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Are there any plausible theories why this stuff is getting released right now?

It looks like there is no immediate reason for action. And no real reason why they wouldn't have gone on for another decade denying it.

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They had to release it.

>The report prepared by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was required by the Intelligence Authorization Act passed by Congress late last year. The U.S. intelligence community was given 180 days to prepare an unclassified and classified report on what the U.S. government knew about UAPs.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/highly-anticipated-ufo-repor...

The classified report probably has the good stuff. It doesn't surprise me that this is extremely watered down for the public: Far more plausible than "aliens" is "foreign government figured out they can do something cool"[0], and if it's the latter, the US is not going to want to make it clear how much they do and don't understand about it.

[0] Even this category can be divided out into plausible and implausible options. For instance, I'd likely believe another government figured out they could mess with our military sensors over having developed antigravity.

I can't get around thinking there are simply just a bunch of I-want-to-believers in government, some of whom started/supported AATIP and its successor. They need budget, so invoke National Security. I truly doubt there is any "good stuff".

There is a whitest kids you know sketch about this where the government was talking about the invasion by ak47 weilding bears.

The reporters asked: "wait a minute, are we invading Iran again?"

This always is on my mind when I see these reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjgIxuVdo4

Senator Rubio added it into one of the COVID bills last year requesting disclosure of this information. It also funds the continued investigation of UAP sightings.

But the could have just made up some national security bs like they do whenever else they dont want to answer. What is different this time.

There is a 60 minutes piece about this a few weeks back which are interesting to watch. I think its mostly they want to figure out what we are up against since it seems to be happening on a regular basis.

The longest period of time that anything can legally be kept classified without exceedingly special circumstances is 75 years. Roswell was 74 years ago.

Wow that's quite a coincidence. Seems like they got a late start if that really what's about to go down... https://www.justice.gov/archives/open/declassification/decla... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident

The Senate ordered DNI to write a public report last year.

I saw not too far back that the Pentagon/other places got absolutely fucking swamped by FOIA requests, to the point it was seriously bogging man-power down internally, when COVID lockdowns started because people had nothing better to do.

To make them all stop, they basically said "okay, we're going to release these reports in some determined length of time"

Sounds fairly reasonable.

Our government expects visitors soon and this was a step towards preparing the public to what is about to come? xD

Something like that sounds plausible. If they knew for sure, I doubt they would want to dump all evidence at once. Would be incredibly interesting to see how the world would change if that happened tho.

It sounds a little out there but I consider it even more likely than just some Senator casually sneaking it into a bill.

Would love to know the full story behind why they break now 50+ years of secrecy.

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