The whole UAP thing, and how it’s been handled since forever, and all the related stuff, that’s not helping things.
By “related stuff” I mean, for example, how the US congress people are after the Pentagon’s budget. My personal conspiracy theory is that their aim isn’t to save taxpayer money, but have a peek into more military projects so they can maybe find something to get a cut on. So it makes sense for them to make a ruckus about potential aliens instead.
See, conspiracy theories are easy to make. And honestly, with military/security/government shit, you truly never know.