The 10-Year UAP Disclosure Plan
A retired Army colonel’s roadmap for moving from six decades of official secrecy to a confirmed, public reckoning with non-human intelligence — first shown behind closed doors at Stanford, then reported to the public. Here is what the plan actually says, who made it, and where it stands today.
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U.S. Army official portrait
Karl E. Nell is a retired U.S. Army colonel who spent 32 years in uniform, with a career background spanning nuclear operations, counter-weapons-of-mass-destruction work, and intelligence. In his final Army role, he served as the Army’s senior technical adviser and liaison to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Pentagon office created in 2022 to investigate UAP reports across the U.S. government.
Since retiring, Nell has become one of the most prominent former-insider voices in the public UAP disclosure movement, alongside figures like David Grusch. He has said publicly, including at the 2024 SALT iConnections conference in New York, that he has “zero doubt” non-human intelligence is real and has interacted with Earth — and that continuing to keep related programs secret risks an uncontrolled, “catastrophic” leak rather than an orderly disclosure.
Nell is a recurring speaker at The Sol Foundation, an academic UAP research organization associated with Stanford-affiliated scientists including Dr. Garry Nolan. It was at the Sol Foundation’s first symposium, held in November 2023, that the disclosure roadmap on this page was first shown.
- Career 32 years, U.S. Army — nuclear operations, counter-WMD, intelligence
- Final Army role Senior technical adviser / liaison to AARO
- Public claim “Zero doubt” of non-human intelligence on Earth (SALT iConnections, 2024)
- Affiliation Recurring speaker, The Sol Foundation
How this plan became public
Nell didn’t publish this roadmap himself. Here’s the paper trail, as reported.
The plan’s three stated goals
As reported from the slides shown at Sol’s 2023 symposium, the roadmap was framed around three outcomes, not a single dramatic reveal.
The roadmap: 2023 → 2030
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The five phases of disclosure
In later talks, Nell laid out a more granular framework for how disclosure actually unfolds, phase by phase. He has said the U.S. is roughly midway through Phase 1, contingent on Congress and federal agencies crossing what he calls a “tipping point.”
How this page was built
This is an independent, sourced recreation of Karl Nell’s disclosure roadmap, built from public reporting — not a copy of the original leaked slide deck, which this site has not seen firsthand, and not an official government or Sol Foundation document. Every date, quote, and claim above is attributed to one of the sources below. Where reporting differs or a detail couldn’t be independently confirmed, we’ve said so rather than guessing.
Sources
- Newsweek — “Is US on the verge of ‘catastrophic’ UFO leak? What we know”
- Justin Snead — “Karl Nell’s Disclosure Campaign Plan”
- Alex Perala, Staying Sane — “Who Is Karl Nell?”
- UFO Matrix — “Col. Karl Nell’s Warning: The 2026 Tipping Point”
- UAPedia — “Karl E. Nell: The Quiet Colonel Who Put Non-Human Intelligence On The Record”
- The Sol Foundation — 2024 Symposium video release