“Look at why the government hid the UFO material and information.”
The way you talk just assumes the “material” and “information” actually exists and is what these “whistleblowers” say it is. Why should I assume that???
Did the government classify investigations into “unidentified flying objects”? Certainly. We have declassified stuff from Project Blue Book and the like that proves it, but of course we have no declassified documents that say “we recovered a spacecraft” or “we found alien bodies”. More like “a lot of people reported they saw something strange and here are the reports we collected”.
“Also, look at the current trend toward releasing that material, and notice that they put themselves in a hole that is not easy to exit.”
I think it’s more enlightening to look at the trend of the government releasing material as a whole, not just on this subject. Invariably, the government releases information that is sanitized, which promotes a narrative that they want people to believe, and fights tooth and nail to never reveal anything that goes against the government’s preferred narrative. So if they are releasing anything on “UFO”s now, I would view it through the same lens, and say they are releasing only what serves their purposes, and their purposes and our interests as a people rarely intersect anymore.
Just ponder the wonder of God's Creation, its intricacies and mysteries. Try to image a God with more imagination than yourself. Then look at the scale of Creation. Fill in the blanks using the intelligence God gave you.
Maybe I am missing something. What is their specific purpose for releasing information?