• kromem@lemmy.world
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      Fun fact - in 1952 UFOs over Washington DC made the front page news across legit newspapers.

      Also in 1952, Gene Pope, who graduated MIT in only three years, and was working in the CIA’s psyops program, left to buy up the National Enquirer.

      Two years later he turned it into a nonsense tabloid rag that frequently featured UFO stories alongside claims Elvis still lived, etc.

      He later had the Weekly World News, of batboy fame added to the mix.

      So when you associate discussion of UFOs/UAPs with lizard people, you are doing so because of explicit earlier efforts in what was probably one of the most successful known intelligence agency propaganda programs in modern history.

      The people on the stand in the hearing had legit credentials and knew exactly what they were talking about down to the specific mentions of UAPs in declassified parts of a 1970s US/USSR treaty and pointing legislators towards very specific next steps. And the legislators from both parties were treating it seriously even expressing their own frustrations at being uniquely turned away from their own investigations into an incident (that’s now a part of public record).

      While I think the idea this stuff is alien is far less likely than other explanations - the taboo and dismissal towards it has a very detailed history that’s arguably even more interesting than the UAPs themselves (and evidently still extremely successful decades after initiated).

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      I did some contract IT work for them and Shurz Com a few years back and yeah total reptiles. Not lizard people though

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        Oof, super cold? I have done financial support, and there were some cold fish. The biggest thing I have seen is whether they see you as an inside or an interloper.