Episode 81: Close Encounters of the Third Kind/A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon with Greg Eghigian

Historians At The Movies - A podcast by Jason Herbert

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This week Greg Eghigian drops in to talk about Steven Spielberg's first extraterrestrial film and his new book charting the global history of UFO sightings. We get into the histories behind the sightings, how the Cold War affected how we think about space aliens, and whether or not one should put gravy on Devil's Tower.About our guest:Greg is a professor of history and bioethics at Penn State University. A historian of both the human sciences and modern Europe, he is particularly interested i...