Above Top Secret
The post reads "[HOAX] ‘ET’ False Flag Operation to Begin in August [HOAX]," and I’ve got to admit, it’s both engaging and interesting. It’s engaging because of how the post starts…an admission by the original poster (OP) on how the post as a whole was a hoax…contrived as a study on how Internet hoaxes get started. He’s not apologetic in any way, as he believes he gave plenty of clues (which some people caught onto) which would lead an average reader to the conclusion the post was a hoax. If you start from this point in the forum, and read through many of the pages, you can’t help but be amazed by how many people got that it was a hoax, but, on the other hand, how many people bought into the whole thing. I read quite a few pages of the material, and was really quite mesmerized to read replies from people who believed the post in whole, people who weren’t sure what to believe (but wanted to believe), and others who really wanted to believe, but needed proof.
The string overall is interesting because it shows, to me at least, that conspiracy theories are alive and well in the world, and that people truly believe (or want to believe) that aliens from other planets have visited, and continue to visit, Earth. I could have easily followed dozens of related but tangent posts about supposed proof on what the OP had written. Simply amazing stuff.
For a look into the mind of what I believe to be a large segment of the population of the world, click on over to AboveTopSecret.com. There you’ll find theories on aliens, governments, and just about anything else you can think of. Taken with a realistic amount of skepticism, it’s quite interesting reading.