The road to first contact
What the forecasts say is coming, step by step: from today's quiet dreams to a whole galactic family.
10 scenes · about 2 min
Step by step
How contact is supposed to happen
Contact won't happen in one big day. It's more like a staircase, one gentle step at a time, at a pace we can handle. Here's the road as the information describes it, and how its dates kept moving.
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Stage 1 · Already happening
Voices and dreams
First comes the kind of contact you can't photograph. Messages from far away, and meetings in dreams. So in a quiet way, contact has already started.
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Stage 2 · From 1997
Sightings on purpose
Next, ships show themselves on purpose, to see how we react. The famous Phoenix Lights over Arizona in 1997 are linked to the Yahyel. Sightings are set to get "more and more blatant".
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Stage 3 · Forecast: 2015–2025
Face to face
More people, alone or in small groups, meet visitors from other worlds up close. Old encounters get easier to remember, and more people share their stories.
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Stage 4 · 2026, "the year of disclosure"
The secrets come out
Disclosure means hidden information comes out: the truth about who's visiting, their ships, and who ran the secret programs. It's the first of "two major phases". Contact is the second.
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Stage 5 · Forecast: 2027–2028
Hello, Yahyel
The first open meetings are with hybrids, peoples who are part human and part Grey. The Yahyel go first. Their old Essassani name, Shalanaia, means "those who come first".
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Stage 6 · After the hybrids
Cousins first, then strangers
Next come the Pleiadians, who look almost exactly like us. Then beings who look less and less like us. The Essassani come third, landing first near Sedona, Arizona.
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Stage 7 · By about 2050
Joining the neighborhood
Finally, Earth becomes a beginner member of the Association of Worlds, a friendly club of hundreds of planets. Expect "comings and goings" of visitors right here.
The date keeps moving
When contact was expected, year by year
Slide through the years and watch the forecast move.
Recorded in
1980s
The forecast
Within about 9 years. Most people will know, and the Essassani will come in person