic intelligence. Laura Eisenhower, Corey Goode, Randy Cramer, and others provide secret space program experiencer testimony. Steven Greer focuses on UAP disclosure and free-energy suppression through the Disclosure Project and CSETI.
Laura Eisenhower has described exopolitics as the study of "what's really out there... in this multi-dimensional cosmos" — encompassing the spectrum of interacting species, government-ET treaties, the negative ET agenda, and the benevolent races — and has argued that understanding the exopolitical frame is a prerequisite for humanity to accurately interpret its own political and spiritual situation on Earth.
Salla distinguishes between two main galactic organizations that interact with Earth's exopolitical situation: the Galactic Federation of Worlds, which is interventionist and maintains a Prime Directive while nevertheless conducting covert military operations; and a Confederation of Worlds referenced according to Ra Material and South American contactee accounts, which is strictly non-interventionist and consciousness-focused.
Treaty law and constitutional questions
A key area of exopolitical inquiry is the legal status of agreements between U.S. presidents and extraterrestrial representatives. Salla has argued that the Greada Treaty and related agreements, though never ratified by the Senate, may have been constitutionally implemented by the U.S. executive branch through the same mechanism used for the unratified Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II agreement of 1979 — presidential executive orders implementing treaty provisions without Senate confirmation. He states: "Implementing agreements with extraterrestrials, the provisions of secret agreements reached by a U.S. president with representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization, can be implemented without necessarily waiting for the Senate to give its two-thirds consent." Under this framework, the Greada Treaty is understood as having been both legally signed and implemented, with congressional committee chairs potentially having received eyes-only briefings classifying the material above public access.
Earth's current status
In exopolitics, Earth is approaching the threshold between Stage 2 and Stage 3 civilisational classification under the GFW's developmental taxonomy — meaning that it has a structured society with spiritual concepts but has not yet independently achieved interstellar spacefaring capacity at the civilian level. The classified secret space program sector of Earth already interacts at Stage 3, creating a dual-status situation that complicates GFW non-interference protocols. Salla projects that the rapid declassification of antigravity propulsion, space-time portals, and free energy technology under current political dynamics will enable Earth to formally achieve Stage 3 status and eventually apply for GFW membership.