• DOI:10.1177/0963662515617706
Corpus ID: 37769406

Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust

@article{Eghigian2017MakingUM,
  title={Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust},
  author={Greg A. Eghigian},
  journal={Public Understanding of Science},
  year={2017},
  volume={26},
  pages={612 - 626}
}

Greg A. Eghigian

Published 2017

Medicine, Sociology

Public Understanding of Science

Reports of unidentified flying objects and alien encounters have sparked amateur research (ufology), government investigations, and popular interest in the subject. Historically, however, scientists have generally greeted the topic with skepticism, most often dismissing ufology as pseudoscience and believers in unidentified flying objects and aliens as irrational or abnormal. Believers, in turn, have expressed doubts about the accuracy of academic science. This study examines the historical… CONTINUE READING

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