Joe Rogan suggested on his podcast that the government may have deployed drones to acclimate Americans to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). He proposed that by having drones hover over cities for weeks or months, the government could "get people really accustomed to the news cycle having UAPs in it, and then real ones show up." This theory is in contrast to other circulating ideas, such as the drones being operated by external forces or launched in search of volatile matter.