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Why do so many people become obsessed with UFOs and aliens?

They Are Already Here: UFO culture and why we see saucers by Sarah Scoles tries to find out what's so appealing about hunting UFOs

By Jeff Hecht

8 April 2020

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They Are Already Here: UFO culture and why we see saucers

Sarah Scoles

Pegasus Books (Buy from Amazon*)

SOME people spend an awful lot of time hunting down UFOs. For Sarah Scoles, author of They Are Already Here, it comes down to human curiosity and a drive to seek answers beyond our reach.

That isn’t what I expected. My introduction to unidentified flying objects was a pulp magazine called Flying Saucers from Other Worlds, which I read as a kid. Its editor …

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