Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp" if he got elected in 2016. He was elected, and while he did many things, he didn't really do much in that regard. However, now that he was elected again in 2024 he has gone into full gear and has achieved in just a few weeks more than he achieved in the entirety of the four years of his previous presidency. Which is great, don't get me wrong. Finally someone is doing something.
One of the many things that his administration is heavily planning to do is to declassify the governmental documents on several high-profile events, including the investigation and death of Epstein, as well as the documentation on the 9/11 attacks, the Covid-19 pandemic, UFOs, JFK, and the assassination of Martin Luther King.
On one hand this is absolutely great: Openness is always good. The people have the right to know. These are not huge state secrets that need to be kept secret for national security purposes (eg. the current location of military troops or counter-intelligence spies, or development of new military technology). Most of this is unrelated to national security and should be open to the public. After all, the government is by the people for the people, and people have the fundamental right to know about investigations done by the government (with, as mentioned, perhaps the exception of information that would severely compromise the safety and security of the nation or its people if it was leaked to foreign forces.)
On the other hand, this is fraught with peril, and is going to cause a huge wave of misinformation and conspiracy theories which not only mislead people, but may cause huge amounts of wasted resources being spent on wild goose chases that lead nowhere and serve no useful purpose. It may also cause wrong and false information to be recorded into history books for all eternity.
One problem is that in these types of investigations all possible angles are examined, and documents are written about these venues of investigation: Some investigator presents a hypothesis, writes down a document presenting that hypothesis, with the goal of investigating that hypothesis and finding out if there's anything to it. Lots and lots of such hypotheses are presented, investigated and, in the majority of cases, discarded because they don't pan out. This is not unlike scientific research.
The main problem with declassifying all of this and making it available to the public is that the vast majority of the public will not do the proper research, and will misinterpret all these documents. They will take a document that presents a possible hypothesis and interpret it as being a factual statement of what happened, and will not do any more research on what the result of this investigation found out about it. Most often there will be further documents showing the work done on that trail, with the end result that it was a nothingburger (and closed as either "inconclusive" or outright "false").
The problem is that most people will not look at those further documents, and will just take the random initial document and take it as absolute gospel, and form all kinds of wrong conclusions and conspiracy theories about it. Cue miles and miles of online forum discussions, youtube videos, and even some national news broadcasting agencies making stories about the "bombshell reveal" of these documents. All of it based on absolutely false information.
There's also another additional problem: The governmental investigators are human, and thus flawed, and thus can sometimes make mistakes, misinterpret things, and come to the wrong conclusions. This applies to all of the abovementioned topics, but it most particularly applies to UFO investigations: Even high-ranking military "experts" are not immune to being fooled by pareidolia and unusual natural phenomena. Even they will not do due diligence and investigate appropriately, and instead jump to conclusions. And, thus, we will have documents making "factual" statements that are just completely false, and people will believe it without question, because why would an army general lie about it, or be wrong about it? He's an expert! He knows what he's talking about!
So while openness is good, unfortunately it's going to also cause a lot of useless turmoil. I'm not looking forward to the years and years of baseless conspiracy theories spouted by youtube channels and even news networks. Sigh.
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