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UFOs
December 16, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Larry Hogan Brutally Self-Owns Trying to Join Latest MAGA Conspiracy
The former Maryland governor’s attempt to join in on the drone craze didn’t quite work.
July 31, 2023
Timothy Noah
Why Washington Loves UFOs
It would be gratifying to blame Republicans, but Democrats started it.
December 14, 2021
Jason Colavito
Congress Is About to Send the Pentagon on a Wild Flying-Saucer Chase
The long lobbying campaign of a handful of UFO obsessives and crank pseudoscientists is finally paying off.
May 21, 2021
Jason Colavito
How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers
A collection of well-funded UFO obsessives are using their Capitol Hill connections to launder some outré, and potentially dangerous, ideas.
August 10, 2020
Matt Farwell
Tom DeLonge’s Warped UFO Tour
Space aliens are having a moment in America, thanks to the Blink-182 frontman’s E.T.-hunting A-team. But what’s his real plan?
February 19, 2013
Ken Kalfus
E.T. in the Age of the Cellphone Camera
Can UFO culture survive ubiquitous videography?
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