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167 How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/08/2025 07:34 EDT

How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military

Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal.
"The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinformation."

The congressionally ordered probe took investigators back to the 1980s, when an Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51, a top-secret site in the Nevada desert. He gave the owner photos of what might

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