Aliens And National Security

“The recent resurgence of UFO information may simply be a psychological operation designed to bolster America’s national security.”

The universe is so massive that scientists still do not have a sturdy grasp on its true size, only that the observable universe is at least 93 billion light-years across. With this said, however, the universe is mostly empty with some scientists even claiming that only 0.0000000000000000000042 percent of it contains any matter at all. Of course, that small percentage, when taken out of a 93 billion lightyear diameter is still a significant amount of matter. So significant, in fact, that it casts serious doubt on the notion that humanity is the only intelligent life floating through the cosmos.

The idea that humanity doesn’t have any interstellar neighbors is fading more and more every day, and in its place, a renewed interest in extraterrestrial life is on the rise. This is interesting timing considering that UFO whistleblowers, a group historically dismissed by the mainstream as hacks, are now making their way before Congress, and also that the government appears to all of a sudden have an interest in sharing UFO-related information with the public for no apparent reason other than “transparency.”

A strong case can be made that all of these recent occurrences are not merely a coincidence, but rather part of a Psychological Operation designed to bolster the Unites States’ image of strength within the international community.

The rationalist school of thought in international relations provides many explanations for why nations decide to invade one another. A major one of these is perceived weakness. In other words, when one nation deems one of its competitors to be in a weakened state it very often will become more aggressive toward that nation.

Because of its economic and military might the United States has historically been on the aggressing side of these dichotomous relationships, however, in the aftermath of Covid, which brought with it significant negative impacts on the US economy, and the Biden Administrations blunder in regard to the Afghanistan withdrawal, America has not, as of late, been projecting strength and stability to its competitors. And this hit to the United States’ international image has only been compounded by recent moves against the US dollar by nations like China.

All of these factors explain why the US government would right now be more motivated than ever to try and find new ways to project strength. This is where Aliens may come in.

The US government has a long history of engaging in less-than-ethical and sometimes even downright dishonest behavior. During the Summer of 1947, the US military was developing top-secret balloons that, in theory, were supposed to increase its surveillance capabilities in regard to the Soviet Union. Things did not go as planned, though, and several sightings of the balloons were reported to the press.

It didn’t take long until this spark ignited a forest fire of conspiracy theories that the country has not been able to shake, even to this day. Furthermore, as this was going on the military remained silent and, in some cases, even helped to advance the outlandish theories surrounding the sightings. As a sidenote, this is technically how Roswell New Mexico gained its notoriety.

Anyway, in addition to this government supported deceit, it is now public knowledge that during the 1950s and 1960s the US Air Force, in collaboration with the CIA, published misleading and false reports about UFO sightings across the American Mid-West. The reason for this, as has now come out, is that the military was testing experimental high-altitude spy planes and didn’t want the populace to know. So, instead of just not saying anything at all, they played upon and even fabricated false stories that built upon the UFO hysteria that started in 1947 in order to shift the public focus toward aliens and away from their own covert projects.

The full truth about these Psychological Operations, very likely, will never come out. However, the information that is out there proves that the government can and will use conspiracy theories to misdirect the masses' attention if it serves its agenda.

Now, what does all of this mean when it comes to the recent resurgence in UFO discussions?

Well, put plainly since the US government has a strong motivation to rebrand itself as a force to be reckoned with on the international stage, as well as a track record of using UFO hysteria to accomplish secondary goals, it is not unreasonable to suspect that all of this new legitimacy the government is giving UFOs (whistleblowers being brought before Congress and UFO-related documents being declassified) is actually serving another purpose altogether.

In a way, the US is currently embroiled in a new space race. However, this new space race has nothing to do with the moon or Russia and instead pertains to China and cutting edge space-age technologies, like satellites with EMP and advanced surveillance capabilities, that could end up being this generation's version of splitting the atom. In lay terms, with all of the major superpowers now possessing nuclear weapons, each country is looking for the next best thing that could give them a tactical edge in the international arena. Space, it appears, is where this arms race may be occurring.

So, because the US does not know exactly how far along China is in this race, from a strategic point of view it would behoove them to make sure that China continues to see them as someone they should not mess with.

A good way of doing this is by creating ambiguity in regard to our own progress, and perhaps even by inflating our competitors’ perceptions of our technological capabilities. This is exactly what inflaming the UFO conversation does.

This is to say that if China believes that the Americans have either made contact with highly advanced extraterrestrials or at least that they have some of their technology and are reverse engineering it, well, then they may think twice before being aggressive with us, seeing as how the US could, potentially, have highly advanced technologies that the Chinese are unprepared for.

There are other valid explanations for the recent surge in UFO news being propagated and entertained. For one, it could all be legitimate and the government may, for once, be trying out honesty and transparency. A second explanation is that this is, in fact, a Psychological Operation, but one that is designed to distract from domestic political controversies, such as the various Biden family's corruption scandals which are becoming more and more serious with each passing day. And then there is the theory that all of this is just the CIA once again covering up top-secret projects.

A respectable case can be made for all of these theories, but if a person looks at all of the facts, they cannot rule out the possibility that this is all a Psychological Operation designed to keep America’s competitors in check while we struggle to find this generations version of the atom bomb.