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disclosure

In the UFO/UAP field, "disclosure" refers to the process, or the demand, by which governments, militaries and intelligence services would make public the information they hold related to UFOs or extraterrestrial life.

In UFO/UAP research and the public discourse surrounding it, the term "disclosure" refers to governments, primarily US federal agencies, making fully public the data in their possession related to UFOs or to presumed extraterrestrial technology. The concept is often linked to the expression "Full Disclosure," which would mean the complete lifting of classification.

Background and usage

The roots of the disclosure movement go back to the decades after the Cold War, when civilian researchers and former military and government officials claimed that states had been hiding UFO-related evidence for decades, including possible wreckage or technology. The term is also regularly used when government bodies, such as the Pentagon or AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office), publish official reports, videos or data on UAP.

Official and skeptical positions

According to the official US position, a kind of partial opening has taken place in recent years: the Pentagon acknowledged the authenticity of previously classified UAP footage, and Congress has also held public hearings on the subject. At the same time, official bodies deny possessing any object or technology of extraterrestrial origin.

According to skeptical researchers, the concept of disclosure often raises excessive expectations, and in the absence of real, verifiable evidence the term is sometimes also used to justify speculative or even misleading claims.

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