Roswell Effect: How Official Narratives, Pop Culture, and Sightings Shape UFO Belief

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UFO beliefs persist because official explanations, media depictions, and ongoing sightings reinforce each other, with Roswell catalyzing theories of government coverups and a deep state, and scientists such as Avi Loeb suggesting that life beyond Earth is plausible but contact would likely be rare and puzzling rather than a dramatic encounter.

How the Roswell UFO spurred our modern age of conspiracy theories
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How the Roswell UFO spurred our modern age of conspiracy theories

In 1947, a New Mexico rancher found mysterious debris on his land. UFO author Garrett Graff links the Roswell incident to the deep state conspiracy theories and misinformation of today.