At the 80s UFO conspiracies were already in full power. But the US government had a few cases of messing with people just for the lulz at that time, so who knows?
Anyway, the idea that aliens were invading seem to have spread at around the time the US government spend a few years flying a lot of weird objects in secret¹. But it may also be a coincidence.
At the 80s UFO conspiracies were already in full power. But the US government had a few cases of messing with people just for the lulz at that time, so who knows?
Anyway, the idea that aliens were invading seem to have spread at around the time the US government spend a few years flying a lot of weird objects in secret¹. But it may also be a coincidence.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul