The Great UFO Cover-up, the Real “Men in Black,” and the Roll of Hollywood
In a new documentary, U.S. government agents claim they spent decades giving fake evidence of extraterrestrials to gullible urologists. But why? And how can we trust them now?
by Steve Rose
14 August 2014
from TheGuardian Website
Hidden among the avalanche of documents leaked by Edward Snowden were images from a Powerpoint presentation by GCHQ, entitled The Art of Deception — Training for Online Covert Operations.
Images include camouflaged moths, inflatable tanks, women in burqas, and complex diagrams plastered with jargon, buzzwords, and slogans:
“Disruption Operational Playbook”, “Swap the real for the false and vice versa”, “People make decisions as part of groups” and, beneath a shot of hands shuffling a deck of cards, “We want to build Cyber Magicians”.
Curiously, sandwiched in the middle of the document are three photographs of UFOs. Not real ones — classic fakes: one was a hub cap, another a bunch of balloons, and one that turned out to be a seagull.
Devout ufologists might seize upon this as further proof that our governments “know something” about aliens and their transportation methods, but it suggests the opposite:
the UFO community is a textbook case of a gullible group susceptible to manipulation.
Having spent too long watching the skies and The X-Files, it’s implied, they’ll readily swallow whatever snippet of “evidence” suits their grand theory.
If there is a UFO conspiracy, it’s surely the worst-kept secret in history.
flashing lights
little green men
… it’s all been fed through the pop culture mill to the point of fatigue.
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