Today in the midst of the escalating inter-imperialist rivalry across the globe, the United States and it’s rival imperialist powers are quickly working to militarize space as a new frontier in the future inter-imperialist war. As the State struggles to disguise these efforts, counter-intelligence elements within the pentagon have found strange bed fellows in the tinfoil hat wearing “UFO Community”. It’s a bird, its a plane, its martians! In recent years, official elements within the bourgeois State have increasingly publicly entertained, promoted and encouraged some of the most fantastic stories regarding UFOs and secretive government programs "reverse engineering" alien technology, backed by a chorus of online conspiracy hucksters and social media grifters. Within a mystique of democratic transparency and UFO “disclosure” there is only the same old cold war tactics to mystify new weapons systems amid a renewed race to militarize space.

The United States military has carved space into two big areas, a military branch to build and operate the infrastructure (the U.S. Space Force) and a warfighting command to plan and fight with it (U.S. Space Command). Around them sit the Space Development Agency (fast, cheap networks of low-orbit satellites), the Missile Defense Agency (sensors that spot hypersonic and ballistic threats from space), DARPA (high-risk, high-payoff experiments), and the intelligence agencies space arms (notably the National Reconnaissance Office and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) that fly and exploit spy satellites. Over the last decade, money has followed the mission. The Space Force’s budget roughly doubled from the first $15.4 B request for 2021 to about $29.4 B requested for 2025; U.S. Space Command’s request jumped from about $84 M in 2020 to $249 M 2021. SDA exploded from a seedling $125 M 2020 into a multibillion-dollar program $4.5 B in 2024. MDA’s account climbed from roughly $8.5 B 2015 to a $10.4 B request 2025. DARPA’s budget rose from $2.9 B 2015 to$4.1 B today.

The Pentagon’s “Project Mayhem" is a U.S. Air Force program focused on developing a hypersonic, air-breathing, multi-mission aircraft capable of both strike and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. The program, led by as the System Design Agent (SDA), aims to create an unmanned, reusable hypersonic drone platform., according to a 2023 Defense Department budget document. Similarly, patents filed by Salvatore Pais, an employee of the U.S. Space Force, include designs for an "inertial mass reduction vehicle" that could theoretically mimic the physics-defying maneuvers of many alleged UAPs. According to the 2020 article by defense industry journal The War Zone, “despite the patents sounding extremely far-fetched, official documents show that the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Naval Aviation Enterprise personally attested to the and their importance to in appeals with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Meanwhile, the scientists and physicists we have talked to have made it clear that they find the claims largely absurd and not grounded in scientific fact.”

As reported in a 2021 Forbes article, experimental technologies like the EmDrive have been long under development by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) which could mimic many of the maneuvers of the 2004 tic-tac UAP video leaked by the military. Researcher of the University of Plymouth, was awarded a DARPA grant in 2018 to study Quantized inertia, and has also noted the similarities between the reports and the drive he is working on. The technology to seemingly generate thrust from a closed system. The results have allegedly been repeated at independent labs around the world including and researchers at. While current versions only produce miniscule amounts of thrust, comparable to ion drives used on satellites and space probes, it is said that a version based on superconductors could drive a.

Amid the largest escalation in the militarization in space in world history, the military and it’s intelligence agencies turn to conspiracy theories to mystify the build up and throw off their imperialist rivals. Today a slew of staged and controlled “leaks” from military agencies alongside official legitimation have worked to fan the spread of the UFO myth alongside a web of online and social media hucksters. Surveys show a significant rise in UFO belief, with a 2023 Pew Research study finding that 65% of Americans now believe UFOs are real (up from 45% in 2019), while a 2022 Gallup poll revealed that 41% of U.S. adults attribute UFO sightings to extraterrestrial life, the highest percentage in decades.

A sharp increase that is the result of a controlled campaign of disinformation by the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who declassified three now-famous UAP videos captured by Navy pilots, the 2004 "Tic Tac", 2015 "Gimbal”, and 2015 "Go Fast" footage, originally “leaked” in 2017 by To The Stars Academy (an organization with U.S. military intelligence ties) and later officially confirmed by the Pentagon in 2020. On August 4, of that year the Pentagon announced the establishment of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF). This was followed by the establishment of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office AARO in 2022 to investigate "unidentified aerial phenomena" or "unidentified anomalous phenomena". On May 17, 2022, the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation held the first open UAP hearing in more than 50 years. In 2023, the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee heard from AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick on the office’s mission and oversight, and the House Oversight Committee held a high-profile hearing with witnesses David Grusch, Ryan Graves, and David Fravor where Grusch alleged crash-retrieval programs and “nonhuman biologics,”.

Amid the democratic theater where the government wishes to appear to be coming clean about aerial phenomena it claims it simply cannot identify, and insider whistle blowers scream they have personally seen the aliens, the government maintains a shroud of obscurantism about what exactly it is doing in space and with its advanced weapon systems programs. After AARO’s 2024 report said it found no verified evidence of extraterrestrial technology, fresh details emerged in June 2025 when a Wall Street Journal investigation, drawing on the Pentagon’s own review files and interviews, reported that U.S. officers had, often actually seeded UFO rumors during the Cold War to shield classified programs, including a retired Air Force colonel’s admission that he handed a Nevada bar owner doctored “saucer” photos in the 1980s to deflect attention from stealth tests near Area 51. Following coverage summarized additional episodes attributed to that same Pentagon inquiry, such as fake “alien unit” briefings and a famous 1967 “UFO-caused” missile incident later explained as an unannounced electromagnetic-pulse test.

Beyond the recent Wall St. Journal article, other long declassified CIA documents have previously revealed that between 50-90% of UFO reports in the 1950s and 60s were actually sightings of the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes. The government further encouraged this confusion with the Air Force Project Blue Book where officers were instructed to dismiss sightings as "natural phenomena" while secretly documenting them for further testing purposes. This deception continued with the 1953 Robertson Panel, where CIA and military officials explicitly recommended using UFO stories as a "protective cover story" for advanced aircraft testing.

The strategy extended to psychological operations when Lockheed’s A-12 Oxcart, a precursor to the SR-71, began test flights in 1962, the CIA staged UFO sightings near Area 51 to explain sonic booms and unusual radar returns. Similarly, the 1964 Socorro UFO incident, where a civilian reported seeing an egg-shaped craft with "alien" occupants, matched descriptions of early lunar lander tests and was later revealed to have UFO myths intentionally spread around the incident by the military. Even the famous Roswell incident has been found to be disinformation with former counterintelligence officer lieutenant colonel Phillip Corso admitting later in life that the military deliberately seeded alien theories to obscure recovered Soviet technology.

As surveillance satellites, experimental drones and rockets of all sorts are sent off into space and more and more money is poured into experimental and advanced weapons systems programs, the bourgeois in Washington once again seed the stories of little green men to try to divert the proletarian’s gaze away from the real story. As similar conspiracy theories are spread by the bourgeois across society be it from the QANON or tales of Lizard aliens controlling the governments of the world, the real explanation for all such “unexplained phenomena”, despite the bourgeois’ constant spreading of lunatic non-sense is much simpler, capitalism, it’s crisis and the mounting inter-imperialist rivalry.