<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://disclosurecommunity.org/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://disclosurecommunity.org/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-07-08T22:27:45-04:00</updated><id>https://disclosurecommunity.org/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Disclosure Community</title><subtitle>An emerging community of people in Columbus, Ohio, caring for each other as the UAP disclosure moment unfolds. Open-minded, curious, welcoming, non-dogmatic.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Welcome, program</title><link href="https://disclosurecommunity.org/blog/2026/05/27/welcome/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Welcome, program" /><published>2026-05-27T00:00:00-04:00</published><updated>2026-05-27T00:00:00-04:00</updated><id>https://disclosurecommunity.org/blog/2026/05/27/welcome</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://disclosurecommunity.org/blog/2026/05/27/welcome/"><![CDATA[<p>If you have wandered onto this site, hello. Glad you’re here.</p>

<p>This is the very small, very informal home for a group of people in
Columbus, Ohio, who have been meeting to talk about the disclosure
moment unfolding in real time around us. We are friends, neighbors,
clergy, academics, students, and curious strangers, doing our best to
think honestly about what is being released, what is being said, and
what any of it might mean.</p>

<p>We do not have all the answers. Neither does anyone else.</p>

<p>What we do have is each other — and a stubborn conviction that
the right response to a genuinely strange time is patient, humane
inquiry. Not premature certainty. Not despair. Not looking away.</p>

<h2 id="why-a-website">Why a website</h2>

<p>A few practical reasons:</p>

<ul>
  <li>People keep asking when the next gathering is. We needed a place to
put that information.</li>
  <li>Friends in other cities have asked how to set up something similar.
We’d like to be findable for them.</li>
  <li>The three of us who help convene these conversations occasionally
want to write something down. This is a quiet place to do that.</li>
</ul>

<p>It is intentionally simple, and will stay that way for as long as
simple keeps working.</p>

<h2 id="what-youll-find-here">What you’ll find here</h2>

<p>Right now: a page about who we are, a page about how we approach this
work, a way to find out about gatherings, and a way to get in touch.
Over time the blog will fill with small dispatches from us and from
friends who want to write something down.</p>

<p>The <a href="/assets/open-letter.pdf">Visible
College open letter</a> on the May 2026 release of UAP files is the
single best summary of the epistemic stance behind this community.
If you are wondering whether this is the kind of conversation you want
to be in, that is the document to read first.</p>

<h2 id="come-sit-with-us">Come sit with us</h2>

<p>Whether the past few years of disclosure-related news have caught you
by surprise or you have been tracking this for decades, you are
welcome at our gatherings. We don’t require any particular set
of beliefs to come in the door. We do try to bring our curiosity, our
honesty, and our care for each other.</p>

<p>If that sounds like something you’d like to be part of,
<a href="/contact/">say hello</a>. We’ll let you
know when the next gathering is on.</p>

<p style="text-align:center; font-style: italic; color: #c8c1ad; margin-top: 2.5rem;">
  <span aria-hidden="true">✦</span>
  See you in the strangeness.
  <span aria-hidden="true">✦</span>
</p>]]></content><author><name>The Disclosure Community</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A short hello, an explanation of why this site exists, and an invitation to come sit with the strangeness for a while.]]></summary></entry></feed>