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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
imagePhotos 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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