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Stefferi  Chief Suomiposter  1yr ago (alakasa.substack.com)   2799 thread views

The UFO boom might just be a distributed US intelligence gathering effort

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I have been bouncing around a theory for a while about the whole UFO discussion of the last... five years? It's interesting how it has ebbed and flowed in US, even getting a fair amount of discussion (and true believers announcing themselves) on the predecessor forums to this forum. I think the most important and interesting thing is not the phenomenon - how many times are people going to get excited about hazy videos that may or may not show small specks moving in unnatural ways, but the discussion itself - and I think there's a specific reason why the system might foster this discussion.

We certainly know that the US government takes a great interest in social media and has done so since the beginning, as demonstrated by articles like this one. The effective voluntary surveillance abilities offered by Facebook and other security-state-connected social media means that there can now be what amounts to a voluntary distributed vast civilian surveillance operation by the security state.

If media successfully rekindles interest in UFOs, there's going to be photos all over social media, and they might be of some use, as there's timestamps and location data, and you can use rapidly advancing machine learning abilities to, for instance, give credence to pilot sightings by checking if there's relevant civilian sightings, or photographs.

By stoking interest in UFOs, having people photograph or otherwise talk about whatever strange lights in the sky they have seen, they will receive data that they can now categorize and utilize – true open-source intelligence. They can then figure out whether there is a cause for further interest and concern.

Such civilians might not do this just voluntarily. Indeed, many of them are exactly of the suspicious type that would actively refrain from watching the skies if the government directly told them to do so. And it is not just Americans. A successful operation would provoke sightings all around the world, even in enemy countries (as far as those allow the penetration of American social media). And as automatic data analysis capabilities improve, so would the capabilities to use that data.

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One of the previous discussions.

My explanatory hypothesis: «psyop overcapacity».

The basic idea is that the infrastructure, primarily of the fleshy sort, that certain agencies use to manufacture public opinion is designed to deal with sharp, short peak loads: damage control for military and security fiascos, covering up spooky military tech trials, counteracting enemy propaganda, basically flooding the zone with shit like Bannon said of Trump's election campaign tactics. It's supremely important for the preservation of the regime. They don't need much effort in "peace time" because the state's long term credit of trust is effectively limitless due to the pool of normie patriots, while people who dedicate themselves to reminding the public of MKULTRA and so on are tanking their own credibility.

But they still need to train new recruits, pass on the baton, check the integrity of their agent networks in anticipation of the next Big Moment. Thus they have a perishable overcapacity of psyop-production.

So, long story short, UFO hoax that is maintained in relative peacetime is akin to endless wars in the Middle East which build up experience for a conflict with a peer power. Or, using a more funny analogy, it's similar to weirdly overbuilt Chinese highways which absorb the excess production of steel and concrete when the functional stuff is mostly finished.

Except UFOs absorb the overproduction of deadpan bullshit.

Yours is even more devious, but points at a clearer motive.

Also, we could just consider those psyops as some sort of an active sonar. The controlled emission of authoritative information will reveal all sorts of structures in the society and meme propagation networks, potential adversaries (people who've lost faith in the regime and push back on UFO «revelations») and those who'll buy anything and can be relied upon (or institutionalized).

On a less conspiratorial note, maybe the USG/Army/spooks/etc. just have a bunch of UFO fans who are honestly interested in the topic.

Yeah, I sort of referred to this in the text.

Indeed, social medias amount to a vast mean to get the pulse of the nation – nations all over the world, in fact – in the real-time, constantly, checking various indicators to see whether whatever event gets positive or negative reactions in the nation, fear or anger or what, one might even guess there’s an increasing temptation to just start pulling off weird stuff simply to see what sort of reactions it provokes, a nationwide testing of psychological reactions and how to utilize or cause them.

Of course finding individual cases of people and networks to monitor more closely would be a part of that pulse.

On a less conspiratorial note, maybe the USG/Army/spooks/etc. just have a bunch of UFO fans who are honestly interested in the topic.

I think this is one major explanation, people generally don't seem to really grasp how many people in the high reaches of government and administration are true believers in weird stuff. However, these don't really shut each other off - you might very well have people form alliances to push this narrative with one being a true believer and another one having more cynical use for it - and one thing I've found is that it really is even possible for same people to 100 % believe in something and at the same time 100 % be aware and pragmatically utilize aspects of the same thing for personal purposes or other agendas. You see this all the time with cult leaders, terrorist leaders etc.

I'm fond of electric universe theory based explanations. Electric spikes could cause plasma events in the atmosphere.

It certainly would explain things like the "Nuremberg Sky Battle", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg

obligatory (very long) introductory twitter thread, for people who think they are not blackpilled enough on the alien question

https://twitter.com/JimmyFalunGong/status/1379534780837027840

Add to that it was a well-known “secret” among police that every pedo they busted had some Star Trek memorabilia.

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