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Interview with Mick West: UFOs, Aliens, and Conspiracy Psychology

Decoding the Gurus

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The UFO Community's Reaction to Con Trails

One of the features of the UFO community is that they often have personal experiences. It does feel that that lays the groundwork for people undermining or presenting alternative naturalistic explanations to evoke an emotional reaction because you're undermining a core part of someone's autobiographical identity. You get as much more blowback, I guess, from people who believe in UFOs than those who don't.

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