UFO Contact

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(patie The Emergence of a Phenomenon Crashes of UFOs, 1947-1959 jects, including an oval object one foot in circumfer- ence and of an aluminumlike substance. Though the authorities supposedly were investigating, no further announcements followed (“UFO Found,” 1957). Contact? One theme of crash lore, more prominent in the 1980s (Clark, 1990) than in the 1950s, is that the Air Force’s recovery of interplanetary wreckage led to direct communication between the U.S. govern- ment and alien beings....