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I assume the government is hyping up these UFO sightings in public because it gets the public wildly speculating about aliens, interested in looking for them an

I assume the government is hyping up these UFO sightings in public because it gets the public wildly speculating about aliens, interested in looking for them and most importantly filming them. But nobody at the Pentagon actually believes their aliens and they all know they're some kind of drones from China or another adversary that are actually more technologically capable than current US drones. They just want more data on them so they can start building their own.

amelius 5y ago
Or maybe they want to justify spending more on R&D.
- krapp 5y ago
  The US military industrial complex never has to justify spending more. They have a guaranteed infinite blank check until the heat death of the universe, no matter what party is in power.
  - amelius 5y ago
    If that's true they should spend more on cyber security given all the ransomware attacks.
    - krapp 5y ago
      I think it's clear they spend as much as they want to, not as much as they're permitted.
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XorNot 5y ago
The government isn't hyping anything. All of this is well, UFO-conspiracy theorists hyping things, and the media going for easy clicks (which is why you're reading this now). In reality, all of this is because it was a weird line-item added to a COVID-19 relief bill that nobody was going to bother fighting about at the time [1]. [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/us/ufo-report-emergency-relief-bill-trnd/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/us/ufo-report-emergency-r...