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Language | English
Category | Ufology
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Description: The UFO mystery, therefore, could not fail to exert a powerful and widespread appeal. Here is something stepping straight from the pages of the wildest science fiction directly into reality - or so it seems to many people. Needless to say, books sounding more like science fiction than anything purporting to be factual have been presented as sober fact, and have proven extremely popular because of this. Likewise, a host of new religious cults have sprung up, basing their beliefs upon messages allegedly received, by chosen individuals, from a kindly race of spacemen - pilots of flying saucers which are what UFOs really are.
On the other hand, an equal and opposite reaction has developed, often assisted by the same kind of emotive reaction which is seen among the believers. It is as if questions about the existence of UFOs, like questions concerning religious topics, divide people into two sharply opposing camps — the believers and the non-believers. The parallel with religious questions should be borne in mind; both touch on the existence or non-existence of something extra-mundane and it seems to be the willingness or otherwise to admit to something over and above the everyday world which arouses, more than anything else, people's deepest hopes and fears.
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UFOs: A Scientific Enigma