Tough day for UFO believers: there's a WSJ piece about how the government deliberately spread disinformation about aliens and Area 51.
wsj.com/politics/natio
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I wonder how many things like this get passed down after the last person to know they're a joke dies without revealing it.
It is, but not in the way you probably think. Everyone in UFO circles knows everything in this fairly thin piece already, & it goes way back (google Richard Doty, "Mirage Men", etc). The "tough day" part is the implication that the psyop is all there is
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This article does nothing to account for the near daily reality of sightings that pilots, service members, and regular folks witness. I’m disappointed that after the multiple good faith conversations I had with @joel_schectman, he neglected to include any of this information, x.com/joel_schectman…
Show moreI do think the government has credibility problems if they're actively spreading UFO rumors. But what non-UFO-related aspect of the world is less confusing once we know there are aliens around. A lot of things are more confusing!
President Trump issued an executive order indicating that he will focus on using the Alien Enemies Act to combat international cartels that have become entwined with “mafia states”.
Exactly the cover story the government would put out there to hide the truth.
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Very funny to treat this as some big revelation to UFO enthusiasts. Shows your own ignorance of the topic.
This was already covered in The X-Files decades ago. The government deliberately spreads disinformation about UFOs/aliens as part of its effort to discredit the real UFO/alien information
Are you aware of the term "modified limited hangout," and do you think the WSJ reporting was comprehensive?
No idea, of course, but the WSJ characterizes the previous report as basically a limited hangout. My question on UFOs and tech has always been: which parts of the tech tree did we suddenly skip? What's the thing we got decades/centuries early?