Serious interest in the reality of the UFO phenomena has been attacked from many quarters through false representation often carried with a large does of ridicule. A particular hindrance is having people conditioned to think of belief in UFOs as being synonymous with a belief in 'conspiracy theories'. The 'conspiracy theory' label casts interest in the subject as an irrational belief or mental illness. While it may often be categorized as such the acceptance that 'UFOs are real' is entirely rational, based on various scientific reviews and official admissions.
Rather than being fully informed of the history, and treated to a dispassionate appraisal of the issue, the public has more often been treated to a confusing blend of false information and lampooning of the subject.
Lunatic fringe ideas, associating the serious interest in UFOs with mental illness, hoaxes, frauds and sensationalism, have misrepresented the nature of the subject.
Despite these representations the subject of UFOs does remain a popular notion, albeit a somewhat non-serious one, in the minds of many people. Polls have consistently shown a large percentage of people believe in the issue despite not having a well grounded understanding of the topic.
Traditionally, the public gets its information from the mass media which has often fails to adequately articulate the issue beyond the 'oddball' special interest context. Mixed with with some highly credible documentaries the media can poison the well of knowledge with the promotion of highly questionable material and individuals that downplay the accumulated evidence.
When is comes to misinforming the public there are two sides to this coin in controlling how people think about the question of UFOs - there is Censorship and Disinformation. Although they differ, they are interconnected strategies and compliment each other.
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Censorship
Terry Hansen writing about major media in his book the Missing Times points out that many UFO stories appearing in the local media are not carried on the national networks. There is a firewall where much of this is due to the ridicule that surrounds the subject. The follow presentation covers various aspects of this media censorship, and also deals with the government disinformation/propaganda that aids in keeping people, especially more serious minds, away from official interest in the phenomena:NEWS MEDIA COMPLICITY AND THE TRUTH EMBARGO, with Terry Hansen. A mesmerizing account of his investigation into whether some of America's most influential news organizations, many having maintained close ties to the U.S. intelligence community, have willingly suppressed full and accurate news coverage of extraterrestrial related phenomena for a variety of "national-security" reasons. Hansen reveals the remarkable and persistent difference in UFO-related news coverage exhibited by local and national news organizations and reviews the history of censorship and propaganda during the twentieth century and the evidence for media-government collusion over the course of the half-century-long UFO controversy.
CENSORSHIP AT THE SOURCE
We know US government classifies the UFO reports they receive so that only limited amounts of information are revealed to the public (if we are lucky!). AFR-200 and JANAP 146 are reporting directives, the latter applying to civilians also, that subject individuals to serious penalties (under "Espionage Laws") if they talk publicly once having filed their reports. Although some of these filed reports are known many are not. If they were filed within the CIRVIS network they will be held by NORAD which is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Also the public must understand that although we have access to some official UFO files and analysis, such as the Project Bluebook sighting reports, and their Special Report No.14 conducted by the Battelle Memorial Institute, the best data is more likely being withheld.
Indeed, we have accounts of military film taken of UFOs at close range from aircraft, and from Ballistic missile tracking telescopes, as replayed in various documentaries, where there is no record of what happened in any of the available data sets.
Notably, after Project Bluebook was discontinued in 1969 reports of UFOs were still being filed via CIRVIS procedures and sent to NORAD through 'regular UFO reporting channels' indicating what many had suspected - that Bluebook had been a public relations front and the real work kept secret.
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Disinformation
When it comes to the mainstream media, and what they publish - whether it is cast in a positive or negative light, or whether a subject faces censorship - it is important to understand their relationship to the CIA.Most people do not realise that the CIA does not simply analyse news. As the OSS it originally, and still does, control public information flows. Via Operation Mockingbird, the existence of which was discovered during the Church Committee Hearings of the 1970s, it was revealed that controlling public perception is an important role of the agency.
There is a CIA report dealing with criticism of the Warren Commission into the assassination of John F Kennedy where it lays out how to underhandedly discredit legitimate questions about that incident. The CIA advocates using the term 'conspiracy theory' and this is directed at a domestic US audience. The directive clearly shows the CIA does not operate solely in the sphere of foreign intelligence and should be a wake up call to the wider mechinations of this agency.
Specifically in relation the UFO phenomena we know the CIA was involved with their Robertson Panel review of 1953. They indicated that efforts must be made to downplay reports of UFOs through official declarations and through influencing the media behind the scenes.
The following clip shows evidence that the CIA, 13 years after the Robertson Panel, had a major hand in a CBS television story on UFOs:
PROFESSIONAL 'DEBUNKERS'
Debunkers, consisting of credible professionals, predominantly recruited from academia, including those working in the physical sciences, have grossly misrepresented the UFO data for many decades.
They should be seen as deliberate disinformation artists, likely working for the CIA, because they are too intelligent to be so divorced from a rational accounting of the subject. They claim some level of expertise, to be acting under a scientific umbrella, but their actions prove otherwise. What they do doesn't make sense unless their actions are to deliberately mislead.
Naturally, in running a disinformation campaign, the individuals engaged in pushing false arguments tend to be media trained, charismatic and eloquent people. However, regardless of their outward demeanor their arguments are often directed against straw men propositions and are largely baseless when it comes to addressing issues of substance.
The following debate clip shows Debunker Michael Shermer essentially dismissing thousands of credible UFO reports - that include radar tapes, pictures, and close observations by trained observers - proclaiming there is no credible evidence! He also downplays the fact that physical evidence in the hands of the military would be kept hidden. Foolishly he makes ridiculous demands, that he wants ET bodies as proof, which is unlikely if the military is holding any, or if UFOs represent a highly advanced visitation by extra-terrestrial entities, because they would be able to recover them.
In real world science we cannot bottle up certain things, like cosmic particles, and yet we can conduct expensive experiments to detect them:
Notice that despite making highly presumptive arguments, and ignoring data, Shermer remains calm, smiles, laughs (a likely psychological ploy to win the audience) and pushes non specific notions that people are easily mislead, and those believing in UFO reality have an irrational belief in 'little green' men. This is not argument, it is psychology at work.
The Debunkers assert that the whole idea of UFO reality is absurd - something that is only possible if you ignore the accumulated data and go for fallacies of necessities - 'they can't be true because they have not landed on the White House lawn', or 'the public has yet to see wreckage or bodies so therefore all the witnesses and other data cannot represent a real phenomena'.
Obviously something is occurring in our skies to generate the UFO reports. The details of these events, including very close observations, photos, video, and radar recordings, as found in thousands of official reports, show that many of the objects do appear to be types of craft that are not of this world. That is perhaps the best hypothesis one can make of what has been recorded - certainly it has been the conclusion of many scientists and studies (cited above) that looked into the data.
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