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by Apocryphon 1388 days ago
I was listening to a fun podcast episode about a couple of folks who founded a UFO-related political third party:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/760511/11204787-gabriel-green-the...

And it mentioned there was a flying saucer craze in 1947- Roswell wasn't even the most interesting story then.

It made me think, these myths and legends are highly historically and culturally contextual. Alien UFOs replaced phantom airships replaced fairies and so forth. Perhaps in just a century, the idea of anthropomorphic aliens will be as dated and quaint as changelings are to us now. Wonder what will be the future myth then? Simulation glitches?

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The most interesting story was the flying saucer invasion of Washington DC in the early 60s.