Open Veils · Answer
Are the aliens more likely to be benevolent or malevolent?
The testimonial and document record cuts against a simple benevolent/malevolent binary. Multiple military and intelligence whistleblowers describe at least two distinct non-human factions with sharply different behaviors toward humanity — suggesting the question itself is the wrong frame. The more operationally useful frame, drawn from decades of contact typology research, is: different species, different agendas, some predatory, some indifferent, some apparently constructive.
Evidence
- Jacques Vallée argued as early as the 1970s that the phenomenon behaves less like a resource-extraction invasion and more like a control system — neither purely benevolent nor malevolent, but managerial, shaping human belief and behavior over millennia.
- Steven Greer's Disclosure Project witnesses — over 400 military, intelligence and FAA personnel on record — consistently describe craft that demonstrate overwhelming technological superiority yet show no sustained aggression, leading Greer to conclude publicly that confirmed ET contact has been non-hostile.
- Directly contradicting Greer, researcher David Jacobs, whose hypnotic regression work spans hundreds of abductee cases, concluded that a systematic, covert program of biological harvesting and hybrid creation is underway — an agenda he describes as indifferent to human welfare at minimum, predatory at maximum.
- Corey Goode, whose testimony Michael Salla has extensively documented, describes a 'Super Federation' of roughly 40–60 species operating competing long-term genetic and social engineering programs on Earth, alongside a separate group of 'Sphere Being Alliance' entities described as spiritually advanced and protective.
- Luís Elizondo, in post-AATIP interviews, has stated that the UAP phenomenon displays what he calls 'five observables' — none of which are inherently aggressive — but that the intelligence community's core concern is 'vulnerability,' not confirmed malevolence.