Roswell to the Security State: The Modern UFO Narrative and Its Cultural Echoes

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Garrett Graff traces the modern UFO conspiracy era to postwar sightings starting with Roswell and shows how a continual loop between sightings, headlines, and government secrecy sustains distrust, while real discoveries would likely appear as misread space debris rather than alien invasions.

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.