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Report From Iron Mountain
On The Possibility And Desirability Of Peace

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A study by one "John Doe" (said to be economist John Kenneth Galbraith), _Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace_ was published in 1967.  The study considered the possibility that belief in UFOs might be used to improve prospects for peace and redirect humankind toward a unified social order.  In theory, the report pointed out, a perceived threat from extraterrestrial beings might provide an incentive for human civilization to abandon its internal strife and present a unified front against the alleged menace from alien beings.  A threat from "extraterrestrials" was one of several suggested means for helping to unify human society and discourage warfare on Earth.  The report presented other possible scenarios including the threat of ecological catastrophe.  The study also suggested that some flying saucer reports were actually experiments in manipulating public belief, with the aim of reshaping society by encouraging belief in hostile extraterrestrial powers menacing Earth.  The report ultimately dismissed the threat-from-aliens scenario, however, as "unpomising" and encouraged investigation of other ways to manufacture "fictitious ... enemies" that might serve to unify humankind.  _Report From Iron Mountain_ treats the UFO phenomenon from a viewpoint complementary to that of prominent UFO investigator Jacques Vallee, who has argued that UFOs may constitute a system to control human belief.

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