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I think people really forget that UFOs and aliens are only related because science fiction and pop culture. We have two separate problems: 1) We are seeing a

• yellowapple 4y ago
  The lack of seriousness seems more along the lines of "lol China/Russia man" than "lol aliens man". It's rather refreshing to see the DoD entertain explanations beyond "our geopolitical rivals are doing it" - and that includes not making presumptions around humans making and controlling these objects, because if we did know that with any degree of certainty then they probably wouldn't be unidentified flying objects.
• yamtaddle 4y ago
  > 2) We aren’t being serious enough about identifying the humans that make and control them because “lol aliens man” The public, maybe. People with the resources and access to investigate this stuff, I would bet money they're putting a whole lot more resources into "let's figure out who's building & operating these" than "find the little green men". Further complicating matters, any messaging in the area of unidentified aircraft is highly likely to be psyops of one form or another. You can't really trust any of it until we're years and years out and have a better idea of what was actually going on. Including things like whether any of this stuff is actually unidentified, for those with better access to information. UFO stuff's so tied up with aerospace tech development and spying that there often is a "conspiracy" going on, it just has nothing to do with aliens.