Two Issues:
1. Why didn't Podesta press for this while he had power during the Clinton administration, and
2. People twist the meanings of things. "UFO" stands for "Unidentified Flying Object". It doesn't mean "Unidentified Flying Object From Outer Space". If it did, it would be "UFOFOS"
I submit that there have been numerous factual accounts of UFOs, and I suspect that numerous of these sightings have been due to some top secret military or other experiment gone more public than the military wants us to know. Just because we don't know what it is does not make it an alien!
My relative insists it's both.
That we reverse engineered from crashed disks and also that they exchanged technology for "rights" to abudct and take tissue samples; do cross breeding and other little fun things like that.
One hard piece of evidence are a couple of interesting pieces of microscopically layered pieces of the underside of a crashed UFO made up of Magnesium, Bismuth and a little Zinc from a deceased military granddad's personal effects. Granddad had briefed the grandson before his death.
Attempts to duplicate the piece have so far failed. And, some of the isotopes of Mg are reportedly not so common. More interesting is the behavior of the true UFO pieces in certain types of currents. The pieces made from attempts to copying the pieces did not exhibit the same curious phenomena. See pp 11-22 in Howe's book mentioned above.
If anyone else has read Linda Howe's book or Vol I which I don't think I've read, I'd be delighted to discuss them here or in FREEP mail.