Receipts, not rumors: The specific UAP records Trump should release first
No, we probably won't learn about a treaty with Zeta Reticuli, but it would be nice to know what we do know
President Donald Trump has said he’s going to declassify data and documents about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). If you aren’t a whacko like me, you still know these things as “UFOs.”1
The general response to this announcement has been cynicism. There won’t be anything there, folks say. Anything useful will be redacted. It’s all a psy-op to take attention off his ICE and Epstein controversies.
Maybe so, but I’m cautiously optimistic that there could be substantial-if-not-definitive revelations. Will they be conclusive? Will they be enough to expand the Overton Window on UAP significantly? No and no.
Could they shed light on some longstanding questions. Yes.
At a minimum, declassification has the potential to reveal that the United States government has actually engaged in disinformation campaigns around phenomena that can’t be readily explained. We may not learn why…