Garrett Graff

today on something you should know why you're throwing out food you don't really need to then a serious discussion on ufos our fascination with them began in 1947. none of this starts with the idea that these are aliens invading it starts with this fear that these are soviet spacecraft popular culture hollywood begins to pick up this idea of these flying saucers as aliens as martians

today on something you should know why you're throwing out food you don't really need to then a serious discussion on ufos our fascination with them began in 1947. none of this starts with the idea that these are aliens invading it starts with this fear that these are soviet spacecraft popular culture hollywood begins to pick up this idea of these flying saucers as aliens as martians

today on something you should know why you're throwing out food you don't really need to then a serious discussion on ufos our fascination with them began in 1947. none of this starts with the idea that these are aliens invading it starts with this fear that these are soviet spacecraft popular culture hollywood begins to pick up this idea of these flying saucers as aliens as martians

So I have to imagine that this is a question, you know, sort of this idea, are we alone, is one of the two or three most fundamental questions of human existence. You know, it's right up there with, you know, the questions of what happens after death and is there a God? You know, three questions altogether, by the way, that I think

So I have to imagine that this is a question, you know, sort of this idea, are we alone, is one of the two or three most fundamental questions of human existence. You know, it's right up there with, you know, the questions of what happens after death and is there a God? You know, three questions altogether, by the way, that I think

So I have to imagine that this is a question, you know, sort of this idea, are we alone, is one of the two or three most fundamental questions of human existence. You know, it's right up there with, you know, the questions of what happens after death and is there a God? You know, three questions altogether, by the way, that I think

may not be totally unrelated as we come to figure out as best we can the answers to any of them.

may not be totally unrelated as we come to figure out as best we can the answers to any of them.

may not be totally unrelated as we come to figure out as best we can the answers to any of them.

It all begins in June 1947. There's an Idaho businessman named Kenneth Arnold who is flying in his private plane in the Pacific Northwest near the Cascades, and he sees a series of

It all begins in June 1947. There's an Idaho businessman named Kenneth Arnold who is flying in his private plane in the Pacific Northwest near the Cascades, and he sees a series of

It all begins in June 1947. There's an Idaho businessman named Kenneth Arnold who is flying in his private plane in the Pacific Northwest near the Cascades, and he sees a series of

fast moving bright objects in the sky that he likens to flying saucers and he lands tells some buddies about it he gets picked up by the media and very quickly kicks off this summer of the flying saucer um and you know week by week summer of 47 There are now flying saucer sightings all over the United States. They're ultimately across that somewhere.

fast moving bright objects in the sky that he likens to flying saucers and he lands tells some buddies about it he gets picked up by the media and very quickly kicks off this summer of the flying saucer um and you know week by week summer of 47 There are now flying saucer sightings all over the United States. They're ultimately across that somewhere.

fast moving bright objects in the sky that he likens to flying saucers and he lands tells some buddies about it he gets picked up by the media and very quickly kicks off this summer of the flying saucer um and you know week by week summer of 47 There are now flying saucer sightings all over the United States. They're ultimately across that somewhere.

There are sightings in 34 states up and down North America, even up into Canada. And it hits at this very specific moment in our national anxiety. That summer of 47, the government is worried about these flying saucers, not because anyone thinks that they're aliens, but because they are afraid that these are secret Soviet spacecraft.

There are sightings in 34 states up and down North America, even up into Canada. And it hits at this very specific moment in our national anxiety. That summer of 47, the government is worried about these flying saucers, not because anyone thinks that they're aliens, but because they are afraid that these are secret Soviet spacecraft.

There are sightings in 34 states up and down North America, even up into Canada. And it hits at this very specific moment in our national anxiety. That summer of 47, the government is worried about these flying saucers, not because anyone thinks that they're aliens, but because they are afraid that these are secret Soviet spacecraft.

being built by kidnapped Nazi rocket scientists and that these flying saucer sightings might herald a new technology that could invade the United States in this early stage of the Cold War after the end of World War II.

being built by kidnapped Nazi rocket scientists and that these flying saucer sightings might herald a new technology that could invade the United States in this early stage of the Cold War after the end of World War II.