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DevCat@lemmy.world to Political Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

No, there is no Area 51. Damn.

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No, there is no Area 51. Damn.

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DevCat@lemmy.world to Political Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Alien conspirarcy theories worked as a baseline test for the CIA to track how effective propoganda and misinformation is before they rolled out the same techniques in places that it mattered for US foriegn policy interests.

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      Source?

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        https://sgp.fas.org/library/ciaufo.html

        https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-truth-was-out-there-on-the-legacy-of-art-bell

        https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-lied-about-ufo-sightings.html

        I should say, this is mostly speculation based on reading a lot of COINTELPRO and MKULTRA stuff, it seems likely a way to test obsfoucating military technology through misinformation.

        Furthermore if you notice the global UFO reported sightings, it seems to only line up with where American media has a hegemony, which is strange considering China has nearly 2 billion people in it, you’d think one of them might have seen one; it seems to only be where american media has reach that ‘UFOs’ start to appear and I dont think thats an accident.

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          Interesting stuff - thanks

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