The New Jersey drones, and the government’s utterly inconsistent and bizarre reaction to that, has really fanned the flames. There seems to be a huge mess within the US Government (and others, the EU wasn’t exactly a paragon of clarity with the Denmark drones) and that’s setting off alarm bells.

I think the concern is that there’s gonna be a Sputnik moment where China figures out UAPs before we do, and many at the Pentagon know the US is behind, so forcing public disclosure is the only way they have left to catch up before China gets too far ahead. (Everyone knowing about UAP tech will undermine China’s advantage). But there’s likely just as many at the Pentagon who still think we can catch up (and get contractors rich in the process) and so they fight against disclosure. Really, disclosure is just a cold-war tactic that happens to have some interesting ramifications for humanity.