There's an ancient European fable about not being able to slay a dragon until it could be named. It's a metaphor for needing to have language to describe a problem before you can effectively deal with it. A perfect example is "simp". As far as I'm aware, before the popularization of that term there was no way to chastise men to stop giving money to e-thots. It is a lot easier to tell people to stop simping than to stop donating their money. Another example is "shit testing". Before I had that word, I just assumed women were being bitchy but until I understood the concept of shit testing, it was a bigger problem in my life.

Anyway, I don't want this to be a MGTOW post. The concept of "red pill and blue pill" and "waking up from the matrix" are EXTREMELY useful when talking about the establishment. Sure, there have always been metaphors that people used, even in the bible, but as far as I know, there has never been something so digestible by the mainstream. These days the redpill is such a ubiquitous concept even people who never heard of the matrix understand the concept.

I don't have any proof this is why the most successful pair of brother filmmakers of all time cut off their dicks, and started making garbage shows that don't have a message, other than that it's pretty strange to do that to begin with. My theory is they were deliberately brainwashed at fancy Hollywood parties to start taking hormone replacement therapy, because the establishment wanted to punish & prevent them from (maybe even accidentally) waking so many people up

Mundane explanation: "UFOs are advanced technology from some other country like Russia or China."

If that was true, the technology is so advanced they could overwhelm our military easily. We also know due to Thucydides trap it's in China's interest to start another large scale war. You'd have to assume world leaders don't want their country to become a superpower (nor want the freedom that comes with making their fiat money the new reserve currency) or you'd have to assume some tiny country like Monaco secretly has military technology far surpassing America's. It assumes way too much.

"UFOs are advanced technology from America itself, this is just another disinfo campaign."

While slightly more plausible it falls apart when you think about it. If the purpose of the pentagon admitting UFOs are real was to intimidate, it would make more sense to say they actually are in control of this technology. If the purpose was to appear weak to be able to surprise enemies later, it would make more sense to prevent the media from dwelling on it at all.

"UFO confirmations by the Pentagon are completely fabricated and the tech doesn't exist."

Definitely plausible. The feds need to justify all those blank checks they write to themselves and 'UFO research' is as good as anything else. Furthermore, commoners will be slightly more pacified about hyperinflation and other real crises when they think aliens/gods are the on the way to save them. We know they've done things like this before and Obama legalized propaganda against US citizens in the 2012 NDAA. This is the theory I want to believe.

"UFOs are normal technology and this really is an indictment of an incompetent military."

This is the theory I actually believe. That Elizondo guy just isn't someone I can take seriously. Parsimony achieved.

I know the ATF falsely accused the Branch Davidians of being a pedophile cult because it's easy to find evidence that actually happened. My uncle who is big into conspiracies told me this, but he said he didn't even want to have that in his search history so he couldn't give me a link. Is he just full of shit?