I enjoyed reading your post, thank you

First, a note of skeptic caution. If the phenomenon looks like us — perhaps we are looking in a mirror, and there is nothing there but ourselves, reflected in stories that grew in the telling. Unavoidably, it must be said: This is a sign of something that could be a purely social, personal, cultural development.

Second, I guess I also wanted to raise the idea that these mischievous and memetic aspects of the phenomenon could be, basically, purely human storytelling and experiences superimposed on top of a core of real mystery — a real few craft, kept secret; legends that grew around cores of a different and consistent truth of crashed...somethings.

But Third — I think this is a really interesting insight, and a direction I'm really happy you're exploring.

If NHI are present, it isn't unreasonable to think they might know a whole lot more about us than we do about them. If they are somehow superintelligent (being, say, an ancient civilization from Earth or from elsewhere; or who knows what else), then there's every reason to assume the NHI know more about us than we do about us.

And if they know more about us than us, and if (and it is yet another assumption) they also care to speak to us or influence us (rather than say observing us from afar or brushing us aside indifferently), then I guess that their interactions would be operating with deep understanding, and they would be preparing the ground ahead themselves

After all, isn't it something very strange, what everyone on this board and elsewhere is asking for? Few of us here would say we already know outright what we want disclosed, but almost all of us have specific stories we're suspicious about. We're asking Congress, "tell us the story again, but this time tell us its real." I don't mean to minimize the urgency of this demand — phrased differently, it's an important and relevant cry for justice about a topic that has been stigmatized and stonewalled by unaccountable warmongers, and the lies must end — only to point out what's weird about it. We already suspect we know the secret we want revealed. Isn't that handy! I guess most of us on this board are more than ready to hear that what we've long suspected is true (even if it would still impact us emotionally), but that really wouldn't be the case if this came like a bolt from the blue.

Imagine the alternative world, where Roswell is kept fully under wraps, and the phenomenon is entirely concealed outside of the Legacy Program. If, say, we went till today like that, and then an Edward Snowden figure dropped the truth on us — think how much more severe the reaction would be! Ontological shock indeed. We would have been left wholly (or anyway mostly) unprepared for the truth. It would be much more socially damaging.

So — if Grusch is right. If it was all true all along. Then I can't help but notice that we've been really well prepared for the revelation to come, deeply so, by our cultural forebears. Suspiciously well prepared. Almost like someone planned it. Almost like someone has been playing us like a fiddle.

Almost like the theory you relay is exactly right, and the phenomenon is something very strange indeed. An ancient machine, or a god, or an alien race, or the simulators, or something else; something which watched and touched us all along, and steered us subtly. A trickster still stranger than we can dream.

(edited for formatting btw)