[donovanian]

> Knowing what little about humanity I do, what would be the end-game of covering up "aliens".

I think it's possible the government practically can't reveal information about extraterrestrials, supernatural phenomenon, or really anything that's within the realm of incredible.

The reason being - there will be a potentially large amount of people that will not believe what the government reveals or that they're being honest about their revelations.

You only have to see something like QAnon or the Russiagate stuff to see that a large segment of people across the political spectrum creates vast narratives founded in distrust of whatever is relatively credible and apparent.

So if the government were to say "we're aware of phenomenon that we cannot explain and it seems to be characteristic of some form of intelligence," you'd have many who would start arguing that the government is colluding with aliens or something. It could be destabilizing to society.

[michaelcampbell]

But ALL governments? Does one country have some lock on UFO data?