My thoughts exactly, this whole story is textbook spook shit. Any of the involved parties may have any number of hidden motivations for lying to everybody. N

My thoughts exactly, this whole story is textbook spook shit. Any of the involved parties may have any number of hidden motivations for lying to everybody. Normal analysis of news stories assumes that at least some of the involved parties are relatively neutral and at least aren't intentionally lying, and that conspiracies rarely happen. That all goes out the window when you're dealing with intelligence agencies. Take Roswell for instance. The government said it was a weather balloon. Conspiracy theorists said it was aliens. "Rational skeptics" said it was an experimental aircraft that the government covered up with the weather balloon story. Paranoid "rational skeptics" said it was an experimental aircraft and that the government had seeded the aliens conspiracy theory to distract anybody skeptical of the official weather balloon story. The reality? It seems clear now that it was a balloon, but not a weather balloon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul Everybody got misdirected.