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Re:U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying ... by tyleo on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:32PM (#27637536)
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.

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Re:U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying ... by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:51AM (#27640008)
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...

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