There is an article about the finding of a possible disk shaped object under the Baltic Sea:
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=16293There is also much talk of extraterrestrials in the mainstream press and top rated shows on channels such as History and Green TV. The Vatican has even made a statement about the possibilities of extraterrestrials being quite real and God's creatures.
Many blogs and fringe groups have been stating Disclosure has been coming since the 1950s. Major Donald Keyhoe (USMC-Ret) had claimed Disclosure is coming soon; it was said Jimmy Carter was going to disclose; Ronald Reagan, etc. But so far, nothing has happened. I would be the first to claim nothing is going to be disclosed, but after all that is happening I have to wonder if something might really be down the road. And quite soon.
I have always thought the government (and military) would never want to reveal this information as they have too much to lose from potential reverse engineering. According to Stanton Friedman, it would be very complex to do for us, much like giving a nuclear submarine to the specialists in Columbus' era and tell them to find out how it works. It could take hundreds of years to glean technologies that are now just being realized.
So the question would be why are they doing this? Is there a reason to divulge this information now? I cannot answer that big question, but others might speculate contact being made, December 21, 2012 and a host of other reasons.
It is possible the leaders want people of our planet to get along with each other. What a better way to show this than saying we are not alone and we should consider ourselves citizens of Earth along with citizens of the state/nation we are from. We would all unite as human beings for a common good and know we are not alone. We would also want to meet our new neighbors, and look at the potential transformation into traveling to the stars.