The US Government did not say aliens exist. A former military officer said "nonhuman" biological material was in one of the craft the 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.

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

Because they ain't confirmed shit

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.

They just confirmed that Unidentified Flying Objects and Top Secret classifications were real, and some people who likely make money from the same sources as the modern day History Channel does made a whole bunch of speculations about what were probably quick dried corpses that bulged where the bones and evaporating liquids would have made them bulge that were collected from experimental high altitude tests that distracted a whole bunch of people and actual wild goose chases.

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

Let's ask those aliens for affordable homes :)

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.

Because it is all fucking bullshit

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.

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

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

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?