I'd read it as "extreme situations triggered by previously-considered-impossible events". With a subtext of "do not make a crisis more likely by mentioning the triggers we are actually worried about".
This is the best soft reveal that the elite know about extra-terrestrial intelligence so far. We see NASA doing soft reveals about Martian life, but this is next level.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 28.4 ms ] threadif little green AIlens come and get blamed for the financial crisis, I'm sold 100% on Capricorn One (1978)