Reported sightings of UFOs are tailing off. With public interest declining and subscriptions dwindling, NICAP and APRO start to compete with each other over membership. The open-minded middle ground is stretched to breaking point, caught between the hardware of scientific detail and the extreme fantasies of contact.
Ken Hollings, Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America
nostalgia, politics, pop-culture, science