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Seventies UFO fans also referred to “close encounters,” including the consciousness-raising “close encounter of the third kind,” in which humans and aliens meet. But UFOlogy has gone through a radical change, and in the Nineties the terms of the past are largely obsolete. During the past decade, for instance, literally thousands of people have come forward to say they’ve been kidnapped, or “abducted,” by short, large-headed, thin-lipped entities with saucer eyes.

If you have wondered why the government has never come clean on the subject of flying saucers, maybe you should consider why we never take the trouble to brief cows on the reason for their existence. I can guess at least one question you might have by this point: “How extreme can this stuff get before someone decides enough’s enough?” But in UFOlogy, the sky’s the limit.

There is no shame in acknowledging that science is unsuited to UFO research, since, as Bauer argued, UFOlogy is a field where definitive answers are unlikely to be found.

Hendry, who retired from “UFOlogy” shortly after his book’s publication and has never returned, discovered there are many, many trigger mechanisms for UFO reports besides bright planets, fireballs, reentering space debris, and the moon.

When the cabbie found the place I was reminded of the warlock hangout in Bell, Book, and Candle, only this one was devoted to “UFOlogy.” A cardboard little green man with an “LGM” monogrammed spacesuit was propped against the window where a Coors Light neon glowed.

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