UFO Madness

This last weekend we learned that there seem to be a lot of people out there who seem to believe that Independence Day was a documentary.  Mention the term 'UFO', even when used in its purest sense of meaning airborne objects whose nature and origin have not yet been established, and social media suddenly fills up with every crank, kook and weirdo out there, banging on about how they are vindicated in their delusions that there has been a worldwide cover-up of alien contacts.  The US Air Force's shooting down of three so called 'UFOs' (actually most likely balloons, probably from China), however, poses some problems for the UFO crazies.  Most obviously, the very fact that these objects were so easily brought down using conventional Air-to Air missiles rather goes against all their claims that supposed alien spaceships are incredibly fast and nonrecoverable, even capable of 'dematerialising'.  If they were that high tech, then I'm pretty sure that conventional warplanes wouldn't be able to catch them, let alone destroy them.  So the UFO nuts have to resort to their tried and trusted fall back position: that these recent 'UFOs' are evidence of a 'false flag' operation by the US government to fake an alien threat so as to create a world government - really a front for the UN, WEF, Bilderberg Group or whoever the current object of their paranoia is - in order to defend against them.  This particular 'theory' has the advantage of pulling in all manner of other crazy conspiracy freaks, mostly from the extreme right.

Then again, they speculate, these recent incidents could just be a distraction from, well, whatever it is those God damned liberal commie pinko bed-wetting bastards want to distract us all from at the moment. Be it the war in Ukraine, the toxic train crash in Ohio, the fact that Joe Biden died years ago and his embalmed corpse is currently running the US as a puppet whose strings literally are being pulled by the WEF/UN etc, or the fact that there's a secret trans plot to turn America's men gay through exposure to gender neutral pronouns.  Who knows?  Perhaps it is all a plot to discredit the whole UFO community by deploying obviously fake UFOs to be shot down, thereby enabling the government to dismiss all UFO sightings as surveillance balloons?  If you'd been looking at Twitter any time over the past couple of days, you'd have some or even all of this nonsense.  All accompanied by the sort of deliberate misinterpretation of known facts, outright fabrications and scientific illiteracy we've come to expect from these cranks.  As it is has become increasingly obvious even to the most irresponsible outposts of the media that the objects shot down by the USAF were of terrestrial origin, (something obvious to most of us from the get go), the UFO community has had to start deploying some of its 'big guns' to try and save face.  That charlatan (in my opinion) Nick Pope, for instance, has been doing the media rounds dampening down the alien expectations, telling everyone that the 'UFOs' were probably not extraterrestrial in origin.  No shit, Nick.  But hey, if nothing else, we've learned that here in the UK, at least, our skies are safe, with Rishi Sunak assuring us that the RAF are ready to shoot down any Chinese spy balloons straying into our airspace.  Not that they are ever likely to trouble us as, thanks to thirteen years of Tory governments, the UK has sweet FA worth spying on.