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The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up
theguardian.com ^ | August 14, 2014 | Steve Rose

Posted on 08/15/2014 4:14:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin

If there really is a UFO conspiracy, it's surely the worst-kept secret in history. Roswell, Area 51, flashing lights, little green men, abductions – it's all been fed through the pop culture mill to the point of fatigue. Even the supposed enforcers of the secret, the "men in black", have their own movie franchise. But a new documentary, Mirage Men, unearths compelling evidence that UFO folklore was actually fabricated by the US government. Rather than covering up the existence of aliens, could it be that the real conspiracy has been persuading us to believe in them?

Mirage Men's chief coup is to land an actual man in black: a former Air Force special investigations officer named Richard Doty, who admits to having infiltrated UFO circles. A fellow UFO researcher says: "Doty had this wonderful way to sell it – 'I'm with the government. You cooperate with us and I'm going to tell you what the government really knows about UFOs, deep down in those vaults.'" Doty and his colleagues fed credulous ufologists lies and half-truths, knowing their fertile imaginations would do the rest. In return, they were apprised of chatter from the community, thus alerting the military when anyone was getting to close to their top-secret technology. And if the Soviets thought the US really was communing with aliens, all the better.

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1 posted on 08/15/2014 4:14:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Disinformation can be a very useful weapon.

I remember getting to hear a former worker for a particular government agency tell a bit about the ‘why’ of the ESP experiments - to the effect of ‘none us thought any of it was real, but what *IF* it had been? And what if it had been and the Soviets learned more than us?

Still, why should we believe a single thing any government tells us?


2 posted on 08/15/2014 4:22:38 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: RedStateRocker

The Soviets took that stuff very seriously.


3 posted on 08/15/2014 4:27:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

There is one problem with the government playing games with the UFO situation. What for? Was it just to entertain themselves? Make fun of the citizenry? Waste taxpayer’s money? I think their story is too cute by half. They sure spent a lot of time and money on something they claim is only science fiction.


4 posted on 08/15/2014 4:54:20 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: iontheball

Maybe the use the UFO disinformation to hide the fact that they don’t have a clue as to what’s really happening.


5 posted on 08/15/2014 5:02:16 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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FReepers, Let's go!
Everyone needs to donate!

All contributions are for the current quarter expenses.


6 posted on 08/15/2014 5:09:24 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: null and void

ping


7 posted on 08/15/2014 5:15:14 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: BenLurkin

This reminds me that August is the most busy month for UFO sightings and press coverage and I’ve seen nothing about the subject yet this month.


8 posted on 08/15/2014 5:18:35 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: D_Idaho

“Maybe the use the UFO disinformation to hide the fact that they don’t have a clue as to what’s really happening.”

Yeah, maybe. But I know what I’ve seen. Twice!


9 posted on 08/15/2014 5:28:07 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: iontheball

Suppose we have a craft that will fly at the speed of light. We don’t want anyone to know we have it. So, it must be aliens flying around out there.


10 posted on 08/15/2014 5:29:48 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

“This reminds me that August is the most busy month for UFO sightings and press coverage and I’ve seen nothing about the subject yet this month.”

Not much about UFO’s at all anymore in the press.

But it’s a huge industry now with Coast To Coast type nonsense and other nonsense.


11 posted on 08/15/2014 6:15:34 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
But I know what I’ve seen. Twice!

Not sure about anyone else here, but I'd be interested in hearing if you're interested in telling.
12 posted on 08/15/2014 7:00:41 PM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: chrisser

Not sure about anyone else here, but I’d be interested in hearing if you’re interested in telling.


Me too.


13 posted on 08/15/2014 8:19:39 PM PDT by ravenwolf (s)
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To: BenLurkin

Really a clincher ain`nt it.

A man denies having an affair for years and then tells his wife the secret, he was deliberately just making it look as if he were having an affair.


14 posted on 08/15/2014 8:24:20 PM PDT by ravenwolf (s)
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To: SaxxonWoods
This reminds me that August is the most busy month for UFO sightings and press coverage and I’ve seen nothing about the subject yet this month.

They've got to keep the spotlight on the civil-unrest / race relations; and secondarily on the "action at the border" (which can be spun as racist)…
just keep people from noticing Art 4, Sec 4 and the Constitutional definition of Treason.

15 posted on 08/15/2014 8:28:47 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Well, there’s this:

Mysterious objects filmed near Space Station send UFO watchers into frenzy
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ufo-watchers-frenzy-mysterious-objects-iss-article-1.1901244


16 posted on 08/15/2014 8:45:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Me too. They were UFOs. The tech was like nothing I have ever seen.


17 posted on 08/15/2014 10:02:57 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: RedStateRocker
Maybe these guys told Gordon Cooper him to make up that good UFO stuff to put in his biography "Leap of Faith."

Either that, or he was a liar of epic proportions.

Yeah. That's the ticket.

18 posted on 08/15/2014 10:59:21 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Yeah, I'm with the others. Care to share the story?

I pray that we live to ripe old age still arguing about UFOs. That will be a wonderful blessing.

Because the instant any technologically superior life form from another planet appeared here "officially," our world and our lives would change to make the difference between Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 10 - 11, 2001, look like a ridiculously silly fracas.

I would just as soon that wait for another 50, 60 years or so.

19 posted on 08/15/2014 11:08:30 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
fitting musical accompaniment for this thread
20 posted on 08/16/2014 12:16:54 AM PDT by BlueDragon (now you know it's a meaningless question, to ask if those stories are right..)
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