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The UFO talk seems to occuring when the USA needs to distract attention from other things.

• krapp 3y ago
  If that were what was happening, wouldn't this report claim the opposite of what it does? Wouldn't it conclude aliens are definitely real and people should absolutely be worried about them?
  • thriftwy 3y ago
    That one's for Christmas.
• saalweachter 3y ago
  Eh, it's more an outgrowth of the rise of the conspiracy mindset, IMO. There's an old canard in the skeptical community that no one ever believes one conspiracy theory. You start out believing in one conspiracy for reasons, and it opens a floodgates to where every other conspiracy theory starts to seem perfectly plausible. And people might have been pushed into earlier conspiracy theories on their journey to full blown nutjob for political reasons, but by the time you get to UFOs it's usually pure organic "well why NOT?"
  • JKCalhoun 3y ago
    > UFO talk seems to occuring when the USA needs to distract attention > it's more an outgrowth of the rise of the conspiracy mindset Certainly could be a relationship there.
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