I've only been noticing it the last few months. My one theory is it's right wing media trying to say "your government is hiding something from you and lying abo

I've only been noticing it the last few months. My one theory is it's right wing media trying to say "your government is hiding something from you and lying about aliens!" and then to extrapolate that (without saying so) to "what else is it hiding and lying about, e.g. the 'truth' about Covid?". But this theory falls apart when Obama has even talked about the UFOs, but maybe he also noticed the rising interest and just innocently quipped that "we don't know exactly what's out there" to mean "we don't know which country's tech these things are."