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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/neric05 on 2025-02-06 18:50:31+00:00.

Original Title: Whenever you are in doubt of trying to discern what is truth and what is fiction, spin, or propaganda, I have always found it helpful to return to this one golden rule and logical baseline: why so many resources devoted to it if it’s nothing?

The more detailed the leaks and disclosing testimonies become from various insiders and whistleblowers, the more difficult it becomes to make sense of what is reality, what is grift, what is propaganda, and what is stealthy deflection from those who would rather their secrets not be spilled.

In the face of a topic that is filled with so many disreputable characters and overly inflated (yet fragile) egos, the most basic reduction of everything that has been spilled out into the ether of the UFO lore is what I always return to and find comfort in.

Which is this:

There is far too much money, manpower, secrecy, compartmentalization, and effort to obfuscate or derail attempts to bring forth the truth, for this entire topic to be nothing more than a near century long scam for attention and money by grifters / contractors.

Just as how many people say that it would be impossible for a secret this big to be kept, it would also be seemingly just as improbable that the entire subject of the phenomenon is a contrived fantasy.

One which is known to be such by only those in on the grift for just as long an amount of time.

Tl;Dr: When it all comes down to it, you can trust the most reductive view of the UFO Phenomena and the behavior of its relevant players as a baseline sanity check because of simple Resource Allocation. There’s only so much to go around, and an inconceivable amount seem to be devoted to this topic and discourse surrounding it.