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Robert Sheaffer
Volume 33.1, January / February 2009
UFOlogy 2009: A Six-Decade Perspective
Waves of UFO sightings may be a thing of the past, but interest in UFOs is stronger than ever. Credulous cable-TV programs and sensationalized radio talk shows have replaced books and news media in spreading excitement and misinformation to millions. The UFO movement keeps changing, and today the outlook is largely conspiratorial.
Belief in UFOs and visitors from other worlds remains high today despite decades of sensational claims unaccompanied by proof. A child born at the dawn of the UFO era becomes eligible to collect Social Security this year. The face of UFOlogy has changed much in these past sixty-two years, but it has not faded away as some rationalists naively assumed it would. Indeed, its mutability is indicative of the strength of the myth, not of its weakness. Here I examine how the UFO movement has changed over the years and what it has become today.
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