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alien visitation
Also known as: alien visitors to Earth, alien encounters, alien visitation, alien visitors, alien visitations, extraterrestrial visitations
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How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously | The New Yorker newyorker.com Apr 30, 2021 6 facts
claimUfologists claim that a clandestine, para-governmental organization called Majestic 12 was convened under executive order by President Harry S. Truman to cover up evidence of alien visitations.
claimSteven M. Greer founded the Disclosure Project in 1993 with the goal of investigating and exposing government-held information regarding alien visitations.
claimSteven M. Greer founded the Disclosure Project in 1993 with the goal of investigating and exposing government secrecy regarding alien visitations.
perspectiveSteven M. Greer believes that the United States government has long withheld information from the American public regarding its familiarity with alien visitations.
perspectiveSteven M. Greer argues that the disclosure of alien visitations has been suppressed because it threatens the existing social, economic, and geopolitical order of the world.
claimSteven M. Greer is an emergency-room physician from Virginia and a ufologist who asserts that the U.S. government has long concealed knowledge of alien visitations from the American people.
'Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind': Film Review - Variety variety.com Apr 7, 2020 5 facts
claimDr. Steven Greer organizes privately curated group sighting tours focused on alien visitation.
claimDr. Steven Greer produces books, films, and privately curated group sighting tours related to alien visitation.
perspectiveThe reviewer for Variety argues that the belief in alien visitation presented in 'Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind' is congruent with the Trump agenda, specifically the idea that America could be restored by accepting otherworldly saviors.
perspectiveThe reviewer describes the mythology of alien visitation as a 'mother ship' of conspiracy theories that mutates and incorporates other conspiracy theories.
claimThe Roswell incident is cited as an original event involving an alleged cover-up regarding alien visitation.
Unidentified flying object - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimConspiracy theories regarding UFOs often allege that governments conceal evidence of alien visitors and, in some variants, collaborate with them.
Disclosure movement - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimArt Levine wrote in 2023 that Luis Elizondo had become a lightning rod for a dangerous new rage overtaking some conspiracy-oriented UFO believers and influencers who are demanding immediate government disclosure about purported encounters with aliens.
UFOs and the U.S. government: The push towards greater ... - WBUR wbur.org Nov 14, 2023 1 fact
claimCarl Sagan, a prominent 20th-century astronomer and proponent of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, was a major skeptic regarding the theory that UFOs are alien visitors to Earth.