Journalistic Courage: a journalist (living or deceased) who took great professional risk to investigate and report on issues relevant to extraterrestrial-related phenomena.

Political Courage: an elected or appointed public official (living or deceased) who took great political risk in service to the truth and the public's right to know as regards extraterrestrial-related phenomena.

Intellectual Courage: a person within the academic/scientific community (living or deceased) who risked their status and career by challenging the orthodox views of their peers regarding extraterrestrial-related phenomena.

Disclosure: a government employee (military or civilian agency) (living or deceased) or other person of authority who has brought forth information which significantly punches a hole in the imposed truth embargo and advances the disclosure process.

Lifetime Achievement: (posthumous): an individual whose life's work intellectually and materially affected the science and politics of extraterrestrial-related phenomena to an extraordinary degree.

Lifetime Achievement: (living):  an individual whose life's work has  intellectually and materially affected the science and politics of extraterrestrial-related phenomena to an extraordinary degree.