What do you think of the following video, which shows a UFO researcher silenced live on radio?
Not only that, but he actually retracts his statements. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it? And if you don’t believe me, see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mRxKtEdx80
The silencing/retracting begins at 00:59:31. And, for the record, the name of the researcher is Maximillien de Lafayette.
Here’s what it says on the video description:
“The incident took place at the beginning of the third hour when de Lafayette abruptly announced he had one minute to finish then apparently read a prepared statement retracting his research then quickly hung up the phone with no further detaills.”
I know you might not like the topic, so, jump right in at the outing.
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The government has and certainly will be designing, developing and testing experimental aircraft. Secrecy is important for obvious reasons. The government has incentives to encourage UFO quackery to blur the line between actual observations of test aircraft and “other” theories. They even had test pilots wearing monkey suits in 1942 to discredit the stories of other pilots who saw them in the air.
I would not be surprised if there were/are government programs designed to encourage UFO paranoia, and even to just mess with them. I could even see them developing drones specifically for this purpose (“Hey Bob, design for me a drone that’ll really mess with their heads”). It serves as a useful smokescreen and distraction for testing the next-gen stuff. It also has a huge chilling effect on anyone who may happen to actually witness some of this top secret tech from telling their story, because they don’t want to be labeled a wacko.
That’s the most plausible explanation I can come up with. It makes so much more sense than aliens coming to our likely uninteresting (on the galactic scale) planet. In flying saucers, crashing in Roswell, the Government able to keep the secret for decades (remember Clinton couldn’t even keep his BJ secret), them not really contacting us, or conquering us, but being too incompetent to fly in a lightning storm, but able to cross light years of space? None of it really holds up to rigorous scrutiny.
@gorillapaws: No offense, but I don’t really see a smokescreen in act, because, with the various perspectives on aliens, the government might attract unwanted attenction by silencing a researcher.
@luigirovatti ”...the government might attract unwanted attention…”
If there was a government program designed to encourage/foster quackery and make them look foolish simultaneously, then attention would be beneficial not detrimental to that goal. If my mission was to protect the secrecy of projects being tested over US airspace and I was given the resources and authority to fuck-with-people (within reason), you can bet I would be doing all kinds of crazy/hilarious shit to encourage conspiracies.
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