But the difference is that there is now more activity from the government in this field.

Last year's annual military funding bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), included a new clause allowing whistleblowers to report previously undisclosed UFO 'material retrieval, material analysis, [and] reverse engineering' programs to the Pentagon's AARO team without fear of prosecution for violating their security oaths and non-disclosure agreements. Daily Mail

And NASA implemented a 'NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena' independent study team last year and had a hearing about it. NASA website

Or a new 'Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' from the Director Of National Intelligence, by request of the Pentagon. (Although, this may have something to do with the increase in spy balloons.)