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If we have anti-gravity technology and they are holding back on it, then I'll be pissed, personally. It would be the most transformative technology since the light bulb or the combustion engine, and slow walking it just to hold a military edge over your opponents is ridiculous.
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I think there are several historic precedents of advanced technology having a huge impact in sustaining or further advancing nation-states policies.

Think about Spanish and Portuguese caravels, english longbows, etc.

If your country somehow discovers something akin to electricity, probably fastly reproducible by other nations, you will probably want some extra time developing technology over the discovery, just to have maybe, 10-30 years edge over the rest. The more, the better.

This is not any news, US has done it already with the stealth technology (and they still have and edge on it, even if they're not making it public), nuclear technology (most of it are still closely guarded secrets, think hydrogen bombs), even most of the optical technologies related to satellites are highly guarded secrets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret

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According to Bob Lazar (Google him), we recovered a crashed UFO that uses anti-gravity technology, but we can't figure it out. The theory is one reason they are releasing it is so that they want to see if we can at least make some scientific progress on it.
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> most transformative technology since the light bulb

Assuming it doesn't require huge energies like 1MW/lb. If it did, it would be incredible for space travel, but fairly useless and incredibly inefficient for anyones every day life.

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I agree, and I'd be upset as well. But it sounds more plausible than having advanced spacecraft crash in our backyard, so to speak.
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