I´m not saying it´s the aliens

 

Here is a scenario: the United States military is testing new kinds of aircraft on a semi-regular basis. The tests are so secret that most of the military doesn´t know about them either (compartmentalization). This leads to strange and sometimes tragic misunderstandings. For instance, that the portion of the military which isn´t "in the know" calls meetings with scientists, wondering what the heck the strange craft could possibly be. Or that an air force pilots gets killed when chasing one of the objects. At some point, the intelligence community realizes that they can use belief in extraterrestrial visitors as a smoke screen to cover up various experimental flights (and more). Of course, the psy-op has to be directed *against the military itself*, not just the public. Also, everytime a classified drone is sent into restricted airspace (say, around a nuclear facility), the drill can be covered up as a "UFO"...

Is this a realistic scenario? Actually, yes. There is even some evidence that something like this happened. I blogged about this before. For instance here, about the so-called Bennewitz case. 

I´m not saying it was the government, but it was the government

That being said, the conspiracy theory also has certain weaknesses. For instance, that many of the "UFOs" seemingly had capabilities far exceeding any secret aircrafts of the period in question. Indeed, they seem to defy the laws of physics! The witnesses are often of very high quality, including military personnel and pilots. Sometimes, the objects can be seen visually as well as on radar simultaneously. How likely is it that *all* of these observations are simply misidentifications? Or is *every* witness a CIA plant? Ever since 1947?

After the Cold War, it became clear that the Soviet Union also had a UFO problem very similar in character to the American one. Military personnel would see objects around their ships or bases which simply can´t have been American. There is even a rather bizarre case (known as "Russell´s UFO") in which a US senator *visiting the Soviet Union* saw an object doing seemingly impossibly feats! If earthly, it would have been Soviet, but the Evil Empire doesn´t seem to have the necessary gadgets...

So while the disinfo is real, some kind of "next level disinfo" would have to be postulated to explain away all the UFO observations since Kenneth Arnold. Impossible? No, since our entire civilization seems to be a Potemkin village. Maybe all civilizations are. So the elites certainly have a long experience lying, just as their subjects know how to convince themselves that the lies are true. But, of course, this works both ways.

Maybe what the Potemkin facade is meant to shield us from the terrible realization that the flying saucers are...real.