Ralph Blumenthal

A collection of well-funded UFO obsessives are using their Capitol Hill connections to launder some outré, and potentially dangerous, ideas.

For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?

Proudly embracing their role as outsiders, a group of writer-activists set out to create a cultural identity—and a literature—of their own.