Mr. Hellyer, I'm going to post these questions also as a top level comment, as a private message and and through all of the websites you listed you are on I WANT THESE QUESTIONS ANSWERED and I want to make sure you see them.

I REALLY want to believe you are telling the truth, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Additionally, your quote below makes me skeptical of the legitimacy of this entire AMA:

They also enhanced my ability to communicate telepathically.

Is this a "natural" telepathic communication without any technology? Or did you elect to receive implants devices to enable you to do so? (To be fair, the latter actually sounds plausible, even with today's technology.)

My remaining questions are as follows:

1: Why haven't these species publicly announced their existence? Is it a galactic rule to avoid broad contact with an alien species until they reach a certain point of technological advancement on their own in order to preserve their own culture? Are we being "quarantined" because we are too violent? Are the human governments withholding their existence on their own for their own motives? If so what would those motives be?

2: Why haven't they shared their technology? (Faster than light travel, efficient energy production, etc.) If according to your wiki you say they don't believe we are good stewards of our planet (which is entirely agreeable) then why don't they help us?

3: According to your Wiki page, you claim some of these species are living on Mars, Venus, and one of Saturn's moons, so why haven't we found evidence of their habitats?

4: Have you met them in person or seen pictures of them? Are they all humanoid (ie bipedal, head on shoulder, two eyes, two arms, two legs, etc.) Or are some pf them wildly different in biology like oh say the Rachni from Mass Effect? If they are all humanoid, then what traits of a humanoid biology make it so special that it's the only body type that can allow for a technologically advanced species?

5: Can we eat the same food as any of them? If so, are they able to eat as huge of a range of foods as us humans? (A highly underrated ability of ours, IMO.) I am a huge foodie, so if this is all true and if we can eat their food, I would be in heaven.

6: I'm led to assume that if you are openly talking about this on Reddit, then that would mean that their existence is unclassified, because otherwise you'd be thrown in prison for the next ten years. Why is this unclassified, yet the governments won't talk about this?

Hi! I have done my best to answer your questions as best as I can.

For your first question, it is a “natural” communication without technology.

1. Some have. Valiants Thor, the Benevolent Venusian with an IQ of 1200 lived in the pentagon for three or four years, offered us Earthlings a richer, healthier life in exchange for giving up our nuclear weapons. His offer was not accepted. (More on Thor, including his picture, in my latest book Hope Restored.)
2. They shared their technology and both the US and Russia have adopted it for military purposes. Some has spilled over including microchips used in our smartphones. Unfortunately we could have had more in agriculture and medicine, for example, if we had abandoned our warlike ways.
3. The US has a lease on Mars and according to Courtney Brown, heard of the “Foresight” Institute, the martians have at least two colonies on Earth.
4. I have seen many pictures. They are not all humanoid, and some are quite different in appearance. To the best of my knowledge I have only been in their direct presence once. I am not a biologist, so you will have to look elsewhere for the range of difference which is considerable.
5. Again, there are mark difference between species in respect of what they eat and their digestive systems, which I have been told are quite different from our own.
6. Governments, especially the US government, have been working with several species for decades and knows an incredible amount about them. They have spent billions denying the existence of UFOs, ETs and their incredible characteristics. Only in recent days (last week) , have former US defence officials have admitted the reality of UFOs. I personally wonder about their motives. Unlike some whistle-blowers, I have broken no oaths. All my information has been gained from interviews and documents that have come my way but our discussion today has barely scratch the surface of these subjects. You need to read credible books - my books and others.