Have You Been Taken?

[ZeroAdunn]

Ummm, the government is not one big entity. It is made of numerous smaller parts. While some parts are partially or wholly inept, many are quite good at what they do.

I agree, I don't think roswell was an alien spacecraft crash. However, the fact that there is still so much contraversy shows just how capable the government can be. No doubt it was just a secret government project that they of course couldn't let the populace on to, so when people come asking what crashed, they tell some schmuck just to make something up. Well, he tells em it is an alien spacecraft. Of course, everybody realises how stupid that statement is, and tells him to change it to something else. So now it becomes a weather balloon. Of course, this arouses suspicion and suddenly, you have a whole populous focused on a conspiracy. The government uses this, placing a few pieces of key evidence, and maybe even "leaking" false information, and suddenly, you've got a conspiracy that is keeping people focused on something that amounts to nothing.

It's really quite genious.