Was the famed 1952 flap about UFOs over the White House-reported by pilots in the area and detected by radar-simply a staged event involving "ghost aircraft on radar screens"? Other classic cases collapse as Pilkington details man-made UFOs, quiet helicopters, secret facilities, disinformation techniques, and the creation of fake documents. ![]() He has pored through briefing papers, books by other researchers, declassified documents, and internal memos to examine every angle of the links between intelligence agencies, the U.S. Pilkington views UFOs as "weapons of mass deception." Unlike many UFO researchers, who analyze blurry photos and extrapolate a few facts into highly imaginative speculations, he explores the notion that the government manipulated the public's belief in UFOs to conceal military aircraft experiments. He writes with an entertaining flair, but is nevertheless scholarly. Mirage Men draws viewers into a saucer-shaped hall of mirrors, a shadow-world where every lie contains elements of the truth, and the truth is far stranger than the UFO believers, or their detractors, would have you believe.Former Guardian columnist Pilkington (Far Out) runs the fringe-science publisher Strange Attractor Press. Now, for the first time, some of those whose actions have directly shaped the UFO mythology, and some of their victims, tell their stories, revealing a surreal disturbing and sometimes tragic sequence of events that is part Manchurian Candidate and part Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But what if, instead of covering up the UFO story, elements in the US military had actively encouraged it as part of their Cold War counterintelligence arsenal - manufacturing the myth of the UFO as a powerful weapon of mass deception and the perfect cover for all manner of clandestine technologies and operations. These are the core elements of the modern UFO mythology, a story that has captivated farmers, princes and generals for generations, and shows no sign of loosening its grip on the popular imagination. the government cover-up of a secret that would change the world as we know it. How the US government created a myth that took over the world.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Mirage Men draws viewers into a saucer-shaped hall of mirrors, a shadow-world where every lie contains elements of the truth, and the truth is far stranger than the UFO believers, or their detractors, would have you believe. ![]() How the US government created a myth that took over the world. Now some of those behind these operations speak out. For over 60 years, the US Air Force and US intelligence services exploited and manipulated beliefs about UFOs and extraterrestrial visits as part of their counter-intelligence programs.
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