#blue book

As an aviation and UFO nerd in my youth, we have seen most of these 'files' before.

Red Book #4 - Disinformation and the UFOlogist Community

In the concluding part of the series Red Book, they cover how the phenomena of UFO sightings were dealt with in the USSR and People's Republic of China, and how the context of the Cold War influenced the pop culture lore of aliens in the latter half of the Twentieth Century.

This and the preceding series Blue Book were what series creator James Tynion IV called "True Weird" in that it's a historical look at the proven facts of unusual events. In that whether it was aliens can't be proven, but the fact that people thought that it might have been, can, if that makes sense?

So the incident of the US military deliberately gaslighting the well-meaning Paul Bennewitz until he ended up in a mental hospital in order to cover up experimental stealth bombers and spy planes? Yeah, they actually did that to him.

Thankfully he did get better, and renounced the whole UFO business as a result (can't really blame him). The thing with Richard Doty though, is that he went on to be one of the consultants on the original X-Files show, which is one of the reasons why the whole alien subplot in that show is much more dubious to be in hindsight.

Like, the guy is claiming that he's only telling the truth about the subject now, but he's also the guy who intentionally lied to a guy for so long and so convincingly that he thought his wife had been replaced by an alien duplicate or something. It's kind of like that comicbook film leaker Jeff Sneider, who said that (despite his being used as a source on multiple entertainment news sites) that he sometimes deliberately spreads misinformation for a joke, only to get vindictively angry when James Gunn pointed out how he's not a reliable source for this reason.

Marilyn Monroe in 1946 for the 'Blue book' agency