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U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but no aliens

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Re: U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but no aliens

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The report did nothing to change my views on aliens. There are some events that we have very little information on, and so we can not explain, and so the answers could be anything and therefor imply nothing. The reports are also consistent with angels - angels fly around, have capabilities beyond our technological understanding, and so on. Your argument is fallacious because it's based on cherry picked, weak accounts…

Let me rephrase things a little bit. Consider two realities, Reality A (RA) and Reality B (RB). In RA there are no aliens operating craft in our atmosphere and the report was motivated by your 3 explanations or similar. In RB there are aliens operating in our atmosphere. In which reality, RA, or RB, is the DNI report more likely to be published? I think the answer is clearly RB. For one thing, RB has all the same rea…

I don't care to really delve into why I think my theories are obviously correct. The problem is that your entire line of reasoning is broken. When your evidence is weak and your possibilities are infinite you can not say that the evidence changes your view on one of those infinite possibilities - that's just confirmation bias.

Re: U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but no aliens

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Since they had to start competing with an ever growing demand by population for increasing social serivces like Unversal Healthcare, and UBI, combined with current social services and debt taking up over 50% of the federal budget. They see the writting on the wall, America can no longer fund its war machine unless there is an enemy, Russia / Cold War is played out even though they are still trying to beat that dead h…

Aliens make the perfect scare? You think more people are afraid of aliens than terrorists?

I think they can use propaganda to ferment a greater fear yes. it is new and unknown.

Their propaganda around "terrorists" is wearing thin. Today people are massively less fearful of the "big bad terrorist" then they were 10 years ago. They are less accepting of the military story that some goat farmer in a dessert is a "threat to national security" that needs a response by multi billion dollar weapons platforms

So now they have two competing treks the classic external threat which was always other nations but is harder and harder to sell to the people these days so the external threat has to become VERY external

Then you have the growing propaganda around internal threats, aka "Domestic Extremism" however it is very hard military make the case the American People are their enemy. The FBI sure, other paramilitary "law enforcement" sure, but that actual official military.. that is a sticky wicket. Though I from the recent report by Glenn Greenwald it seems maybe they are going to try that as well...

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