My sense of this as well. If you recall the past 3 years, the announcements were coordinated and we had former Mossad and CIA heads pushing it.
So the question is for what purpose would you try and sell the idea of ET visiting Earth to the masses?
My speculation -- this is just speculation -- is that it will be a component of an attempt to create a new unified global religion to basically wrap [and undermine the narrative of] the existing (problematic in certain views) global religions. [You know, ET as angels and prophets as ~abductees.]
p.s. this looks like an interesting read (that closes with):
Like the JFK assassination conspiracy theories, the UFO issue probably will not go away soon, no matter what the Agency does or says. The belief that we are not alone in the universe is too emotionally appealing and the distrust of our government is too pervasive to make the issue amenable to traditional scientific studies of rational explanation and evidence.
CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90, Gerald K Haines, National Reconnaissance Office historian
I see a [dead] comment accusing me of "pushing conspiracy theories" and that is not the case. I am very skeptical of the idea of aliens waiting until humans reached a certain level of technology to make an entrance. If anything, pre-modern humanity was far more accepting of fantastical beasts, beings, places, magic, you name it. ET would have fitted right in. Why wait until the age of reason?
So given that lack of belief in ET (not in their existence but rather in their presence on our planet), coupled with 1st tier media and personalities promoting it, and the fact that ET apparently only contacts Five Eyes countries, the question then arises as to why are they pushing this bs?
I think if there is any intentional misdirection going on, it's for a far more mundane goal. Governments and militaries are flying all sorts of weird, but perfectly terrestrial, craft, for all sorts of purposes, benign and some probably malicious. There will be less public discussion of strange flying things if reporting one gets you automatically assumed to be a crazy alien nut. Commercial airline pilots see a lot of things they don't report through the usual pubic channels. I think some may prefer it that way. </tinfoil hat>
This has always been my pet theory. The supposedly alien craft are laid out to intimidate and or misdirect foreign opposition. These could be actual craft our totally fabricated illusions. For me this felt the most plausible. As with everyone else speculating here, I have no practical way to test this hypothesis.
As a disclaimer, I am aware that seemingly implausible things happen regularly and that this pattern of analysis would fail under those scenarios.
My favored hypothesis is that the videos released by the government are known by the government to be mundane, and they were publicly released because they got sick of responding to FOIA requests about it. The demand for the release and subsequent narratives around the release have been driven by true believers, who are more than a little kooky. See: "Skinwalker Ranch"
That's the gist of "Project Bluebeam," but I think there's also a much more benign explanation, which is that DIA wants to corral the people most susceptible to conspiracy theories into a group that they control. They saw how Q-Anon played out and decided to get on top of it before our adversaries could.
My sense of this as well. If you recall the past 3 years, the announcements were coordinated and we had former Mossad and CIA heads pushing it.
So the question is for what purpose would you try and sell the idea of ET visiting Earth to the masses?
My speculation -- this is just speculation -- is that it will be a component of an attempt to create a new unified global religion to basically wrap [and undermine the narrative of] the existing (problematic in certain views) global religions. [You know, ET as angels and prophets as ~abductees.]
p.s. this looks like an interesting read (that closes with):
Like the JFK assassination conspiracy theories, the UFO issue probably will not go away soon, no matter what the Agency does or says. The belief that we are not alone in the universe is too emotionally appealing and the distrust of our government is too pervasive to make the issue amenable to traditional scientific studies of rational explanation and evidence.
CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90, Gerald K Haines, National Reconnaissance Office historian
https://www.cia.gov/static/105bd8290b90de13ee136fecc9fe863f/...
p.s.s.
I see a [dead] comment accusing me of "pushing conspiracy theories" and that is not the case. I am very skeptical of the idea of aliens waiting until humans reached a certain level of technology to make an entrance. If anything, pre-modern humanity was far more accepting of fantastical beasts, beings, places, magic, you name it. ET would have fitted right in. Why wait until the age of reason?
So given that lack of belief in ET (not in their existence but rather in their presence on our planet), coupled with 1st tier media and personalities promoting it, and the fact that ET apparently only contacts Five Eyes countries, the question then arises as to why are they pushing this bs?
A speculation followed.