The government wants you to believe.

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Kirkpatrick, who spoke with the Journal, says he’s found evidence that the government “fabricated evidence of alien technology” in an effort to distract from real weapons programs being carried out by the government in secret.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is that supposed to be some kind of surprising revelation?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're not the only person who does this, but this sort of comment adds nothing to the conversation.

    Just because you already believe something or have heard of something before doesn't mean that's true for other people. Spreading knowledge inherently involves repetition.

    And even if it were true that something is common knowledge, what good is it to say "I know that?" If the first comment was a waste of characters, then so is the follow up.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's not a matter of hearing of it before; it's a matter of applying Occam's Razor. How gullible does a person have to be to look at a super-secretive Air Force base that's nevertheless known to be a testing ground for experimental aircraft, and then think the weird lights flying around above it must be aliens instead of just weird, fancy jets?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Distracts from the really dirty laundry

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    the Air Force developed an exotic electromagnetic generator that simulated this pulse of disruptive energy without the need to detonate a nuclear weapon. When activated, this device, placed on a portable platform 60 feet above the facility, would gather power until it glowed, sometimes with a blinding orange light. It would then fire a burst of energy that could resemble lightning.

    1. is that technically possible?

    2. what would it take to build one?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I feel like it is glowing orange something has gone terribly wrong.

    ETA: I looked up some reasons it might glow orange. There are legitimate reasons. I thought it meant it was glowing while charging which is what the article makes it sound like. Maybe it got too hot and started glowing? Possible and probably unsafe or something wrong in the design. But I wouldn't think that would be as bright as it seems like the article means.

    However, if it's releasing plasma and sodium vapor it could give a bright orange glow. So it's possible that it charged up, fired, released plasma plus something that turned bright orange (there are a couple of other things, but I'm sticking with sodium in this example), then shot a lightning like ray when the plasma found a path to ground. Similar to how a Tesla coil in a plasma ball works but with something that turns orange (sodium vapor) instead of purple (xenon and neon or whatever).

    But I could be misunderstanding.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Ever since the Pentagon released video clips of "UFOs", it should have been common knowledge that they were doing this. Since they would not have released clips of unknown potential threats or enemy weapons.

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  • 4 comments in c/ufos@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Funny how you don't see this posted in any conspiracy forums

    The literal smoking gun suspected for half a century and zero coverage...

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Of course they have .... the Russians perform a similar tactic to deal with insurrections and undesirable groups in their country.

    They flood the information landscape with everything .... real information, disinformation, non-information, nonsense, facts, alternate facts, conspiracies, jokes, pranks, cults

    They'll even fund and support opposing sides to bolster their movements.

    Watch the documentary 'Hypernormalisation' by Adam Curtis and you'll understand more of why our current world is full of so many differing and confusing perspectives .... it's to confuse all of us and keep us all confused with endless information so that we will never be able to know what is real and what is not.

    https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Do we expect the government to say anything truthful? I mean, really? It seems you haven't been around long enough to notice all governments do is lie and preserve the status quo for the elite, or is that far fetched?

    Believe none of you hear, half of what you see and perhaps rely on self-experience, the best master, one could argue - at least so I navigate this world myself personally. To each their own.

    The government along the media has been pushing their agenda on flying saucers and little green men for decades, their intention?

    Put fear into us and make this about something physical, effectively keeping us grounded within this reality and their control but hey that's just my take. **These are messengers from another dimension with a fascinating invitation for those interested. **

    Keep waiting on announcements, gurus and leaders and remain largely dissapointed.

    Take action instead and find your own truths - disclosure has already started one 1-1 scale, no need for governments, intermediaries or gurus, just direct and personal contact.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's a fabricated distraction and it works as intended.

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