Coordination Failure Erases UFO Proof

Updated: 2026.09.04 1H ago 1 sources
The relevant barrier to public disclosure may not be a deliberate conspiracy to hide alien evidence but routine government coordination failures: records get destroyed, knowledge remains siloed, and detectives in one office never tell others. That institutional decay makes the existence of confirmatory evidence unknowable and disclosure unlikely even if something was once found. — This reframes disclosure debates from questions about motives and secrecy to questions about institutional memory, record‑keeping, and interagency coordination — issues with wider implications for transparency and public trust.

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Disclosure Seems Unlikely
Robin Hanson 2026.09.04 100% relevant
Robin Hanson’s central claim that “govt is often so bad at coordinating as to make it plausible that they’ve destroyed it all, and told few other govt parts about what they knew.”
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