A cynic’s guide to the UFO subreddits


r/UFOs: Your one-stop-shop for UAP Cognitive Dissonance. Upvotes posts about nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs as non-human craft; downvotes any posts suggesting they are actually being operated by non-human intelligence. Routinely quotes information from well-known figures who speak or write about UAP while claiming those people are all “grifters.” Loves the phrase “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” but can’t define what that is (but they’ll know it when they see it—which they won’t). If the Phenomenon was a swimming pool, this would be the shallow end where people hold onto the sides.

r/Aliens: Loves memes about Gray aliens, probing, and reptilians harvesting Loosh. Accepts UAP and aliens are real, but ridicules accounts of either one. Loves to speculate, but hates to research. UAP enthusiasts who became cynical about Disclosure or the subject in general populate this subreddit. “I took DMT, AMA about UAP.”

r/DisclosureParty: A clearing house for UAP sighting reports and heartfelt letters to Congress that will all invariably receive a boilerplate reply of “God bless USA.” They don’t care who or what is behind UAP, just bitter that they aren’t being acknowledged. Their fingers are eternally poised over a GIF of Ron Paul saying “IT’S HAPPENING!”

r/UFOB: Most open-minded but grounded discussion on UAP subject. The “More research is needed” subreddit. Populated by people who graduated from r/UFOs. Has dissected more seagulls than John James Audubon. The “We’re totally not like those other UFO subreddits” subreddit. The scientists here don’t just work from home, they work from armchairs.

r/Experiencers: The “shit got weird” part of the Phenomenon. A confusing mix of people who desperately want to be abducted to escape their unhappy lives, people who think they’ve maybe been abducted because they had a weird dream, people who have made their entire persona about being abducted but never were, and people who were genuinely abducted but don’t really want to talk about it because it blew up their lives. Where sleep paralysis is another term for “interdimensional conference call.” A bit hard to hear anything over all the echo in the chamber.

r/Starseeds: Ontological shock meets fanfic. The “I’m not from around here” corner of Reddit. Populated by individuals who feel they’re on a mission to raise Earth’s vibration, but can’t quite remember the specifics. A support group for people who find human problems too mundane and prefer intergalactic drama. If you think experiencing empathy makes you an empath, this is the destination for you (just bring some extra emojis).

r/EscapingPrisonPlanet: Depressed? Angry? Hopeless? Perfect. The paranoid love-child of UFOs and Gnosticism. They’ve cracked the cheat code for existence, but they forgot where they put it. Thought the Matrix was a documentary that didn’t go far enough. Warns everyone to beware of Archons that keep them in perpetual suffering while simultaneously spreading propaganda to keep people in perpetual suffering.

r/Conspiracy: PROJECT BLUE BEAM. FALSE FLAG. KENNEDY, MONROE, UFO, HO HO HO. BURN AFTER READING.

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