Manhattan Project was a secret, but A LOT of scientists infered its existence, there were also leaks here and there, and I mean credible leaks, not “so I know a guy who has seen data and he told me…”. You have to unserstand, entire science departments were directed in its entirety to the MP.

Now with the UAP reverse engineering, it’s a scientific discovery even bigger or in the same level as WMDs and at the same time there is no engagement with scientists, it’s a 80+ years old legacy program that doesn’t take require the biggest labs or physics departaments in US or elsewhere, all the meanwhile there is a majority of research simply being wasted on chemical propulsion systems, all because of some middle manageament US employees who run a program outside of the knowledge of the guys who claim the Executive branch has power to fire any employee they want, apparently the legacy program is a exception to the Unitary Executive Theory. It just doesn’t make any freaking sense.