This is pretty bad and dismissive. I mean, as a fellow Historian who graduated from UC Santa Cruz, this pander's to pro-government censorship and complacency with unregulated space agencies. Let's cut to brass tacks; the real concern here isn't that some far away alien civilization is being hidden from us- if they wanted to talk to us, they'd have done it already.
The problem here is MJ-12, aka Operation Majestic - 12, a clandestine group intended on reverse engineering that had no oversight nor did it have to report to Congress or the executive branch. The government and its agencies continue to pretend this group is not real or that more specifically, there are no agencies with space programs that operate outside of the US governments jurisdiction, but then when congress asked if investigators looked into these things, the investigators responded by saying they'd have to be told to do so "from a higher power"- members of Congress literally were told they don't have the power to tell these investigators what to investigate, and the question of whether the President holds such "power" was not appropriately answered. Notice, when questions about UAP that would go in and out of the ocean were brought up, all of that conversation was censored and stated that it would only be touched upon in private session. They continue to censor the truth and expected the public to be complacent with such a poorly done investigation, thus, they failed the American public.
The reason these excuses are no longer acceptable to the American public is entirely due to the government and its agencies notoriously being untrustworthy and purposely malicious - case in point; MK ULTRA. We American's cannot forget this, or otherwise, our government WILL repeat its mistakes and subject its citizens to harm again. We cannot forgive our government for such misdeeds, and if our government isn't happy with that response or being labeled as such, then they can do better and be more open with its citizens. That is a fact. So thus we must be skeptical of government agencies and corporate media's dismissive misinformation, and we must continue to scrutinize the lack of transparency of our government and its agencies, regardless of slanders of "conspiracy theories" from those that aren't even bothered to document these things in the first place.