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Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report
The government wants you to believe.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published the first of a two-part series that probes the ways in which the Defense Department has been responsible for creating and fostering the UFO mythology in America. Last year, we wrote a story with very much the same takeaway, having interviewed one prominent UFO critic, Mark Pilkington, who released a documentary in 2014 arguing that the government used disinformation specialists to lie to Americans and thus hide its covert activities. In particular, one episode revealed by Kirkpatrick’s investigation involves a UFO sighting at a nuclear bunker that took place in 1967, and seems to show that the government’s disinformation efforts were not merely aimed at members of the public but also its own staff.
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