A Pentagon team tasked with investigating various conspiracy theories about a secret military program to study UFOs found that the real source of the rumors wasn’t out of this world, but considerably closer to home. The U.S. military intentionally fabricated evidence of extraterrestrial encounters to provide cover for real secret weapons programs. The government targeted its own citizens with disinformation.
A bombshell report in the Wall Street Journal highlights one example. An Air Force colonel gave photos of what seemed to be alien craft to the owner of a bar near the (in)famous Area 51. There was just one problem: The photos were doctored, as the Journal relates he confessed to Pentagon investigators in 2023. His actual intention: to hide the development of top secret, strategically essential, otherworldly seeming but in fact quite earthly aircraft being developed there. To keep these craft secret from the prying eyes of locals, it was better to make them think that they “came from Andromeda,” as the Journal put it.
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