Not that that's proving anything but it gives me a harder time to entirely dismiss it.
The Joe Rogan interview linked in sibling comment is an interesting follow up to the initial interviews with George Knapp from the late 80s.
Just make an international phone call with a non-citizen, for the most obvious example. Slightly less obvious is just walking around outside if you are within 20 miles of a big city or an international border.
To me, that I still look at these guys claims of spooks watching them with incredulity is a bit disturbing. They were obviously nuts, but now it's a fact of life? Totally bizarre.
Which, at this point means we either have some kind of stupid psychological operation on our hands, or (hopefully) some rational facts that shed light on the bullshit artistry of paranormal crackpots, and dispel idiotic space alien malarky once and for all.
I swear, if I hear any further bullshit about "greys" from "Zeta Reticuli 1 & 2" and watch people eat a can of X-files garbage like it's a Dean Kamen TED Talk, I'm going to off myself by eating rat poison, because this world is fucking stupid.
While the rest of your comments seems like it could be perhaps better worded.
The author of the article does have as one of his leading theories that all this recent hoopla is some type of Psychological Operation (PSYOP)