Funny, that exactly sums up one of the plot twists I completely forgot about in the X-Files: secretly set up UFO/UAP events and abductions, feed nutjobs with al

Funny, that exactly sums up one of the plot twists I completely forgot about in the X-Files: secretly set up UFO/UAP events and abductions, feed nutjobs with alien theories by having Mulder&al investigate and leak trickles of info to the likes of Lone Gunmen, all while denying UFO/aliens to further feed the UFO conspiracy theory, all that to divert attention from the actual, very earthly conspiracies (turns out one of them ends up being about actual aliens and The Project, but Smoking Man makes it quite clear how he's using Mulder and the X-Files to the above end and that even fewer conspiracists know about that, with the rest being conned into thinking they sit at the top conning everyone and that there are no aliens)