They were also convinced it would be 2000, 2001, 2012 etc
That's one of my reasons for skepticism.
HOWEVER, This year IS
DIFFERENT IN THAT
1. The Pope has made increasingly brazen comments about the critters and cast them in a very favorable light.
2. The William Tompkins rather startling disclosure book and the note that the oligarchy has given him permission to share his story . . . he's 93.
3. The Tom DeLonge narrative, project.
Those are 3 ?major? changes that SEEM to bespeak an incremental escalation toward disclosure.
Having studied the stuff since 1962 . . . my own sense is that SUCH FACTOIDS ARE significantly carrying the stuff toward a new level of disclosure/disinformation.
And, there's the commonly asserted factoid that the oligarchy has camps that are split and against each other on the issue of disclosure. Some parts may have been nudging toward disclosure with honest expectations of such . . . only to be later slapped down by a larger percentage of the oligarchy.