UFO disclosure isn't just blocked by government secrets—it’s stuck behind the legal rules of international territory.
Most people assume a UFO cover-up is a purely political choice or conspiracy, but the paper argues that because no nation can legally verify data from a rival’s territory, a 'global truth' is impossible to establish. This creates a structural trap where governments investigate sightings but are legally incentivized to remain silent to avoid geopolitical friction.
Local Evidence, Global Claim: Sovereignty, National Security and the UAP Disclosure Puzzle
SSRN · 6396278
Reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) appear across multiple jurisdictions and have increasingly entered formal military and intelligence reporting systems. Yet no government has issued a decisive global disclosure regarding their significance. This paper asks why and proposes one potential explanation. I argue that the obstacle is structural rather than merely political. Evidence of anomalous phenomena is generated locally-within the sensing systems and territorial domains of sovere