Are aliens visiting Earth? What would that mean for human society? Are we in danger?
The "disclosure" movement, which includes former intelligence officials and sitting members of Congress, is fighting to declassify everything that the government has concealed about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs. They say we're already in the process of coming to terms with the truth about extraterrestrial life.
"People say, 'When are we going to have disclosure?' I think you're living through it right now," says former intelligence official Luis Elizondo.
But one former government scientist tasked with examining UAP claims tells Reason that the entire movement is based on a carefully orchestrated web of lies.
"All of them are the same players," says Sean Kirkpatrick. He calls the movement "a conspiracy…to get resources to pursue a storyline and to propagate this storyline."
But the believers accuse Kirkpatrick of orchestrating a government cover-up.
And those "believers" are correct.
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