Was it really ayy lmaos or just swamp gas?
>inb4 go to /x/
This happened in 1947.
It was easier to explain that it was ayy lmaos instead of some secret military testing.
Fake news lmao
naturally, extraterrestrial life visiting this planet is an absurd idea
Just a military balloon crash, that whole muh aliens shit was a disinformation campaign meant to fool soviets.
>>2596817
It was a psy op.
>>2596925
Stalin was a notable UFO-fanatic. Covering up with some extraterrestrial bogus story hardly makes any sense. Why would the US draw all Soviet spies on a classifed military project?
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>>2597149
No. The whole ayy lmao conspiracy stuff didn't start until decades later. It wasn't made up by the military - the air force just said it was a weather balloon.
At most, they made a decision not to squash the conspiracytard stuff so that any true info about the real (but mundane) military testing would get lost in the noise. But again, that wasn't until the 1970s.