Possibly someone as self-important and pompous as Peter Jennings might want to seal his name in the history books as the news anchor who officially disclosed the reality of aliens?
Were it true, any journalist would 'stop the presses' and go on the air immediately.
Conceivable. But I don't think it's going to be THAT BIG a revelation at this point. I think there would have been more leaks hinting at that were that the case. Of course, 24th is some time off, yet.
I was thinking more that the puppet masters might want to use his stature in the eyes of the mindless masses to sort of tweak up a bit the issue in terms of moving it more toward being a more serious issue.
We shall see.