Yes, absolutely, an international superpower will realize it's a possibility. However, they may have about as much luck as the comments section of HN in being sure.

It's an asymmetrical thing; you spend a drop in the bucket putting out this sort of disinformation, and if they spend $10 million in black ops research following up on it, you win in relative terms.

There's other possibilities you can come up with, too; throw the conspiracy theorists a bit of what seems to be red meat every once in a while and they'll maintain a smokescreen of radical disinformation and a thick patina of disbelievability over everything that even remotely resembles this sort of thing for almost free. The truth may well be in that mess somewhere but good luck picking it out.

If international superpowers consistently put technical expertise over the whims of bureaucrats, the Challenger disaster and Chernobyl would have never happened. The US wasted a lot of effort during the Cold War investigating parapsychology and remote viewing.

Sometimes all it takes is convincing the one person who controls the rest.