Re:U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying ...
by lurkmurk on Friday June 25, 2021 @06:54PM
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What is the goal of this campain to re-introduce aliens into the public discourse? Interestingly, it seems that the "smart" people are now falling for it (washington post, hn, certain subreddits and podcasts...).
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Re:U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying ...
by tyleo on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:32PM
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I doubt that. The interesting part is that there _is_ a goal even if we don't know what it is:
* US Government is telling the truth - goal may be to figure out what these are.
* US Government is lying - goal may be to mislead an adversary.
Those are just two examples. I find UFOs interesting because its hard to understand the government's intention here and fun to speculate.
Re:U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying ...
by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:51AM
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Assuming that "US Government" has a single coherent goal is an event worse error than assuming the same of e.g. Microsoft (1)
Quite possibly: one faction in one branch of "US Government" is manoeuvring for power / money / status from another branch. Uncovering "truth" might be quite irrelevant to this goal; there's a lot of post-truth stuff happening there at present.
https://ritholtz.com/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-amazon...
Re:U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying ...
by staticassertion on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:43PM
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When did aliens leave the public discourse? Right now there's a bit of a flare up, because that's how modern media works - some story is done, gets clicks, everyone rides the SEO trend for a while until something else crops up.
I don't think there's much more to it than that.