The Pebtyrch UFO Incident... Interesting

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...A list similar to these reasons could be made for why science cannot be relied upon to provide any real answers
to this or other paranormal phenomena...

I totally agree with you and maybe the answers to why they're now doing this avid 'half-disclosure' is that they
perceive society is somehow different from the distrusting researchers of yesteryear?!

But that wouldn't fully explain it. For such a scheme to succeed, accepted 'veterans' of the UFO-community would
have to be recruited -and some were. Author Peter Levenda was asked to write scenarios for the History Channel
series and other well-known doyens of the UFO circuit were also approached to help nurse the current paradigm 
into the public's awareness.

Of course, major news outlets ran with story that those official bodies who'd previously doubted the massive amount
of UFO accounts since Roswell were now keen to show that 'something' was using our skies and hoped nobody asked
the question of national and global security.

Up to this point, the official quotes were:
"No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security;
There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented
technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and
There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles."
(Findings after Project Blue Book)

Finally, the outcome of Project Blue Book was that UFOs sightings were generated as a result of:
*A mild form of mass hysteria.
*Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity.
*Psychopathological persons.
*Misidentification of various conventional objects.

So were the military incompetent back then in 1969 and smarter now or have agendas changed?
The US public -who believed they had encountered such vehicles and passengers, were actually victims of the
above afflictions or simply couldn't be trusted?
Since Hillary Clinton's election defeat, the public are now more highly-principled than those who came before?
One remedy to inform the public of information that will eternally alter the future of mankind was to have a series
of episodes on a television cable channel...? A series that was later dropped?!!

You can't expect the public to believe you if you've lied to them for so long!
These guys have cried wolf far too often.