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Another Christopher Mellon interview. Another reminder that we’re “not ready.”

In a recent piece from CyberNews, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon, once again confirms what most people here already suspect: the U.S. government is sitting on an unknown number of credible UAP cases — potentially hundreds — and the public still isn’t being told the full story.

Mellon says there are legitimate national security concerns, possible reverse engineering programs, and a lot of classified data that hasn’t been shared. He even suggests that foreign governments may know more than we do. And yet, when it comes to why the public isn’t being told more, we get the same refrain:

“People might panic.”

“We’re not ready.”

“It could be destabilizing.”

At this point, it’s starting to feel less like protection and more like deflection.

The public has weathered wars, depressions, climate chaos, and a thousand existential headlines. We’re more numb than nervous. The idea that the average person can’t handle the idea of nonhuman intelligence doesn’t hold water for me anymore.

If anything, they’re the ones who aren’t ready.

Not ready to answer for the decades of obfuscation.

Not ready to explain the tech transfers, the black budgets…

Not ready for accountability.

So yes, Mellon is an important voice, and yes, it’s good that people like him are still pushing for transparency, but at a certain point, repeating that “we may not be alone” without delivering anything actionable just feeds the same loop.