Obsessed with Saucers

My ears have been abducted by Aaron Gulyas' podcast "The Saucer Life" ever since I discovered it last week. I never really looked at the UFO phenomenon through the lens of cold war anxiety, but indeed modern saucer sighting reports began in the late 1940's just a few years after the US dropped the first atomic bombs on Japan. The aliens in most of the stories  have come to earth with the message that we need to abandon nuclear weapons and learn to live together in peace. Interestingly several of these early modern encounters were reported here in Washington state - private pilot Kenneth A Arnold's sighting of saucers by Mt Rainier in 1947 and the Maury Island Incident with the first mention of The Men in Black, those threatening people who show up after the sighting and tell you to never talk about it! Of course there are those who consider UFOs to be secret military aircrafts and it's not like Boeing wasn't Seattle's biggest industry, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.