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2026-05-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The FBI has declassified data on UFO ‘crews’ the size of gnomes

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Posted by badanov 2026-05-12 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1788 views ] Top

1 Was this a European gnome or an African one?

Posted by ed in texas 2026-05-12 10:47|| 2026-05-12 10:47|| Front Page Top

2 Hobbits.

Posted by Bobby 2026-05-12 11:05|| 2026-05-12 11:05|| Front Page Top

3 Why can't we have more stories about extra-terrestrial life and alien encounters ?

Trump program unleashes never-before-seen footage of objects defying physics

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-12 12:33|| 2026-05-12 12:33|| Front Page Top

4 LOL, tw.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-05-12 12:43|| 2026-05-12 12:43|| Front Page Top

5 I argue that if these are distractors, what are they distracting from?

No one get's punished.
No one goes to jail.
No one gets investigated.

There's increasing little curiosity in the growing pool of low iqs.

If there was no UFO story in the news cycle, what would get traction? This does not seem to steal any momentum from any other thing. If this was not in the news cycle, I have zero expectations that anything else would get more coverage.

Posted by mossomo 2026-05-12 12:43|| 2026-05-12 12:43|| Front Page Top

6 What from? Giving news space to DOGE and other government clean-ups, ICE round ups, building on to the border wall, DOJ/FBI research and arrests, downsizing the fed… all the things the Democrats/ Pro progressive like to gather together about a beat up innocent passers by.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-05-12 13:16|| 2026-05-12 13:16|| Front Page Top

7 ^ my first guess would be a multi-media immersion indoctrination training aid for the primitiveness(?) of nose camera tracking video. Cop body-cam 'in your face' videos are so much more titillating. AI political sound bite videos are less general, more directed, more refined. Detracts from the superior military technology meme.

Which is a smoke screen for what's really out there.

Today's news, expected:
F/A-18 Super Hornet Drops Bombs Down Smokestacks Of Iranian Tankers Running Blockade (Updated)

50 years ago, now a video game:
Reenacting Bombing Missions in an F-117 Nighthawk

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-12 15:09|| 2026-05-12 15:09|| Front Page Top

8 NOBODY mentioned in the Epstein files has been arrested.
This little green men nonsense is a distraction, as was correctly noted above. Where are the arrests, the trials, the prison sentences? There never will be any.
PS love the pro-athiest meme, saved it!

Posted by Uninens Thromonter9996 2026-05-12 15:12|| 2026-05-12 15:12|| Front Page Top

9 Before Epstein, there was Michael.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-12 16:09|| 2026-05-12 16:09|| Front Page Top

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