A Pentagon investigation into long-standing UFO conspiracy theories has revealed an unsettling irony: many of the myths surrounding extraterrestrial technology were deliberately sown by the U.S. military itself. What began as Cold War-era national security strategy has, over the decades, evolved into a powerful force of public paranoia—one the government now finds difficult to control, let alone dispel.

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The origins of this disinformation stretch back to the 1980s, when an Air Force colonel handed over doctored photos of supposed flying saucers to a bar owner near Area 51. These images, later confirmed to be fake by the same officer in 2023, were a strategic ploy. The Air Force was secretly developing stealth aircraft like the F-117 at the site, and they reasoned it was safer for civilians to believe in aliens than glimpse top-secret military technology. “Better that they believe it came from Andromeda,” the officer said.

 

This was just one of several revelations uncovered during a congressionally mandated probe led by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The findings were summarized in a 2024 Defense Department report that, despite its goal of debunking conspiracy theories, strategically omitted details that would have implicated the Pentagon in actively promoting them. According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, the omissions were not accidental. The Air Force, in particular, pushed to exclude evidence that could compromise classified programs or careers.

 

Sean Kirkpatrick, a veteran intelligence scientist, was tapped in 2022 to lead AARO. “The undersecretary and I put together a shortlist of who could do it, and you’re at the top,” he was told. He dryly replied, “Or am I the only one stupid enough to say, ‘yes?’” Kirkpatrick’s team operated from an unmarked office near the Pentagon and was tasked with two primary missions: analyzing modern reports of unidentified phenomena and investigating historical claims dating back to 1945.

 

What the team found was part mystery, part farce. One key discovery involved a hazing ritual that had persisted for decades. New commanders of the Air Force’s most secret programs were shown fake documents describing a program called Yankee Blue, which allegedly aimed to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft. Many officers took the lie to heart, signing NDAs and believing for years that they had been entrusted with an intergalactic secret.

 

“We know it went on for decades. We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of people,” a Pentagon official told Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. “These men signed NDAs. They thought it was real.”

 

Kirkpatrick also investigated a famous 1967 incident in Montana, where former Air Force captain Robert Salas reported a glowing object hovering above a nuclear missile facility, after which all ten missiles went offline. Decades later, AARO determined that the incident was likely caused by an electromagnetic pulse from a top-secret military device designed to test the vulnerability of U.S. nuclear systems—not an alien spacecraft. Still, Salas remains convinced of a government cover-up. “There is a gigantic coverup, not only by the Air Force, but every other federal agency that has cognizance of this subject,” he said.

 

Despite the Defense Department’s efforts to clarify the record, the damage may already be done. The secrecy that once protected national security now fuels public distrust. Lawmakers have formed UAP-focused caucuses, and conspiracy theories persist with renewed vigor. According to Defense Department spokeswoman Sue Gough, “The department is committed to releasing a second volume of its Historical Record Report, to include AARO’s findings on reports of potential pranks and inauthentic materials.”

 

What was once disinformation to shield Cold War secrets has become embedded in American culture—and increasingly, in the minds of the very officials sworn to uphold the truth.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from WSJ  2025-06-10

 

 

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fGHQ7394ZEI&pp=ygUNeCBmaWxlcyB0aGVtZQ%3D%3D

I'll start believing in alien visitors once one of them introduces itself to me. Till then...

It wouldn't surprise me if the Pentagon also put this article out as disinformation. 

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

I'll start believing in alien visitors once one of them introduces itself to me. Till then...

Just go to Pattaya.