It would seem we're in a moment of unusual openness to the idea that Earth-dwellers aren't alone in the universe. Mainstream news outlets reveal that some government entities take the idea seriously; tantalizing (and seemingly not-doctored) videos capture aerial phenomena that, while vaguely photographed, are hard to explain.
Does that make this a good time for more out-there prophets who've been promoting this idea all along? Michael Mazzola's Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind provides a soapbox for Steven Greer, a former physician who claims not only to have met extra-terrestrials but developed ways of communicating with them.
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