I think we can answer at least a few of those questions by reference to the circumstances of those three projects. They all used voluntary reporting. The people who reported the sightings felt comfortable enough with the government to dial them up and tell them what they saw...and, for the most part that was it for them. Once and done. Of the hundreds of unresolved reports, scant few have any active disseminators.
There was no one that needed erasing, no cameras that needed to be confiscated, and as such there was no need for a shadowy them. Importantly, reacting to a given report could have clued people in on the conspiracy nestled within the investigation. So, instead, they projected and for the most part genuinely maintained an open and dutiful relationship to the reporting public. Their projects had important defense applications wholly unrelated to aliens or ufos, and they depended on those reports.
-all of this, ofc, is only according to documents they produced and released....but they would say that, wouldn't they?
There was no one that needed erasing, no cameras that needed to be confiscated, and as such there was no need for a shadowy them. Importantly, reacting to a given report could have clued people in on the conspiracy nestled within the investigation. So, instead, they projected and for the most part genuinely maintained an open and dutiful relationship to the reporting public. Their projects had important defense applications wholly unrelated to aliens or ufos, and they depended on those reports.
-all of this, ofc, is only according to documents they produced and released....but they would say that, wouldn't they?
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