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Flying Saucers

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Science fiction has always had a close association, and an ongoing two-way dialogue, with the subject of UFOs—Unidentified Flying Objects, widely presumed to be extraterrestrial spacecraft. Many of the established elements of ufology made an appearance in works of fiction before they were reported in the “real world”, and several important authors of non-fiction UFO books started their careers in SF. Subjects like extraterrestrial life and advanced alien civilizations are not unknown to mainstream scientists, but the latter tend to talk about them in way that is significantly different—and offers much less “human interest”—than either ufology or science fiction.

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May, A. (2017). Flying Saucers. In: Pseudoscience and Science Fiction. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42605-1_4

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