EMERGENT - with Reed Summers

What is the hidden geopolitics behind the so-called “Age of Cover-Up”? In this episode of Emergent, host Reed Summers speaks with former intelligence officer and researcher Geoff Cruickshank to examine how Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) became embedded within Cold War national security frameworks.For over 80 years, a parallel history has existed alongside the official record. Moving beyond sightings and speculation, this conversation analyzes why information related to UAPs has been tightly controlled by military and intelligence institutions—and how nuclear weapons, space policy, and geopolitical power shaped that secrecy.

In this episode of EMERGENT, I speak with former USAF security officer Jeffrey Nuccetelli about the five UAP incursions at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 2003 and 2005 and how they fit into a broader pattern of UAP activity at missile test ranges and during the deployment of new space-based sensing technologies. We look at indicators of intelligent behavior, possible scenarios of intent, and what these events may signal about the changing conditions around us.Our conversation also touches on the growing role of lawful whistleblowers and the challenges they face when bringing forward information related to crash retrieval programs, reverse engineering efforts, and space-based observations. Through these cases, we examine why the public picture of UAP remains incomplete—and why reality still feels classified.Part 2 (After Hours) will explore the deeper structure of secrecy surrounding these events and will be available in the following places:~YouTube Members: https://youtu.be/suFLER_LkpM~Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ReedSummers~Forerunner: https://www.reedsummers.com/forerunner/ (to be released on December 26th, 2025)

I'll be hosting a roundtable with investigative journalists Matt Ford and Chris Sharp. We’ll explore what they uncovered earlier this year in their Daily Mail exposé which went along way to describing in detail the machinations of the "Age of Cover-Up” we've been living in. Read the article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti... I'll also examine the developments since—including recent Congressional hearings, provocative statements by Rep. Eric Burlison and the Declassification Office and the attempt to submit "interrogatives" demanding information regarding UAP from federal agencies.

In this episode, I react to the new Age of Disclosure documentary and highlight its most notable claims about humanity’s evolving relationship with non-human intelligence (NHI). I cover the film’s accounts of the 1964 Holloman AFB landing, reported Soviet crash retrievals, and testimony about a directed-energy weapon recovered during a U.S. operation.I also examine how secrecy structures, plausible deniability, and the refusal to address origin have shaped the NHI narrative, why congressional transparency continues to stall, and what this moment means for public agency as institutions struggle to adjust.Key topics include:• Holloman landing accounts• International crash-retrieval testimony• Non-human biological specimen claims• Directed-energy weapon recovery• Plausible deniability and origin• Congressional bottlenecks and secrecy• The shift from UAP to NHI• Public agency in the disclosure eraA concise look at what the documentary contributes to the disclosure timeline and what it may indicate about the path ahead.

In this episode of EMERGENT, I sit down with Dr. Michael Cifone to examine what it will take to build a real science of non-human intelligence. We look at why traditional ufology has stalled, how eyewitness testimony should inform next-generation detection systems, and what it means to study the mind behind UAP—not just the objects.In this episode, we explore:• Why UAP evidence demands new scientific standards• The forensic epistemic loop that stalled 80 years of inquiry• How phenomenology and experience guide better instrumentation• The challenge of studying intelligence without anthropomorphism• The “relational event space” of human–non-human interaction• Why slow, methodical, institutional groundwork is essentialIf we want to understand NHI, we must build the science capable of perceiving it.

Are we truly entering the Age of Disclosure—or merely exiting the Age of Coverup without a clear vision, roadmap or sense of end in mind? What are we seeking to have disclosed, and what are the implications of those immense revelations for the public, and for humanity at large?In this episode of Frontlines, Reed Summers examines the volatile threshold of disclosure—the rising public awareness of non-human intelligence and the fragile, halting advances of government acknowledgment.As certain figures step forward while others retreat, as confusion spreads about the nature of “entities” and their possible origins and intentions, and as government confirmation takes one step forward and two steps back, its time to discuss the road ahead—the disclosure roadmap. Here we must acknowledge the unknowns—but we must also begin defining the ends. Because without a clearly articulated end goal, someone else—likely operating with very different aims—will define disclosure for us.We are exiting an era of structured secrecy and stepping into an arena of radical uncertainty. Instead of wishful thinking and belief this threshold demands strategy, clarity, and a basis for collective response.