On related topic—I mentioned Matthew Pines in an earlier thread a few days ago.
Here is a new interview—three hours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2Le9dp_Ww
There is lots of brilliance here—and the last half hour discusses many deep issues of philosophy.
That said—on the UFO topic many folks are convinced that Pines has inside information.
In this interview he claims that there is a plan for major disclosure in the next twelve months—and it sounds like that will be the case regardless of who is in the White House.
He argues that driving that is a fear of “catastrophic disclosure” of some kind—and that the intelligence analysts have concluded it is coming soon and they want to get ahead of it.
It sounds like they are convinced there will be an “event”—where history becomes broken down into “before” and “after”. An example of that would be 9/11. Another example would be the JFK assassination.
The topic dominates the news cycles at the moment and then is a topic of discussion for all academic disciplines for years to come....
The reason for controlled disclosure in Pines view is not to prevent catastrophic disclosure—he argues that is impossible—but rather to mitigate the negative effects.
If a Presidential commission (part of the proposed NDAA that failed last year) is created it would be their job to figure out what needed to stay classified and what could be released to the public—and they could decide the order of the releases and try to generate an orderly disclosure.
If they could establish trust with whistleblowers it could work reasonably well.
But—the “Imminent” (as in the title of Lou’s book) issue is that time is not on their side.
As usual government is slow to react and events are moving away from them.
Matthew Pines specifically mentioned the Langley AFB December 2023 “incident” discussed here (with video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjVJLO6CK2I
The Air Force was apparently unable to shoot any of these down.
The “drone” explanation is a joke—these are true UAPs with classic UAP flight characteristics—wacky “flight” characteristics.
There's a lot of talk that the DOD is freaked-out about whistleblower-driven, piecemeal UFO disclosures spiraling beyond their control.
Some within the DOD believe they must act swiftly to regain control of the narrative (by starting their own disclosure). However, it may already be too late for them to get ahead of the situation.
I'll bet the Air Force is still not on-board with this DOD disclosure plan.;-)