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Why does the bulk of the evidence of extraterrestrial life that people focus on recently seem to come from the government rather than from scientists? It seems that every time you listen to the latest news on the topic, the government is providing wild claims while mainstream scientists seem to accept or provide nearly nothing as evidence of ET life.
I usually like Ross Douthat but I recently watched his video with Diana Pasulka regarding UFOs and ETs. I am not predisposed to making accusations of government plants everywhere but the interview was so bizarre that it felt like she was just a plant to sow chaos and confusion in the space to me. I have always felt that the term "UAP" was suspicious as it is exactly the sort of SEO hashtag you would create if an entity wanted to track and analyze a certain specific narrative or conversation around a topic that already exists but within a specific context (like government-synthesized data.)
I have always had nightmares about UFOs and found aliens very scary. Have any of you ever seen a UFO or encountered an alien?
It's a strategy for countering the influence of conspiracy theorists. Throw a little alien chum in the water and watch them a) get distracted from ranting about Israel; b) make themselves look insane to an audience that might otherwise be receptive to their anti-government conspiracy theories.
What is the latest UAP craze about? You are right, it is strange and sus. Even veteran UFO researchers are bewildered what is it about.
Non exhausting list of possibilities:
1/ Slow disclosure.
Aliens are real and USG is ready to disclose it to the public, in slow drips to prevent muggles from panicking.
2/ Blue Beam scenario.
Aliens are not real, but USG plans to fake alien contact to establish New World Order(TM). When ayyys tell the masses to live in pods and eat bugs, the muggles better to comply.
3/ The flying tictacs are red.
Aliens are not real. The objects in the sky are real and are Chinese Star Trek tier technology developed in secret. USG is panicking, desperately searching for countermeasures and in the mean time tries to prevent panic among muggles.
4/ The flying tictacs are red, white and blue.
Aliens are not real. The objects in the sky are real and are US Star Wars tier technology developed in secret. Were you thinking that the trillions of dollars spent on GWOT were really wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan?
These superweapons are reserved for final struggle with China, and USG is trying to deceive China in the mean time, so they will come as complete surprise.
5/ Wilderness of mirrors
No one know what is real and what is not, least of all USG experts. It is all some complicated inside game muggles have no hope of understanding.
6/ One big nothingburger
It's not real, there are no conspiracies, just grifters, scammers and mentally ill people doing things for their own purposes. Nothing to see there.
Adding into the mix something that the government sources themselves have suggested, which is, basically, "our research/reverse engineering efforts are hitting dead ends because we have the program buttoned up too tight and we need to open the programs up to more minds."
Okay, that’s a pretty silly excuse.
Paranoid conspiracy theories have got to be the worst form of recruitment for a research program.
Maybe I did a poor job of communicating.
I think the government coming out and saying "we have a crashed non-human craft, any of you eggheads want to come look at it?" it would generate a lot of research interest, don't you? Even saying "yeah okay UFOs are real and we don't know what they are, but we need help figuring it out" would probably garner some interest from boffins, right?
The government sources OP are referring to have been conducting a coordinated pressure/PR campaign that can be interpreted in a few different ways, but one possible goal of the campaign is to get the government to admit to the above (and they basically succeeded on the second half, and have gotten some corresponding interest from boffins, which has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread).
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