And indeed, US intelligence has historically been in the "deliberately stoke UFO (UAP) conspiracy theories to protect our intelligence interests" business. I do

And indeed, US intelligence has historically been in the "deliberately stoke UFO (UAP) conspiracy theories to protect our intelligence interests" business. I don't wanna be one of those people on the internet who says everything is a psyop, but when the US government produces evidence of UAPs, historically it has been, and our prior should be that it's misinformation probably meant to sabotage some other nation's intelligence efforts in a manner we don't have the context to understand (if I had to take a guess, which I'm not particularly qualified to do, by pretending they've been so thoroughly bamboozled by the current generation of aerial surveillance platforms that they think it's aliens, thereby delaying the deployment of improved craft. It's not a particularly compelling hypothesis, it's just the one I am aware of which I judge most likely.).