UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says

It's easy to look at the world around us and feel that there is something paranormal, alive and breathing, in our American landscape. The alignment of the pyramids, giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of Peru, crop circles, UFOs, all these things have always been a hot topic among conspiracists and scientists alike. Prothero and Callahan come together to explore why these conspiracies and theories thrive despite decades of education and scientific debunking. From eyewitness testimony, psychological research, and the role of conspiratorial thinking, they use scientific standards of evidence to examine our views of aliens.