Given the timing of Trump’s UFO announcement – issued as the Trump administration has mobilized a colossal military force near Iran, with an all-out war possibly imminent – journalist and author Max Blumenthal bemoaned what he suggested was Trump’s tactic to draw attention away from the potentially catastrophic consequences of a wider regional war.

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CIA planning docs show when they overthrew the Guatemalan president in 1954, they plotted planting “flying saucer” stories to distract the media.

Another declassified study shows the Air Force misled the public in the 1950s about UFOs to conceal the CIA’s spy plane testing.