One way to see how profoundly the UAP conversation changed from Experiencer meaning and independent research to national security preparation for a UAP threat is to compare two college courses: one taught in 2005 and one offered in Fall 2026.
Twenty-one years ago, Extraterrestrial Reality, a UFOlogy course I taught, asked students to expand on what it means to be human in the 21st century, with a focus on intelligent, responsive life originating beyond Earth. Today, a new UAP course, Homeland Security and UAPs, educates Criminal Justice students in security threat detection, FEMA preparedness protocols, and law enforcement response to UAPs — without a single piece of evidence that ET poses a threat to anyone.
Disclosure replaced Exoconscious cosmic integration with national emergency preparedness, reflecting its emphasis on national security, science, and data collection. Understanding how course content changed is essential to understanding why Exoconscious Humans must speak out now.
These courses represent two different visions of what humanity should be preparing for and how humans integrate contact. They represent two different versions of the role that human consciousness and the experiencer may play in the future of UAP understanding.
Exoconsciousness does not require abandoning UAP science or cautious data collection. It argues that both material investigation and research into human consciousness must be pursued in tandem to fully enable human evolution.
A Tale of Two Ufology Courses: 2026 and 2005
The recent Disclosure pivot to Homeland Security preparedness and why the Exoconscious are speaking up now were covered in a previous Ontological Shock and Awe Substack.
In this Substack, I share a Tale of Two Ufology Courses. The two chart different courses, with radically different intended outcomes, but they're not irreconcilable.
2026: UAPs and Homeland Security Course
In a September 1, 2026, X Post, Avi Loeb, Chair of the UAP Science Advisory Council, applauded Dr. Keith L. Taylor’s course, UAP’s and Homeland Security, offered at Farmingdale State College, New York, in Criminal Justice Studies.
Dr. Taylor has experience with emergency preparedness, including weapons of mass destruction, FEMA, and law enforcement.
From Avi Loeb’s X: The new course, examining UAP through science, public safety, national security, and policy. Serious academic courses and scientific research are essential to reducing stigma and advancing rigorous, evidence-based study of UAP.
From Farmingdale Announcement:
This course is intended to address matters of airspace safety and domestic security threats—regardless of what the sources of UAPs are (e.g., human or non-human, where examples of the former include the 2023 “Chinese balloon incident” or the recent drone attacks across the globe), law enforcement agencies and first responders should be prepared to safely engage with such objects should they pose a threat to US airspace. The course will address policies, protocols, planning strategies and proposed legislation to address the detection and investigation of UAPs. The course will be taught by an expert with experience in law enforcement and emergency preparedness (Dr. Keith Taylor) and will feature case studies and guest speakers that are experts in UAP detection and investigation.
I wish Keith Taylor all the Best. Leading figures such as Avi Loeb and Jordan Flowers of the Disclosure Foundation lauded his course.
However, Taylor’s law-enforcement focus on UAP detection and investigation broadens the intelligence, military, and government Disclosure edict to “Homeland Security” and its post-9/11, post-COVID implications.
Homeland Security Broadens UAP Threat—Implications without Evidence
The course frames UAP Studies as the protection of the Homeland from UAP/ET attacks. Homeland UAP course strategies may duplicate the protocols for Homeland Security’s FEMA preparedness and protection during fires, floods, earthquakes, explosions, manmade terrorism, and technological disasters.
The course may introduce young adults to the need to design and implement strategies and protocols in response to a hypothetical UAP/ET interstellar attack on U.S. airspace. Is this a deliberate attempt to train university students to view ET as a national security danger, rather than as natural, cosmic, multidimensional beings that have related to humans throughout their history, especially psychically aware Exoconscious citizens?
The course assumes a Homeland Security UAP attack WITHOUT any evidence or accompanying data of a potential threat from the government, the Pentagon, Intelligence, the UAP Science Advisory Council, or the Disclosure Foundation.
Are Homeland UAP Protocols applicable to Exoconscious Humans?
Does the Homeland Security and UAPs course, with its FEMA-like science, public safety, national security, and policy framing, jeopardize and marginalize Exoconsciousness, an innate human ability to connect, communicate, and co-create with extraterrestrials, multidimensionals, and spiritual beings?
If so, this raises critical issues:
ET as a terror threat is a potentially unjust and unethical characterization of Exoconscious Humans. Entraining university students to pay for a course to teach them to view ET and their natural Exoconscious abilities as a Homeland threat is yet another means of shutting down natural human consciousness.
ET as a terror threat functions as a potential university-student mind-control meme, a further cover-up, and another diversion to prevent any Disclosure of secret technology—all without evidence.
Will Exclusion of Experiencer Knowledge Limit young minds as well as the Academic and Scientific Contribution to Ufology? If so, there are course alternatives and additions.
2005: Extraterrestrial Reality Course
In late 2004, I submitted a course proposal to Scottsdale Community College to teach Extraterrestrial Reality in their Continuing Education department. It integrated UFO history, leading individuals, and contactee witnesses.
