Per the book, UFOs Today: 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation & Government Cover-Up it is likely there was a nascent coverup of the phenomena underway even before the Kenneth Arnold sighting. The extent of which may not have been systemic at the time likely because it takes time to impose such strict widespread controls on information and secrecy across a large bureaucracy. Especially in light of the highly extranormal nature of the phenomena which had obviously been established as a factual portion of our reality hence the need to engage it in a manner that required highest levels of secrecy, cover-up and discretion in its handling of the information known to intelligence organizations. Thus it was likely with a high degree of certainty that there were low and mid-level agents within governmental agencies such as the Air Force, not considered to be spy “tradecraft” level but simply officers conducting investigations with no agenda larger than collecting the facts in order to make an objective report. In other words, these officers weren’t “in on it.” It could look something like this from a decomposed analysis perspective:
| Event | Organizational Response | Hierarchy Affected | Estimated Timeline* |
| Initial detection of phenomena | Mainly dismissive as natural phenomena, misidentified sightings, mass hallucination, “crazes” to some pockets of individual awareness of extranormal component | Low-level officers of military, usually Air Force, air traffic, police and other civil servants, civilians | 1941 – 1945 |
| Preliminary acknowledgement of some veracity of the phenomena | Awareness, implications of possible effects on national security, desire to verify factually, identify or rule out foreign technology advances | Mid-level to top-level officers in military and intelligence agencies, cabinet-level government | 1943 – 1947 |
| Confirmation of factual reality of phenomena | Increased awareness, coming to terms, acknowledgement, formulation of crisis management plans including recognition of need for secrecy | Top-level highest security clearance officers, military and intelligence, cabinet-level government, president, vice-president, SecDef, CIA director and other chiefs of national security intelligence | 1946 |
| “1st level” of understanding the phenomena in semantic, logical sense | Organized effort to implement secrecy controls, event management teams, identification of elements “in the know” vs those who are not, mass communication plan for civilians, message shaping and PR techniques, media influencers, misinformation; all concurrent with continuing data gathering and development of additional knowledge about the nature of the phenomena, continued SWOT assessments | Top-level highest security clearance officers, military and intelligence, cabinet-level government, president, vice-president, SecDef, CIA director and other chiefs of national security intelligence, high level contacts of friendly foreign governments | 1947 – ? |
Addendum:
Additional personal responses to factual establishment of and recognition of phenomena. Mostly feelings associated with non-direct phenomena encounters, but evidential certainty established in the mind of the recipient.
Spiritual dissonance
Confusion
Questioning worldview
Hopelessness
Futility of life
Spiritual awakening
Rejection of societal order
Feelings of insignificance
Fear of subservience
Paranoia
Fight or flight responses
Elation or profound sense of optimism
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