Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
Tangentially related, here is a heady Anthropological look at the semi-recent interest in UFO's and conspiracy theories as a means of escape. I've been reading through it the past week or two and been enjoying it.
The CIA spins up Little Green Men whenever they need to hide something. A Project Mogul balloon became a crashed UFO, A-12 and U-2 flights become Project Blue Book and the whole Area 51 mythos leapt into being right about the time we started flying stealth fighters. "Belief in aliens" was a settled thing in the '60s. It was convenient. "Belief in aliens" is a settled thing again now that the dude with the hair is a meme.