But large numbers of people successfully keeping secrets from the public is common.
And, anyone who blows the whistle gets written off as crazy.
> According to retired Israeli general and current professor Haim Eshed, the answer is yes, but this has been kept a secret because "humanity isn't ready."
This premise is absurd and the fact that the only one that is coming forward is the aging head of "space security" in Israel, a nation that recently failed to land a robot on the moon according to the article, makes it prudent to write him off as crazy. Especially since he's trying to sell a book.
Not really. Mass panic, even if unlikely, should not be dismissed out of hand. People are freaking out over a mere pandemic.
> a nation that recently failed to land a robot on the moon
Are you emphasizing the fact they're advanced enough to try, or unlucky enough to need a second shot?
> Especially since he's trying to sell a book.
As someone else mentioned, he was the head of the agency. Money probably isn't an issue for him.
I think that writing him off would be premature.
Unless you happened to be present at the 0.01% of the area of Hawai'i that Cook visited, you would have had no idea that such creatures and such a world outside of the islands existed.