The late 1940s marked a perfect storm of military secrecy, psychological strategy, and rapidly advancing technology. Consider the timeline: Edward Bernays—the man who literally wrote the book on mass public manipulation and worked with the War Department during World War I—had already proven how easily public perception could be engineered. Fast forward to 1947. The U.S. government was desperately trying to keep a lid on post-Manhattan Project nuclear developments and highly classified, next-generation aviation tests.
That exact same summer, a "weather balloon" crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, and the military issued—then immediately retracted—a statement claiming they’d recovered a flying disc. To believe this was just a series of random blunders requires ignoring the masters of psychological warfare operating behind the scenes. Whether by brilliant design or opportunistic counterintelligence, feeding the public a sensational tale of crashed UFOs and alien bodies provided the ultimate cover: it directed curious eyes away from top-secret military hardware and focused them entirely on the skies.
This is something I've been conspiracy theorizing for the last few days after deciding traveling between star systems is simply impossible and that maybe aliens are bullshit. At least bullshit for aliens to be taking 100+ year long road trips #politics