Someone who proclaims to openly sacrifice their credibility, in a mysterious way, while making a lot of vague suggestions, can succeed to cause people to actually listen and speculate if there might actually be more to it than meets the eye.
Something else that has the same effect is censorship and secrecy.
What also works well is to claim that there exists some technical research but that it has to be kept secret.
What all of it has in common is that there is nothing but a balloon full of hot air.
Someone who proclaims to openly sacrifice their credibility, in a mysterious way, while making a lot of vague suggestions, can succeed to cause people to actually listen and speculate if there might actually be more to it than meets the eye.
Something else that has the same effect is censorship and secrecy.
What also works well is to claim that there exists some technical research but that it has to be kept secret.
What all of it has in common is that there is nothing but a balloon full of hot air.