The X-Files creator Chris Carter has been saying for years that “the truth is out there” and a new government report about the presence of unexplainable flying objects in the sky only backs him up.
Carter recently wrote an op-ed in The New York Times where he argues that the bigger story is that the government has finally come clean about their investigations into UFOs, now referred to as unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP). The actual report fails to reveal anything substantial about UFO/UAP other than they still don’t know what these phenomena are, but it does admit that they exist and that they can’t explain them.
The X-Files creator points out a major concern about UFO report
Carter, known for creating one of the most popular television series of all time, knows all about government cover-ups because, they were at the heart of The X-Files. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) were part of an obscure FBI team that investigated unexplainable phenomena and they were always blown off by their superiors, and most of the time were dealing with dangerous government conspiracies at risk of being exposed.
Carter says that the report is “X-Files territory if ever there was any” because no one knew the government was spending tens of millions of dollars investigating phenomena that they publicly dismissed as foolishness.
Though Carter believes that the government is not to be trusted to share actual information about UFOs with the public, he’s more concerned that no one seems to care that the government was carrying out these investigations to begin with. That should raise all kinds of red flags.
There’s also the matter of believing in aliens. As a country, he notes, we can hardly come together on anything (he mentions climate change and wearing masks) so belief in aliens is likely pushing things too far.
He closes his op-ed with Mulder’s iconic “I want to believe” line. Though the government report doesn’t offer much by way of real information, the door has been opened, so who knows what might come from it?
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