Originally Posted by theUpsideDown

Yeah, boy, don't i know it. Tom DeLonge, a muscian in the band blink 182 and his publicist cooked up a couple half baked ideas including a entertainment company this History Channel thing Unidentified: inside americas ufo blah blah blah. The marketing campaign was hilsrious success. The media hits mostly started on a NYT article that was so clickbaity other "journalists" reported on the story written to surf off their clicks. That's an easy way to steal someone elses work: report on someone elses work, citing that work, and convincing the reader you looked into it. Spoiler alert, they didnt, but you pay the bills.

Originally Posted by theUpsideDown

The alien show thing is a legitimate show needing a legitimate company. The baffling claims of aliens here now or in the past is not.

Leslie something or other, the one who wrote the NYT piece, is a freelance access journalist. The access? Entertainment, not ufology. Though i suppose if i read enough made up crap I'm probably a ufologist. DeLonge and his weirdos are true believers, and... They are true believers trying to make a buck. They feed the NYT leslie whatever media and ufo stories to get clicks, The nyt single handedly creates what appears to be a groundswell of stories popping up about aliens which helps the show.

​​​​​anyway, enjoy.