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What Should Smart People Think About UFOs?
“I’ve mostly treated alien visitations as a distinctly American kind of folklore,” writes Will Rahn. “But there might be a lot more to it than that.” (Illustration by The Free Press)
Will Rahn speaks with experts as he tries to make sense of the UFO phenomenon. This week: Journalist Michael Shellenberger.
By Will Rahn
04.15.26 — Culture and Ideas
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On May 8, the U.S. government released the first tranche of declassified UFO files, free for any American to view. The Pentagon calls it unprecedented: “No other President or administration in history has followed through on this level of [unidentified aerial phenomena] transparency.” President Donald Trump says “the people can decide for themselves, ‘W…

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Will Rahn
Will Rahn is a senior editor and writer for The Free Press. Previously, he was the politics editor for Yahoo! News and the Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast.
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