I’m starting to feel like some kind of disclosure is coming in the coming year. Grusch seems to hint as much. It may not have the wow factor of a presidential address, but maybe a more sudden kind of event that gets us there faster.
Unfortunately a sudden rush of info may be too much for people. A kind of cognitive dissonance worse than we saw with covid or 9/11. People may not respond rationally or in the healthiest way.
I feel like we could be getting all this info to ease this into the public zeitgeist. For decades we've gotten sci fi that shows aliens in various scenarios from friendly pals to enemies we can best with good, old human ingenuity and ass kicking.
The message is "they aren't all bad and we can handle the bad ones". It's like you are preparing a kid for life in the schoolyard with buddies and bullies. And don't forget the teachers you can run to if things aren't going well.
Then a ramp up of more and more people with bona fides coming out on more and more main stream media outlets.