So it's been out of the news cycle for a couple of weeks, but the whole "leaked" UFO footage debacle is a great opportunity to teach people how military contractors fight each other for the most funding (i.e. profits) and how the media's intended function to shape public opinion is used to get those contracts. Let's go!

The Claim: UFO's on footage reveal breaking the laws of physics leaked to the media. Pentagon confirms, "videos are real."

"Oh my god, it's a UFO! Quick, get the shittiest camera you can find!" I haven't had respect for US media in a long time, but this was something else. I'm sure the camera operators at those stations airing stories on "Pentagon spent $20 million on figuring out UFO origins," were like, "wtf, those are common camera phenomenons. One is a plane with a beacon lol, and the other is...a bird? Yeah, I can see wings flapping."

"How could China so blatantly lie to their people and get away with it!"

If you wanted A popular retort was, "they don't need aliens to get military funding." This is a great point, but it falsely looks at the military as a monolith and not a group of competing factions to see who can get the most funding (profits). You can see it publicly with the billionaire space race. When you need Congress to give you money, you call the media and have them run stories that help that cause.

Sell missiles? "New enemy aircraft has anti missile technology, leaked sources claim." Planes? "American air superiority under threat? Leaked documents show the Air Force losing ground." Tanks, "New tank for the 21st century, now dispenses uranium enriched smoothies." You get the picture.

Now, most of those companies still have to produce a product, but what if the thing you are being paid to produce is not possible in our reality? And what if you were in a system that didn't have accountability for where the money was spent? Well, my friends you have a virtually unlimited Skunk Works project, that would most likely only exist on paper and never be audited. It's Free Real Estate!

In summary, this is nothing more than convincing the public with bad evidence that we should give some more contractors unlimited money. In other words, business as usual in America.