Public records don't seem so effective after they've been confidential for 50 years

Public records are now available regarding a pilot who was ordered to take out a UFO during the Cold War era. Here's my theory on the UFO phenomena and the lack of mainstream publicity it has yet to receive.

There were a ton of UFO sightings during World War II and the Cold War era. High-ranking military officers and government figures weren't as aware of UFOs, so they probably thought that the sightings were the results of overactive imaginations of the general public. But, as airplanes became more common, particularly during those two times of constant air patrolling, UFO sightings became increasingly common among military officers. The officers were probably required on a case-by-case basis to deny the sightings to the public or to completely disregard it or suffer the consequences by the government and military.

Well, now, most of these pilots are older and don't have much to lose if they proclaim that what they saw or were told by the government was, in fact, true. The first military figure that comes to mind is Philip Corso. He published his accounts of what happened during the Roswell incident in a book titled "The Day After Roswell." The next year, he died. I really wouldn't be surprised to see more military officers confessing their encounters with UFOs during the mid-1900s.

I think the idea that "the public is ill prepared to come to the realization that we are not the only beings in the universe" is a gross assumption. And, even if we aren't prepared to know that there are other beings out there, I think being educated about it would be more effective than discovering the facts by an incident or incidents that would cause worldwide panic.