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> “Over a longer period of time — not too long, but a matter of two or three years — you’ll eventually become aware of the limitations of this information. There is a great deal that it doesn’t tell you, it’s often inaccurate, and it can lead you astray just as much as the _New York Times_ can. But that takes a while to learn.

This is a part that would be good to remember in UFO discussions. You have no idea of what supposedly all this secret information about UFOs are, or about the context that is being suppressed, or even how much there is as opposed to Chinese whispers recirculating the same exact original datum, wikiception-style, slowly rising from some garbage better discarded to 'the intelligence community has reports'...



UFOs are always a distraction or trap. Their presence in the zeitgeist means that something needs to be hidden.

In the 70s, they were rolled out to explain away testing of the Tomahawk cruise missile. In the 80s, the F117 stealth fighter. And so it goes.




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