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By Steven Gimbel, They Are Already Here UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers By Sarah Scoles Pegasus. 248 pp. $27.95 Intimate Alien The Hidden Story of the UFO By David J. Halperin Stanford. 292 pp. $26 The Contact Paradox Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence By …
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Since early childhood, David J. Halperin has been interested in—or maybe obsessed with—stories about UFO sightings and alien abductions. But Halperin doesn’t match the typical pop-culture depiction of the crazy flying-saucer guy. A retired professor of religious studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, he’s a …
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When a massive international war-games exercise known as Operation Mainbrace convened in the North Sea in 1952, it brought together 80,000 military personnel, 1,000 planes and 200 ships from nine countries. There were also some unexpected attendees: UFOs. Multiple sightings of unidentified flying …
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In her new book “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers” (Pegasus Books, 2020), journalist Sarah Scoles explores the culture and history of people who believe in UFOs. The book begins here, with her own experience of a total solar eclipse and a mysterious light in the sky, which …
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After the US Navy confirmed a spate of unusual sightings by its pilots last year, candidates in the 2020 election have been asked what they think of the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Some candidates have dodged the question, others have openly shared their views. Sen. Bernie Sanders has …
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The first time my dad ever heard someone talk about aliens and objetos volador no identificados, or UFOs, was when he was 13. One day in high school, an older student described a sighting to my dad. “The first thing I thought was, ‘This man looked like an alien to me!’ He was so out of the …
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In 1947, Kenneth Arnold was flying his CallAir A-2 between Chehalis and Yakima, Washington, when he took a detour to search for a downed Marine Corps aircraft. There was a reward for anyone who could find the plane, and who couldn’t use $5,000? Arnold flew around searching for a while, and …
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From the early 1950s until 2009, a department in the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) documented and investigated reports of UFOs. Now, more than a decade after the program ended, many of those formerly classified files about UFO sightings will be made available to the public for the …
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Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have captured the public’s attention over the decades. As exoplanet detection is on the rise, why not consider that star-hopping visitors from afar might be buzzing through our friendly skies by taking an interstellar off-ramp to Earth? On the other hand, could …
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UFOs are back. Or perhaps better put, interest in UFOs is again on the rise. For most of a generation—from 1987 to 2015—media coverage of unidentified flying objects measurably declined. In the past couple of years, though, television, newspapers, and social media have made mysterious aerial …
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