By B.A. Crisp

“You wanted Disclosure…” – Enter Rhea

It starts like a thousand other social media posts claiming to have classified knowledge about clandestine entities, craft, and alien councils spying on Earth-bound humans.

“You wanted Disclosure….” The Reddit post begins, “I am a whistleblower recently ‘retired’ from the inside. And you’re only getting part of the truth.”

On Reddit, an anonymous writer using the pseudonym “Rhea” claims to be a former U.S. intelligence specialist with eight years in the military, a decade-plus in an “intelligence component that does not officially exist”, and working in a “compartment inside a compartment where the odd stuff of a certain nature got routed”

Rhea’s alleged specialty was/is, “…electro-optics. Lasers, sensors, EO imaging systems, the math and hardware behind how we detect things at a distance and, in some cases, put energy on them… So, when I say I know something about directed energy weapons and weird sensor returns, that’s not ‘I heard this from a friend of a friend’. That was my day job.”

According to Rhea, he or she describes being pulled into a small interagency “cell” tasked with chasing “anomalous aerospace and undersea systems,” only to be told that the real picture involves a multi-species interstellar Council, which has quietly monitored planets for billions of years.

Earth is just one of many worlds threaded with hidden infrastructure: probes seeded on our ocean floors, trans medium craft slipping from sea to sky to orbit, and warp-like technologies treated as routine tools of the trade. The most staggering claim of all is that, roughly 10,000 years ago, about 65,000 humans were removed from Earth and resettled on a world circling the star 82 Eridani—raised in a post-scarcity paradise as part of an experiment in what our species might become.

“The result, according to what we were briefed,” Rhea said, “is that the Erids are now around 5,000 years ahead of us technologically...” and look almost human. Now these Erids are showing up here after being given a 10,000-year head start.”

And the real reason for the coverup isn’t about black projects, foul play, money, power, aliens or craft—it’s economics:

“(Eridani) looked like proof that communism worked better than the system they (US military and government) were trying to defend,” Rhea wrote. “The idea that scarcity and ownership are not hard coded into reality… That was seen as an existential political threat in the 1940s and 1950s…”

By the time Rhea gets to scalar phase weapons, a coming hostile “ant-like” species and an alleged 2027 arrival window, the story has gone full-scale sci-fi. He or she frames their post as a kind of pre-disclosure breadcrumb: “Treat this as fiction if that makes you more comfortable. What I am really trying to do is get you to think past the kiddie pool questions.”

So, let’s do that—without abandoning critical thinking.

The Real 82 Eridani: A Quiet Neighbor in a Mythic River

Strip away more of the ‘insider’ claims and 82 Eridani is a real and very interesting star:

Astronomers know this unassuming little sun by several names—HD 20794, GJ 139, 82 G. Eridani—but all of them point to the same quietly fascinating object: a G-type main sequence star, a yellow dwarf slightly cooler and smaller than our own.

Hanging just 19–20 light-years away, it’s close enough to count as a cosmic neighbor, yet distant enough to remain mysterious to most of us. It is only under a dark sky that you might see it with the naked eye; a modest pinprick of light tucked into the winding celestial river of the constellation Eridanus.

Consequently, modern astronomy has found multiple small planets there using the radial-velocity method, including super-Earths close to the star and another planet with a roughly 650-day orbit that moves through part of the habitable zone. While intriguing, we have zero public proof of human-based colonies or Star-Trek-like replicators fabricating whatever it is that Erids require for quality of life in such a system.

What Makes Rhea’s Post Compelling?

There are legitimate and more down-to-Earth reasons some might find this post interesting. The tone of the post sounds like someone who does have highly specialized training in:

Electro-optics
Directed energy
Long, boring shifts in a SCIF
SIGINT/HUMINT support
“Watching dots move around the sky and trying to decide whose dots they were”

If you’ve ever heard genuine technical people talk about niche defense work, the vibe—the boredom, the acronyms, the very specific mundanities—rings true. That doesn’t mean the rest of the story is true but might make it easier to momentarily suspend disbelief. For anyone steeped in cosmic disclosure and truth crusading, it feels like Rhea took a bunch of puzzle pieces and placed them into one generalized and tidy picture. And that’s part of my problem with the post.

Rhea discusses “ant-like” beings who do not want to see the interstellar Council succeed in its mission of helping humans and will arrive to disrupt us in 2027.

A) Why would the ant-beings care about a primitive species planet on the outer fringes of a Milky Way Galaxy?

