“The disinformation of the Pentagon, which propelled American UFO mythology” – is the title of the article in the daily “Wall Street Journal” about how the authorities created conspiracy theories to protect military secrets.
“The US Army was factorying evidence of the existence of foreign technology and allowed rumors to develop to hide real secret weapons programs,” says the newspaper. He draws attention to the small Pentagon office, which studied conspiracy theories regarding secret UFO programs in Washington. As a shocking truth, he gives the fact that at least one of these theories was deliberately fueled by the Pentagon itself.
“These discoveries are a stunning phrase in the history of American cultural obsession with UFOs. In decades after the radio radio play from 1938 + War of the World + HG Wells caused panic throughout the country, speculation about newcomers from space remained a largely domain of supermarket tabloids, Hollywood hits and costumes in Las Vegas” – Recalls “WSJ”.
As the daily emphasizes, “recently, things have taken on ominous trading when a handful of former Pentagon officials publicly revealed allegations of the government program of using extraterrestrial technology and hiding it from the Americans.”
According to the journal, the Pentagon investigation into conspiracy theories regarding UFOs showed that the US government itself was often a source of myths about UFOs, using disinformation to protect secret military programs of the Cold War.
“WSJ” recalls as an example of Sean Kirkpatrick, among others the former main scientist at Missile and Space Intelligence Center. It was recruited in 2022 to conduct the investigation by the command of the Congress via the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Kirkpatrick's mission consisted of two elements: an analysis of current UFO observations around military installations and a review of historical claims reaching 1945 on secret foreign technology programs. The number of UFOs increased rapidly from 144 in 2004–2021 to 757 in twelve months after May 2023, although most incidents were explained by balloons, birds, drones or reflections of Starlink satellites.
Congress has granted Aaro unprecedented access to secret programs to examine the allegations of several dozen former military employees.
According to the authors of the article, the investigation revealed several important facts. In the 1980s, the Air Force colonel intentionally distributed manipulated photos of “flying saucers” in a bar near Zone 51 to hide the development of Stealth fighters – believing that it would be better if the locals think that aliens are involved in the case than to discover real secret weapons programs.
“WSJ” emphasizes that for decades new air force commanders as part of secret programs were shown false UFO photos during preliminary briefings and informed that they were joining “Yankee Blue” – a program aimed at reverse engineering of foreign technology. This influenced hundreds of officers who believed in his truth, signed contracts for confidentiality and never told about it to their spouses. The Secretary of Defense ordered this practice to stop in the spring of 2023.
In an extensive article, Gazeta also reports that in the 1960s and 70s military staff reported strange lights causing the exclusion of nuclear weapons, but investigators discovered that the Air Force secretly tested electromagnetic pulse generators in order to assess vulnerability to nuclear attacks. The disclosure of these tests would show the Soviets that the American nuclear arsenal can be turned off with the first blow.
“WSJ” points out that the Pentagon report from 2024 did not find any evidence of covering matters related to aliens, but the document omitted the way the government created myths about UFOs using disinformation. The daily notes that the unclear bureaucracy of the Pentagon with secret programs embedded in other secret programs created a fertile ground for the spread of myths. The Congress Team for UFOs, mainly Republican, is still demanding explanations.
Investigators still determine whether disinformation campaigns were local initiatives or centralized programs. Some unexplained events may include foreign technology, such as Chinese aircraft using advanced masking methods. The Pentagon promised a second report containing more details about “jokes and inauthentic materials”.
The investigation revealed the paradoxical truth: while conspiracy theorists claimed that the government was hiding foreign technology, the real secret was that the authorities deliberately created the same conspiracy theories to protect conventional military secrets.
The newspaper also cites the statement of one of five people questioned by the Kirkpatrick team, presented as Salas:
“There is a gigantic covering – not only through the air forces, but also through federal agencies that have knowledge on this subject,” he said in an interview with Wall Street Journal.
From New York Andrzej Dobrowolski (PAP)
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