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"There’s almost no scenario where, as an ordinary person, saying that you encountered a flying saucer helps you." Joe Pompeo Nov 16, 2023 I had a  fascinating conversation  last week with  Garrett Graff  about his brand new book,  UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—And Out There , which hit shelves Tuesday from  S&S/Avid Reader Press . It’s filled with otherworldly history going back to the  Roswell  era, like the following anecdote circa 1960s New Mexico: Of all the many alleged encounters you researched, is there one in particular that feels the most convincing to you? There is a category of witnesses that I find most intriguing and most believable. The one I always point to is  Lonnie Zamora  in  Socorro, New Mexico , in 1964. Lonnie Zamora was a local police officer, an extremely ordinary guy who was chasing a speeder on the outskirts of town when he saw what looked to him like an overtur...

  Alessandro13   In the summer of 1950, while working in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Enrico Fermi found himself overhearing a conversation in the laboratory cafeteria about a recent UFO sighting reported in the press. Talking to some colleagues, Fermi wondered how one could determine whether extraterrestrials exist. What were the odds? After evaluating the number of stars in the Universe, the number of planets around them with liquid water, and the evolution of some semblance of human life, the Italian physicist asked whether there might be a civilization capable of communicating with Earth or even colonizing it. If so, he asked rhetorically: "Where are all these extraterrestrials?" ("Where is everybody?"). Leo Szilárd promptly responded: "Enrico, they are already among us. We call them Hungarians." He was referring to the almost simultaneous presence on Earth of geniuses such as Edward Teller, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, and, of course, himself. https://...