Disinformation has a tendency to metastasize. Lies mutate with each retelling until the final product looks nothing like the original source. This phenomenon is particularly striking in the world of UFOs, where decades of institutional secrecy have created fertile ground for speculation to flourish.
Any UFO buff will tell you that Area 51, part of the Air Force's Nevada Test and Training Range in Nevada, is where the alien bodies and UFO wreckage are stored. It's the nexus of countless extraterrestrial conspiracy theories, and, according to the new information, it's partly due to an ad-hoc Air Force disinformation campaign.
The weird story of "Yankee Blue"
Now we're moving on from Cold War strategic disinformation to internal military trolling. For decades, it was common for Air Force officers to be briefed on a supposed top-secret project called "Yankee Blue." They were handed photos of UFO, told about the Air Force's effort to reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft, and sworn to secrecy. But there was no "Yankee Blue." According to the AARO's research, Yankee Blue was a kind of hazing—a prank, bro. The DOD ordered that people stop pulling this joke in 2023.
It's not as well-known as Area 51, but the Malmstrom UFO incident has been often repeated in UFO circles. According to UFO lore, a flying saucer showed up and shut down a battery of intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. According to the AARO's report, that didn't happen.
But according to the AARO's report, the missile systems' malfunction was the result of a secret electromagnetic pulse test to see if the silos could withstand the results of a nuclear attack and remain operational. Judging by the result, the missiles failed the test. Possibly in the interest of limiting how many people would know the silo couldn't respond to a first strike, the Powers the Be apparently decided to not reveal the test to Salas or anyone else affected.
What's the harm in a little disinformation?
The incidents documented by the Wall Street Journal are only a few of the many instances of UFO disinformation spread by the U.S. government. The CIA and the Air Force routinely lied about UFO sightings throughout the Cold War. The Air Force supposedly had a full-time disinformation guy whose job was to mislead thought leaders in the UFO community. But, like, why? They have to be covering something up, right? Maybe. But maybe they're just hiding themselves.
But as these three examples indicate, a more likely explanation is that the government is covering up its own dull secrets and embarrassing failures, even from itself: Experimental spy planes need to be hidden from the public and failed nuclear test need to be hidden from others in the military, so they just make shit up and feed it to the right people.
It's bad enough that a respected military officer like Robert Salas spent his whole life describing a UFO attack that never happened and that Air Force officers kept a deep secret that was actually a joke, but there are broader consequences. People's lives are wasted researching bogus claims made by cynical officials. Trust in government and institutions becomes laughable. And if there's any actual truth about UFOs out there, it becomes harder to find. In trying to keep their secrets, the government didn’t just distort our understanding of aliens—they rewrote a corner of our cultural reality, one lie at a time.
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