Do you suppose that the Air Force mounts strobe lights on helicopters and flies them around to piss people off?
[ct mode] The real Men in Black haven’t used black helicopters for years. They use either red with yellow striped or blue with white striped helicopters with removable decals on the sides of the logos of local TV or radio stations on them[/ct mode]
Yes. I’m pretty sure ALL aircraft have strobes attached.
It’s for safety reason I believe.
Hey, I didn’t say black. Any old helicopter with strobe lights, disco balls and stuff.
There’s nobody out there to piss off.
I thought folks sneaked up to watch, and try not to be caught by guards.
I realize this is MPSIMS, but what are you talking about?
Area 51, the airbase where planes are tested, and some folks think the Air Force keeps pet aliens and space ships there.
People see UFOs and decide they are alien space ships.
If they do, I hope they coordinate their efforts with the tour groups.
Maybe they do use some fake effects to find and flush out trespassers. I think the military actually likes the Area 51 myth, it does part of their counter-intelligence job for them.
I understand both the facts and the ULs about Area 51 pretty well.
I was trying to make sense of the body of the OP. Why would you ask this question today? What triggered your interest? Is there some media event I haven’t heard of? Why strobe lights instead of some other lights? Why helicopters? Who is the “they” the USAF is trying to piss off? Etc.
IOW, the sentence you wrote is fine grammatical English. But everything after that is a complete mystery to me. But I admit I’m sometimes rather too literal-minded for my own good. Humor me.
There was a program about Area 51 on television, with pictures of helicopters flying about with spotlights being touted as alien craft.
I thought it would be funny as hell if the Air Force was faking out UFO aficionados.
Ahhh, thank you. Makes sense now.
To be sure, if they use helicopters to patrol the perimeter at night those helos would have the typical aircraft warning lights plus high powered spotlights to light up the ground and any trespassers.
It take a special kind of dumb to confuse a guard helicopter coming after you for an alien ship coming after you. Then again, Area 51 True Believers are a special kind of dumb. And then again again, either way the encounter may end with anal probing. 
Pretty hard to get close enough to see anything. There used to be a ridge that overlooked it from a distance, but I hear access has been blocked to that recently.
If you want to see crazy shit, you’re better off going to The Bay Area.
I have strobes on my airplane, but I have never flown around to piss people off.
If you’ve ever watched the documentary Mirrage Men you’d know the Government definitely likes fucking with people’s heads.
I LOVED this documentary because it confirmed an armchair theory of mine I’ve had since I was a teenager. Which is basically the government intentionally wanted people to think Roswell incident was “aliens” to distract people from what they were really doing.
HEY! Just what are you implying?
Well, you’re no fun.
As I mentioned before, there’s value in counter-intelligence. I doubt the government planned the Roswell or Area 51 nonsense, but they can take advantage of it easily. Pretty much anything they do or don’t do will stoke the suspicions of the CT crowd, and they’re fine with that because it creates a cloud of disinformation.
I should imagine that the FAA frowns upon that sort of thing.