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*The mods deleted my other post so I am testing another angle.*

Today the White House launched an immigrant arrest tracker after teasing "aliens.gov", while they are also engaged in an unprecedented release of documents and videos related to UAP.

One of the recurring themes in the history of UFOs is narrative control. The 1953 Robertson Panel recommended reducing public interest in flying saucers, because public fascination IN ITSELF was viewed as a potential national security problem. Since the 50s, this topic has gone through cycles of debunking, ridicule, secrecy, disclosure, and renaming/rebranding. This whole time, governments and institutions have repeatedly tried to shape how the public thinks about them.

aliens.gov (http://aliens.gov) fits right in. The site opens with what reads exactly like a UFO disclosure narrative: aliens living among us, decades-long government coverups, presidents who knew the truth (ok maybe not this one lol), a courageous figure finally exposing it all. But then the reveal is that it’s actually about arresting immigrants. They're borrowing the language, imagery, and emotional structure of UFO mythology and redirecting it toward a completely different political topic.

Was this designed specifically to suppress interest in UFOs? Who knows. Someone probably realized the UFO disclosure story is a powerful narrative framework and repurposed it. But the result is the same: one narrative is colonizing another. The result is a weird kind of semantic dilution where one of the most iconic terms in UFO culture (aliens) gets deliberately pulled away from its NHI meaning and repurposed for a political message.

This is absolutely relevant to the subject of r/UFOs and needs to be discussed accordingly.