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Well I was a kid and living outside the US at the time and I saw some newspaper which said something about an alien's body having been found in the US. I asked

Well I was a kid and living outside the US at the time and I saw some newspaper which said something about an alien's body having been found in the US. I asked my dad if it was true and he said something like "Haha no, American media always talks about UFOs to distract their citizens." My dad implied that he had seen this trick before. Now seeing this as an adult over 20 years later, I'm getting flashbacks. That's all. It just feels like UFO news keep coming up out of nowhere and it's so boring and distracting because you know it's fake. It's a weather baloon or it's a toy helicopter or it's a spy drone or it's a trick of the light or it's a damn bird. We're been there before. Nothing new at all. Why would the government have hidden evidence of aliens, why tell everyone now releasing all evidence at once? Clearly there is an element of timing. But why choose this particular time when there are so many more important news to discuss? Two years ago there was nothing happening at all. That would have been a great time. It doesn't make any sense. I can't believe I have to explain this. Am I a genius? It's so obvious to me.

Dylan16807 5y ago
There's a big difference between "always" versus being a deliberate distraction response. No matter when a UFO story comes out, you could always point to some recent event that powers don't want to talk about. But that makes it a non-falsifiable argument, just as much a conspiracy theory as any other UFO explanation.
krapp 5y ago
>, why tell everyone now releasing all evidence at once? Clearly there is an element of timing. Because a line item was added to the defense authorization bill, which contained COVID-19 relief funding, requiring the government to report on what it knew about UAPs as a potential security threat within 180 days of authorization. Nowhere, and at no time, has the government ever claimed that aliens exist, that UFOs (or UAPs) are alien spacecraft, or that the government has hidden, or intends to reveal, such evidence. All of that is part of the BS woowoo viral hype cycle spun around this story by clickbait-driven websites and UFO believers who have been waiting for "disclosure" for decades. And all of that more important news to discuss is still being discussed. This story hasn't distracted anyone, or stopped the media from reporting on anything else, including the economy. If the government wanted to use the media to distract people from a bad economy, first it obviously wouldn't work because people don't need the media to tell them when the economy is bad, and second, it would be easier and more effective to just propagandize economic reporting rather than hoping for a second-order effect from an entirely unrelated story.

Dylan16807 5y ago

There's a big difference between "always" versus being a deliberate distraction response. No matter when a UFO story comes out, you could always point to some recent event that powers don't want to talk about. But that makes it a non-falsifiable argument, just as much a conspiracy theory as any other UFO explanation.

krapp 5y ago

>, why tell everyone now releasing all evidence at once? Clearly there is an element of timing. Because a line item was added to the defense authorization bill, which contained COVID-19 relief funding, requiring the government to report on what it knew about UAPs as a potential security threat within 180 days of authorization. Nowhere, and at no time, has the government ever claimed that aliens exist, that UFOs (or UAPs) are alien spacecraft, or that the government has hidden, or intends to reveal, such evidence. All of that is part of the BS woowoo viral hype cycle spun around this story by clickbait-driven websites and UFO believers who have been waiting for "disclosure" for decades. And all of that more important news to discuss is still being discussed. This story hasn't distracted anyone, or stopped the media from reporting on anything else, including the economy. If the government wanted to use the media to distract people from a bad economy, first it obviously wouldn't work because people don't need the media to tell them when the economy is bad, and second, it would be easier and more effective to just propagandize economic reporting rather than hoping for a second-order effect from an entirely unrelated story.