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Some haven’t figured it out yet.

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Worst comic I ever read

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They didn’t trust him so they never told him.

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This. I bet half of his security briefings were just bullshit to make him feel important.

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Alien conspirarcy theories worked as a baseline test for the CIA to track how effective propoganda and misinformation is before they rolled out the same techniques in places that it mattered for US foriegn policy interests.

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Source?

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https://sgp.fas.org/library/ciaufo.html

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-truth-was-out-there-on-the-legacy-of-art-bell

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-lied-about-ufo-sightings.html

I should say, this is mostly speculation based on reading a lot of COINTELPRO and MKULTRA stuff, it seems likely a way to test obsfoucating military technology through misinformation.

Furthermore if you notice the global UFO reported sightings, it seems to only line up with where American media has a hegemony, which is strange considering China has nearly 2 billion people in it, you’d think one of them might have seen one; it seems to only be where american media has reach that ‘UFOs’ start to appear and I dont think thats an accident.

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Interesting stuff - thanks

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There never were aliens at Area 51.

It was all just a ruse to cover up even more dark shit.

Think of things banned by the Geneva convention, like biological weapons, torture techniques, war crimes, …

Making people think it is aliens makes it seem innocent by comparison.

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torture techniques, war crimes,

Wouldn’t that be Guantanamo Bay?

The reason that people belived it was aliens is that people are stupid. Area 51 was a secret but not so much anymore. Now we know it was useful for secret projects like A-12. It’s a convenient place to do test flights of secret shit.

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