About the UFOs, I while back, late one night, I caught an amazing British documentary on flying saucers on PBS. I sure wish I could find this film again on some streaming service to share with all of the UFO conspiracy theorists because it explained the whole reason that the American public associates flying saucers with aliens.
Towards the end of WWII, we all know that the German’s were a good deal ahead of the Allies in aerospace tech and had developed jet aircraft and many other amazing things. One thing that has been largely forgotten was their flying saucer program. (Amazon does actually sell a book on this.) Germany was developing a disk-shaped, long rage bomber with the intent of bombing New York City. Berlin fell before this could happen and when it did, there was a rush by the US and British forces as well as the Russians to gather up both the German aerospace engineers and their work. The cold war was beginning and both sides rushed in to try and gather these assets before the other. As an aside, my grandfather was one of the troops who was sent in to some of the labs to gather and box documents as quickly as possible after the fall of Berlin. Anyway, the Russians were able to get the scientists who were working on the disc shaped bomber program and in the proceeding years, continued to develop these aircraft into some working models. By the following decade, the cold war was raging and Russia had a working prototype which they apparently sent to the US on spy missions as it was spotted over the Boeing plant in Washington and a few other places on the west coast. Not wishing to cause a panic and let on to the American people that there were Russian aircraft over US cities, the US government came up with an ingenious cover. They knew the American people would not believe any denial from their government so rather than denying the existence of Russian aircraft over US soil, they held a press conference and denied that the flying saucers people had spotted were being piloted by aliens. The press conference was unbelievably successful. It completely derailed the idea in America’s mind that Russians might be flying over US cities, and refocused people’ minds on little green men.
Anyway, I suspect that the current UFO sightings are something along the same line, tech from some foreign country.
Helen