alt Hacker NewsThis is pure propaganda. It's been astroturfed on 4chan and mainstream social media for weeks, though to great skepticism on the former. The UFO nut community (people who make their interest/belief in UFOs into their entire personality, to the neglect of all other considerations) is being weaponized for political leverage, just like the anti-vax and chemtrail communities were.
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> The UFO nut community is being weaponized for political leverage
Always has been, at least since 1947.
Probably settles some large polymarket bets as well. "Government will announce UFOs are real" has been a popular one for a long time.
Ah, a commenter claiming something is propaganda .. let's go look through their submissions to HN and see their posting pattern .. Let's see ..
- Trump-related political posts
- China-related political posts
- Iran-related political posts
- DOGE-related political posts
- RFK-Jr-related political posts
- Covid-19 related posts
- Economy-related political posts
- Election-related political posts
- Anti-Russia/anti-"nazi" political posts
My oh my, with that post history, I surely trust you to decide for us what's "propaganda' and what's not. Surely you yourself aren't a huge propaganda account.
It's the next distraction. They have a new one queued up every week until November.