Apparently the government is simultaneously grossly incompetent and a machievellian mastermind.
They have hundreds of people in on this conspiracy and none of them ever talked, but they kind of forgot about making new identities.
The government is also evil enough to fake a tradegy like this, but not so evil as to just kill the astronauts.
It's retarded.
I mean, in all honesty, you're right. People contradict themselves a lot when it comes to what they think The 'Gov can or can't pull off. Same think people who hate Trump do with that guy. He's simultaneously both a simpleton big baby doodoo head and also a Hitlerian mastermind. Yeah, people can't decide which one it is so it changes regularly.
The government is a big entity though. It's fair to say that, say, the IRS or EPA or Homeland or whatever agency might be a super incompetent bunch of nincompoops, while the CIA, space ops, Pentagon, etc are very good at what they do.
But yeah, either way, I find it completely preposterous and silly that any government would fake something like Challenger and leave the astronauts alive under the same names. I mean that's absurd. Those people would have been given completely new identities if they were actors or something.
I can buy that it's within the realm of possibility that Challenger could have been a false flag to discourage people from wanting to pursue space, once the government found out how costly and near-impossible it was to get anything out of space, or that the Moon Landing was faked to make it appear that we beat the Russians to it back when that mattered, and so on. But once people start getting into crisis actors and stuff it's like "But why?"
Either way, all of this stuff is way less interesting to talk about than actual astronomy and unexplainable phenomena and everything else.
Lots of sources for this one. Just a few observation cams on a tower.
This is some good footage and it kind of looks like the shiny metal thing I saw flying over a river last year. I still think what I saw was probably a drone, and it was too high up for me to get a good look at it, but it had a shiny roundness to it in any case. This thing on the other hand doesn't look like any drone I know of. The flashes of light it was emitting are the interesting thing to me, like it was taking pictures. One of the flashes seemed directed towards the guy filming it. Maybe some sort of top secret surveillance drone being tested?