I imagine that every now and then, somebody conducts what is by now a classical psychology experiment, just to see if our society has changed. It is not a difficult experiment, but very telling in its outcome.
A group of random people are assembled, then they are given an “official briefing”, by individuals dressed as scientists and military leaders. They are told that UFOs have landed on Earth, and that we know that a large number of aliens will soon be visiting, and the entire world will soon know of them.
Then, psychologists carefully examine each person, to see what their reaction is to “the news”.
I have a suspicion that when this experiment was first conducted, the government was unpleasantly surprised by its results. Only a few people really “freaked out”, but far too many probably went into a “profound apathy.”
That is, they probably became totally passive, both willing to do anything they were told and unwilling to take any but the most modest initiative on their own. They would lose perspective on the situation, and just not know “what to do.”
They would regress to basic passive survival instinct, even though nothing was threatening them. They would be “psyched out.”
Were they at home, they would watch TV or listen to the radio all day for more information about “the aliens”, completely forgetting about working or carrying out their daily routines.
Why would this be a problem? Call it a self-induced disaster. That is, what would happen to just the US economy if even for a few days, people didn’t come in to work? In just a few days, we as a nation could experience an economic catastrophe far worse and longer lasting than the Great Depression.
And just a few kooks losing their marbles, times half a million? That in itself would be a major disaster, no matter if they killed themselves, went on a rampage, or just tried to panic everyone else.
And none of it, not a bit of it, would have anything at all to do with the space aliens. Even if there were NO space aliens, just everybody convinced that there were space aliens.
So the bottom line is that such a psychological experiment, conducted every decade or so, just to see if people had become any more mentally flexible, might have a very strong impact on government policy.
As a final note, I might add that when the Conquistadores arrived in the new world, the Aztecs assumed they were gods. It didn’t take long for them to figure out that they weren’t, but by then their society had been fractured, if for no other reason, than by having absolutely no idea of what the Conquistadores were. They were as alien as space aliens, and nobody knew where they stood any more.
Hands down the most concisely relevant post yet with regard to UFO coverups.