Facing the Impossible: How UFOs Became a Secret

A new perspective on UFO history -- Coming in 2025

Facing the Impossible: How UFOs Became a Secret

A Cultural History of UFO Sightings from 1742 to 1955

by Justin Snead

UFO sightings have been reported and documented in a remarkably consistent way since the dawn of the modern era. 

Facing the Impossible utilizes quantitative and qualitative research methods to address the following questions:  

• What did witnesses think UFOs were before the Flying Saucer era?

• What are the origins of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis for UFOs?

• What has been the role of brain science, psychology, and media in people’s perception of UFOs in the 19th and early 20th centuries? 

• What are the social and psychological reasons that the existence of UFOs has remained an open secret in modern society?