“Is it funnier,” asked Paul Jacob regarding a Rand Paul critic who had mocked the senator and called the whole picnic episode funny, “than the Deep State admitting that it had been faking and fanning the flames of the UFO craze all along?”
It is worth taking a few moments and digesting that UFO story, apart from the picnic invitation kerfuffle. The new spin on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) issue was provided by the first of a two-parter by Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha in the Wall Street Journal [link above]. The title and blurb provide an adequate précis:
The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology: U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs
Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2025.
Now, Paul Jacob, on this site, has been covering the drip-by-drip UAP disclosure for a number of years now [feel free to use the search bar, above]. It has been obvious that the government has been lying to us. For a long time.
But about what? And how much?
The Wall Street Journal story is that the government made the whole thing up, or nearly so. “The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames [of the UFO craze], in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinformation.”
Unfortunately, we knew this was true from before the New York Times debut of the disclosure story in 2017. The sad, strange case of Richard Doty, who fed a hapless citizen who had stumbled upon a secret military operation a wild story of aliens and extra-terrestrial civilizations, was covered in the 2013 documentary Mirage Men.
But the wrinkle on the story is that Doty has gone on to push UFO stories publicly. Look for him on YouTube. Very odd, to say the least — and Doty is just one liar among many.
Speaking of liars, the CIA was created during the same summer that the modern UFO story started, 1947. That year featured multiple UAP reports (over Mount Rainier, most famously) and an alleged UFO crash (near Roswell, New Mexico). But the story had at least one strange precursor: the foo-fighters in World War II.
To what extent did the Deep State (and that freshly-debuted CIA, specifically) create a craze? Or, on the other hand, direct it and capitalize on it? Control it?
And what part was played by the pulp literary movement of science fiction? That is a question rarely asked, much less answered.
No answers here. But it is worth digesting how ufologists have handled the Wall Street Journal article. Here are two:
The thing is, if the UFO/UAP subject is almost completely a government psy-op, what does that tell us about our government?
To say that the government lies to us would be to understate the enormity of this.