Excellent. I believe there will now be a serious effort to discredit any information on UAP and UFOs brought to light by the general public. We are in effect in a secret war.
If you consider this to be the biggest national/international cover up in our history then it makes sense.
I think that we have no idea who is behind this cover up. Whomever they are they're powerful. I believe the general public will just have to continue researching and exploring the subject for themselves. Getting official government confirmation will never happen.
Julian Barnes was the perfect tool and so was the New York Times.