Emerging Religiosity: UFO Encounters, Science, and the Decentralized Belief System
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It argues that UFOs and related experiences are creating a new, decentralized belief system that blends science with mystery, drives planetary activism, and treats unidentified phenomena as meaningful by using data from pilots, the Space Force, and online communities to understand how people interpret them, while not proving alien visits and showing that science and religion can coexist as people keep gathering data and asking deeper questions.