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The press and politicians started hyping up the UFO issue last year when it was clear that we were headed for cold war 2.0. It is a great narrative to get more
by klghqr 4y ago
The press and politicians started hyping up the UFO issue last year when it was clear that we were headed for cold war 2.0.
It is a great narrative to get more funding, get people interested in space and the MIC, etc.
The timing is suspect, it seems like just another manufactured crisis.
- krapp 4y agoThat doesn't actually make sense, though. UFO believers were losing their minds thinking "disclosure" had finally come, but most politicians never even mentioned it and the press never presented it as a crisis. If the government wanted to create fear and panic in order to justify funding, they had numerous real-world scenarios to draw on. Manufacturing a meme about UFOs is a stupid way to do that, assuming "it was clear that we were headed for cold war 2.0." The report itself didn't even manufacture a crisis. It was lackluster at best, failing to reach a definite conclusion, much less hype up an imminent threat that presumably needs funding.
- stevenhuang 4y agoTruthfully, it can be both. Never let a good crisis go to waste, etc. For example with project bluebook, UFO sightings have been discredited through ridicule and served double duty as smokescreen for legitimate secret military development such as the U2 spy plane.
- localplume 4y agothat doesn't make any sense though. UFOs dont get people interested in "space". if its aerospace then rockets and spacecraft do that just fine, and if its hard sciences then there are a billion other cool, real things. the MIC? yeah UFO people are famously pro-government and pro-military. the most well known media featuring UFOs/aliens, the X-Files, is full of government-related conspiracy theories.