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From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs

  • Written by Greg Eghigian, Professor of History, Penn State
From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOsThe worldwide fascination with UFOs started in the late 1940s after a few incidents made the news in the U.S. David Zaitz/The Image Bank via Getty Images

On June 25, 2021, the U.S. government released a nine–page preliminary report on UFOs, or, as it is now calling them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs. The report is the latest notable...

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