They reboot in January.

Thanks Obama.

Or once again are we being lied to by the wack jobs and bullshit shoved at us?

Decades ago, the CIA (I think it was the CIA) had a "remote viewing" project, that actually accomplished zilch.

Millions of $$$ down a rat hole.

Same here.

I think the military is interested in UFOs for a number of reasons,
but yes, could be using it as a boondoggle.

Are there civilizations on other worlds?

It's possible.

But they are going to send their spaceships umpty-quintillion miles, just to fly around scaring the hicks?

who are quite advanced. And they might have mastered interstellar travel.

Why they would be visiting us is a good question. What is their purpose?
Visiting such a primitive culture as we have here on Earth is a puzzle.

Unless it is the intergalactic peace corp sending help.

Edited to add: Or tourists visiting the zoo.

President Carter was a professor of mine in 1987. I asked him directly to speak to our class about his reported UFO sitting and he said, "I can not speak about that." and asked that the subject not be brought up again.

And thanks for sharing that anecdote. Very telling.

To me, the most credible explanation as to why governments - particularly ours - are so damned cagey about the whole subject, is that the military brass are convinced that off-world visitors and their know-how can somehow be exploited for military use.

If true, that would have to be the silliest, most asinine reason ever concocted for anything. It would be like two ants debating how best to manipulate humans and all our gadgetry to win the next anthill war.

Such is the world.

See Mark Pilkington’s 2010 book "Mirage Men". Pilkington alleges that many of the stories we’ve heard about alien visitors and flying saucers are part of a deliberate campaign of disinformation created by intelligence agencies to cover up secret military technology and clandestine operations.

These “mirage men” have manipulated some UFO believers to the point of madness and beyond through the use of fabricated “evidence” and psychological warfare techniques, all in the name of national security. The 1950 RAND document about the use of superstitions in psychological warfare, and the recent Snowden-leaked powerpoint ‘The Art of Deception’ are pretty much as close as we have to that at the moment.

I know the pentagon spends money like water on a lot of useless crap. But this is complete and utter bullshit.