TexasJack, I think that the situation needs to be kept in historical perspective, at least for the US (which seems to be all you're referring to). As a non-American who's nonetheless sudied 20th Century US history and politics in school, it seems to me that the public conversation in the US has become so toxic and polarised, increasingly since the time of Reagan or thereabouts, that people have forgotten about any concept of civic duty in favour of partisan political point-scoring, and that's what largely explains the leaks.
It used to be that American people saw a point of principle in trusting the government. Project Manhattan, as an example, largely stayed a complete secret until the first bombs were dropped. But with the coming of the Cold War, the American government seems to have decided its own people couldn't be trusted any more than the country's political adversaries, and that's when the problem started, when it adopted a concerted program of misinformation (the existence of which is undisputed, and which in itself demonstrates that the government genuinely had secrets it was at least *trying* to keep). And it seems that's what got people's backs up; not telling is one thing, but deliberate ridicule and obfuscation is not what a government should be doing. The US government had proven it could no longer be trusted to be honest to its own people, and the resentment and paranoia grew on both sides.
For myself, I have no doubt UFOs exist in some form, and that various governments perceive a need to keep them secret and lie about them. Why, I don't know. And what the things actually are, I have no idea. I don't assume they're spaceships.
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