Report exposes how the Pentagon propagated alien myths to distract the public from secret weapons programmes during the Cold War
So, The X-Files, the hit American science fiction TV series from the 1990s, turned out to be a docudrama. Going by a new investigative report by The Wall Street Journal, there really was a vast government conspiracy over the existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and their associated myths such as alien sightings.
However, it wasn’t so much that the US government suppressed – as per the show – the truth about little green men in flying saucers visiting the Earth with superior alien technology. Rather, the Pentagon helped seed and spread stories and myths to distract public attention from its advanced weapons development, such as spy planes and stealth fighters during the Cold War and even after.
“[The] US military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumours to fester to cover up real secret weapons programmes,” the report said.
“Now, evidence is emerging that government efforts to propagate UFO mythology date back all the way to the 1950s.”
