Another is that maybe we are in something of a Cold War right now, as predicated by the weather balloon incident, but the USG wants to keep it secret. If people spot UAPs there is a counter narrative now about aliens that drowns out talk of war. It seems like knowing we were being spied on could cause reactions the government would rather not deal with.
et cetera...
Several reputable people have gone on record testifying for his (mental) integrity. Even some scientists actually.
The whole premise of that guy being easily discredited is absurd. Its lazy thinking plain and simple. Go read the actual article and corroborating information on 'The Debrief'.
If he is lying there is no conspirators to give a shit.
Neither of these point to whether or not hes lying though. Just saying.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43168/top-gun-2s-exten...
The DoD got Tom Cruise to pay them to make a 2hr 10m ad, and then audiences paid $1.5bn at the box office to watch it.
The DoD is amazing at PR.
Considering there is not another US Navy to lend them some jets for filming, I'd suggest the DoD had a pretty strong hand.
> In 2013, the life-cycle cost per operating day of a carrier strike group (including aircraft) was estimated at $6.5 million by the Center for New American Security.
This is just sad. I'll lay this on you, yes there is a classified crash
retrieval program, it's a SAP. It is about retrieving crashed UAVs from
adversarial countries and has nothing to do with aliens. Don't be a sucker
folks.
I suspect that at least one and perhaps many alien intelligences have been here on Earth for a very long time and are observing us, but they're very good at staying hidden so probably we have never observed them and never will.
In the unlikely event that they ever did accidentally reveal themselves, probably they would cover it up to the extent possible while continuing to remain hidden.
Since these aliens will never interact with us in any significant manner, for practical purposes it doesn't matter whether they exist or not, and therefore I don't care very much whether they exist or not. Nevertheless, if, hypothetically, I had to make a bet with equal odds, I'd bet they do exist.
They already told us exactly why. Because there are unexplained phenomena which may pose a risk to national security, and they want to know more. Their intent is to reduce the stigma so that pilots and others are less afraid to report unusual sightings for proper investigation.
You don't have to believe in aliens to see the sense in this.
In this case, I agree. I usually try to avoid conspiratorial thinking and conspiracy theories, but the DoD and related agencies have been putting out all kinds of information about UFOs in the past few years. My question is: why? The DoD isn’t known for their public relations.
My best speculative guess is that they’re claiming they’ve found alien craft and exotic alien materials because the US is testing aircraft that appear alien with exotic materials and don’t want other nation states to assume it is even terrestrial so they don’t attempt to replicate the technology.
There must be a reason behind the UFO media blitz that has happened lately, it’s not like they’re releasing the info to keep the public informed. Anyone have other ideas? It could be grifters looking to sell a story, mentally ill people misunderstanding jokes or inventing things out of whole cloth, etc.
P.S. I believe intelligent life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but that we’ve never been visited and will never be visited due to the distances involved.