The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Society had made a new myth, a communal idea of something outside a species apparently intent on dooming itself.

Thomm Quackenbush
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The author of this quote believes that the people seeing the UFOs were experiencing a mass delusion for they were not seeing something that was outside of our species. Instead, they were seeing their own collective fantasy, a collective delusion. He believes that while many people saw UFOs others did not, and he wants to make it clear that these other people did not see some alternate reality.

Source: Artificial Gods

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