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Jokes aside, I find these claims to be grossly insufficient for meeting the burden of proof something as momentous as extraterrestrial contact would be.
I am hard pressed to think of any convincing reason for aliens to cross the gaping void of space and fuck around like an incompetent Nat Geo crew sending uncanny valley robot penguins into the colony.
I strongly suspect that the whole thing is a mildly out of control psyop run by the USINT, that's metastasized to the extent that it fools even a few dumb but well meaning spooks into whistleblowing.
Now, one can well assert that America is the most important nation in the world, but isn't it odd how little of this bullshit happens in the rest of the world, including gigantic countries like India and China? It strikes me as even more incredulous that they're all keeping mum on the matter.
What would it take to convince me that they're real? Something along these lines:
Outright official first contact.
Some kind of alien artifact or wreck being revealed and demonstrating technology decades ahead of our own that can't be plausibly faked.
It better be really fucking good, because in a few years the smart money on something like that is the work of human created AGI, which while likely alien in cognition, doesn't count.
A massive trove of information and technology if not a physical artifact, subject to the same constraints.
Several large countries coming together to announce their findings, ideally with evidence in hand.
Show me something of that order of magnitude, and I'll take it.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean about this "bullshit" only happening in the USA. Do you mean claims about the government being in possession of non-human tech, or just UFO incidents/etc. in general? Because there are plenty of the latter in other countries, including ones reported by foreign military officials.
The volume of such complaints is absolutely nowhere near that in the States, several OOM lower if I had to guess.
Certainly I can't think of a single UFO incident that was attributed to aliens in India, leaving aside even more questionable events like abductions.
Nobody is recording grainy footage of aliens, and is it not interesting how, now that everyone in the world has an HD camera in their pocket and can plausibly upload data that is nigh impossible to fully censor on the internet, we still don't get any conclusive high quality footage? And the odd military stuff that comes out is hardly overwhelming.
I also can't think of any UFO incidents in India either, but I know of ones (I believe all involving gov't personnel too) in the USSR, Iran, Brazil, France, Belgium, UK (happy to provide links if requested).
Can't speak to the the volume in the US vs. the rest of the world, you may be right about that, but that could also simply be due to US cultural hegemony making it harder to gather info from non-English language sources.
The USSR, at least, had as much scifi in its pop culture as the US did, at least since Stanislaw Lem.
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