Isn't the whole point of this Whistleblower act to prevent loss of clearances and job for reporting something amiss?

I think we all know it is real to some extent or form.   Too many coincidental reports from many languages and traditions in addition to historical record from before manned flight/balloons, one would be a fool to discard the evidence given even before this year or the release of the Navy videos and descriptions of encounters with 'Tic Tacs.

I think when we ask "is it real, why won't they prove it?!?", what we are really doing is venting our frustration at the stigma of even being interested in the topic and "regular people" won't talk about it, the trained knee jerk.   We want to be told it is OK to talk about in public and point to research in addition to learning what we can on our own.  We just can't talk on the topic in general public venues as it's instantly shouted down.  We know that, so we try to not think about it since we're social people and Brave New World was dead on about mind control and 'inoculation' against 'truth/false' by having people instantly react in a negative way.    

Once it's been shown as real, a lot of people will still refuse to believe it.   They've already admitted it in the US courthouse this year, in no uncertain terms, yet people refuse to think it is OK to talk about.  There are a HUGE number for topics where people simply say 'debunked!!!' and refuse to continue conversation, even to the point of zero proof of actual debunking.  TV News is great at that, during Trump, they'd just say 'that's been debunked' when it turns out 2 years later it was the absolute truth, and still many people trust the Mainstream news over content that actually makes senses and is correct from some internet website stranger - even when that stranger has been 95% spot on the truth for several years, while the media is proven to be 95% lies in the same set of years on the exact same events/topic.

TV is so ingrained into people that looking at 60% of GD thread names are not much different than glancing at TV Guide topics and synopsis of various shows.

I do too!   I also want to be able to talk about the topic without self-censoring and find out what a friend thinks of an idea.  The way the majority think today, you risk losing a friend over a currently small/unimportant topic, people react and instantly lump you in as loony and the like, despite all the images, video, testimony from unimpeachable trained observers, the actual original reports of encounters, complete with FLIR video.  Yet - "That's just a bunch of BS" is the conclusion people end up at.    See my sigline.   I think that once the majority gets to step 2, things will go on at a much quicker pace.   Right now they've been shown some strong testimony from several people, along with images and videos showing the oddities, as well as the history of them being a somewhat active topic up until the 1950s when they changed their mind about being honest on what happened with Roswell.  The farmer had it for a week before they stopped by to look at it.  All of them thought it was weird, and they hauled it to their base.  a week after that, the story we all know was published and then the General of that intelligence team went down to the base and took the man who's land it crashed on (and he stored it in his barn) into custody- 2 or 3 weeks after the crash.  

It seems his "I was lying" retraction to the paper was produced only under duress  while he was incommunicado until he said "I made it all up, there was nothing there other than a hot air balloon"   The same with the guy who talked to the press about the flying saucer.  So, for 5 weeks, a lot of people learned about it, and then the pentagon went full insane to try to debunk their own information.   If he made it all up, how did the guy who talked to the paper so knowledgeable on it?  If it was just a weather or spy or radar balloon (It's been called several different things by that General, depending on when they ask or something).  An air intelligence unit would have easily recognized a balloon, a whole bunch of nylon or thin plastic and something hanging from it.  The various military people and laymen who were his neighbors who had seen it all agreed it was made of materials we've never seen on Earth before, like the memory metal that was aluminum foil thickness and just as light, but it could not even be bent easily with 2 hands, and it would return to the original shape once the bending stress was removed.   I would think that such a detailed description would make that product available today, it was over 75 years ago, surely we should have reached that tech point by now.  We've got memory metal but it's only in a small range and needs heat to "remember" but great for eyeglass bows and not a whole lot else.  So, we didn't have that metal in a spy/weather/radar/skyhook balloon.   Such a handy product in today's quest for light weight would have had invented or reproduced this substance, but the .gov lets private aerospace companies hoard it all so we don't lose our leg up/advantage on esoteric spy planes and one off weapons.

Still, I believe that 95% of the people who debunk "UFO Nuts wishing at the sky" deep down think that there is something we aren't being told, and that needs to brew in their heads for a few months/years before they get past step one and stop self-censoring everything.   Most people do not even know why they hate a topic so badly they don't want other people to talk about it.  Again, this was seen with Trump.  People would lose their minds at the sheer number of people showing up at rallies voluntarily and they refused to believe it.  They pushed the Russia Russia Russia Ukraine stories where in the end, Biden was the one doing everything they accused Trump of doing.  More people need to examine why they have a visceral desire to demand other people stop talking about something.  That is why this entire forum exists - in GD it is a topic instantly swarmed by people with knee jerk reactions with canned replies ready for copy/paste it seems. So, once people get to step 2, Step 3 just sort of automatically happens in a few months to a couple years.

Well, it's more of an "online community friend" or basically any other area of this site, for example.  Real life I don't know anybody who thinks it is "nothing but hot air" or a psyop.  We've all seen something strange and unexplained and I suppose we hope there is a reason for it.   Human minds are not very good at coping with the unknown, most are afraid to leave something as an unknown with information for and against, but if no action is required immediately, I don't feel I have to decide one way or the other until more information comes out.    The more concrete people just go to full denial or the 'believers' go too far in explaining everything is from one specific source (ancient aliens, UFOs, ghosts, pyramids and humans being created, all because of Nibiru and nothing will sway their made up mind).    Neither group is in any way suited to discuss the topic without letting emotional reactions decide their positions.

I guess it seems it is a very black and white topic, similar to politics.  Most people can't say "Well, I don't know, but it seems it's more than nothing but I don't know enough about it to say it is definitely something", and they then jump to one extreme or the other.    It's not until more has been undeniably proven that we finally trudge onto step 2 before more can be said because too many people would honestly freak out and need hospitalization when realizing their entire belief system was based on false information.   Similar to how the left went unhinged when Trump was elected in 2016 - several did need to go to psychiatric hospitals because they never even conceived of a reality where it was a possibility and it came crashing back down on them.   A big Disclosure would have a similar effect, thanks to all the programming that has been done to our minds to inoculate us from some truths to blindly trust and believe one way or another and no longer have the child like open mind and curiosity -- that part of the brain that seeks and sees and asks questions is to get a brick wall built around it before grade school so people are easier to mange, and we ARE being managed.

Here' the part I have an issue with.  The whole topic is basically censored and people in general do not discuss it or even give a crap about it outside under 10% of the people that nobody takes seriously.   However, every 10-20 years, the .mil or media puts UFOs front and center Flooded through all channels to the entire population on 24 hour news and internet  (today) or as stories for nationwide publication/newscasts (50s-90s).   Then they spend the next 10-15 years explaining how what they said wasn't real and was just confusion...  Then they repeat with each new generation.

If there's nothing "there" there, why do they keep bringing it up to only then say ti is BS and disinfo?  Why would they put up windows only to frost them then say there are no windows and it was all a misunderstanding due to mass psychosis.

@Former11BRAVO

Doesn't stop you from sending his campaign an email, or his @congress.gov email that gets sifted.

Better yet, a nicely typed letter that is professional to his office and if you make it fit one page and get all your points in with only a short then long paragraph of text but rather easy to skim bullet points.  

Make it quick to read and cogent and express support and it might actually make it to his desk and get read and some weight given to it.

Went to High School with Rounds.  He's a decent guy, not sure if he's been totally bought off by now or not, but to some extent inevitably I guess, just not sure by who.

I wouldn't believe a frickin' thing that clown Schumer ever states!