Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and genius behind Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is someone who really knows how to get government subsidies and contracts — as well as elicit investor enthusiasm — for his extraordinary endeavors. And his Twitter account is often interesting.
“I’m not saying there are UFOs,” he tweeted a little over a week ago, “but there are UFOs.”
Musk was riffing off a popular joke meme, featuring wild-haired Giorgio A. Tsoukalos of Ancient Aliens fame: “I’m not saying its aliens. But it’s aliens.” It’s a funny photo, encapsulating the genius of an obsession from the early 1970s: Erich von Däniken’s ultra-popular Chariots of the Gods.
“This sparked a huge response on Twitter, with many asking [Musk] if he knew more about the existence of aliens,” explains Patrick Knox of The U.S. Sun.
The day before Musk’s amusing tweet, “a UFO was spotted near the International Space Station during a live feed, sparking a new wave of alien conspiracy theories” — giving Musk the news peg for his quip.
Now that the U.S. Government has admitted that there have been plenty of encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena that have no official, public explanation that makes any sense, you might think we were beyond the “conspiracy theory” charge.
But most ufologists, I glean, believe some people within the military-industrial complex know a great deal more about these phenomena than they are saying. So “conspiracy” is not entirely out of the blue.
Worth mentioning, though, is that Elon Musk has multiple ongoing contracts with NASA, and undoubtedly has signed more than one non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
So he must walk the jocular tight-rope.
It would be interesting to learn what the heck is really going on.
NASA’s NDA’s should be voided.
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Another classic in the genre. LBJ: “Now, I’m not saying you’ve never had it so good, but it is true, isn’t it?”