There’s no better example of how little faith Americans have that government officials will tell the truth than the public’s blasé reaction to UFO announcements.  In the last ten years, The New York Times has run stories about secret Pentagon programs tasked with retrieving alien craft.  Members of Congress have held hearings on “mysterious orbs” and invited government witnesses to testify about black budget projects supposedly reverse-engineering alien technology.  Secretary of State Rubio and director of National Intelligence Gabbard have both suggested that the UFO issue is serious.  Yet eight billion people around the world collectively shrug.

Can you imagine what the public reaction would have been like had national newspapers and prominent officials released similar details in the 1950s?  With the 1947 Roswell Incident still fresh in Americans’ minds, government confirmation of UFOs would have been the most important story in the world.  Every article written and television report broadcast would have been framed around the alien/UFO phenomenon.  

For eighty years, UFO-hunters have been fighting for government declassifications and official disclosure of alien contact.  Now that videos of strange sightings have been released and congressional hearings have been convened to investigate the matter, Americans don’t seem to care.  Representatives Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna have said explicitly that extraterrestrial visitors are real, and their statements disappear in a blizzard of news stories discussing the “Aryan micro-aggressions” of Sydney Sweeney’s jeans.

Nobody believes what government officials say.  Nobody believes what journalists say.  In our world today, fantastic stories come and go, and nobody knows if they’re real. 

CIA director William Casey 

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