I took a sci-fi movie course in the 90s and the professor opened it by mentioning people used to see great clipper ships in the sky. The other telling moment w

I took a sci-fi movie course in the 90s and the professor opened it by mentioning people used to see great clipper ships in the sky. The other telling moment was when he asked why UFOs only appear in places “so small people have to take turns being the village idiot” and someone leapt up to day, “You can’t prove it’s not true!”