Breaking News! UFO's Were a Psyop?

 

An article on UFO's has been published in the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper best renowned for its coverage of the financial world. The original article is behind a paywall, but there has been enough follow-ups and commentary for me to gather the general gist of it. It claims that UFO's, at least as most believers perceive them, do not exist. They are actually some kind of engineered neo-mythology created as psychological warfare to launder more down-to-earth covert projects. The disinformation reached a point where the perpetrators themselves became confused and began to believe their own hype. It was even used as a "hazing ritual". This counterintelligence operation is eerily reminiscent of Kelly Chase's lecture at the recent Contact in the Desert conference, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html. The theory was that while the government was engaged in keeping very real secrets, such as the design of spy-planes like the U2 and SR71 Blackbird, it was actually quite useful if people who saw the experimental aircraft in the sky mistook them for alien spacecraft. This idea led eventually to the deliberate seeding of alien and UFO stories in the media and among UFO researchers so everybody was encouraged to think like that. This secret was uncovered by AARO. Source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/ufo-us-disinformation-45376f7e. Regular readers will know where I'm going with this because I've addressed this point many times. What AARO has supposedly uncovered is not secret; in fact it's been circulating publicly for decades. It's been the subject of several best-selling books such as Mirage Men by Mark Pilkington, see background links below. Among UFOlogists it is not a very original idea and it is in fact somewhat fashionable at the moment. It is the fundamental thesis of the UFO community's backslapper element. But it is actually rather implausible when you consider how easily and badly it could backfire. Drawing somebody's attention towards something with the ultimate objective of deflecting it away is a very risky gambit, so much so that I think we can reject it on theoretical grounds outside very exceptional circumstances. It's like a bank robber jumping up and down on top of his buried stash in a striped jersey and face mask every time a police car drives past, waving a placard stating: THERE IS NO STOLEN CASH HIDDEN HERE, JUST UNICORN BONES! How long would it take for somebody to realize what was really going on? So I think what we're dealing with here is actually some sort of very elaborate double-bluff. It's a double-bluff intended to repel a Congress whose UAP curiosity is becoming a serious threat. There is a cover-up and a psyop, yes; but it's a cover-up of the fact UFO's are real. The story about how they made up UFO's is a lie that they made up.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/05/mark-pilkington-at-bases-2023.html.