The horrors of the world wars shook public confidence in technical expertise and the state’s ability to ensure the safety of its citizens
Sightings of UFOs remain steady today, although citizen organizations now perform all the data collection and analysis. This small, disconnected group of citizens, which began writing to the government for answers in the early 1960s, still exists today and continues to ask the same questions. A recent edited collection of essays by leading ufologists notes that, some seventy-five years after the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the alleged Roswell crash, we arguably know no more than we did then: “The UFO field has produced thousands of dedicated researchers over the years, and reams of literature; but to what end? What can we claim to know conclusively today about the underlying nature of UFO phenomena that we didn’t know in the late-1940s?”
We do know one thing. Namely, that the UFO issue in Canada represents a failure on both sides: citizens unable to convince the state of the reality of flying saucers and extraterrestrials, and the state unable to convince its citizens the pursuit was utterly irrational.
[id: flashback: night scene extreme close-up of the cartoonish UFO from the sims 2 game as it glides toward the camera over desert plains, taking up most of the screen. it is saucer shaped, with a windowed, domed cockpit on top, and a neon green glowing rim. no occupants are visible through the windows unless they are formed of blue-white energy resembling streak lightning. a pair of yellow narration boxes continues the offscreen military operative’s tale: “what happened next we can only surmise… but we think they simply set out to continue the mission assigned to the craft that had crashed.” /end id]
Sucedió el 17 de agosto de 1995 cuando un vecino de un pequeño pueblo aseguró que vio caer algo del cielo. Si bien se habló de un meteorito, el vecino asegura que era un objeto volador no identificado.