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It's likely that the timing have a lot more to do with the messy situation in Ukraine, and a general ramp up in testing of illegally acquired Russian equipment or a reactivation of cold war period sig int projects, then anything related to extra terrestrials.

Add to that that the FBI is back in red scare mode and suddenly you have a situation where the authorities are willing to bend and break a few rules in order chase various paranoid conspiracy theories about how every non-aligned outlet is a secretly working for The Kremlin.

Literally everyone on the internet is aware of the UFO disclosures and congressional inquiry, even non tech people. You have to have lived under a rock to have missed it, and it doesn't make you special for having heard about it.

what's most likely is annual performance reviews are up and an agent wants a feather in their cap.