The phenomenon behaves like a control system influencing human belief

This claim proposes that the UFO phenomenon acts like a cultural control system—an intelligence that perturbs human belief, expectation, and meaning through staged or symbolic events. Vallée argues that the phenomenon displays intentionality without clear goals, destabilizing fixed worldviews so societies continually revise their cosmologies. Evidence includes patterns where UFO waves appear at historically charged times, strategic sightings, and experiences that resist literal explanation yet deeply influence witnesses. Vallée suggests the phenomenon manipulates symbols more than physical matter. Conceptually, the claim underpins DSETI’s perspective on contact as a symbolic-information process rather than straightforward visitation. DSETI evaluates it as Moderate-to-Strong.