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

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They Are Already Here: UFO culture and why we see saucers Sarah Scoles Pegasus Books

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 Ray Palmer had recently changed the magazine’s …