DAMAGE CONTROL examines how societies respond when destabilizing knowledge threatens collective coherence. As Wade Jasper traces the modern admission of unidentified aerial phenomena backward into the record-keeping cultures of ancient Sumer, he follows a pattern of acknowledgment, reframing, and narrative containment that transcends time. This transmission explores why authority often survives not by revealing everything it knows, but by deciding what must be remembered, what must be softened, and what must be allowed to become myth. What emerges is not a claim about gods or visitors, but a recognition that human civilizations, ancient and modern alike, manage truth under pressure in remarkably similar ways. The unsettling question is not whether the past believed strange things, but whether we have simply inherited a version of reality designed to hold together.

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