Mommy, the Internet Killed ET!
• UFOs & Bogus Science
Has the web put paid to UFO mythology?
Well, nothing will ever really end some folk's faith that Mr. Extraterrestrial is coming to save us all. Perhaps it has diminished in some small way this particular species of credulous belief.
I don't have an opinion.
The Internet showed this particular emperor to be lacking in clothes. If UFOs and alien visitations were genuine, tangible, objective realities, the Internet would be an unstoppable force for detecting them. How long could the vast government conspiracy last, when intrepid UFO investigators could post their prized pictures on the Internet seconds after taking them? How could the Men in Black shut down every website devoted to scans of secret government UFO documents? How could marauding alien kidnappers remain hidden in a nation with millions of webcams?