LOL for the links, guys! 
I don’t remember any “panic”, either, but then I don’t panic easily when yet another Congressional sub-committee tries to tell me there are Commies under the bed.
So let’s extrapolate the Alar thing to UFOs. Who can we get for our movie star? How about Drew Barrymore, her career’s kind of in a slump lately? No, wait, she drinks, she’s not credible. Oh, I know, Nicole Kidman. Big big sympathy factor because of the breakup, she’s a big healthy redhead, she looks credible. Okay, so Nicole Kidman gets up and testifies to her personal experience with alien abductions and begs the United States Congress to do something about this awful threat to the American people. People are being abducted, and the federal agencies in charge of this are doing nothing!
So there are a lot of sound bites of Nicole Kidman testifying, a few bits of legislation are proposed, some funding is designated, and one day the whole thing is blown off the American public’s radar screens by some other crisis, a war in an emerging African nation, say, or a new disease causing havoc among left-handed arc welders on Detroit assembly lines, or some female pop singer showing up at the Grammies wearing a portable CAT scan machine that shows EVERYTHING.
Then, months later, after we’ve all forgotten about “the UFO hearings”, people start coming forward and saying that there had been no need to have Congressional hearings about UFOs at all, that it was all a conspiracy on the part of various people to prove that there really was a UFO problem when in fact there wasn’t. They point out, “Not that many people were ever really abducted by aliens, and the ones that were, were treated very well and suffered no ill effects from the experience.”
Is this working yet?