Error in scholarship is resolved dialectically, as deceptive data are exposed, challenged, and replaced by new and more accurate research. If decision makers had but world enough and time, they could rely on this process to solve the UFO intelligence problems. But the press of events precludes the luxury of letting theories sort themselves out over a period of years, as in academia. In the perfect world, the intelligence system can avert policy failure by presenting relevant and undisputed facts of UFO intrusions to non-expert principals who might otherwise make decisions in ignorance. But these simple solutions are not those in which major intelligence failures occur.
Failures occur when ambiguity breeds ambivalence.
My assessment of the inability, the inadequacy of U.S. intelligence, and its inseparability from mistakes in decision, suggests only one final conclusion. Tolerance for disaster. Declassified NSA document titled UFO Hypothesis And Survival Questions. Evidence strongly suggests that Lambros D. Callimahos, senior NSA cryptologist authored this unofficial assessment. Interestingly, the NSA has retained it for historical reference purposes.