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John E. Mack and the Unbelievable UFO Truth
The controversial career of John E. Mack, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist who wrote best-selling books on UFO abduction.
by
Michael J. Socolow
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
September 21, 2024
How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs
No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?
by
Nicholson Baker
via
Intelligencer
on
January 31, 2024
From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists
What Betty and Barney Hill's alien abduction story reveals about America.
by
Susannah Crockford
via
Religion Dispatches
on
September 12, 2023
How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers
A collection of well-funded UFO obsessives are using their Capitol Hill connections to launder some outré, and potentially dangerous, ideas.
by
Jason Colavito
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The New Republic
on
May 21, 2021
How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously
For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.
by
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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The New Yorker
on
April 30, 2021
You Can Now Explore the CIA's 'Entire' Collection of UFO Documents Online
Thousands of pages of declassified records are available for anyone to peruse.
by
Isis Davis-Marks
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Smithsonian
on
January 15, 2021
More UFOs Than Ever Before
What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?
by
Rich Cohen
via
The Paris Review
on
August 26, 2019
In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left
Despite its persistence in popular culture, extraterrestrial life owes more to the imagination than reality.
by
Donovan Webster
via
Smithsonian
on
July 5, 2017
The Long, Surprising Legacy of the Hopkinsville Goblins
Or, why families under siege make for great movies.
by
Colin Dickey
via
Atlas Obscura
on
February 8, 2024
The UFO Story of Betty and Barney Hill: Why Their Fight To Be Believed Was An American Tragedy
Betty and Barney Hill lost three hours on a New Hampshire highway in 1961. They spent years trying to understand it.
by
Colin Dickey
via
Slate
on
September 11, 2023
Why Americans Are So Unsettled by the Chinese Spy Balloon
China’s balloon, whatever its purpose, became a physical and observable reminder of the often-invisible work nations do to keep tabs on one another.
by
Kelsey D. Atherton
via
Slate
on
February 10, 2023
Making Sense of Heaven’s Gate
An excerpt from the new anthology, “American Cult.”
by
Robyn Chapman
via
The Nib
on
August 2, 2021
The Lure of the White Sands
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Geronimo, Robert Oppenheimer, Steven Spielberg, and the mysteries of New Mexico's desert.
by
Rich Cohen
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 29, 2021
How Grover Cleveland’s Grandson Feels About Donald Trump
Trump is often described as unprecedented, but in winning a non-consecutive second term, he has a significant antecedent: Grover Cleveland.
by
Zach Schonfeld
,
George Cleveland
via
TIME
on
November 19, 2024
A Pioneer of Paranoia
How William Cooper envisioned a web entangling global capitalism, the government, and UFOs, and incubated the politics of conspiracy.
by
Colin Dickey
via
The New Republic
on
August 28, 2018
How the U.S. Lost Its Mind
Make America reality-based again.
by
Kurt Andersen
via
The Atlantic
on
August 9, 2017
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