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Ben Turner

'It's hard not to believe he saw something': Historian Greg Eghigian on how UFOs took over the world

An artist's impression of UFOs appearing over a small town.

Strange lights in the sky, little green men and crashed vessels secreted away to government labs — the relatively modern history of UFOs is replete with conspiracy theories and allegations of coverups.

But beyond the endless arguments between believers and debunkers over what could be behind the phenomena, the fact remains that many people have looked into the sky and reported seeing things they cannot explain. So what do UFO reports tell us about ourselves?

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