Does the U.S. Government Want You to Believe in Aliens?

Was Roswell really a UFO cover-up, or was the government hiding something else? Skeptic magazine founder and White House UAP panel member Michael Shermer explains that the government did lie about Roswell, but not because aliens crashed in New Mexico. He says the object was part of a Cold War operation used to monitor Soviet nuclear tests. If UFO stories helped hide Cold War secrets, could today’s UAP headlines be distracting us from something else?