Flying Saucers in the Living Room: The Threefold Normalization of UFOs in American Media
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UFOs have long saturated American life through cultural, institutional, and epistemic normalization, with figures like J. Allen Hynek, Donald E. Keyhoe, Barney Hill, and Charles Hickson helping keep saucers in everyday conversations as credibility shifts from celebrity media voices to government and expert scrutiny.
