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Is it all just smoke and mirrors?
The Department of War released over 160 previously classified files on Friday in an effort for greater transparency surrounding UFOs, aliens and extraterrestrial life — but some experts believe the government is still hiding key information from us.
The files — released after President Donald Trump ordered the government to identify and release any files related to alien life and UFOs — will “provide the American people with maximum transparency,” the Director of National Security, Tulsi Gabbard, said Friday.
But not everyone is convinced by the government’s promise of “maximum transparency,” including long-time UFO expert Dennis Anderson, who has been investigating mysterious flying objects for over six decades.
“The government will never disclose that we are dealing with an unknown phenomenon that we can not control or defend ourselves against,” Anderson exclusively told The Post.
“Some UAP [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena] researchers think the public could handle it, I don’t,” he said.
“This is just one of several reasons I don’t believe full disclosure will take place,” the former member of the Center for UFO Studies added.
Anderson — who notably studied the mysterious 2001 “Arthur Kills Lights” where five to 16 bright orange “ovals” flew between New Jersey and Staten Island — argues that the government “knows something exists” and “that there’s something strange going on,” but he doesn’t believe they know exactly what that “something” is.
Anderson likens it to a “cosmic consciousness.”
“There’s something that is going around all … It’s constantly around us, but just adapts to the time,” he theorized, adding that it appears to come from another planet that we just haven’t yet reached.
“When we reach that point, maybe it’ll start to appear as something else,” he said.
Making reference to the “Phantom Airships” people claimed to have witnessed in the late 1800s, Anderson argues that the phenomenon adjusts to the knowledge people retain in the given time period.
“So whatever this thing is, whatever this phenomenon is, it stays one or two steps ahead of what people actually expect something to be,” he warned.
While 162 files were released on Friday, the government announced more will be made public on a rolling basis in the coming weeks.
However, Anderson said that the public will get “tired” of looking at vague releases because of their “short attention span” — a tactic he believes the government is counting on to avoid releasing the full extent of the files.
“I think what happens is that if they show you enough of this stuff where you’re not seeing anything and they keep saying they’re going to release more, but then they really don’t,” Anderson told The Post.
“And if they do, it’s another fuzzy picture and stuff. People are just going to get tired and they’re just going to not pay attention anymore,” Anderson claimed, stating that he has been investigating “this stuff for 63 years now.”
He mysteriously added that “they’re trying to cover as much as they can and still make it sound like they’re interested in giving you the information when they’re really not. It’s all smoke and mirror stuff.”
While Anderson doesn’t believe the government is releasing false or fake information, he thinks the files released are the “most innocuous” of the bunch to avoid revealing the full truth about UFOs and extraterrestrial life forces.
“They want you to think that they’re going to give you information, but the information they’re going to give you really isn’t going to help you any, because it’s either very vague or … even what they think is true probably isn’t true,” he said.
So what exactly is the truth that we couldn’t handle anyway?
“Whatever’s going on around us, whatever this is, it hasn’t really taken any steps to make itself where it’s really killed off millions of people or whatever,” Anderson said.
“They haven’t done anything like that, and they show absolutely whatever it is, it shows no care for any particular political group or race or color, whatever. It doesn’t show anything. It just is and it just does whatever it feels like whenever it wants to,” he warned.
