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UFOs and Aliens Among Us
Reports of "flying saucers" became a part of American culture in the 1940s and 1950s. Hollywood used reports of unusual sky objects as the basis for its depictions of impending danger. These apprehensions are depicted on movie posters for 1956's Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Flying saucers have come to symbolize the hopes and worries of the modern world in connection with continuous theories about life on the Moon, the canals on Mars, and theories about Martian Civilizations.
Are these purported extraterrestrial visitors friendly and gentle, or would they assault and annihilate humanity? The deadly potential of the atomic bomb raised doubts about technology's ability to advance. The Cold War era provided fertile ground for fears of potential disaster, which manifested as visions of flying saucers and extraterrestrial visitors who might be living among us without our knowledge.
Aliens Among us and Fears of the Other
Where were these aliens if UFOs were flying over Earth? Could they be among us unnoticed? Comic books and television show how fears about alien visitation during that time period were represented in pop culture.
The 1962 comic book There are Martians Among Us, found in Amazing Fantasy #15, demonstrates how apprehensions related to the Cold War may have been reflected in such fears. A search group gathers around an extraterrestrial craft that has landed in the comic, but it is unable to uncover any evidence of alien life. Radio presenters issue a stay-in caution to local listeners. A husband and wife are now the focus of the action as he gets ready to leave their house despite a television announcer's advice to stay inside. He tells his wife to stay inside as he waves off. But when the wife chooses to sneak outside to the store, she is attacked and carried away. When the husband gets home from work and discovers it is empty, he panics and rushes to the phone.In an unexpected turn, the worried husband admits that he and his wife are Martians.
Fears about the Soviet Union and communists from the McCarthy era resurface with the worry that we may have foreign foes living among us. In the end, it is the humans that approach and seize the extraterrestrial woman in this tale. The perspective change places humans in the role of the beasts.
UFOs as Contemporary Folklore
In addition to appearing in the media, UFOs also appear in American folklore. The mythology of America includes concepts of extraterrestrial life and flying saucers. Folk life collections have records of these kinds of encounters. An individual's encounter with a possible UFO sighting is documented in an interview with Howard Miller about hunting and hound hounds that was part of the Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia collection.
In the section of an ethnographic interview titled "A mysterious light," Miller talks about a peculiar light he once witnessed in 1966 while dog-hunting. "I looked up to see what had happened when all of a sudden it became dawn. A large light could be seen rising and moving up the slope. It simply faded away when I turned to look at it. Since I was a Marine, I am familiar with how airplane lights seem, and it was too big for that. whether there is such a thing as a UFO, then that is what that was, he responded when asked whether he knew what it was, saying, "I don't know what it was." Many accounts of these kinds of encounters include an unexplained light during a walk in the woods. For knowing and interpreting what UFOs meant to 20th-century America, it's not just the media that tells stories and portrays these kinds of notions; documentation of the experiences and tales Americans tell one another is just as crucial.
Skepticism of UFOs and Alien Encounters
Different levels of excitement are shown by astronomers and scientists regarding the potential existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. However, most scientists reject the notion that extraterrestrials are coming to Earth. Carl Sagan examines the likelihood of extraterrestrial visitation to Earth in Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space and argues that there is good cause to be wary of them. Many of Sagan's writings aim to promote more rigorous and skeptic thought by disproving popular myths and beliefs. In his earlier book, Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, he also covered criticism of the idea that extraterrestrials had visited Earth.
It may seem contradictory for Sagan, who was well known for his speculative beliefs on the plausibility of alien civilizations, to be so vehemently critical of the belief in UFOs. In his essay Direct Contact among Galactic Civilizations via Relativistic Interstellar Spaceflight from the early 1960s, Sagan himself even made assumptions about the likelihood of visits from prehistoric aliens.
How can the sceptical Sagan and the creative Sagan be reconciled? These two facets of Sagan's viewpoint do not contradict one another; rather, they provide a framework for comprehending Sagan and the dialogue between science and myth regarding life on other planets. Together, skepticism and speculative imagination form the entirety. It's crucial to consider and investigate new ideas, regardless of how bizarre they may seem, while also putting them to the test and determining their viability.
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