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"Somebody said Aliens, she thought they said Illegal Aliens, sign up"

Taking the whole UAP thing and turning it into a crusade against allegedly illegal immigrants is some top tier shitposting.

The administration's comms strategy is generally, ah, unconventional.

But this is especially odd given the Dept of War's apparently serious attempt at declassifying UAP files (www.war.gov/UFO/).

Intentionally or not, seems one would undermine the other.

Nothing this administration has done with regard to UAPs has been serious. All of it has been a fully self-aware and attempt at distraction and shitposting. All of it is a grift.

There is nothing about UAP that can be serious.

I'm convinced that at the very center of it you have conventional but advanced top secret craft, counterintelligence and normal spy vs spy stuff. Everything else is a circus of lies, memes, folklore and psyops though.

Look up Paul Bennewitz[0]. I think that story is the closest we'll ever get to "the truth."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bennewitz

I’d argue these are a wholly distinct category of thing than the concepts associated with the words UAP/UFO. Surely there exist experimental aircraft, and that may be of interest to specialists in intelligence and military fields and may be worth an entry in some niche osint blog now and then. Other than that, anything that can be seriously said about uap/ufo belongs in psychology journals.

Just look at the New Jersey drone craze. How many reports were there of mysterious lights that turned out to be completely normal aircraft landings or whatever? It was basically mass psychosis of people who suddenly noticed the Up for the first time in their lives.

> Surely there exist experimental aircraft

What was the last aircraft anyone kept secret? Modern satellites and smartphones just make this incredibly hard.

Just went live a few minutes ago

Oh its only about Aliens...not something really scary like the Epstein Files....

They need to release the Epstein files.

They would literally invade Iran before doing that

Against the advice of the entire intelligence community no less.

Don't be shocked when the intelligence community can give bad advice. Remember Iraq?

Two broken clocks can agree or disagree.

Iraq was easy peazy. They fell in a few days. Big open desert unlike Iran that is mostly mountains and massive. Staying there to nation build was the poor choice. They are basically back to where they were before we got there. Nation building can't change cultures. some rant about oil

Trump fired everyone who told him it was a bad plan and put fox hosts in their place

Now do dual citizens in Congress.

So they’re taking advantage of the marketing push behind Disclosure Day hitting theaters to make a stupid “aliens” pun about immigration. What a bunch of dimwit fascist tools.

Everyone is twelve now. If you're twelve, this is hilarious.

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