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Team Marchman: What about you, Makena?

Makena Kelly: I feel like I have this folk story in my head, and maybe it’s true, I need to check, but of Jimmy Carter upon entering the office, he saw some UFO files and cried, and he never said nothing more.

Team Marchman: I believe I heard that too.

Makena Kelly: Yes, and I don’t know if it’s true. I was just trying to do some research. And thinking about Trump finding these things, I don’t know if he would release them. I would not be optimistic.

Team Marchman: I don’t believe they are going to release anything because he was already president and he didn’t release the material in question. I believe that what the secret files show if declassified is that the United States engaged in a cover-up of Lee Harvey Oswald and his relationship with the Soviet Union in fear that, if made public, it would lead to war nuclear And that most of the subsequent cover-up was a cover-up of the cover-up. And he believes that the UFO files will show that extraterrestrial biological entities crashed in New Mexico in the 1940s and led the United States government on a journey of discovery about the nature of the universe, which includes aliens who have created famous religious figures throughout human history. as guides to give humans instructions on how not to damage their bodies which are containers for the souls that the aliens harvest for energy. This has been the theory, at least that many UFO supporters have put since the 1980s, and of course I firmly believe that it is true, maybe Donald Trump will confirm this. Makena and David, thank you so much for being here. When we come back, it’s time for our last Conspiracy of the Week.

Team Marchman: Welcome back to WIRED Politics Lab. This is Conspiracy of the Week, that part of the show where our guests bring their favorite conspiracy theories and I get to judge in Leah’s place. The winner this week will get to brag forever, so I hope you both brought something good. Makena, let’s start with you.

Makena Kelly: Yeah, I’m glad you brought up aliens and the JFK assassination because I’m going to complete the trifecta with that. One of the conspiracy theories that I think has its time in the sky, let’s say, this year, has been chemtrails. These are the trails that the planes leave as they fly in the sky, apparently spreading all these chemicals and ruining and poisoning, when in reality it’s just water vapor. At the beginning of this year, with the hurricane in North Carolina, there were conspiracies about the chemtrails taking place there. Legislators in Tennessee passed a bill that has to do with anything and that regulates chemtrails, crazy stuff. But this week, oh my, I lost it when I saw this. There was what appeared to be a satirical joke online about a Lufthansa pilot who denied spraying chemical trails on his son while piloting a plane. He apparently took a stand and said, “I’m not doing it.” And the chemtrail, I guess we could call it the chemtrail community, got really excited about it. And it’s not true, it was a joke. Yes.