This personal essay explores the author's complex relationship with their father, who became obsessed with alien abduction and conspiracy theories. It connects this personal story to the recent surge of mainstream interest in UFOs and government cover-ups, highlighting the cultural shift in how we perceive these phenomena.
. It’s strange. Uploaded to YouTube 15 years ago — though clearly recorded much earlier — the video frames another TV screen. There is constant static, and the image is fractured as if the broadcast comes from far away. My father is discussing cattle mutilations under hypnosis.
I can see him now as though he were alive today, black cowboy hat tilted, face tanned and cracked from the high plains sun, saying, “Who’s laughing now?” I’m not laughing anymore, but not because I know what that headline is saying is absolutely true and proof lies just around the corner; I’m not laughing because I should never have laughed in the first place.The ranch that once belonged to Patrick McGuire. The author's father claimed this was where he was visited by aliens.
The stigma against people who believe in UFOs may go back to the very birth of the topic itself, when the first reports of UFOs described bywent from “saucer,” “disk” and “pie pan” to sensational terms like “flying saucers” in the press, for which Arnold later stated, “I have, of course, suffered some embarrassment here and there by misquotes and misinformation.
From the earliest points in my childhood, I was told that UFOs were nothing to make light of. At every turn, every nightfall, through any locked door — the Star People could take anyone, even me.My father’s description of the Star People, and my subsequent nightmares, matched what our culture has come to expect: 5-foot hairless beings with eyes like colorless pools hovering by my bedside.
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