B) In the Native American Hopi tradition (and others), ant-like creatures were helpful ancestor sky-people who once dwelled under our Earth and invited humans there too in order to protect them from some cosmic harm.

C) the post plays upon our growing dissatisfaction about dwindling planetary and scarcity of resources, inequality, and ever-growing ‘system controls’ over the human psyche and our quality of life.

In that sense, the Eridians function as a kind of alter-ego: Here’s what you might be if you weren’t constantly battling over land, resources, rent or health care—and took your head out of technology long enough to reconnect with harmonic resonance.

Yet if the Council has armed our planetary governments with Scalar weapons against highly advanced ant people (who have to capability to GET HERE), this seems to fly in the face of an enlightened society and opens the rest of us up to assured swift and complete slaughter. It’s like handing the nuclear codes to a bunch of drunken teenage primates.

What is more realistic and down-to-earth, is that people (mostly human men), love to blow things up, duck-and-cover, rule over others, and only ask questions or show remorse after copious damage has been done. We tend to destroy one another as excuses for our illusory egos to feel victorious and powerful—to displace, rebuild, and shift both money and control around the globe. We need to create plausible excuses to go to war but its getting harder to do this in the age of disinformation.

What better way to rally a war effort through coming together to fight an ‘alien threat’—even if the story is manufactured here on Earth? In this endeavor, you can bet that most of us are not, nor will we ever be, part of this limited and specialized invitation-initiation-only-need-to-know-in-crowd. Expendable or exploitable fools are found everywhere within the human species. Walt Kelly’s quote glaringly reminds us of this: “We have met the enemy, and he is us…"

For its narrative strengths, Rhea has serious problems as a truth claimant because anonymous equals zero verifiable evidence. We have no name, no documents, and no way to check specifics when it comes to The Council, Erids, and most interestingly, Scalar Phase Weapons. Rhea’s story remains just that: a sweeping narrative fiction within a closed system, ala the Wingmakers, A.R. Bordon, and a host of other highly massaged obliterations we’ve all read of listened to on podcasts.

So… Could Any of It Be True?

On a cosmic scale, it’s conservative and pretentious to assume we’re alone. With countless stars scattered throughout the universe, some of them do support habitable worlds, and more than a few of those worlds spawn intelligence. It’s not a stretch to imagine that truly advanced civilizations might sweep the galaxy for biosignatures the way we’re just beginning to do with our own telescopes, advanced lasers, and neutrino detectors—scanning atmospheres for the chemical or photonic evidence of life. And don’t even get me started on inter-dimensional worlds into which a few of us have wormed our way—that’s another blog.

It’s also easy to picture how radically different human-based social systems—post-scarcity versus scarcity, abundance versus enforced deprivation—could send a species like ours down wildly divergent evolutionary paths, for better or for worse.

But that broad plausibility is very different from accepting the specifics of Rhea’s story: a formal Council of ancient species, a breakaway human branch called the Erids thriving around 82 Eridani, scalar weapons tucked into our arsenals, and a hostile insectoid civilization scheduled to arrive around 2027.

Those aren’t gentle extrapolations from what we know; they’re sharp, extraordinary claims ahead of any evidence we currently have.

Your Turn

As someone who formally worked as a psychiatric assessment specialist for what was once called the criminally insane, I’m painfully aware of how hungry the human mind is for meaning and a sense of control—and how curiosity can be used against us, no matter how smart or infallible we might personally consider ourselves.

I’ve watched people under stress (myself included) cling to grand, intricate narratives because they offer coherence, identity, or even a sense of alleged secret importance in an ever-complicated and chaotic world. That same vulnerability is like a red laser or catnip for intelligence warriors. In intelligence terms, its sometimes referred to as appealing to MICE motivations, which is a nicer way of saying we uncover human weakness in the form of Money, Ideology, Compromise or Ego. And we are typically, generally speaking, denial-living, mostly unaware conformists to the nth degree.

Foreign actors, and even darker corners of our own governments, have a long and highly-successful history of running psychological operations: seeding half-truths, wild stories, and carefully tuned lies not to enlighten the public, but to shape it—distract, divide, or provide cover for programs they’d rather never disclose. Coincidentally, the recent and ubiquitous availability of AI serves to protect rather than open disclosure because it’s now so damn easy to dismiss EVERYTHING as fake.

Whether the subject is “disclosure,” or anything else that taps into our deepest fears, curiosities, or hopes, we must assume that much of what we’re being directed toward is highly crafted and quality distraction theater.

One luxury we cannot afford is switching off discernment because a story feels epic, comforting, or perfectly on-brand for the world we welcome, wish—or fear.