 The government was put between a rock and a hard place. What could the military tell President Truman and all the other presidents afterwards? They could say, well, look, Mr. President, you can tell people on the radio or television, whatever, that the ETs are here. They have extraordinarily advanced technology, that basically we're defenseless, and that they may be doing some things to our citizens that our citizens may not particularly like. Oh, by the way, Mr. President, the only other thing you could tell them is that everyone can panic at their own discretion.