caper, and now they decide to be closed mouth about it? What it is going on?

means asking them to reveal technologies etc., never was (the technology isn't of interest to me and I'm sure others perhaps), it's the images themselves.

Either way, if someone compiled a report on the incident, there is a wealth of information that could not be disclosed, and which has nothing to do with the phenomenon under observation, but a lot to do with the tools used to observe it.

But once again, we find that aliens put a lot of effort into getting into earth's atmosphere from interstellar space, but they are powerless against a bureaucracy to make their existence known.

As noted in the OP:

"These top-secret files included several "briefing slides" about the incident..."

Notice that nobody is trying to hide that there was an incident of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. But since the reports, files and briefing slides aren't public information, then the government is hiding aliens again.

technology. Amazing isn't it?

I'm just curious as to why the government came forth to finally acknowledge that UFOs and such technology surrounding them existed?

Is it perhaps they believe that someone in the public sector might know more about these events/UFOs then is being acknowledged? If so, I find it rather odd being that revealing such technology (the UFOs and propulsion system(s)) would be in the public interest in being revealed, especially when such technologies would be better hidden than being revealed.

It's just curious to me what purpose are they really shooting for in revealing these events to the public.

More questions raised than being answered, perhaps.

... much up to speed on our technology anyway. But yeah, we need to keep the Klingons in the dark as long as possible.

Or did trump piss them off?

Klingons and tribbles don't get along, so Klingons aren't going anywhere near Trump

Yawn

... to entertain you. I’ll try harder next time.

... and everything to do with secret weapons testing.

There was a lot of that.

If there are alien life forms, they are almost certainly not the source of UFO sightings.

The military doesn't want our enemies to know or understand our capabilities for observing things.

By the way, the "U" in "UFO" means Unidentified. The person who saw the UFO has no idea what it was. Why must it be aliens?

So silly.

In your example, the square root of 4 is... wait for it... 2!

I want to believe!

say(s) we aren't capable of anything like this and won't be any time in the near future.

Physicists know a little bit more about the universe than fighter pilots.

If it's not aliens then it's some some sorta hyper advanced drone from another government or a private genius that we still can't replicate 16 years later.

Besides those two explanations, anything else it could be?

At least, that's what George Noory at Coast to Coast is saying.

Great impeachment distraction...

Is more damaging if they try to cover up any UFO activity.

Just don't, for gods' sake, tell Trump.

Either ours, Russians, Chinese, or Israelites.

This is what happens when you crib your code off the internet.

I would have made it Sean Connery riding in a big stone head instead of a tictac.

and whatever you do, don't scroll down to that picture in the middle

saw our leader they would figure there is no intellegent life here and go home.

...is going to be so superior to us that they will arrive completely undetected or with a big bang that will scare the shit out of us.

well, we simply can't have that, we have a treaty, the high council will hear about this