A new lobbying group aimed squarely at the “Want to believe” crowd’s confirmation bias has registered with Congress to begin hitting the bricks to lobby for legislation to make public anything and everything the government and military know about UFOs and aliens, Politico reports.
“As I’ve been kind of involved with some of these more scientific approaches looking into the topic, I really started to perceive a hole in how this topic is kind of handled in our society,” said Nick Gold, a Baltimore-based media and tech consultant who for now is putting his own money into “Declassify UAP” LLC’s efforts, with possible merch sales and donations coming down the line. “A lot of strong and sometimes strange personalities that kind of suck a lot of the air out of the UFO/UAP issue,” Gold added, in explaining why there’s been a stigma to the question for so long, but also that there hadn’t been any serious effort to needle Congress among the “millions of people who were very fascinated with this topic and wanted to see some kind of governmental congressional progress around it. It never really transformed in 75 years of this being a public issue into an actual quote-unquote issue that we address as citizens in the way through our representatives and our democracy and our government and the way that we attack other issues.”