Thank you for this excellent article Caitlin, your broaching this very important (yet often stigmatized and avoided subject matter) shows your degree of integrity, intelligence and insight.

These people (in the military and intelligence community) pushing these notions of an "extraterrestrial threat" forward into the public consciousness are exactly what Verner Von Braun warned about decades ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Nc-gG7vIY The only step in the endless cycle of problem-reaction-solution fear pysops/false flag ops he did not warn us about is this scamdemic (which is a fear/control narrative that is running out of steam quickly now). The manufacturing of a perceived "et threat" card may be their next play.

Given the extremely advanced technology at the disposal of organizations like the DOD, NSA, CIA (and various U.S.A.P.-s operating under the umbrella of the US Airforce) I would say that the capability does exist to orchestrate the manufacturing of a perceived threat that would be made to appear ET in nature. For people who want to perpetuate military spending and further consolidate power in the hands of the few on Earth, such a thing may be their end game. Only time will tell. One thing is for sure.. If I see images of "ufos" blowing stuff up on the news, I will be asking hard questions, applying intuition, common sense and triple verifying with on the ground sources before I believe what any paid actors (aka 'news reporters') are saying about it.