UFO Investigations: The Science And The Will To Believe

Sign marking the path leading to the supposed UFO crash site, outside Roswell, New Mexico.

Employing science’s methodology is key — as it’s the best antidote we have to the very human propensity to turn something we want to believe into a reality, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.

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