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.

Flying Saucers in the Living Room – Rethinking the Normalization of the UFO
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Flying Saucers in the Living Room – Rethinking the Normalization of the UFO

The sudden arrival of an elusive phenomenon into public view happened in 1947, since then what we’ve been watching is the slow evolution of the institutions that determine who gets taken seri…