For real.
I personally believe that the existence of aliens is too scary for most people, and they laugh it off as a hoax, in order to not shatter their world view. The obvious questions one asks after realizing that aliens exist are just utterly frightening to most. For example, are the aliens good or bad? What does this say about earthly religions and “god?” How much more advanced are they then us? Why are they abducting us? Etc.
Also, I think the people that comprehended the gravity of the NYT article, already believed. It wasn’t groundbreaking to us. We already knew that shyt. Those that don’t believe simply said it was some sort of “government” craft (even after the Pentagon admitted that the technology was so much more advanced than any technology from any nation).
Fox News, as much as I hate them, had multiple tv personalities do segments on AATIP and aliens. Tucker Carlson went in depth about it. This was just the start of a slow disclosure that the government is conducting to introduce the alien reality in a way that doesn’t cause terrible panic. It’s so slow that we might think nothing is really happening, but it is. Movies, TV, books, are all slowly introducing the topic to the masses.
Yeah, I've watched a bunch of interviews from the guy who ran the program at the Pentagon (Luis Elizondo), but I could only stomach about one of Tucker's segments. UFO info or not, I can't take too much of what a white supremacist is saying seriously, regardless of the topic. Sadly, most of the networks he was on like CNN, MSNBC, and local news outlets treated it like a big joke with the X-Files theme music playing in the background.
Treat months of investigative journalism with a gang of on the record sources on perhaps the biggest news story in human history like it's a office party joke brehs.
But I don't even take it as far as you do with believing people are in denial or scared to acknowledge the likely reality we aren't top dogs in the universe. I think it's really just as simple as I initially said. That most people don't know about this information, and even if they did, they wouldn't care.
My dad was always big on the theory that we were slowly being groomed by entertainment, movies, etc to the reality of aliens so that it would come as less of a shock. I don't even think that's the case. I just think people are so caught up in their day to day lives that things like aliens, science, astronomy, etc don't concern them.
Aliens visiting Earth aren't gonna wipe out their credit card debt
