After the Flying Saucers Came (w/ Greg Eghigian)
Somewhere in the Skies
Ryan Sprague
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On episode 361 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we welcome author and historian, Greg Eghigian. Greg is a Professor of History and Bioethics at Penn State University. We discuss his recently-released book, After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon. The book tells the story of the world's fascination with UFOs and the prospect that they were the work of visitors from outer space. While accounts of great wonders in the sky date back to antiquity, reports of UFOs took place against the unique backdrop of the Cold War and space age, giving rise to disputed government inquiries, breathtaking news stories, and single-minded sleuths. The book traces how a seemingly isolated incident sparked an international drama involving shady figures, questionable evidence, suspicions of conspiracy, hoaxes, new religions, scandals, unsettling alien encounters, debunkers, celebrities, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Somewhere in the Sky's Podcast, we welcome Greg Egygen, Professor of History and |
| 0:06.2 | Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the new book, |
| 0:10.8 | After the Flying Saucers Came, a global history of the UFO phenomenon. This is somewhere in the skies with Ryan's bread. Oh, Welcome everyone to Somewhere in the Skyes and a very very warm welcoming for one of our first guests that ever came on somewhere in the skies, |
| 0:56.8 | Greg. I don't know if you remember, but I believe you were my third or fourth guest when I first |
| 1:01.7 | started the show. I was... I did not know that at the time. I was so |
| 1:05.2 | nervous to talk to you. You and I had maybe just met in Phoenix at a |
| 1:10.7 | thing and you agreed to come on the show in the early days and I can't thank you enough for that and I can't thank you enough for coming back on the show so welcome back. I'm really happy to do it. Yeah, well, it's good. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, well, there's a big reason you're back. |
| 1:26.0 | You came out with a brand new book that is really making waves inside and outside of the |
| 1:31.8 | UFO community, and I want to get the U.S. community. |
| 1:33.1 | And I want to get the title right here. |
| 1:34.7 | After the Flying Saucers came, a global history of the U.S. |
| 1:38.7 | phenomenon. |
| 1:40.5 | So we probably talked about this in our our previous interview, but I like to get people |
| 1:46.3 | caught up on who our guests are and why they are doing this why they agreed to come onto a UFO |
| 1:54.0 | the podcast right so as a history professor at a very well known school |
| 1:59.0 | so obvious question first what got you interested in UFOs and on the flip side |
| 2:05.8 | what made you want to write this book about you? Yeah right so well I mean I'm like |
| 2:11.9 | a lot of people I'm sure it's like you and just a lot of us, very fascinated with the topic when I was growing up, |
| 2:20.0 | read just about everything I could get my hands on when I was a kid and movies, TV, anything |
| 2:30.3 | related to UFOs and aliens was on my radar. |
| 2:34.3 | And I liked all of it. |
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