With Space Force being the newest branch of the U.S. military, look...if the CIA wants to make up some shit about Martians having WMDs and therefore we need to invade the planet immediately...I'm willing to go along with it.
So I used to listen to Coast to Coast just as entertainment before it turned into a giant infomercial, I now listen to Mysterious Universe which is much better and much more entertaining and definitely worth a listen if you like crazy/paranormal things approached with lots of skepticism and humor, but a semi-regular guest on Coast to Coast claims that the CIA was on Mars ha!
The guest claimed that as part of a CIA project in his teens, he was on mars via teleportation and saw a young Barack Obama there. It's pure unsanity and obviously not fake but it's a hell of a rabbit hole to go down purely for amusement. The sad part is, at least from my impression, the guest really believed that he had been part of these alleged (fantastical) events. Here are some articles about it:
So who knows, maybe the CIA has really had a legitimate interest in Mars at some point, they've taken interest in far stranger things (maybe they took too much of their own drugs from MKUltra).
