• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The conspiracy isn’t “aliens don’t exist.”

    The conspiracy is “aliens do exist and the government is hiding them.”

    The government spreads this to hide actual secrets.

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      Exactly. They spread partially incorrect info to hide the real info. Just like they started the flat earth movement to hide the fact that the earth is actually an oblong.

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            In the case of Paul Bennewitz, classified radio transmissions. They convinced him it was aliens and he died in a mental hospital.

            Then there was Kecksburg, where a classified spy satellite was deorbited and they just let folks believe it was an alien spacecraft.

            Same goes for all the Area 51 and Roswell stuff that helps hide experimental aircraft and secret operations behind a smoke screen of woo.