It’s possible to look at the rising and falling fortunes of various folkloric myths and characters in our culture (vampires, superheroes, etc) across the ages and reveal very interesting things about human society itself.
That’s exactly what Greg Eghigian’s After the Flying Saucers Came is about. Some people think interest in UFOs, aliens and abductions go back to prehistory (there’s a UFO in the Bayeux Tapestry, and the story of Biblical prophet Ezekiel’s wheel has been interpreted as a UFO sighting), the modern craze started with a sighting by an amateur light plane pilot in Washington state in 1947.
After that, America – and soon the world – had a whole new terminology for a whole new area of interest, and it’s the history of that interest Eghigian’s most concerned with. If you’re hoping for an explanation (or even a history) of UFO sightings or cattle mutilations, you’re in the wrong place.
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