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Here's my tin-foil-hat theory on UFO's. The whole idea of a UFOs and flying saucers was a kooky ass idea from the US government to spook the Soviets into think

Here's my tin-foil-hat theory on UFO's. The whole idea of a UFOs and flying saucers was a kooky ass idea from the US government to spook the Soviets into thinking, the US actually had in their possessions aliens, and futuristic alien technology. It is too coincidental the first reports of flying saucers came in the late 40s. When the cold war first started to heat up. I think the Soviets actually bought it up and the government (CIA?) kept running with it. Why not? It was probably a cheap and effective way psychologically mess with the Soviets.

api 11y ago
That isn't particularly outlandish. The Red Mercury hoax is pretty well documented and very similar: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/the-doomsday-scam.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/the-doomsday-scam... The whole thing might have been a great way to 'out' spies (by tracing information flow) and generally confuse and psych out the Soviets.
dragonwriter 11y ago
UFOs predate the cold war; the "flying saucer" image is from that time, but that's a time when advantages of flying saucers were being discussed and experiments being tried.
- ashark 11y ago
  The "airship sightings" are especially fun(ny). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship