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If the truth is out there, we don’t actually want to know what it is. For proof, let’s think about what happened in 2020 when footage of actual unidentified flying objects was released by the U.S. government to the general public. We all shrugged. The “unidentified” part of UFOs is what makes them fascinating in our imagination, but underwhelming in reality. The best UFOs aren’t conspiracy theories—they’re science fiction.
Whether they’re being tracked by Mulder and Scully on The X-Files, secretly hiding in out-of-the-way diners in The Twilight Zone, or, mysteriously buzzing around in the skies in the new indie sci-fi flick, The Vast of Night, aliens among us are always better in a sci-fi narrative. Whether you firmly believe a government conspiracy has been hiding alien bodies for years or if you think the decades-long obsession with alien abductions is ludicrous; we...
If the truth is out there, we don’t actually want to know what it is. For proof, let’s think about what happened in 2020 when footage of actual unidentified flying objects was released by the U.S. government to the general public. We all shrugged. The “unidentified” part of UFOs is what makes them fascinating in our imagination, but underwhelming in reality. The best UFOs aren’t conspiracy theories—they’re science fiction.
Whether they’re being tracked by Mulder and Scully on The X-Files, secretly hiding in out-of-the-way diners in The Twilight Zone, or, mysteriously buzzing around in the skies in the new indie sci-fi flick, The Vast of Night, aliens among us are always better in a sci-fi narrative. Whether you firmly believe a government conspiracy has been hiding alien bodies for years or if you think the decades-long obsession with alien abductions is ludicrous; we...
- 6/1/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
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