The Extraterrestrial Reality course was accepted and scheduled for early 2005. At the time, only a handful of people taught UFOlogy courses. In 2004, Aaron Clark taught UFOlogy at Oberlin College (where John Mack and Bud Hopkins previously attended).
In 2005, excitement was building around acceptance of academic UFOlogy courses that integrated history, science, and consciousness. If you had asked me in 2005, I thought we would have courses throughout the nation in no time. But it wasn’t to be. Aaron’s Facebook UFO Educators group maintains a historical record of college and university Ufology courses.
My Scottsdale course generated a good deal of local publicity and was featured on every morning and evening Phoenix newscast, as well as in a featured article in the Phoenix New Times on January 13, 2005, titled “Space Crash Course.“
Rebecca Hardcastle isn’t from outer space. But she might be from a different dimension, one that transcends time and space and most college curricula. We can thank our lucky stars that Hardcastle has landed at Scottsdale Community College, which now offers her Extraterrestrial Reality course as part of its Continuing Education program. According to the course book, Hardcastle’s class “expands on what it means to be human in the 21st century, relating to intelligent, responsive life originating beyond Earth.”
The class filled. Many of the students were Experiencers, and most were Ufology literate, having studied the phenomenon for years.
Extraterrestrial Reality Backstory
But, as with any initiative, there was also an interesting backstory. When I proposed the course, I was a member of Dr. Ruth Hover’s Contactee group in Fountain Hills, AZ. Ruth worked with John Mack and Leo Sprinkle to establish psychological protocols for working with Experiencers.
I told Ruth I planned to submit a course proposal, and several weeks later I was called to her house, where several prominent Phoenix-area ufologists were gathered. They conducted an intervention with me, trying to convince me of the dangers of teaching a ufology class, as I was a single mother raising three children. I thanked them for their concern and said that I was safe and planned to proceed.
Little did I know that my danger lay with a citizen who wrote a letter to the college president demanding that my course be canceled. Extraterrestrial Reality lasted one semester. And my hopes for national Ufology courses faded.
How and Why did Ufology Course Offerings Dramatically Change?
In 21 years, Ufology course offerings shifted from UFO history and “expanding on what it means to be human in the 21st century, relating to intelligent, responsive life originating beyond Earth” to Homeland UAP threat detection and investigation, prioritizing science, public safety, national security, and policy with a para-FEMA law enforcement preparation course.
Quite an epistemological leap from integrated understanding to material science data certainty without accompanying evidence. Yet the military, intelligence agencies, and scientists involved in ufology seem certain enough of a looming threat to develop protocols, preventive measures, population-level data, and mass societal perception.
Exoconscious Aware Citizens amid Disclosure “Steering”
Disclosure, defined by military, intelligence, science, and now academics, emphasizes data, AI, surveillance, and measurement used to “steer” social control over large masses. This steering is cybernetic and uses cultural experiments to measure and meter human behavior—achieving mass solutions for mass culture.
According to the SOL Foundation’s scientific study, “the methods we employ could transform the study of encounters with UAP by broadening the focus to include not only individual reports and testimony but population-level data and mass, societal perception.”
A major Macy conference titled “Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems” convened in 1946. They had the grand aim to model the physiological system that receives information from the environment, processes, and then feeds back to change that environment and the human mind—steering by creating a closed-loop. The group eventually perceived humans as merely “an efficiently organized, large natural automation” that could be determined and predicted with linear, mathematical models. Exoconscious Humans: Will Free Will Survive in an Increasingly Non-Human World?
Exoconscious Independent of Steering Mass Control
A major Exoconscious transition will involve citizens developing internal discernment rather than relying on institutional, data-driven mass societal perception and dependence.
Exoconsciousness introduces the missing human, consciousness, experiential, ethical, spiritual, philosophical, and planetary dimensions of Disclosure.
The Exoconscious Community of Experiencers continues to speak out on the irrational direction of a UAP threat without evidence and Disclosure framed exclusively as a national security issue.
Exoconscious Citizens
The threat narrative remains, yet
Increasingly, citizens recognize flawed threat narratives without evidence.
Increasingly, citizens have an aversion to dramatic, shock-and-awe, planned operations, and war-like tactics.
Increasingly, citizens naturally integrate their contact experiences in a mature, thoughtful manner without needing news anchors, television personalities, dramatic talking points, policies, or mass perceptions.
Increasingly, citizens develop internal skills in critical thinking, discernment, and independent views, confident in strengthening their internal discernment rather than institutional dependence.
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Rebecca Hardcastle Wright, PhD, is the founder of the Institute for Exoconsciousness (I-EXO) and the originator of Exoconsciousness—the innate human ability to connect, communicate, and co-create with extraterrestrials, multidimensionals, and spiritual beings. A futurist, author, and educator, she advocates for natural human consciousness, innate psychic intelligence, and individual moral sovereignty amidst the era of artificial intelligence, synthetic realities, and engineered social control.
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