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Decades of locked filing cabinets kept Americans in the dark about objects buzzing sensitive sites, and that secrecy was never justified. Trained federal agents don't hallucinate, so their accounts deserve to be treated as serious evidence rather than campfire stories. Redacting the dates only fuels suspicion that they're still withholding the real answers.
Eyewitness impressions are not measurements, and a three-second glimpse can't establish speed, propulsion or origin. Unidentified simply means the available data ran out, not that something otherworldly is cruising over the desert. Hyping raw files into proof of aliens does more to discredit the push for transparency than any classification stamp ever could.