# Disclosure

## Purpose

Disclosure is modeled as an information threshold with institutional, psychological, social, and ethical consequences—not as the automatic confirmation of one ontology. This chapter is an index and a method: it shows how to explore the subject without collapsing documented history, current research, reported experience, fiction, community belief, and Oracle synthesis into one truth claim.

## Reading Method

1. **Locate the Tile.** Read its Primary Class to learn what kind of thing it is, then its Inquiry Domains to learn which questions it can illuminate.
2. **Name the material mode.** A science-fiction, mythology, political-mythology, experiential-report, or established-science label identifies context; it is not a score of spiritual or personal importance.
3. **Read claims layer by layer.** Begin with the literal-and-empirical layer, then the cultural-and-historical layer, and only then the symbolic-and-divinatory layer. An evidence state applies to one bounded claim, not to the Tile as a whole.
4. **Open the sources.** A concept-specific citation can support a history or bounded claim. A class-level contextual citation only locates the Tile in a wider field. Neither one certifies every interpretation.
5. **Follow typed edges.** Compare the exact verb and rationale. “Fictionalizes,” “opposes,” “echoes,” and “investigated-by” are not interchangeable. A resemblance edge is not proof of historical influence.
6. **Integrate through action.** Use Gift, Shadow, Threshold, and the integration practice to identify one grounded choice that remains useful even if a favored ontology is wrong.

## Worked Comparison

1. **Grey** is a Beings & Roles Tile centered on Intelligence & Otherness. Its literal layer is **unverified**; its symbolic question is: “What feels observed but not understood?”
2. **Tall Grey** is a Beings & Roles Tile centered on Intelligence & Otherness. Its literal layer is **unverified**; its symbolic question is: “What changes when look for learning, intention, reciprocal response, refusal, and alternatives to human resemblance, rather than assuming the preferred interpretation? Answer by testing how the tall motif meeting clinical otherness introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter against agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own.”
3. **Reptilian** is a Beings & Roles Tile centered on Intelligence & Otherness. Its literal layer is **unverified**; its symbolic question is: “How can the gift of Reptilian be practiced while its evidence status remains explicit? Answer by testing how the reptilian motif placed within intelligence & otherness introduces intention, perspective, and the possibility of reciprocal encounter against agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own.”

Compare these examples by asking what changes when the class, evidence state, or edge verb changes. Do not treat the most vivid Tile as the most factual. When a reading crosses into health, identity, conspiracy, or current politics, show the card’s safety flags and preserve an alternate explanation.

## System Links

- [How to Use](HOW-TO-USE.md) for reference, reading, and game workflows.
- [Graph](GRAPH.md) for edge semantics and provenance.
- [Divination](DIVINATION.md) for reflective reading rules.
- [Glossary](GLOSSARY.md) for Classes, Domains, Modes, and Evidence States.
- [Source Registry](../research/SOURCE-REGISTRY.md) for source tiers, scope, and rights.

