Society of the Psyop, Part 1: UFOs and the Future of Media – Journal #147

It turns out that US military and intelligence agencies have a long history of using UFOs as a psychological instrument, having discovered their hyper-mimetic qualities in the 1950s. Decades before Doty’s variations on the theme, UFOs were a well-known self-replicating cultural trope capable of infecting individual and cultural consciousness and spreading like a virus.
— Read on www.e-flux.com/journal/147/623330/society-of-the-psyop-part-1-ufos-and-the-future-of-media/