The US Government did not say aliens exist. A former military officer said "nonhuman" biological material was in one of the craft they downed. That could mean someone put a monkey or a dog in a test vehicle, it could mean a bird flew into the thing.

Even if he was saying it's aliens, which he didn't, testifying to congress is not the same thing as the government itself claiming aliens exist. People claim all kinds of shit to congress, they are reporting to the government, not making statements on behalf of the government.

Because they ain't confirmed shit

No, they didn't. If they did it would be huge news.

"the government" lol. It was like one guy who just said it with 0 evidence.

Big difference between some dudes testimony and hard irrifutable evidence. A few officials can say whatever they like. Until you get hard XCOM level evidence in front of a public hearing the government won't confirmed shit.

The real reason ayylmaos will never be confirmed until the hand is forced is that a huge majority of the global population ascribe to a religion absolutely incompatable with the existence of extraterrestrial life. Sentient non-human highly technological extraterrestrial life at that.

The moment it is confirmed there will 100% be mass panics by religious fundamentalist that space is inhabited by demons or whatever rationalization they pick to ensure their beliefs are still unquestioningly correct and the god given truth of 2000 year old scripture is maintained. In some areas like the USA bible belt or the middle east this will be devistating and cause actual long lasting damage to global society at large. Its a bottle of lightning all the space age nations of the world have deemed not worth opening for societal and economic stability. If these people really have the goods to back up their talk, they will be epstiened unless they take the upmost caution.

"The goverment" of what? USA is not the entire world.

The US government has near zero credibility. I dgaf what they say wrt aliens.

It may just be a distraction but could be a psyop by the cia for some convoluted reason.

They do seem to be earnestly playing the alien card right now and aren't letting it up.

That tells me that there will be escalation on this with some end goal in mind. And it will likely be another pain in the ass like their last one.

Because it is all fucking bullshit

The reason why I personally don't care is because the USA has a history of conferming the existence of aliens when someone sees something they shouldn't have

All they have confirmed is the Henry Kissinger shit about how they're going to get us to pay for orbital weaponry by beating that drum.

Did I miss something?

I care! Or at least I'm interested... What happened?

Whole thing to me feels like some kind of PsyOp or Propaganda thing to hide US testing new weapons/ aircraft etc

Who tf knows though.

If aliens visited earth the government (US or otherwise) wouldn't be able to hide it

Can we please keep all of the alien nonsense off of lemmy? I don't need conspiracy theories on my favorite platform. Even though aliens are the OG conspiracy theories and Mulder made them look real cool.