UFO/UAP historian Richard Dolan examines how UFOs represent a profound challenge to our understanding of reality within a landscape deliberately designed to marginalize and discred it the phenomenon. He argues that systematic efforts have been made for generations to manipulate public perception of UFOs. Now in 2025, this has created a “post-truth” environment where determining objective facts about the phenomenon becomes difficult, despite compelling evidence of its reality. The UFO subject has been subjected to sophisticated psychological operations including witness discreditation, controlled opposition, deliberate disinformation, and maintenance of plausible deniability. Dolan points to evidence suggesting UFO/UAP information is controlled outside normal government structures. This system employs compartmentalization, ridicule, and control of gatekeeping institutions to maintain secrecy, with these mechanisms becoming increasingly sophisticated in the digital age. Dolan concludes that disclosure about UFO reality remains “impossible and inevitable”- impossible because established powers have no incentive to release transformative information that threatens their interests, yet inevitable because something so significant cannot remain hidden forever. Rather than expecting top-down “Disclosure, “he advocates for” Exposure”- truth emerging through cracks in the system against institutional resistance. The UFO phenomenon thus represents both a challenge to question fundamental assumptions about reality and an opportunity to reclaim intellectual sovereignty in a world of controlled narratives.