It is probably the real deal. You post without knowing the history of this stuff.
Actually, I have been following this stuff since I read Chariots of the Gods by Erich Von Daniken in 1971.
My comment is more about the timing of the government acknowledgement happening everywhere, all of the sudden.
If we need an existential threat to invoke a national emergency, extraterrestrials are certainly a great source and they are “apolitical.”