Take a close look at this document. Everything you need to know about UAPs (UFOs) you can learn from it. It's a slide from a presentation by the Pentagon's UAP Task Force. You might wonder what we can learn from a document that is so heavily censored, or redacted. That's exactly my point: the government is censoring everything we need to know about UAPs. It's reasonable to support government secrecy. I support secrecy when it's necessary to protect national security. But the censorship of this document, and many others like it, goes far beyond what is reasonable. For example, the slide censors two of the three potential explanations for UAPs. Those two explanations are likely a) adversarial technology (e.g. from China) and b) nonhuman intelligence (NHI). Are we to believe that the @DeptofWar really believes there is some threat to national security if the public were to learn our government is considering the possibility that UAP may be Chinese or NHI? The idea that it would be dangerous for people to learn that officials within our government think UAPs might represent NHI is absurd. Dozens of high-ranking current and former government officials have said exactly this. Many are currently in a bestselling documentary on Amazon Prime, @ageofdisclosure. For nearly 75 years, the government has, supposedly, held grave concern that public interest in UAPs would cause some harm, such as revealing state secrets, triggering a public panic, or overloading the IC. None of those concerns have come to pass. Since 2017, people have leaked multiple UAP videos and photos to the public, which reveal or heavily imply specific sources and methods. But does anyone believe they have undermined national security? Of course not. Nobody with any credibility has even made this argument. Privately, many people within the IC acknowledge that the censorship is excessive. But they have not ended the censorship nor explained why they are maintaining the secrecy. On Tuesday, Secretary of State and National Security Advisor @marcorubio told @seanhannity that he can't verify the claims of the high-ranking individuals in @ageofdisclosure. That was a surprising and important revelation given that, as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Rubio has unparalleled access to Special Access Program briefings, compartmented intelligence, and interagency assessments comprised of top-secret and classified information. Hannity did not ask Rubio why it was that he couldn't verify the claims made by individuals with very high security clearances, but the reason doesn't very much matter. What matters is that Rubio has made it clear that it is up to President @realDonaldTrump, not Rubio, to end the censorship and declassify UAP documents. President Trump, to his great credit, declassified and released JFK files, the classified Durham annex, and the HPSCI report. He should now do the same thing with the UAP Files. Care should be taken to both protect national security and prevent unelected bureaucrats from abusing their power to maintain censorship. If and when the IC decides which redactions to maintain, senior officials with experience on these matter should be in the room to objectively evaluate what is reasonably necessary for national security and what is unreasonable, particularly consider the signficiant quantity of leaks of videos and images to date. Obviously, simply lifting these redactions won't be enough. The government should also release other UAP videos, photos, images, documents. But lifting the redactions on the @theblackvault UAP documents would be a concrete, good faith start to greater transparency. If the Trump administration is unwilling to do so, then it must explain why that is. There is a lot of noise in this space. People on both sides claim to know with great certainty the truth about UAPs. I am skeptical they know. My position remains what it was when I testified before Congress, which is that I don't know. What I do know for certain is that the government is censoring and covering up information cannot be justified by national security. If you think this all a bunch of B.S., then you should be the first to demand transparency. If you think this is all B.S. and you want to maintain the censorship and secrecy then you are a bad faith actor. From now on, if you want to know who is operating in good faith, just ask them whether or not they support ending UAP censorship. If they start insulting and ridiculing people, or engaging in other unethical, irrational, and illegitimate forms of debate, you'll know they are operating in bad faith. If you think UAPs are NHI, then please consider focusing your energy and efforts on ending the censorship, rather than trying to convince people of your views based on the limited information we have, or speculating without evidence. I don't know about you, but I don't think the world needs a lot more speculation, even by high-ranking officials, about what is going on. What we need, and what the Constitution requires, is government transparency. The public and Congress are strongly united behind the cause of ending excess censorship and secrecy on UAPs and much else. There are a lot of issues that divide us. I have never testified on an issue where there was more bipartisan unity than on this one. I am glad to see, in just the last few days, a growing number of UAP skeptics openly endorsing the need to end the censorship. So take a close look at this document, and the other censored UAP documents. They have, to date, been obstacles to getting at the truth about UAPs. They are now an opportunity for President Trump to fulfill his duties to representing the public's interest against whoever it is that is undermining it.