Amnesty? For what? Anybody that goes to AARO gets automatic whistle-blower status. We have AARO reports of people saying things that did not check out, but we still don't know officially who they were. Unofficially, we can trace some of these claims to known UFO enthusiasts, but they are still afforded whistle-blower status.

Just speculating here, but besides the need to get out in front of the poor quality videos, the amnesty is strange. Perhaps the heat in the kitchen is getting a bit much? Some of these guys have spent years, if not decades, claiming, including in congressional hearings:

• The US government has crashed UFOs that are reverse engineered by the government or select contractors.
• These secret programs are deeply buried and maintained with threats and sometimes outright murder.
• Insiders like Grusch, Elizondo and others know where the bodies and flying saucers are.
• And more recently, certain members of Congress are going to get secret UFO files released.

Add to that, Kirkpatrick has repeatedly called out an un-named group as perpetuating these claims and that when whistle-blowers did identified specific UFO programs, it didn't pan out. There were secret programs, but not about UFOs.

Amnesty sounds like "Hey I really thought I found a UFO program and I shouldn't get in trouble for trying to point it out. Even if I was wrong"