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Lux Aeterna
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2018
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- Location
- Chochenyo Territory, US
- Gender
- nonbinary
- Basic Beliefs
- Jedi Wayseeker
So many literalists on this forum! I apologize for the shameful hyperbole; yes, technically speaking there are alien believers throughout the entire anglophone world, and a scattering of equivalent concepts in other places, especially if you want to take any report of an "unidentified flying object" as an perfect analogue to the much more specific and overwhlemingly preferred Western aesthetic of the metallic flying saucer populated by short, large-eyed dusky green or grey extraterrestrials.Sadly, no. There's plenty of "sightings" reported elsewhere.I mean, we're the only country that thinks we see frigging aliens, so...I know many of you aren't from the US, but the issue doesn't just pertain to one country
But I would argue that 1.) this more specifically American portrayal of UFOs and aliens has a very specific pedigree tied very strongly to places where The Day The Earth Stood Still and E.T. showed in cinemas 2.) nowhere else in the world has the UFO trope been built to anything like the cultural and commercial juggernaut that it is here. Even towns like Tampico (for instance) on the other side of the border with a lot of reputation for sightings and folk interest in UFOs don't receive anything like the degree of corporate interest and exploitation as your Roswells and Area 51s up here in the North. Consequently, there are far fewer sightings, and the further south you go, folk classification of "weird flying stuff" as witchcraft or angels rather than aliens increases as latitude decreases.