True Believers™ will still label this as Disinformation, but a new book take a critical look at the last 50 years of UFOlogy and concludes that there was a government cover-up and disinformation campaign in regards to UFOs – but as a means to sway public opinion.
But Clarke and Roberts, whose research is to be published this week in a book called Out of the Shadows, did uncover evidence that the American Secret Service, with the possible connivance of the British, looked at ways of using the public panic over UFOs as a psychological weapon against the Russians.
In CIA memos marked ‘secret’ and seen by The Observer, top officials consider exploiting the UFO craze. ‘I suggest that we discuss the possible offensive or defensive utilisation of these phenomena for psychological warfare purposes,’ wrote CIA director Walter Smith in 1952.