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Why people tend to believe UFOs are extraterrestrial

  • Written by Barry Markovsky, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of South Carolina
Why people tend to believe UFOs are extraterrestrialPhotos claiming to be UFO evidence are often doctored or otherwise ambiguous. Ray Massey/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Most of us still call them UFOs – unidentified flying objects. NASA recently adopted the term “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP. Either way, every few years popular claims resurface that these things...

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