Rogan said on the Shellenberger interview this week that if he WAS trying to hide something, he would absolutely set up a bunch of whistleblowers and leaks to come up, by feeding them fake info under the guise of it being real, and then the whistleblowers would unknowingly take their "leaks," public, and then when society investigated the leaks it would all lead to nothing. This would erode the public trust in the veracity of the whistleblowers so that whatever shit they actually had going on could remain hidden in plain sight.
I can buy it. In which case Shellenberger may not be lying but his whistleblower might have been fed deliberately false information by a high-up who WANTS there to be a craze as people scramble looking for evidence about secret government UAP programs which don't really exist.
It would make a nice deflection, for example, from say the public getting fixated on when the hell the JFK files will be released.