All good NPR stenographers know the proper way to learn things is to go listen to a diner full of white geriatrics in a dying town of 4 dozen people and congratulate themselves for being very serious people, of course.
“Some alien encounters are hoaxes perpetrated by your government to manipulate the public. Some of these hoaxes are intentionally revealed to manipulate the truth-seekers who become discredited if they disclose the deliberately absurd deception.”