"There doesn't seem to be any record of it on KTNV's website, so I'm wondering if it's a leaked teaser for "War of the Worlds.""
Hmmm...actually, that MAY be far more correct than we know,
I'm not sure but here's why I say that.
When you want to make people believe in things that are not
true or if you want to implement new "rules" that you know
that people will get mad about, there is a technique called
"preconditioning" or "preparing"/"softening" to use more common words.
It is all about "programming" people to "accept" something
that they would not normally accept.
The idea is to plant "seeds" in peoples minds, i.e you start a subconscious
process in their minds that relate to a certain idea or event.
To take a few of the big recent "successes" in this realm as examples
we'll start by going back to the 80's.
If you back then would have said that people would have to accept being monitored
by cameras wherever they go and also to accept cameras in their homes,
you would probably have been lynched since people who had read Orwell's "1984"
knew the dangers associated with this.
Now 15 years later we have cameras everywhere, even in our homes thanks
to the hardcore marketing of "web-cams" (what was the name of that company
that spent $millions in order to put those pop-up ads on every webpage
out there?).
Over to a more recent and even darker "success".
The people(Wolfowitz, Perle, Rumsfeld, Kristol, Jeb Bush etc. etc.) behind the "blueprint" for the current administration
wrote in the late 90's that in order for their goals to be reached sooner than later,
killing thousands of innocent americans could prove helpful.
Or in their own words:
"the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one,
absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."
(-"Rebuilding America's Defenses -- Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century," page 51, Project for the New American Century, September 2000)
Then in the summer of 2001 the "blockbuster" film "Pearl Harbor" appeared
in the theaters. It was a big and well-made spectacle with well-known stars like
Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight, Alec Baldwin etc.
in the main roles.
The movie played heavily on emotions and patriotism and was raised to the sky
by the "critics" in the media while others thought it was too much blatant propaganda and clichés to be a "great" movie.
Anyway, the stage was set and minds and emotions had been successfully programmed for what was to come within a couple of months.
Yes, I know I'm spoiling the fun out of movies and stuff but nowadays I can't see anything without thinking about "why" I am being shown or told this or that.
Or as F.D. Roosevelt himself stated:
"there is no such thing as coincidence in politics"
So, regarding this "UFO" story I guess we'll see if it's just another
"programming" attempt or some other stunt.