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UFO is a very potent story. And the US government had used it in the past as decoys (allegedly):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#The_Truth...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bennewitz

Wouldn't be surprised if this is a sequel.

I definitely buy the core the thesis of HyperNormalisation, but I find it equally likely the CIA/deepstate would push a narrative that all those UFOs that started popping up right around the time we were getting nuclear off the ground was totally just the super awesome USA government's super secret technology.

Yeah--that after discarding the alien theory people gravitate to US technological tests is pretty flattering to a government that spent record-setting amounts of money on the F-35.

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