## Canonical Tiles

- [Grey](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-grey.md) — The small, large-eyed visitor of modern abduction and contact lore.
- [Tall Grey](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-tall-grey.md) — The Oracle places Tall Grey where the tall motif meeting clinical otherness affects agency. It is neither mere decoration nor automatic proof, but an agent, intelligence, identity, or recurring role with a declared evidence boundary.
- [Reptilian](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-reptilian.md) — Reptilian is a way of encountering the reptilian motif placed within intelligence & otherness. Its Oracle use joins an agent, intelligence, identity, or recurring role to the question of agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own.
- [Mantis](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-mantis.md) — Mantis is a way of encountering the mantis motif placed within intelligence & otherness. Its Oracle use joins an agent, intelligence, identity, or recurring role to the question of agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own.
- [Insectoid](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-insectoid.md) — Insectoid names a threshold where the insectoid motif placed within intelligence & otherness changes what participants can notice or do. The card keeps lived and reported experience distinct from symbolic use.
- [Pleiadian](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-pleiadian.md) — Within the Oracle, Pleiadian holds together the pleiadian motif placed within intelligence & otherness and agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Sirian](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-sirian.md) — Sirian is a way of encountering the sirian motif placed within contact & communication. Its Oracle use joins an agent, intelligence, identity, or recurring role to the question of signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding.
- [Arcturian](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-arcturian.md) — Arcturian offers an instrument for reading the arcturian motif placed within memory & identity. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.
- [Andromedan](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-andromedan.md) — Within the Oracle, Andromedan holds together the andromedan motif placed within intelligence & otherness and agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Avian](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-avian.md) — Avian names a threshold where the avian motif placed within contact & communication changes what participants can notice or do. The card keeps lived and reported experience distinct from symbolic use.
- [Tall White](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-tall-white.md) — Within the Oracle, Tall White holds together the tall motif meeting the white motif and continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Hybrid](../cards/beings/sfoc-beings-hybrid.md) — Hybrid brings the hybrid motif placed within memory & identity into focus. It operates as an agent, intelligence, identity, or recurring role and asks how continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together alter practical choice.
- [Area 51](../cards/worlds/sfoc-worlds-area-51.md) — A real test site transformed into the global emblem of invisible technological work.
- [Grey Goo](../cards/technologies/sfoc-technologies-grey-goo.md) — Within the Oracle, Grey Goo holds together clinical otherness meeting the goo motif and agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- [Crash Debris](../cards/artifacts/sfoc-artifacts-crash-debris.md) — Crash Debris offers an instrument for reading the crash motif meeting the debris motif. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to trace inputs, transformation, outputs, energy, operators, error states, ownership, and shutdown.
- [Flying Saucer](../cards/artifacts/sfoc-artifacts-flying-saucer.md) — Flying Saucer gathers a field around the flying motif meeting the saucer motif. Its deeper subject is an origin story can preserve obligation or turn age into unearned authority.
- [Tic-Tac Craft](../cards/artifacts/sfoc-artifacts-tic-tac-craft.md) — Tic-Tac Craft is a way of encountering the tic motif, the tac motif, and the craft motif acting together. Its Oracle use joins an object-like carrier of evidence, memory, power, or exchange to the question of mechanism, dependency, maintenance, access, failure, and the labor beneath capability.
- [Black Triangle](../cards/artifacts/sfoc-artifacts-black-triangle.md) — Black Triangle concentrates an opaque adaptive substrate meeting the triangle motif into an object-like carrier of evidence, memory, power, or exchange. Its value lies in examining inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings without exceeding the evidence layer.
- [Mothership](../cards/artifacts/sfoc-artifacts-mothership.md) — What makes Mothership consequential is the meeting of the mothership motif placed within intelligence & otherness with agency, difference, recognition, and the ethics of meeting a mind unlike one’s own. The card preserves that meeting without universalizing it.
- [Secret Space Fleet](../cards/factions/sfoc-factions-secret-space-fleet.md) — Secret Space Fleet brings knowledge controlled through access, the space motif, and the fleet motif acting together into focus. It operates as a coordinated collective actor with durable membership and aims and asks how authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave alter practical choice.
- [Disclosure Advocates](../cards/factions/sfoc-factions-disclosure-advocates.md) — Disclosure Advocates is a way of encountering hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence meeting the advocates motif. Its Oracle use joins a coordinated collective actor with durable membership and aims to the question of signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding.
- [Contactees](../cards/factions/sfoc-factions-contactees.md) — the contactees motif placed within contact & communication is the engine beneath Contactees. As a coordinated collective actor with durable membership and aims, it reveals how a local image can carry system-scale consequences.
- [Disclosure Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-disclosure-program.md) — hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence placed within contact & communication gives Disclosure Program its distinctive charge. Read it through signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding, with dated claims, witness context, documents, counterevidence, and media mutation kept visible.
- [Gradual Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-gradual-disclosure.md) — The working core of Gradual Disclosure is the gradual motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. secrecy and repetition do not independently prove extraordinary causation.
- [Controlled Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-controlled-disclosure.md) — the controlled motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence gives Controlled Disclosure its distinctive charge. Read it through signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding, with dated claims, witness context, documents, counterevidence, and media mutation kept visible.
- [Catastrophic Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-catastrophic-disclosure.md) — Seen closely, Catastrophic Disclosure is about the catastrophic motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence under conditions of signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. That frame makes its gift, shadow, and limits readable together.
- [False Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-false-disclosure.md) — What makes False Disclosure consequential is the meeting of the false motif meeting hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence with signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding. The card preserves that meeting without universalizing it.
- [Soft Disclosure](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-soft-disclosure.md) — The idea that fiction acclimatizes culture to realities it cannot yet face directly.
- [Secret Space Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-secret-space-program.md) — A modern lore complex describing hidden off-world fleets, bases, treaties, labor, and technology.
- [Crash Retrieval Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-crash-retrieval-program.md) — Crash Retrieval Program concentrates the crash motif meeting the retrieval motif into a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation. Its value lies in examining authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave without exceeding the evidence layer.
- [Hybridization Program](../cards/programs/sfoc-programs-hybridization-program.md) — At the center of Hybridization Program is the hybridization motif placed within power & control. The card treats that tension as a deliberate mission, project, protocol, or coordinated operation, bounded by secrecy and repetition do not independently prove extraordinary causation.
- [Disclosure](../cards/events/sfoc-events-disclosure.md) — The hidden becoming undeniable and forcing institutions, identities, and reality models to change.
- [Crash Retrieval](../cards/events/sfoc-events-crash-retrieval.md) — Crash Retrieval names a threshold where the crash motif meeting the retrieval motif changes what participants can notice or do. The card keeps ufology and disclosure culture distinct from symbolic use.
- [Disclosure Day](../cards/myths/sfoc-myths-disclosure-day.md) — hidden knowledge crossing into public consequence meeting the day motif gives Disclosure Day its distinctive charge. Read it through signal, translation, reciprocity, consent, and the repair of misunderstanding, with dated claims, witness context, documents, counterevidence, and media mutation kept visible.
