Exclusive | UFO expert says government is still hiding information from us and we couldnt handle the truth anyway

Is it all just smoke and mirrors?The Department of War released over 160 previously classified files on Friday in an effort for greater transparency surrounding UFOs, aliens and extraterrestrial life — but some experts believe the government is still hiding key information from us.The files — released after President Donald Trump ordered the government to identify and release any files related to alien life and UFOs — will “provide the American people with maximum transparency,” the Director of National Security, Tulsi Gabbard, said Friday.But not everyone is convinced by the government’s promise of “maximum transparency,” including long-time UFO expert Dennis Anderson, who has been investigating mysterious flying objects for over six decades.“The government will never disclose that we are dealing with an unknown phenomenon that we can not control or defend ourselves against,” Anderson exclusively told The Post. “Some UAP [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena] researchers think the public could handle it, I don’t,” he said. “This is just one of several reasons I don’t believe full disclosure will take place,” the former member of the Center for UFO Studies added.Anderson — who notably studied the mysterious 2001 “Arthur Kills Lights” where five to 16 bright orange “ovals” flew between New Jersey and Staten Island — argues that the government “knows something exists” and “that there’s something strange going on,” but he doesn’t believe they know exactly what that “something” is. Anderson likens the unknown phenomenon to a “cosmic consciousness.”“There’s something that is going around all … It’s constantly around us, but just adapts to the time,” he theorized, adding that it appears to come from another planet that we just haven’t yet reached. “When we reach that point, maybe it’ll start to appear as something else,” he said. Making reference to the “Phantom Airships” people claimed...