Mirage Men

For more than six decades, groups within the US Air Force and Intelligence agencies have leveraged and twisted public perceptions of UFOs and extraterrestrial encounters as a component of their counterintelligence strategies. This manipulation gave rise to a potent mythology that ensnared and distorted the thinking of numerous intelligent individuals, even affecting some of those involved in the operations. Now, for the first time, both the orchestrators of these schemes and those they targeted are coming forward to share a narrative that blends elements of the Manchurian Candidate with Close Encounters of the Third Kind.