geneza: UFO photographs

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Since the 1940s, media has covered purported photographs of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Numerous examples have been determined to be hoaxes. Professor Branden W. Joseph has argued that there are "a substantial enough collection of photographs of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that one can begin to discern a distinct pictorial genre: The UFO photograph". Joseph describes the typical UFO photograph as "portraying a blurry, saucer-like form, with just enough horizon to indicate airborne trajectory, but not enough to allow definitive judgement of scale." Writes Joseph: "Although often explained as a result of the fantastic speeds or unusual composition of flying saucers, both lack o…

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Introduction. Abstract Since 2017, UFOs (or UAP, as they are now being called) have become a focus of interest for the media, American intelligence agencies, and some prominent scientists. But public interest in UFOs has been around since the Cold War, and it has been a global phenomenon. The history of UFOs is as much about the way UFOs have been investigated and discussed as it is about sightings and encounters. This book chronicles the rise and spread of the world’s preoccupation with UFOs. It begins with a series of unsettling reports of unusual flying objects spotted soon after World War II that first captivated the world’s attention about the prospect that aliens might be visiting ear…