> The whole UFO / UAP thing is a psyop. As to what such a psyop is supposed to achieve is beyond me though. I've always suspected that the "show and tell" had

> The whole UFO / UAP thing is a psyop. As to what such a psyop is supposed to achieve is beyond me though. I've always suspected that the "show and tell" had to do with securing funding or status for the program(s). Can the dumps of footage and breathless claims be related to budget cycles or some predictable bureaucratic wrangling? The ancestor program, AATIP (2007), was the pet project of a senator and was funded for five years. It seems to have been resurrected or reconstituted multiple times, most recently as AARO in 2022. I presume these programs are populated with true believers who find themselves in the unpleasant situation of needing to demonstrate some value for the public largess.