From Dial-Up BBS to Social Platforms: The Evolution of UFO Sightings, Moderation, and Rational Discussion

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Amateur sighting groups move from 1970s radio outreach to 1980s dial‑up BBS and 1990s Minitel and on to the internet and Facebook where posts spark debates and tools like Stellarium and Starlink are used to check facts, a rationalist group named Dufo Italia forms with Maurizio Verga helping early on and Aldo and Pietro often invoked, while some cling to extraordinary claims and the narrator calls for better scientific literacy, kinder discourse, and calmer debate for about 6,000 followers.