I agree that the level of disclosure is a very delicate matter. Obviously, the government cannot disclose everything, and to what extent it can or should — that’s very debatable.

As is the story in science, we need to develop our maturity along with our technology.

Disclosure is inevitable. Countries like France and Britain have tax-payer funded branches that investigate and have been declassifying incidents over the last few years. It’s only natural that there will be more pressure on the United States to release files (the 1999 French COMETA report was the first international attempt to publicly pressure the United States).

However we must also be careful in the way that we approach the matter. If everyone sends letters to Obama stating “disclose ET technology”, it almost certainly will not be read, unless millions of people from the United States specifically send letters with such content. Since that is not likely to happen, the 10 thousands letters that DO come in should contain points that have been seriously researched, paying particular attention to recent cases that posed air hazards (near misses, the O’hare incident, and how ignoring the phenomenon is like ignoring a potential terrorist attack). This is what people need to do.

Final point, UFO behaviour point to possibilities in physics that have never been thought possible before (with the exception of the work of Dr. Bernard Haish). This in itself poses a national security risk. Being able to zip around at 10s of thousands of miles per hour makes for a good nuclear weapons delivery system. But the humanitarian benefits are equally large: imagine if one can transport large amounts of aid to earthquake victims, quickly reducing the number of dead many fold. The climate change crisis too can possibly be deterred if the underlying physical phenomena that drive UFOs point to clean energy sources.

Such technologies are equally beneficial as they are dangerous. This is something that may govern whether or not UFO data will be disclosed, assuming Obama could be persuaded to take the matter seriously…which is another important milestone that needs to be achieved.